A few years had passed since Nya had last saw her family.

The last time she saw them was when Cole's little girl had invited everyone to a tea-party with her.

Now, she was roaming the Afterlife, looking for some purpose.

She was bored, sad...

...but she always had something to do.

Nya didn't really enjoy being a Goddess. Sure, it was cool, being able to control mass amounts of water, or manipulating all of the oceans on Earth at once.

Yeah, so her new powers were cool.

But she wanted to be alive again.

All of the Elliptic Warriors had been ordered to obey this new Goddess. She had her own army now.

She didn't really need one.

Typically, she'd command them to look over the outskirts of the dimension lines to make sure no more Upside Down creatures came about.

Although...she had an adventure, a few months or years-she never kept track of time anymore-later.

It was the thing that The First Spinjitzu Master had warned her about the first time she went in, even though she and Clouse hadn't attracted its presence for some reason.

The Hecatonshires.

The one-hundred armed demon.

They had tried, and almost succeeded, to cross the Dimension Lines, which Nya had obviously stopped.

She eventually banished them to the ninth dimension using her dark magic.

This was also the time, Nya realized, that her dark magic was starting to corrupt her Element.

She wasn't turning evil, she was using dark magic as a crutch.

And she hated herself for it.

Thus, unfortunately, resulted in Clouse re-analyzing Nya's mental state.

He observed her while she was training a lot.

She seemed to train herself for days at a time. Clouse thought she was trying to push her limits, or, to see what her limits were, or maybe she was simply trying to exhaust herself.

She was dead & a Goddess.

She couldn't get exhausted.

Clouse figured that she could use a little trip back to Earth to make her remember what she was fighting for in the first place.

Although...Clouse had a feeling, deep, deep, down inside, that...

Nya wanted the dark magic to corrupt her Element.

He really hoped that wasn't true. He wanted her to be proud of her Element, not let dark magic corrupt it!

So Nya...she was always there for the dead souls when they needed her most.

She didn't do anything extra for them, though.

Which Clouse completely understood. She was still confused, still curious, and he knew that every now and then old emotions resurfaced and hit her.

Hard.

She would take long walks, into other dimensions or places or realms of time...

...and she had grown fairly attached to one realm.

The Dreamland.

Clouse inferred she coped with her emotions by having an impact on the dreams her loved ones had.

Sometimes she would play around, like make Cole dream about dancing cakes, or Sensei Wu dream about being surrounded by half-naked young women.

She spent most of her time there.

Clouse noticed that the Dreamland wasn't the only realm she vanished off to.

She was always watching her family.

She watched her daughter grow, along with her niece and nephews, she saw Jay, her brother, her friends...

She looked out for them. She was always on the lookout for supernatural trouble down on Earth, and she crushed it the rare times it did.

That was another reason she liked the Dreamland, Clouse thought, she could warn her loved ones through dreams if she needed to.

Clouse sighed.

Elliptic City never saw Nya. Her parents and the First Spinjitzu Master, and himself, were the only ones who got to see her the few times she did go back.

Which was not often at all, unless trouble had arisen from the Dimension Lines.

The door to Clouse's 'room' opened, revealing Nya and snapping him out of his thoughts.

"Hey, Clouse," she said, her skin pale and eyes shining more than ever, "I want to go back down to Earth for a month or so,"

Clouse smiled.

There she was.

You never know what you have, until it's gone.

This, dear readers, leads us to the end of Phoenix.

Thank you so much for reading. This has been, by far, my most popular story.

I plan to write a sequel for this, so keep an eye out for that, although it'll probably be published in a few weeks.

Also...I went to the movies yesterday to see Storks (which was pretty good) AND I SAW A NINJAGO MINI MOVIE!

Okay...Sensei Wu was beating up a chicken...it was awesome...

But the voice actors are different and it was killing meeeee.

I was hyperventilating.

Anyways, thanks for reading, thank you to my dear reviewers...

One last review?