This is the last chapter of story, hope all of you enjoy reading the story and sorry for the lousy and bad grammar. And anyway, this is the last chapter.

Sacrifice To Save One.

Hayate walked toward the window and saw a boat leaving in distant. Something told him that Athena is on board and held captive by the mafia. He began to confuse about the real objective of the mafia. They wanted revenge to the Sanzenin, but why they kidnapped Athena instead Nagi? What's the endgame? He tried to puzzled the question in his mind.

"That's it! I know they're endgame!" shouted Ryan to everyone.

"What is then?" Nagi asked very rushed and curiosity that pushed her and deep worries that pushing her.

"They will take her to the Apollo temple about fifty kilometers from here. They gonna returned her back to her form." everyone shocked to her that.

"But I thought the Shirosakura restore herself and it still a month or two to do so." Hayate intervened to Ryan's mind.

"Unless they have the same material of the sword and they know a magic spell that could restore her at a very quick time." new hypothetical statement that's making sense from Ryan.

"I knew it. I know we couldn't hide it. Someone will find it again." Ryan whispered to himself, but everyone could heard it.

"What do you mean?" Nagi asked.

"Back then, your father and I saved your mom in Greece. After we saved her, she held a log and sharp like-diamond thing and said that thing must be locked somewhere where anyone couldn't find it. So, we hid it in the Apollo temple, where it belongs and leaved it there forever. Guess they found it again and try to use it to Athena. I don't know about you guys know this, but that thing has more power than Shirosakura. It could do anything."

"Well this is not good. We have to catch up on them." Hayate pulled Ryan and they going down to the ground floor.

From there they borrowed (well stealing actually, but they preferred to say borrow) a police speed boat to the mainland. They still have time to catch up with the mafia and there's no time to loose.

They sailed so fast with the boat that they flew to the mainland and landed on the wooden piers. They ran out from the boat and "borrowed" a nearby car and drive very fast to the Apollo temple. They illegally crossed through the traffic lights and police quickly pursuit them. The police at first warned them to pulled over to the side of the street, but they declined and drove even faster. The police then used lethal forces by shooting at them. Hayate took Ryan's gun and shot back to the police. He accurately blew the tires to every police car that shooting at them. The car gaining more speed as they out of the city and to the uncrowded streets in the countryside. The police however still tailing and tried to stop them. More and more bullet wasted as Hayate paralyzed the police from following them, then he ran out of bullet and didn't have any gun to fire at. So he smartly took all grenades from Ryan's vest and tied it together. He pulled out all the trigger and waited to the exact moment to throw it. Ryan panickly forced Hayate to throw the grenade out right after he pulled all the trigger, but he didn't kind to his yell and kept holding it till the right time. The grenade was four second from explosion and Hayate threw it out from the window. It exploded on the ait and it's very big that the police lost vision of them. The grenade burst into flamed and made a fire barrier between them to the police. Hayate brilliant idea have safe the least of their worried.

After driving of nonstop fifty kilometers from the city, they arrived at the temple and saw a few cars already parked outside. The car they driving was heavily damaged and lots of shot hole on the body. They stepped out from the car and moments later, the car exploded to pieces. "Wow! We're very lucky indeed!" Hayate commented as they stared at the blazing car. They returned to their focus and stepped inside to the temple, there's nothing that they didn't expect, did they?

The temple was very ginormous and the ceiling pretty high. The pillars that sustained the from part of the temple was very thick and huge. They walked to the middle of it and a big hole from the roof shined them. Many paintings on the wall and accessories added to the wall as well. And right in front of then, was the big golden Apollo statue. After they feasted they're eyes with the beauty of the old age, Ryan stopped at one of the brick floor and the floor below the hole (which where they standing) started to going down slowly.

The mechanism of the elevator was very old and the loud noise from the machine came from the rotor gear that haven't oiled for thousand of years. The steel that became part of the mechanism was rusted and it could break apart at anytime, but yet it's still working after thousand years and moved normally.

