Authors note: All right everyone, here it is....
don't forget to check my final authors note at the end.
CHAPTER 27/EPILOGUE
"On this day the Zoids battle commission would like to recognize all of those who have fought bravely to help defeat Sin." Chris stated, Zeke at his side. He was standing on a stage, surrounded by hundreds of people. Behind him stood the others, "Also, most of us have all lost something very dear to us, family, friends, thoughts or possessions. Let it be known that we will start anew."
"It is on behalf of all Zi that we thank those brave men and women who have fought and selflessly risked their lives for all of us. They will all be named heroes among the people, remembered for their deeds." Chris paused suddenly and turned to the group who was standing behind him. He looked and named them each to the people of Zi in turn.
The legendary blitz team, already well known, now consisted of Bit, Leena and Rion Cloud, Jemie, Orihime and William Hermios, and Doctor Tauros.
Rei, Izumi, and Kristen, Goji, Lavender and Shiro of the popular Fireblazers team.
Brad, Naomi, Leon, Hikari and Tyra Tauros were all members of the Flugel team.
Ryuji and Ayane stood together, with Zack.
Hiro and Koh and LightStrike of the Sky Raiders...
Chris paused suddenly, noticing that there were two people missing.
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"Lets go..." Nadia said, tossing the binoculars to Jessie.
He caught them and took a quick peek down at the group below them. His family and friends were all standing, well dressed, on a stage. Chris was naming each of them in turn, and who they were.
"You sure you don't want to be down there?" Jessie asked, turning to face Nadia.
"Im sure..." Nadia replied, "I sure will miss them though." She walked to the edge of the grassy cliff that the two were standing on and looked gazed out at the hundreds or thousands of people that were quietly watching. Jessie grabbed her bandaged hand gently and gave it a small squeeze.
Jessie sighed and took one last peek out the binoculars at the group. Chris was looking for them. He laughed suddenly and said, "He's looking for us Nadi."
She gazed over and looked at the searching ZBC official and chuckled, "Let him look."
They were both surprised when he turned his gaze in their direction, almost as if he knew that's where they would be.
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Chris smiled to himself as he spotted the two missing teenagers. He nodded approvingly and turned back to the crowd. He knew that Nadia and Jessie could hear him on the loud speakers.
"I would also like to give recognition to those who sacrificed their lives to save us all." Chris said quietly, "Three people who died to protect us, and all people of the brilliant planet Zi. Without them..." He let his voice trail off, "All would have been lost...."
************************************
The group had been absorbed in their own thoughts during this time... each remembering the good times and bad times they had all shared. They had all lost something important, but they would still go on with their lives.
It became obvious a few nights before when they had returned to the waterfall base... they were all weary, tired and saddened by everything that had happened. Each was talking about the "what if's" and "why's."
Nadia was the most depressed, and nothing they could do could cheer her up. It was only by coincidence that a large, eight legged creature had chosen that time to walk across the table in front of Izumi.
The pilot of the shadow dancer screamed bloody murder and jumped back behind the couch as soon as she had seen the unusually large arachnid walking. Koh immediately recognized it and ran over, scooping it up.
"I can't believe it..." Koh stated.
"Where did that thing come from!?" Izumi yelled.
Koh actually laughed, "During the halloween party me and uncle Cloud..." He paused, a saddened smile coming to his face. He let the tears flow freely as he spoke, "We were going to scare mom with it..."
Nadia looked up at the spider for the longest time... and laughed. She was also crying, but couldn't help but laugh. It surprised everyone. She walked over to Koh and said, "That would have been great... I can just imagine what mom would have done... I wish... wish I could have seen that."
Koh smiled and nodded, "Yeah, me too. Sure would have been great."
Various people then began to laugh, their thoughts no longer on the "What if's" or "why's" They then began to focus on all their good memories, not another word spoken about the sorrow filled ones. Of course, those memories could never be totally forgotten, but the good ones would always overpower the grief caused by the bad.
Yes, it would be times like these, when they were all actually happy and laughing, that they would never forget or let go of.
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Nadia sighed, tears running down her cheeks. Yes, all would have been lost with out their sacrifice. Still, it wasn't fair. Life wasn't fair. But she had gotten over that... like Chris had said it was time to start anew.
"Nadi..." Jessie said quietly, "Your uncle... when he handed you to me... he told me to tell you that he and your mom love you... and well..."
