Astal had lost much hope after discovering Leda may have been killed or transformed by Geist and Jerado's magic, and was nowhere to be found in The Crystal Palace. The trauma of that pointless search was so extreme, it caused him to finally cry. And once he began, it was difficult to stop, even when he kept looking, but the strange purple-furred bird that accompanied him from the beginning of his quest stayed with him still. After a long, boiling and sweaty journey to The Plains of Destiny, Astal and the bird follow the hunchback calling itself Fungus in the hopes of confronting his master for the final time. "We are here, my friends. As we make camp here, you will depart for the final showdown at sunrise. I must say, these wastes are extensive. Is it true that the desolation of these plains were brought forth by your strength?"
As Astal dries his still-flowing tears, he opens his eyes, looks at the hunchback and nods, confirming that it was he who committed the deed, in his first bid to save Leda from Geist. He could almost remember the brutal fights from days long past like it was yesterday, when he laid waste to Jerado's minions, causing unspeakable destruction in the process. "How shrewd! How very marvelous! Such destructive misbehavior pleases my master!" Fungus' reaction invokes neither shock nor disappointment, but instead, taking mirth and pleasure in Astal's shameful carelessness and cackles like a mad fool as he pitches together the tent and hoists it upward. He places a lantern and sleeping bags inside, and prompts Astal inside.
He casts aside his helmet and leaf jacket, and turns to face the bird. "I don't trust that creep one bit, stay outside, where it's safe." He tells her, who then rests at the entrance, as Astal climbs into his sleeping bag, still quietly hoping for Leda as Fungus laughs himself to sleep. He goes on to murmur Astal's past, the cave dwellers he frightened, and his upsetting of the delicate balance of nature. "If I wake up tomorrow, remind me to slug you." Fungus giggles more, and pulls his facial muscles into a repellent, nasty grin as he rests his eyes. Astal drys his still-forming tears and rests his eyes, and dreams of better days. Leda... I hope I can still save you...
Astal awakens himself and the bird at the crack of dawn, and find the hunchback has disappeared. Emerging from the tent, he saw a desolate, large field with vast mountains and deserts. Not a single green of plant life was seen growing for miles. He is fully aware that this disaster is his fault, and swore from that morning to make amends. Astal and his aviary ally saw a slowly-stampeding herd of massive, hideous insectoid creatures with four eyes, foreboding teeth, and grotesque mandibles. Knowing full well they will be to large to fight, Astal calls to the bird to rest on his shoulder, he has a plan.
As the creature yells at Astal and the bird, and when it makes attempt to devour them, Astal takes his aviary ally and charges under the beast's underbelly, still holding his friend close, avoiding the giant insect's clawed legs. The giant realizes that it's prey has snuck under it, and attempts to crush it underfoot. The movements of one of Jerado's most hideous and dangerous minions forces Astal to pace back and forth between the creature's legs, until he finds a way past the abominable ant, only to be greeted by more Goblins, and after he smites two of them, he is greeted by another giant.
The massive insect learns from the mistake of it's brethren, and stomps it's legs in a pattern, so as to smash down Astal and the bird, and prevent them from escaping the grisly creature's destructive appetite. Astal, still holding tight his frightened companion, charges past the leg stomping patterns of the insectoid monstrosity, and is greeted by a charging battalion of Goblins, some moving on the ground, others, wielding spears, are mounted on tan-skinned, green-eyed beetle-like creatures, and join their brothers on the sand to charge straight at Astal, spears aloft, reciting another war poem.
"Rogue in red, make him dead!
Wave after wave, round after round.
Our spears will make it's mark at the head.
A painful ending shall be found!"
Astal fought off and slammed his way through the advancing horde, and soon discovered the giant insect he just avoided was trailing right behind him! He made his way as best as he could past the forward line of the Goblins, more often than not, sending a few of them tumbling into the monster's mouth, devouring them without mercy. He jumps over their heads, still holding on to his little friend, and is stopped by some rocks by leaping creatures he saw at the Glacial Rift.
