Well, this is it.

It's finally come to this.

This final chapter of Wanderling is here.

GT: Does this mean the end of my torture?

Me: Yes.

GT: YES! FINALLY! IT'S DONE! IT'S OVER! I'M FREE!

Me: Well, with conditions.

GT: What? What do you mean by conditions?

Me: Well, if I decide to make another prediction or continue any of my stories with you in it, I'll bring you back, if you want to come back of course.

GT: Wait... you're giving me a choice? This isn't like you.

Me: Well, you deserve it. You've been through a lot.

GT: So how do I leave?

Me: Through this (snaps fingers and magical gate appears back to the real world)

GT: (starts to walk through the portal, but then gets trapped in a bear hug by the author)

GT: Mmmpphph!(not really a hugger!)

Me: Sorry, it's just hard for me to see the person that I kidnapped and then tortured for about a year finally leave.

GT: I strangely understand.

Me: Oh, and GT?

GT: Yeah?

Me: If any authors want to use you in their stories or for whatever they want, they can. You cool with that?

GT: (smiles) I think I am. (walks through portal, thus ending this chapter of the saga of GT and the Author)

I really can't believe I'm at this point.

It seems like yesterday that I posted the very first chapter of Wanderling and got my first comment from HeartWarmLucy. There have been so many people who have supported this fic over its progression, and I'm going to thank each and every one of you:

HeartWarmLucy, Mallowmelt, mythicalis4real, A very obsessed fangirl, Human, onionsthebest96, Ruby Silverstar, A fandom fan, KOTLCFan42, ilikethemsalty, ArrowOfTheMoonlark, roseareader, Abubble1, DaSnowLeopard, SoKeefeTeamFosterKeefe, Elizabethornton, thereisaredeemer, duh, HorsebackRider, DedicatedHamiltrash, Jaya, MidnightBunnyy, Sokeefe, CoCo, Guest, KOTLCgirlSoKeefe forever, Sarah, Multishipping101, MarellaIsTheBest, Swiftheart1267, Lilac, bookish-things, TheBackedUpT-Rex, bookhawks, misty-sherbert, 100beep, Katie, Idk, 1rattle1the1stars, lil sunflower, , Loveurfic, That Fangirl Sara, WinterSouls, linhsong22, happygirlq1, WarmMintTea, Vzgghfv, SunStar706, Mil0theGreat, IShipWayToManyShips, Fangirlpootato.

Wow, that was a lot. If your name isn't on the list for some reason, I'm sorry. I tried to get everyone though.

Comments!

Abubble1: Ooh, *redacted*! That's a good one. Does the Hamilsquad offer a dental plan, I wonder?

MidnightBunnyy: That's actually a really good summary. Good job. OR IS IT? (no spoilers for the chapter!)

A very obsessed fangirl: The reason I ship Ruyvar is because the my self-created ship of Wyvar(wylie + alvar) didn't work out. As in I forgot to mention it to anybody. Maybe people will ship it now?

MarellaIsTheBest: A dramatic piece of music is never complete without a yodeling solo.

Loveurfic: You have WAY too many comments for me to respond to without going insane. If you don't understand something, it's most likely a joke that you don't get.

That Fangirl Sara: Thank you! I'm glad you like it.

WinterSouls: Actually never considered that. The fight wasn't purposefully based off of it, but they could be similar.

Guest: Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high.

This chapter will be published the day before Unlocked is released(although to be honest people won't be able to read it for another couple days after that as it ships) in the ultimate act of procrastination, as this entire fanfic was written by procrastinating, so it seems symbolic.

Q: Will I write more fanfics in the future?

A: Yes. I learned a lot about writing and myself in the process of writing Wanderling and I now know how demanding writing a piece of literature can be, but there is a very good chance that if I like unlocked, I will write a prediction just like this. Regardless of whether I like unlocked or not, there are some KOTLC side projects that I might do that might be really good(or bad). If you want to see more from me, you can follow me as an author, so you'll be alerted to whenever I write anything new. If you don't have an account but you really would like to be alerted, you can just bookmark my profile page which shows everything I've written and just check that every once in a while.

Q: Will we get more Wanderling?

