'Ok, I have been falling for some time, so when is this thing about my life flashes before my eyes going to happen?' he pondered. (Well I guess that the replay is true, it won't happen to you just yet) 'Back in my head again?' (Of course. But hold onto your pants, this ride is not over yet.) 'What?'

    Killey started hitting stand after strand of sticky threads. As he fell, the strands began to become stronger and thicker. They were slowly attaching themselves to him and slowing his fall. "Gag! Cough! What the hell is this!" Killey said in surprise. Eventually he stopped falling completely due to the stands catching him. When the adrenaline flow out of his head he realized what really stopped his fall. "Spider webs? These are spider webs! If there are webs here then…" Killey looked around and saw something HUGE move in the darkness underneath a ledge. "What on earth could have made them? There can't be spiders this big that could make this, is there?" Then he heard something that sounded like iron plates scraping against each other. He turned to look at what was making that noise.

    "SSSSEEEEEEERRRRKKK!!!!!"

    From out of the darkness emerged a spider the size of a small house. "GA!!!" Killey struggled to get his sword freed to cut himself out of the web before that monstrous spider got to him. This was the spider's ground and it was moving like the wind. By the time Killey freed his upper body and his
bags (which dropped down into the darkness) the spider grabbed him and pulled it close to it's mouth. "Oh no you don't! I just got away from a snake and I'm not going to be your dinner!" And with that, Killey swung his sword as hard as he possibly could at the spider and it went deep into its right eye. Orange goo poured out of it's wound. Killey was just inches from being stabbed by its javelin-sized fangs when it dropped him. The spider's screeching filled the pit. Killey just closed his eyes as he expected to hit the bottom.

    When he hit the bottom, and it was indeed a hard bottom, but Stangely, Killey went thought the 'floor'. He realized that the bottom of the pit was a lake of cold water. The impact stunned him but he quickly recovered and swam to the surface. "GASP! (He looked around him) A lake? Figures. I got to find the shore…" He started to swim strait ahead. The lake became shallow after two Olympic sized pools length of swimming. He finally dragged him self to the shore and collapsed. "Huff, huff, what a day. (He looked to the left and to the right) Ok, what's next? Who is going to try to kill me this time?"

    A nerve grating dying screech echoed though the cavern. Killey looked back upward to the hole in the ceiling. Twanging of steel cable like webs sounded though the grotto. "What the hell?" The Spider plunged down from the hole and landed in the lake upside down. "Ha! Scratch one (A wave hit Killey, knocking him off his feet) spider…" He just laid there on his back looking up to the rocky ceiling. "This just my luck. I'm stuck somewhere in this mountain. I lost my sword. (He looks over the lake and watches the dead spider sink completely into the depths of the lake.) I lost my bags. (A wave just washed them on the shore a few feet away) Um, and I lost my hat too. (It flutters down and lands on his face.) "Ok, two out of three isn't all that bad."

Killey looked around the cavern, much to his suprise this cavern seemed to have been dug out instead of naturally formed. Down the shore line, to the right of Killey was a passageway. After picking up his bags and putting his hat back on, he trudged to the entrance of the passageway. The sides of the passageway were well taken care of. Instead of torches lighting the way, there were these strange glowing orbs along the walls. They were also connected by a metal wire. "This is strange. I have never seen lighting like this before. No smoke and not nearly as much heat are generated by these things as a torch would. I guess the Sindar really are advanced." The tunnel
curved and shifted left and right, up and down over the next several minuets worth of walking. Killey soon found a side room from this passageway. What he saw inside the room left him dumbfounded.

"AH, YOU IDEIOT! HE WAS INSIDE THE LINE! THAT TOUCHDOWN WAS GOOD!" The room looked like the inside of a well-furnished living room. Except there where many things placed in the room that Killey couldn't identify. Large and small ideas placed all over the room, but the one thing that got his attention was the hooded Sindar that he met before sitting in the middle of the room. He was in an over stuffed chair with a can of some sort of drink in his right hand. It had some words on it; 'Budweiser' was all he could read from it. The mysterious Sindar was yelling at a box that was sitting on a table. It had strange pictures on it and they were always moving.

