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Yes, well, I had my weak moments, but now I'm completely fine. *grins* Except that… It's over. All over. Revo lla. (Roy: "Catch her!") No, I'm seriously fine.

Thanks for you reviews!

PikaPower: Well, I already wrote a beginning for that SSBM/Hellsing crossover, but I'm still only planning it. So, it'll probably take me a while to put it up if I even decide to write it.

RavenGhost: I won't write backwards anymore! Yeah, this is the final part if you don't want the extras. I hope you like my ending because I really liked it. Maybe it's a little clichée, but oh well.

Zora, Nagiali, and Lindsay.: I have no idea what Eliwood looks like, so I created him myself *laughs* Why does my own characters always have long hair? I guess I just think it's cool.

sagesumi: *laughs* Yeah, I'm crazy, but hopefully in a good way too. Well, it's just a matter of time before we all snap, right? Uh… Roy'll die? Uh, I… It depends from your point of view *laughs* I've been watching too much X-files! Oh, wow! Thanks so much! I thought at first that I shouldn't write it, but then I thought about it all over and decided to write it. I'm so glad you liked it! Well, I've really thought about writing that SSBM/Hellsing crossover… But oh, I'm still unsure!

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Eliwood gazed at the horizon before continuing his sad story: "Later the chief asked me to come to him and told me that the boy wouldn't remember anything of his past life. That I'd need to rename him and bring him up as my own. But he also told me that one day the fire would extinguish and that then I'd need to summon the inferno and get him back. Otherwise great disasters would happen." The king sighed.

"That's not true." Roy said disbelivangly. "And you never loved me."

"I did. I loved you incredibly much. But as I heard that you were going to die one day, just extinguish and that I'd need to return you to the flame, I became afraid. I wasn't sure would I be able to do it if I loved you so much. So, as I left that village I also promised myself not to become close with you so that I wouldn't feel incredible pains when I'd need to lose you. Roy, I know I was being selfish… Can you still forgive me?"

"I can't believe anything of your story. But as I said earlier, you're forgiven. I just want you to leave as soon as possible." The general said coldly.

"I need you to listen to me now. As you, that boy I had created, started to live again, I gave you your name. My wife was surprised that I had managed to get us such a sweet and loveable son, but she couldn't understand that you'd been made of a fire.

As you became old enough, you started to study science when I told you that you were the flame and when science had no way of explaining it, you refused to believe it too. You started to base your life on science. You thought that you were done like humans. By making love.

But the truth is that you never had a mother. She was my wife until she died of her disease, but not your mother. I hired you a nanny because I was too busy to be with you all the time and I admit that I neglected you, but it was only because I was afraid to love you like a son."

"You weren't fair to me… I remember looking after you when you'd scolded me and I'd wanted to be held by you and play with you, but you only snapped at me that a general shouldn't do things like that. You told me not to show my emotions. You wanted to make me a robot who would control your armies!" The redhead flared up again.

"I've said I'm sorry for who knows how many times! Roy, you've forgiven me! Move on already!" Eliwood said strictly.

"You have no idea how much it hurt! You have no idea how many times I cried in her arms until I fell asleep!" The general continued to rage.

Eliwood looked away, his eyes turning even more sad. "…Even so… Will you listen to me?"

"Speak then", Roy commanded and added derisively: "Father."

The King gazed at him with a questioning look for a while, narrowing his eyes, but didn't say anything about his son's derisiveness. Instead, he continued:

"Roy, I didn't start to call you human. You yourself refused to believe what you truly were and wanted to be a human so badly that you closed your mind from the fact that you weren't one. And when you did that, you closed your mind from everything that couldn't be explained by science."

Roy shook his head frantically.

"You still refuse to believe? It can be understood though, because you closed your mind so tightly back then. But it doesn't matter. You have to come back. Otherwise you'll keep hurting others and yourself."

"I haven't done anything!!"

"Well then, explain me why and how Haine was burnt to the ground? Or the Final Destination?"

Roy couldn't answer. He just looked sadly at the ground in front of him.

I remember when you told me… But it isn't true! It can't be true! No one can be the flame! I'm no different from others!!

…

Or am I?

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The Hylian princess couldn't say what the prince was thinking. He just stood in front of her, looking particulary nowhere. Why had he come? She felt a blush rising on her face, had he noticed? And was he know here to see if it was true?

"Uh… Was that what you wanetd to talk about…?" Zelda asked shyly.

Marth seemed to snap out of his thoughts by her speech. "…No. It's very important."

Very important? A warning bell rang in the marine eyed girl's mind. He knows! Oh god, he knows! What am I going to say!?

An awkward silence fell over the two, both trying to avoid each other's gazes. Finally Marth was the first one to speak: "Zelda…"

"Yes?" She asked immediately.

"I said that my country was in ruins… As soon as this tournament's over I'll go back there to rebuild my country and try to give it back the glory it once had. And…" he was obviously searching for words. "I don't want to go alone."

The prince felt a lump in his throat, waiting for the Hylian's reply.

Zelda felt relieved to hear what the noble had said and as she was about to reply, the cobalt eyed man kneed in front of her like a knight, looking down.

"Princess Zelda of Hyrule, I, Marth Lowell of Althea ask you to marry me."

She gasped and lifted her hands on her cheeks. As she finally realised that the man that was kneeling in front of her was proposing her, she went on her knees in fron of him and hugged him gently.