It would've been the end for Astal and the bird, were it not for a massive gemstone headed in their direction. Astal and the bird hid by the ruined stone, and in a mighty flash of light, the leapers and the giant bug were destroyed. The pair looked out into the distance, and saw a familiar figure that summoned the massive and powerful gemstone; Geist. He mockingly laughed at Astal, and created a fireball, and froze it, and channeled a form of energy into the forming stone in his hand, a magic so strong, it blotted out the sun momentarily, and swung the energetic crystal boulder at Astal again, with him and the bird seeking shelter among the rocks. Any of Jerado's monsters out in the open that didn't or tried to take cover were disintegrated, and that was no problem to Geist, so long as he could hamper Astal on the way to his final confrontation.
Getting a few scrapes, Astal decides enough is enough, and looks at Geist. "Come here and face me, coward!" Geist simply giggles mockingly, and teleports away, with an imposing tower leaning in the distance from the mountains. Remembering a bit of magic he remembered from The Old Age of Wonders, he channels and focuses his chi into a shimmering red orb of pure energy, allowing him to soar into the heavens to catch up with Geist, the bird struggling to keep pace.
As Astal's power of temporary flight wears off, he reaches a small crystalline platform, he spots out a larger platform, where he sees Fungus. He leaps over and confronts the grotesque hunchback. "How did you get here so fast?" He asked. "Teleportation. What else? Now, for the glory of Quartilia, Jerado, and my master, I shall smite thee with GREAT vengeance! Ha ha ha ha ha!" Fungus clenches his hands around the skull necklace and crushes it, unleashes a yellow light from it, which consumes him, and after growing in size and tattering his robes, morphs him into a monstrous blue-skinned titan with pink nails, blonde hair, and a horse head. He was about to strike at Astal, when a light shines down, and a black sword plunges into Fungus' back, poking out through his chest, smearing Astal in the horse monster's blood.
The creature that once called itself Fungus whimpers, and fallse on its face, dead, from a sword thrown out of seemingly nowhere. Just then, the assailant reveals himself to be Geist, who had just teleported in. "Poor, simple Fungus. You just wanted to play with him, didn't you? Hehehe..." He soon approaches the brief monster, lays his foot on Fungus' back, and places both hands around the sword that killed him, and after pulling out the dark blade from Fungus' back, Geist destroys his body and harvests his life essence, then turns to face Astal and the bird, sword pointed at him. He spoke;
"Hello, Astal. Good to see you. I'm willing to bet you're here to kill me. I'd love to see you try." Astal remembers what happened last night, and clenches his fist in anger. "I'm tempted to, after what you and Jerado did to Leda..." Geist cackles once more; "Heh, you'll be sure not to see her again. You've done me a big favor." Feeling that Geist intends to lie to him once more, Astal angrily glares at his unholy antithesis. "You're not fooling me, Geist. Not this time!" He charges at Geist, swinging punch after punch at him, causing Geist to lose his sword, and grabbing it, Astal lunges at the chest of his foe, the blade suddenly shatters, seemingly unable to harm its wielder by some form of magic.
"Why would I lie now? I'm being honest this time." He teleports away, fading in and out of visibility, with a mocking smirk on his face. "Every monster you've fought and killed have been used as a sacrifice to recreate Jerado's body!" Astal tries to face his constantly disappearing adversary. "I don't believe you." "Oh yeah? Well explain this!" Geist then opens a hole in the Underworld, where Jerado's eyes and grin are the only things visible in the blackness, and he lunges out with his massive hand, with sharp nails. Geist then closes the portal and laughs. "You've flubbed it again, Astal. Quartilia's true master is coming home! You thought you were defeating him, but you were actually helping Jerado gain power. The master's now complete thanks to you, and I think it's time to get rid of you. Goodbye, Astal!"
