I am finished!

Rae Rae- 'Bout time! On with horror!

Char- Death! Blood! Torture!

Geode- (sweat glob)

Rae Rae- Yes! I fully agree with Char on this! On with the pain!

Did you two forget to take your medicine this morning?

Rae Rae/Char- ...Yes...

Rae Rae- What the heck! We chucked those pills in the fire and burnt them!

Char- (shoots up the place) All hell shall break loose! Bwahahahaha!

Rae Rae- (becomes a pyromaniac and sets random things on fire) Violence! Destruction!

Me/Geode- (sweat globs)

Our Quest Sill Continues

"Dad!" Jade screamed. Sasha gasped, horrified. Jed had ran in front of her right before Alex stabbed the knife at her. Jed's white shirt got covered in blood. Alex looked a little disappointed, but still pleased. He twisted the blade around. Jed gasped. Alex yanked his sword out and Jed fell to his knees, the grass and his clothes turning red.

Jade and Aiden ran over. "Daddy..." Jade cried. He coughed out some blood.

"Jade..." Jed looked into her tear-stained face. "Take care... of yourself and the others, okay?" She nodded and wiped her sea-foam green eyes.

"Why did you do it?" Sasha asked. She had started crying, too.

"You would've... been killed. And the world... would be tossed into utter chaos... I forsaw it before I left home. This is why I left." His breathing became labored.

"Dad, quit talking." Jade said, letting the tears fall, now. Jed placed a hand on her face. "This was meant to happen, Jade... Don't blame yourself... Candace, are you okay?"

Aiden, Sasha, and Jade gasped; Candace was standing there, crying. She nodded, her nostrils flared. "I can use revive, or... lemme help..."

Jed shook his head. "No. There are times when revive should oleaginous used, and times it should not. Plus... my effort to save Sasha worked. It... would all have been for naught... it would have been in vain if you tried to revive me...

"I love you, Jade... you know that... but it had to happen sooner or later... and what better way to die than to die honorably, eh?" He smiled and laughed a bit. Jade laughed at her father's joke, though she was still crying.

"I don't have any family left, dad. I only have you."

Jed shook his head. "You have some more family members, now... Sasha, and Kevin... and Alanna, and all the others... And speaking of family... you still have someone... it's..."

His hand fell, lifeless, from her face, and his head fell to one side. Jade closed her eyes, her mouth twitching.

"It's my fault!" Candace yelled. "I... I led Alex to us... I'm so naive!"

"I just let Alex beat me like that," Aiden clenched the grass under his hands. It was easy to see he was holding back tears, but he looked more angry than upset.

"It's more my fault than anyone else's," Sasha told all of them. "If I hadn'tve let Alex catch me off guard like that... Jed wouldn'tve had to save me..."

Jade was breathing loudly, now. "All of you just shut up!" she yelled solemnly. They looked at her. "It's no one's fault, so stop saying it is! He said it was meant to happen! There was... there was nothing we could do to stop him..." She breathed. "Candace, I want you to go revive Kevin, Alanna, Taryn, and Roscoe. And I'll help you all teleport to my hometown."

"Aww..." came Alex's calm, arrogant voice from up in the air. "How sad. Pity he had to die saving my target... Oh well, I think I have left my mark anyways. But you should know, Sasha... The next time we meet shall be much... worse... Until then, au revoir," He warped away."

Jade stood alone at the back of the group of people gathered around the coffinSasha and everyone else respected her right to privacy and had moved elsewhere. She was only half listening to the minister.

"...He was well-know throughout Grenton, and we are all upset, but happy to see that he is going to a better place in his passing..."

Jade still thought of what her father had told her, before he... 'left.'

'And speaking of family... you still have someone... it's...'

A hand on her shoulder snapped Jade out of her musings and she looked up to see who was there. It was a girl with dark, wavy hair, sea foam green eyes(though hers were slightly darker than Jade's and had more of a bluish tinge in them), a red shirt, and her pants, shoes, and blouse were black. "You okay?" the girl asked her.

"Yeah.. Who are you?" Jade asked her.

"My name is Kali. Nice hair."

"Um... Thanks," Jade said, running a hand through her wavy brunette hair. "You, too. Are you here for the funeral?"The girl called Kali nodded. They both just listened to the minister for a moment, but not really hearing him. Jade felt like Kali knew something she didn't knowJade wondered if she should try mind read...

Nice try. But I don't know anything you need to know right now. Jade gasped. Was this girl an adept?

She started to walk away. "Good luck on your journey, Jade." And with that, she left.

How did she know my name? Jade wondered. But then, she heard the coffin shut and four men came and carried it away. Tears stung her eyes. "G'bye, dad..."

Kevin came to the back and hugged her. This started Jade, but she returned it.

"Thanks," she said, "I needed that."

"I thought you did," Kevin smiled slightly. "Do you want to go to his grave, or..."

Jade shook her head. "No. We should get going."

Kevin sat in a chair onboard, reading again. Sasha and Roscoe sailed the ship, Candace and Aiden were up in the crow's nest, Taryn was teaching Alanna how to meditate, and Jade looked out over the water, thinking.

I'm gonna become just like my dad. I'm gonna be brave and strong... And I'm gonna help Sasha and Kevin whenever they need it.

They had been surprised to hear that Jade was going with them. But she knew that's what her father wanted her to do.

"Want some pixie stix?" Candace asked everyone from the crow's nest.

"Huh?" Kevin looked up from his book at Candace and Aiden. They threw some colored straws down at them. Everyone stopped what they were doing to get some.

"Thanks, guys," Alanna said. Everyone else agreed. Sasha opened a yellow one and ate the sweet tasting dust inside. Taryn went back to where he was sitting, but he just stared off into space. Alanna's voice broke his thoughts.

"You okay?"

Taryn looked up at her, bewildered. "What?"

"You're worried about Hama, aren't you? About what Alex did, and whether he'll target more people we love." She glanced at him when she said that part. Taryn's face went a tinge pink.

"Um... Yeah," How did she know these things? She wasn't a Jupiter adept. She couldn't read minds. Alanna tucked some of her auburn hair behind and ear.

"Don't worry about it. I don't like to see you upset." She was looking the other way, but Taryn could've sworn her ears were kinda pinker. Then, all of a sudden, she sat down and crossed her legs. "Now where were we?" she said as if she had just came back over. Taryn just stared at her. She waved a hand in his face. "Yoo-whoo! Meditation!" Taryn gave his head a small shake. "Oh! Um..." The ship started to sail again...

Geode: At least you did something besides lock yourself up in the J-pop station at AOL Radio, or lock yourself up at Gaia.

What's wrong with J-pop?

Geode: Nothing. You're just getting hooked to J-pop and Gaia, is all.

I am not! And now I have something cool to tell the readers out there.

Geode: What? Is it about you finding out that Lemuria used to be an actual place around the time Atlantis was here? That's not a big surprise! I bet half the people at know that already.

Way to ruin a surprise, party-pooper. Ah, well. Review, please!

And a little note: The last chapter will most likely take place a year later, so this will take a while, due to-

Geode: Due to her playing GS2 a whole lot to finish leveling up the characters-

Ahem! Stop interrupting me!

Geode: I'm your muse, it's in my contract.

Whatever. As I was saying... Oh, well, he already said it. And don't worry, my characters are around their lv. 49's and 50's. Arrivederci and R&R!