I apologize, I was hoping to have this chapter up yesterday.(Stupid cold)

Anyway, last chapter! Yay! There will also be a little bit of an Epilogue and hopefully I managed to tie up all the loose ends...=)

I just wanted to thank everyone who has stuck with the story, and I hope evyerone enjoyed reading it.=)

And a big giant thank you to Griffon of the Night and Forgottenforever for all of your support!

Chapter 21: Part 2

Raphael looked in surprise at Donatello, who appeared beside them. He was battered, bloodied and bruised. He looked at the crystal with growing horror as it shattered.

Raphael's heart stopped.

Donatello screamed as chains whipped and broke around him, but they dissolved instead of lashing back to kill him. Donatello looked at his hands in shock.

Nightmare was dead.

"No." Donatello said in disbelief. "It isn't supposed to end this way!" He shouted into the darkened sky. "If you die, I am supposed to die with you!" He yelled as tears trickled down his cheeks. Donatello vanished then.

Raphael's heart began to beat again. She was gone...again. His numb mind thought as he struggled to watch the sky. Two women, one of darkness, one of light, were thrown from the falling, shattered crystal. They were flung into the mirror along with a few shards of the crystal, the swords, and Nightmare's armour. The remains of the crystal tumbled and fell along with Nightmare's body, only to be lost in the plumes of smoke rising from where the crystal fell.

Raphael let out a keening wail that shattered through the now silent night.

"We can't have lost her again Raph." Leonardo said, his voice filled with too much grief.

Tears fell silently down Michelangelo's cheeks as he walked over and put a gentle hand on Shadow's shoulder as she wept for Ryven, who was also dead.

"Please come back to me. Please." Shadow whispered. "I love you, even if you are a half demon." She said, her heart breaking in grief and sorrow.

The world went red and blue. Literally. The sky opened up revealing a beautiful bright heavenly light. The earth split and cracked leaking hot stream that covered everything with a thin overlay of red destruction.

Angels rained down as demons crawled through the cracks in the earth.

Donatello appeared out of the red tinged mist that surrounded him. He held Katherine's body in his arms. Her hair was the colour of burnished copper, russet and gold. Her skin was pale, but no longer ghostly white. Her cheek was free of the butterfly mark of the Nightmare godhede.

Tears had fallen and still glistened on his brother's cheeks. Donatello stopped and looked at them, a shattered look on his face. Gabriel landed beside Donatello, his white wings pulled in close. Azazel too, landed on the other side of Donatello. His red skin made even redder with the haze. Both looked shattered and lost. Katherine's body vanished leaving Donatello to clutch at nothing but gold tinged air.

Four Angels landed in front of them. "What did Nightmare do, where is she?" One of the Angel's demanded.

"I shall tell you what she did." A dark skinned angel in white and orange flowing robes toned. "She ripped the Tree of Life from this world." He said looking at them accusingly. "She has doomed this world to Destruction. Without the Tree, all life on this planet shall cease to be. Heaven and Hell are already colliding, falling and rising to Earth."

"What does that even mean Uriel?" The other angel asked angrily.

"It means that the Tree not only connected Heaven and Hell and Earth together, it also held them apart. Without the Tree they have begun, as I said, to collide."

"So how do we stop it?" The first angel asked.

"We don't Raphael, we don't." Uriel said with a shake of his head. "We should have destroyed Nightmare, or allowed the gods to destroy her when it was revealed that she was to be a World Destroyer."

"Where is Nightmare now? Where is she?" The Archangel Raphael asked.

"Gone." Gabriel said with a catch to his voice.

"Yes, she has fled from this doomed world." Uriel accused in anger.

"No. She is dead. Destroyed by the effort to pull the Fae and other creatures of magic from our world to another." Gabriel said sadly.

Raphael looked around him at the destruction that the Fae had wrought. They had only been in the world for a few hours at most, but they had destroyed so much. Most of the buildings were smouldering ruins, but worse then just property damage, was the human casualties. There were so many human bodies, strewn about, like broken dolls.

"I would believe you to be a traitor to Heaven Gabriel, but I never would have believed you to be a traitor to Earth." Uriel accused through clenched teeth.

"I am no traitor. To Earth or to Heaven. I never Fell." He said defensively. "I loved Nightmare. And even Heaven is not so cruel to allow an angel to Fall because of love. I am still an Archangel, Uriel, but I was bound by a promise to Nightmare, and imbued with her powers." He shook his head. "Nightmare would never leave the world open to destruction."