A: Maybe. It all depends on whether anyone wants more. If enough people say they want it, I can do either one of two things:

1. Do a little miniseries called "Wanderling: Lost Tales" or something like that where I expand the universe a little bit and go into some of the things people really liked about the book in a little more detail, also providing some new information. It would be work, but not that hard.

2. Make a full-fledged wanderling sequel. Wanderling was originally planned to be a single book, so making a sequel would be hard. I would be willing to do it, but I would need an ENORMOUS amount of support for the massive amount of effort I would need to put into it. I'm being serious, it would be hard. The way I'm going to measure if there would be a big enough audience for it will be based on the reaction in the comments of this chapter, and if anyone PM's me with a starting point for a sequel or something, or just death threats/begging me to make it(note: PLEASE do not feel pressured into Pm'ing me. It's not my preferred method, or a method that I want to use but it's the only other way of seeing if people are interested in something on this platform. If you can use the comments, or think of a better way, please use it. I don't want to force anyone out of their comfort zone.)

Q: Can I really use GT?

A: Yes! Please! There's a risk of me never using GT again for some reason and I really don't want this developed character I've made to die out. Feel free to use him however you like, in your intros, as a guest appearance, send him to your friends, whatever!

Me: We'll meet again,

GT: Don't know where, don't know when,

Me: But I know we'll meet again, some sunny day!

Now, on with the story!

Thirty-One

Above the ground, it was a beautiful day in Eternalia. Elves scurried back and forth going to and from their work, children played in the streets, and the magnificent crystal structures positively gleamed in the sunlight. All was well.

Inside one of the magnificent crystal structures of Eternalia, sat the mighty Elven council seated a long table, with Councillor Bronte at the head.

Bronte had originally wanted to go on the mission, in fact he'd insisted to go, but he was too important to risk sending in. Even though his power was great, his position prevented him from going, and so he and his other council members were waiting to see if the mission was a success.

As Bronte stood up, he heard a low rumbling sound, just slight enough to be dismissed. As he made it to the door, however, the ground promptly exploded.

With a giant blast of red energy, Caravel burst through the ground, soaring into the air and cackling madly, with an imprisoned Sophie in tow. The support crystals of the nearby buildings shattered due to the shock, and the buildings slowly started falling down, like a giant version of dominos. Sophie flinched, expecting a large shockwave of broken crystal shards to be released when one of the buildings inevitably crashed, but after a few seconds of waiting, nothing happened. Sophie tentatively opened her eyes and saw that to her surprise, the building was suspended in midair, held in place by a net of red light. As she looked around her, she started to notice that not just the building was being kept in stasis: everything was. Sophie looked at Caravel incredulously. "Did you just... pause time?"

Caravel laughed, his face contorting into a grin. "Oh, no. I don't have that kind of power. You see Sophie, right now, I'm the only thing preventing everyone here from dying. My power is holding up everything, such as your friends over there."

Sophie looked over in horror to see the entire mission team stopped in free fall, having been launched. into the air by the explosion. Their eyes darted around desperately, confused and fearful at the same time.

"And did I forget the council? Oh, they're here too. All of them. And what do you know? It looks like Grady and Edaline are here with them! Waiting for you together, I assume. What a pleasant surprise!"

Caravel pointed smugly to one of the crystal buildings, which was imploding in on itself.

Caravel held up his hand. "So, now you see my plan. As soon as I give the command, everything will collapse. Everyone you love, know, and care about will die, and you'll watch it happen. Then I'll kill you of course. Simple!"

Sophie couldn't think of what to do. For once in her life, there was no easy way out. No hail mary pass, nothing that could save her. This was it. She was done.

She simply tried the one last thing she could do: Beg. "Alvar, don't do this. People will die. Innocent people."

Caravel looked at her forlornly. "Oh, I know. But the thing about revenge, Sophie, is that revenge has no empathy. Just cold, unfeeling hate."

As Sophie desperately struggled, Caravel smiled, closed his eyes and snapped his fingers.

Caravel waited for a few moments, then opened his eyes. Everything was still frozen. Caravel looked around confused, everything still being frozen in place somehow. He shook his head in disbelief. "How... What... WHAT IS THIS?"

Sophie however, wasn't confused. She didn't know what was going on either, but she was too overwhelmed with relief to be confused.

Caravel whipped around to look at her. "YOU! YOU DID THIS! HOW?"

Sophie shook her head. "I wish I was doing this."