Teleporting in the middle of the air, he summons yet another crystalline boulder, and hurls it towards Astal, but he and the bird dodge in the nick of time, smashing against the side of the platform harmlessly, but the shrapnel from the impact scrapes Astal in the shoulder, using his arm to shield his eyes from the bright explosion. Just then, Geist snaps his finger, summoning four round rocks above Astal's head, pulsing with a new form of energy, and then shoot a beam downwards where Astal stands, and the bird flutters. The beams of energy point towards them, but they evade quickly, but not before the powerful lasers strike Astal in the wrists, causing them to bleed.
Suddenly, Geist teleports in front of Astal from half the platform away, and brings forth the round stones used to blast energy at Astal, and intends to shoot them into his general direction. Thinking quickly, the redheaded warrior breathed in, and blew out a mighty gust of wind in another of his signature breath attacks, sending the stones back unto Geist, injuring him, spinning him backwards, dizzying him. Teleporting away, he summons another boulder to crush Astal, but he and the bird avoid it again. Snapping his fingers, he again summons four round stones to blast away at Astal, but as he teleports in front of him to throw them at Astal, the bird charges through three of the rocks, breaking them, and Astal throws Geist to the platform with a thunderous suplex, and tosses the remaining stone at his scalp, and Geist teleports away.
"Stubborn ghoul... Why won't you die?" Visibly irritated as his forehead bleeds, Geist snaps his fingers, and summons three stones together, which form a triangle-shaped rainbow laser, while it was slightly pretty to look at, Astal knew better than to touch it. Soon, Geist teleported to the other side of the platform to throw the stones at Astal again, he tucks in, inflates, and blows out yet another gust of wind that send the stones into Geist's abdomen, shin, and back. Covered in bruises and cuts, he angrily teleports away, and sends the platform carrying Astal and his aviary ally upwards into the heavens, clouds obscuring their vision. "What's going on? Why can't I win?... I can't lose to him, I can't!" Screamed Geist as he reappeared.
The platform soon reached the top of the clouds, where Astal looked out into the distance to see a floating island with a magnificent palace with a wall of diamonds around it, where he presumed the goddess and maker Antowas made her residence. The island appeared to be in a sorry and decaying state, with lightning bolts striking the spire. And not far ahead, was an agitated, furious, envious and bleeding Geist. Teleporting next to the platform keeping Astal and his aviary companion afloat in this void of clouds, it shook as Geist put his feet together, encased them in the shap of a shard of Taffelite, and plunged after the mighty Astal, missing him by a mile, cracking the crystal shell. Frustrated, he teleports away again. Cowardly as ever. Astal thought. He's relying too much on his magic and trickery to fight me man to man!Summoning yet more orbs of dark magic with the snap of his finger, Geist brings five rocks to corner Astal and the bird, intending to crush them both beneath stone rain, but Astal ducks away as he sends another into the direction of Geist, cracking against his chest, and avoids the remainder. He repeats his tactics several times, but to no avail, injuring Geist even more, and allowing Astal to easily fight fire with fire by means of magic. "Your magic tricks aren't working, Geist!" Astal yells at his foe, as he teleports away yet again. "You're going to have to fight me barehanded!" "Grrrr!" In a rage, Geist flies away in a puff of dark blue smoke, Astal focuses his inner powers, and encasing himself in a familiar red aura, takes flight, and gives chase with the favored creation of Jerado, the purple bird not far behind.
Managing to keep up with his deadly arch-rival, Astal delivers an overhead slam on Geist's still bleeding scalp, and blasts him back down to Quartilia with another of his mighty breath attacks. Making a visible dent on the rocky surface of The Plains of Destiny, Geist, in his anger and jealousy, summons yet another massive crystalline rock but could scantly succeed, were it not for the fact that Astal had just recently created one of his own. Standing from a hillside, he held a massive ruby-encrusted boulder ten times his own weight, and larger than Geist's. "But... How...? How did you do that?!" Geist shouted, Astal simply replied; "I'm a fast learner. URRRRAYAAA!"
