Alternate Ending: This is a two part alternate ending. Actually, it is an alternate chapter 14 and alternate chapter 15. Be warned, this alternate ending severely changes the story, just so you all know ahead of time. And please, I'm sorry, but don't kill me.

This alternate ending was requested by FanFictionFantom way back when, and as per her request, it changes this story into a KN fic, but only for the alternate ending. This particular part of the alternate ending actually belongs in the middle of the true story, so actually it's an alternate chapter 14. It takes place right after Solan tries to revive Dom, and this is it. Alright, we're off!

"Yeah," Kel told Raoul. "The spell is known as the 'Infinity Charm' in most countries." She looked over to where Solan still lay on the ground, and watched him for a moment before saying, "The reason you may not have heard of it is because it takes an intense amount of energy and power to pull off correctly, and its secret is held only by the highly devout of all religions."

Kel was still shaking, but she rose to her feet and slowly walked over to the Mithran. Bending down, she tested his pulse, and then wiped the sweat off his forehead. "Look at what it did to him," she said, pointing at Solan. "It brought him so close to death, and he's one of the strongest initiates out there."

"But," Kel finished saying, "he's still alive." Turning away from the Solan, she looked back to Raoul, "He saved both Dom and I, and he is still alive. That's what really matters, we'll all be safe."

As Kel had been tending to Solan, Raoul had watched his still comatose soldier. Domitan had not moved since the flames of the spell died away, and now Raoul began to fear the worst; it did not seem as though he was breathing.

Moving as fast as he could, Raoul jumped up and ran to Dom, and then dropped to the ground beside him and grabbed his wrist. Kel had seen the strange look of apprehension and fear on Raoul's features when she looked at him, and now she too was kneeling next to Dom.

Pressing her fingers to Dom's throat, Kel began to panic when she couldn't find the pulse she though was sure to be there. Trembling even more violently now, she moved her fingers a little and kept searching for the flow of his blood, searching for Dom's life.

Raoul had been doing the same think as Kel, trying to find Dom's pulse, but after a few antagonizing minutes, he slowly placed Dom's hand back on the ground. Clenching his fist, the commander looked away from the body at the ground and didn't even bother to stem the tears that were flowing from his eyes.

Kel watched Raoul as he dropped Dom's wrist. Now, anger and pain boiling inside her, she shouted, "What are you doing? You're just going to give up on him? Dom isn't dead! He can't be dead!"

The tears still leaking from his eyes, Raoul faced Kel, "Don't you think I want that to be true?" He gently touched Dom's shoulder, "Don't you think I want him to get up, don't you think I wish he were alive?"

"Raoul," Kel screamed, "stop it!" Her fingers were still on Dom's throat, and now she grabbed his hand in her free one, "He still is alive! You're just wrong, alright, you're wrong! Dom isn't… He's got to be alive!"

Now ignoring Raoul, Kel started to shake Dom. "You have to be alive," she told him, tears flying from her eyes, "you have to be!" When nothing changed, and Dom still lay as still as ever, Kel reached down and hugged his body, "Come on Dom, you have to be…"

Quietly, Raoul rose to his feet and then walked over to Kel. Reaching down, he placed her fingers on his wrist, and then on Dom's. "Kel," he whispered, "as sad as it is, you know he's dead. You felt the difference in my pulse and his, and you know he has left us."

Kel whipped her head up, and her tearstained cheeks flashed in the fading daylight, "How can you be so stoical?" Her voice rose several more octaves, "How can you be so careless? He was your friend, don't you care?"

When she saw the look on Raoul's face, Kel knew she had gone too far. "Lady Keladry," Raoul said, his voice chilling the air around him, "you know well the answer to that question."

Abashed and ashamed of her outbreak at Raoul, Kel looked away. His words had finally gotten inside her, and now, painfully, Kel stood up and let Dom's hand fall away. "I'm sorry, sir," she whispered.

"You're right, he's dead," Kel slowly stepped away from Dom's body and close to Raoul, "he's dead!" Sobbing, she threw herself on Raoul's chest and hugged him with all her might; right now he was her one and only grip on reality.

Awkwardly, Raoul wrapped Kel in his arms, doing everything he could to comfort her even though he knew that nothing really could. Gently he rocked her from side to side, holding the girl he considered to be more than his daughter tight to him as she cried.

It was a hollow scene, one that seemed almost surreal in its cruelty. Standing there in the middle of the forest were two knights, one of them weeping desperately and the other with his arms wrapped around her. Next to their feet was a body with its chest covered in blood, a soldier by the look of him, lying prone and silent, unmoving in the chill of the air.

To the right of all this, another human form shakily started to regained his footing. Solan finally awoke to see something he had tried so hard to stop. It was evident to him that his use of the Infinity Spell was too little, too late, and now he knew that Dom was gone forever.

"I tried," he whispered to himself, "I really tried." Turning away from the people in front of him, he gazed off into the forest, "I thought maybe saving him would help me repent…"

"But now, there is nothing for me anymore," he said as he started to leave the clearing they were in. "Nothing to save me, and nothing to keep me here," reaching the trees, he turned back once to see Kel and Raoul still in the same spot, "There is only one thing for me to do now…"

With that, Solan walked away.

Slowly, the time passed. It wasn't until dusk had gained most of her power, almost an hour after Solan crept away, that Kel let go of Raoul. Her tears had dried, she felt so empty now she couldn't even cry. Slowly, Raoul led her away from Dom's body and then set her down on a log; he wanted to go tend to Solan.

When the knight finally turned toward Solan's resting spot, he was astounded to find that no one was there. "What the…" Raoul's voice drifted away when he noticed the trail of slightly scuffed grass that started where Solan had been, and lead out of the clearing.

"That rat," Raoul clenched his fist, "I knew it! He betrayed us again!" Whipping around, he saw that Kel was still in no properly fit state to help anyone. Torn between the urge to hunt down Solan and staying there to help Kel and return Dom's body to the fort, Raoul's mind worked frantically for a moment before he realized he had to take care of his subordinates; no, he had to take care of his friends.

Silently though, he vowed to himself that he would find Solan. He would find the Mithran Initiate, and he would make him pay, for everything. He may have saved Kel, and Raoul would take that into consideration, but in the end, Solan would still have to die.

I'm sorry! But it had to be done. Just remember, he's still alive in the real story! I didn't want to kill him, but I had to. Anyway, can I ask you to at least review before youattack me with plastic sporks or what have you? Please review! Anyway, I'm off for now to finish writing this ending!

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