Ashes
Song: The Lord Of the Rings Twin Towers Song (don't judge, K?)
Max
We walk out of the battlefield, victorious. The apocalypse is over, and we live another day. Fang is blood-stained but alive, on my left side. Dylan is flanking my right side, panting. Angel and Gazzy head the back, Nudge and Iggy make up the next line.
We run together, in perfect V formation, with me at the front. Our wings all snap out at the same time, and we fly straight up then away. All the mutants, all the deaths, all the lives lost, the lies told, the mistakes made. Gone.
Fang
Maya is dead. We were fighting, and she just screamed and fell to the ground. No injury, no trial, no other word. In a strange way, I felt both relief and dread. Relief that I could go back to Maximum, and dread that I betrayed everything I ever loved by letting her go. The wind howls in my ear as I fly away, dark wings skimming a nearby cloud. As much as I want to believe it, I know one thing:
This isn't over.
Dylan
I'll stand by her, fly by her, just as I did the entire apocalypse. She can't tear me away, nothing can. We're defeated in the way that we're weakened. For now, anyway. We're unstoppable. No matter what. The three best fighters, Fang, Max, and I would save the world. We'll rise from the ashes. All the world has to do is watch.