With a tremendous heave, Astal sent his big rock tumbling down the hill a thunderous slam, causing Geist to drop his bolder, and run desperately in the opposite direction, screaming all the way down, as the boulder crumbles in on him, sapping the last of his strength. Defeated, still bleeding, and covered in bruises, he falls to his hands and knees in defeat, glaring furiously at his enemy, who walks over to him. "This isn't fair... I don't get it. I'm stronger than he is! Why can't I beat him? Why can't I win? Why?! Why...?" The clouds darken, and the sun fades, and all fades to black as a familiar shimmer of eyes appears from the darkness. Jerado is finally free, Geist finally spoke the truth.
"I'D BE VERY DISAPPOINTED IN YOU GEIST, IF YOUR PATHETIC EFFORTS AGAINST THAT LITTLE BOY WEREN'T SO HUMOROUS. HAHAHAHA...! EVEN IF YOU CANNOT BEAT HIM, WHAT FURTHER USE ARE YOU TO ME? HA HA HA HA! I'M NOT ABOVE DESTROYING THOSE WHO DARE TO FAIL ME." As Jerado spoke, he used his dark magic to seal the wounded Geist into the jewel that created him; a sapphire. He then sends it crashing to the ground, with Geist screaming all the way, nothing remained of his body, save for his necklace. Jerado's reputation for brutality is well-earned, Astal glares on in shock as Jerado mystically manifests into the mortal plane with his old, but still powerful body, his bird friend is frozen in place by fear of the dark god's return, he is hideous as he was before. Blue skin, brown hair, fat, red eyes with yellow irises, two horns, a pointing nose, pink lips and frightening sets of teeth.
"HAHAHAHAHAHA! AT LAST I AM REBORN! FROM THE SHADOWS, I EMERGE ONCE MORE, TO RAVAGE QUARTILIA AS I HAVE IN DAYS LONG PAST. YOU CANNOT HOPE TO DEFEAT ME, ASTAL. IT'S TOO LATE. I HAVE BECOME FAR MORE POWERFUL THAN YOU CAN POSSIBLY IMAGINE!" Extending hand, Jerado takes the bird and encases it in a green orb barrier of powerful magic, unable to fly away from her captor, Astal looks in horror. "Let her go, you creep!" Jerado scoffs and stares dumbfounded. "WHAT IS THIS? COMPASSION?! HOW DROOL. HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE SMALL AND FRAIL LIKE YOUR LITTLE FRIEND, ASTAL? UNABLE TO ACT IN THE FACE OF MY POWER? FRUSTRATING, ISN'T IT? YOUR NEWFOUND WEAKNESS BORES ME, ASTAL. NOW DIE!" The horned fiend raised his right foot to crush Astal, there is a slight sign of panic and despair from the young warrior as Jerado crushes his sole opposition underfoot.
The lord of demons cackles loudly into the night as the bird that had accompanied Astal from his return to Quartilia to his final encounter with Geist, had just been killed right in front of her. As tears flowed down the avian's beak, Jerado glares at his quarry menacingly. "NOW, NOTHING WILL STAND IN MY WAY AGAIN! THIS WORLD IS MINE! NOW, HOW TO CELEBRATE MY VICTORY?... DESTROY EVERYTHING, AND BEGIN AGAIN! YES..." Just then, a turquoise glow emerged from Jerado's foot, forcing it up. Remarkable as it seems, Astal survived! A powerful energy from Leda's necklace appeared to shield and heal him, his present injuries, cuts and scrapes, disappearing. "W-WHAT?!" The dark god stands dumbfounded, Astal glares up towards Jerado, striking a determined smile. "I'm not gone yet, Jerado. You're finished! Urrryaa!"