Uriel looked at Gabriel as if surprised, but shook his head. "You are wrong. She has fulfilled her role in the prophecy and..."

"Destruction." Donatello interrupted softly.

"Speak up King of Demons." Uriel said in irritation.

"There are so many kinds of Destruction. Because nothing is ever truly destroyed, sometimes, it is just different." Donatello said in shock as his eyes widened.

Heaven and Hell collided onto Earth, and the world shattered into pinpoint bursts of ringing light.

Shadow stood and looked at the light as the world shattered around her. Everything was gone. Destroyed. Utterly and completely. So why was she here? And where was here anyway?

"That is always the question, isn't it?" A beautiful, dark haired man with black eyes, pale skin and grey wings asked her. He wore black, flowing robes that seemed to be made of different colours and shades of black, the folds looking almost viscous.

"Who are you?" She whispered in fear as she took a step back.

"Death." He answered her.

"I'm dead?" She asked in shock, even though she had just watched the world destroyed around her.

"No." He answered.

"Where am I?" She questioned.

"The heart of Chaos." He answered.

"Why am I here?" She asked out loud.

"You are fulfilling your part in your Destiny." He said as another beautiful man appeared. He was as dark and Death was pale, with dark fathomless eyes and dark brown dreadlocks that reached the middle of his back. He was wearing flowing, white robes and smiled at her. He pulled his grey wings in close.

"Choose." The beautiful man said to her.

"Who are you?" She asked in confusion.

"Life." The beautiful man said.

"It is your Destiny to choose, Life or Death." Death said to her.

"I don't understand. You said I wasn't dead, why would I choose to die?" She asked in confusion.

"Not you, the world, the Earth." Life said to her.

"You want me to choose for the world to live or die?" She asked in horror.

"Yes." They said in unison.

"Life. I choose Life." She said shaking her head in disbelief.

"Even if that choice costs you something dear to you?" Death questioned.

"I've already lost that which was most dear to me." She said with a hitch of sadness in her voice, a tear trickling down her cheek.

"Even with the world in the state it is in right now?" Death asked curiously.

"Yes." She said firmly.

"So be it." Death said with a nod.

Shadow looked at the white blankness around her, and knew what she had to do.

She knelt down, touching the cold white floor. She began to glow. A light green mist floated around her. She threw back her head and laughed as a small sprout pushed its way through the white ground. The sprout began growing and twisting. Up and up, larger and wider the leafy stalk grew, until a massive tree stood where there had been nothing.

Raphael took a deep breath. The world had ended. He knew the world had just exploded into a million, trillion, tiny little insignificant pieces. And yet here he was.

Raphael heard bells begin to ring. They toned like the chime of death, a lonely forlorn sound that rang stright down to his very soul. He turned and watched as three figures emerged from a light blue mist that covered everything.

"Darkness?" He found himself asking in confusion, only it wasn't Darkness, but a woman who bore a resemblance to Darkness. She wore the same style of robes, but hers were white, banded with a thick strip of black silk. Her headdress with the silver visor that covered her eyes, was white with a black star in the center. Her white wings blew softly in a wind that seemed only to touch her.

Raphael shivered as his breath froze around him.

Death was there by her side, dressed in black robes, his grey wings still. His dark hair rustled as he looked at them with dark eyes. Beside him, another man who possessed the same degree of beauty as Death.

The woman who Raphael knew used to be Nightmare lifted an arm and pointed past them to Shadow, who looked dazed.

"Who are you?" The Archangel Raphael shouted at the woman who stood beside Death and the other man.

"Some petty god who managed not to be called into the mirror. Though Death and Life stand at her side, she is nothing." Uriel said with a shake of his head. "But she is the child, the one who was not to be born." Uriel said pointing at Shadow. "Kill her!"

"No!" Gabriel shouted as the three archangels moved to kill Shadow.

The woman who had been Nightmare opened her mouth to speak. Raphael's eyes widened in shock.

"Cover your ears!" Donatello ordered as he covered his ears. Everyone but the attacking angels did the same. The angels fell to the ground in agony, their ears, noses, mouths and eyes bleeding.