Caravel grabbed his hair in clumps out of frustration. "THEN WHO, MIGHT I ASK, IS RUINING MY PRECISELY PLANNED REVENGE!"

On the word "revenge", it echoed across the frozen city, bouncing off the crystal walls.

A lone figure appeared in the distance, that seemed to be heading towards them. As strands of green light started to envelop the city, Sophie smiled in disbelief. Life still had one last lifeline for her left, apparently. As the flying figure approached them, Caravel looked around him in a nervous fashion, not knowing what was happening.

Dex, glowing with green power, tendrils of it circling his body like a plant, hovered in the air in front of them. "That would be me."

Caravel made the first move, pinning Dex on a piece of crystal wall in mid-fall with a beam of red light. He flew closer to Dex, and locked eyes with him. "You have the power I have... but different."

Dex looked completely calm and collected, despite the fact that he was being held by a beam of red light to a frozen piece of crystal. "That's about right, Alvar. Except mine involved a lot more pain than yours did. I'd rather not get into it."

Caravel looked furious. "DO NOT CALL ME BY THAT NAME! THAT NAME IS DEAD TO ME!"

"Don't really care."

"WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME!"

"Well, the easy way would be if you could undo the damage you've done and save the lives of everyone here. That would be great. Really make this whole thing easier."

"NO!"

"The hard way it is then."

Dex grabbed the crystal wall and with superhuman strength, slammed it into Caravel's face. That's when the fight really began.

Dex and Caravel fought with weapons of light, and whatever debris they could find floating around. Caravel shot a massive incinerator beam at Dex, who dodged it gracefully. "Honestly, your sister was a much better traitor than you, you know. Much less obvious." Dex then deflected the beam at Caravel, who blocked it with a energy shield.

"BIANA? WHERE IS SHE! WHAT DID YOU DO TO HER?"

Dex chucked a particularly sharp crystal at Caravel. "It's more like what did she do to me, actually. She killed me."

Caravel stopped for a second and looked confused. "Wait, what-" Before. he could finish his sentence, the crystal hit him on its blunt end in his stomach. Caravel winced, then hurled it back at Dex. Dex avoided it. "She's dead, by the way."

Caravel roared in fury. "YOU KILLED HER!"

"Says the guy who's about to kill tons of people."

"BIANA WAS THE ONLY SANE PERSON IN MY ENTIRE STUPID FAMILY!"

"That's debatable."

Blood trickling from his mouth, Caravel clasped his hands together, and started glowing. "I've activated my final attack. Right now, all my power is being concentrated into one singularity. When I release it, it will destroy this entire silly little world, and my revenge will be served. I will die, but EVERYONE WILL PAY FOR WHAT THEY HAVE DONE!"

Dex also clasped his hands together, and started glowing as well. "Not if I negate it with another one."

Caravel looked at him in shock. "You'll die! There's only a one in a trillion chance that you'll survive! You could shield yourself from the blast using your power! Do you want to die? What kind of idiot would take his own life to protect others?"

Dex looked at Caravel with pity in his eyes. "Death isn't so bad, Alvar. I know from experience."

As the final word left Dex's lips, the whole world exploded.

Two weeks later...

Sophie sat by the Panakes tree, waiting for Dex to arrive. He was running late, and she had been waiting for a while. Eventually, she saw Dex walking towards her, and he climbed up the hill and sat down next to her.

"You're late."

"I know, I know. The triplets kept teasing me about this on my way out."

"I'm not surprised."

"So, how are the rebuilding efforts going?"

"Pretty smoothly, actually. Eternalia should be back up and functioning within the month, according to Alden."

"That's great!"

They both sat in silence for a bit after that.

"So... now what?"

Dex looked at Sophie. "What do you mean?"

"We're not just going to pretend like that kiss never happened."

"Which one?"

Sophie laughed. "You know which one."

Dex laid back on the grass. "I guess that means this constitutes as a date."

"It is a date."

"So that means we're in a relationship."

"Yes."

Dex slapped himself. "This isn't a dream."

"Nope. So tell me, what now?" Sophie kissed Dex on the cheek.

Dex smiled and took her hand. The sun came into view in the distance, just over the horizon, with a brilliant display of purples and pinks. "Let's just watch the sun rise."

THE END