Final Attack: Phoenix
The wings unfurled from his back and he leapt, from the waterfall, followed the river to the sea. Flew towards the sun as fast and hard as he could, Chaos' laughter a background echo almost impossible to hear, and alighted at the edge of the moving settlement that seemed to wait for him. He walked from the trees as human and the family rose at once. You've come home.
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He ran the desert, firecat's tail dancing beside him as her long lope stretched to meet his. Their strides rang across the ground in unison and he laughed into the wind. The sunset blazed ahead of him. You'll always be there for me.
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He laughed and swung the children up into his arms, spun them around. They had his hair and her eyes, his first family gone so many years before. His nightstick lay forgotten in a corner. I guess I got my chance to be redeemed. From murderer to babysitter.
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I was flying, I was the air and sea and sky and the saltspray from the waves I skimmed. I shot up above the clouds, down through a valley of red sunlight. My spirit seemed to burst forth in the roar I loosed, the roar echoed from within me as Tiamat thundered, We are ONE!
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And the sky blazed up brighter than before. And the tomb of AVALANCHE shook, deep in the stone, and cracked and began to fall. The Lifestream fountained up from the crack in the floor and filled the cavern.
And the world was over.
GuardianSaiyoko: This is, technically, the epilogue and the end of the story. However: One, there is a sequel, called Dark Embrace, the first chapter of which was posted simultaneously with this one. Two: Hurricane is a special kind of story and may actually have chapters added occassionally after the epilogue. Actually, there's a very good chance of that.
Thanks, everyone. -Saiyoko
