And here it is...the official ending of 'Dusk Sets'. There still is the epilogue to write, but the main story ends with this chapter. Before you go and start reading it, first I would just like to say thanks. A big thanks to three certain writers; DarkspineSilver92, SlashBandicoot43, and The Brawler...those three have become regular reviewers and fans, and I'm thanking the three of you for supporting this story from your first review. I may not have replied to your reviews, but all of them encouraged me to keep writing and all were greatly appreciated. I hope this is an ending that will satisfy the bunch of you. A similar thanks goes to two others, Farming Chick and Beta-ReaderADV, who have also been regular reviewers.

Another thanks goes out to everyone who enjoyed this story enough to read it all the way to here or who have left reviews. I do appreciate you taking the time to read this and leaving your thoughts behind in a review, it brings a smile to this author's face knowing that all of my hard work is enjoyed.

One last thing...parts of this chapter will probably choke up your emotions, so if you're an emotional person it would probably be wise to have a few tissues nearby.

Alright...I'm done...go ahead and enjoy the ending for 'Dusk Sets'.


Chapter 29 The Final Battle Part 4: Dusk Falls

Out of the smoldering wreckage of the Egg-Battleship burst a terrifying sight...the Egg-Dragon. Dusk's near-sacrificial attempt didn't destroy it...but then again, the Egg-Dragon wasn't exactly brand-new either.

Its wings were completely destroyed, as was the rear third of its tail. All across its body, legs, and neck were patches where its armor was blown away, revealing the structure, servos, cables, and everything else that kept the insane robot functioning...but the most frightening part was its head. The left half of the armor was gone, and thus the inside were revealed, but the right half was still there...giving the Egg-Dragon a creepy, skeletal look.

It could no longer fly, but the robot still continued towards Station Square on foot.

Dusk, Sonic, and everyone else couldn't believe what they saw...they've lost. The Egg-Dragon was still working. True, it was barely working, but if Super Sonic, Super Shadow, Super Silver, and Burning Blaze couldn't damage that thing and crashing it into the ground underneath the Battleship only almost finished it off.

"No way..." Sonic said, his voice weak from lack of energy, "I have to keep fighting."

The blue hedgehog takes a couple weak steps towards the Egg-Dragon, but suddenly collapses to his knees...he just didn't have any energy left.

"Sonic, don't strain yourself." Amy scolded as she hurried over to him. "You can't keep fighting...you're too weak and need rest."

"I don't have a choice Amy..." Sonic stubbornly replies.

Slowly the group gets into an argument about how they should finish the Egg-Dragon off...but Dusk was the only silent one. She was still standing on the edge of the hill, watching the robot's retreating form...disbelief holding her still.

That should've worked...dropping the massive Egg-Battleship onto it should've destroyed anything...but that horrible robot refused to die. This wasn't Sonic's fight, or Shadow's, or anyone else's...she had to finish the Egg Dragon off herself...that thing stood as all of the evil the Eggman created and she had to destroy it, at any cost...but her powers were too weak on their own to do anything.

Then, a sudden ball of sky-blue light appeared in front of her eyes. The ball danced around a little before flying into her hand, then it began to grow and change shape. For about ten seconds it continued to grow until it stopped and its glow faded away...leaving the light-blue Sol Emerald in her left hand.

Instantly something that Blaze told her at the beginning of the attack began to echo in her mind...

...Sol Emeralds enhance the holder's abilities...

With this Emerald's help, Dusk's powers could get strong enough to destroy the Egg-Dragon...but it was going to be even more risky than before.

Dusk turned to look over her shoulder at her friends...her real friends, who joked and laughed with her and enjoyed her for who she was instead of what she could do. Then her eyes focused onto Amy, her sister and the person whose DNA created her in the first place.

Amy did get on Dusk's nerves every now and then, as all siblings do, but Dusk still wouldn't have wanted anyone else as a sister. Amy was probably the sweetest person in the whole world, her heart was always filled with good intentions, and all she wanted out of life was to spend time with Sonic...Dusk felt so much guilt for having to put her through so much.

The purple hedgehog closed her eyes and turned back towards the Egg-Dragon...this had to be done by her alone, none of the others should do this.

"Amy..." Dusk says in a loud enough voice for all of her friends to turn to her. "Shadow...everyone...I'm never going to forget you, and don't ever forget about me."

Immediately Amy's heart shattered, "Dusk...no. Please don't."

