I suppose this isn't as much an epilogue as it is a preview of the sequel. Bwahahahahahahaahahahaha! Anyways, I know you're all wondering how I could possibly ever write a sequel with all my characters dead, but you'll see what happens now…..

Deep in the darkness, there was silence. Then again, there was always silence there, but this was different. Riku watched, helpless as one by one his friends, his hope, died. His silence was one of grief. He had been watching the events through Emma's eyes. When she was killed, he began to watch through Sora, and then Kairi. Then, there was no one else to watch, and he sat on the cold ground, staring into the blank crystal, feeling more lost and alone than he ever had. Suddenly, he punched the crystal.

"Dead! They saved countless worlds, all of them, and all fate has had in store for them all this time was death!" He shouted, angry. "While I'm forced to sit in here and live. Without any hope left for me. Damn it, I could have died instead. I could have gone easily from one darkness into another. But of course not. Fate took the lives of those who still had life to live." He muttered, trying to hold back his tears. He knew there was no one there to see him if he cried, but he still had that internal feeling that he was too old to cry now.

He still sat in front of the blank crystal, wondering what he should do next. He tried (though he knew it was futile) to command to crystal to show him Yuna, Tidus, Rikku, Gippal, Paine, Baralai and finally, Emma again. Sighing, he stood up, about to leave and loose himself in the endless darkness, wandering aimlessly for the rest of his days. It wasn't like he had anything else to do anymore. Then, a flickering image in the crystal caught his eye. He turned back around slowly, rather surprised. He hadn't asked the crystal to show him anyone else… At first, all he could see in the crystal was white. He began to wonder if he was seeing heaven. Then, with a flurry of movement inside the crystal, he realized he was seeing another world through the eyes of someone. But who? Everyone he'd ever watched was dead, and he hadn't yet told the crystal to show him anything else. A pair of hands lifted into his view and rubbed the eyes he was looking through. Who ever he was watching through was sitting in a bedroom, not so different from his own that he remembered in the Destiny Islands. Getting a closer look, he realized that this room was quite different. There were posters of random (male) celebrities that he didn't recognize, and very large pink fluffball serving as a pillow. There were a number of school books scattered on one corner of the floor, all of them (textbooks and binders) covered in doodles and stickers that advertised some university he'd never heard of. There was a pile of laundry sitting on the floor in another corner. There was a banging at the door, and a voice on the other side shouted in.

"Are you awake?" came the muffled question.

"Yes!" The person who Riku was watching through replied tiredly, waving her hand at the door.

"Hurry up then! The other girls are coming soon!" Another voice called back to her, still shouting through the door.

"Alright already!" With that, she stood up off the bed and dug through her drawers, pulling out clothes and making a mental note to herself to do her laundry later. She glanced at the clock: it was 9:30. She mumbled something to herself that Riku couldn't make out and she walked over to her mirror, grabbing a brush. Riku sat forward, about to finally see whose eyes he was looking through. When the girl finally made it to her mirror and started tugging her brush through her long, bed-head hair, Riku hit himself in the head, sure he was dreaming. When he tried every imaginable thing to make sure he wasn't just seeing things, he stared for a second longer.

"WHAT THE HELL!" He continued to stare in disbelief, unsure of what to think anymore. It would seem fate isn't as cruel as one may be led to believe.

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I know it's short, but if I do much more, I'll give away the sequel too much! That is, if you haven't already guess, which you may well have. Anyways, I want everyone to review so I can make sure you guys like where this is going!