[Author's Note: Welcome to the final episode/chapter of Rei no Kigen To... It has been a great pleasure to write this story, thank you for the response. I believe that if the writer of a fanfiction story has done a good job and stayed true to the origional story, the reader will believe that it actually happened in the origional story. I sincerely hope that you will believe that this is what happened after the game. There will be a large gap between this and my next fanfic, for I am writing a book called "Pure Hearts." This will have to take my first priority. There will be a final note at the end of the story. Thank you. The translation of the Final Episode: My Father's Legacy...]
Chapter 11: Watashi no Otousan no Izou...
Everyone got up early that day, yet it started off as a normal one. Maybe certain details were different than usual. Tora got up earlier than Janice, he walked down the stairs before getting dressed to see if his mother or father were up yet. They were, of course. Momo would never let Rei sleep while she was up. Tora walked over to the kitchen table and sat down. Today seemed unusual, no one had gotten dressed that morning, Tora looked over at his father and mother who were still dressed in their sleeping clothes. It was an odd day a few days before, he learned about everything, battled a huge demon, and learned that he could transform into a large beast. Momo was making breakfast and fussing over every detail. Rei was setting down the plates and silverwear on the wooden table.
"You didn't get dressed today," Rei said to his son in a casual manner.
"Neither did you, and I didn't want to ruin the clothing before we got to granfather's grave," Tora responded to the rhetorical question. He remembered that they were going to see his mother's father's grave. The family had done this every year that he could remember.
"Tora, I need to check your teeth," Momo said in a very sudden realization. Before Tora could ask Momo opened his mouth and observed his teeth.
"Whah ah you ouing, other?" Tora said while his mother held his mouth open, which kept him from articulating any form of speech.
"Well, your teeth are sharp, just like your father's. Especially your inscisors."
"It's no big deal, they have been like that since I was seven years old. Why did you check them?"
"No reason, I just wanted to make sure..."
Tora and Rei looked at Momo. "I guess she is nervous," Rei thought to himself.
"Tora, you should go wake up your sister," Rei said. Obviously trying to get Tora out of the room, before Momo could find anything else she could fuss over. Tora noticed this and moved upstairs as quickly as he could.
"Rei, why did you do that? I wanted to check his tail," Momo said in an irritated tone.
"Momo, you shouldn't worry. They do not think anything less of your father," Rei said.
"I know, but now they have to be burdened by his legacy, his body of work."
"I can't beleive you have kept the disk and all those papers after all this time."
"They are the only reccords left of his greatest accomplishments, I want to save them. Those are what he would be proud of."
Rei sighed.
Meanwhile, Tora was having trouble tyring to wake his sister.
"Sis, it is time to get up," Tora said.
Janice didn't say anything, she was fast asleep.
"It is time to get up!" Tora said, this time he shook her.
Janice grumbled and turned over, facing upward now. She still wouldn't get up.
"Janice!"
Janice replied sleepily, "I don't want to get up..."
Tora was getting angry. He decided to use drastic measures to get her up. He knew his parents would punish him greatly for doing this, but it was the only way. Tora transformed.
He bent over the bed, and looked at her face. Tora was standing over her. He said, "Hey, Janice. There is a spider on your face."
She opened her eyes immediately, she looked at her brother for a few seconds and she let out a loud scream.
"THAT got you up!"
"TORA! That was horrible! Please change back!"
"I will when you get up."
"Okay! Okay! I'm up!"
"I never knew that being in that form bugged you so much," Tora said as he returned to his normal size and shape.
"Well, it does. You don't look like you."
"But I am still me, I have the same mind, just a different body."
Janice put the covers back on her bed.
"Anyway, it's time for breakfast. We'll change clothes after it. Oh, and be careful. Mother is getting neurotic again. She checked my teeth."
"Not again! Last time she checked my ears, and she didn't realize that we have the same type."
Tora and Janice walked down the stairs. Breakfast was ready and Rei had already started eating. Momo was busying herself with the sink, making sure it was perfectly dry.
"What was that scream from up above?" Rei asked.
"Tora-" Janice started but Tora glared at her. She shut her mouth.
"I scared her, it was the only way to get her up," Tora explained.
Momo sat down on the table after making sure that the water in the glasses wasn't too wet, and that the table wasn't too dry. Everyone began their meal, except Rei, who was already halfway through his breakfast already.
Tora looked around at everyone, they didn't notice. "For such adventerous parents, we live such a contemporary life. I mean, we fought a demon and I changed into a beast a few days ago. And yet we are going on as if nothing even happened," Grey thought to himself. "And now I have a huge responsibility to control myself with this new ability."
Tora finished his meal first, despite Rei's head start. Usually he never ate much, unlike his father. He walked upstairs and into his room. He walked over to his dresser and pulled out his formal clothing. It was black, and with a white lace tied in the front of it. "It's like we are going to a funeral," Tora said to himself as he put it on. He grabbed some odd-looking socks and long, narrow shoes. Since his feet were an odd shape, he had to have custom-made shoes. Namely, his mother had to design them. Tora finished dressing himself by tying the lace around the collar on his jacket.