"I'm sorry sis." Is all Dusk said before skating after the Egg-Dragon.

Amy forced her way through the crowd and over to the edge of the hill. She would've given chase after Dusk, but her pair of skates was damaged when the pod collided with the ground, so all Amy could do was watch the purple light streak fade away and let her heart fall into a pit of misery. It began to flow through her body as Amy sunk down to her knees and began to cry. "Dusk..." is all she was able to whisper.


Dusk sped after the monster that Eggman created as fast as she could go. She had to...if she slowed down at all, her guilt would force her to go back to the others. Interestingly, Dusk could feel that whirlpool of rage, anger, and sadness in her heart that usually came before a power surge...but she didn't feel the power surge coming on. Maybe it only came because she was afraid of losing everyone that was dear to her and being alone again.

As she chased after the robot, those memories of before she and Amy became sisters came back. Dusk remembered how bored she was at first with no-one to be friends with, then she remembered how miserable it was. No-one to play with, no-one to laugh with, no-one to talk with, no-one to console her when she was sad...it really was miserable.

Now she thought about everyone that was in her life now...the ever-happy Sonic, good-hearted Tails and Amy, hot-headed Knuckles, and...of course...the hedgehog that seemed to always be there when she needed someone, Shadow.

Her tears began to fall as she remembered the umber hedgehog's kinder gestures...leaving behind that white rose when she was in the hospital, giving her that crystal, training with her, calming her after she lost control, protecting her from the Egg-Tyranno...and her most fond memory, looking out at all of the stars from the observation deck of the ARK, Shadow holding her around the waist and planting a small kiss behind her left ear.

She continued to force herself to follow the Egg-Dragon, but her tears sped up when the ARK memory returned to her. Dusk recalled how comfortable and peaceful things seemed when he had his hand in hers and his arm around her waist...how nice it was when he kissed her...it all choked her up, knowing that she was never going to see him again. "Shadow..." she said aloud, "...I'm so sorry about what happened to Maria, and how I'm going down the same path...and I'm sorry that I never got to say this, but...I love you Shadow...I love you more than any word or gift or expression could hope to describe...and I'm so sorry for having to do this...I don't want anything other than to be in your arms."

Dusk finally caught up with the Egg-Dragon, and used a shadow-ramp to launch herself onto its back. She began to dart around to all of the holes in its armor that she could safely reach and began jabbing shadow-tentacles into them, hoping to destroy the machinery inside.

...it didn't work. The robot's mechanics were too strong to be damaged by her shadows, even with the Sol Emerald's help.

With a heavy heart, Dusk knew there was only one way to destroy this horrible thing...the same way she destroyed that Terra Egg-Raptor back on the Battleship. Using all of the power her skates had left, Dusk hurled herself towards the Egg-Dragon's neck, and skated all the way up to its head.

In Station Square, the people had seen the explosion fo the Egg-Battleship and were celebrating that Eggman was beaten again, but they began to run away in panic when the Egg-Dragon reached the outskirts of the town.

With all of its other weapons destroyed, the Egg-Dragon roared before charging its mouth laser, aiming to vaporize part of this city in one move. It was never going to get that chance. Dusk squeezed the Sol Emerald in her left hand, causing its energies to begin powering her up. The purple hedgehog took control of her shadow and managed to create a shadow-tentacle long enough to wrap around the Egg-Dragon's snout and clamp its mouth shut.

The Dragon's laser cannon was now a bomb, and Dusk was standing right on top of it.

"Shadow...Amy...everyone else...there is no word that describes how sorry I am for leaving you all. I wish there was some other way, but there isn't..." she said aloud as the energy began to build up in the Dragon's head.

The people slowly stopped running away when they saw a large black thing shut the Dragon's mouth. News stations began launching helicopters to report what was going on, and as the choppers approached, their cameras zoomed in to see Dusk standing on the Dragon's snout, between its eyes, using her powers to hold its mouth shut. The images were broadcast directly to the news stations, who quickly put them on air.

Dusk could hear the energy begin to whine and she shut her eyes, "I love all of you guys as the great friends that you are..."

The people began to crowd around any TV set they could find, watching in awe as the purple hedgehog they all thought was an agent of Eggman's fighting to protect them.

"Amy, you were the best sister I could've gotten..." Dusk said as a bright light began to leak out between the Dragon's jaws.

Could they all have been wrong about Dusk? Maybe what she said to them those few days ago was true...maybe they were being the evil ones by not giving her a chance. Maybe Dusk really did have a good heart, and they were just being blind and foolish.