Summoning his finest suplex yet, Astal throws Jerado out into the distance of The Plains of Destiny, the dark deity flung into the with the force of a geyser, freeing the little bird from his magic. As Jerado fell to the ocean, making a hole in the dry, cracked earth in the shape of his own body, the little bird flutters back to Astal, and resting on his arm, nuzzles him again. "Yeah, I thought I nearly lost you too." He chuckled. "Well, that was easy! Now to finish the-" Just then, a rumbling was heard, the ground shook, surviving animals and fiends fled the battlefield in fear of what was to come next. "UHH...HUH HA HA HA HA HA..." "-Job?..."
He shudders as he makes his way to the now-drying ocean floor where Jerado crashed. The landscape changed to a sickening purple as a manner of surreal objects and all the planets that orbited Quartilia as well as the sun were made visible in the night sky. The patterns on the floor, and the plants that surrounded it suggested that this was the ocean floor where Astal first defeated Jerado's demon army, nearly drowning himself in the process, and prompting Antowas to banish him from Quartilia and chain him to the moon. Jerado emerged from the cracked earth, placing fingers around the edge, and striking a ghastly, all-too-familiar grin. He soon levitated up from the hole in the dry ocean floor, laughing.
"YOU SEE, ASTAL?! YOUR LITTLE BLUNDER THAT BANISHED YOU ALLOWED ME ACCESS TO THE PLANET'S CORE! UNDER MY CONTROL, I CAN USE IT'S ESSENCE TO SUMMON MY SLAIN FIENDS INTO A SINGULAR, STRONGER FIEND, TO FEAST UPON YOU! BE PROUD, LITTLE BOY! THIS PLANET IS TRULY MINE! I SHOULD THANK YOU, BUT IT WOULD BE MORE FUN TO KILL YOU! HA HA HA HA HA!" Teleporting to the other side, Jerado summoned a triangle-shaped diamond, which upon landing, would grow into a grotesque tree of his imagining, through which after bringing forth more diamonds, could create a fearsome dragon to consume Astal, the tree intending to block his escape from the beast.
What he didn't count on was that even without the power from Leda's necklace, Astal could still lift and throw objects ten times his own weight. Astal does just that, and injures the dark deity, causing Jerado to drop the large diamonds he had just summoned. Angrily, he summons another series of diamonds, and manages to complete his undead diamond dragon incantation, sending the creature screaming towards Astal. He leaps over it in the nick of time, only getting a few scratches. Jerado throws another diamond to crush Astal, and summons more diamonds, with the same results: Astal lifting the tree high above his head, and crashing it into Jerado's face, severing his concentration.
In his rage, he teleports from the crack in the ocean floor, and slams his fist towards Astal, which barely succeeds. He summons another tree buried in a diamond, with the same results blowing up in Jerado's face, preventing his incantation from fruition. Angry, he teleports to the cracks again, and throws several punches at Astal and his aviary companion, only one of which succeeds, smacking Astal in the gut. With an opportunity, he finishes an incantation, and summoning another dragon made out of diamond, he flies the creature towards Astal, but fortunately for the redheaded warrior, the segmented beast merely grazes him. Jerado teleports to land another punch to Astal, but missed again, and angrily summons another undead dragon to smite the young man, but he leaps away again.
Throwing another tree gem at Astal, he blocks his path once again, leaving him and his bird friend with cramped space, Jerado chants once more to use the life energy of his monsters to create another diamond dragon, but Astal lobs this next tree into his ribcage, with the dragon scraping his shoulder in his mild confusion. Clearly seeing that trees would be used against him, he brings forth another diamond, and Astal runs to grab it, but it turns out to be a massive rock stitched together by various gemstones, where he ducks away in time, and the rock shatters and fragments harmlessly.
Jerado lobs another rock concealed in a diamond, but Astal jumps away from the crash again, then Jerado throws another diamond, appearing into another tree, intended to block Astal's escape path from the undead diamond dragon, but he lifts it over his head once again, and lobs it at the demon god with the strength of a starved gorilla. However, the master of darkness manages to successfully summon the dragon and send it charging to Astal's general direction, but he ducks under the segmented beast. Jerado throws another diamond at him, clearly on his last legs, and the diamond lands on Astal's side of the oceanic crevice, and it transforms into another tree. "Reduced to throwing pebbles, Jerado?" He mocks. "And I thought you were powerful enough on your own to take over without your demon army." "SILENCE, CHILD!"
