Requiem of Time: Epilogue


"Come on, Allen! This is going to be fun!"

Allen Walker, the world's second Millennium Earl, smiled in exasperation as he allowed himself to be dragged forward, his arm around his second wife Lulubell making sure he was not alone here. His first wife, Rhode, had grown even more excited ever since the gates had come in sight, ring on her finger sparkling in the bright sky as she pulled him by the hand.

An amusement park had just opened in the United States, Disneyland by name, and Rhode was insistent that they go. It had been over half a century since the defeat of their brother-by-clan Adam, and less than a decade since his very human death of illness and old age. The war Allen had started back then still haunted him at times, the death toll in the millions, and the second one that followed a few years later even more devastating. However, that was behind them now, and the world was healing.

As they paid for their entrance tickets and began an easy walk into the park, Allen looked around at the newly constructed buildings and smiled at Rhode. "The rides here will be quite sketchy, you know. The integrity of the mechanics behind them are not quite trustworthy yet."

Rhode grinned cutely and began tugging him and Lulubell forward again. "I know! I hope one of them collapses while we're on it!" Well, Rhode will always be Rhode.

Allen shared a look with Lulubell and saw her amused smile, and he laughed softly as she led them to the closest ride possible.

While Rhode was still the same, Lulubell hadn't changed much either. She was as loyal to him, as the Millennium Earl, as she was to Adam. There were still times he felt odd seeing the radiant smile on her face if she did something he asked for successfully, and he and Rhode both had to work on comforting her if she failed it, including menial tasks. She could become quite distraught, he had found.

As he had found in the Chamber all those years ago, all Akuma in the world had 'shut down' with Adam's defeat. In fact, only the ones he had modified remained, much to the happiness of Lavi and Crowley. Lulubell and Rhode as well, for the two servants they had grown attached to – Mimi and Tati. Those two and the others still remained on his Ark, under the watchful eye of Kawamura, as maids and servants and such.

Without the threat anymore, Innocence was vanishing from the world. Slowly, strange as that was. Though, for the last five years or so, Allen hadn't seen any other fragment except for his own Crown Clown, which still remained as his left arm and kept him alive by the seal over his heart. There were times he wondered, idly, if one day the Crowned Clown would disappear as well, and if he would end up dying that day. Fortunately, of course, he would reincarnate, but he was still against the idea of bleeding out unexpectedly and leaving behind his two very... addicting wives.

Also, without the threat of Adam and Akuma, much had changed with his friends and the Dark Order. Central had mostly calmed its fanatical outlook, actually opening their Holy Book and preaching it for once. The Dark Order itself had broken apart, leaving behind only memories of friends and smiling faces.

Lenalee and her brother returned to China, free of their duties, where Bak Chan had finally gained the nerve to ask her out. After some bumps, the two got married. They were both still alive and currently with grandchildren out in China. Lavi and Chomesuke had disappeared, only appearing suddenly and without warning on his Ark to say 'hi' and catch up on old times.

Crowley and Eliade settled down back in Transylvania, taking back the mantle of Baron and returning to the joys of a quiet life. Miranda had surprised him the most, appearing on the arm of Tyki and with a wink and a wave set out on a wild adventure with him to enjoy the wonders of the Earth. She had eventually married him as well, moving to Portugal with him once they finished their rush.

Cross had died. Truly died, this time, nearly thirty years ago from some smoking related illness. Allen bitterly joked the man had it coming, but he was hit the hardest out of anyone by his death. He still visited Anita at times to help comfort her, sometimes share memories of the man. The other Marshals Allen had lost contact with years ago, but the last he had seen Cloud Nine she was happily back in the throes of the dating life. That was forty-five years ago.

The other Noah clansmen, still immortally young after fifty-five years, dropped by continuously on the Ark where Allen currently lived. They remained a close-knit family, including himself. Only Adam would never be reincarnated, but the man remained bitter for his defeat the rest of his life. The thirteen of them alone attended his funeral.

Fou, Allen was happy to hear, had finally be released from her binding prison down on Earth, and she and her foul mouth ascended back into heaven. He thought that was the last he saw her, twenty or so years ago, but last year he had an oddly vivid dream of her, mentioning certain things about the thanks from the 'Higher Ups' and such. Could have just been a wild dream, though.

Kanda, that cranky old swordsman, set out to find the woman of his heart and faded memories. Allen liked to believe that he had found her, since he hadn't seen him since, though he did wish at times he could meet the second again just for another 'spar.' If his theory was correct – and it was just a theory since he hadn't seen Kanda in fifty years – the second's regeneration ability would keep Kanda youthful for some time. Alas, he never had the chance to test that theory out.

Bookman had disappeared, like Lavi, except he wasn't really seen since.

Finder Kevin had returned to his family, after the war. Allen watched him go. They never made contact since.

The other exorcists, like Meilin, Chaoji, Timothy, Noise Marie, and Hevlaska... They had grown up and done their own things, while Hevlaska passed away. The century old Exorcist had found him after they were returning victorious from the battle, and after a special few words, she finally allowed her soul to move on.

Then there was Sarah. One of the harder moments in Allen's life, he had taken her corpse back to her parents – he had, after all, promised that he'd bring her home eventually. They hadn't forgiven him for what happened to her, the tragedy he had brought to their family, but they listened to what she had done in life and the change she had brought in death. The parents allowed him to be there for her burial only, then refused seeing him ever again following.

Link, Allen had never actually made contact with in this life, but he had heard rumors from the Vatican that the boy had remained loyal to the church and advanced to a prestigious position. The rest of Central's personnel, Allen didn't care enough to hear even the rumors of.

