Thanerah opened her eyes to see a concrete ceiling with a few cracks and some small draining pipes. She wondered where she was so she sat up and realized that she was lying in some kind of corridor. *What is this…? I've never been here before.* she thought.

She slowly stood up as she felt slightly light headed. She groaned and held her head as she tried to remember what happened. "H-How did I get here? I remember…biting Pierce's arm when he tried to shoot," her eyes widened, ", Hidan!"

Her voice echoed down the empty corridors and Thanerah felt determine to escape from where ever she is. "How am I going to get out of here?" she asked as she mumbled to herself. She noticed down the hall it was slowly fading away into darkness and they were getting closer to her.

She felt her heart beating rapidly in her rib cage and her brain was screaming to run. She did so and ran down the opposite side of the corridor as the darkness was consuming the corridors. She ran and ran for her life but she had no idea of where she was going or how to get out of this mess.

*Wha-What's happening to me!* She felt a sudden pain in her chest and she immediately remembered. *That's right. That bastard Pierce shot me with the AU gun! This is not good! He may have killed me!* Her eyes widened as she worried *What about Hidan? How am I going to go back to him!*

She screamed "Father! Father! Help!" She heard no reply and that made her hope to shatter. Suddenly, a dark shadow came out from the ground in her path and she skid on the ground to a stop. She saw her father coming out of the portal and held a hand to the darkness. It immediately froze like he was freezing time.

He put his hand down easily and smiled at Thanerah, "You call for me?"

Thanerah sighed heavily with relief and said with a relief smile, "Thanks for the save, Dad. I thought I was gone for sure."

"You already are."

Her smile quickly disappeared from her face to be replaced by a shock expression, "What?"

"You died."

"I thought Jashinists can't be killed."

"Apparently that AU weapon of yours killed you, since it can also kill Ukrahs."

"But can't you send me back?"

"Yes but I'm not going to."

"…What! You want me dead!"

"Being dead is not the worst thing. You can join your mother and me."

"No! I want to stay with the man I love! I can't leave him!"

"Then I'll take away his immortality and take his soul to be with yours. Will that comfort you?"

She shook her head, "No! Hidan is needed in the Living! I can't just decide his fate!" She asked her father in disbelief, "Why do you want me dead!"

"Because the world is going to fall anyway, I'm saving you from a lot of misery."

"But I don't mind some misery! Physically! But I'm miserable when I'm being apart from Hidan!"

"But the future for the world is war. A great war, between the Jashinists and the Natokus. This will take many lives and I don't want my own children to get involved in this."

"Why?"

He sighed as he answered, "Because I don't want you and your brother to bear the burden of my mistakes from the past."

She narrowed her eyes at him suspiciously, "What mistakes? Father, what is going on? Tell me the truth."

Lord Jashin sighed heavily in defeat as he shook his head, "I'm going to regret this…" he grumbled as he rubbed his forehead softly to try to ease the aching in his mind.

He looked at her solemnly and answered, "A long time ago, I had a rival name Natoku. He was insanely jealous of me and wanted nothing but to destroy me, whatever the costs. I got tired of him getting on my back through the years so I challenged him to a death duel. Just to get this over with."

"We fought and I won the duel after getting a few bruises and broken bones here and there but it's expected. I felt sympathy to him because he had no one and I have your mother. So I sent him to a magic prison to lock him away from this world. But now, his followers are regrouping, growing a massive army to destroy what I've made. They're also planning to open the Prison and they're getting close to their goal."

"What keeps the Prison intact?"

A look of sympathy appeared on his hard expression but it was clear in his eyes, "My blood and the Key. And since you and Tagor are my children, the Natoku will come after you. They may know it by now so that's why I want you and your brother to…stay with us. I don't want to risk bringing Natoku out of his prison."

"Father, I can't watch the remaining Jashinist while I'm safe! Let me help you! Just tell me how to stop Natoku from destroying this world!"

"I can't because he has no weakness."

"Then how did you defeat him?"

"It was a duel. But it's a possibility that he has grown stronger over the years, perhaps stronger than I. If you go back to the Living then you will have this burden of mine and your mother wouldn't be so pleased with me."

"Would she be pleased if I just watch my follow Jashinist suffer?"

"No," he answered her flatly "she would have acted like that as well. Think of others before her. Guess you got that stubbornness trait from your mother."

"You bet." She sighed softly and asked him, "So there is no chance of stopping him?"

"Well…when I imprisoned him, I worried of what would happen if he escaped so I forged a weapon with old magic AKA the Key as a backup if that occurs. Now it seems like the right time to reclaim it."

"Where is it?"

"It's now in the hands of a bunch of idiots known as rouge mercenaries who lived in the ruins of Yorthar. Be aware, these idiots are strong but they're stupid. The Leader yields the weapon and only uses it because of its size and blade but he doesn't know the true power inside. It can only be activated by the blood of my heirs."

