L' Espoir Final

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Chapter Seven- The End

Moe smiled.

"It's over, Moe!" Calvin shouted.

"Over, you say?" he asked. "Don't be so naïve, Calvin."

At that time, a giant door opened from behind them. Out rushed a red dragon, scales that echoed the flames seen only in a place no truly good people go. The dragon stomped.

Calvin jumped into the air and kicked the dragon, who reeled in pain. Hobbes, meanwhile, knew better.

He walked up to the dragon and stared at it. The dragon stared back. Calvin heard a voice in his head.

**Calvin. Hit Moe now.**

**Hobbes! Is that you?**

**Yes. Moe is controlling the dragon with all of his strength.**

**Got it.**

With those words, Calvin grit his teeth and brought all of his power into one punch. It hit Moe, and sent him flying. The dragon vanished. Calvin smiled. Susie stepped up alongside Calvin.

"I'll take the others." Hobbes told Calvin. "You guys finish him."

"Got it." Susie smiled. Nothing, not even an alien invasion, could stop them now.

"You're stronger." Moe said, standing up. "Let's just eliminate the others now, shall we?" With those words, a blue ball of energy pierced Uncle Max's heart. Hobbes picked him up, and the others ran.

Susie closed in on Moe, following Calvin. Moe whimpered like a child. He'd been bluffing, and now it was time to pay the piper. Calvin inserted his left fist into Moe's stomach, then his right, and continued as Moe coughed up blood. Calvin then sent Moe reeling with a roundhouse kick. Susie appeared behind him and jump-kicked him. The two beat up Moe in a steady procession.

Meanwhile...

The magic rubies were all in place from where Calvin's parents had hidden them. Hobbes looked as a mighty white tiger came from them. "Speak your wish." He stated. Hobbes shouted back up eleven words that would change the world.

"Restore everything to how it was before Moe began his invasion."

Back at Moe's citadel...

Calvin kneed Moe. Suddenly, a beam of light came from Moe. More appeared, and more after that, and Moe vanished. Calvin smiled as the fortress disappeared. He dropped down before Susie and caught her.

Susie landed in Calvin's arms, and she brought her hands through Calvin's long, yellow hair as she kissed him. Calvin returned the kiss and brought his hands through here brown hair. The others cheered from outside the fortress, and they returned to where they had been.

Later that day...

Calvin and Susie were walking down the street as Uncle Max, who had been "restored" by the wish drove by. He waved. Hobbes looked on from a tree by "Hobs Crk." He folded his arms and smiled at Calvin. "Until we meet again." And with those words, Hobbes shrank to a smaller, inanimate tiger.

"Welcome, Hobbes." Mr. Bun said at the gates of the home for old stuffed animals in the sky. "We've missed you."

Hobbes smiled. "My adventures aren't over yet," He began, "Not just yet." And, with these words, he turned. "Adieu, L'Espoir Final." He saluted Calvin's rough direction, then entered the gates.