A/N- Wassup? It be TOBN here with the finale of The Royals!
This is the final author's note, because I don't really want to do the last one (for dramatic reasons, of course ;D), so I guess I'll stuff all the cheesiness that I can. Jokes! But in all seriousness, I actually will start stuffing cheesiness ;)
So I'll start by saying this has been more than a 5 month project for me, and it has easily became one of my favorite stories to write for you. Dammit, I think I'm crying, and the tears are falling on my keyboard, and now it's hard for me to type on keys :P
Because this story taught me a lot. How to make a complex plotline (that hopefully I didn't screw up :P), how to write a story that people actually write, and how to improve. I taught myself to stick to the end of the story, no matter how much you want to quit and just PM all you the ending. Because I was having second thoughts about this story. But I'm glad I did it, because it was so frickin' awesome to give this story the finish it deserves.
Now I want to thank you all for reviewing, favoriting, following, and all the people who just read it (I know you're out there; there were more than 1000 views on this story, so don't act like you aren't there, you dogs :P) But no, for real. Thanks a bunch. I really appreciate it, guys :)
Special thanks to MBAV fan66, my dearest fanfic buddy, for sticking by my side the whole way through. I guess I can't really single you out often since all my multi-chapters are so short, but I would love to say thanks. For everything. Not only for reviewing this story, and many others, but for just being a great friend. This chapter is for you :)
Well, I'm done. This story has been a great journey, and dare I say a 'risk worth taking'. Jokes! But I do want to thank everyone for supporting this story, because dammit, you guys are the best. This chapter is a good ending, and dare I spoil, a little surprise. I think you all will like it, though ;) There is also a reference to a certain hairy MBAV episode in Season 1, and if you can guess it, I'll give you, like, a million imaginary cookies. I started cooking last night :)
I love you all, so keep on keeping on :)
Drop a final review for me, and until the next story, my lovelies :)
ENJOY!
Italics: Ethan's narration/poem I thought of when I was in church :P
The Royals: Chapter 20: And They All Lived Happily Ever After
One month later...
"And so, after the passing of Ross Morgan - due to forces that we have yet to find out about - we are to crown a new king. A leader, who'll lead this country in pride. Honor. Grace. Lead our kingdom to not only making peace with the Fox Kingdom - and create a peace treaty between Vania and Serenia, turning it into one kingdom - but lead this kingdom into a new era."
Ethan stood tall on the platform as he was presented with a staff and a small dome-like object, that was covered in gold and jeweled. His eyes fluttered to Jane, Rory, Benny, Sarah, Tobias and Erica, who were sitting in the front row. He smiled as he looked at the royal guard, and nodded. The guard faced the crowd.
"These two items!" His voice boomed. "Were passed down from Morgan generation to generation. And now, we begin anew." Ethan received the signal, and he took the two items carefully into his hand. He held the staff in his left hand, and held the royal artifact in his right hand. And then the crown was presented before him. Ethan went on one knee, and the royal guard placed it on his head. Sarah saw this, and smiled, wiping her happy tears. A wedding band shone on her ring finger, and so did Erica's. Ethan looked towards the crowd, crown on his head, and smiled. The royal guard smiled as well.
"Ladies and gentlemen! All hail the new king! Ethan Morgan!" He yelled proudly, and chants of his name and the words "Praise the King!" were heard in the air, and Ethan smiled, holding up the staff in victory. He had worked towards this moment for 18 years.
Despite all that happened, Ethan couldn't have wanted to get to this moment any other way.
X~*~X
"We are the young"
Ethan smiled as he met his best friends, and his family, in the ballroom, seeing their gowns and shining tunics, with the light dancing on their clothes. Jane was dancing with a young boy, who was about 14, in the ballroom, as Tobias and Benny shared a dance. Rory and Erica were grooving to the catchy ballads, and Sarah took Ethan's arm.
"Shall we dance, my husband?" She said, bowing gracefully. "And, my king." Ethan rolled his eyes.
"We shall, Queen Sarah." He said happily, and Sarah just smiled.
As Ethan danced with his wife, he recalled all that had happened in the last month. Every happy moment in his entire life.
Ethan and Sarah had gotten married, and Sarah had moved into the Morgan Kingdom, while her parents in Serenia were working with Ethan and his people to build a new castle to replace the border dividing the two countries, and they were to all move into the one castle, and combine kingdoms, now that their daughter, Sarah, was now the Queen of both Serenia and Vania, who was also 4 months pregnant with Ethan's baby.
