CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE- FINALE

"You…Saga, you are Ares?!" Shiryu wasn't really sure what to say.

"Although the name sounds familiar, I don't base my fights off of names," Peggi prepared for battle, her fists wielding her favorite attack of fireballs, "you brought harm to my cousin, and now you will need those masks to cover your face once I slaughter you!"

Eevee prepared herself for any attacks made on her, but her aim was not at this Saga person, but at Naraku. She was sure that Peggi could handle him on her own, but Naraku had been responsible for her kidnapping and so he was the one she was after. She prepared herself by focusing her energy and remembering the inner feelings she'd had while practicing with Hyoga when she had discovered some of her abilities. She could sense the fear inside of Naraku and realized that she was much more powerful than he was giving her credit for, and more powerful than she would've ever realized otherwise. A strange glow surrounded Eevee and she felt as though there wasn't a single thing that she couldn't accomplish. She had the power, she had the will, and she was about to kick some serious ass! Naraku began to make his move, some sort of light sword appearing in his hands, fire circling the glowing yellow weapon. She saw the bronze saints around the room through the corner of her eye. They were in position to help her if need be, but were going to allow her to do this on her own, if it was what she wished.

Filled with anger and the will to fight, Eevee charged at Naraku, not sure exactly which of her special abilities she would use against him, but positive that she was definitely going to do something terrible to this man. He began swinging the sword at her wildly and it was obvious to her that he had not used this attack many times before. He had a lot of power behind his swings, so if one of them had hit her, it would've been a terrible thing. The good part of the whole thing was that although he had this sort of power, he had no skill to back it up, and this was her advantage.

She easily ducked, swerved and leaped over his blade, managing to build up enough momentum in her run that she was beginning to create gusts of wind. She suddenly had an idea, one that she figured had been from a movie, and simply went with the idea as it hit her. She began to circle him, running faster and faster, his swinging with the sword becoming more frustrated and random. The wind following her was beginning to create a small tornado around him and suddenly there was no air inside of the tornado. The fire around the sword wasn't given air to breathe, and it died. Seconds after the fire had gone out, the sword lost its energy and it, too, vanished from Naraku's hands. He used his arms and made missed attempts to grab the girl and suddenly she leaped high into the air and entered the tornado, coming straight down on top of Naraku.

He hadn't seen this attack coming and did not have time to block, and Eevee took this advantage to land on his shoulders, but that wasn't the end of her attack. She leaned back, pulling him backwards with all of her weight and once she had him off of his feet, her hands were firm on the floor, and another idea quickly came to her. She tossed him into the air and turned her body so that she was lying flat on the floor. As he came tumbling down she struck him with her feet and sent him flying into one of the pillars supporting the room. He hit it with a loud crashing sound, the rubble falling on top of him.

Eevee stood, a smirk on her face, but she realized that no one else in the room looked quite as thrilled as she did at that moment. She heard a shifting sound coming from the pile of debris and out of the dust and pieces of the pillar, she saw that Naraku was rising. She heard a scream and turned quickly to see her cousin in the clutches of Saga, his eyes red and fiery, she almost ran to protect the older girl, but realized that Peggi didn't appear to be fighting back at all. During the distraction of the events going on between her cousin and the evil pope, she hadn't noticed how close to her Naraku had gotten. She saw Shiryu out of the corner of her eye, trying to run to her aid, but he wasn't there in time. She felt a firm grip around her throat and suddenly nothing was between her and the floor but air.

She braced herself for the impact against a wall or floor like she'd given to Naraku, but instead, eyes closed tightly, she felt someone catch her. She knew Shiryu would never let her down!

But when she opened her eyes, it was not Shiryu at all. It was, to her amazement, and to the amazement of everyone else, it was Satsuki.

Eevee looked up at the girl, the demon, the ex-berserker who had caught her, confused, but soon enough that was cleared up.

"Naraku!" Satsuki hissed, "you have kept me imprisoned, fighting, doing your dirty work. You put me in the position to fight an admirable opponent and had she not shown sympathy towards me, I would most certainly be dead. She and her friends left me intact with my powers and my life, and for that, I owe them all!"

Eevee felt the floor reach her bottom side, or in all reality, vice versa, and in almost a blur Satsuki was on Naraku's stomach, him flat on the floor. It happened in such a small amount of time that no one could possibly have reacted. In only a moment's time, Naraku's literal, beating heart was in her hands, a puddle of blood forming around him in seconds.

