Hello everyone! Since I finished the Beyonders and cried at the end I decided to do the ending scene in Ferrin's point of view. So here it is! I hope you enjoy! Please Read and Review!
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"Do you want to attach your arms?" Tark asked. I sigh fighting back the tears that threaten to spill from my one remaining eye.
"No. I'm missing an eye, an ear, my nose, part of my neck, even part of an artery in one arm. It's fitting that I should meet my end in pieces. We might still be hours away from a conclusion. Or this might be it." I said. Then I turned and looked at Tark dead in the eyes and nodded to him. "You're a brave man, Tark. It has been an honor."
"Likewise" Tark replied. I can see his finger move to the trigger.
I remember the time I first met the two Beyonders. I put my head in a bag and buried the rest of me in order to trick them. I was loyal to Maldor then, which led me to betray them. That was the worst decision of my life. Those two became my best friends. I had never know what friendship felt like until I met them. My life has been full of lies and betrayal but they showed me a different path. As a displacer, my life has been in service to Maldor but not any longer. Jason and Rachel taught me how to be free and how to live a real life.
I can't hold these tears back any longer. I let them all out. It feels wrong, but in a way it feels good to let go of all this pain and misery I have been through.
Never in my life have I experienced anything harder than this. I never even got to say goodbye to anyone. Not even Rachel. I hope they remember me as a hero, and not the betraying, untrustworthy displacer I was. It feels weird to be here knowing I will die. I wish I could go back in time and do things differently. I would have never been loyal to Maldor. Will anyone try to stop us now? Im almost tempted to turn and run out the cave, but its better this way. No one can ever trust me. I'm better dead.
Tark's finger starts pressing on the trigger, sealing my fate.
I shudder as more tears come. Tark has no clue I'm crying. He's lost in his own thoughts. Reminiscing on his entire life like I am. What he did wrong, what he did right, those he will be leaving behind to brave the world without him.
In all my life I have never felt love until I met Rachel. I never told Rachel how I felt about her. I wonder if she felt the same about me. But after the war I'm sure they return to the Beyond and their lives will be back to normal. Only distant memories will remind them of this place. Will they even remember this place? The journey? Their friends?
The bolt flys away from the crossbow. A defining explosion shakes the cave, signaling the first explosion. The second detonates quickly and I am thrown away from the bars, into the solid stone behind us. The third explosion sends a blinding white light toward us and I know its the end. My time is up, time for me to leave this world.
I love you Rachel.
Forever and always.