"Shadow...I love you so much...I'm sorry..." Dusk said, two seconds before the Dragon's head exploded. With a bloodcurdling scream, Dusk was tossed away into the open grassy areas outside of Station Square, plummeting to the ground and landing with a sickening thud. The Egg-Dragon's body creaked, then groaned, then finally fell over...its systems were all fried from the energy build-up.


Back on the hill, everyone gasped as the Egg-Dragon's head exploded, knowing that that was were Dusk was. There was no celebrating that Eggman was beaten, or that the lives of thousands of people were safe...the grief of losing Dusk overshadowed all of that.

Shadow refused to accept that Dusk had sacrificed herself, and he managed to Chaos Control himself to the wreckage, despite having little energy left. Amy, also refusing to believe her sister was gone, began to run towards the wreckage, not caring whether anyone followed her or not.

One of her friends did, and he quickly caught up to Amy, scooped her into his arms, and ran towards the Egg-Dragon's remains...leaving a blue light streak behind.


Shadow reappears near the Dragon's remains and it only takes him a second to locate and hurry over to Dusk's side. "Dusk!" He says while kneeling beside her, actually scared that she wasn't moving.

He didn't even notice, but tears began to leave his eyes and fall to the ground...there Dusk was, the bravest girl in the world, giving her life up to save it...he knew she did the right thing, but it still wasn't fair. Why did this beautiful Rose that he loved have to wilt to save everyone? Why couldn't there have been another way?

"Dusk...I-I'm so sorry...I wanted to always be there for you, I wanted to always be able to protect you...but I completely failed you." He said as his tears began to fall faster out of his crimson-red eyes that were...for the first time...conveying misery and tenderness.

Shadow knelt there for a little while longer, silently crying his broken heart out, when all of sudden...he felt a hand take his own. The umber hedgehog quickly looked to see Dusk's right hand holding his right, and her eyes were half open.

"Hey there Shadow..." she says, her voice incredibly weak and shaky.

"Dusk! Dusk, please, don't go...don't leave us...don't leave me..."

"There's something...that I wanted to tell you..." She says through deep, labored breaths. "Shadow...I love you."

Shadow looked down at the purple hedgehog with disbelief before pulling her close and holding onto her tightly. "Dusk...I love you too. Please, don't go..."

"Be strong for me, alright? I want you to always protect Amy...you'll need to."

"Dusk!" Amy's voice yelled, getting Shadow to turn and release his love. In an instant, Amy was also kneeling beside Dusk, Sonic standing by the pink hedgehog's side.

"Dusk! Oh Dusk, don't you dare leave me." Amy says, fighting back her tears as best she could.

"Sorry sis...but I think this is the time where I don't recover."

"Dusk, don't say that. You will get better, I know you will...you have to get better, I can't lose you."

"Not this time."

Amy can't hold it back anymore and finally lets her tears spill out like small waterfalls, "Dusk don't go, I don't want to lose my sister...I can't lose my sister."

Dusk's dull-blue eyes shift from Amy to Sonic. "Sonic." she weakly says, getting his attention. "You treat my sister well okay?"

Sonic gives Dusk a weak smile and replies, "Sure thing Dusk, whatever you say." in a voice that lacked his usual confidence.

"Dusk...no...please don't leave." Amy whispers, setting her hand down onto the Sol Emerald that was still clutched in Dusk's hand.

Immediately a strange tingling sensation went up Amy's arm and crawled across her chest to stop at her heart. She suddenly felt really weak and collapsed on top of her sister, frightening Sonic and Shadow. They tried to touch either sister, but quickly recoiled from what could only be described as a painful static electricity jolt.


Amy opens her eyes to see that everything she saw before the tingling sensation was gone. She was standing on clear ground, surrounded by a bright white sky with patches of light blue drifting around like clouds. She seemed to be alone in this place, but soon saw Dusk lying nearby.

Before Amy could hurry to her sister, an owner-less voice drifted through her ears. "The power of a Sol Emerald is amplified by the heart of whoever touches it. With two pure hearts in contact, the power is grown to a level that can awaken one thought lost...do you wish to give up some of your own life energy to awaken the other?"

Amy immediately answered, "Yes." without hesitation or a second thought.

At first it seems like nothing was happening, and then Amy notices a soft pink, light-tendril growing out from her heart and going towards Dusk. Out of Dusk's heart was growing a deep-purple tendril, although this one was much shorter and fainter than Amy's.