A look of fear crossed Saga's face as he realized that the man he was currently relying on for quite a lot was now dead, and suddenly he realized he was no longer holding onto the half-demon girl. He looked around but couldn't see her at all, in fact, he couldn't see anyone in the room but Eevee.

"First you bought me like some piece of furniture off of the black market," Eevee's body began to literally glow a bluish tint, "then you wiped out my memory," now her eyes began to glow yellow, "then you tried to bring harm to my friends," now she was wielding fireballs, much like her cousin's, but they were blue, "and then you tried to kill my cousin! DIE SAGA!"

With one quick motion, he was covered in blue fire and screaming in agony. Eevee felt a hand on her shoulder and turned her head to see Shiryu standing next to her.

"I am so sorry," she almost heard his voice crack "I tried to protect you, but I failed."

"No, Shiryu. You've given me something I never thought I would have. You gave me not only friendship and love, but made me realize more than ever, who I really am."

"He said something wrong though," Peggi was in front of her now, "he said you were part demon like me. He's wrong. You aren't demon at all. You don't even have the slightest bit of demon in you at all."

Everyone in the room almost facefaulted.

Shun was there to ask the question that was on everyone's mind, "then how come she can use powers like you can?"

Peggi laughed, "I gave her some of mine! She's not human either, though. See, Shun, do you remember when I told you about where I come from?"

"Yeah, another time era. In a village that was nearly destroyed."

"Right, well the village was made up of only humans and angels. My heritage was different, though. My father was considered an outsider but was never welcomed into the village. My existence is the reason the village was nearly destroyed. I was only a little kid but I understood. Eev's family had died during a war with an outside village. Well, I knew we wouldn't survive where we were at; she was living with me when the whole place burned to the ground, but I saved us. I gave her some of my powers and here we are!"

Eevee remembered now. She couldn't have been more than two years old at the time, she remembered smelling the smoke, her eyes burning from the heat, and she never felt afraid though. She had her older cousin with her, and she knew she was safe. She heard her cousin whisper to her that everything would be okay and to close her eyes, she remembered listening and suddenly, everything was right in the world for her. There were pieces still missing, but for the most part, she remembered who she was and where she was from. The difference between her powers and that of Peggi's was that Peggi's were full of hatred, anger and angst, while hers were pure. That's why even her fire didn't appear as red.

"Uh," Saori hopped over, still tied up, "can someone please untie me?"

"NO!" Peggi glared and stuck out her tongue.

Hyoga rolled his eyes and began untying the princess.

"So, what next?" Eevee asked, falling into Shiryu's arms.

"Next?" Shun asked, curiously.

"Yeah. You guys don't get many breaks between fights, where do we go from here?"

Without warning or any sort of clue as to what they were even about to do, Peggi and Eevee looked at each other and smiled, before singing the perfect song for the moment.

Where do we go from here?
Where do we go from here?

The battle's done
And we kinda won
So we sound our victory cheer.

Where do we go from here?

Why is the path unclear?
When we know home is near.
Understand we'll go hand in hand
But we'll walk alone in fear

Tell me,
Where do we go from here?

When does "The End" appear?
When do the trumpets cheer?
The curtains close
On a kiss, god knows
We can tell the end is near

Where do we go from here?
Where do we go from here?
Where do we go from here?

END CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

Peggi: We all know I do not own Buffy the Vampire Slayer, therefore, I do not own the ending song! So, tell me the truth. Raise of hands about how many of you had to actually go back and re-read any of this? I know I sure did to update! Do you realize it's been over a YEAR since I've updated this?!

Shun: You blame being busy, but we all know the truth. L-A-Z-Y!

Peggi: Yeah well. . .now I finished it so HAH! I'm actually a little sad to post this. Maybe I should hold off.

Readers: NO!

Eevee: Peg don't you dare!

Peggi: FINE. I'll post it. . . geez. . .

Eevee: So what DID we do after this was over?

Peggi: We all died. We went boom. And that was the end.

Ikki: What, can't admit that there was a huge makeout scene between Shiryu and your cousin?! Huh?! Can't say it?!

Peggi: (makes gagging noises and falls dramatically to the floor)

Shun: Nii-san! You killed her!

Seiya: YAAAAAAAAAAAAY!

Peggi: (glare at Seiya) I'M NOT DEAD! AND I'M GONNA GET YOU FOR THAT!

Eevee: (presses post new chapter)