A Tail of Peace
Chapter 1: The Tail Ends...Or Does It?
The fight at Everdawn Basin was over. As Dust struck the final blow on Gaius, and sent him flying, as he thought off the edge. He falls to one knee in exhaustion untill he hears screaming.
"Cassius!" Screamed Gaius as he barely hangs on to the ledge. "Cassius!"
Dust then slowly starts to crawl over and grabs on to Gaius' wrists.
"You aren't Cassius..." Gaius states
"Yes...I am." Dust replies.
"That maybe so, but Cassius is now gone, as is the world we once loved." Gaius grabs hold of Dust and pulls himself up to eye level "Cherish your life..." With that Gaius lets go and disapears into the Lava below.
That's it, it's finally over, Dust has defeated Gaius and saved the Moonbloods. However it has come at a cost, he is now stuck inside the Volcano with no feasible way out. This was it, he was going to die so shortly after bring peace to the land of Falana, and he wouldn't see it. He would never again bask in the sunlight in Aurora Village or climb up Archer's Pass.
He then began to think about the friends he would leave behind. His mind first wandered to Ginger. Strange, even in his impending demise, the Jin side of him still worried about his sister. While she started off not trusting him, she eventually warmed up to him and became the closest thing Dust had to a family. Then he thought of Corbin and his sister Colleen, wondering if Corbin is still causing headaches for said sister and Gianni. Then Fidget, his trusty companion had been by his side since he started his journey at The Glade, when he was still struggling with his amnesia, to now in the Volcano. Before the fight, he had sent her away, but now he was wondering if that was the right thing to do. Lastly was Haley, his blacksmith. Strange that she was the last thing on his mind, but it just seemed right somehow. While he didn't understand exactly why she was particularly nice to him, he did value her friendship a great deal.
Then Dust started to cry for the first time in his existance.
"It's not fair!" he shouted. "I don't want to die here, I don't want to leave my friends behind. Spirts I beg of you don't return me to the Lifethread!" As he finished his psuedo-meltdown he finally allowed his eyes to close in a mixture of Fatigue, pain, and final acceptance of his fate. Before he was engolfed by the lava he let's out a weak "Ahrah." Said sword flies beside him and heads off toward The Glade with his Spirit, and strangley enough his body, in tow.
I'm back for a new story, this time I promise I will actually finish this one instead of abandoning it like I did my others. As you can kind of guess this will be a Dust: An Elysian Tail fic. What if he is allowed to return to live the rest of his life in peace? That is the tail I intend to tell. P.S Hopefully I can do better with bullet points to help me keep track of my ideas instead of just writing when I get an idea only to never see it through (Rose of Jindai High), or to lose it completely shortly afterward (New Legend, Journey in the Sengoku Era.)
Till next time
Sasuke149