Ethan was also the leader of Serenia and Vania, so he had a few responsibilities to learn about being a ruler. His first act of law, aside from the road to making Serenia and Vania one kingdom?
To make gay marriage legal.
X~*~X
"And we have so much to learn"
Benny and Tobias had moved into the small cabin that once belonged to Evelyn, and had started a life together. Yes, Benny was still considered a prince of the kingdom, but he never liked living in the castle. And the castle was his second home, anyways. People of the two kingdoms had supported Benny, Tobias, and their decisions for a long time, ever since Benny had "came out of the closet" and confessed his sexuality.
Some people, of course, didn't understand why Benny didn't officially live in the castle, or why Tobias didn't just move into the castle. But no one knew the truth; no one knew that Benny wasn't actually a Morgan. They never knew. But of course, Benny couldn't tell them, so he covered it up and just lived his new life.
He and Tobias were getting married as soon as it's legal, and Tobias had also redeemed his, and Erica's, humanity with a reversal cure for any curse that plagues someone. Erica and Tobias didn't grow older though; as soon as they drank the cure, they just stayed 17 and 18, and just continued being a regular human at the age they were turned.
They ended up burying the leftover cure in the ground, and buried it in a circle of magic stones. Benny had said a spell so that only their descendants could find it, and they had called it the 'baharoth.'.
Tobias and Benny were also thinking of adopting a baby girl name Clarice, who was just born in the kingdom and the adoption center had told Tobias and Benny that Clarice had been put into the adoption center. So they were arranging details.
Nevertheless, with the now human Tobias and the spellmaster Benny, they were living life. And even if they were so young, they had so much to learn.
But they were learning together.
X~*~X
"We are the old"
Rory and Erica lived in the castle, and even if they weren't planning on having children any time soon, they were taking care of Jane, who was - after doing a lot of research - thirteen years old. It was the life they always wanted.
Erica was now normal and human, thanks to the reversal cure that Tobias had found in Evelyn's cabin. And Rory and Erica had a double wedding with Erica. They were husband and wife now, and they couldn't be more happier.
Now they were helping Ethan and Sarah with the royal duties of the kingdom, and help Tobias and Benny with their new life as well.
So they may have been just the couple that never had too many problems, and even if they didn't have too much public spotlight, they definitely got the happily ever after the deserved.
X~*~X
"And it's playtime that we yearn"
Jane had been adjusted to life as well, after revealing to the kingdom she was the long lost sister of the Morgan Kingdom, not revealing she was magically created and all that other drama stuff that she had been through for the last thirteen years of her life.
Jane had been accepted in the kingdom, now that she was a princess of the kingdom, and never felt better. She had met a boy, who was fourteen years old, and his name was Justin Hatter. Even if Ethan - his overprotective brother instincts flared when he heard this - had told Jane she was too young to start courting, he had been really gentle and soft on Jane when it came to going out.
But Jane finally got the fairytale ending every book she read had. She believed in magic because she was magic.
She didn't regret saying that.
X~*~X
"We are the outcasts, and the world's where we play"
And Ethan, as he danced with his wife, surrounded by friends, only thought of one thing;
Despite the fact that drama escaped from him and his family, the secret of the Morgan Family remained a secret. The secret of Ross' past affairs. The secret that almost the whole staff in the kingdom were thieves and liars. The secret that his best friends were once vampires. The secret that he had a magically created sister. The secret of Evelyn. The secret of how there was no heir to the Morgan throne.
Thinking of this, Ethan swore, on all his life, he would never reveal it.
"And we are the people; and this is what we say"
2015
"...And they lived happily ever after." Ethan Morgan of Whitechapel smiled as he closed the book, looking at his friends. "The end."
A moment of silence crept in the dimly lit attic, and Rory Keaner just clapped. He was soon joined by all his friends, who smiled alongside his friends. The clapping died down as Sarah Fox subconsciously placed her head on Ethan's shoulder, and Ethan blushed.
"That was a really good story, E." Rory said happily. Everyone nodded in agreement. "It is definitely something we should read after a busy day of kicking the asses of supernatural baddies." Erica Jones added, and Benny Weir laughed. "Amen!" He pointed to the feisty blonde vampire, who just laughed.
"Do you think the story is true?" Jane Morgan asked, watching all her friends, who were cross-legged on the wooden attic floor. Sarah ruffled her hair with a smile. "I don't know Jane. Some of the events in the story proved they were true." Benny nodded.
