A/N: This is it, the last chapter of Balance! Hold on tight because this is gonna be a bumpy ride…

Chapter 20

Light of the Sun

"NO!" Megan yelled as Libra ripped the blade from Exarp's stomach, the Angel falling to the ground. She stood there, paralyzed for a second as she looked at Exarp lying hopeless on the ground. But she soon snapped out of it, now determined to save him.

Megan quickly ran over to Exarp and crouched down next to him. His breaths were short and his hand covered his wound as it kept bleeding.

"Justice has been served," Libra said, wiping the blood off the blade. Megan was just about to say something horrible to her when the Goddess was blasted back by Castiel who gave Megan a look that clearly said that they'll hold her back so she could have her last moment with Exarp. No, she could save him couldn't she?

"Hang in there okay, I'm gonna fix this," she said and put two fingers on Exarp's forehead to see if she could heal him. Nothing. "Come on, work!"

"Megan, you can't fix this," Exarp said, some blood dripping out of his mouth. "No one can."

"No, there has to be something, something to stop this," she said, looking at the hole in his stomach.

Megan felt tears start to well in her eyes as she stared into the Angels blue ones. One good thing ripped away from her yet again. "But you can't-." She couldn't even finish the sentence.

Exarp didn't say anything he just reached up with a shaky hand to grab the crystal that hung around Megan's neck. In a second the crystal started to glow and Exarp yelled in a little in pain. After the light stopped glowing Exarp dropped his hand and looked at her with exhausted eyes. "That's…my Grace," he said, looking at the crystal.

"Wha-what? You put your Grace in here?" she asked. Exarp nodded weakly. "Wait, you knew you were going to die, didn't you? You knew you were!" she yelled angrily, though she let out a small sob at the realization.

"I'm sorry," he said and swallowed some blood. "I knew I couldn't beat Libra. But it was worth it, bringing you all here to stop her when I couldn't. I'm giving you my Grace so you can have something to remember me by."

Megan felt a tear roll down her cheek as she took the Angels hand. "Oh God, you're such an idiot," she said with a weak smile. Exarp smiled back.

"I'm glad that I met you, Megan. You're strong in every sense of the word. Remember that," he said and couched, more blood pouring out of his mouth. "You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain." And then his crystal blue eyes fluttered shut. For good.

Megan just sat there, holding Exarp's limp hand, staring down at him in shock. The quote was for him. It had always been for him. And Megan guessed that he had always known that too.

She then looked down at the crystal hanging around her neck. She had Exarp's Grace. That means he got his wish after all. One that Megan didn't have to ask in order to know it. He was human. He died a human. Megan tried one more time to see if she could revive him but with no luck. He was gone. No bringing him back.

Megan let go of his lifeless hand, all the sadness in her now replaced with anger. Every goddamn good thing that comes into her life is always taken away from her. But she knew that she could at least avenge Exarp. She had to kill Libra.

Megan looked up from Exarp's dead body to see the gang fighting off a bunch of vines that had seemingly come to life by the hands of Libra. Oro and Luna were still standing near the throne, just watching everything. That made the flame in Megan's stomach grow even larger.

"Dean!" she called over. "I need your help!

"Sorry, but I'm a little busy at the moment!" he yelled back. Dean currently had a vine wrapped around him, slowly sucking the life out of him. But all of a sudden a zap of purple lightning that came from nowhere disintegrated the vine, freeing Dean.

"You do that?" he asked Megan.

"No," she said but didn't dwell on the mystery of the lightning for long. "Quick, pass me the Earth Tablet."

"The Earth Tablet? I don't have it remember? We gave The Powers the Air and Earth Tablets," Dean explained then quickly turned around to fire a shot at a very creepy moving vine.

Megan quickly spun around to look at Oro and Luna. "Please," she said to them, hoping that they've been through enough together that maybe they could help each other out.

Oro looked over at Luna and said, "Don't." Luna looked unhappy about Oro's decision, her jaw setting. She looked over at Oro and said, "I don't take orders from you." Then the Angel of the Moon took the Tablets out of her pocket and threw them over to Megan. "Kill her," she said and Megan nodded a thank you.

As Megan turned around to face Libra she tried to not look at the dead Exarp. Dead… The flame got bigger.

"Okay, bitch," Megan said, taking out all of the Tablets. "Your shit is wrecked." Libra didn't look the least bit scared but Megan didn't need her to be scared. She needed her to be dead.