"I know Jess..." Nadia wiped away her tears and smiled, "I just can't help but miss them sometimes that's all. Now lets go."
"Right." Jessie hugged her tight as they walked to their crouching zoids. Nadia jumped into her Konig wolfs cockpit and brought the magnificent zoid to life. Jessie followed suit with his Lightning Siax.
They stood their for one last second, looking down at the people they had helped to save below them. Then, quietly they turned, and left the cliff.
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Chris watched the two teenagers leave, and grinned slightly. They hadn't told anyone they would be going... The ZBC leader knew though that as long as they could see the sky above them, they would keep going, taking on whatever was in store for them. He turned back to the others.
The entire group had already been given medals for their bravery, not to mention quite a large sum of money a few nights before... But Chris knew that wasn't all that important to them.
He had arranged for a monument to be built in recognition of the loved ones they had lost, back at the battlefield where the Chaos-sin lay demolished. Sin's body had been found, along with some documents.
The ZBC had kept the "old world" a secret for a long time, not wanting to distress the people. It was a planet that was very far away, and only the top scientists of Zi new of it. According to Ancient documents left behind by the zoidians, humans had fled to Zi after their original planet had been practically destroyed.
The humans had been the ones to destroy their planet, polluting the waters, air and land. The nuclear technologies became to much, and greed among a select few people had doomed the planet. Sin, apparently, had been one of the few who had escaped from this planet, and upon arrival on Zi, had somehow managed to become sealed away like some of the Zoidians and Organoids. When he awoke he decided that humans should be wiped out because they would apparently just doom Zi as well.
'Perhaps' Chris thought, 'But, perhaps not...' He turned one last time to the cliff where they two teenagers had once been, 'I believe you were wrong on this one Sin. Zi will not fall to that same fate... not when people like them will be the ones to live here... they will always protect us from those that are greedy or hate filled...'
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The Konig wolf ran freely through the grassy fields towards the battlefield, the Lightning Siax at it's side. They eventually left the fields and entered the still muddy desert, finding the new monument that had been built.
Nadia opened her cockpit and stood up, letting the wind blow her hair gently. She turned her silver eyes towards the cloudless blue sky, watching as birds flew far overhead. To her they were like a sign of undying hope, hope that she would never every loose again.
She looked back down at the monument. Flowers were draped over the stone, and butterflies were fluttering back and forth. It was a simple monument, but more beautiful than any other she had ever seen.
It read, "In memory... Forever may they rest in piece those who have sacrificed their lives to save the fate of Zi..."
Nadia smiled, remembering something suddenly, then she continued to read, "... In the battle now known as the flight of the Phoenix."
"Ready Nadi?" Jessie asked.
"Yeah."
"So where do you wanna go?"
"I dunno. Lets just run and see where we end up..." She replied, closing her cockpit.
"All right then, lets go!" Jessie laughed and took off. They didn't need to worry about money, Chris had given them that, and they didn't every need to worry about their friends and family anymore. So they ran as fast as their zoids would take them, heading into whatever adventure of battle their futures may have in store for them.
Nadia chuckled as she ran next to Jessie, her black Konig wolf yipping excitedly. *Nadia do you believe in fate?* A small memory played in the back of her mind. She looked up at the sky and smiled, "No... I don't."
~~~~~~The end.~~~~~~~~~~~
Authors note: I can't believe it's actually over... It's been a while since I started the first one, and now... the end. Wow.
Pyremon Infernos: Thank you so much for sticking with me from the start. Ryuji was such a fun character to work with, Copper and all. Ayane was fun too. Im glad you enjoyed the three stories, and Im flattered that you think it's one of the best out there (Besiedes the Bit/Leena paring Lol.) Your one of my best reviewers, and hopefully i'll be able to send those pics to you soon.
Himeko: You have also stuck will me since the start and that in itself is a major compliment. Your reviews have allways been good, thanks for that. Though I will admit, my writing abulity had improved quite a bit, I wouldn't say it's "incredible" Lol. And Gabrielle says hi. Ever since you called her a wench that one time she says she's liked you, even though she was mad lol. Thank you so much. Im going to miss Izumi and the shadow dancer... who knows, maybe you'll start updating your story soon huh?
Angel Sugar Princess: Im glad you've liked my story, and I hope I portrayed Orihime right. I still have those pictures that you drew of her. Very pretty pictures. She was a cool character, and a perfect match for Jemie! Oh, and I hope you liked Will, tried to make him like both his parents. Thank you for all the support with your reviews!
