This is a race against the clock. I've got…4 days before we go to Colorado, and I'm volunteering at Vacation Bible School at my church, so I go to that at 8, and then don't get back until around 1-ish. Let's see if this chapter gets posted before I leave. If not, I'm leaving this in here because 1) I'll be too lazy to take it out, and 2) to prove that I did try to get it up in time (thank you death-threat reviewers! Yah, you know who you are…) and also thank you to everyone out there who is praying for Bob. It really means a lot to me and to him and his wife.

Last chapter: Nausicaä and Asbel got married.

Last chapter if you skipped the extra special fluffy chapter: The people of the valley were shown the room with all the plants from the Toxic Jungle and a meeting was held to decide if they would all go or not, which in the end they decided they would.

Chapter 8: Saying Goodbye…

The arrangements had been made. Nausicaä and Asbel would fly in the gliders with all the able bodied people, and Amiko, Lord Yupa and Obaba would fly in the Pejitei air ship to help care for the old and the sick. Pilots had been selected for both the air ship and the barge, and the necessary tools and supplies had been loaded onboard as well.

"This is really it." Nausicaä said as she sat on the roof of one of the windmills looking over the land she would be leaving. She had a brush in hand and a half-painted canvas on her lap depicting the valley.

"Nausicaä, are you up there?" came a voice from inside the building. She identified it as Asbel's and smiled slightly.

"Yes. I'm just finishing up my painting before we all have to leave." She said as Asbel's head poked out of the trap door leading to the roof and climbed out to sit with her.

"It's beautiful." Was all he could say. The painting was a picture of what it had been like before the events surrounding her death and resurrection. The forest by the stream was still there, as was the shimmering brook that flowed by. It was so detailed that she even had some of the people working in the fields, and the windmills looked like they were moving as well. There were small blades of grass in various shades of green, waving in the ever present wind that the kingdom had been named after.

"It's not that good. I can't seem to get the sky right." She said as she rinsed her paintbrush in a cup of murky water as wisps of blue escaped from the bristles and spiraled down into the water, staining it further. "I just want to remember everything about it. And maybe after we're gone, the children of the next generation will be able to look at this and see what their home was like. What it all was like before the Jungle consumed all the land. I know it's not much, but it's something." Asbel stared at her for a moment, then slowly he put his arm around her shoulders and they looked out at the valley before them.

They stayed like that for the next four hours as Nausicaä painted the Valley as she would always remember it. When it was finally time to go they slowly got down from the roof and headed over to an open field where all the gliders and the people that would be leaving with them were waiting. With one last glance at the home they were leaving, they mounted their gliders and took off, like a flock of birds, ascending into the blue for an epic journey that would always be remembered, their migration away from the home they had known into a new land, not knowing when or if they would ever be able to return.

Goodbye to the land I've always known

To the land where my fathers tread before me

To the memories of my child hood

To the only life I've ever known

I must leave now

To save the lives of all those I care about

To carry on the memories I have of this place

I will miss you

And all my ancestors which have been buried here

I will weep for my loss of you

And for the crystal clear waters of what will always be my home

But I know I must go

So Goodbye to the land I've always known

I will never forget you.

A/N: well, that was a short chapter! I was expecting it to be longer, but I couldn't think of anything else to say other than, the barge and the airship flew in the front and the gliders followed all the way to the Toxic Jungle, then everyone landed and fell through into the place under the jungle. But that would have kinda thrown off from the rest of it, so I stuck it here in the a/n instead, so now all of you know what happened. Oh, and so none of ya have to ask, yes I did come up with that poem it took me all of three minutes, so it might not be that good. I didn't like that third stanza, but hey. It'll work. Ok, I'll be gone for the next two weeks, so don't expect an update till I get back. Feel free to yell at me about that though if you want to. This will probably be the last actual chapter, and the next one will probably be the epilogue, so there you have it. Now please be kind and press that little review button and type in a word or two then press the little button that says submit reviews, and make me a happy person.