This is the last chapter! I can finally change the status to 'Complete'! This was a fun story to write, and I hope you all had fun reading it! I'm almost to 75 reviews, just two more, you know you want to help me out! Anyways, please enjoy the final chapter of Fallen Angel! Read on!

Summary: Kurt is a Fallen, an indescribably beautiful race of demon–angels. Kitty is a fledgling priestess with a hidden power. Kitty knows that Kurt isn't her enemy, but can she prove it?

Fallen Angel

25. Epilogue

Life felt good. Kitty and her friends had defeated the Darkness, hopefully for good, and things went back to normal.

Karma and Fervior lived outside Treehaven, in the Forest—since one of them was supposed to be evil and the other supposed to be dead, they had elected to not come to Treehaven, since random chaos was the last thing any of them wanted, especially after saving the world, and whatnot. It just seemed like too much extra work (and, of course, no one wanted that)

Sparks had returned to the Shrine of Stars, after having promised to visit every once in a while. Kitty knew they hadn't seen the last of her—Sparks enjoyed scaring Kitty too much.

Kurt, Shade and Kitty went back to Treehaven, though sometimes they left and went to talk to Karma about some things.

They'd gone to talk to her the day after the battle, since Kurt had some questions for her.

Kurt had told her about how he had helped Kitty fight the Darkness, and (also having previously explained to Kitty about what had happened) about how he had gotten there in the first place. He asked what the light was, and why it had called him 'guardian'.

Karma had thought it over and told them that they were lucky; indeed, very lucky.

Kitty, of course, asked why. The trend of asking many questions was quickly becoming a sort of personality trait associated with Kitty nowadays.

Karma had smiled and told Kurt and Kitty that the light was the physical representation of the First Fallen—as the First Fallen could not leave their own dimension, they had become light instead, and gone to Kurt; evidently Kitty was important to the First Fallen, for they had guided Kurt to her. As for the reason he had been called 'guardian'… Karma said that every priestess has a guardian, whether they know it or not. Apparently Kurt was Kitty's guardian. And Kitty asked Karma who her guardian was, a logical question considering the conversation at hand, and the first all-elements wielder only smiled, saying, "At least I know now."

Whatever that meant—Kitty was beginning to realize Karma was fond of cryptic riddles, and she didn't want to try to dissect her words.

Kurt and Kitty were walking back to Treehaven.

"So…you're my guardian?" Kitty asked curiously, still trying to get used to the idea herself.

Kurt grinned, showing off his fangs. "I suppose so."

Kitty smiled. "Although I'm thinking you're going to have a hard time with guarding duty—I'm a magnet for trouble!"

"And don't I know it!" agreed Kurt, laughing.

Kitty laughed as well, knowing he was right. The adventure they'd had—probably all because of her venturing into the Forest all that long ago (was it really only a few weeks ago? To her it seemed like a lifetime, perhaps)

Well, maybe not, but the more likely explanation was her turning up as an all-elements wielder. Maybe that set everything into motion—Kitty supposed she might never know.

She thought back, to when she was still an almost-normal human living in Girva. So many things had happened since then, beginning with her sneaking off to the Forest to see some Fallen.

Then she had met Kurt and Shade, and Fira, in turn…

And that had started the cycle that had brought her to the Forest for good, living in Treehaven; training; finding the weird tooth (she still had yet to figure out who exactly had sent to her, and where on earth they had obtained such an odd container, and how they'd gotten the tooth inside in the first place)

That had somehow led to Kurt being kidnapped, and Kitty herself learning about Fervior; Treehaven being attacked and Sparks and her escaping; finding Kurt again, and in turn escaping from the underground hideaway; getting swept along to the Valley of Mists…

Then they had found the fairies, gone to the Shrine of Stars; opened the gateway between their world and the first Fallen's realm; fought Fervior; Sparks had explained a lot of things to Kitty; Kitty had learned how to use a bow; and then Fervior had sent them all to the strange chamber of darkness…

And then Kitty had used Spirit, Dark, and Light together, freeing Karma—boy, was that a surprise; they learned the Darkness had taken over Shade; summoning Light and Spirit to help do battle…

And last of all Kitty had had yet another out-of-body experience, banishing the last of the Darkness (with Kurt's help, of course)

All in all, she felt rather well-traveled, for only having been here a few weeks.