G-force 1: Im waiting for your updates now! can't wait to see what happens next to Goji and the others. Now that I look at it, I portrayed him a bit differently than you did. Im glad you enjoyed my stories all the way through... Thank you!
Sbiggster/Cloud light-feather/ Ligar X12/ Connor: Lol, I don't know what to call you! Thank you so much for letting me use Cloud. I was really suprised when someone thought of creating a character related to my own. He's such an awesome character too! Hope you like how I protrayed him... and thank you so much for keeping in touch with me through AIM!
Kitai Matsuru: Thank you for sticking with me. I know I was kinda lazy with Tyra, but believe me it wasn't on purpose... I happened to neglect some of the Characters without even realising it until just recently. Really really sorry... Tyra was such an awesome character to use.
DeathZealot: You've been reading and reviewing for quite a while now... thanks. I still think it was kinda funny how that one time you thought I was going to quit the story... guess that was kinda my fault for saying what I did... Lol. Once again, thank you for sticking with me!
Mistress of all worlds: I really have to apologize to you, Im sorry I haven't really done much with Lavender... really, I did sort of neglect some of the characters with out meaning to. Yet, you still stuck with me and that really means a lot! Im glad you enjoyed the story. Thank you for all the great reviews.
Dark Salamander: Haven't heard from you in quite a while, so I don't know if your still reading or not... If you are, thank you so much. Zack/Zero was a really interesting character to use, and his Bahamut 0 kind of gave me the idea for the entire MCME plot. Thank you!
Dark Dragon: Only heard from you once so I don't know if you continued reading. Thanks for reviewing though if your still there!
Logan Griffith: Your my newest reviewer! I want to thank you very very much for the compliments. Im flattered that you actually compared my story to actual novels. And Im very very flatterd that Im your favorite author! Such awesome compliments! Thank you!
And to anyone who may read and not review, or i have forgotten to mention: Thank you !
Keep a look out for me, who knows, I may write a whole new zoids story soon. Definatly won't be the same... Im going to miss writting this so much... but, all good things must come to an end. Thank you all and see ya later!
don't forget to check my final authors note at the end.
CHAPTER 27/EPILOGUE
"On this day the Zoids battle commission would like to recognize all of those who have fought bravely to help defeat Sin." Chris stated, Zeke at his side. He was standing on a stage, surrounded by hundreds of people. Behind him stood the others, "Also, most of us have all lost something very dear to us, family, friends, thoughts or possessions. Let it be known that we will start anew."
"It is on behalf of all Zi that we thank those brave men and women who have fought and selflessly risked their lives for all of us. They will all be named heroes among the people, remembered for their deeds." Chris paused suddenly and turned to the group who was standing behind him. He looked and named them each to the people of Zi in turn.
The legendary blitz team, already well known, now consisted of Bit, Leena and Rion Cloud, Jemie, Orihime and William Hermios, and Doctor Tauros.
Rei, Izumi, and Kristen, Goji, Lavender and Shiro of the popular Fireblazers team.
Brad, Naomi, Leon, Hikari and Tyra Tauros were all members of the Flugel team.
Ryuji and Ayane stood together, with Zack.
Hiro and Koh and LightStrike of the Sky Raiders...
Chris paused suddenly, noticing that there were two people missing.
*****************************
"Lets go..." Nadia said, tossing the binoculars to Jessie.
He caught them and took a quick peek down at the group below them. His family and friends were all standing, well dressed, on a stage. Chris was naming each of them in turn, and who they were.
"You sure you don't want to be down there?" Jessie asked, turning to face Nadia.
"Im sure..." Nadia replied, "I sure will miss them though." She walked to the edge of the grassy cliff that the two were standing on and looked gazed out at the hundreds or thousands of people that were quietly watching. Jessie grabbed her bandaged hand gently and gave it a small squeeze.
Jessie sighed and took one last peek out the binoculars at the group. Chris was looking for them. He laughed suddenly and said, "He's looking for us Nadi."
She gazed over and looked at the searching ZBC official and chuckled, "Let him look."
They were both surprised when he turned his gaze in their direction, almost as if he knew that's where they would be.
**********************************
Chris smiled to himself as he spotted the two missing teenagers. He nodded approvingly and turned back to the crowd. He knew that Nadia and Jessie could hear him on the loud speakers.
