Matthew lay on the ground, his arms and legs stretched out. He must be behind the castle-or what was left of it. His Sol Blade was lying on his side, undamaged. Matthew, however, wasn't so lucky. He had a scar that had torn his shoulder open, and had gone downwards, causing the scar to cross his chest. It wasn't very deep. But Matthew was unable to do a single movement.

He mentally cursed. "Dammit, I can't move." he thought. He tried to get up, but he felt too tired to do so-he had the feeling of being drained of his energy.

He heard the distant explosions the airship was causing. He hoped he didn't kill too many innocent people.

He heard a footstep.

"W-who's there?"

"Calm down" someone said in his head. "Don't move."

Matthew didn't know who was talking. "Ivan?" No, it wasn't him. It wasn't the old veteran's voice. It wasn't Sveta's either. Then whose was it? Yet the voice wasn't unknown…Matthew had heard it before. It was strong, calm and thankful.

Suddenly, all the pain began to disappear. His injuries began disappear too. Soon, he was able to move again. He picked up his Sol Blade, and looked around, wanting to see the face of his healer. But no one was there.

Confused, he sheathed his weapon. "Who's there?"

There was no answer.

Matthew shrugged. "Thanks for helping me." he said to the air around him.

"I'm repaying the debt I owe you." the voice replied.

Matthew smiled. He walked back to the half destroyed city.

Amiti, Tyrell and Sveta walked towards the hospital. Rief and Mia were busy finishing bandaging Sheba. The old, yet young wind Adept was snoring, telling them that she was asleep. Sanan warriors were resting. Some of them were insisting to return and get their weapons to return to the fight. Some of them simply waited patiently for their wounds to heal.

There were also other doctors who were fighting hard to save the injured warriors. Karis, Isaac and Piers were with Emperor Unan. The emperor had been injured while doing a heroic action: a soldier was surrounded, and about to get himself killed. The leader of Sana had come to save him. He got himself injured in the fight. This wasn't all bad; it had given the other warriors a boost. They became far more confident and determination.

The Sanan navy had taken considerable damage, but was still afloat. The marines were badly struck too, but, statically, they had lost only 30 percent of their military.

Emperor Unan had led his army to complete victory.

"How's everyone?" Amiti asked.

Karis shrugged. "No one has died of their injuries. That's a good sign, but there are a lot of wounded. None are fatal."

"Good. That's a calm area in this tornado." Sveta said

Rief got up. "I have good and bad news."

The group of Adepts looked at him. "It's Felix. He'll survive his wounds. However, he'll be unable to do any movement for several days. He'll have to rest a lot."

Isaac nodded. "Good." Everyone knew that he was concerned about Matthew's disappearance, and that he wanted to look for him, but he knew that that was Garet's, Eoleo's, Ivan's and Jenna's job. Not his.

"We have another injured fella here." a Sanan soldier said

Rief groaned, and got up. He looked at the wounded warrior, and stood stunned.

"Matthew…"

Everyone looked at the earth Adept. His arm was around the soldier's shoulders, who was helping up. He was covered with second degree burns, and all his clothes were torn. He looked exhausted but happy. He winked at his friends.

"Matthew!" Isaac hugged his son so hard that Matthew had to push him away in order to be able to breath.

Tyrell grabbed Matthew by the collar. He punched him, crying.

"I was so worried." Tyrell sobbed. "When I saw the ship crash and you were nowhere I thought you were dead."

Matthew grinned. "I know you don't like this, but I'm still gonna do it buddy. I'm going to give you hug."

He hugged his best friend.

"WHERE WERE YOU?" Karis stormed towards him, her expression furious but relieved

Tyrell bit his lip and looked at Matthew. "Watch out."

But Karis did something that no one had expected: she hugged the earth Adept so hard that his ribs hurt.

Tyrell looked confused, Isaac grinned, Rief shrugged, Sveta's eyes were shining, and Amiti had turned pale green with jealousy.

"We were so worried…" Karis whispered

Sveta spoke in Amiti's ear. "They make such a cute couple."

Amiti knocked her hard with his elbows. He was about to yell something, but he took a deep breath, and turned away.

Rief looked at his cousin in complete surprise. "You aren't going to say anything?"

Amiti shrugged. "Karis's upset, so I'll let it slide this time. But," he turned back to Matthew, "don't think that this is the end loser. One day, she'll be MINE!"

Matthew chuckled. "Can't you see that it's all over?"

"Why? Because she lost her head and started hugging you?"

"I never saw her hug YOU Fish-Brain!"

"Now I wish I hadn't made such a big fuss about it" Karis thought, still in Matthew arms.

Sveta slumped next to Rief, looking depressed. "Why does your cousin always ruin everything?"

The group of young Adepts was with Kraden. They shared the same feelings. They wanted to get to the Apollo Lens before the Turaparang tried to launch another offensive against the city. This time, there would be no stopping them.

"We could get to the Apollo Sanctum now." Eoleo said. "We'll be there before our enemies know it."

Kraden shook his head. "Remember the reason why we stayed here? There might be a trap. Matthew even said that Blados had survived the event of the activation of the Apollo Lens. This is a bigger reason to be careful."

The group stayed silent.

"We can't have our parents come with us." Tyrell said. "I don't want dad to find himself in the same situation as Felix."

Karis looked at the ground as if she just had an idea. She looked at Sveta.

"Sveta, you do remember the fact that you are the queen of Morgal?"

The white lupine looked at her with a complete confused air. "Of course."

"Do you remember the Umbra Gear?"

"I won't forget about this very uncomfortable armor. Why?"

Karis grinned. "So here's the plan…"

Matthew, Tyrell, Karis, Rief, Amiti, Sveta, Eoleo, Himi and Kraden walked up the Endless Wall. The ancient, ultimate and mammoth wall stretched out for mile, separating Angara from Morgal and Sana. The bricks were black, and the view fantastic.

As usual, what wasn't fantastic was Eoleo's singing.

The group was so sick of hearing him, that they put on earplugs to keep themselves from becoming deaf. They had tried three times to make him shut up, but when he stopped his so called singing, he would start all over again five minutes later.

So the group gave up trying to keep him quiet, and they followed him silently, admiring the view and trying to concentrate on their mission.

"I don't hear you yelling at me to stop." Eoleo suddenly stopped singing, and had turned around.

Everyone was walking, with a normal look on their faces. Amiti walked past him. He didn't seem to notice anything.

"Guys?"

Everyone was silent. Eoleo walked up to Amiti.

"YOU STUPID, BIG SMELLY FRIED FISH! LOOK AT ME WHEN I'M SPEAKING!"

Amiti pulled out an earplug. "What?"

Eoleo looked shocked. He stomped towards Himi.

"Hey third eye girl. Can you do me a favor?"

Himi didn't even seem to know that he was standing near her.

"HIMI!"

Himi pulled out an earplug. "What?"

Eoleo turned dark red. "EVERYONE! WHY DO YOU HAVE EARPLUGS? YOU ARE THE WORST FRIENDS EVER!"

Everyone took off their earplugs.

"What?"

Eoleo exploded. It took about an hour until they could calm him down.

The group climbed up the Apollo Ascent. The sun was shining wildly here. The light filled them with warmth and courage-the sign that the light was allowing them to enter the sacred sanctum.

The ground crossed the gate, and entered the very core of light.