Family.

Chapter 13: Ending.

Lizzie held on to her new husbands arm as the one and only photographer took pictures of them in various poses and then stepped aside as he took some of the guests. Nosedive was getting closer and closer to Saffy as the day wore on an the rest of the gang were having a great time, especially when it came to meeting some of Lizzie's relatives. Canard and Silver laughed at the small boy playing kiss chase with Millie and Nina and Duke was chatting up a very elegant looking woman in her forties who was one of Lizzie's cousins. The ducks present to their leader and his new bride was a trip to Australia where they would spend some time in Sydney and then two months in the outback where the two of them could really relax. The only trouble was The Australian authorities had refused to allow the airowing in its airspace so the newly weds had to catch a commercial flight over there which would take twice as long and meant them leaving before the party. Canard had been furious as they'd only got back to them a few days before the wedding with the refusal which meant the only flight going on the wedding day or even close was at ten PM the evening of the wedding.

The party was started and after the speeches Lizzie and Wildwing prepared to leave the others cheering them on as they exited the building and walked over to a limo.

"Don't do anything I wouldn't buddy!" Canard yelled.

"Oh and what don't you do big boy?" Silver said suggestively as she pressed her ass against his crotch, she smiled as she felt him stiffen and he went scarlet. Wildwing shook his head and turned back to the limo to let his 'blushing bride' into the car as he saw a laser target he yelled and pushed her out of the way just in time to hear the shot fly past his head. Lizzie screamed and the other ducks quick changed into their battle gear.

"Wing!" Canard ran up to them being covered by the others.

"You okay bro, Liz?" Dive's concerned face appeared beside Lizzie.

"This is the point where I wish the com fitted under my suit," Wildwing started and then cut Dive off before he said anything, "and no I was not going to let Tanya at it to make it change using the tie!" Lizzie smiled at the unusually un-safety conscious way he'd said that, he'd wanted this to be perfect too, just like she had, normality had been what they'd wanted from the start.

"You two had better get inside where it's safe, we can take it from here," Wildwing nodded wanting nothing more than to get Lizzie out of harm's way, he did not need her getting hurt again, or worse.

Once in the building they led Millie, Phoenix, Nina and the other guests to the back of the building away from where the fire fight was taking place, Cleghorn appeared beside them holding his gun out just in case "trust him to bring a gun to a wedding," thought Wildwing, "I'm surprised he accepted our invitation at all and I'm pretty sure he'll enjoy shouting at us about this later." Once the guests were a safe distance away Cleghorn and Wildwing retraced their steps to see how the others were doing, Lizzie silently followed them. They peered through one of the windows to see that the others were winning.

Draganus watched as once again his henchmen were botching up a flawless plan and smoke billowed out of his nostrils. Then he saw an opening that he couldn't pass up, staring through one of the windows was Wildwing, unarmed and most importantly un-armored. He smiled as a new plan popped into his evil head and activated his teleporter.

Back at the fight Nosedive was desperately looking to see where Saffron had disappeared to, the last thing he knew was she was taking on Wraith. He saw a fire ball fly pass and headed in the direction it had come from to find Saffy dueling Wraith with her magick. Mihoshi watched from the sidelines.

"Aren't you gonna do something or are you gonna just stand and watch." He shouted at her as he ran up to her and then past, but she stopped him.

"This is her fight, what she was meant to do and born for, why I kept her alive." Mihosi looked down at the ground, "she's asked me to protect you now and I said I would Nosedive." Nosedive seemed confused but only for a few seconds and when he realized what the demoness meant he tried to get to his friend and love. But he was stopped again and a spell was cast. He fell to the floor, his head landing on the soft grass, he felt Mihoshi pull him onto her knees and he felt himself weep as he watched his best friend fight. He was going to watch her die, again. And just like the last time there was nothing he could do about it. The saurian mage and the Puckworld witch paused and each started to mutter a spell and he saw each opponents power build up into a large ball above each head, both fired at the same time. He hoped in vain that the two magick balls would cancel each other out but such was the hatred of the fighters for each other that each ball was designed to slip through the other's magick and both were hit and thrown back. It was only then that Mihoshi lifted the spell she'd cast on him. He got up and rushed to Saffy's side, she was still breathing and semi-conscious.

"Saff?" He asked timidly, as he brushed the hair out of her face and cradled her dying body.

"Shh," a slender finger rose up and stopped him from saying anything, "Dive I'm sorry, I hoped it wouldn't come to this but it has, I have to go now so you take care of yourself," she heaved a sigh as Wraiths magick started to ebb away at her soul, "I love you Nosedive and I swear, no matter what happens I will always be with you, some how. Don't forget me Dive and please. . ." her voice started to grow faint and her body with it, "please don't linger on this, never change Dive the who you are, that's why we all love you. . . . " She faded away, leaving nothing left, tears streamed down his face and when Mihoshi came to comfort him he welcomed it crying into her shoulder as the rest of the battle still raged just around the corner.

Draganus couldn't believe his luck when he teleported into the building and found himself behind Lizzie, he grabbed her and threw her at the police chief knocking both out on the wall. Wildwing spun around to face the attacker and his stomach dropped when he saw who it was.

