Going Home

It had been a long day... after the Guardians had taken their Choppers to their new Branches. And... Aimee was already starting to feel alone...

She sat there, on top of the roof of the main temple at the Tranquil Temple area, looking toward the Moon. The night sky had always calmed her nerves, and the Full Moon had always filled her with wonder. Even now, as she could see the patches of green on scattered around it.

"So this is where you've been hiding." A voice called out to her from the ground, catching Aimee off guard by the unexpected company.

"Soma. How did you find me?"

"Hmph, your mutt helped sniff you out." Soma grunted, nodding his head toward Duke who was happily huffing his breath with his tongue hanging out. Jumping onto the walkway stone wall, Soma grabbed onto the temple's wooden entrance door frame to launch himself onto the roof with Aimee. Duke just simply jumped onto the stone decoration and leaped onto the roof from there. Curling up on the left side of Aimee, while Soma sat by her right. Both his and her feet dangled over the roof's edge as their breath froze in the cold air.

"Heh, glad to see you two getting along so well." Aimee teased at him as it started to snow again. The flurries would come and go as the clouds would pass by in the semi-clear skies.

"Tst, be quiet will you." Soma groaned out before taking off his coat and placing it over her. "Here, you'll catch a cold, walking around these parts with no damn shoes..."

"Oh, thank you." She wrapped the coat around her, not putting her arms in its sleeves but held it close to her. Looking up to the Moon again, she began to get lost in her thoughts. "Soma, do you think they're doing okay?"

"Probably. They're just disappearing for a time." Soma shrugged his shoulders. "Rumor has it that the Russia Branch was planning to send rockets up to investigate the greenery suddenly growing on the Moon."

"Are they really?" Aimee turned to look at him.

"How should I know, it's just a rumor."

"Hm..." She curled into herself, bringing her legs up to her chest and wrapped her arms around them. Looking back up to the sky again with wonder and awe filled eyes. "Wow... it's so big tonight. I can view the greenery so clearly, it's almost like I can see them."

"Well, what did you expect with the Full Moon being out and everything?" Soma commented, bending up one of his legs as well as he rested his arm on its knee. "But I think we'll see them again some how. Someday we'll meet them on the Moon."

"Hm... yes... I'd like that. Very much..." Aimee smiled at the idea, but... began to frown as her thoughts began to wonder. "I think it was best that Seth went to the Moon. He's done too much sins on the Earth to ever walk on it again."

"In a way, Seth acted as a Judgement for this putrid planet." Soma reasoned. "A punishment for us for trying to warp Divine Provence. And Rose... was an atonement, his... and ours."

"Such a Romantic, Soma." Aimee teased at him with a giggle.

"Clam it, will you."

"I noticed that your God Arc has turned to a gleaming white."

"Yeah... that white PAR"

"You mean Jen?"

"Yeah... I guess this was her way of leaving behind a path to atonement."

"Hmph, yeah, I... I guess so."

"You seemed troubled?"

"We... we just got lucky that day, Soma. Things could have turned out much worse."

"Aimee." Soma groaned out, rolling his eyes. She just worries too much.

"That Resonance with Rose could've not work." Aimee kept imagining the worse of outcomes. "Seth could've destroyed us all. We could've all died."

"What's already passed has passed, there's no point focusing on what already has been done."

"But-"

"We're still here, Aimee. Let's just make the best of it. We'll kept fighting against the Aragami for another day."

"You're right. I-it's just that... we're so lucky, Soma..."

"Hm? Why do you say that?"

"Well... look at the Moon." Aimee said, gesturing her hand toward the blooming satellite orbiting their planet. "Not too long ago the lonely man on the Moon was on the verge of committing mass genocide. And now thanks to the presence of one being, he's taken a sudden and yet questionable turn for saving this planet."

"That's the thing about love," Soma explained. "It blinds you to reason and makes you do some crazy things."

"And look at us," Aimee continued to point out. "We are so lucky. Not many get the chance to meet the same precious person from two lives in the same life. And the rare that do, the age different is so vast that it's a cruel joke."

"Mph, but you still are an old hag compared to me." Soma teased at her with a smirk.

"Oh, shut up." Aimee pouted, slapping his arm in response. "I'm still physically only 19, even if time still kept on ticking. I haven't aged until my awakening, so I'm still technically a teenager."

"That is until your next birthday."

"Ehh, we'll cross that bridge when we get there." Aimee waved off before she leaned her body against Soma's body. "I'm just so glad... that I found you again."

"Hmph, yeah... we fixed the broken mistakes together." Soma agreed with her, wrapping an arm around her as he pulled her closer. Resting her head in the crook of his neck while he rested his on top of hers.

"We actually saved each other this time around." Aimee smiled at the thought that their souls were finally together. "Now... there's only one more thing left for us to do..."

"And what's that...?" Aimee lifted her head from the warm crook of his neck, kissing his cheek as he looked down at her. He flushed at the warm soft contact of her flesh. "!"

"Live on..."

"Hm... right..." He nodded, giving her one of his rare but soft smiles. She smiled back at him as she returned to her spot on the crook of his neck as they looked back up toward the Moon.

"And carry on the Romani name to the next generation."

"Wait, what?"

*** The End ***

Thanks for waiting so long for the ending. I hope you guys enjoyed ride.
And so one story ends to give birth to another. While the Stories grow and scatter to spread across the world. Take some away, and then let some come back to me. (-^_^-)