But now that she thought about it all together, their story seemed pretty unbelievable.

However, it was the truth. She knew it—she'd been through it.

And she was sticking to it, no matter what.

Kitty stood on the porch of her tree house—the one she had been given before, which she had managed to find again, surprisingly enough, and was sitting outside, watching the sun set behind the mountains, giving the clouds and treetops an orange glow.

She was feeling pretty good about herself. Everyone was alive (a plus) there was no more 'great evil' lurking in the Forest that the Fallen were afraid of, she'd learned a whole lot about herself, her companions, and her own great power, and she'd even managed to save the world while she was at it! How's that for being new to the game?

Kitty watched as the sun sank beneath the horizon, and the pale purple color of dusk covered the sky.

She'd done it.

She had destroyed the Darkness—well, at least the evil, malicious part of it. Because without dark, light could not exist, and Kitty was not quite willing to believe she'd unbalanced the order of the world (and she still couldn't think about the fact that she'd defeated the Darkness without feeling a sense of supreme pride in herself for her part)

She almost didn't see the faint flash of light as Karma appeared; Kitty stared at her former incarnation, managing to say, "I thought you didn't have the power of teleportation…"

Karma laughed. "I don't."

"Then how…?"

"Simple." The first all-elements wielder tilted her head to one side. "Moving through something that already exists by manipulating the element most associated with it—in this case, I used light."

"Huh." Kitty thought this over, and decided, some time, Karma was going to teach her that trick. She paused, suddenly the thought coming to mind that there must be a reason Karma had come here. She voiced the question aloud. "Um, is there something you've come here for?"

"Actually, yes," Karma nodded slightly, tapping her fingers on the porch railing. "I know you encountered the Darkness before…"

Kitty scrambled upright with a jolt of fear. "It's not coming back, is it?" she blurted out, eyes growing wide.

To her intense relief, Karma shook her head. "No," she said, "we annihilated all traces of that evil with our power."

Slowly Kitty sat back down again, feeling a little relieved but also apprehensive, as to what Karma was here for, what she wanted to say. "So what do you mean, then?"

Karma looked as though she were thinking of the right way to say it. Finally she spoke. "I meant that while you have seen the Darkness's evil, it is but one aspect of evil. There are others, smaller seeds of shadows, not like the Darkness with its overflowing evil, but evil nonetheless."

"Okay…" Kitty nodded, not sure where she was going with this, but understanding in the slightest bit what she was saying. "And this has to do with us, how?"

Karma looked at her with a steady, clear gaze. "You are of the Fallen, who are descended from the First One and are depicted in the likeness of fallen angels. Kurt has met the First One, albeit distantly, and the First One is the closest thing to a god that the Fallen have. You have met the oldest of the fey—being the Tribe of the Moon in the Valley of Mists, and the dragon fairy-Fallen that guards the Shrine of the Stars. And there are many creatures outside of the Forest that you have even yet to see—great beings like the hawk-people of the north, the elves bonded to dragons living within the borders of the western mountains, even the occasional odd traveler in the Forest with their own secrets, and, on the briefest of occasions, a fallen star given human form."

Kitty listened, still unsure of Karma's purpose in naming these things, in explaining this.

Karma looked over her clasped hands to Kitty, clear eyes glittering in the rising moon's light, reflecting the silver light like two mirrors. "However, Kitty…" she murmured, her last words ringing in Kitty's ears.

"…have you ever heard of demons?"

To Be Continued…

Wow, so was that like some sort of last cliffhanger? Geez, these things are addicting to make! The sequel will be coming out, rest assured, but I have to start it first! In the meantime, review, because I will give you chocolate-chip cookies~!

~ Shadey