"True point. Remember when it mention that circle of magic stones in the story? The baharoth? That was in one of our supernatural adventures." He did weird hand gestures that Jane giggled at, and Sarah nodded. "No wonder I was able to dig it up. Maybe we are descendants of this 'Morgan Kingdom'." She said with a shrug. Erica sighed, fiddling with her thumbs. "Too bad this Tobias guy - who actually sounds really hot - " Benny rolled his eyes at that. "Didn't write down the cure, or at least, tried and figured it out. It would've helped a bunch." Sarah nodded sadly, as Ethan frowned.
"I dunno." He said, rubbing the back of his neck. "I never heard of the kingdom, Serenia, or Vania before. This might just be a fairytale, you guys." Ethan thought for a bit "And even if my ancestor was really a king, there is no way that the story was true." Everyone rose eyebrows as Ethan explained himself.
"Because Benny's grandma is not a killer, Benny is definitely not gay," Benny blushed a bit, and nobody saw. "My mom is not a cheater, and my dad isn't hiding anything." Rory wiggled his eyebrows. "How would you know if he is actually really hiding something, huh?" He said with a wink. Everyone laughed again.
Ethan stood up, the book - which had the words 'The Royals' written on it as he brushed his finger over the author's initials.
"Well, whether it was real or not, E.M King has certainly written us a timeless tale." Everyone nodded as Jane's stomach rumbled. She blushed.
"What?" She squeaked. "We have been here for an hour. And we were supposed to be cleaning Benny's attic to get those cookies she made." Benny shrugged, looking around his dusty attic. "We kind of did, in a way. Except then, I found a book, and I read a few, saw my name, and had to read it out to you guys. Aren't you glad I did?" He asked with a crooked smile. Everyone nodded, and Ethan opened the trapdoor and started going down the stairs, being followed by his friends. Benny was last, and he closed the trap door of his attic and brushed himself off.
"Tell you what; we get all the attic dust cleaned off us, and we meet at Ethan's house. I'll bring the cookies, and we can all watch a movie." Everyone cheered as they left. Ethan stopped before he looked at Benny with a small smile.
"Hey, B?" Benny turned around and nodded. Ethan smiled. "Keep the book. I think it may do good. And who knows? Maybe it is fate." He said with a shrug. Benny nodded, and smiled as Ethan ran down the stairs and he heard the door close.
Benny walked into his room to change, slipping off his shirt, revealing his bare torso. He then noticed a small bruise on his chest and frowned; he wasn't beaten up by bullies today. No screw ups in magic. He never had it this morning. And it looked a lot like how the book described it...
Benny shook his head to clear those crazy thoughts as he found a new shirt, that just happened to be a t-shirt saying 'Prince Of Vania'. Benny smiled a bit at the coincidence; Vania was the town he called his Medival Warfare 3 world, and he made a shirt about it. Who knew it had so much meaning now, since he basically read a book about Vania. Weird...
Suddenly, he heard a honk from a moving truck just across the street. He frowned and peered out the window to see a teenage boy - with honey brown hair and a black blazer - saying goodbye to his mom, who went inside the house. Benny frowned; he didn't know that he was getting new neighbours today...
He pulled his shirt over his head and smiled, giving his best wink to the mirror as he grabbed a gold fedora - just like a crown, Benny thought, but it was probably since Benny had been reading way too much fairytales - and looked at the mirror; even if Ethan had assumed he wasn't gay, he didn't know everything about him.
Benny had a few secrets too.
As he ran down the stairs and out the door with cookies, he jogged to the new guy down the street.
"Hey! You just moved in?" The boy nodded. "Yeah," He had a British accent. Benny extended his hand.
"I'm Benny Weir. I'm your new neighbour." The boy beamed and shook the hand.
"I'm Tobias Myoc. And I just moved in." Benny had a bewildered look, but a blush crept on his face as he smiled, letting go and handing Tobias a cookie.
"Welcome to Whitechapel, Tobias. My friends are watching a movie; you wanna join?" Tobias looked at Benny up and down, and just smiled, Benny swearing he saw a fang...
"Sure. Thanks." He said, and Benny grinned, walking to Ethan's house with this...Tobias Myoc.
X~*~X
It's the last night of the year, boys,
You may bring out the bread and the beer, boys
We've 'nought else to do to-night boys,
This crust is too hard to bite, boys,
Is the donkey all right in the stable, boys?
Set two or three chairs 'round the table, boys,
We must have some 'at to eat before we go, boys.
Stick another coal on the fire or so, boys.
For the night's very cold
And I'm very old
And Tommy's dead.
~ 'Tommy's Dead' by Lewis Carroll (verses 1-11)
~ And they lived happily ever after. ~
~ The End ~