It took only about ten seconds for the tip of Amy's tendril to touch Dusk's, but once it did, the purple tendril became solid and slowly followed the pink one until it consisted of roughly half the distance.

Amy could feel her energy being drained away, no doubt following the light into Dusk, but the weakness would be well worth it when Dusk came back. After maybe a half-minute, the weak feeling subsided and the tendrils faded...then Amy could feel a new sort of energy flowing into her body.

"Now the energy that you have given up to save the other and the remaining energy the other needs to come back has been replaced with Sol Energy." said the voice before a bright light flash forced Amy to shut her eyes.


When she opened them again, Amy was back with Sonic, Shadow, and Dusk at the outskirts of Station Square. She groaned a little from a sudden headache and sat upright. "Ugh...what..." Amy wasn't going to finish that sentence...Sonic's arms went around her and the blue hedgehog pulled Amy into a tight embrace.

"Amy...I'm so glad you're alright...I thought that maybe you were going to be lost along with Dusk!" He exclaimed while holding the pink hedgehog close. Amy sighed that her hero was hugging her, and soon returned it.

Shadow watched the blue and pink hedgehog hug one another with a tiny smile on his face, but his attention, and Sonic and Amy's, was soon drawn away by a coughing noise.

Dusk was coughing, then suddenly took a deep breath as her eyes shot open. She took a few more deep breaths before sitting upright and resting a hand to her head. "Oww..." she groaned, "That's going to hurt for days."

Suddenly Amy's arms shot around her purple sister, and the pink hedgehog was weeping from joy. "Dusk! You're back! I was worried that it didn't work!" Amy exclaimed through her tears.

Dusk began to cry a little as her arms went around Amy, "Amy...I'm sorry for putting you through all of that..."

"Don't apologize Dusk...I'm just glad that you're back." Amy replied.

"I hate to break up this tender moment." Sonic said, "But what were you worried about Amy?"

"I don't know how, but when I touched the Sol Emerald...somehow I brought Dusk back to life."

"We can figure out the details later, right now...I think its best if we get these two to a hospital, right Sonic?"

The blue hedgehog nods at his black counterpart before lifting Amy into his arms. He only hung around long enough for Shadow to lift Dusk into his arms before the two shot off towards Station Square Hospital.

They got there in under a minute and both of the Rose sisters were quickly taken away for examination. Both male hedgehogs decide on waiting around for the results, so they take two seats in the waiting room...or rather, Shadow takes a seat while Sonic uses a phone to call the others.

After a couple minutes of sitting by himself, Sonic takes a seat beside Shadow in the otherwise empty waiting room...it was past visiting hours and normal appointments, but the two were allowed to stay since their friends were here.

After a little bit of silence, Sonic suddenly asks, "Shadow...what's going on between you and Dusk?"

"We're just friends..." Shadow gruffly replies.

"It looked to me like there's more than just friendship between the two of you when I got to the Dragon's remains. Shadow, there was more behind that hug I saw you give her."

Shadow glances over at Sonic, knows that he won't give up, and sighs. "Fine...if you must know, I really like Dusk." he says simply.

"By 'really like', you mean you want her to be your girlfriend?"

A silent nod is Sonic's answer.

"Have you told her that yet?"

"Yea, when I found her after she destroyed the Egg-Dragon."

"Is the feeling mutual?"

Again Shadow nods, "She said it to me before you and Amy arrived. She whispered a weak 'I love you' and I said that I loved her too."

Sonic gives the black hedgehog a little bit of a smile and suddenly pats Shadow on the back. "Way to go dude."

Shadow has a curious look in his eyes as he glances at the blue hedgehog, "What, a congratulation? No snippy taunt or remark?"

"Nope." Sonic replies while leaning back in his chair, "No reason for me to taunt you about finding someone you love...I'm actually glad you found someone. No-one can go through life alone...it just isn't possible."

"And since when did you become so in-tune with love? You're always running away from it."

"You mean Ames? Nah dude, you've got it all wrong. She loves me and I actually love her back...a lot."

"Then why do you keep running from her?"

Sonic sighs before answering, using a sigh that meant his heart was growing heavy. "I'm doing it for her own safety...if Eggman found out that I actually let Ames be my girlfriend, then he'd go after her just to get to me...and I can't stand the thought of that at all. So the only way to keep her safe is to run from her." He pauses, "I know it looks like I'm being mean, or I'm just afraid to let her get close, but I'm really just worried for her safety."

