A/N: Here it is! The final chapter of Pendragon: Darkness. I'm glad you guys liked it. I enjoyed writing it. And so we go.
The sun was shining brightly as Bobby Pendragon and his companions emerged from the abandoned subway station.
"It feels good to be home," he muttered, his arm around Saangi. He was back in his home territory; in both meanings of the phrase. The group got on a train back to Stony Brook, and arrived there in a matter of fifteen minutes. They quickly traveled to the large apartment that Bobby and Spader shared, and Spader pulled a key from his pocket.
"Looks like I forgot my key," Bobby said with a grin. Spader opened the door and flipped on a light switch. The room instantly brightened. It was the same as Bobby had left it: Messy. "Welcome to our home," Spader said, bringing his arms out as if he was going to hug everyone. "We try out best here to keep it in top notch cleanness." He chuckled.
"You're a great liar, Spader," Serenity said with a grin. "I wonder what else you've been lying about?" she raised an eyebrow.
"That was one little white lie!" Spader said, turning red in the cheeks. "I haven't lied about anything else!" They all laughed, and sat down on one of the many couches in the room.
"So what do we do now?" Bobby asked, with a heavy sigh.
"We go home," Raux replied. "It's over, Bobby. Cid killed Saint Dane, your back to normal, all of the Saint's returned to their houses, it's over. There is nothing left to do. I'm going back to Ibara. My father is sick, and I'm going to start a family." he wrapped his arms around Rose, who kissed him on the cheek. "Will you marry me, Rose?" he asked, and Rose instantly jumped off the couch and jumped excitedly.
"Are you serious?" she asked. Raux nodded with a huge grin on his face. "Of course! What do you think I am, stupid?" she jumped onto her future husband, and kissed him on the lips.
"True love," Spader said with a grin to Serenity.
"It's beautiful, isn't it?" Serenity asked. Spader nodded, and entwined his hand with Serenity's.
"We're going to Ibara," Raux said, rising from the couch with Serenity at his side. "Expect to be invited to the wedding in a couple of months."
"Goodbye," Bobby said, rising from the couch to say goodbye to a new friend. "Thank you for helping Spader and everybody return me to normal."
"It was no problem," Raux replied. "Most of the time I was working with you anyways." Bobby chuckled.
"That's true," The two men shook hands, and with that, the couple left for the flume.
"So what do we do now?" Spader said. "We've got Saangi, Courtney, Yuri, and Serenity, if she chooses to stay.
"I'll stay here," Serenity replied. "Saint Dane destroyed most of Quillan, and I doubt that I'll be missed."
"But you're a princess!" Spader protested.
"Everyone in the castle thinks that I'm a spoiled brat, so I won't be missed."
"Fine," Spader said, dropping his head.
"How about the girls get two apartments, and two of them can stay in each?" Bobby suggested. "Or they could even get one big one…"
"Where will I stay?" Cid asked.
"Don't you have a house here?" Spader replied.
"Oh yes," Cid said, his face starting to turn red. "I guess I do…"
"I call staying with Courtney!" Serenity yelled.
"I'll stay with Yuri then," Saangi said.
"Is something wrong, Saangi?" Bobby asked the girl he loved. "Do you want to return to Zadaa?"
"No," Saangi replied. "I just thought I might be staying with you…"
"Don't worry, Saangi," Courtney said to the girl. "You'll see Bobby a lot. Have no fear." she smiled.
"Let's just get one big apartment," Yuri suggested. "Then nobody gets mad."
"I agree with that," Bobby said. Looks like we're going apartment shopping!"
A few weeks later, the group of girls was settled in a humongous apartment a few blocks away from Bobby and Spader's apartment building. The apartment was huge, almost like a house. It had four bedrooms, a kitchen, and a living room. It was perfect. The girls got moved in, and a barbeque was planned.
"Nice place," Cid commented as he stepped through the doors to loud, obnoxious talking and the smell of someone cooking delicious food. A grill had been set up in the kitchen, and Bobby and Spader were grilling ribs, hot dogs, and hamburgers.
Someone brought champagne, and once everyone had a full glass, Bobby kinked his spoon on his cup and cleared his throat as he stood up.
"I'd like to make a toast," he said, and everyone directed their gazes towards the man. "To everyone that helped to save me from that bastard Saint Dane, and for the fact that Saint Dane is now a dead man, and we're free from his clutches!"
Everyone cheered, and brought their glasses together and then drank them down in one gulp. The party raged for a few more hours, and finally at midnight it broke. By that time, everyone was exhausted.
"We should do this party thing again sometime," Spader said as him and Bobby were walking back to their apartment.
"Yeah," Bobby replied. "Like next week! We just need to find some better paying jobs now, and then we can party-hardy whenever we want!" Spader stared at Bobby.
"Are you drunk?" he asked. Bobby didn't reply, and Spader sighed and took the silence as a yes. But the comment about jobs was true. They did need to find jobs, now that Saint Dane was truly dead. There would be no more Traveling, nothing. It was all over.
Was it for the better, or the worst that it ended? Spader loved the thrill of the adventure, the danger, the flumes, the girls…everything about this adventure was fun, except maybe for the fact that his best friend had turned against him, and he had turned against his best friend. And death. But otherwise, he liked the company of all his friends.
Spader unlocked the door to his apartment, and Bobby wandered in after. Bobby dropped down onto the floor, but Spader plopped himself down onto the bed and instantly fell asleep.
A few weeks later, after a hard day of shopping in extremely expensive stores, the girls called another party at their house. Bobby and Spader called up Cid, and headed to the girls apartment.
Once they were there, they ate a nutritious meal, and then Serenity uncorked a new bottle of champagne. She poured everyone a glass, and then cleared her throat loudly.
"Ahem," she said. "Saangi here has an announcement." Saangi's face turned a bright shade of red and she stood up.
"Um…Bobby…um….will you….marry me?" she turned a darker shade of red in embarrassment, and waited in horror for Bobby to reply.
"Of course I will," Bobby replied with a smile, andsealed the deal with a kiss on the lips.
Pendragon: Darkness
Fin
Wowzerz. It's over. Finally over! This makes me very happy that I finished. Although maybe I should've let it end with the last chapter. Oh well. Now I ramble. Does anyone else find it weird that one of my other fictions that I stopped writing still gets hits and even is in a C2 thingy. Strange. Anyways, I'd like to thank everybody that read the story, added it to the fave list, blah blah blah, and the reviewers. Good old reviews. -leaves cookies- Now I will thank those reviewers that earned the cookies: Uchiha Pendragon, PotatoPuff, and Lady Pendragon. Thanks for reading! Look for the sequel later this week!