Part 2

The sand stretched out before Zelgadis as the moon bore down upon him, he sighed, it had been months since he last seen his friends and to be true full he missed them right now. But lately Darkness had been gaining ground, he was losing the fight. Absently he figured Amelia's bracelet, this was the only way out, the only way to protect them. Up above Xellos watch as Zel's sleep deprived form walked over the dunes.
When did the Darkness start wining?

When did submission sound so good?

It would be nice to

Not to fight

But what about them?

Why won't the sand take me?

To end it all would be so grand

Save them the pain

Of my demise

So tired, but I must fight

Don't I?

I have to win Right?

For their sake

But I long for need rest

Darkness is strong

I'm broken

So tired

Of fighting

But I have to

For, whose sake

Amelia please forgive

Justice can't always win

Sometimes it's the darkness that dose
With that Zel's form clasped only to be caught by Xellos, if his mind was more alter Zel would have fought the monster off ( Xellos hoped that he would) but Zel only looked up at his "savoir". Xellos knew that this was coming when Zelgadis did not stop at the last watering hole, and he had been following the Chimera ever since. The distance look in Zel's eyes told him that he was too late to help, and that this was the last battle of Zel's eight year war. Gently Xellos laid him in the sand.
"It's okay to rest now" Xellos whispered softly "Sleep now, no one needs it more than you."

Zel reached for Amelia's bracelet and placed it in Xellos's hand "Tell her I'm sorry that I could not return it in person. Tell her that I did love her. Tell her. Tell her that sometime for justice to succeed that it must die along with the darkness." With that Zelgadis closed his eyes and finally slept.

Xellos hung his head, than clutching the blue stone of justice he cried out into the night sky "Why? Was this poor soul placed on this earth only to suffer, to know only heartache, to be beaten down at every turn? What kind of sick joke was his life made in to, was it all because the Gods need an assigned guy of august? Why was he forced to live and die alone, for once in his life could he not have peace in know that they where by his side? Why?" The wind danced around the two forms as an old lady and a tall man with long blond hair walked up upon the scene.

"All thing happen for a reason, demon" the old lady said "even you know that, but this is one time that fate dose not feel like say why. True this was a good heart and brave man whose life of pain end with the use of his own hands, but if he had not done this the darkness would have taken him, then the world. You know this already; think of it a monster unhurt by physical mean, unhurt by joy, unhurt and unbeatable. Darkness can't live without light.

That's why your kinds fight is fruitless.

Wrong can't live if there is no right.

This makes the world's color hue less.

They are born two side same

of one coin.

Sometimes they do well in the hater's game,

so says the lamb and lion.

But death for both sometimes comes,

when they are equal in strength and amount

and no head way can be done.

Do you doubt,

Knight of Night, in the face of the child of Light

that all will be made, by this act, right?
Just think of it as payment for all the good deeds Lina and company have done and you should get past this just fine."
With that that man with blond hair picked up Zelgadis's form and the two vanished into the night. Xellos look after them and then turned to the stars, he knew of the heartache that was to follow with the bringing of this news, the question was how to tell Amelia this without destroying her? He look down at the blue stone with the justice seal on it tied to a pink band, and was quickly made aware of the breaking of his own heart.

Dead? Zel is Dead? Humm maybe, but I'm not going to say on way or another you just going to have to read and find out for yourself. By the way I still not own them.