Astal heaves the tree over his head again, visibly exhausted from the battle, and throws it unto Jerado again, shaking him up a little, and canceling his undead dragon incantation, even as the crystal head of the monster takes shape. He teleports back and forth again, throwing more gemstones concealing rocks intended for flattening Astal and his friend, but he ducks away time and time again, prompting Jerado to teleport into the middle of the seafloor crevice to punch Astal, a few of which succeed, were it not that the bird had brought Astal a Kifryn Apple, a glistening green fruit of great power that consumers can stand healed of what ails. "My turn, blue butt!" As Jerado summons another tree to cut off his escape, Astal lifts it over his head, and throws it back to Jerado, the unholy foliage again exploding in his face, flooring the remainder of the dark god's alleged strength. "NO... NO! I AM STRENGTH, I AM ALL POWERFUL, I AM JERADO! I..."
Clearly defeated, Jerado's skin glowed a slight baby blue hue shined all over his form as he teleported back to the hole in the seafloor, scowling furiously at the young Quartilian. "And now, dark master of masters, your power here is no more. With the blessings of Antowas, righteousness and the innate good nature of mankind, I smack thee back to the Pit of Hate from which you hail... Urrryaa!" Leaping upwards and conking Jerado in the cranium with his strongest overhead slam, the strongest that cracked the ocean floor in the first place, Jerado moaned, groaned, and fell into the dark, damp crevice colliding with the planet's exposed core as he died. "And now, spirits of evil that have ransacked, pillaged and ruined this world in Jerado's service, all fiends depart!" Astal chanted as he held aloft Leda's necklace, which started glowing into the hole, a mighty light of righteousness shimmering into the core, expelling all the dark spirits lurking there, and beyond.
Astal looked on in amazement as the crevice flowed and expunged the fiends that have ransacked Quartilia, each spirit in the form of a repellent, ghastly being with empty eyes and a demonic set of teeth. The demons were expelled from the core, with Geist's dark spirit leaving first, and the last evil spirit was a large one, and glowing in various colors. indicating that it was Jerado's spirit sent away as well. Content with his work, Astal sealed the ocean floor with the magic in Leda's jewel, righting his wrong and restoring the elemental balance of Quartilia to it's former wealth and glory.
With daylight returning, nature blooming, and plants restored to life, Astal smiled, and a tear in his eye, he said; "At last, my quest has come to an end. I did it, Leda. I did it for you! I've avenged you! I beat Jerado and Geist, I fixed the hole I made in the seafloor, and restored the balance of the elements! Fire, water, earth, wind, ice and stone- W-Water?!" Realizing the implications of his restoration effort, the ocean would be filled once again. Desperately, he grabs the bird and climbs the wall of stones, dirt and sea flora to reach dry land. "Gotta get up there... Gotta get up! Still can't swim... I still can't swim!" He climbs upward as the ocean surface begins filling up with water, which quickly fills and rises up to Astal's ankles, prompting him to climb faster, but he is quickly up to his head in water, having forgotten to hold his breath.
He would promptly be thrown unto the shore by a wave, still clutching his aviary companion. Breathing fresh air again, and content to be on dry land again, he sees The Plains of Destiny terraformed into a vast, beautiful jungle. Animals returned soon after, and soon all was as it once was. Astal knows he must free the bird to live among its kind in the vast expanse of nature. A tear in his eye, he turns to the purple bird that accompanied him from the very beginning of his quest. "Well, I guess this is the part where I let you go, little girl. You've been a great pal, and you've never let me down." He nuzzles the bird with his cheek, and holds his hands up. "Fly free, my friend. Fly free..." The bird stays, however, and pecks at Leda's jewel necklace. "H-Hey. What gives?" The keepsake then shines a light into the bird, which then has a green orb of magic glow around her, and it soon ascends into the sky, thighs tucked, tarsus claws closed, wings extended, and turquoise tail feathers reaching up to her head. With the jewel's power, the pretty bird of purple fur began an even more beautiful transformation. Astal looked up at the small creature in amazement to find the bird was little more than...
