I have decided to work on this story, thanks to my reviewers :) This is going to be the third and final story to the Banshee Trilogy. I would like to thank ninjadragon5 for their Road To Damnation story that inspired me for this story. I would like to thank everyone for their wonderful comments that kept me going, and all the people that read my stories. :) I apologize if my acknowedgements are a bit sappy, but, thats what I do. Anyway, hope you enjoy chapter 1 :)

Intro…

The light gave off its last few rays of golden light before disappearing behind the purple mountains of the vast Mohave desert. Atop a tall, sand formation, were two animals, gazing down at the fragile land that splayed out in front of them. They were both immortals, on a mission. One of them was a male wolf, the other was a female rabbit. They both wore pale grey cloaks, which flapped in the cool breeze.

The female rabbit winced at the blinding light and held up one thin arm up to shield herself from the sun. Her exposed silver armor glinted in the light. "Why are we here again, Luminite? I dont like this mortal world," said the female rabbit as she turned to her companion. The wolf, named Luminite, gazed down at the mortal world. "The mortal world isn't that bad, and you know why we are here, Brim," said Luminite. The rabbit, named Brim, rolled her eyes and looked back down at the desert landscape.

"This fragile, mortal world," continued Luminite, "is starting to crumble, and it is our job to fix it. The core of this nonsense is the developing town called Dirt," said Luminite. "Dirt?" asked Brim. Luminite nodded. "The known knowledge of immortality and bringing back the dead was discovered by one of the inhabitants of the place," explained Luminite. Then he turned to her.

"This is nothing we have ever worked with. This is something that could cause chaos to this delicate world, do you understand, Brim?" he asked. Brim just stared down at the world, her long white hair blowing around her face. "I understand," she finally said. Luminite nodded. "But there is more," he said. Brim turned to the wolf. "More? How could there be more?" she asked. Luminite pointed out beyond the horizon. "The demons of the underworld are already among us, they are already spreading across this world, if we don't act now, it will be too late," he said.

"Who did they send?" asked Brim. Luminite lowered his arm and thought for a moment. "They have already sent Blor, he has already found a mortal host, there are rumors that Blor is going to try to summon other demons…and what I have heard, the Underworld has already sent Rattlesnake Jake here…but there's something wrong with him," said Luminite. Brim cocked her head.

"What do you mean?" she asked. Luminite hesitated, Brim could've swore she saw a bit of fear in his golden eyes. "He hasn't been able to heal himself…" Luminite's voice faltered. Brim blinked. "You mean he's losing his demon powers? Does the Lord of the Underworld know of this?" she asked, somewhat hoping that the rattlesnake could finally be destroyed. Luminite just shook his head. "I don't know…but, maybe…just maybe…we could convince him to help us," said Luminite. Brim stiffened. "You're joking," she said, but she knew he wasn't. Luminite shook his head again. Brim sighed loudly.

"And we're the ones to fix the horrible, dirty mission," she complained looking up at the pale pink sky. Luminite shrugged. "Someone has to do it," he answered. Brim rolled her eyes. "So, what do you suggest we do first? Ask Rattlesnake Jake to help us first? Or go and say hello to the town of Dirt?" she asked. Luminite stretched his arms. "Actually, I was thinking we could make this job go a lot faster by splitting up and going to either Dirt or Rattlesnake Jake," he said.

Brim stretched her arms as well, "All right, I'll go to the town of Dirt, that doesn't sound too hard," she said. Luminite didn't say anything. Brim turned to Luminite, "How are you going to convince Rattlesnake Jake to work with us?" asked Brim. Luminite sighed.

"Let me worry about that, you need to worry about finding Mr. Black, the finder of immortality, and destroy his work before Blor gets his hands on it," said Luminite. Brim sighed and stretched her right arm. "Ok, let's get this over with," Brim said. When the two animals stopped stretching, two sets of pure, alabaster white, feathery wings ripped and tore right through their pale colored coats on their backs. The milky white wings flapped and the two creatures jumped off the ledge of the sand formation and took off toward the town of Dirt…

A couple of months passed in the town of Dirt, once known as Bill's City. The citizens of Dirt just fought in a bloody battle against Bill's army. No one knows who won, since it was interrupted with a surprising zombie twist. Bill and his old gang are half immortal beings (only at night) and when the moonlight touches them, they instantly turned into zombies.

Kinski, the hunchback jackrabbit, has become a good guy and stayed in the town of Dirt. No one knows where Bill and his recent henchmen: Stump and Chorizo, have gone to, but the rebels hoped that they were gone… for good.

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It was night. The clouds covered the sky, hiding the moon, but no one seemed to notice as they cleaned up Main Street. Dark blood and black, rotting organs still stained the dirt road as the citizens tossed buckets of water to wash away the nasty remains of citizens, mutants, and prairie dogs. Since The War, it has been hard for everyone to sleep and forget about it. It was the most intense battle anyone has ever seen in their entire lives, in the town. I held a rag up to my nose and mouth as I swept up a couple of organs into a bucket. My face scrunched up in abhorrence.

