Here concludes my new epic saga of the X-Men. Inspired by a number of groovy fic-writing friends! This story was written for the a " Xmen100 Writing Community /a .

Credits and acknowledgements will follow this installment. Chocolates go to the original X-Factor. Challenges are Field Trip and Murphy's Law and apply to none of the drabbles in this part. This is the end, my friend. Brace yerselves. Most of the characters are not mine but belong to various weird companies. Dont sue.

Epic : The Field Trip Across Country, X-Men Style, Part Seven : End Of Times

Characters: X-Men, Xavier institute students, Harry Potter, plus a few original characters.

'Verse: X-Men Evolution post-series

Ratings: NC-17 for violence and content.Warning for Character Deaths!

Words: 100 each except the last one.

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1 Shifting Earth

The ground rumbled again as Logan tried to decide what to do.

The entire area where the center had been was gone, sunk down under at least a hundred feet of rock debris.

There had to be a way to find his friends, his teammates.

He cast about for ideas and suddenly heard an odd rumbling sound very nearby as the ground near his feet began to shake.

He cursed, grabbed Jubilee, and ran.

They would come back later, he swore.

He refused to believe his team was dead, even though that was the most likely.

The X-Men had survived worse.

2 Cry of the Banshee

The airport terminal had settled and the cries of the wounded filled the air.

Emergency services had just begun to arrive from other terminals and the local fire teams.

Suddenly there was a shrieking noise that grew louder and louder until a section of the rubble shattered and fell away.

Up out of the rubble soared a grim faced Sean carrying a broken armed Harry.

They glanced back down at the broken body of their friend.

Then, with tears and grim determination on their faces they shot through the sky towards Disneyland.

The madman who had done this would pay.

3 Flight of the Angel

Warren and Rogue dove aside as the monster's tail came crashing down across the spot where they just were.

Even as the monster advanced, they could see a strange scene through the gateway, with a throne and a giant red and black figure laughing and watching them.

Warren grabbed Rogue and lifted.

Rogue's heart sped up, wishing there was something they could do.

As they lifted she saw some buildings shaking and falling and casting her glance towards the center where the others were going to see a play, she gasped.

It was gone.

"Warren! Look!"

"I see it, hang on."

They flew in that direction.

4 Gathering Against the night

Sean carried Harry forward as fast as he could, straining his power to the ultimate.

They arrived over Disneyland and looked in horror at the devastation there.

They began seeking the X-Men.

Sean quickly spotted Warren and Rogue ahead, even as they were landing at a sunken area.

He landed behind them, his sonic cry alerting them to his presence.

He introduced Harry around just in time for Logan, coming out of the shadows with Jubilee, to hear.

They filled each other in and conferred on what to do, when a sharp cry arose.

They turned and saw the giant lizard coming their way.

5 Monsters and Spells

The ground continued to shake as the five of them prepared for battle.

Harry was thinking trying to remember a spell that would help on something that large, even as Logan hurled himself in and took several swipes at it with his claws and Warren tossed some stun grenades at it.

It roared and swiped back, sending Logan flying and Jubilee cursing and firing her fireworks in it's face.

Even as it reared back, Harry snapped his fingers and snatched out his wand his voice almost breaking as he shouted.

"Minimulus insignifigus!"

The lizard shrank to man-size slowly.

Logan grinned and charged with claws extended.

6 The mastermind Revealed!

Even as the Monster was dispatched, a gateway opened and the dark red figure Warren and Rogue had seen, stepped out of it leading a horde of demons

A rat scurried from the side, reared back, and became a twisted cloaked form at the demons' side.

Sean cursed.

It had been far too long since he was in the field. he was feeling every one of his years and bumps.

His eyes narrowed as he saw the number of demons and he glanced at Logan who nodded.

There were too many of them.

He straightened up proudly.

He would die as an X-Man.

7 X-men's Stand

"You will all die! Your actions caused the death of my son and you will face torment and pain for that!"

"Listening to you rant isn't torture enough?"

Warren's quip made the demon's face darken.