Raphael pulled his hands from his ears and watched as Death walked towards Shadow. "No" Raphael said shaking his head in horror. "Nightmare did not want this." He whispered. "Why? Why would she save you only to kill you!" He yelled as Gabriel caught his shoulder pulling him back.

"This is her Fate." Gabriel said as he watched Shadow reach out and almost touch Death's outstretched hand.

"You made an interesting choice." Death said he bowed over Shadow's hand. Shadow waivered a little on her feet, a small smile on her face. "I do not believe I shall ever understand mortals." Death said pulling his hand away.

The blue mist retreated.

Raphael looked around him at a world that had not been thrown into chaos. The sun shone, birds sang, and a Tree bigger than anything he had ever seem shimmered and became a sky scraper that reached up into the heavens.

Ryven groaned and sat up. He quickly stood and grabbed at Shadow who clutched him tightly, tears of joy in her eyes.

"She was a seed." Donatello said in shock. "She held within her the power of the Tree of Life, and she was able to create a new Tree. A Tree that is stronger, because it does not rely on the old gods and old beliefs. It is newer, stronger. Better adapted for the world the Earth has become, rather than the Earth that had been."

Death walked back to the woman who used to be Nightmare, and softly brushed her cheek with his thumb.

"She is Dark Star, and she is my beloved one." Death said as ice began to form on his fingers.

They all vanished together in a ringing of bells.

Samael walked over to Uriel and helped him to his feet as he looked thoughtfully at where Death, Life, and Dark Star had stood.

"When the world is re-made, sometimes, new things rise. Other times, very old things wake." Samael said softly.

Uriel looked at Samael. "What is she? Who is she?" He asked in fear.

"I do not believe you want to know Uriel." Samael said with a shake of his head. "She can wait until another day. The mortals are starting to wake from their experience with Death, and Heaven must forge new Accords with the new High Prince of Hell." Samael told Uriel politely.

"You?" Uriel questioned.

Samael nodded. "Hell time and Heaven time are in sync now. Shall we see what else has been re-made?" Samael asked as they vanished.

Raphael shakily stood. He walked unsteadily towards the new skyscraper.

"Wait!" Ryven shouted as he set Shadow down on her feet.

"Where are you going?" Shadow asked.

"Into that building." Raphael replied. "You two, go make sure that April and Casey are alright. And tell them that Raph says hi, and I hope to catch up real soon." He said as he ran for the building's entrance.

The humans began to mill around and shake themselves off from what they were whispereing must have been a huge earthquake.

His brothers followed him into the foyer of the massive building. Raphael ran for the elevators, figuring that Death, and whoever Nightmare was now, would be on the top floor. He never made it.

He stumbled and Donatello caught him as they appeared in a huge room. Raphael looked at the floor and saw a star shoot across past a rotating planet. If the room had walls Raphael couldn't see any, just blackness that stretched on for eternity.

A Black marble throne stood at one end of the 'room'. Dark Star sat in the throne, Death on her left, Life on her right.

"Darkness?" He asked wondering if somehow Nightmare had become Darkness.

Dark Star stood and pulled her headdress from her head. He closed his eyes and turned his head away quickly.

Dark Star chuckled and was standing suddenly in front of him. "It is okay Raphael, you can look at me." She said to him. "I'm sorry that I worried you." She said softly.

He looked into her face. She was pale, but not white, her hair however was. It fell in glorious waves to the middle of her back. Her green eyes smiled at him, but he knew that her eyes could contain the universe within their depths.

"Who are you?" He asked her in a whisper. "What are you?"

She smiled at him. "I am Chaos." She said evenly."I am a Destroyer of worlds, a Creator of worlds. I ripped apart universes and created something new. Darkness, Chaos, Nothingness, the mother of everything and nothing, rose up, and as I died, reclaimed my soul, because I was a star born of Darkness. But I was not what I once was. I drank the life blood of Death himself. Death and life do not, can not, exist within one being, but because of me Death Understands Life. And his blood allowed me, a being of life, to Understand Death. Death's blood altered my memories and allowed me to hold his powers. And so it was that I became Darkness, because The Darkness could never contain what I now was. But I am not Nothing, I am Something. And so, I am Darkness, but the other side of Darkness. I am Chaos."

"Because in the beginning, there was nothing." Donatello began softly. "Nothing and darkness and chaos, but all three are really the same at the beginning. And the world as we knew it was destroyed, and when there is destruction, there must always be creation."