Occasionally, some people vomited in disgust at the stench and remains. It was a terrible process, but it had to be done. The destroyed casino buildings and cat houses were burned and cleaned up as well. No one wanted anything that was once part of Bill's City. The Dark Ages was a horrible time, and will not be remembered… but can never be forgotten.

Kinski was inside the buildings of the intact Rebel street, tending to the wounded. Since he revealed that he had the ability to heal, he was pulled from room to room, healing everyone. Sometimes, after healing about fifty people, he would get exhausted and would have to sit down and rest. It took a lot of concentration and strength to be able to heal everyone.

Petunia would be at his side, listening to everyone's heartbeats. Doc would occasionally come around to see how she was doing. Doc enjoyed Petunia's enthusiasm and fascination toward working as a doctor. He would teach her how to clean the wound and wrap fresh bandages around it. Petunia was a very fast learner. Everyone enjoyed having her around and would let her listen to their hearts. Petunia loved working with the wounded. Everyone knew that she was going to become a great doctor one day.

After when the wounded were healed, they were able to get up and help the citizens with hauling the dead bodies into the wagons and sending them off to Mr. Black's workshop, where Mr. Black was working non stop. He was building countless coffins. Priscilla decided to help him with the coffins, and learned how to prepare the bodies. She learned with great interest. Mr. Black enjoyed having her as an assistant and taught her everything he knew. Ricochet would sometimes come by to see how she was doing and sometimes helped. A couple of the citizens, including me, noticed something between the two teens.

The citizens loved talking about those sweet moments (I'm guessing mostly because it was the only happy thing that they could talk about.) The citizens especially loved talking about Kinski and me. Ever since we kissed in the saloon, they just couldn't stop being fascinated with the thought that a twenty six year old bat, who doesn't remember her past, gets together with a thirty nine year old insane deformed hunchback jackrabbit. I had no idea either. Kinski just seemed to stick out to me.

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Finally, Main Street was clean. The rest of the piled up bodies were hauled to Mr. Black's workshop. "This is the last load, Mr. Black," said Elgin as he pulled the reins that were tied to two boars. Mr. Black smiled and seemed to sigh with relief. I sighed with relief as well and walked over to where a destroyed casino once stood and sat down on a huge rock. My wings were stinging and pulsed with pain. Cleaning up the blood was the worst. Luckily, the stench was starting to lighten up a bit. I lowered the rag from my nose and mouth and rested. I lowered my head and closed my eyes.

My little nap was cut short when I heard footsteps heading toward my direction. They stopped a foot away from me. I opened my eyes and looked up. It was Kinski. He smiled a small smile and staggered a bit from where he stood in exhaustion. "Mind if I sit here?" he asked. I smiled a small weak smile and nodded. "Sure," I said, scooting over a bit. Kinski flopped down next to me and rested his head on my shoulder. He was breathing heavily. "I… healed sixty… people …tonigh'," he said panting. He was very proud of his accomplishment, but he admitted to me that he didn't really like the feeling of being near the citizens, but I told him that he'll get used to it.

I smiled and rested my head against his. "A new record, huh?" I asked. Kinski moved his head in an awkward nod. I smiled. Then he lifted his arms and wrapped them around me. I felt a small wave of heat rush through me, but then faded away. I was somewhat still getting used to the thought that Kinski and I liked each other. I have never had someone like me before. Well, maybe I have, but I don't remember. It didn't matter, I was happy where I was. I felt Kinski's twitching nose near my neck. I flinched a bit, but Kinski didn't seem to notice. He closed his eyes and rested a bit.

Just then, Petunia came bounding up to us. Her stethoscope hung around her neck. "Hi!" she said as she came up to us and sat down next to Kinski. Kinski opened his eyes and I turned my head to Petunia. "Hi Petunia," I said. Kinski lifted his head. "Hey Petunia," he said. Kinski loosened his arms around me and turned himself to Petunia. He looked down curiously at the stethoscope that hung around her neck. He poked it with his left index finger. "Vha's zat called again?" he asked. Petunia beamed, "it's a ste…setho… stether…" she tried pronouncing herself. Kinski snickered. Petunia smiled and shrugged.

"Somethin' like that, doctors use it to listen to heartbeats," she said as she lifted it up from her neck and offered it to Kinski to try out. Kinski lifted his ears up to place the ends in, then placed the long end with the small disk to his chest and listened to his own heartbeat. His winced eyes shifted around in the air, trying to listen for his heartbeat. Then his eyes widened and his mouth formed into a smile when he heard his thumping organ.

"Cool," he said. Then he swivelled around and carefully placed the disk end over my heart. I stiffened. My breathing got slow and heavy. Kinski listened for a while. He grinned, his eyes hidden behind his blond bangs. "Yer heart's beatin' fast," he observed. I felt my face heat up.

