Chapter 20: The veil shatters

With a powerful swing Zero split the Origin's monstrous head in two. The Origin let out a terrible shriek sending Zero back into the platform below.

"You did it Zero!" Ein shouted.

"No," Zero corrected, "We did it."

"Do you really believe that?" Ledah asked.

"No not really," Zero smirked. The Origin's body started to break down and condense into a sphere of darkness.

"We should celebrate by taking a vacation for the rest of our lives!" Jack shouted.

"We'll be able to now," Zero laughed. Their joy was cut short as the world of darkness started to rumble and quake violently.

"That's never a good sign…" Chris commented.

"Without the Origin this world is unstable!" Zero shouted.

"What's going to happen to us?" Jack asked.

"Well we can escape via portal but that wouldn't help us very much," Zero explained, "Seeing as this unstable world will explode destroying all the worlds around it, including Riviera."
"Oh… That's bad," Ein muttered.

"What can we do to stop it?" Chris asked.

"Unless you can figure out how to stop rapidly expanding darkness radiation ripping the fabric of space time to shreds then go ahead and try," Zero sighed.

"Well you know a lot about darkness! Can you stop it?" Ledah asked.

"Is there an endless source of energy, Large amounts of Plutonium, and an extra life then yea I can stop it," Zero shot.

"You can't mean that all our hard work, pain, suffering, and achievements have all been for nothing!" Ein shouted.

"Bingo," Zero muttered.

"But! W-We can't just give up!" Jack shouted.

"Yea! We came here to save Riviera… No every world and I'm going to try!" Ledah announced.

"Well the only other way is to st…" Zero mumbled in deep thought.

"Is to what?" Chris asked. –RUMBLE- The castle started to crack and large pieces started to fall from the walls.

"Well alright… If you babies want to save the worlds so much then I'll use the second method," Zero sighed.

"Great! What do we need to do?" Ledah asked.

"Go home," Zero lectured opening the portal to Riviera, "Oh and before I forget Chris."

"What?" Chris asked.

"Catch," Zero tossed the now reverted and sheathed Excalibur to Chris.

"What are you doing?" Chris shouted catching the blade.

"Go quickly! I'll see you guys," Zero waved running to and jumping off of the edge of the platform towards the pulsating Sphere of Darkness.

"ZERO!" Jack and Ein shouted. Zero collided with the sphere with a thunk. The edge of the sphere changed color glow from red to white. Zero's essence and body disintegrated into the sphere and it itself started changing colors from black to white. Once this process had finished and Zero's body was gone the sphere started to disperse until there was nothing left. The world of Darkness, its core now both light and gone, started to crumble and implode at an accelerated rate.

"Let's go! Before we all die!" Ledah shouted picking up Chris. Ein and Jack nodded and the group ran through the portal together. They emerged in the base's portal room where once again every resident of Elendia was waiting to greet the angels.

"Yes!" Fia shouted.

"They made it!" Lina squeaked.

"Way to go you guys!" Rose congratulated.

"I knew you could do it!" Serene encouraged.

"Chris…" Nardi muttered approaching the portal, "Where are my brothers?"

"Oh I'm sure they're coming," Cierra smiled, "Right…?" Chris was unable to make eye contact with anyone once he had been put down by Ledah.

"Is Zero ok?" Lilly asked.

"Zero and Kazé… Aren't coming back…" Jack muttered.

"W-what?" Nardi mumbled.

"Kazé was killed by Oblivion and Zero… Gave his life to make sure the world of darkness didn't destroy all the surrounding worlds during its collapse…" Ledah muttered.

"I-Is this some kind of bad Joke? Zero can't die!" Nardi shouted the portal collapsing behind the four wounded and tired Grim Angels with a crash.

"You-You're joking! Come on Zero open the portal again…" Nardi raved. The four were only able to look down at their feet as Nardi hit the ground with a thud. "I- I Should have been there!" he shouted at first out loud and then started whispering to himself as he curled into a ball.

"Zero…" Lilly whispered tears streaming from her eyes

I cant believe it's really over. I just want to spend some time thanking my reviewers for more reviews then there are chapters.

Sydney Grise: Thanks for sticking with the story as long as you did. Your suggestions were very helpful. I still admire your work and will continue to read it as it comes out. I think you are responsible for over half of the reviews with a grand total of 15 reviews... I just want to thank you again.

Freedom Kira: I have admired your work since I made my Fanfiction account. If I hadn't been inspired to write by you I wouldn't be the writer I am today. Your reviews were very helpful and I am going to use them to fix the first 3 chapters. I do believe 1 has already been fixed. Thank you again for 3 large reviews.

Rajata: I'm glad I was able to evoke such emotion from you. Thank you for your compliment and I hope you enjoy the rest of my chapters.

Martin III: Thank you for your review. Without it I would not have noticed what a horrible job I did with Rose and Lina. Funny how those things can just slip my mind. I will use your review much like Kira's to correct the first few chapters. I hope you enjoyed the last few chapters

Thank you all again and Good night.

Fin