Chaos smiled. "Yes Donatello, always. And Chaos is both." She said as she pulled Raphael close. "But you were wrong Donatello, Shadow was not a seed. She was more like a flower, or perhaps a fruit. She carried and dispensed the seed. If she had been the seed, she would have become the Tree, and that would have been unfortunate I think." She said pulling him more tightly against her. "I've missed you so much Raphael." She whispered to him.

"What the hell?" He said, angrily grabbing her arms and pulling her away from him. "You died. Again! Do you have any idea what you put me through!" He asked her angrily. Her eyes widened slightly."Did you know?" He asked dangerously. "Did you know that you would somehow survive this? That your body would die, but that you would somehow still exist?"

"I will always exist Raphael." She said with a tip of her head.

He shook her again. "That isn't what I meant. I mean, that you would exist where I would be able to see you and touch you again. Did you know!"

She looked at him seriously then. "Raphael, my circle of Fate needed to be closed. I knew this from the moment I realized my soul was mortal. What would happen to me after, no, I did not know. I knew that if I saved Shadow's life, it would have consequences for me. But I would never trade my life for hers." She said with a cord of steel and challenge in her voice.

Raphael looked away, because as selfish as he wanted to be, he knew that Chaos was right.

"I want to be able to call you Katherine." He said softly. "For me, I want you to still be Katherine."

"Raphael, I will always be her. But I am so much more than what she was, and you need to understand this." She replied.

He gave a curt nod because he remembered Darkness, and with Darkness, there were glimpses of Katherine, every now and then.

Chaos pulled herself from his arms, and reached out to Michelangelo and Leonardo. She hugged each of them close. She turned then and walked to Donatello pulling him close. "It is over Donatello." She said quietly.

He buried his face in her neck and held her. "The chains are gone." He whispered.

"Yes Donatello, the chains are gone." She agreed.

"That reminds me." Raphael growled. "What's the big deal puttin' us to sleep for 16 freakin' years!" He asked as anger as betrayal built up within him.

Chaos' stepped out of Donatello's arms, her eyes flicking to Death who was still standing by the black throne.

Leonardo touched his shoulder. "You were trying to alter our Fate, weren't you?" He asked quietly.

Raphael blinked in confusion. "What?"

"You can't outrun your Fate Raph." Michelangelo said quietly. "It was Raph, wasn't it?" He asked." You brought him back, but that meant that his time was running out again, wasn't it?"

Chaos' eyes flicked to himself and to Leonardo. "The bullet." Leonardo said grimly. "That's why you were there, because I was supposed to die. So you can only delay the inevitable."

"Death is always inevitable." Chaos said seriously.

Death walked up behind Chaos and pulled her into him. Death smiled and held her possessively. "Chaos is mine." He said to them.

"Yes, I am." Chaos agreed as she smiled up at him. "As you are mine. I am where I was Destined to be, wrapped within Death's embrace. I am a force of Creation and Destruction, Death is both chaotic and orderly, therefore he exists for me, because of me. And Life, well, Life exists in awe of me." She said with a nod to Life who bowed to her. Life smiled a white toothed smile, winked and vanished. "He loves me, but he is not in love with me."

"So you choose Death?" Raphael asked in hurt and confusion.

"Death is mine Raphael. I love him, and one day you will understand what he means to me. But right now, all I want to do is curl up in bed with you and your brothers, and go to sleep. Dying is very hard work you know."

Raphael stomped up to her and pulled her from Death's arms. "You and me are doin' so much more than just sleepin'" He growled as he swung her up in his arms.

"Raphael, what are you doing?" She asked him in confusion.

"You got a bedroom in this place?" He questioned. "Hell, right now I will take almost any reasonable surface." He growled at her.

"Raphael..." She began, as a blush rose up on her cheeks.

He cut her off. "No. I've lost you too many damn times. I'm makin' sure I don't lose you again." He said with determination.

"Raphael, you're mortal, I don't know..." She began.

"I am going to make love to you, Katherine, Chaos, Dark Star, whatever you want to call yourself. If it ends up killing me, then fine." He growled as he stomped towards the white double doors of the room.

"What about your brothers?" Chaos asked him.

He looked over his shoulder at his brothers. His eyes flicked to Leonardo whose expression was shocked and jealous. He looked at Michelangelo who was looking steadily at him, a hint of a smile on his face with only a twinge of jealousy. "They can get in line." He grumbled, but stopped and frowned as he looked more closely at Donatello.