"I was going to use one of your dear family to lure your team but I know by now that you are what keeps them together and without you I will make short work of your friends. Of course your dear family will become my slaves, after all there are worse things than death boy." A shiver went down Wildwing's spine as he watched his enemy eye up Lizzie with a lustful glare, "Besides, when I am ruler of both this world and Puckworld I will need a queen to bare me heirs. Wildwing seethed and felt the blood rising, his fists shook and he was ready to attack despite not having any way of winning without his armor or weapons. Wildwing charged blindly at his opponent, Draganus waited for the last possible second before jumping out of the way, somersaulting in the air and landing behind the duck. Draganus lifted his right arm and slashed through the suit Wildwing was wearing savoring the feel of tearing flesh and the wet blood pouring onto his fingers. He swung again and again, but stopped after the third not wanting to kill him like that, it was too easy and not nearly as satisfying as killing him slowly. Instead he spun the faltering duck around and pushed him against the wall and lifted Wildwing up by the neck and pressed firmly, but not so much that he would instantly break Wing's neck and kill him.

Lizzie groaned in her resting place, gingerly got to her feet and gasped at what she saw. Her new husband was being choked to death by Draganus and everyone that could and would help her was outside trying to stop the other saurians getting in. She could feel the panic set in and knew a panic wasn't far away the likes of which she hadn't had since she was a child. Lizzie started toward the two and felt her foot kick something hard, she looked down and there was Cleghorn's gun, she reached down and picked it up the noise from outside had stopped and she considered just calling for help but Wildwing's hands which had been holding onto Draganus' arms slipped and fell and he passed out. She flipped the safety off and aimed at a fatal spot Silver had once told her about and as the other ducks burst through the door she fired.

Draganus' eyes widened and then glazed over as he fell to the ground dead, she watched as Wildwing fell as if in slow motion to the floor and she froze. Lizzie shook as Canard gently took the gun from her and placed an arm around her shoulders and tried to block Wildwing's bloody form, tears threatening to fall fearing the worst for his friend. Tanya raced over to her leader and checked his vitals, it took a while but she found a pulse. An ambulance was called and they all thought it best to send Wildwing to the nearest hospital then to transport him in the airowing as it would take too long.

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Wildwing's vision swam as he woke up, "Where am I, am I dead?" He thought as he saw the white walls, then he looked to his side and saw Lizzie sitting at his bedside, still, in her wedding dress looking down at her hands, he couldn't for the life of him remember getting hurt or why they weren't on the way to Australia right now.

"Baby?" He was surprised at how hoarse his voice sounded and how much his throat hurt, "What happened?" Lizzie looked up surprised then relived.

"You don't remember?" she asked not really wanting to go through it again, he shook his head no, "Draganus' goons attacked us at the wedding, we went inside, but Draganus teleported in and grabbed me. Then he threw me at Cleghorn and both of us were knocked out cold, when I woke up he was choking you and you were covered in blood. So I . . . I. . ."

"She took Cleghorn's gun and killed Draganus to protect you." Canard finished for her, Wildwing looked shocked and turned his gaze over to his wife, "she killed him! And it looks like she didn't exactly enjoy doing it." he noted as he saw tears welling up and she started to hug herself. Canard looked concerned and almost went over, but Wildwing lifted his arm and brushed the tears out of her eyes and she lunged for him crying into his chest.

"Wing I killed some one, I've never so much as killed a spider before, I'm just like he was!" Her voice was muffled but both men still heard perfectly and were taken aback.

"Lizz, you're in no way like him!" Canard said angry that she could even think such a thing.

"Baby, you saved my life, one of us would have done it eventually if we'd needed to we just didn't expect it to be you." Wildwing tightened his hold, "please don't think like that, your my Lizzie and you are not like him, besides," he lifted her face to look into her eyes, "I really would tell you if you got that ugly, honest!" Lizzie smile in spite of herself and felt a little better that Wildwing wasn't ashamed of her. Wildwing looked over to Canard, "Is the rest of the team okay?" Canard looked down at his feet when asked this question, he'd dreaded it ever since they'd figured out what had happened to Saffy and why Nosedive was in some kind of trance, not responding to anyone or anything, "what is it? Who's hurt?" Wildwing tried to get up but quickly gave up when the slash marks caused him intense pain.

"No one's hurt, as such, but. . ."

"But what Canard?!" Wildwing was loosing his patience and he wasn't in the best of moods in the first place.

"It's Saffy, she took on Wraith and won too, but she died as well," Canard looked over his should in the direction of the family room, "we found Nosedive curled up not far from the grounds passed out, Tanya thinks it might have been to much for his mind to come to terms with cause he's not saying anything, he's just staring off into space."

"Is Phoenix with him?" Canard nodded and Wildwing sighed, Dive had stayed bright and cheerful for too long and he knew that someday after all the crap that had happened to him he might snap and Nosedive would be lost perhaps forever, it looked like that day may have come. But that was just something he had to deal with, after all that was what family was for.

"Guys!" Silver yelled as she raced into the room, "Nosedive's gone, we can't find him anywhere!"

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Nosedive disappeared without a trace along with Saffron's cat Mihoshi, the only clue was that he'd taken a duck cycle and that he'd cleared out his bank account on the same day that he'd gone. Despite their best efforts Nosedive wasn't found and the Mighty Duck's time was spent playing hockey around following up sittings of him throughout America.

So I finally finished it, am I mean or what, I'm not sure if I'll do a follow up on what happened to Dive or not but if I do it will include some characters from the Angel chronicles that I felt I didn't use enough and want to use again, but they will have slightly different lives to the ones in the angel chronicles, honest. Anywho, please review, toodles, Angel!