And the results are in! The winner is. . . .drumroll please. . .*drumroll starts out of nowhere*

Da da da daaaaa! Time Turners and Hippogriffs! Woot! First chapter of that will come shortly. I hope you enjoy the last chapter of Cinderella. :3

I don't own the Powerpuff Girls. I wish I did . . .

Summary: After their creation, Professor Utonium decided he didn't want kids. Out in the street and on their own, what will they do when a helping hand leads them to darkness?

Epilogue

Blossom opened her eyes. There was no weariness to it. The transition between the Dreaming and the Waking world was seamless. Now if only she could remember what her dream was about. She felt Bubbles stir next to her, and then Buttercup moved on her other side.

"What," Buttercup paused for a mere second, to regain her bearings," is going on?"

"Last I remember," Bubbles replied as she started stretching her limbs like a cat, "is that we took out Princess with our final attack. I don't even remember hitting the ground." Both of them looked to their redheaded sister.

"I don't remember anything either." Blossom shrugged.

A knock at their door had them shifting their attentions elsewhere. Boogie stood there, looking tired but happy.

"Daddy!" Bubbles exclaimed and she jumped up out of bed to fly to him.

She fell on her face.

"Girls, we need to have a talk." As Bubbles picked herself up off the ground, Boogie walked in and sat on the bed. The three clustered around them. "You three had died-"

"What?" Buttercup exclaimed.

"Him found you three, and the Rowdys, all in your own separate craters. All dead. Just like when you were little." He took a pause, one which Blossom took advantage of.

"Then how are we alive?"

Boogie emitted a frustrated grunt. "There are only so many times he can bring you back to life, girls! The first time was free of charge, but the second one?"

"That's why I can't fly, isn't it?" Bubbles asked. Dread settled over the three as Boogie slowly nodded his head.

"He took your powers as a balancer. Otherwise you would have stayed dead, no matter what He had done." There was a few seconds of silence before Blossom piped up.

"We can do this," she started, warming herself up to the idea, "be normal-"

"You were always normal," Boogie interjected, fatherly intentions kicking in.

"As ourselves," Buttercup argued, "but we weren't really normal. We were extraordinary, because not everyone has powers." Boogie looked lost, as if he just realized that his girls weren't little girls anymore.

"We can be normal," Blossom continued. "It will take time," she stated slowly, as if testing the idea on er tongue, "but we can do it."

A knock on the door interrupted their family moment. A woman in her late 20's stood her entire height of 5 foot 4 and still seemed menacing, her oversized jeans barely clinging to her hips and her band tee covering up whatever skin that her pants would have shown. Her coffee colored hair contrasted little with her cocoa tinted skin, gray eyes peering out at them from under long lashes with a startling intensity. Her hands ended up on her hips. Klarissa, the babysitter-turned-housemaid had finally emerged from her self-exile in her room.

"You three have half an hour until the bus comes for school. Remember, I don't allow lateness." The look on her face before she left made all of them, including Boogie, shiver in fear. The monster then turned back to the girls.

"Do you feel up to going to school?" When the girls nodded, he stood up and went over to their closet before wrenching open the door. It revealed all of the clothes Sedusa had stolen from them. "You've been asleep for three days. Within that time, Sedusa was escorted off the premises. She won't be taking anything of yours any longer." He stooped and kissed each teen's forehead. "Now get going. Now that Klarissa is finally out of her depression over Mr. Green, she'll be tougher than ever." With a smile, Boogie left them to get ready for school.

Yes, the girls had to rush to make it to the bus stop on time, but they were quickly able to adjust. Due to their father's restrictions on power use in the Aboveground, they were already used to going powerless. The hour bus ride seemed like nothing, and when they were dropped off in front of their school, Brick, Boomer, and Butch were waiting for them. Blossom didn't even hesitate as they all started walking towards the school.

"Did Him really-"

"Yeah," Brick replied surly. Him and his brothers didn't seem to happy.

"And he took your-"

"Yeah." Brick seemed to deflate when he said that.

Bubbles was oblivious.

"Does that mean you're normal too?" she asked.

". . .yeah."

Bubbles let loose a happy shriek and tackled Boomer, knocking him to the grass, ignoring the stares they got from the other students as they walked past the tree.

"Well, they certainly took their time," Buttercup muttered sarcastically. Blossom noticed how Butch donned a mischievous smile and quickly moved behind her dark haired sister and wrapped his arms around her waist, settling his chin on her shoulder. Buttercup tensed.

"It should be our turn next, right?" he asked. Blossom winced as she witnessed her sister's physical response.

The next second, Buttercup grabbed her backpack and turned away from Butch, a blush on her cheeks as he sat on the ground, a hand on his bloody nose. Their siblings merely laughed.

a/n:

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Yes, it's short, I'm sorry! *hides* But I finished it! Yay me!

Thank you so much, you guys, for sticking with me on this journey. Can you believe it? I believe this is my first multi-chaptered story that I have finished. Phew! *wipes imaginary sweat* Now, if only I can write out the sequel and then revise the Xmas special, everything will be dandy! Oh, and find that one book. . .you'll find out why after a few chapters of my next story, which is Time Turners and Hippogriffs, a Hermione GrangerxTom Marvolo Riddle story. And yes, there is time traveling. Woot!