Author's Note

Highly reccommended you read this while listening to this.

Downfall: The Roar of the Sentiment.

“Why? Even with all that power...” I fell to my knees as the world around me fell apart, vanishing along with the Memoria, “That bastard got away...to who knows where.”

Memories are a funny thing, and yet here I am all alone with a spear through my chest as the world fades into nothingness, flashes of people I once knew looking at me with blurred faces. Each and every one of the people I loved turned into one of those monsters, each one killed by my own hands...

“Damn that bastard, damn him...damn him and his god forsaken experiments...” I coughed up some blood, “...and even worse he’s using my image...”

“Please...get up...”

“I’m not dead yet...” I let out a roar of pain as I pulled the spear from my chest. I don’t know how I’m still alive, that should of killed me...

“Do you remember me...Cillen?”

I began to hobble, and stumble my way through the crumbling ruins of my now ruined and shattered home. There was nothing left but chunks of ruined building that once were home to thousands of now forgotten people.

“Rgh...fuck that bastard just had to take my arm...” I coughed up more blood, as leaned against one of the few undamaged walls, “SERENA!! WHERE ARE YOU!!!” There wasn’t a reply...

“Do you remember the day we got married...we were so happy...”

I looked up at the sky and watched the sky fall apart and shatter like glass, I realised Serena had succeeded in her goal...

“SERENA!!...No damn it please...answer me...” I pleaded and begged for an answer, but was met with nothing but terrifying silence, “Please...for the love of god...answer me...”

“And we were blessed with a little bundle of joy...”

“N-no...please god no...” There was nothing, that bastard had taken everything away...everything I loved...and for what to prove his own fucked up theory.

“But then that monster took her away...and murdered me...”

I just stood there and watched, as the realisation had finally set in, the monsters, my father’s fucked up ambitions, and all for what...to satisfy his sick sense of curiosity.

“YOU HEAR ME CYRUS RAINES!! I WILL HUNT YOU DOWN!! EVEN IF IT TAKES ME UNTIL THE END OF TIME!!”

The roar of a man who stood alone echoed throughout the collapsing world, a roar that echoed the pain of a husband who lost his wife, the pain of a father who lost his daughter, and the rage of a son who had been betrayed.

“You tried to save us...but he put you into a coma for two whole years...”

“DO YOU HEAR ME RAINES!! NOTHING WILL STOP ME!! NOTHING!! MARK MY WORDS YOU’LL PAY FOR WHAT YOU’VE DONE!!”

Everything around the lone man began to crumble and shatter, as a the rage of one man became too heavy a weight for the dying world to take. The pain of loss, betrayal and sheer utter hatred for the one man who started all this echoed through out the sky, and shook the very core of the ground beneath.

“When you finally woke up...you met her...and you thought she was me...”

The skies finally shattered apart revealing an endless white void of nothingness as the world around crumbled and faded. Even in the endless void, thunder echoed, the ground shook, the winds raged...and the world burned in the rage of one single man who lost everything.

Everything but the man began to break and unravel into ribbon like threads, only to rise up into the void and vanish, as if they never existed. Flashes of memories began to fade, smiling faces of friends laughing together, the embrace of lovers, the joys of growing up with a loving mother, brother and sister...all of it gone, erased once and for all.

“Even then, you loved her like you did me. So please get up...even if you forget me...even if the world comes to an end...even if you forget everything...get up and live...”

The screams of rage stopped, and silence reigned once again throughout the endless expanse of nothingness. The only thing standing in the infinite expanse was a single azure clad armoured figure where the man once stood.

“Live and stop the monster that did this...before he destroys everything...”

The figure began to walk through the infinite expanse, fully intent of hunting down the monster responsible for destroying the world. Heavy clatters of steel plated boots echoed with each step, one heavy step after the other until he too faded from the expanse and into a new world.

“And please...never forget...even if you never remember me...I love you...Cillen.”