Epilogue
A/N: Did you think I'd end it happily ever after? I was going to, but then again, this is a tragedy!
Finally, an epilogue for those who have waited so long…
Three Days Later…
Tails had destroyed everything. The land would heal the survivors of the explosion, most likely those who lived in the countryside would help fix it, but Tails would have none of it. Through destruction he had created an amount of guilt that would break down as slowly as a mountain.
He only sat in his gloom. All of his friends were dead, he had broken Sonic's wish; he had killed Amy rather than protected her, and he had failed his wife, and failed to break the curse of the star-crossed. Failed, failed, failed! Each failed was marked with a fist against his own leg.
Misery needs company. Yet Rosalinda offered way too much of it, and Tails left the forest, saying goodbye to his good but annoying friend. He wanted to return home, to look upon the wreckage, and feel his shame, before leaving it forever behind him.
Amy and Cosmo, who saw the city explode with their own eyes, were in shock, and grieved at the fact that Tails was probably dead amongst the wreckage.
Shadow, who had delayed the missile from launching for as long as he could, added power to the missile while he did so. By the time he realized this, it was too late to take away the power, and he would die, destroying the city, and forever making Tails feel ashamed for something that was not his fault.
When Tails finally returned to his home three days later… he was surprised to see that his lab and his plane were all still intact. He looked at his plane, and knew he wanted to fly away.
Three days later, when Amy and Cosmo saw the old Tornado (Tornado 2, to be exact) flying through the air, they were shocked again. When Tails saw two familiar figures waving up to him excitedly, he fainted at the controls.
The plane crashed safely, and Cosmo could not help but laugh at her husband as he opened his eyes, smiling up at her, even though his mistake cost so much…
Through all the destruction, all the chaos and death, the two had defied the curse of the star-crossed, when so many others had fallen from it.
From a terrible thing, rises a wonderful miracle.
And though their hearts would heal in time, Tails would forever bear the weight of his actions, and Amy would forever shun her pink dress, wearing black to the day of her death, calling herself Sonic's widow, though the two never married. And Cosmo? She would find happiness, but in her garden, one would always notice that there were only red poppies to be found. Red poppies and hellebores, both flowers signifying death and sadness, though poppies themselves can signify life and love. But no matter what, she and Tails would always be together through every storm and whirlwind.
When Tails finally took his mentor's place as a hero, years later, visiting Sonic's grave one day, he recalled his past. Dark and terrible as it may have been, there was always a beacon of light. The city's recovery was amazing; its rewards it took in afterwards were even more marvelous.
Through this part of his life, Tails never forgot that his fate was his alone, and no forecasted predestined doom could alter that. Not with Love's power always by his side… Always.
A/N: And that…. is the end.
Sayonara!
