Epilogue

Celsius

I walked through the streets of Flanoir, bidding my farewells to all the friends we made. Lloyd, Zelos, Regal and Genis went ahead to secure the Rehairds. All of them were still in good condition and whatever fixing that needed to be done was done by the team sent by Mizuho when they discovered them. As my rounds came to a halt, I walked back to the inn to inspect the rooms and make sure we left nothing behind.

The guy's room was cleaned out well, maybe the beds weren't pristine, but they weren't half bad considering who was sleeping there. The Sage's room was perfect beyond compare, obviously Raine was a neat freak and hit Genis every time he forgot to make the bed. Our room, was well, the same as when we got here. Maybe the tables had a few more scratches from people banging their head against it when Raine cooked, but nothing overall noticeable.

As I finished scanning the rooms, I stared into the mirror. My cold pale skin contrasted my never-growing black hair. My eyes have grown softer and my personality now was much warmer. Maybe being around everyone had it ups. I pulled a chair over and sat down and daydreamed. How many years have I missed? How much has time progressed? It would be really nice to see him again.

Being with them makes me realize something. I've never lived life how I wanted. I don't mind being the guardian of Fenrir, but I've lost so much of life. Years worth, decades worth. Everyone I used to know is getting old. They have their families now. Heh. Yet, I still want to live. Live a new life.

"Then go. You needn't be attached to me any longer master Celsius." Fenrir walked out of the shadows and materialized slowly.

I felt confused, "What? You're firing me?" I say, trying to sound as accusative as possible. The wolf laughed with a deep voice.

"No, no, no. What could I ever do with you Celsius? Your far stronger then I am." He says, lying underneath his teeth. Hell, what could I do.

"Haha, at least you know you can never be a strong as me!" I smiled while leaning backwards on my chair. I think to myself, maybe I can catch up with that which I lost.

"Celsius, I've deprived you of your life long enough. Tell me, do you really want to come back with me for years to come?" The answer was obvious, "You've been a friend to me. I won't deny that. But go live life. We are equals."

As quickly as he appeared, he disappeared leaving no trace behind. But his ethereal voice still rang in my head, "Go and live the rest of your life Celsius. Us spirits have four-thousand years of catching up to do. Oh! Yutis! Long time no see!…" his voice faded back into nothingness. Maybe the spirits wanted the worlds reunited as much as the rest of us did.

"Celsius! What's taking so long?" Sheena barged in, nearly scaring me half to death. I stood up quickly and placed the chair back, no sign of anyone else every being here was present.
"Give me a moment..!" I smiled weakly folding my arms. Then it hit me. A cold chill running down my spine. Ugh. Okay. This feels. Bad. Really bad. Something drained from me, something started beating harder, warmth came across my skin followed by a sudden coolness. My vision blurred and quickly re-adjusted. Damn it Fenrir, you could at least make transformation at bit easier.

Of course, like always, Sheena walked in at the absolutly wrost time. Her eyes open wide with shock, watching my transformation, "Celsius! Your skin! It's…"

I stared at my skin in a daze, my mind reorienting itself. I could see the blood moving through the veins almost, I can feel my heartbeat. My eyes blinked. My skin started to shiver and sweat. I looked down at my legs quickly, no tattoos. "Heh...damn that hurt." My skin is now pale. "I guess... I'll be joining you guys for a while."

"Celsius… you've already joined us. Your friend just whispered what has happened." I totally forgot about Sheena's connection to my master…I mean Fenrir. "You're still Celsius. You will always be you, regardless." Sheena smiled and folded her arms. She's beginning to sound more like Lloyd every day. "C'mon Celsi! Everyone is waiting!" dammit Fenrir, you just HAD to tell her my nickname.

"Fine, fine, fine! But as long as I get to ride with Lloyd!"

Sheena hit me in the arm as we walked out of the room.

"Fine, fine. I guess your going to force little old me to walk." I chuckled inwardly fully knowing that I had my own Rehaird. Man, it's getting cold. So not used to this.

Sheena looked over at me and ran to the front desk, what she asked for, I couldn't tell. So I leaned against a wall and took some more time to run over my thoughts.

I find it funny that the anomaly of ice worms was caused by a Desian created factory. I guess Fenrir was right this time around. I searched for months looking for the cause of the silver influx, be damned that two people who didn't know what they were destroyed the tubes I spend months looking for.

"Celsius! I got the color you like." Sheena handed me a large parka, light blue trimmed with a white wool interior. "How much exactly did Fenrir tell you?"

Sheena looked deep in thought, I swear I could hear the damned wolf chuckling. "Well, there's time you thought Raine's cooking was good when everyone else got sick," dammit, I seriously though it tasted good, "the time you thought Regal was getting fat." He was! I swear I could see a beer gut forming! "The time you tried to kill Zelos by pushing him off the bridge," too bad Lloyd saved him. "Also your bra size is B…" well that was…

"Why in the name of Martel did he tell you that for!" Okay, I'm seriously thinking of going into the ice cave and kicking his ass right now.

Sheena laughed, "I knew it! You do wear a bra! And I even guessed the size right too!" For. The. Love. Of. Martel. I'm going to kill her one of these days.

"Dammit Sheena!" I chased after her out the door of the inn.

"Maybe now the guys will like you!"

"That's it! I'm going to toast your ass!"

"If you can catch me!"


Afterwards

Lloyd looked at Celsius with a large grin on his face, he couldn't help it. Something inside him made him happy to see Celsius. But not as some kind of love interest, but as a friend.

"Celsius."

"Yo." The ex-guardian raised two fingers like a 'peace' sign, and cocky smile appeared on her face.

"Thanks."

"Anytime Lloyd." Celsius boarded the Rehaird and looked at Sheena, who boarded Lloyd's, her arms tightly wrapped around his chest. "So, where to now? Everyone else is heading to Altamira for some unfinished business."

Sheena looked at Lloyd, then at Celsius, "You should know where we're going by now Celsius."

"Yep, I think I do."

"Then let's go!"

Ymsucd...Dra Aht