It stopped at the dark underground cave that's very dusty and smelly. The moment they stepped out from the elevator, it went back up, leaving them in the darkness. Thankfully, Ryan had a flashlight to illuminated their way. The cave have lots of path to go, but Ryan knew the right path from his memories. He left some marks on the ground and the wall, incase they got lost because the path is like labyrinth that goes circling around if they took the wrong path.

They encountered the branching path five times and Hayate fully relied on Ryan's memories to the path. After thirty minutes of walking through the maze and maze of path, they arrived at the underground worship center of Apollo.

They walked slowly down through the stairs that attached to the wall. They stopped and hid behind a big rock as mafias coming out from a room. Ryan could identified the leader of the mafias, "Francesco Grenaldi." he coldly marked it.

One of the mafia dragged Athena to the middle, she tied up from leg to hand and screamed very loud for aid to come. Everyone turned their back around (except for Francesco) with their weapons hot and kept on a lookout. Francesco pulled out stoned that color and material that exactly resembled to Shirosakura from a casket. He put it in front of her and he pulled out a book from the casket as well. He opened the book and flipped every pages carefully. He stopped at a certain page and sat on the floor in front of Athena.

He started to read the book and spell some magical word. The whole temple shaken to its core and all the walls and ceiling of the temple shined with the strange light blue lights. The lights getting brighter and the land shaking more as Francesco continued to read the book. "Hayate, we got to stop him now!" he shouted toward him. So, Hayate took a rock near him and threw it to Francesco, it disturbed him and the place stopped shaking the blue lights was gone.

"Men! Stopped them!" they disposed their presence and now tens of powerful mafia shooting at them. They dodged every bullet and ran toward them. Ryan disabled all of his armor made a huge kick to the face one of the mafias. Followed by Hayate that punched a men on the throat and used him as human shield. They took a gun and tried take down the remaining mafias. At the same time, Francesco kept reading the book and it's all over again. Every minutes they wasted at the mafias, the lights getting brighter and the quake was tensing. The lights then reached to the center of the ceiling and suddenly, the quake something and big flash came from it. The blue lights turned into a stream of blue lights that going down toward Athena. The shooting starts back and it's raced against time to stopped Francesco.

Hayate decided to ran out from his hiding spot and blindly shooting at the remaining mafias. It worked and killed everyone that stand in their way. Francesco kept reading the book and he's almost finished. Hayate ran toward Athena and jumped toward her. He gotta stopped the spell no matter what. Francesco saw him jump at pulled out his pistol. Right when Hayate catched Athena, Francesco fired and the bullet hit Athena on the back and passed her body, making it nesting om Hayate's stomach. They both landed to the ground, bleeding to death and desperately need medical attention.

Francesco focused his attention now to Ryan. They messed up his plan and he wanted them to pay. He pulled out a sword and threw it to Ryan. "So, it's been a long time since we've meet."

"I know. I thought I clearly said to stay away from the Sanzenin." Ryan calmly replied as he swing the sword around.

"Hey, I didn't kidnap the Sanzenin. But I still came and harmed her. So I don't blame you if you wanted me to pay." Francesco with his evil accent swinging around his sword as well.

"So, shall we?"

"With pleasure!" Francesco ran toward Ryan and swung his sword very fast and strongly.
Ryan deflected the attack and kicked him away. Ryan ran and tried to stabbed him, but Francesco dodged and hit him in the back with his elbow. Ryan turned and almost sliced Francesco, but he dodged it and cut Ryan's cheek as he counter attack. Francesco then did serious kind of quick and strong attack toward Ryan. At first, he deflected all of his attack, but he grew tired and Francesco sliced his left leg, right arm, and his chest. Ryan did the same thing and inflicted more damage than Francesco.

After serial kinds of brutal, bloody, and painstaking fight, it's all come to one final attack. Ryan didn't add anymore injuries, but Francesco was another story. He losing blood as more cuts than his body could take and washed up what remains of his energy. They're twenty feet apart and staring on each other. They will dueling with sword to see which one is the fastest and death is the choice for the one that loose. They catching some breath for awhile and ready their position. Ryan glanced at Hayate and Athena to check up on them, they still bleeding and They maybe gonna die due to blood loss. He glanced at them so long that didn't notice Francesco already move first. He ran toward him and then ready his sword. He ready to swing it and finish this once and for all. Seconds later, they swung they're sword and everything happened just like a lightning strikes.