"I would also like to give recognition to those who sacrificed their lives to save us all." Chris said quietly, "Three people who died to protect us, and all people of the brilliant planet Zi. Without them..." He let his voice trail off, "All would have been lost...."
************************************
The group had been absorbed in their own thoughts during this time... each remembering the good times and bad times they had all shared. They had all lost something important, but they would still go on with their lives.
It became obvious a few nights before when they had returned to the waterfall base... they were all weary, tired and saddened by everything that had happened. Each was talking about the "what if's" and "why's."
Nadia was the most depressed, and nothing they could do could cheer her up. It was only by coincidence that a large, eight legged creature had chosen that time to walk across the table in front of Izumi.
The pilot of the shadow dancer screamed bloody murder and jumped back behind the couch as soon as she had seen the unusually large arachnid walking. Koh immediately recognized it and ran over, scooping it up.
"I can't believe it..." Koh stated.
"Where did that thing come from!?" Izumi yelled.
Koh actually laughed, "During the halloween party me and uncle Cloud..." He paused, a saddened smile coming to his face. He let the tears flow freely as he spoke, "We were going to scare mom with it..."
Nadia looked up at the spider for the longest time... and laughed. She was also crying, but couldn't help but laugh. It surprised everyone. She walked over to Koh and said, "That would have been great... I can just imagine what mom would have done... I wish... wish I could have seen that."
Koh smiled and nodded, "Yeah, me too. Sure would have been great."
Various people then began to laugh, their thoughts no longer on the "What if's" or "why's" They then began to focus on all their good memories, not another word spoken about the sorrow filled ones. Of course, those memories could never be totally forgotten, but the good ones would always overpower the grief caused by the bad.
Yes, it would be times like these, when they were all actually happy and laughing, that they would never forget or let go of.
********************************
Nadia sighed, tears running down her cheeks. Yes, all would have been lost with out their sacrifice. Still, it wasn't fair. Life wasn't fair. But she had gotten over that... like Chris had said it was time to start anew.
"Nadi..." Jessie said quietly, "Your uncle... when he handed you to me... he told me to tell you that he and your mom love you... and well..."
"I know Jess..." Nadia wiped away her tears and smiled, "I just can't help but miss them sometimes that's all. Now lets go."
"Right." Jessie hugged her tight as they walked to their crouching zoids. Nadia jumped into her Konig wolfs cockpit and brought the magnificent zoid to life. Jessie followed suit with his Lightning Siax.
They stood their for one last second, looking down at the people they had helped to save below them. Then, quietly they turned, and left the cliff.
*******************************
Chris watched the two teenagers leave, and grinned slightly. They hadn't told anyone they would be going... The ZBC leader knew though that as long as they could see the sky above them, they would keep going, taking on whatever was in store for them. He turned back to the others.
The entire group had already been given medals for their bravery, not to mention quite a large sum of money a few nights before... But Chris knew that wasn't all that important to them.
He had arranged for a monument to be built in recognition of the loved ones they had lost, back at the battlefield where the Chaos-sin lay demolished. Sin's body had been found, along with some documents.
The ZBC had kept the "old world" a secret for a long time, not wanting to distress the people. It was a planet that was very far away, and only the top scientists of Zi new of it. According to Ancient documents left behind by the zoidians, humans had fled to Zi after their original planet had been practically destroyed.
The humans had been the ones to destroy their planet, polluting the waters, air and land. The nuclear technologies became to much, and greed among a select few people had doomed the planet. Sin, apparently, had been one of the few who had escaped from this planet, and upon arrival on Zi, had somehow managed to become sealed away like some of the Zoidians and Organoids. When he awoke he decided that humans should be wiped out because they would apparently just doom Zi as well.
'Perhaps' Chris thought, 'But, perhaps not...' He turned one last time to the cliff where they two teenagers had once been, 'I believe you were wrong on this one Sin. Zi will not fall to that same fate... not when people like them will be the ones to live here... they will always protect us from those that are greedy or hate filled...'
***********************************
The Konig wolf ran freely through the grassy fields towards the battlefield, the Lightning Siax at it's side. They eventually left the fields and entered the still muddy desert, finding the new monument that had been built.
Nadia opened her cockpit and stood up, letting the wind blow her hair gently. She turned her silver eyes towards the cloudless blue sky, watching as birds flew far overhead. To her they were like a sign of undying hope, hope that she would never every loose again.
