Chapter-10 The World's Greatest Gift

Okay…I'm really pissed off right now! No offense, but after everyone who read the prequel to this fic begged me for months over to write the sequel…I have a pitiful review count! X( I mean, I understand completely if you're busy, or if it's just not what you expected but…It just greatly disappoints me that DemonicSlayer616 and I worked our asses off ever since the sequel was confirmed to not receive any response from the readers! I mean, if we wrote something you didn't like or was done in a way you thought could've been better described then say so! Even some constructive criticism here is greatly appreciated! . Anywho, PLEASE! Review the last part of chapter-9 here, the poll at the bottom is VERY important! DS616 and I actually took the poll to school and asked several TT fans and our friends/acquaintances what they thought, and in the next chappie (sadly the last one 2…..) what they thought and why. So please respond to that! I NEED 2 know what u guyz think so I can do a better job with giving you a satisfying fic! Thanx! Enjoy!...

PS!...So Sorry 4 the incredible shortness of this chappie! .

PSS!...Although this is a Gizmo's Birthday series fic, this chappie in particular haas very little to do with Giz, 4give me 4 that! There WILL be spoilers in the next chappie 2 make up 4 it! .

PSSS….Sorry if my AN sounded a little blunt, but I was only trying to get a point across! (Sorry!...) .

-It had been little over one week since Falo and Hot Spot had announced their good news to the royal court, and Aragin had still not been able to shrug off the fact that she was both pregnant, and engaged.

But then again…What older brother would?

As of now though, Aragin was standing by the fountain in the large palace's quad, hands in his pockets as he gazed deeply into his abstract reflection in the pristine water.

Just then, another reflection appeared beside his; the face of a young woman with long brown hair and deep brown eyes. The same ones that had entangled him from the start.

"Steffauri!" Aragin gasped slightly as Steffauri stepped back and smirked as she crossed her arms.

"So, this is really it? The big step, the final blow? We're really going to do this?!" Steffauri exclaimed in the end as she blushed and ran her right hand through the tepid water below her.

She than glanced up at Aragin, who nodded twice in silent reply.

As Aragin gently pulled his fiancé up from the fountain side and brought her into a hug, another figure was watching them from behind a large marble Corinth by the quad's entrance/exit from the palace

…Damadel.

The blue haired maiden had been watching and listening intently.

Every time Aragin and Steffauri kissed, hugged, or walked hand in hand down the corridors of the palace, Damadel saw herself alongside lord Kazen.

She saw everything they used to be…And everything they could've been and yet never could be.

And it deeply saddened her. And yet it uplifted her broken soul at the same time.

"At least another couple is allowed to share this love." Damadel finished as she glided, totally unnoticed back to the door of the quad's palace entry way.

Over the three thousand years she'd been alive, Damadel's heart had died a slow, painful death. Just like the soul of her lover Kazen did as it sunk away into it's ruby crystal forevermore.

As Damadel walked back over to one of the windows in the vast, shadowy corridor, she continued, almost reluctantly to watch the couple outside.

Just then, Gizmo's form appeared around the corner, and Damadel barely shifted an eye in his direction.

"Uh…Damadel? What're you doing?" Gizmo asked as he walked over and stood beside her, arms crossed, looking out the window as she did.

"Admiring the world's greatest gift, child." Damadel replied in a monotone voice as Gizmo looked up at her, and then back to Steffauri and Aragin.

"Uh…What great gift?" Gizmo asked as he turned back to them, Damadel looked down at him briefly.

"Be silent Cheeo, and watch; someday, this may be you and Thiaspero, but when that day comes, you'll not be here watching alongside me, you'll be out there with her, chasing you're futures down a golden pathway." Damadel replied as Gizmo finally allowed the concept of the moment to sink in.

"…I see." Gizmo stated after a short pause between moments.

Damadel nodded from above him and began to smile slightly.

"Yes, admire it, go down that golden pathway. Hmm…And who knew a person could change so much, after only a few short years on Earth?" Damadel said to herself as Gizmo's smile began to slowly fade.

"Huh?" He asked as he looked up at her once more, Damadel looked down at him.

But by the time the two looked back up, the couple was gone, nothing in the quad was left…But the winding rows of plant life, and the cool rushing of the tepid water fountain.

"I was talking about you. You used to basically hold in any love you were given, and

now…you're finally learning how to give it back." Damadel finished as Gizmo smiled slightly, just admiring the simple beauty of the palace's empty quad, as he pondered on thoughts of the future.

-THE END! XD

AN!-OMG!!!!! It's finally the end! (Tears up/hugs reviewers) Thanx 2 all who reviewed and bared with me thru this fic! U guyz rock! X) Anywho, like I said, the next chappie is gonna be an assload o-spoilers! PLEASE b sure 2 check it out! See ya then! –GF516