Shadow waits a couple seconds before speaking up, "You keep running away like that, and your chances for a happy life might just get left behind."

"I know..." Sonic replies, "I know..."

The two stopped their conversation as the remainder of their friends came pouring into the waiting room, with three extra faces in the mix...Cream, Cheese, and Vanilla.

The large crowd waits around for roughly ten minutes before a human doctor approaches them. "Am I to guess that you all are here for Amy and Dusk's diagnosis?"

The crowd nods in unison.

"Very well, and it is my pleasure to say that both Roses are fine." A loud cheer is heard from each Mobian, Shadow included. Once he calms them down, the doctor continues, "The only symptom Amy has is a large headache, but Dusk is the real miracle case...I saw what she did thanks to the news, and, I'll be honest...she couldn't have survived that, but all she has is a little stiffness in the joints and a headache like Amy...its absolutely amazing."

At that everyone began cheering again, relieved beyond words that their heroic purple friend was going to be fine. They all quieted down as both Roses came out of the hallway and gave a big smile to all of their friends.

"Way to go Dusk! You not only destroyed the Egg-Dragon, but you also got to live to talk about it!" Sonic exclaimed.

The rest of their friends also give her some form of congratulations over the next few minutes, ending once Amy says, "Yup...the world's safe, Eggman's super weapons are destroyed, we're all okay...it looks like the only bad thing that happened is that Eggman got away."

Instantly Dusk began to chortle with laughter, earning confused looks from everyone present.

"What's so funny about Eggman getting away?" Shadow asks.

"Because he didn't get away!" Dusk exclaimed through her laughter, confusing her friends even more. "You see I..."


With a fair amount of grunting, Eggman manged to break open the door on his personal escape pod, allowing him freedom from his three bumbling assistants.

"Finally!" he exclaims while stepping out into open air, "Now that I'm here at my back-up headquarters I can..." Eggman's sentence is cut off when he hears someone yell, "Freeze!" which was accompanied by the clicking sounds of guns being cocked.

He looks around to see that he was surrounded by at least fifty GUN soldiers, all of them aiming their guns at him.

"Eggman you are under arrest." says the GUN general as he walks up and hancuffs the genius. "Some genius you are...what kind of evil scientist programs his escape pod to land in the training field at Prison Island?"

Eggman says nothing verbally, but begins thinking a barrage of curses at his rotten luck. He doesn't resist at all as the general begins guiding him into the base, leaving the other soldiers to take care of the robots and imp that were still in the pod.


"You did what?!" The fifteen Mobians and one human ask in astonishment when Dusk finishes her explanation.

Dusk had a smirk of pure happiness stuck to her face. "That's right...before I rammed the Egg-Battleship into the Egg-Dragon, a gave the computer a command that changed the landing location of Eggman's escape pod from his back-up base to Prison Island. He won't be causing anymore trouble for a long, long time."

Instantly Amy let out a squeal of delight, "Dusk you are just...the most amazing sister in the history of sisters!" she exclaimed before catching the purple hedgehog in a bear hug.

The doctor immediately rushed off to spread the news, but all of their friends came over and hoisted Dusk into the air, Amy was lifted up soon after, shouting congratulations and celebrating that Eggman was behind bars at long last.

The two Roses burst into a fit of the giggles at all of this attention, happy beyond words that they were together and Eggman was out of the picture.

Finally, after maybe a good five minutes of this celebration, the sisters were set down and most of the crowd departed to help with spreading the news. Only Dusk, Amy, Sonic, and Shadow stayed behind in the waiting room.

"Well Dusk...if for some reason, anyone had a doubt that you've changed sides after all of this, hearing that you are responsible for putting Eggman behind bars will surely fix that." Sonic said, playfully ruffling Dusk's hair in the process. She squeaked a little and pushed his arm away with a couple laughs.

"That's right Dusk...you're a hero now." Shadow adds then glances over at Sonic. Seeing that he wasn't getting ready to say anything, Shadow gave him a sharp nudge in the ribs with his elbow.

"Ow! Shadow!"

"Sonic...isn't there something you should say to Amy?"

"Yea, umm...Ames?" Sonic asks, making sure he had her attention, "Now that Eggman's gone, I'm comfortable with saying that I...I love you."

Those last three words struck Amy right in the heart. "Wh-what was that Sonic?" she asked.

