Hello, I FINALLY created my very first fanfiction, I hope you enjoy it and please send me reviews with tips to help me improve on my writings. This is only the epilogue with a prologue coming up. Note: Not all of this fanfiction will feature Alek and Deryn.

Epilogue-A Warm Welcome to Siberia

"Siberia," Alek said. The word slipped cold and hard from his tongue, as forbidding as the landscape passing below. All he could see were the deep forests and the snow of Siberia that stretched out to the ocean on his left with a few spruce cities in between. Artillery bombardment fell onto the trenches directly below. The Germans had positioned their artillery on to a cleared hill and were preparing for an assault on the Russians hidden in their snow-covered trenches. As the bombs fell, Alek could see a Russian war bear being blown apart into the snow with the others running into the nearby woods. The 'godless' beasts were as large as houses. This was the largest Darwinist land creation he had ever seen. Just viewing the battle from his window in his room on the Leviathan made him shiver.

"Hello Alek!"

Alek jumped and turned around. He saw Dylan standing in the middle of the room with the door opened behind him. "Oh, hello Dylan."

"Why are you so jumpy this morning?" Alek pointed at the window. Dylan went over to the window and looked through, "So THAT's why. Poor bears."

"This proves that Clankers are better than Darwinists. The German artillery is forcing the Russians to retreat into the forests," Alek commented.

"No that doesn't, besides look the Russians are attacking," replied Dylan. Sure enough Alek saw a huge column of Russian bears charging from their flanked positions in the woods with their riders on them towards the German line. Soldiers cried out in terror as the bears smashed through their line, creating chaos and destruction every where. Alek turned away from the window. "See, this proves that we will win this war," said Dylan cheerfully.

Alek hoped so, but he didn't want the Darwinists to hold supremacy over Austria-Hungary if he wished to return as Emperor.

"Besides Alek, I think you'd be better off as a Darwinist rather than a bumrag Clanker," Dylan commented while still looking at the battle below.

"I would not," retorted Alek.

"Yes you will, besides Alek, you have BORVIL sitting on your shoulder!" insisted Dylan.

The perspicacious loris blinked. "MR. Sharp," it said.

Oblivious of the accent in Bovril's comment, Alek retorted back at him, "I am NOT a Darwinist, Dylan, besides that doesn't mean I'll be better off anyway."

"Mr. Sharp." The sound of the Dr. Barlow's voice swung their heads to the door, but she wasn't there. Instead, the voice came from a small message lizard above them, one of the numerous frabications the Leviathan had, peaking out from its message tube hole with its eyes unblinking at them. "Can you please report to the bridge at once," then came a moments pause, "and bring Alek and his men with you straight away. I need to talk to you and them with the captain." Alek's heart dropped, if this was about them being prisoners, he might never see his home again. The lizard stared at them, waiting for a reply. Dylan opened his mouth to say something to it when Bovril interrupted them with a high pitched whooshing sound that was too loud to overhear the lizard from his shoulder. Then suddenly, a huge explosion rocked the side of the airbeast, causing it to tip nose downwards. Alek immediately lost his footing as he stumbled towards the bed side wall and fell arms first against it. Dylan swore as he fell, although he faired better and only landed on the bed's toppled mattress. The message lizard fell, shouting snatches of conversation as it got planted onto a bed size wall picture frame. Bovril, annoyingly, simply left from his shoulder and landed on his head.

Deryn's head rang from the huge explosion that caused here to loose her footing and fall against the mattress. The ship righted itself and she got up tipping slightly over. "Barking spiders," she whispered to herself as she regained her balance. Looking to her right, Alek was still on beside the wall, trying to grab Bovril off his head just as the alarm whistles sounded with hydrogen sniffers howling along. Deryn would have laughed if not for the situation to be serious. Running over, she grabbed Bovril and pulled the beastie off Alek's head, causing his hair to become an absolute hilarious mess. Bovril scampered onto her shoulder, and she dragged Alek out of the room, through the doorway, and into the hallway. Count Volger was already out in the hallway to meet them with his fencing saber by his side. "We have to get to the bridge," she cried out at him. Volger nodded as they began to run through the corridors.

"Where's Klopp, Bauer, and Hoffman?" she asked while helping a shocked Alek up.

"The last time I saw them they were in the engine pods," Count Volgar replied calmly.

Deryn nodded as they continued running. She saw Newkirk just as they passed the engine pods. "Newkirk, what's happening?"

"I'm not to sure," he replied, "people are saying that the airships been boarded. I'm heading towards the flechette bats to help the others get them into the air.

"Okay, see you later, good luck."

"Good luck."

They parted ways as they headed closer and closer to the bridge. When they reached the bridge doors, they saw the Leviathan's officers coming out with air pistols. Dr Barlow saw them and waved them over from her place beside the captain.

"The Leviathan's being attacked," she said distressfully. Deryn had never seen her this stressed out before.

"By who, the Germans?"

"No, we don't know, and that's the distressing part," Barlow replied.

There came a yell from a crewman near the bridge window. Deryn looked towards it. An odd looking soldier dressed entirely in black with a weird symbol on him that Deryn didn't recognize wearing armor, a helmet, and a gas mask covering his face swung towards the window on a cable wire...and smashed through it.