When everything began to calmed, Ryan felt his chest taken the hit and saw blood gushing out. For Francesco, Ryan sliced his left hand and it's almost breaking apart from his body. Ryan felt to his knee and laid on the ground. Francesco with the enormous pain and blood flowing out faster, walking very slowly and tiredly toward Ryan. Ryan turned his body around and welcomed by a blade in his neck.

"So here we are. I'm gonna kill my nemesis and my most hated person in the world and finished your blue hairy friend there. Then I'll continued the mantra and brainwashed and turned her into my command. Anyway, any last word?" He talked slurry and blood coming out from his mouth.
Ryan then grinned and giggled as he holding the pain on his chest. "Yeah. Good bye." after he said that, the stone penetrate his chest and ended the man's life. The one that stabbed was Hayate and he coughed more blood.

At the same time, everyone arrived and saw the two greatest men against the obstacle they encountered. Hinagiku is within the group and quickly treated Ryan, she stitches every part of his skin that got slice. Hayate sedated with small amount of morphine and Maria pulled the bullet out from Hayate's stomach. She closed the wound and stitched every wound he had. Everyone else focusing on Athena that seemed ran out of blood an minutes from dying.

Thought the stitching was not finish, Hayate walked toward the wounded Athena and held her little hand. Everyone mourned with sadness and helpless to save her. They accompanied her till she passed away from this world. Hayate hummed a song for Athena to calmed her as she closing to her death. It was a peace moment for everyone.

Suddenly, Ryan got up and said, "There is one way to save her."

"How!" Hayate shouted and desperately seek any help he got.

"I don't know. You won't like it." Ryan anxiously replied.

"Just spit out. We'll see if I don't like it." Hayate persuaded him.

"There's a spell that I know that can transformed people back to their form and heal them as well. But it would need a sacrifice to do it. Not just any sacrifice, but someone that she love and love her back that can do it." the way to do it was very tough and hard decision to made. Hayate already risk his life for everything and he will not loose Athena once more.

"But what will happen to the sacrifice?" Ruka asked.

"I don't know." a short replied from Ryan.

Hayate thought it clearly and with all of his heart and will, he said, "Let's do it!". Shortly after, Ryan ordered him to held her wound and his other hand to her left arm. Ryan sat in front of them and remembered about it. Then, he spoked Latin language (Because the spell was written in latin) and normally pronounced every word. Every letter and words are the spell and of one word is wrong, the spell must be restarted. The temple suddenly glooming lightly with the same light blue lights. The light getting shiner and shiner and reached to the center of the ceiling. The lights turned to the same stream of lights as before and circling around Hayate and Athena. The steam gone bigger and brighter as he almost finished reading the spell. The lights closed Hayate and Athena from eveyrone's vision and Hayate whispered to her, "I love you with all of my heart A-tan.". The lights gone very bright and finally exploded like a flashbang.

It blinded everyone for awhile and as they cleared their eyes, the light wa gone and everything back to normal. They looked at Middle and saw Athena grown back to her 18 year old form and naked. Hinagiku wrapped Ryan's eye with her hand. The clothes that closed her body ripped apart. She could memorized everything that happened to her life before and when she became Alice. But the cost was also much to pay for Hayate. Hayate leaved only his butler outfit and everyone started to taken all of it out. Behind it, there's Hayate in child form that lost his memories when he grows up. He didn't recognize everyone around him, except for Athena.

So Nagi lifted Hayate they made a new fresh start. "Hi, I'm Nagi Sanzenin. What's your name?"

"My name is Hayate Ayasaki. Do you know where's my parent or my brother Ikusa is?" with his cute and cuddling voice, Nagi softly replied, "No, I don't. But you can stay with me and Athena till you meet them again. Deal?"

"Deal! But why is she grown up into teenager and naked. Also, why I'm also naked?"

"Long story. And let me introduce you to everyone." the fresh clean start gave her an opportunity to know him better. Thought he turn to child, everyone still love and caring for him. He still a nice boy that everyone like. So and on, the mistress now treating the butler with love and compassion. The end.