This is it. The end of my insanity at least for now. Review if you like it, don't if you don't but please don't eat me. Here it is, I hope, for your enjoyment.
"Welcome Champions, to Oban. Toros, Colonel of the Crog Imperium; Aikka, Prince of Nourasia; And Eva, Representative of the Earth Coalition, congratulations. Tomorrow will be the final race, so rest well." That's what the Avatar said. Eva now sat outside her hanger on a rock next to Aikka, Jordan was leaning against a nearby tree, and Kailua was lounging on a low branch in said tree. There were her friends; she didn't want to lose them when she went home after the race. And she didn't want to race Aikka. She sighed.
"Tomorrow we race, and then we go home. Do you think we'll ever see each other again?" Eva asked the entire group but mainly Aikka. He smiled, took her hand, and led her out of earshot of the other two.
"Where's he takin' her?" Jordan asked Kailua, who lounged at about head level with him.
"He's proposing to her." She answered matter-of-factly.
"What!" She put a finger to his lips.
"Calm down, he's old enough to marry on his planet. I suppose he wanted to do this before tomorrow when he races her."
"Do you think she'll accept?" Right as he asked, they heard a shriek of delight and saw Eva hugging Aikka, both laughing.
"Yep."
Jordan sighed. He wanted to propose to Kailua, but just couldn't get up the courage. He almost was of legal age to marry on Earth, but he had no idea about Kailua. The he remembered she could read his mind. He glanced at her and saw her sly smile. She cupped his cheek in her hand, and leaned down to place a warm kiss on his lips.
"Yes." She whispered. He smiled and waved when he saw Eva and Aikka coming back, Eva practically skipping with joy.
"You said 'yes' right?" Kailua asked.
"How'd you guess? Yep!" Eva answered excitedly, hanging on Aikka's arm.
"Same here." Jordan said sheepishly. Molly looked between him and Kailua.
"You…he...really? That makes it a double then."
"Not quite." Kailua said. They looked at her in confusion. "You three still have to get through the race, which means you two will have to go against each other. Then, when that's all said and done, depending on who wins, we all may have to deal with the Crogs. In which case absolutely none of us will be happy, at all. And the race is tomorrow." That threw a wet blanket on the couples.
"We should get ready for tomorrow Molly. And may the best team win." Aikka said kissing her cheek, and left. Kailua left was well, but not with out a kiss on the lips. Molly and Jordan went back into the new pit and up to their rooms. Five minutes later, Shama showed up, with a large floating raft, the new gun on it. Stan ran out to greet her.
"Whoa, now that's a big gun. Thank you, so much, this will help for sure."
Shama blushed. "Your welcome. Do you need any help installing it?"
"Naw thanks though."
"Oh, no problem, I'd better be getting back anyway. Good luck tomorrow!" She waved and flew off, letting the human mechanics get to work installing her masterpiece into the turret.
The next morning at dawn, Molly and Jordan woke up and got ready for their last race. The final tests were run on the Arrow three. This was it, the final threshold to making her dream, bringing back her mom, come true. Molly got into the cockpit, Jordan in the turret, and they took off into the arena. Immediately afterwards, Aikka showed up on his beetle, then Toros in his Trident.
They hovered before a larger version of the stone circles, waiting for it to drop. It went down and they took off. Toros shot at both while Jordan used the new gun to do damage to the trident. Aikka shot an arrow at Toros as well. He activated his trident and aimed for his treacherous ally. Aikka dodged the trident and the obstacles. Molly went through three energy rings, giver the Arrow more power.
They weaved between each other and the obstacles, taking the occasional shot at one another, not really wanting to hit them, but to distract them so they could pull ahead. Molly was the first to notice the finish line. She kicked in the hyper drive with the others, her ship just a little ahead of Toros' trident. Jordan took one last shot at him with the more powerful guns, and Molly got across first, disengaging her hyper drive.
"The winner of the great race of Oban is the Earth team!" She was stunned. She'd finally done it; she could bring her mother back now.
"Congratulations, champion." The Avatar said, addressing Eva as she got out of the Arrow and came up to him. "You are granted one wish. Anything you desire, you have but to name it."
She glanced back at her team, and her dad. He nodded; she smiled and turned back to the Avatar. "I wish for my mother to come back." The avatar gave her an unreadable look.
"Your wish is granted." He waved his arm. Thousands of lights, like fireflies, filled the air settled near her. They took the form of a tall woman, with long pink hair, in a purple racing dress and boots, red eyes, and a crescent moon tattoo on her face. She looked around and saw Eva.
"Mommy" Eva whispered.
"Eva, my darling, I'm so proud of you." Maya said, reaching out and hugging her daughter.
"Maya." Don addressed her as he came up.
"Hello Don." She said warmly smiling. She leaned in and kissed her husband.
"Looks like you finally got your wish Eva." Jordan said. "You have a family again."
"Yeah, I do." She answered, a tear running down her face and she ran up to her parents and hugged them both. Aikka watched from next to his beetle, glad that his fiancée had her family and her happiness back. Kailua watched from above, elated that her friends had won the race and used it for something good. Toros watched with malice, thinking of how to destroy the humans who humiliated him, and left.
They all went back to the pit, to pack up, get ready to go home, and to spend time with Maya. Aikka and Kailua came and Jordan and Molly introduced them as their fiancées. Maya took a good look at Aikka and smiled.
"You and Eva will be very happy together. As will you Jordan." Jordan blushed.
"Thank you." Don muttered something about Eva being too young and irresponsible but Maya just laughed at him. She and Don went up stairs to him room, to bring back memories.
The next morning, they loaded up, and got in the Avatar's ship that would take them home. (And here I shall be brief since I don't like mushy stuff.) Aikka and Eva were wed and went to Nourasia with the rest of her family to claim the throne. Kailua and Jordan were married and lived on Nourasia at the request of the royal family and Stand Shama started dating. And they all lived happily ever after as a family.
The end.
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