The Sindar noticed Killey standing at the doorway. "Oops, you're here, good." He stood up and walked over to a rather large white rectangle device. "Well, I presume you are ready for the mental test now." "What mental test?" a confused Killey said. The hooded Sindar walked over to one of the strange devices. It was large, white, rectangle. It was as big as a man and it seemed to have two doors on it. "Excuse me, let me put this away and turn off the TV." He walked over to the large device, opened the lower door, and put the can in. "Well then, shall we start?" He pointed a small wand like device at the TV and the pictures on it went away.

"What kind of mental test? Why on earth do I have to go through more test?" "Well, its very complicated. But I know a lot about you Killey, but I don't know everything yet." The Sindar led Killey lead back out of the room and back down the Main passageway. "I still need to make some more tests before I can truly help you. Besides, I really want to know why you are doing all of this." Killey looked back to the room and it had vanished.

"Um, I guess your name isn't Sindar. So what can I call you? You do have names, right?"

"My name, along with our language is too difficult for you humans to pronounce. So just call me Zohar, all right. And here we are."

The passageway came to a dead end at a smooth steel metal wall. "Only we of the Sindar can open this door. (Zohar placed his palms on the metal surface and the wall rippled like water) You wouldn't believe how many explorers were stopped dead in their tracks right here." The wall cracked evenly and the doors slid smoothly into the walls. "Here we are, step right in."

The room beyond was really just a massive black pit with a long walkway stretching over to a large pillar rising up from the depths. There was a podium-sized obelisk in the middle of the pillar. "Just place your hands on the obelisk and close your eyes." Zohar said. Killey walked over and did just
that. He wasn't expecting what happened next.

'What! What has happened to me! I can't feel my body!'

(Easy Killey, we are just taking a trip down memory lane, your memories.)

'Back in my head again?'

(Of course. Now where did you exactly come from again?)

'Well, I was born in the independent city of Vinton. But it was soon taken over and absorbed into the bigger Faleena Queendom. I was just a baby at the time so I don't remember that at all. My family was one of the few remainders of the original Vinton culture where the men were in a noticeable spot higher in social chain than the women in the family. Just like I have seen every where else in this world. My farther didn't believe that men should be total slaves to the women, even at sword point.'

(Interesting. What happened to your family when the Queendom realized your family's refusal to adapt to the new society?)

'They sent in those damned Amazon storm troopers to my house in the middle of the night. They captured us all in our beds. They separated me from my Mom, Dad, Sky, and little Jenny.'

(Now who are this Sky and Jenny?)

'They were, hopefully still are, my older and younger sister. I was the middle child.'

(I see. Go on, what happened to you then?)

'They took me away from my folks. I never got to see them again. I don't even know if they are still alive. I don't want to think about that. I was forced to walk to the Faleena's capitol. I was sold into slavery. I was passed from Mistress to Mistress over the years. Most were indifferent to me; several were just abusive to me. They made my life hell, I'm just glad I didn't get any permanent damage from them. When I was just 14 years old, I was finally bought by one of the Faleena generals. For about a year I was just a house boy for her, but her job left her with little time to be with her adoptive daughter. So I became her daughter's companion. This was the turning point in my life.'

(He, he… I see, so what was her name?)

'Lorelai, her name was Lorelai. She was different than all the other mistresses I had before. For one thing, she was younger than I was. She was also very indifferent to me. Most of the time she just ignored me. But I didn't ignore her right back, although I was in some-what constant indigent mood about having to take care of a kid. It was late one night when I found her up in the attic of her home. I couldn't find her all afternoon, I found out why. She was crying, she must have crying for sometime. I believe that she must have had an emotional breakdown. Her adoptive mother was going out on another campaign against another uprising in the outer territories. She told me how she saw her family die, in all the gory details. My heart changed that moment. For the longest time, my heart was hardened by all the pain I went though. But right then, I found someone who had suffered even more. Her pain was intense, her tears were real. I bet she felt that she was truly alone.'

(…..)

'Lorelai bolted for the window. I was startled by what she did but I ran after her as well, I caught her just before she went though it. The fall would have killed her! I held her as tightly as I could and I told her over and over that I would be there for her. She didn't say a word, but just held me tightly as well and cried all night long. Needless to say I didn't get any sleep until she was asleep. I looked after Lorelai as a sister for so long. Time passed, and my feelings for her became something more than even I realized.'