"It's a sword?"

"Yes so use it wisely and be careful. I don't want to see my children dead before I can see my grandchildren."

Thanerah groaned and rubbed her forehead as small anime veins were popping on her head, "Don't tell me you and mother are still on about that."

"What? We're parents, what did you expect from us?"

She lowly looked at him "Believe me, I don't want to know." Then she asked him solemnly, "Now, can you send me back?"

He smiled at her softly and pressed a finger on her forehead, "You don't need to ask. I already knew that you would be deniable about it."

Thanerah felt heavy but she could feel someone holding her and felt something went on her neck. She also heard some soft sobbing and she wondered if it was her husband. "H-Hidan…?" She felt him rigid and his sobbing immediately stopped.

"T-Thanerah…?" Hidan lifted his face up as small tears slide down from the corner of his eyes. He looked at Thanerah's face to see her blinking her eyes a bit and she looked at his disbelief face.

She smiled at him softly and brought her hand up to his face to wipe the tiny tears with her thumb. "Hidan…" Her lips were suddenly covered by him with a deep kiss and he didn't hesitate to devour her as much as he can as if she'll fade any minute now.

He pulled away while letting out a small shaky sigh and he pressed his forehead against hers. "I thought I lost you…" he softly said.

"I know…I know…" she slightly pulled away and noticed Pierce dead body lying on the ground while his head was over a puddle of blood. She grumbled as she glared at the dead man, "Good riddance."

Hidan wasn't paying attention at all at Pierce; he was paying more attention to his wife. He asked her, "Baby, what the fuck happened? You…died."

"My father revived me." She let out a small laugh, "I guess having a God as a father is not so terrible at all."

He softly smiled and softly pecked her lips. "I'll have to thank him with many fucking sacrifices."

Thanerah looked around the room once more and asked him as she looked at him in the eyes, "What happened to…"

He knew who she was asking so he replied without the need to let her finish her sentence. "He's gone. I don't fucking know why," he let out another sigh as he pressed his forehead against hers again "And I don't fucking care about him anymore. He's not worth my fucking time."

Thanerah softened her eyes and she kissed him warmly. After she pulled away she glanced at the side to see the Earth through the clean thick glass window. She returned her gaze to him and asked "Can you help me up?" Hidan wrapped his arms around her waist tightly and strongly lifted her up from the ground. She slightly stumbled a bit but she grabbed hold onto Hidan as support.

She grabbed his wrist and walked to the switch. She decreased the power to 13% of the Spirit's energy and explained to him, "This should diminish the Ukrahs."

"Let's hope this fucking works, Tha."

"It will work."

She hesitated to grab the switch then looked at Hidan. He asked her, "Doubts?"

"…A bit."

He let out a small sigh as he grabbed hold of it and grasped Thanerah's hand with his free one. "Moment of truth…" He pulled down the switch and they could hear the energy powering up through the engines. They watched through the thick window as a thin light was shot from the bottom of the Zeus Cannon to a certain spot on earth and it was engulf by light power energy.

The couple watched in awe as the earth was slowly being consumed by the Spirit's energy until it started to slowly fade. Hidan narrowed his eyes in curiosity and asked "Did it work?"

"…We'll find out when we get down there."

Suddenly they felt everything jerking to the side as they heard an explosion and felt it underneath their feet. The room tilted to the side and it made the couple to trip to the ground from losing their balance unexpectedly.

Thanerah landed on Hidan and she groaned. "What is going on!"

Hidan shook his head to get the dizziness out of his head since he hit the metal ground floor pretty hard. "There's no time for that! We have to get into the fucking escape pods or we're fucked up!"

He quickly grabbed her hand, stood up and ran to a door with a blinking red sign above it 'Emergency Escape Pods'. Hidan opened the door after pressing the 'open' button on the side and the door was opened. "Get in!"

Thanerah was going to but she remembered, "W-Wait! What about the Spirits!"

Her shoulders were suddenly grasped by Hidan and he said to her quite harshly while staring at her in the eyes with a hint of fear in his own. "No! Leave the fucking thing here! I am not going to lose you again!" He pushed her inside and entered as well. The hatch door closed behind him and he immediately bashed the large red button on the system.

Thanerah felt being pushed back as the pod shoot out from the Zeus Cannon in a flash so her back hit the metal doors. Hidan stumbled back as well but he grabbed the chair in time. The pod slow down and he sighed heavily in relief. He glanced over his shoulder to his wife, "Are you okay, babe?"

Thanerah coughed a bit and groaned from the pain in her back. She softly glared at him, "A little warning would be nice."

She walked to the side to look through the window and saw the Zeus Canon exploding from many places. "What the hell happened…?" she asked as she mumbled.