Megan didn't even have to ask to make the Tablets do what she wanted. It was like they read her thoughts and decided to let her be the boss of them, listening to her every command. The little Tablets rose into the air, the symbols carved into them lighting up in their element color. Now Libra looked scared.

The Tablets started to get brighter and bright until a beam of light shot out of each one, hitting Libra at full force. The Goddess screamed and the light from the Tablets engulfed her and in a matter of moments she turned into a pile of dust.

After that the Tablets dropped to the ground, landing a few feet in front of her. Megan looked over at the gang to see if they were alright. They were. The vines were now dead on the ground and they all kept looking between her and the ash that was once the Goddess of Balance.

"So, I guess we win?" Dean said.

"Not yet." Megan heard Oro say as he appeared behind her. The Angel of Fire then quickly spun Megan around to face him and stabbed her in the stomach with what looked like an Archangels blade.

Megan felt all the air leave her as the blade was impaled into her stomach. She couldn't help but think if Exarp felt this way, the same pain that she was feelings. It felt just like when you got a shot; it hurt at first but then everything just went numb. Oro's face was the only think she could see. He was pissed, per usual, but Megan never though he would do something like this. But why? Megan got her answer when Oro ripped the Horsemen rings from her necklace and pulled the blade out of her stomach, disappearing right after that.

Okay, now that hurt a lot. Megan tried to breathe but all she could do was get short little gasps of oxygen as blood started to flow out of her stomach. She felt her legs buckle and in a second she fell to the ground, her back lying on the cold stone of the palace.

This was it, she was dying. She was going to be dead, maybe for good. Unless God brought her back again. That was a high possibility but when the world is slowly fading to black you can't help but think that you're going for good. Megan started feeling cold and warm at the same time, her hand lying over her wound. It was a strange feeling, only having felt both temperatures at the same time when she once went to the Liberty Science Center when she was younger. It was strange how that particular memory was the first to flash before her eyes.

Megan could hear the others yelling at each other, all of them trying to figure out what to do as they crowded around her. She tried to focus on the translucent ceiling above her, the light colors of sunrise peaking down on them. But she couldn't stop thinking that she would just die and that would be it. Yes, she had died before, but this was different. Last time she died it only took a second. This time it felt like forever.

"Listen, Megan, everything's gonna be okay," she heard Dean say. Megan coughed some blood and nodded.

"Unfortunately it's not." What? That was Gabriel's voice. What was he doing here?

"What do you mean?" Sam asked in annoyance.

"My Dad's not going to bring her back like last time," The Archangel said.

"Why?" Jinx asked. Megan started to feel scared now, all hope of her coming back now lost. This was it.

"If she dies again then she's just another lost cause. God will think she's not doing her job well if she keeps dying so he plans on just keeping her in Heaven. I also think he pities her a little," Gabriel explained. Pity? Megan felt anger rise in her. The last thing she ever wanted was to be pitied, especially by God.

"Then what do we do? We can't heal her! God kind of gave us a double edged sword here," Dean said angrily. Megan's vision started to blur now.

"I know what we can do." That was Luna. At least, Megan was pretty sure that it was. The hearing was starting to go too.

"And why should we trust you? Your Angel buddy just freaking stabbed her!" Dean yelled.

"Dean," Sam said, looking over at his brother. "Let her help. She's not like Oro."

There was silence so Megan guessed that Dean surrendered.

"How can we save her?" Castiel asked.

"The Tablets. They are strong enough to heal her." Megan let out a grunt of pain to let them know to hurry up. She was holding on by a thread and she didn't know how long she could keep that up.

Megan wasn't sure what happened but one of them seemed to gather the Tablets together. She was pretty sure that it was Luna since she was the expert on this. She put Tablets on either side of Megan, who was now breathing heavily, and chanted something in Latin. The Tablets started glowing and floating again and within seconds the light of the Tablets enveloped her.

The group stared at Megan as the Tablets lit her up. They soon couldn't see anything but light. They all covered their eyes as the light started to grow throughout the entire palace in one big white flash.

A moment later the light went away and the Tablets fell to the ground. The group opened their eyes again and stared wide eyed at what they saw.

Megan was healed, yes, but she changed. Every feature of her changed.

She was a brand new person.

A/N: And that is the end of Balance! I hope you all enjoyed this story because I enjoyed writing it. I would like to thank everyone who reviewed, story-alerted, and favorited this story! You guys are awesome!

Important, please read: There is a sequel to Balance! It is now up! It is called Brand New Wings. Just go to my profile and you'll find it there. I hope you are all ready for the next adventure!