Astra and I looked at each other, silently. We had both been so excited to see the markings left behind by Drew. Yet they led nowhere. We decided to continue up the mountain, hoping to find answers. Maybe we could see him from the top, we were not sure. "I just… I just want to see him again." My voice was weak. Astra looked over to me as we advanced further up the mountain, "I do, too. He was a great individual. It is a shame he wasn't with us all our lives."

I laughed, which surprised me because I hadn't laughed since we were last with Drew. I was given a confused look by her. "Oh, I was just thinking how if he had been here all my life. I can guarantee that he would've been my first crush." Astra laughed with me, and said, "He was already my first." Her voice full of conviction.

All of the sudden, we heard him. His voice boomed down the mountain full of joy and sorrow, "Good-bye Blair! Good-bye Astra! Though we may never meet again, I hope that we just might! If you can still hear me, please don't try and share my blight!" His voice was slowly fading, "Don't come near, please stay away. I'll try and…" Upon hearing his voice, Astra and I exchanged some very quick looks and began to sprint to the mountain's top. Our feet wept and muscles tensed, but we had to make it. But by the time we made it, all we saw was Ismene sitting near a statue of a man and Drew was nowhere to be found.

"Where is he?" I demanded.

"Gone." Ismene's voice trembled.

"What is he doing?" Astra chimed in.

"Doing what is right." Ismene's face was covered in tears.

"Did he go into there?" I asked, as I pointed to the base of the statue.

Ismene nodded subtly, "Yes, but you cannot go. It is impossible."

I walked over to the statue, and began to bang on the base. Punch after punch and kick after kick, I only seemed to exhaust myself diligently. It was pointless. Not even a scratch had been placed upon it, let alone a hole big enough to get inside. Angrily, I paced towards Ismene and grabbed her neck to lift her to my eyes. Her face was covered in tears and her eyes were red. Before I could say anything, she spoke, "If it is the right thing to do, why must it hurt so very much?" I placed her down. The thought hurt me, though I did not understand.

"Drew must activate a device, and it will destroy the destruction that is before us." She pointed to the entity in the sky, "Afterwards, Bishop will send him back so the world can be normal."

"Who is Bishop? And why does he have the send Drew back?" Silently, Ismene looked back at me with a face full of thought. Carefully, she responded, "At this point, not even I am sure who he is. A long time ago, I thought of him as my leader and trusted companion. Eventually, I believed in him like a god. But, now, I see him as a controlling sociopath that does not understand emotion. He knew that I would develop feelings for Drew, yet he allowed me to meet him anyways. He planned this all out. From the start he knew that I would have to be broken hearted in order to save this world. Why couldn't he have chosen anyone else?" He voice broke and she began crying once again.

I walked back to the statue and began to rampantly strike it and burn it. Rage took me over, I couldn't control myself.

Blair's body covered itself in flame as she struck the base of the statue with incredible force. Her colors changed from a red and orange hue (which was reminiscent of the embers in a fire) to a much more violent white. The features of the states became scorched and began to melt. Its hand slowly dipped away from the face as the arm softened and began to lower. The book it was holding melted into a pool of useless knowledge. Slowly, she began to melt the entirety of it and revealed a small hole in to ground. It expanded until it was big enough to easily crawl through. Slowly the fire swirling around her died down and receded to just the palm of her hand, where a blue flame remained. She held it in front of her and looked down the dark passage, trying to see ahead where there was seemingly no light.

Astra walked over to her, and looked down the hole. I followed. Blair looked at both of us and said, "It may be his destiny or whatever, but I know for a fact that I want to go down there as well. What about you two?" Astra nodded in agreement, as did I. I no longer cared about what Bishop said.

At the bottom of the passage, I found an old looking room. Cobwebs lined the walls and dust covered most of everything. It seemed like some sort of very old IT room. After fumbling around under the little island desk in the middle of the room. A power button was eventually found, and to my surprise it turned on a PC. The device didn't seem too old, well in relation to its capabilities. Seemed to be similar to my home computer. Actually, now that I think about it, it IS my home computer. There was no mistaking it, especially once it fully started up and required my login information. All my programs are here, nothing is different. There was a new program, though. It was positioned directly in the middle of the desktop. There was no label, nor could I see any metadata on it. So, naturally I clicked on it.

The screen went blank, before asking for authorization. Some strange panel lit up underneath the layers of dusk on the desk. I wiped it off, and it was a small blue screen with the outline of a hand on it. I knew exactly what it was asking me to do. I placed my hand on the screen and it glowed magnificently for a moment. Then, the screen went black. A single line of code saying "Operation authorized" In the corner of the room, Bishop began to materialize. Before he even fully appeared he was talking, "Oh, why I'm soooo thankful that you did this for me." Were his first words.

"Yeah, yeah. I'm sure you are. All you care about is your own persistent existence. You don't even care about any of the creatures on this planet."

"Oh, but I do! You know that it's the entire reason I did this!" His voice was absolutely filled with sarcasm. But, his face turned stern, "You must go back now. I hope you realized this. Here they come, say your goodbyes." As he began to vanish again, a flying kick came out of nowhere as the room filled with light. Blair's foot had connected with the wall directly behind where his face has been. A burst of flame emanate from her foot and spread across the wall. She turned back towards me, and her eyes were filled with tears. She tackled me and gave me a dramatically strong hug. Astra joined her soon after.

I began to cry. And laugh. I couldn't control my emotions. Through my tears I could see an incandescent light. My legs were being engulfed by it, and it trailed up my body slowly, like death. As it consumed me, it left nothingness behind. Both Astra and Blair began to panic, but I just held them all the closer. "I'm going away now, I don't know if I will ever see you again. But, if it means anything, I will miss you." My comment was followed by a chorus of No's and Why's from the both of them along with incoherent mumbling. Blair looked into my eyes, "No matter what, I will not forget you. I will wait." Astra touched her forehead to mine and told me, "I will always be with you, no matter how far the distance." From the other side of the room, Ismene stared sorrowfully at me. "I'm sorry." And, with that, my vision was taken from me and all feeling faded away into the magic of darkness.

I woke to the brightness of the morning sun's glare upon my bedroom wall. I checked my clock, it was a little past nine o' clock in the morning. My eyes stilled burned from all the tears. Upon checking my clothing, I was still wearing the rags from before. I walked around my now infinitely empty house. My footsteps left echoes to glide along the air. When I looked at all my paintings, I saw new life in them. A hidden world in each, with each a magnificence to its own. When I went down into my basement, I flipped on the light switch. Sure enough, my flat screen was still incinerated and the wall had scorches all over it. Some of my other peripherals were still here, but my actual computer was no longer here.

I looked outside, to the bright and wonderful sky. I should've been at work over an hour ago, now that I thought about it. Was there really a point? The only thing I cared about now was those others. As sad as it made me that I wouldn't be seeing them again, I could only think about them at this point. At least I was able to save them from catastrophe. I love them, and I miss them.

Final EDT: Yeah, sorry if this last chapter disappoints you. It was the only way I could end it, really. Sorry for the 2 year wait as well. Honestly, I didn't finish back then because I wasn't really prepared as an author to write an ending like this. Stuff happens I guess, I felt like I could finish it now and so I did. Shout out to all the people that followed it and finished it. As always, leave reviews and such. And thank you.