You know what? I'll just do what I did last time. I'll put a note after this chapter when the next book is up.

Chapter 13 (the last one)

Arkarian

I run through the door and look around. Matt and Neriah are intertwined with one another. As I look further, I hear someone call my name.

"Arkarian!" I spin around to see Isabel chained to a wall. I run to her and undo the chains. She falls to the ground and I pick her up. She embraces me, so I kiss her. She kisses me back until a tapping at the back of my leg makes me turn. I see a small tiger cub poking me with its paw.

Isabel sees this and laughs. "I was going to tell you later, but it seems that Ophelia wants you to know now."

"What do you mean?"

"Arkarian, our daughter is a shape shifter."

"What? So this tiger is Ophelia?"

"Yep." I pick her up and she transforms back into herself in my arms. "Wow."

Behind me, Chloe gets up from the floor. Dillon goes over to her.

"D-Dillon!" she says nervously. "How are you?"

She's being an idiot. All of us can see the anger and hurt in Dillon's eyes.

"You used me," he says in a low and dangerous tone. "You used me as a part of some evil plot!" He walks towards his ex-girlfriend, glaring all the while.

"N-now Dillon," Chloe says, terror in her voice. "Let's not do anything you'll regret."

"Oh, trust me. I won't regret this at all." He cracks his knuckles, and we all hold our breath. We know that when Dillon gets angry, his skill of strength becomes magnified. Of course, Chloe puts up a force field around herself right when Dillon charges, sending him flying backwards. Isabel heals him from where she is; nobody wants to get in the way.

"Come on, Dillon! You dated me for two weeks! Doesn't that mean anything to you?" Chloe's still trying to pull off the 'innocent girl' act, but Dillon's not buying it.

"If those two weeks had been real, then it might mean something. But as it happens, it was all staged. You don't even like me."

Chloe narrows her eyes. "No, Dillon, I don't. In fact, I hate your guts. There may have been a few times while you were with the Order like me that I felt something for you, but that's over." She throws a small disk of a force field at him, which he dodges. "I'm not stupid. I knew right when you betrayed me – and the rest of the Order – that there was no chance of us ever being together for real."

Dillon searches for something to say. "Oh yeah, well…I never really liked you. I just went out with you for the sake of it." He punches her full force.

She staggers before falling backwards. Dillon turns around, and Chloe gets up again.

"Dillon! Look out!" Neriah calls, but Chloe hits Dillon while he's walking away.

"Okay, that's just not fair!" Matt yells. "At least before, you both had an equal chance!"

Chloe snarls. "Do you honestly think I care? 'Cause I don't."

At that moment, several things happen at once; Dillon gets up, Neriah starts calling Chloe all sorts of nasty names, Rochelle joins her, Ethan and Matt try to hold back their girlfriends, Isabel runs in to help Dillon fight, and Ophelia jumps from my arms, changing into a rhinoceros in mid-air.

Ophelia charges at Chloe, ramming her into the wall. The rest of us stand and watch in awe as a small baby takes on a 19-year-old.

It's probably a combination of each and every thing that's happened tonight that makes Chloe crack. "I can't take it any more!" she screams, running out the door.

"Shouldn't we follow her?" Dillon asks after a while.

"Why bother?" Isabel says. "Who really cares what happens to her now?"

Ophelia changes back to herself, and Isabel picks her up. Everyone cheers for Ophelia, and Dillon tries to remind us that he helped too."

"Who cares?" Rochelle says, "It was Ophelia who delivered the final blow."

"But…but…she's just a baby!" Dillon exclaims.

"Yes," Ethan agrees, "and you're a bigger one."

We all laugh, even Dillon. After we get our breath back, Neriah puts a hand on Dillon's shoulder. "Look Dillon," she says calming and soothingly, "we're just all glad that this day is over. It's been stressful and frusterating for all of us. And besides, Ophelia did technically finish Chloe off."

A murmur of agreement passes over the group. Isabel looks at her watch. "We should get going," she says regretfully. "It's way past Ophelia's bedtime."

"Okay," Neriah says. "You three go."

"Yeah, we'll celebrate on our own," Rochelle agrees. So we say goodbye, and as we walk out the door, I distinctly hear Rochelle start a chorus of "Ding Dong The Bitch Has Left". I smile to myself. Things have definitely worked out well.

End

How sweet! I think…oh well! I'm gonna get started on the third one now. Hope you've liked the first two so far! Remember, the next one is the last one; it's only a trilogy here, people!