Epilogue
At first Riviera had been saddened by the losses of the angels. A monument was constructed for the lost. It was simple but dignified. It was a spire built in the Grove of Repose. It had the names of the lost engraved upon it, Leon, Kino, Kazé, Max, even the generals because of the possibility that they were being overshadowed, and Zero. Chris and Cierra moved into a place of their own, which was subsequently burned down a few times. Ledah and Rose left Ein's house as well seeking a more quiet living arrangement. Serene, still troubled by her behavior when Black took over Leon's body, Left to travel the world. Jack, having lost his brother again and his love left Elendia to help with the effort to eradicate the remaining demons. Ein, Fia, and Lina, with their original living arrangements restored settled down. Ein sheathed his diviner one last time and hung it on the wall. Lina's maturing eyes on Claude, much to his disappointment. Nardi, Seeing no reason for its continued existence, destroyed the base and built a home for himself on its site recycling materials used on the base. He then gave up his troublemaking ways in order to have a godfather Relationship with Chris, who so reminded him of Zero. Lilly, unable to accept Zero's death, moved into the grove of Repose to be close to the monument so that she would be reminded daily of the reality of Zero's demise. Everyday she would visit the spire hoping that maybe Zero would come back to her. But day after day, month after month, and even year after year he never arrived. Even after two solid years she had never given up on that small ray of hope. The other came less and less until they only came to visit once every couple of months. They would always encourage her to let go of the past and give up and move on but she paid no heed to their words. This very day Lilly had arrived at the monument at her usual time. She stood in front of it and stared at the names reading them over and over and thinking of the happy times she spent with Zero, all three of them.
"Is Sulking all you do?" an unmistakable voice called.
"Z-Zero?" Lilly whirled around to see The Ancient One. His hair had grown long and turned white. His coat was even more tattered then before and his face was pale.
"I told them 'See you' implying that I would make it back! Or did they not tell you that part?" Zero smiled.
"I-It's really you!" Lilly ran over and jumped into his arms. She squeezed him tightly to make sure she wasn't having dreams again.
"I'm at a loss of what to do now… I've never had to not fight evil before…"
"How did you get back?"
"Well I was in limbo for a while then I drifted into the interdimensional plane where I watched you for I don't know how long… I couldn't bear it so I worked to figure out a way back. Once I did, boom! I was here," Zero explained.
"It doesn't matter. Now that you're back we can live. That's what we'll do. Together," Lilly cried tears of Joy.
"But first," Zero grinned grabbing a conveniently located pick and altering the monument's text. Zero and Lilly turned and walked back to her house. Together.
About an hour later Ein approached the spire to pay his respects and read the inscription.
'We shall always remember those who gave their lives to save ours,'
Leon
Max
Kino
Kazé
Omega
Scath
Seraph
Chaos
Oblivion
Zero I'm not dead you twits
"Did I read that right?" Ein muttered in shock reading the text again and coming to the realization that 'I'm not dead you twits' was indeed written in Zero's handwriting. Instead of running off screaming Ein fainted.
This marks the true end of Ein's Second adventure. It's been a long road… I've been working on this thing for over a year now. This is actually only the second story I've ever completed, the first being Destiny Of the Fallen but you shouldn't read that now, it's pretty bad. Anyway now begins the reconstruction effort. I need to replace chapters 2-maybe 20. Numerous errors in the plot, repetitiveness and out of characterness need to be corrected. This task could take a while seeing how lazy I am. I really hope you've enjoyed this and all of my works… Which I should probably get around to finishing… Of course I also have three new works that I've already started. Bleach Break In (aka Bleach Zero V3), Organization XIV (Kingdom hearts), and Megaman Star Force Crossed. Hope you look forward to reading these and all other works I have.
Le FIN
For real this time… or is it?
Ok yea its over…