"You will soon regret such liberties mortal. You and all your kind will fade to nothingness before Mephisto!"

"And you will feel my wrath, little Harry."

The shivery voice made Harry shudder and then straighten.

"I beat you before and will again, little Tom!"

The figure howled and surged forward.

As he did so, he was followed by the demons who charged in a mass.

The X-Men waited in a line, together and united.

8 Hold The Line!

The demons attacked with ferocity and everyone quickly became too busy to talk, except for Harry at the center of their protective sphere.

He used his wand and voice to freeze demons, or make them slip or fall over, or even run into each other.

Voldemort hurled his spells at the X-men, but found a powerful enchantment protected them.

He sniffed it and growled, he recognized the scent of that witch Roma.

He hurled his magics harder, striving to get through.

Sean's voice began to flag, and he fell back on his own fighting skills as Rogue did behind him.

Their ring held.

9 Out of the Darkness, a Light shines...

The demons withdrew for a moment then charged again.

When a mass of them was almost to the battered X-men, there was a renewed rumbling underneath their feet.

The ground split asunder as a ruby-red beam shot upwards, annihilating a few demons on the way.

Out of the gap, raced, climbed, flew, and crawled, the rest of the X-men.

Rogue cheered at the sight.

Wanda saw Harry and almost stopped before walking to him and shaking his hand.

"Joining the team?"

"I could do worse."

She grinned.

Bloody, wounded and battered, they were nonetheless mad as hell and now had a target for their anger.

They charged.

10 The Battle for Dinseyland

The demons seemed a little less confident now that there were more of them and Mephisto ranted as he also charged in, his rays knocking Colossus and Kitty back to the ground.

He was met by Scott, and their beams met in mid-air, power racing against power, until Scott was blasted backwards.

The battles was going well, for the demons were falling, but Mephisto seemed unstoppable!

Jean hurled her mind at him, coupled with Betsy and the Professor, but were hurled back by his clamshell-tight mind.

Harry tried to think of a way to stop Mephisto but was interrupted by Voldemort's arrival.

11 Rogue Sorcery

Voldemort snarled, his form rippling.

He wanted Potter's death so badly he could taste it.

If not for Potter's damned family he would rule England now, and perhaps all of Britain.

He hurled spell after spell at the boy.

The young man managed to defend himself but was falling back steadily.

Voldemort crowed aloud as he prepared his most powerful spell, and hurled it with all his might.

Rogue saw what was happening and dove forward, gripping Voldemort's wrist as the spell fired,, making it ricochet off into the night.

Voldemort struggled but felt his essence being drained from him, until he simply vanished like smoke.

12 Sorceress Supreme

Rogue staggered, then straightened, and smiled at Harry.

Her mind reeled, but so much more made sense now then had before.

She reached out and, muttering a spell, helped him to his feet, managing to shield her hands with a minor spell.

She grinned at his shocked expression and coughed a little.

She knew that Voldemort wasn't dead, just scattered, but she had absorbed much of his power.

She turned to where her friends were facing Mephisto.

Her mouth twisting with the irony of using a villain's power against another, she hurled a powerful spell at Mephisto.

The demon staggered, gaping in shock.

13 In the darkest hour...

Even as she and Mephisto hurled spells at one another, Rogue realized she would not be able to beat him.

But one spell almost at the edge of her mind showed her a possible way to stop the demon.

She moved forward hurling lightning against the Demon, driving him back to the gate.

She poured the energy into banishment spell against him and a closing spell to seal off limbo for all time.

His resistance made her stagger back and she wasn't sure she had the power to beat the demon.

She had to get the power, somehow, but she had no idea how!

14 ...There is yet Light in the world...

Rogue fought the demon Mephisto and screamed.

"I'm not powerful enough! I cant stop him!"

"Then use mine, Rogue."

Harry laid his bare hand on her shoulder, his power and mind rushing into her, making her bolts slightly stronger.

"It's not enough!", she cried, as he collapsed.

"Then we will make it enough."

She saw Scott leading the X-men to her side even as the earth shuddered and cracked, a wide split forming and separating most of them from her.

Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, Ice-man, and Angel made it to her side.

Scott was first, followed by all the others.

She cried as she felt all their energies flow into her, none of them letting go, even as it passed the point of no return.

Her blasts got more and more powerful, as she hurled them.

Her heart was sick and her mind was swirling with thoughts and with a determination that was at once hers alone and yet all the minds of her friends.

With a voice that was hers and yet all of theirs, she screamed at Mephisto.

"This far and no further! We are the X-men! And we will stop you, no matter the price!"

With one final defiant cry, she hurled the massed power into the spells, and watched as Mephisto was flung into the gate and the gate shut, sealing for eternity.

The remaining X-men gathered around her and watched as she did as the demons all vanished and the landscape around them seemed to simply ripple and change, and suddenly there was no evidence of any damage around them.

In the sudden silence, she sank to the ground, her lungs feeling like they were burning and her spirit sick but proud at the same time.

She saw their eyes and minds and spirits swirl past her as they went wherever souls do after death, and was tempted to follow, but knew she could not.

She cried as she opened her eyes to a world that was so much poorer without those six souls.

A figure appeared out of the sky, and Sean greeted Agatha brokenly, even as she flew down to where Harry's body lay.

She gathered him to her and smoothed his brow gently.

Then she looked up at all of them, and seeing their sorrow, spoke quietly.

"We have all taken a grave loss here. Much light has been taken out of the world. But you are all heroes and these died as heroes. Died to protect those in need and defenseless, as they would have wished to. Do not despair for death is not the end of the journey. It is the beginning. And someday we will see them all again, in a brighter place."

She rose, Harry's body gathered in her arms, and gestured, once.

There was a flash of bright light, and, when it cleared, they were all standing in the field in front of the mansion.

They gaped around for a moment until her quiet voice called their attention back to her.

Rogue listened and watched from her kneeling postition.

"Farewell, X-men."

She shifted and altered, and where she and Harry were, was now a large eagle.

It cried out once before launching itself up and away.

Slowly, a crying Hank came forward and lifted Scott.

Others gently lifted the rest of their lost, and the X-men went into the mansion to mourn those who had fallen.

Rogue glanced back and cried out and the others looked and gasped each one.

There, where the five had lain, were five entangled and entertained trees, growing together in harmony and already dwarfing even Colossus's height.

They put out red and blue and green and white and gold flowers, each one a perfect X.

The X-men turned and walked into the mansion crying more, yet somehow less sad.

The End.

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt

Here it is, the Seventh and final part of this epic! Feedback is adored. I finished it only with the encouragement and belief of my friends and of you, the readers. Thank you all for reading and reviewing as it went.

Author's Notes: This has been the longest story I have written yet. I set out to just have fun and somehow it became a true epic along the way. I used several original characters and mostly created them out of wholecloth. I hope you enjoyed reading as much as i did writing! I borrowed Harry Potter and Voldemort somewhere along the way and it just seemed to fit right in, and said inclusion changed the whole story. Some may say this is not a true X-men story but a crossover but I say the universe has infinite possibilities.

Acknowledgements and Credits:

lj user"justlikerogue" provided encouragement and advice.

lj user"emkay1" provided other advice and kept me going some mornings when my brain was about to shut down.

lj user"Jen1703" , lj user"alrischa" , lj user"actresskrissie" , and lj user"seemag" all provided inspiration above and beyond the call.

lj user"viewoftheworld" acted as friend and constant cheering section for which i am eternally grateful.

My lovely girlfriend gave me inspiration, patience, and advice, and made me smile. And kept me from giving up half way through.

Thank you to lj user"Perchandcreep" and lj user"unanon" who haven't killed me for turning in such a huge response to a weekly challenge.

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This story is dedicated to three people:

lj user"unanon" : remember, no matter what losses and horrors we face, there is yet light in the world.

lj user"perchandcreep" : you have the heart of a muse... may this inspire you as you have inspired me.

my girlfriend: thank you for being a lovely, incredible woman. you have given me light in the darkest hours.

That's it folks. See you on the flip side.