"I shall marry you, Marth." She whispered to his ear as she felt his hands on her back. "And we shall together rule Hyrule and Althea in prosperity and happiness."

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"Why the hell did you come here!?"

"Didn't you listen to me? Why have I searched you now after all these years, after you left with that Air Pirate skum?" There was a hint of disgust in Eliwood's voice as he mentioned Vyse. "I know that you loved him, but I needed you and I was too selfish to understand that you too, needed love. I had never thought that the flame could create a mind of its own. And I came to you here and now because the fire inside you is extinguishing. Can you feel it?"

"I… But… I'm a human! I'm not the flame!" Roy protested.

"You set things aflame in order to feed your own extinguishing flame. But it works for such a little time only. Do you want to keep living like that? Do you want to live by destroying everything with fire to satisfy and keep your own flame alive?"

"I… No."

"Then let go and come back where you were once taken from. Come back to the flame."

"Father… I don't want to hurt anyone, but… I'm not the flame. I'm as human as everyone else!"

"Still fighting against the fact even though I've told you everything the way it really is?"

"Roy… " The Hylian said gently as he placed a hand on the general's shoulder. "I think he's right. And I don't want you to live only because of me when you'd need to destroy in order to be alive." The pain of losing the redhead was hidden behind those words and he tried to hide it. Roy looked into his cerulean eyes with pain in his owns.

"But… I don't want to… I'm not the flame…" The boy didn't know anymore what to believe. He could remember when Eliwood had told him that he was the flame and he had denied it back then and he still was. But… what if it was true?

"Even though you weren't, if fusing with the flame would take away your pain and instincts that tell you that you're dying, why not try it? Roy, I love you so much that I want only your best. And no matter how painful it would be for me to live my life without you, I'll do it, knowing that you're all right and in a better place." The Hylian held his tears back. He didn't want to let go of Roy, he wanted to hold him forever, but the thought that the general would live and destroy for him was too much. Their love couldn't be the death of so many and the burning of everything. "So go. I'll remember you and keep you here." He pointed at his heart, his lips melting into a smile.

"Link… I don't want to go…"

"Please… For me."

The general hesitated a moment and stepped forward. "Fine, Father. I'll come back, but not because you ask. I'm doing it because I don't want to hurt anyone anymore, now or never!"

"I'm glad, Roy, that you understood." The King said, looking down. "Well then, call the fire."

"Huh?" The redhead couldn't understand.

"Call for it. Tell it you want to go back."

"Umm… Flame? I want to come back to you...?" The boy said with a confused tone.

The blonde elf watched his love speak with tears in his eyes. If he could only hold back even for a few minutes, Roy would be where he had to and everything would be fine. Except that he would be utterly crushed and torn, left alone in the dark without the warmth of the boy he'd learned to love so incredibly much.

A fire engulfed the general and he closed his eyes, willing to go with it. The heat hurt on Link's face but he didn't care. The boy's clothes burned off in the extreme heat and soon he was nothing but ashes that fell on the grass.

The Hylian walked to the ashes and looked down at them, his tears falling on them. A gust of wind picked the ashes on its wings and took them to the sky and soon they couldn't be seen.

Good bye, Roy… He looked at the sky, his tears flowing down his cheeks as memories crossed his mind.

A thought hit him like a cannonball and he shouted to the raging fire near Eliwood, who had already turned around to go back to Ertruria:

"ROY!! I want to go with you!!"

The inferno grew larger, but nothing happened.

"Roy, I don't care if you're the flame! I want to be together with you!!"

"You're a wacko, all right." Ganondorf said cheerfully.

"Link..." Link heard the boy's voice inside the inferno, scratchy and worn and a fire soon sparkled under the Hylian's boots. He felt the hurting flames devouring his clothes and licking his body with heat that burned his skin. It hurt so much he couldn't think. The blonde felt how near the death was. As the fire embraced him completely, he felt like suffocating and tried to reach for air. The pain only grew in him, the warmth grew, until everything became a blur.

Am I dead?

Suddenly in the darkness he felt the inviting warmth that used to give him pleasure as familiar hands were placed on his waist and lips were pressed on his mouth gently.

"Together, Link. Together is so much better than alone."

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*cries a river* I can't believe I wrote this. I can't believe I'm ending everything! And it's not even a happy ending! *cries an ocean* I don't want to! I want to continue!

I really hope you liked. There will be no Smash Files after this.

And, I think you're confused about this ending. Mostly did they die? But I wanted to leave the truth out there and everyone can decide for themselves what happened. I have my own point of view about it and I guess the right way to end these files is this.

Also, even though the Smash Files end now, I can always write a deleted scenes/commentary/abandoned beginnings-part. But I'll do that only if many enough want it. So, how about it?

Thank you all reviewers out there, I have enjoyed getting your reviews greatly! I hope to hear from you in the future as well and thank you for being so kind to read and like this story! You've all been wonderful!

"Thus the curtain closes on another tale.

An eternity has passed…

Fleeting dreams fade into the distance…

All that is left now

Is me and my memories…

But I'm sure we'll meet again,

Someday, you and I…

Another place, another time.

It's just that we might not realize

That you are you and I am me…

Let us open the door to the great unknown,

Come across another reality,

And live another today…

Even when the story has been told,

Life goes on…

Until we meet again,

Take care of yourself, my friend…"

~Chrono Cross~

With Respect:

Dark Moon Crystales