For those of you who can play "High Hopes" by Pink Floyd while you read this chapter. It gives a haunting feeling while playing in the background. This is how I designed the chapter.

Well there wasn't much to leave after all really, not when there was so much on the outside waiting for me. Not when there was Mom and Dad and Sam and Tucker and Jazz and Valerie and even Derek and Angie out there. Though I think Angie was still a little wary of me. I turned off the portal, the glow that had haunted me for fourteen years of my life, the one that gave me these powers, that glow faded and flickered out of existence some ectoplasmic residue left on the ground. Mom and Dad packed up the weapons surprised by any of my modifications and dad trying to get me to be enthusiastic about joining the family business. He even promised to show me some of his moves.

Sam and Tucker all live in different cities now though… that's a bit sadder, Tucker lives all the way in California while Sam is just a couple of towns away. Valerie lives in New York with Derek Jazz was too. I stared at my old room. It was kind of sad to be leaving; there was so many memories here, so many good things. I sighed touching the door frame and staring at my bed my bags were in the RV with everything else, there wasn't any room for me to ride with my parents though Dad did try to make a small space. In the end I wound up riding with Sam which I had no trouble with. I stared at the room before turning away and closing the door a smile on my face as I walked down the stairs.

It was a long road that I had walked, my path over grown as Clockwork said. A long slow life where my child hood dreams had been ticked away by the hands of time when I had chosen to stay in this town. The long amount of time I stayed in this town this long, long, long, life. It was endless, a long march through a tunnel, and I was ready to move on. I was ready to grow to live and when the time came to die.

I opened the door breathing in the fresh air the green grass. The sun beating down shining over the road brighter than I had ever felt before. Maybe it was just because thing were so much better now. With my friends standing in the road waiting for me, my parents all in a crowd around the house. Everything was wondrous, things had changed. There was a purpose, there where high hopes. There was a future.

As we left the town I looked back at my home at the glowing embers of the fire as the town decayed without my presence. But there was a green on the other side of the hill a bright vibrant green. It occurred to me I was finally moving forward walking down my path not sleepwalking back through my old life. This was it. My heart jumped at it was taken out of that town out of city limits like the tides. I felt higher than ever before ready to fly away from my troubles I stared in wonder out of the window. I was out! It was an amazing feeling, awesome and inspiring, dreamlike, this was a dream come true. I laughed looking over at Sam feeling euphoric.

Sam smiled at me happily glad I was happy I would assume. I smiled wider waiting for a tomorrow. Waiting for the hope of the next day there was change in the world, in my world. I glanced once more back to the now ruins of Amity Park. It wasn't so sad any more. It was dark over there, a long prison no longer the home it once was. It was a prison I was glad to be free of. I was free. I laughed again feeling amazing feeling happy feeling like some god was smiling at me again. That the dark years of my life the suicide attempts the long sad songs I played day by day would never plague me again that I would be forever with the people I love. This was it, it wasn't repairing the town, and it was just getting out. That with each building I fixed I built my prison stronger and eventually Sam and Tucker and Jazz and Mom and Dad and Valerie had pulled me free. Free, you could never understand that word as I do now. It is an amazing word, something to always be sought for, fought over, and protected. Sam turned on the radio. Soft piano keys of the bridge of a song. They were light, yet sad almost longing yet in the way you miss days gone by. I blinked staring at the radio.

"Encumbered forever by desire and ambition

There's a hunger still unsatisfied

Our weary eyes still stray to the horizon

Though down this road we've been so many times"

I was now on the road out of Amity park…

"The grass was greener

The light was brighter

The taste was sweeter

The nights of wonder

With friends surrounded

The dawn mist glowing

The water flowing

The endless river…"

And let me tell you things had never been better. I smiled over at Sam and took her hand in mine.

"Danny?" Sam said looking at me.

"Forever and ever." The song finished. I smiled at Sam.

"Forever and ever." I repeated, "I'll always be here, I'll always come back, I'll always keep living so long as I have you and a reason to live for." I told her.

"Danny?" Sam said. I smiled at her.

"Its over Sam. I'm out, I'm free." I smiled at her. Sam smiled back then squeezed my hand which I just then realized was bigger than hers once again.

"I suppose this is the end then." Sam said staring back at the city shrinking in the distance.

"Yes… this is the end, the end of this beginning." I smiled the leaned over taking the Sam's face in my hand the other still holding her other and I kissed her.

Well that is the end…

Of this arc

I was going to make a sequel but I think I'll just finish the rest here starting the second arc unless you vote otherwise, please I value your opinion.

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