Epilogue

With Every Legend, There's a Beginning

The pond sparkled immensely, but not because of the lovely swishing water, but because of the frozen top it had. Oh, the memories this one pond had; the secrets it kept…It was really mesmerizing to think about. Before I sat there and daydreamed, who did? Anyone? Someone had to build this house next to it, right? Did they find the pond as special as I did?

Probably not. Considering it was just a giant puddle.

"Cynthia, that white stuff sticking to the ground means it's cold, crazy." Ember yelled from the house. I smiled at him, then at the pond. I just wanted to stare at it for a little while. I walked through the snow and into the house.

It was exactly one week since the incident happened. I finally was able to force a break from all the stress at the League. Who knew making Sinnoh normal meant so much Dialga-ridden work? Oh well, it was worth it. The work helped me forget everything, helped me deflect the nightmares that tried to ooze its way back into my unconscious mind. But whenever I touched the scabby scar on the side of my head, I remembered all-too clearly.

I sat on the couch in-between Grandmother and Jamie. Professor Rowan, Volkner, Ember, Annie and the rest of my League supporters were stuck on the floor. They all deserved a break, and what's not a better place than here?

Ember and Volkner settled their differences…Somewhat, at least. Ember had made it known more recently that his feelings for me had changed, and that made me so relieved. I told Volkner that nothing had changed, and he was okay with that. That didn't mean I didn't enjoy having him around, especially to help me out with a few things here and there, but after this weekend of being in Celestic, he'll be at Sunyshore and I'll be at the League, and we'll be just friends.

I didn't have time to worry about Volky, anyways.

I was too busy reconstructing Sinnoh. First thing first, open up the lakes. With The Beings being back at their places, the lakes weren't deathtraps anymore, they were places of great meditation; as they should be.

The walls around the Golden Cities are coming off first thing next week, along with every other wall and electric fence made to separate human and Pokémon. Or, in some cases, human and human. The super funding's for The Golden Cities already stopped, and that was starting to even itself out. Celestic had its proper repairs done to the ruins, but otherwise it had no special treatment. After The Golden Cities get taken care of, I'm sending Professor Rowan's researchers to the lakes to learn everything about their majesty. And since it's needed, I'm opening up Twinleaf Town in place of Camp Valor. Houses for the researchers families will be built immediately.

Instead of the champion having all of the 'power,' the gym leaders and elders have most of the power over their own town or city. Since they rightfully know what's best.

Speaking of gym leaders, a new gym leader was found for Pastoria, when Blake declined. When he came to see me in-person, he was totally different. He apologized for scaring me earlier, and explained he only wanted to protect me, and that he would be travelling to Johto for a while. He will be missed.

As for Lea, he was sent to the best prison in the world. An island miles and miles and miles from here, specially made to be a prison island. Once he came-to, he was pretty insane. Along with confused and angry. I was happy to see him leave, and the island was happy to have him.

I decided to leave the League like it is. The greyness was quite depressing to some people, but it was beautiful to me. It would be a constant reminder to not let what happened to happen again. I would put a few personal touches in, but nothing too drastic. Just enough to make it mine.

The guardians of Ice Temple went back to their work once all the guards were gone. And the guards were all pleased to know that The Callousen was no more. Although, some of them acted like they had nowhere to go, so Professor Rowan hired them as researchers assistants. As always he's the best.

Grandmother accepted my leaving gracefully, and was honestly proud of me. I was honestly proud of myself. That may sound odd…But I was. I set out to do something, and I did it. I succeeded.

"Your grandfather would be proud." Grandmother told me that more now than ever…And I believed it.

Funny, months ago I was sitting at home, studying or doing a chore, mending my garden, spending time with Jamie and Ember…And my life totally changed in one day. It continued to change drastically, and even now it's changing. My life changed when I moved in with my grandparents when I was so young the memories are being forced to be remembered. My life changed again when my grandfather passed away. Although peacefully in his sleep, it wasn't a peaceful affect it had on my grandmother and I.

Now, this change. Another change that's bitter…But this one is sweet. Bittersweet. I finally understand this term. It's when it's sweet in every sense of the word…But then the bitterness sets in. I'm away from my grandmother, the only family I have left, and I'm faced with great, new challenges everyday…Bittersweet. No other way to explain it.

Well, maybe there is one other way, perfection.


I don't want this final AN to be SO long...So, here's all I have to say: THANK YOU. I wish I could say that a thousand times...Everyone: Repeat those two words a thousand times. Heh. Yay.

This has been the BEST YEAR EVER. This story was awesome to write, and I am so proud of it. In a year, I'll look back at it and gag probably, but right now I'm proud of it and proud of myself. This is the longest thing I've ever written. I've proven to myself that I can write a novel-sized story, because in a few year, I might publish something. So, look for Pure Gamer's book in your stores soon! Wink, wink.

Okay, believe it or not, I'm trying really hard not to make this lengthy...So in conclusion: I have a prequel, and sequel planned. Static and Losing My Ground. Static and The Green [Winged] Hero are my planned stories that I'll be focusing on now. AND, STATIC'S PROLOGUE HAS BEEN POSTED ON MY BLOG. I'm not putting in on FF yet, but check it out on .com. Yes, only the prologue, but do go check it out. I have the info on TGWH on my profile, so check that out as well. SMILE.

Oh, and I wanted you Fanfiction veterans to give me some advice: Lea won my poll, (YES) and so I'll write a short-story (Aka, his back story) before I start posted TGWH and Static, and what should I do, post bonus chapters on this story, or create a new story? What is better?

I wanted to put THE END at the end...But I didn't, because this is only the beginning.

Thank you, so much, for reading and supporting me, I love you all!

Pure~Gamer