(She became your beloved didn't she? But you where her slave wasn't you still?)

'Yes, I could not openly admit or even pursue her. Lorelai was my forbidden fruit. The worse part was that she didn't see me the same way as I saw her. I stayed loyal to her for an eternity as I could care. You see, men over there couldn't chase women, but woman could very well chase men. I had other women went after me, some forcibly tried to take me away. But I would have none of that, and neither did she. He, he, she always beat the crud out of the girl who was tried to take me away. She said it was 'just to protect her assets'. Lorelai was the only one for me.

(She completely surprised you one day didn't she?)

'Yes, early one morning some ten years ago, a pack of women bust into my room were I was sleeping. They grabbed me and carried me out of the house and into the woods nearby. I was totally confused at that point. Where they stopped was some clearing deep in the woods. I saw the clearing was filled with women from the city that both Lorelai and I knew. Some of them were in high levels
of the social groups in town. All of them were wearing simple clothing (and some of them were rather revealing too) and body paints! It was just like something from the history books I read about the early history of the Faleena Queendom, right from the primitive age!'

(That looked like it was a bad omen Killey.)

'I had to admit yes. Then I saw Lorelai. My jaw hit the floor! She was wearing a modified form of one of her bikini she just bought a few days ago. She also had ornate looking body paints and other ornaments too. Bottom line of this is that she looked radiant! She walked up to me and told me
everything. She knew for some time that I loved her, and she in turn loved me as well. All this that was happening to me was because she wanted to marry me, in the old style.'

(Oh boy, THAT must have been a shock!)

'Damn right! They where tying me down spread eagle style and striping me down to my shorts when they told me that to be married here in Faleena, the wife must make her mark on the husband to show to all that you belong to her. I was just hoping that it would just some paint or something similar. My hopes sunk when I saw Lorelai walking to me with a red hot knife from a campfire nearby. I could only pray that I could get out of this with my you-know-what unharmed.

(Hiss, I feel for you buddy. One thing I do admit we have in common is our weak spot down there)

'Glad to hear that. Anyway, Lorelai straddled me and was bending forward over my upper body. She said "Don't worry dear, this won't hurt a bit." In a very sweat way that sent chills down my spine. Then the whole world went out from under me.

(So you where tied to the ground on second, then falling though the darkness the next?)

'That sums it up. I guess the ground gave way when Lorelai stood over me. Lorelai and me tumbled down into the darkness and landed in a forgotten cave. My forehead hurt real bad, but I ignored it. We couldn't go back the way we came so we explored the cave. I slowly realized that my forehead was bleeding. I chalked it up to my fall. Then we found a Sindar ruins in the cave too.'

(Ah, storage area 36715a. I know that place well.)

'Er, right. Anyway. We found this strange glowing block siting on the floor. It was light enough to see better then before. Lorelai was a bit shocked when she saw me. She cut me right where my scar is at right now. She said she didn't mean to hurt me that deeply, but I didn't care. She marked me, and I was hers forever. We touched the glowing box at the same time and I felt a weird sensation pass over me. I felt sick, getting weak. I saw Lorelai zoning out as well.'

(hum…..)

'The next thing I knew, I was outside next to Lorelai. She seemed different. I think the box did something to her. Soon after ward she, she left me. Told me to forget the whole thing. To forget her. She said that she had some things to do, and people to pay back. Lorelai packed up some of her things and left in the night with out even saying good bye. It…it broke my heart. I couldn't bear to live with out her. I couldn't forget her.'

(……)

'I packed up my bags, locked down the house, went out looking for her. Maybe I could talk to her. Convince her to come back home. Maybe I could find out what that box did to me. I want the truth, I want Lorelai back. That is why I am here.'

(I see. You have convinced me Killey. I can and will help you now. Now open your eyes and seize your future!)

Killey returns to his own body and does so. There was light everywhere, blinding him. When his eyes adjusted, what he saw would open a new chapter in his life.

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"Killey" and "Suikoden 2" are (C) Konami This chapter was posted January 26, 2000