...Leda! Astal's best friend in the whole wide world, purveyor of creation, life and beauty, and the reason for Astal's existence. She was still as beautiful as the day she and he were born, alone in a humble forest, with only the stars, and tablets sent down by Antowas to guide them through their daily lives. She opened her eyes to look upon her friend. "Astal..." She floated down into Astal's hands like a rose petal, both feet landing on the ground. "Leda..." He spoke. "You have no idea how long I've waited to see you. To think you were with me this whole time... You... You fight good." "Hehe, thanks. Is it over?" "Yes, Leda. I think it is..." Just then, the keepsake necklace Leda gave Astal on the day of his banishment began glowing, broke away from it's laces, and hovered into the heavens, where Antowas then appeared.
"The maker!" Cried Astal. He and Leda then bowed to greet the goddess. "Great and fair Antowas... I have redeemed my sin at last. In the destruction I wrought, I have corrected by sealing the cracks in the ocean. Will you ever forgive me?" "Have no fear, my son. All has been forgiven." She replied, eyes still closed. "Astal, Leda, listen to me. Jerado's shadow is now gone from this world, and Leda is free of Jerado's dark magic." "This was only made possibly by the power of your blessing that you bestowed on me through Leda's necklace." "Astal, it wasn't my power that let you defeat Jerado. You discovered compassion. Despite my power of creation, even I cannot give you this. You have learnt compassion from those you have protected. Compassion brings strength, Astal. Remember this. Now, my work here is done, I leave this world to you two, and I leave to you the power of creation. Farewell, Astal and Leda. Bring happiness and balance to Quartilia. This is my final command..." Then, in a sparkle of brilliant lights, Antowas left this world as quickly as she built it, leaving behind her a large temple next to the place where Astal and Leda were born, a final memento of her beauty and balance.
Astal and Leda gave their heartfelt goodbyes to their maker, and left for home, with Leda leaving behind exquisite flowers in her path, growing plants, trees, crops, and creating wondrous animals to populate Quartilia. As they returned to the plum tree where they spent their days in The Old Age of Wonders, they saw many changes. Humanity flourished and blossomed, nature was in flawless harmony, and game was plenty. Exploring the temple Antowas left behind, they saw many tapestries recording Astal's journey from start to finish, and the history of the planet that has occurred around them.
After exploring the history of Quartilia, they played in the flowers, rolled around in the hills and did the things they did as they have in days long past; growing plants, feeding the animals, bathing, and making sure to keep their promise to Antowas to create life and bring happiness. They make good on their final command, bringing civilization soaring ever higher, with Astal and Leda growing more in love with each passing day. As the sun set next to the tree, Astal and Leda came to rest where they usually did in days long past. With Leda, on the side of the tree, and Astal, resting on the tree branch. "Good night, Leda. I love you." He whispered, she blushed. "I know. Good night, Astal..." They then came to a blissful sleep beneath the stars, loving one another under the glow of the moon, awaiting another day to hold one another in their arms, well aware with Jerado and his fiends gone, the night never again steal them away...
We lay like lovers in a warm embrace... I can see the moonlight shining through the mist... I'm holding you in my arms... Hold me close, I want your soul.
Your kisses thrill me like no one before...
Baby, I'm all yours, living just for you...
The moonbeams gleaming over you and me...
I see the light of love, shining in your eyes...
Loving you beneath the stars...
I don't want the night to steal you away...
Don't you know that baby?
Your love has touched my very soul.
Can you feel it baby? Whoaa.
Never let me go.
Darling, cuz we're so in love
and we can dream on.
Sweet Dreams...