There was Allen's cursed eye, too. Fortunately, with the defeat of Adam, Mana's Curse had lifted, leaving Allen blissfully free of the pain and torment the eye could cause him. On the down side, the curse had taken his left eye with it, leaving him with a thick slash running down over an empty socket. Allen guessed that Mana's swipe back then, that he had used to curse him, had gouged out his eye in the first place. Well, as Rhode once said, at least he got an awesome eye patch.

And finally, of course, there was the everlasting companion called Timcampy. As for the golden modified golem, well...

"Ack, Tim! Stay in the hat!" Allen whispered, while the fluttery ball kept trying to peak from under Allen's 'outdated' top hat. There just was no happy ending without Timcampy, Allen was certain.

Waiting in a line with Rhode and Lulubell, both in their human forms, Allen reflected on how they appeared the 'perfect' little family. He and Lulubell appeared the parents, with Rhode the child. Well, he certainly wasn't going to correct that assumption, not again. The poor woman he had corrected back in Britain, the notion appeared to have shattered her 'proper' view of the world, or something.

Allen closed his eyes and leaned against the wall as he waited, thoughts drifting back just for a moment to those days of struggle and strife, fifty-five years ago. Things were so different back then, and so peaceful now. It made him wonder what the next great adventure of the world would be. He had heard something or other about satellites that could potentially get a man on the moon, but that was preposterous... wasn't it?

A soft hand under his chin had Allen opening his eyes, and he found the silver orbs that could only be Lulubell there. The woman had a smile on her face as she leaned in and kissed him, distracting him from his thoughts quite successfully. Allen's arms went around her, still enjoying the small action immensely, and they broke apart only to continue moving forward in the line.

Allen still had the smile on his face from the kiss when Rhode nudged him and gave him an expectant look. The downside of keeping appearances, of course, was that he couldn't kiss his first wife the same way he kissed the second, lest some people suspect foul play. But then, he was the Millennium Earl, so what did he care? And, Rhode had explained quite admirably how it wasn't wrong to have two wives, so long as they were wives.

And so Allen bent down and gave Rhode a passionate kiss of her own, and they separated to the taste of her last lollipop on his lips. She grinned, looking pleased, and then egged him and Lulubell forward as the line had moved yet again.

With an arm around Lulubell and his hand entwined with Rhodes, Allen's thoughts drifted back to another matter, one that concerned the three of them. He hadn't forgotten Road or Lustul.

The two loves of his life would one day have to awaken, and they would instead be replaced by the two that were similar yet different. Allen was afraid of that day, and so he continued putting it off. Road, he remembered, was just as enjoyable and loveable as Rhode, yet he also remembered that whole feel of her being a different woman. Lustul, he shivered, would also change things considerably.

Well, his wives would have to reawaken eventually, but in truth he had the rest of eternity to wait for them. And, to be brutally honest, an eternity was a long time, even for one such as the Millennium Earl.

Speaking of time, Allen still remembered the Destroyer of Time and the problems it had caused the world. Him being destined to create it did little to appease his conscious when he considered the millions that had died as a result. Fortunately, it had disappeared some time ago, true to Hevlaska's theory. Either from his merge with the Fourteenth or Adam's downfall, he didn't know nor care. All he knew was that it was gone.

At last, Allen and his wives managed to enter the ride. For now, they had no problems, and that was just fine for him.


Final AN: ...And that's that, folks. I struggled literally for two hours trying to find a suitable line to end this chapter with, perhaps some cryptic thing Hevlaska said, or something relating to the title of the story, but... I just hit wall after wall, and finally I just closed the document with what I had. Now, an hour later, I opened it up, shrugged and said, "Meh, I'll leave it like this." So if you wanted some quote that'll stick with you down the ages, too bad. :D

Whelp, and thus ends Requiem of Time. I'm kinda impressed by the fact I managed updating typically once a week, even if they were just small chapters. Farewell my easy-write story. :(

A number crunch here: We spent ten months together here, over a span of 215,000 words, with just under two hundred continuous readers actually following this. Congratulations, you all, this is my least popular story. :3 Should make you feel special that each of you actually contributed something, more so than a story with a couple thousand readers.

Ja, well, as I've mentioned before this whole story was just a crazy idea I had while watching the DGM anime, particularly the Lulubell filler arc. Sadly, this will also likely be my only contribution to DGM fanfiction. I've got other, bigger things I had promised to move onto.

I want to thank all two hundred of you readers, and especial thanks to those of you who took the extra time to drop reviews. I never ask for reviews, but they are very much appreciated and really are what help me stay motivated to finish a story.

And for a final thanks, the reviewers who's names have stuck with me throughout this (I apologize ahead of time if you don't find your name here!):

Book Theif101: My oldest reviewer who stuck with me to the end, reviewing every chapter since chapter... 6? Thanks for the laughs. I know I've never mentioned anything about them, but I did have fun trying to relate your songs to the story. I'm still baffled by a couple of them. xD And yes, it is very hot out right now. -_-

Angel Fantasy: You've been my most consistent reviewer in this story, sometimes the only one to review a particular chapter. Thanks. :D ...And I don't know what to say about the lemon(s) that I wrote because of you and your insistence. It did make me bold enough to finally write LLL, so... thanks again? You corrupter you. :P

icedragon54: Even though you stopped reviewing some time ago, I did want to thank you for the fun banter. And the glomps. :D

And names at the top of my head I still remember: Heiryuu, AznPuffyHair, Mystjerne... There are a few more I was going to include, but... they stopped reviewing awhile ago. So they don't get on here. :D

Thank you, all of you, my beautiful and wonderful reviewers and readers! I hope you enjoyed this story as much as I did!

-Sub-Zero879