After a while of playing with it, I made Kinski give the instrument back to Petunia. Petunia placed the stethoscope back around her neck and gazed hapily at the town. "Everything is almost back the way it was before," said Petunia, smiling happily. Kinski and I exchanged glances. Almost... Petunia was so young years ago, she didn't even know how it was before Bill took over. All she knew was The Dark Ages. Kinski just smiled a small smile and patted her head. Petunia smiled and ran off.

...

After a couple minutes, everyone called it a night and decided to go eat dinner and sleep. A couple citizens and market traders either went to their own homes to go and eat dinner, or they went to where the market traders stayed and ate plates of hot beans and pieces of bread. Food was running low, but the market traders started up a system of planting seeds behind their area and starting up a big garden.

Kinski and I got up from where we sat and walked down toward the Rodent family home. The Rodent family was nice enough to allow Kinski in the family, since he saved their lives. He told me he was happy to be part of a family, and that he never had one before. I recalled back to when he told me his stories about his times in the orphanage. I would usually have to calm him down when he got a little out of control.

Kinski and I slowed down as we apporoched the two story house and walked up the porch stairs. Kinski had to duck his head in order to walk through the doorway. Everyone in the Rodent family, including me, was short. Kinski had to duck a couple times and be careful where he walked, but he didnt mind. Mrs. Rodent turned her head from the kitchen and smiled. "Hello you two, you ready for dinner?" she asked. I smiled and nodded. "Yeah," I said and sat down at the table. Kinski sat down next to me. Mrs. Rodent came over and placed two hot plates of food in front of us. Right as I was picking up my fork, Kinski already had his face covered in beans and mashed potatoes.

Mrs. Rodent called er family in. One by one, Mr. Rodent, Stub, and Petunia, came into the dining room to eat. Petunia laughed at Kinski. Kinski didn't seem to mind and began to play with his food, entertining the little girl. I grabbed a napkin and handed it to Kinski. Finally, Kinski accepted it and wiped his face.

Mrs. Rodent sat herself down and begn to eat from her plate of food. After a couple small bites, she wiped her mouth with the corner of her napkin and started up a conversation. "So, hows everythin' goin' with you two?" she asked. I looked up at her and swallowed a mouthful of beans. "What?" I asked. Mrs. Rodent repeated her question. I looked over at Kinski. He held his plate up at an angle, and was licking it clean. He stopped at mid lick and looked up at Mrs. Rodent. Kinski's eyes shifted over to me before he finished licking his plate and slowly placed the plate down. "...Ve are done cleaning ze town up...uh... I healed sixty people today," he answered. Petunia smiled a big smile and turned to her mom. "I helped out! I got to listen to peoples hearts!" she said. Mr. Rodent smiled and joined in on the conversation.

When we were all done, we all carried our plates to the sink and got ready for bed. The Rodent Family house didn't have a lot of rooms, so Kinski had to sleep on the couch in the living room. "I'm sorry you have to sleep here every night. I wish we had an extra room for you," Mrs. Rodent said as she prepared the couch for the hunchback jackrabbit. She held a lanturn in her right hand, illuminating the room. Kinski waved off her apology as he helped place the extra bed sheet on top of the couch.

"Is no big deal, I'm used to sleeping on ze couch," he said. Right when he said that, it made me kind of nervous. I assumed Kinski missed the days when he was with Bill, Stump and Chorizo;staying in the Abandoned Mines, shooting, drinking, harassing the townsfolk...when they were gunslingers...

I shook the thought out of my head when Mrs. Rodent passed by me. "Goodnight Kinski. Goodnight Banhee," said Mrs. Rodent as she left. "Goodnight," we said at the same time. She left, taking the lanturn with her. Kinski and I stood there in the darkness as our eyes gradually adjusted. I turned my head to Kinski. "Are you going to be ok here tonight?" I asked him. Kinski stared at me for a minute before turning his head to the boarded up window above the couch.

Since we found out about the gang turning into zombies, Mr. Rodent made sure no moonlight came into the house when Kinski was staying the night. Kinski lowered his head to the couch and ran his fingers across the arm rest. "Yah," he said. I nodded my head, "Ok. Goodnight Kinski," I said. I approched him. He turned his head slightly to me, and I gave him a kiss on the cheek. Kinski smiled a small smile in the darkness. I smiled back. I began to turn, when I all the sudden I felt Kinski's hand grip my wing. I was pulled back and swivled around to face Kinski. He leaned down to my height and kissed me on the mouth. It was quick, but I felt my face heat up a bit. Kinski moved his head away from mine and loosened his grip on my wing.

"Goodnigh,' Banshee," he said softly. He turned around and walked back to his couch, layed down, and went to sleep. I snapped out of my daze and made my way up the stairs to my room, being careful not to bump into anything. I opened the door to my dark room. The window was cracked open slightly to let the cool air in, but was boarded up, so I wasnt able to see the moon. I made my way to my bed, climbed into it, and fell asleep.