Epilogue: The Final World
"Oh me oh my, it seems the sixth story of this little tale is almost upon us. Kudos to those of you who have managed to read your way through this self-insert drivel. Now the best is about to come! …What? You don't know who I am? Honestly, I'm shocked and appalled. Don't you recognize my mannerisms? My voice? My dashing choice of words? …Oh wait, none of that matters when it comes to written text."
"A pity, really…All of my sentences are going to waste here because you are forced to imagine my original voice instead of hearing the real deal. Ladies, please hold yourselves back, I promise to make it up to you all eventually. Now then, back to the previous subject. Do you recognize who I am after all that I have said? …The answer is still no?"
"Well, I don't want to risk any spoilers at this point, since not everyone has played the amazing game that I debuted in! Of course, with how long it took for this particular story to be finished, a certain game about smashing and brothers has been released, and I imagine you have acquired my particularly gorgeous trophy. Such a shame I likely won't get to see the HD rendition, but that's how life works sometimes."
"Last chance, have you figured out my identity yet? …Oh, you either seriously don't know who I am, or you're just refusing to say anything because there's a big glass screen standing in the way of your voice. Oh well, it's not a total loss, you'll be seeing me in text format soon enough…"
"As fate would unfortunately have it, the world I come from has been chosen for the last story of this particular part. If you haven't guessed from my earlier comments, I'm absolutely THRILLED to be a part of this story…I'm sure the Japanese sun goddess puppy and the blue bomber of the EM waves are disappointed to know that they weren't chosen at the very last second to be a part of this AMAZING tale…Oops, am I saying a bit too much now?"
"Well, whatever the case may be, you'll be seeing me and all of my little minions soon enough. And honestly, if you haven't figured out who I am by now, then the little afterword that'll appear once I'm done speaking will reveal the final world! …Now if you excuse me, I have to get ready. Being evil can be very tiring, after all…Ciao!"
To be continued…
FINALLY I'm done with this story. Geez...I hate to bitch about my own work, but this really should not have taken five months to finish. I really underestimated the length of Symphonia when making this story. Even cutting out some of the stuff I had planned really didn't do much to prevent this story from being even longer than Part 3, which was before the second longest story in CotE.
Well, whatever, this part's done and past. There's a lot of stuff I changed around and outright cut, but in the end I feel satisfied with how it turned out...Just not how long it took me TO get it out. But I don't plan on taking a very long break before the next story. A couple days, and then it's time for the next and final world of Part 4...Kid Icarus: Uprising. I'll also be working on a sequel to one of my Touhou fics during this time, but you don't really need to care about that...At the moment.
So yeah, catch you all again relatively soon. And for those wondering, no, I'm not doing a what-if for Sonic or Kirby, since I'm at a blank for ideas and I don't want to force something out.