Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Final Fantasy IX characters but my characters are my own creations and I do own the rights to them.

Chapter Twenty-Three:

~One year later~

Garnet was sitting in her room discussing the plans for a building a new district for the rapidly growing city of Alexandria. The sun outside was shining and it was a beautiful day outside. There had been no more problems since the incident with Xavier and everything was finally starting to get back to normal. Steiner was sitting next to her with his lovely wife Beatrix on his other side. The two were as happy as could be as they held hands underneath the table.

When the meeting was over Garnet headed up to her room. She needed to be dressed and ready to great her guests for tonight's party. Tonight was Phina's birthday and everyone from the town had been invited to the castle to say hello to their savior.

Garnet couldn't help but grin at the thought of Phina's reactions when people called her 'princess'.

After Phina had beaten Xavier she had come to live with her younger sister in the castle instead of finding a nice home to live in with Zidane. She had refused the title of princess but that was what she was and despite her attempts to get people to stop calling her that nothing had helped. Garnet had been thrilled when Phina had decided to stay. What had thrilled her even more was when she had sworn to help protect her younger sister and protect Alexandria.

Now the Queen had too bodyguards both of which knew how to make her laugh when she was down. Everything was going perfectly and Garnet couldn't have asked for a better ending to the next chapter in their lives.

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All right this one was extremely short but what did you want me to do. I'm not very good at coming up with the epilogue things so I made this one short and sweet. If you want to know anything else that happened after this story took place go write your own sequel. No, that's not an invitation to plagiarize but if you really want to add something e-mail me and we'll work out the details.

Hold the phone! I just found something here. Could it be…yes, it is! It's another chapter on the way! Actually it's just my thank you list and all that stuff but hey more reading for you guys.