Chapter Ten
One Distant Day
Zidane regretfully drew his lips away from Garnet's, looking at the nova in the sky. He gave a small smile.
"It isn't fair," Garnet whispered.
"Yeah," Zidane replied, "I miss them. Kuja. . .he had changed so much."
"Yes. Come on, walk with me."
And so, they walked the riverbank, and suddenly Garnet gasped, and pointed.
"Zidane, look!"
Across the river, attempting to catch a fish with his bare hands and flopping around in the water, the small fishes mercilessly getting the better of him, a young boy with silver hair tried vainly to grab himself some dinner.
"Ohhh, can't you have a little compassion?!" Eiko demanded of Amarant Coral as they walked.
"Kuja was an ass. He deserved it, Eiko."
"Aaaargh!" Eiko cried, slapping his shoulder. . .hard. At thirteen, the young summoner had grown fairly strong. "HE DID NOT!"
"If you say so," Amarant said. "I still think he -- Yaaaah!"
Eiko turned as Amarant cried out, watching a small object fly into him. The small girl that had run into him flopped onto the ground, shaking her head. She was no older than four.
"I sowwy," she stammered. Eiko stared at her honey gold and red sunset locks. "But I gotta huwwy! Mumma's gonna kill me! I'm sooo late!"
The girl stood up, and with a rush of hard beating legs, was gone faster than lightning.
Mikoto gazed slowly into space, and her eyes wandered to the nebula of Earth. I wonder, she thought slowly, closing her eyes. When she opened them, she swooned, nearly passing out.
The two lights had left the area of the nebula.
And the nebula itself was gone.
~*The End, The Beginning, and the Never ending*~
Hidden Wishes Unfulfilled 'Til tomorrow night we'll stay
Until the dreams come true Then you'll kiss my fears away
Grant my dreams Come first light, we'll leave this town
O Lonely King To enter a world where dreams aren't drowned
And let me be with you. Our friends are there, just wait and see.
They'll let you be with me.