"Donny..." He began as he took in his brother's changed appearance and his closed off face. Besides Michelangelo, Donatello had always been the easiest to read. And right now Donatello was giving him a blank mask worthy of Leonardo.

"You and Nightmare were alone for 16 years...?" He let the question hang.

His brother looked at him with his reddish gold eyes that briefly flashed more red than gold. "I was with Nightmare for over two hundered years Raph. I shared a bed with her, but she would never allow me to make love to her." His brother informed him.

"Two hundred...years?" He asked in shock.

"Hell time moves more slowly than Earth time Raph. You think that everything that fell into place took a mere 16 years to arrange?" Donatello asked, shaking his head.

He felt staggered by the information Donatello had given him. His brother had spent over 200 years with Nightmare, and was not able to consummate their relationship.

"It's okay Raph," Donatello said with a half smile. "I will be content to be her lover for the rest of eternity. She is my soul mate. That bond can never be broken, even if you become her husband."

Raphael took another step and froze. Husband. If having sex with Chaos didn't kill him, he would become her husband. But what would that make him? Would he even still be mortal? He wondered.

"I don't know Raphael." Chaos said shaking her head. "Death?" Chaos asked.

"As you wish my love." Death said with a bow.

"Doesn't matter." He said as he kicked open the white double doors. A forest spread out before him. "Great." He said kicking the doors behind him closed.

"Bedroom?" He questioned.

Trees grew in denser, fashioning walls around them. Dense branches and leaves formed the roof. A bed was formed by four small trees twisting their branches together. Flowers and moss grew making something resembling a mattress of some sort.

"That's kinda creepy." He said when the 'bed' was finished.

Chaos chuckled. "I'll make sure we get a normal bed."

"Yeah. You gonna order one from where, Godly Furniture Inc?"

"No, I can make one." She said with a smile. "But right now, this is important. It is a Beginning, and beginnings are as important as endings." She said softly as she looked up at the branches that made the roof. They spread open revealing the night sky, a glowing full moon overhead. He walked over to the bed and studied it more closely. "And you did say any reasonable surface." She pointed out.

He placed Chaos down on the soft green moss. He sat down beside her. "Kitten I don't..." He began, oddly nervous.

"Raphael, it is very rare for you to stop and think things out, and I do enjoy the fact that you have grown to be less impulsive and to use your brain more, but in this instance I am telling you, don't think." She said as she pulled him down with her and kissed him.

His mind went blank as he drank in the taste of her lips and the light flowery scent of heather. He was home, he was finally home.

He growled in frustration as he looked at her clothing. He knew there were going to be several layers to get through. He pulled his sai from his belt and tore the black band that encircled her waist. He opened the outer robe and studied the inner robe. It was black with a white band. He tore through the band and threw his sai to the ground. He opened the robe revealing pale, perfect, unmarked flesh. All of the scars she had had as Nightmare were gone, which he supposed made sense since Katherine's body was now where it belonged.

"Either your clothes come off Raphael, or I rip them off." Chaos growled.

Raphael looked at her hands which were still encased within black clawed gauntlets. He hastily pulled his shirt over his head and leaned back in to kiss her. He felt her soft hands rove over his arms and down to his jeans. He helped her pull his pants and underwear away as he greedily kissed her. His hands roved over her soft flesh. He was not taking his time, right now he needed to be inside her. He had watched her die, and he wasn't taking any more chances that she could somehow be taken from him.

He spread her legs wide and plunged himself into her. She let out an unexpected gasp of pain. He stilled as her warmth surrounded him. She rocked her hips and he began a steady pleasure filled rhythm, each stroke bringing him closer and closer to the edge.

"I love you Katherine." He whispered in her ear.

"I love you too Raphael." She said as he slowed his pace, trying to make it last as long as possible, but he was too close. He clutched her to him fiercely as he called out her name into the night as wave after wave of exquisite, earth shattering pleasure rode over and through his body. Chaos gasped and moaned his name.

He kissed her and held her closely. He felt oddly disconnected. "Chaos I..." He began. He felt as if his body was on fire.

"You are dying Raphael." She said softly.

He closed his eyes. "Totally worth it." He said as he died in her arms.

Donatello emerged from between the trees of the forest that had closed and surrounded his brother and Chaos.