Hidan glanced at the destroyed Zeus Cannon and may already know the answer. "Koruko…" Just when he thought he was dead – again – he saw an escaped pod shooting out from a part of the Zeus Cannon before it was destroyed. The escaped pod went straight towards the earth and escaped from his sight. Hidan wasn't sure if it was his little brother or someone else.

But he doesn't care about that. All he could think about was the safety of the woman he loved; the light of his life. He said to her, "Come here." Thanerah turned her attention to her husband then obeyed with a questionable look.

Before she could ask him of what was wrong, she was brought into a tight embrace by him. She yelped in surprise and felt her air being cut off by how tight he was holding her. "H-Hidan…?"

He tightened his hold around her, if she had died today he would have begged Lord Jashin to send him to the Afterlife to be with her; whatever the cost. He would rather die with her than to continue living his life. He really can't bear the thought of living his life without her and it made his heart to ache so painfully that he couldn't bear it.

He tightened his hold around her and he whispered in her ear, "I'm never gonna let you go. You really scared me back there…"

Thanerah's eyes softened when she heard his confession. It must be hard for him to confess something like that and it made her feel very special. She smiled as she wrapped her arms around his neck tightly and whispered back. "You'll never lose me, Hidan. Besides, I won't give you the chance to lose me."

Hidan pulled away so he could look at her and she brought her hand up to cup his face. He quickly captured her lips with his and their lips moved against each other's gracefully and lovingly. They both pulled away from the kiss but held each other close.

Thanerah softly said to him with a lovely smile, "Let's go home."

Tagor wondered what in the blaze was that flowing energy over the earth was all about. But he could see the lands flourished lively than ever and could see small soft orbs floating from the ground to the sky as the weird glow shield disappeared.

Everyone else was coming out from the caves to look outside and they looked around the floating orbs I awe. Tagor felt something warm drifting in his chest and came out another soft orb and it joined the others. "It's so warm…" he mumbled as he stared at his orb floating to the sky.

He looked at the starry sky and smirked, "Well I'll be damned. That Spirit plan worked after all…" His smirked dropped as his eyes searched the starry sky, "but where is Thanerah?"

Something caught his attention and it was coming from the starry sky. "What the fuck is that…?" he mumbled as he narrowed his eyes at the red glowing thing and it was coming fast. Tagor heard some of the people behind him wondered the same thing as they saw the incoming fire.

Tagor's eyes widened, "Shit! It's coming this way!"

Everyone screamed and quickly ran away as the mysterious fire ball hit the ground that made the earth to shake a bit. The vehicle stopped after skidding on the dirt ground. After the smoke cleared away, it revealed to be an escaped pod with black ash marks at the front.

Everyone slowly surrounded the escaped pod and wondered who's in there. Suddenly the hatch door was kicked open and someone came out. Tagor immediately recognized that person and mumbled, "Hidan?"

He turned his head to see Tagor and said to him casually as if he didn't crash from space, "Nice to see you, too." Then he looked inside the escaped pod and grabbed someone from inside. He pulled out Thanerah by her waist and put her safely on the ground.

"Thanerah!" exclaimed Tagor as he felt relief washed over him. He was incredibly worried after Odan told him what happened to her. He quickly rushed to her so he could bring her in a tight brotherly embrace.

Thanerah was surprised and huffed out some air in surprise when he cut off her air supply. She shouted as she asked, "Is everyone trying to hug me to death!"

Tagor pulled away from the hug and looked at her sternly, "Don't – and I mean don't – ever do that again without informing me of where the hell you're going! You got me worried sick!"

"You should have asked Father of my whereabouts."

Tagor opened his mouth to argue but nothing came out. He quickly closed his mouth as he rubbed the back of his neck while trying to come up with an excuse and was avoiding making eye contact with her because he knew that she was smirking at him along with her husband.

"I…was just about to ask him about your whereabouts but I have been busy."

Hidan said with a grip of sarcasm in his tone, "Sure and we did nothing special. We just killed that fucker Pierce and save the whole world. Nothing special. And oh, my little fucking back-stabbing brother blew up the whole fucking Zeus Cannon while we were still inside; that was the best part."

Tagor blew his lips and said "Damn, you made my problem look small compare to yours."

An anime vein appeared on Hidan's forehead, "That's because it fucking is!"

Odan appeared by their side and asked Hidan and Thanerah solemnly, "Is it really over? The Ukrahs I mean?"

Hidan and Thanerah solemnly looked at him and he asked his father, "What do you see?"

Odan was looking at them with a blank expression then grinned widely, "…Well done, you two. Now we're all free…"

Everyone was staring at Odan surprisingly and it was utterly quiet until everyone cheered loudly. Many couples kissed each other in a blissful moment while friends and families were hugging each other to death. Thanerah was quickly consumed by her husband and they both kissed in a tight embrace.