"I love you Amy...I have for a long time, but I kept running away because I didn't want Eggman to find out about it and use you to get to me. But now that he's out of the picture..." Sonic's sentence cuts off when Amy jumps into his arms.

"Whisk me away Sonic...off to someplace romantic..." she says in a dreamy voice.

"Its a little late tonight...how about I just take you with me on a quick run?" Sonic asks to the hedgehog in his arms. "I promise...romantic place tomorrow."

"Deal."

Sonic looks from the pink hedgehog in his arms to Shadow. He gives the black hedgehog a quick wink before walking out the front door, then speeding away at his max speed once he passes the automatic doors.

"Well...guess Amy's dream has finally come true...Sonic is hers." Dusk said, watching where her sister and Sonic were standing just a moment ago. She starts walking past Shadow for the door, but stops when he takes her hand.

"Dusk..." he says, getting her to turn towards him, "Maybe...if you didn't have anything planned for tomorrow...we could..."

He stops when Dusk suddenly says, "Shadow, of course I'll go out with you, but maybe not tomorrow...those two near-death experiences have left me wanting to take a nice long nap. Maybe the day after?"

"Sure. When should I come by?"

"Make it eleven, I'll be up by then."

"Alright, I'll be there." He says before quickly leaning in and placing a kiss on her cheek.

"Shadow...that's really nice, but..." Dusk says as he pulls away, "This is how you kiss someone you love."

Not a second was able to pass before her lips pressed against Shadow's. Despite being caught off-guard from her sudden affection, Shadow soon returns her kiss and gently wraps his arms around her waist. Dusk complies by leaning forward a little and wrapping her arms around Shadow's neck.

Dusk was treasuring every moment of her first kiss...how firm but gentle Shadow's arms were around her waist, how soft his black fur felt on her arms, how gently his lips fell against hers, it was all amazing...she really had found true love with Shadow the Hedgehog.

After maybe fifteen seconds, the two separate and look deeply into the eyes of the other...Dusk watching his strong, comforting crimson-red irises and Shadow watching her soft, gentle dull-blue irises.

"I love you." they said in unison. Shadow gave another warm smile to the purple hedgehog before lifting her into his arms.

Dusk's cheeks turned a color identical to Shadow's red highlights as the Ultimate Life-Form carried her out the front door of the hospital and then skating towards Amy's apartment.

Dusk sighed and snuggled closer to Shadow's chest. She couldn't possibly have been happier...Eggman was behind bars, the world was safe, she was finally going to be accepted, and best of all...Shadow the Hedgehog was her boyfriend...

The purple hedgehog sighed again as she rested her cheek against his shoulder, finding that it was surprisingly comfortable. That, combined with her tiredness and the gentle, rhythmic motion of Shadow skating caused her to fall asleep.

Shadow felt another warm smile come across his face when he saw that Dusk was peacefully sleeping in his arms. He continued on to Amy's apartment in silence, then used a small Chaos Control to teleport the two inside. Like before when her powers went bezerk, the Chaos Control flash didn't disturb Dusk's sleep at all.

Shadow carried Dusk into her room, set her onto the bed, and took off her skates. As he turned to leave, Shadow noticed a couple things on her nightstand...that green crystal (that was still glowing) and the white rose he left for her when she was in the hospital.

The umber hedgehog sighed a little at the memories that those items represented, then left her room and Chaos Controlled away in the hall.

He wasn't gone for long though...a couple minutes after he left, Shadow returned, set two more gifts on the nightstand, and left again.

A couple hours after he left, Dusk woke up a result of the city lights coming in through the window. She sighed and got out of bed to close the window, then changed into her pajamas and headed back to bed.

Before falling asleep again, Dusk glanced at her memoirs and smiled...then noticed that their number had increased. She sighed when she saw the two new ones, then closed her eyes and fell asleep again.

Her white rose had gotten two new roses to keep it company...one had petals in a midnight purple color, and the other had petals a deep red color at the edge which darkened to black as it got closer to the stem.


And there you have it...the touching ending to 'Dusk Sets'. I had the basis for this chapter floating around in my mind for the past week or so, and I'm pleased to say that it came out better than I could've possibly hoped. I've also found a pretty good song to act as a theme for this chapter..."Dear My Friend" from Sonic Unleashed. If you havn't heard it, there's a link on my profile page that will play it for you, its in the media section.

Again, thanks for sticking around to read this whole story and I hope you enjoyed the ending!