He looked at his brother's body, because he knew he was dead. His brother's body began to glow with thousands of tiny pinpoint golden lights.

Chaos smiled. "He'll be fine." She said as she looked at him.

"He's becoming a god, isn't he" Donatello asked as his brother's body ceased to glow.

"Yes." She said simply as she moved Raphael to lay more on the side of the bed.

Donatello walked towards the bed. He could tell his brother was now just sleeping.

"I can smell your blood Chaos." He said softly as he advanced towards her. Chaos looked at him in surprise. "I can smell the scent of sex in the air, and the scent of my brother on your skin." He moved grabbing her, lifting her, and pinning her to the wall of the room they were now in. Donatello looked around at the grey walls. He looked over his shoulder at the four pollster bed with black satin sheets.

He turned his attention back to Chaos. He buried his face into her neck. "I've changed my mind. I don't want to be just your lover. I want to be your husband." He pulled back and looked at her searchingly.

"I want you to be my husband too Donatello." She replied gently."And you can be. I can have as many Consorts as I wish."

He growled low in his throat. "I want to make you mine and only mine Katherine." He whispered fiercely. "But I know the days of having you to myself are over. I know I have to share you, I have shared you, but the part of me that is still demon doesn't like to share."

"I know Donatello, but you are my love, my lover, and my soul mate." She whispered.

Donatello pulled back. "You had best go to Leonardo and Mikey. I'll be waiting for you in the Sacred Circle.

Chaos looked at him in confusion.

"Leo's probably crawling the walls by now, go to him. I've waited well over 200 years, I can wait a few more hours."

Chaos nodded and was gone.

Leonardo looked over at Chaos as she appeared in the room that Death had escorted him to.

Michelangelo was in the room across the hall.

Leonardo's room looked like an exact copy of the room he had used when he had lived with Katherine, except this room had most of his belongings. His meditation mat, his bookcase and books, the artworks that hung on his walls, even all of his clothes were in the drawers of the intricately carved dresser.

He was currently lying in the very comfortable bed, not that he had been sleeping or even trying to sleep, but he figured he had nowhere else to really go.

His eyes roved over Chaos' naked body. She was as beautiful as he remembered. She tipped her head to the side. "Any regrets?" Chaos asked him.

He thought about her question. "None." He said as he held out his arms. Chaos crawled into bed beside him. He reached out and touched part of her white wing. It was soft and warm to the touch.

"You're naked." She said in surprise.

"So are you." He said pulling her close.

"You are taking this better than I would have thought Leonardo." Chaos said softly.

He stroked her cheek gently. "I thought about running." He said truthfully. "I don't like having to share you. But I know if I ran, you wouldn't let me go, I wouldn't have wanted you to let me go. And besides, you gave me the choice. I could have became human, forgotten everything, who I was, what I was, but in the end, I didn't want that, I wanted you. I've always wanted you. If to have you I need to share, then I can live with that. I don't like it, but it is better than living a life without you." He said as he brought her lips in for a searing kiss that left him breathless and wanting more. He reluctantly pulled away from her. "But what I don't understand," He began as her searched her face. "Was what you actually did." He asked her.

"That is a rather long question Leonardo." She said to him

"I know." He said as he rolled her under him. "I've always loved listening to you talk Katherine. I haven't talked to you in...well, a very long time." He said softly. "I've missed you. I've missed you so much." He said as he kissed her gently, trying to contain the need to make love to her.

"The Fae ripped apart the barriers to our world, and they began flooding through the tear. Using the tear that the Fae created I ripped the universe apart and opened a portal to Darkness' earth and from there I ripped through time and space to another world. A world that had at one time contained life, and was now barren of it. Though the barriers between this alternate earth and this new world, I fear, have become rather thin." She said with a frown. "To this new world, the Tree of Life went, as I opened the doorway beneath and around the Tree. I used the crystal which acted like a magical amplifier, almost like a philosophers stone to do this. The crystal was created using the souls of Michael and Lucifer. When the crystal shattered, the recoil of the magic released killed Nightmare and released two very powerful Goddesses, created with the souls of the two Fallen angels. One, a goddess of light magic, the other, a goddess of dark magic. It also released the Nightmare godhede into this other world." She paused in thought. "Of course even had I not returned, Shadow would have fulfilled her destiny to create a new Tree of Life. And Ryven protected her from all of the attacks she had suffered, so everything worked out I suppose."

