Big sniff here readers, it's the LAST CHAPTER EVER!!! ;-;

"See if you can take this Summers!" Avalanche yelled as he stomped his foot and a great fissure split the ground beneath Cyclops' feet, the older mutant fell through and grabbed onto the edge with his hand.

"Cyclops," called Storm as she flew down to pluck him form the gap as Avalanche prepared to send him plummeting.

Avalanche dodged form left to right as he was soaked through with rain water and trying to dodge lightning bolts at the same time. Toad jumped past him and he was accidentally hit by one of Wanda's less well-aimed hex bolts.

He fell to the floor in pain, "Lance," Kitty cried, running over to him, but she was blasted out of the way by Pyro who sent her flying into Night Crawler. Both of them were knocked unconscious.

Gambit threw a charged card into the air at Jean, her back was turned since she wa concentrating on Quicksilver, she screamed and fell from the sky, Iceman caught her and set her on her feet but they were both wrapped in flames by Pyro.

However he lost his footing as he slipped on some lava that magma had laid out for him, Sabertooth tackled her and Sunspot ran over to kick the other mutant off his team mate.

Multiple was keeping the Blob busy with his copies, while Wolvesbain kept biting him, he yelled in pain and tripped over crashing into Wolverine, trapping the other underneath him.

Magneto then seized Multiple and sent him careering into Cyclops, both falling to the floor, Magneto was then knocked out of the sky by one of storms lightning bolts. She was brought out of the sky by Wanda who was then knocked out by Rogue.

Rogue did a double back flip to avoid some flaming spikes that had missed Quicksilver by a long shot. She touched down with her feet on the ground bet it felt oddly cold, she looked around, her friends and the other mutants were fighting in one big group now. Around them, a mist was crawling in; you couldn't see the city anymore due to the density.

Rogue

Rogue gasped and shivered when had it suddenly become so cold, she saw the white fog pool around her feet; then there was a groan behind her. She turned around and screamed, a mutilated zombie was there and reaching out for her, she backed away but it already came into cruel contact.

Rogue

Rogue felt her soul lifted from her body, she spent one second of her in-between life looking at her collapsed and crumpled body as the mist rolled over it. Then it was gone, she was gone…

"Chere!" Gambit cried and ran over to her, the Acolytes, the X-men and subsequently the Brotherhood stopped.

Gambit ran over to where Rogue's body lay, his metal cane extending to its full length, "Back, back, back" he yelled swiping at the creature, the mist cleared momentarily and the monster gave a wail as it dissolved to mere dust.

"No, get away from me," Night crawler turned to watch as Amelia quickly jumped out of the way as one of the monsters tried to touch her.

"Ew, like, what are those things?" screamed Shadow Cat as she backed hesitantly into Avalanche.

"I don't know, but I'll keep you safe," he replied wrapping his arms around her shoulders protectively, she shrunk into him.

Looks like they don't like my minions, so they Andrew?

Everyone looked up at the boy who had by now turned up, "No," he replied hesitantly.

"Andrew, brother, what's going on?" asked Amelia latching onto his arm.

Move away from him, now!

Amelia didn't budge.

"Like, who are you?" asked Shadow Cat to thin air, she nearly jumped a foot in the air, very much prepared to take Avalanche with her, when an exact replica of Amelia appeared before her. She was floating about an inch above the ground and was slightly transparent, her skin melted away to leave naught but a skeleton as she turned to Andrew and…Amelia.

Why not ask Mystique? I'm sure she could tell you all about me. The replica smirked evilly and Amelia backed behind Andrew.

"Get off Mystique," he hissed dangerously.

"Mystique?" Night Crawler, among many others, repeated, confused.

"What do you mean Mystique and what exactly are you?" Magneto asked looking at the replica.

I am a spirit of the dead and as for Mystique, why not ask her, yourself, the replica laughed and swung her staff of bones at Amelia, her skin turned a dark blue, her robe white and her hair wavy and a coppery read.

"Mystique," Cyclops exclaimed.

"Mother?" Night Crawler sounded confused.

"So it was you all along?" Magneto demanded as the impenetrable mist covered the sky above creating a dome.

"Uh…guys?" Multiple tried to get someone's attention but no one listened to him, he alone had noticed the enclosing capabilities of the fog.

"I," Mystique stammered, then suddenly she smirked evilly, "she, they made me do it, he said he'd kill Rogue," she pointed shakily at Andrew who looked at her with a raised eyebrow, "if I didn't help him kidnap you all!"

"What?" everyone looked at him disbelievingly, "I didn't, honestly," Andrew waved his hands around defencelessly.

"It was you," Gambit growled as he stood up glaring at Andrew.

"No!"

"You're the reason Rogue's dead!" Gambit pointed an accusing finger at Andrew, Night Crawler turned to glare at the other mutant accusingly and Mystique smirked at him.

Actually that's my fault.

"What do you want?" Magneto demanded and Amelia smirked.