After he finished, Tora walked back downstairs and into the large living-room.
"Mother," he asked, "may I watch the television before we head out to grandfather's grave?"
"That's fine," Momo said as she cleaned the dishes in the sink.
Rei and Janice walked upstairs to get dressed as well.
Tora put the chrysm cube into the adapter and the device turned on. He turned one of the knobs on the side until he came across the frequency that he desired. It was the news-broadcast at that time in the morning. Tora walked over to the large piece of padded furniture and sat down. Momo then walked upstairs to get changed into her formal clothes. Tora waited in the silence, except for the television which was on a low volume. Tora sat and thought about the new ability and its uses. He couldn't stop thinking about it, it was fascinating to him. The fact that he could change himself into a more powerful form intruiged his senses. He just wanted to experiment with it, but his parents objected to it. He felt that if he would be allowed to transform, he would be able to control it.
Tora thought about it, he looked around. There was almost no sound coming from upstairs. "Should I? No, but maybe... No, I can't," Tora thought to himself. He was lucky that he didn't, Rei walked down the stairs in the suit of similar design to Tora's.
"This isn't functional, a person of my shape shouldn't be wearing a suit like this.." Rei muttered.
Janice walked down the stairs soon after in a black dress and white ruffles around the collar.
"I'm sure glad that it is rainy today, otherwise we would fry in these clothes," Janice noted as she looked out the window. The gray sky covered the horizon and small drops of rain pattered against the window.
"For your father and Tora, it would be the worst," Momo said as she walked down the stairs in a matching outfit to Janice's.
"Yeah, yeah, we know. It's not like we can help it," Rei said as he prepared some things for the trip.
"Is everyone ready to go?" Momo asked.
"I've waited long enough, let's go," Tora said as he got off the couch.
Tora walked over to the television and pulled the chrysm cube out of the hole and the screen became blank. Janice checked her dress and walked towards the door. Everyone walked out of the house and Rei locked the door by only using two of the four locks.
"Dad, you only locked two of them," Janice pointed out.
"Actually, I did this on purpose. If a theif tries to unlock all of them, there will be two that he locks. And it will take a very long time for him to figure out the combination," Rei said.
"You should know," Momo said grinning sheepishly at her husband.
"Yeah, yeah... Let's go."
The family walked towards the city on Wyndia, but this time they continued down the road for another mile. There was an unmarked cemetary through a very small path in the woods. One wouldn't notice it unless he knew about it.
At the end of the pathway, there was a small clearing where no trees grew. But the forest surrounded it in all its splendor. There were a few gravestones. The monuments stood silent and casted their shadows on the light-coloured grass, unchanging. They walked over to the grave near the back and Momo layed a small bouquet of tulips and snap-dragons right next to it.
The family stood in front of it in silence. Rei held a large umbrella over himself, Momo, and Janice. Tora had his own, but it was much smaller.
"What was he like, Mother?" Tora asked.
"He... was a wonderful person. He cared about everyone he came in contact with," Momo said.
"Her father was what I would want you to be like someday," Rei continued.
"You met him?" Jance asked.
"Apparently I did," Rei said. "It's too bad I never remembered him until a few years ago," Rei thought to himself.
"You have actually seen his work before," Momo said to her children.
"I remember, it explains why I..." Tora said but he trailed off. The rain started to fall more heavily.
"It was his greatest work, it was... his legacy. His legacy was..." Momo said but she looked around and Rei and Tora, and then moved her glance to Janice.
"What was it?" Janice asked.
"You'll find out someday," Momo said after she realized something important.
"We should go, the rain is getting too heavy," Rei said.
"I want to stay here for a minute, you can go ahead," Momo said.
Tora handed his umbrella to Momo.
"What will you do?" Momo asked in a concerned voice.
"I'll be fine," he said.
Rei and Janice walked out of the clearing and down the path. Tora waited at the entrance to the cemetary, hiding. He wanted to see what was going on.
"Thank you, Father. You made me realize something special," Momo said as she wiped a tear from her eye. "My family is wonderful. Rei is the husband that I had always wanted, even if we are not alike. Janice is what I hoped my daughter would be like. And Tora is someone who I expect great things from. He is much like Rei, but he is still my own at the same time. Sometimes I worry about him, but I trust him. He will always be good. Tora has the same ability that Rei had from the project. And he'll use it, but to protect the ones he loves. I wish you were here to see them grow up. I'll see you again, Father, same time next year."
Tora watched, he felt guilty about wanting to transform when he shouldn't. He walked down the path to catch up to the rest of his family. He was soaking wet, but happy.
Soon after, Momo returned and joined her husband and children. They walked away from the path, stopped by Wyndia to see their friends and returned home.
That night Rei couldn't sleep. He put on his robe and walked downstairs. Rei walked into kitchen and he noticed the trash can. The next day the trash would be burned. Inside there were the papers and the disk from the laboratory in Caer Xhan.
"I guess she finally realized something," Rei said to himself.
Momo realized that Rei, herself, and her entire family were her father's legacy. And right at that moment, we are now at the present. Every moment after that is happening right now. That is what the present is.
THE END
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