"Does this new world have a name?" Leonardo questioned her.

"T'lae-ran." She said with a small smile.

Leonardo blinked at her and shook his head. "You were with Donny for a very long time..." He began.

"I love you Leonardo. You know this. I love you so much that I came back from the depths of darkness and chaos, because I wanted to be with you." She whispered to him.

He looked at her in shock.

"Please" She whispered as she rubbed her pelvic bone across his hardened length.

He rolled her over so that she was on top of him, wings spread out wide. "I want to see you. I want to watch every last inch of you as I move inside you." He said as he shifted her. She let out a gasp as he slid into her moist, warm depths. She began a slow torturous rhythm that brought him to the brink and spilled him over the edge. He brought her to him, clutching her closely to his rapidly beating heart. "I love you too Katherine." He whispered to her as his world went black.

Chaos blinked in shock as she looked around at Michelangelo's room. "All of this could not have fit in your room at home Michelangelo. " She said with a shake of her head.

Michelangelo grinned. "Well it's a magic Tree/Office building. I was bored and I wondered what I wished I could have in my room while I waited to have my turn." He said with a shrug as he pointed at his 50" tv, his game consoles and giant movie collection.

"How long did you think you would be waiting?" She questioned.

He lost his smile then, looking down at his feet. He flicked a glance up to her and then shifted his eyes away.

"I can't be your lover Katherine." He said with a shake of his head.

She was by his side in an instant, arms thrown around his neck, her body pressed into his.

"Kiss me Michelangelo, make love to me, make me yours." She whispered. "You will never be just a lover Michelangelo. You will be my Consort, my husband."

He kissed her passionately as he pulled her down into bed with him.

Donatello watched as his mate walked closer to him. His brother's scents were strong on her naked body. "The forest is calling out for blood."He said to her as he attempted to shake his demon. He could feel the will of the forest riding along his skin. The forest had enjoyed the taste of spilt virginal blood, but now the forest was hungry for more.

"Yes. It is." She said as she watched him stalk towards her. A light wind blew, rustling her silver hair and wings. He was on her that instant pushing her into the soft grass that made up the forest floor.

He pinned her beneath him, the need for blood, control, and sex rolled through him. He tried to ignore the urges as she brought his face down until her gentle lips met his own. "It is okay Donatello. I am here and I am safe. You can let go. It is all over. You don't have to cling so tightly to your demon." She whispered.

"My demon is the only thing that has kept me alive for these last two centuries." He growled back.

"I know." She said gently.

"Blood, sex and sacrifice." He said softly.

"The forest is ever a demanding Beast." Chaos said softly as she bit hard into his neck.

He gasped. The pain only lasted a moment before Chaos rolled a wave of pleasure through him as he plunged himself inside her.

He finally allowed himself to let go of everything. His need, his lust, his fear. Everything that made him King of Demons, he attempted to let melt away. He needed to let go of the violence and constant fear, even though he knew it would never go away. He had changed from the young, naive pacifist that he had been. "I love you Katherine." He said quietly.

She pulled her lips away from his neck. "I love you too my lover." She said as he kissed her bloodstained mouth. But maybe if Chaos could still be Katherine, maybe it was possible for him to still be Donatello. He sank his canines into Chaos' neck and drank down gulp after gulp of her blood, and her power.

Raphael opened his eyes. He had died, he knew he had died. "Welcome back." Chaos said softly. Raphael groaned. He slowly sat up and looked around him. His brothers were piled beside him.

He blinked at Chaos. "I ain't dead?" He questioned.

Chaos laughed. "You're my husband Raphael, my Consort. You're also a god." She said with a shrug. "Go back to sleep. Sleep is good." Chaos said as she lay back down in Donatello's arms.

Raphael grumbled a little, but closed his eyes, pushing Michelangelo out of the way and firmly pushing himself against Chaos. "I may have to share you, but I ain't sharing a bed with my brothers every night." He grumbled. "Mikey more over and quit touchin' me." He said as he pushed his brother over. Michelangelo grumbled a little and rolled over.

Chaos chuckled and buried her face into Raphael's neck. His eyes opened. "Why are you covered in blood?" He asked her as he sat up and looked at Donatello who was also covered in blood.

She just smiled. "Go back to sleep Raphael." She said to him, and he did.

Thought? opinions?

And as I said there is still an epilogue!