She looked back down at the monument. Flowers were draped over the stone, and butterflies were fluttering back and forth. It was a simple monument, but more beautiful than any other she had ever seen.
It read, "In memory... Forever may they rest in piece those who have sacrificed their lives to save the fate of Zi..."
Nadia smiled, remembering something suddenly, then she continued to read, "... In the battle now known as the flight of the Phoenix."
"Ready Nadi?" Jessie asked.
"Yeah."
"So where do you wanna go?"
"I dunno. Lets just run and see where we end up..." She replied, closing her cockpit.
"All right then, lets go!" Jessie laughed and took off. They didn't need to worry about money, Chris had given them that, and they didn't every need to worry about their friends and family anymore. So they ran as fast as their zoids would take them, heading into whatever adventure of battle their futures may have in store for them.
Nadia chuckled as she ran next to Jessie, her black Konig wolf yipping excitedly. *Nadia do you believe in fate?* A small memory played in the back of her mind. She looked up at the sky and smiled, "No... I don't."
~~~~~~The end.~~~~~~~~~~~
Authors note: I can't believe it's actually over... It's been a while since I started the first one, and now... the end. Wow.
Pyremon Infernos: Thank you so much for sticking with me from the start. Ryuji was such a fun character to work with, Copper and all. Ayane was fun too. Im glad you enjoyed the three stories, and Im flattered that you think it's one of the best out there (Besiedes the Bit/Leena paring Lol.) Your one of my best reviewers, and hopefully i'll be able to send those pics to you soon.
Himeko: You have also stuck will me since the start and that in itself is a major compliment. Your reviews have allways been good, thanks for that. Though I will admit, my writing abulity had improved quite a bit, I wouldn't say it's "incredible" Lol. And Gabrielle says hi. Ever since you called her a wench that one time she says she's liked you, even though she was mad lol. Thank you so much. Im going to miss Izumi and the shadow dancer... who knows, maybe you'll start updating your story soon huh?
Angel Sugar Princess: Im glad you've liked my story, and I hope I portrayed Orihime right. I still have those pictures that you drew of her. Very pretty pictures. She was a cool character, and a perfect match for Jemie! Oh, and I hope you liked Will, tried to make him like both his parents. Thank you for all the support with your reviews!
G-force 1: Im waiting for your updates now! can't wait to see what happens next to Goji and the others. Now that I look at it, I portrayed him a bit differently than you did. Im glad you enjoyed my stories all the way through... Thank you!
Sbiggster/Cloud light-feather/ Ligar X12/ Connor: Lol, I don't know what to call you! Thank you so much for letting me use Cloud. I was really suprised when someone thought of creating a character related to my own. He's such an awesome character too! Hope you like how I protrayed him... and thank you so much for keeping in touch with me through AIM!
Kitai Matsuru: Thank you for sticking with me. I know I was kinda lazy with Tyra, but believe me it wasn't on purpose... I happened to neglect some of the Characters without even realising it until just recently. Really really sorry... Tyra was such an awesome character to use.
DeathZealot: You've been reading and reviewing for quite a while now... thanks. I still think it was kinda funny how that one time you thought I was going to quit the story... guess that was kinda my fault for saying what I did... Lol. Once again, thank you for sticking with me!
Mistress of all worlds: I really have to apologize to you, Im sorry I haven't really done much with Lavender... really, I did sort of neglect some of the characters with out meaning to. Yet, you still stuck with me and that really means a lot! Im glad you enjoyed the story. Thank you for all the great reviews.
Dark Salamander: Haven't heard from you in quite a while, so I don't know if your still reading or not... If you are, thank you so much. Zack/Zero was a really interesting character to use, and his Bahamut 0 kind of gave me the idea for the entire MCME plot. Thank you!
Dark Dragon: Only heard from you once so I don't know if you continued reading. Thanks for reviewing though if your still there!
Logan Griffith: Your my newest reviewer! I want to thank you very very much for the compliments. Im flattered that you actually compared my story to actual novels. And Im very very flatterd that Im your favorite author! Such awesome compliments! Thank you!
And to anyone who may read and not review, or i have forgotten to mention: Thank you !
Keep a look out for me, who knows, I may write a whole new zoids story soon. Definatly won't be the same... Im going to miss writting this so much... but, all good things must come to an end. Thank you all and see ya later!