From the chaos comes order,
From destruction comes rebirth.
A week after the destruction of the Tomb and Miira had finally got what she had wanted, she and Kir were hiking across the island, their destination, Icecap Mountain.
She had helped Kir recover from his wounds during the week, she had stayed by him and he had told her what happened, sparing some of the more gruesome details, as well as revealing a few more things, she had sat by him when Sonic came to ask about the firestorm that everyone had seen in Mystic Ruins. She had asked him how he had been able to make the Chaos Drive converter that Flare had broken and he had explained that when the Masters had placed the mind controller on him, they had programmed a wealth of technical information onto his head, so he had kept reams of technical know how, and the masters curiosity of chaos energy.
The day had begun at dawn as they set off through the Marble Gardens ruins, Kir sadly gazing about him at the ruins, Miira felt sorry for him; he was guilty about destroying the city again,
"Kir, stop beating yourself up about what you didn't do" she had told him, to which he replied,
"But I did do it Miira, I destroyed our people, I wrecked the city"
Miira grabbed him by the shoulder and spun him round, "No you didn't, I remember when I was captured, you tried to help, I saw that, there was someone else in your head, they had put someone else in there, you didn't destroy it, Mist did" she told him angrily
Kir had brightened up now, so he had obviously thought about it, they considered going through the carnival, but thought they should just go round, they might lose too much time in the carnival. This brought them to the foot of Icecap.
"Well, here we are, you want lunch first?" Kir said, sitting down and opening his pack
"Yeah, we shout eat now before going up, that way we won't have to sit in the snow and eat" Miira said, getting food out of her pack and sitting down beside Kir.
The same thoughts about each other ran through their minds, both to afraid to ask encase their fears were confirmed.
They finished lunch and continued up the mountain, talking to each other about general things and what they thought the others would be doing. Miira then asked about the chaos emerald that was now affixed to a pendant around Kir's neck. Kir explained as much about them that he knew, and explained about how he had shrunk the emerald to make it a better size to fit into a pendant. By about 3 they had reached the top and stood, looking down at the island below them, marvelling at its beauty, behind them was a strange lake, there was a bowl like formation on the top of the mountain, and water had collected there, but something prevented it from freezing so there was the ice lake atop the great mountain.
Kir was looking out over the lake when he saw something on a slab of ice, floating on the lake. Telling Miira to stay there he used the emerald and flew over to the slab, picked something up, put it in his pack and flew back.
"What is it?" asked Miira, as Kir landed
"You'll find out later" he said, "You want to go back down now?" he asked, and Miira nodded, grabbed up her pack and started towards the way they had came
"No Miira, we're not climbing down, come here" Kir said, Miira walked over to him and he picked her up.
They flew down from Icecap, past Sky Sanctuary and over the Marble Gardens, they flew around the island until it began to get dark, then they made their way back to 'The Camp', landing outside Miira's hut.
Kir walked in with her as she climbed into bed, he hugged her and began to walk away, Miira remembered a dream she had had and finally found the courage she had been looking for all day,
"Kir…I…I love you," she said as he reached the door.
Kir froze as she said this and she feared she had ruined it, she had blown her friendship, she anxiously waited as he turned around, surprise on his face.
"Y…you…do?" he said, she nodded and he smiled, "I…I do to" he said and walked back to her hammock
They hugged each other, and then kissed before Kir walked back to his own hut, he hadn't seen the number 50 tattooed behind Miira's ear.
…Fin…