I just want something to trade.

What little light filtered through the fog disappeared, the temperature dropped to way below zero and most of the mutants bar the fire wielding ones stood shivering. The ground seemed to crack open but this wasn't due to Avalanche, hot bubbling lava jumped like fish out of the crack. Dark shadows surrounded them all, dark shadows with evil slanted, glowing eyes with clawed hands that reached for them.

"Ew," Kitty quivered. Out of the hole in the ground floated a black cloak from underneath it came two rotting bluish white hands, it's breath rattled and it held a reaper firmly in it's two hands.

Amelia smirked and while they were all distracted she swung her staff, "NO!" screamed Night Crawler. The skull at the end didn't actually come into contact with Mystiques head it passed through it, but it brought with it a white coloured, slightly transparent spiritual form of Mystique. The eyes, mouth and nose holes glowed as the soul of Mystique became trapped in the skull's head, Mystqiue's soulless body fell crumpled to the floor.

The being floated to Amelia and held out a glowing bluish white ball, Amelia took it between her hands and looked at it, the light bouncing of her features, the sadness obvious in her eyes.

"Amelia?" Andrew said stepping towards her, she held it out for him to look at, the ball twisted to form a life-size replica of a little girl that looked just like…Amelia.

"That must be her soul," Magma exclaimed looking awe struck, Amelia looked at where Gambit was standing over Rogue's body; then she looked at Mystique's body. The cloaked being made a hissing sound, it produced another spirit ball, then the other floated out of the skull end of Amelia's staff.

Andrew's eyes widened, "No," he whispered shaking his head in denial, she looked at him, then looked away unable to hold his gaze. The Amelia spirit and Mystique's vanished and the cloaked figure disappeared with a cackling shriek.

The spirit ball Amelia was holding shot at Rogue, the girl blinked, took a long breath and looked up. A soundless scream erupted form Amelia as her entire body was wrapped in black ribbons that were set alight with a dark fire and she was dragged underground.

The mist rolled back and the monsters vanished, the crack the creature had caused sealed up and it look as though it had never been. When it had all gone it seemed that it was the middle of the day, the sun was shining and nothing seemed to have happened.

"Andrew," the boy turned to look at Kitty, "what happened?" she asked.

"That was her last chance, I thought that by helping mystique I could bring her back…I was a fool and this entire thing was a mistake," he opened a portal and was gone before Kitty could say anything more.

"So, is it over now?" asked Bobby looking around.

"What the just happened?"

Everyone turned and alternately and successively yelled, "ROGUE!"

The poor Goth based girl suddenly found herself dog piled, or the equivalent of.

"Chere," the entire mutant group separated to leave a slightly staggering Rogue to get a clear view of the worried looking Cajun.

"Come on everyone," Storm said quietly, "time to go home," she, Jean and Kitty herded everyone away just as storm clouds rolled in over head; Storm was too tired to do anything about it.

"What do you want swamp rat?" Rogue spat standing up as straight as she could manage, she'd been dead for a while you must realise.

"I wanted to apologise," he said sincerely as the rain began to fall, drenching them both.

"What for?" she sneered, crossed her arms protectively over her chest and turned away from him.

"For whatever made you hate me so much," he replied walking up to her, his feet splashing in the puddles, he put a hand on her shoulder.

She tried to shrug him off but he didn't budge, "Go away," the rain mixed with her tears so he remained oblivious to them, except for the fact that her shoulders were shaking so badly, it was hard not to notice.

"Oh Rogue," Gambit said softly, he slipped his arms around her shoulders and held her close, trying to cheer her up. "Can I ask you something Rogue?"

She sniffed and turned around, "I," another sniff, "I guess."

"I was going to ask you earlier," he reached into his pocket, "but with Magneto and everything," he pulled out a small box, "and this whole graveyard business," he held it up, "and what with you dying and all," he opened the lid slowly, "I didn't really get a chance."

Rogue's eyes glistened as she starred wide eyed at the diamond ring encased in the gold silk lining of the blue velvet box. She gasped and looked into Gambit's burning eyes.

"Remy…" she breathed.

"Will you marry me Rogue?" he even went so far as to go down on one knee, his trousers getting covered in mud.

She smiled so widely he was afraid her mouth would drop off her face, "Oh Remy," she flung her arms around him and kissed him so hard it hurt him, "of course I will!" she exclaimed.

Remy grinned, maybe being dead had been good for her, he though as he slid the ring onto her finger.

So there they were, both kneeling in the mud around them, in the middle of a graveyard, both engaged in a passionate kiss with the other and officially engaged. A weirder situation you will not find…even among mutants and so my friends this is where this story ends.

Yes my friends, this is it, the very end and it's not coming back, there's no epilogue, there's no cliff hanger ending it just is. And what a happy ending it is! No more Mystique, no more Amelia and Remy and Rogue ended up together! :-)

Now people review and I might write those sequels I promised earlier! :-)