People are People!
"You two..." Ragyo's voice wandered out of her bleeding maw. Steam was billowing from the slashing site as both teenagers, the ones that did this to her turned away. Flabbergasted Ragyo was going under being quartered it was impossible for even one merged so much with the Life Fibers to survive for more than a minute if even that long.
"Your Cocoon Planet Genesis is in tatters now," Satsuki boasted victorious. Their strikes were the final nail in the coffin for even one of Ragyo's stature and power" It is over Ragyo, you lose," the older sibling continued whilst gripping the blade firmly. The fear of the woman's power was very much prevalent in her posture even now.
Ragyo laughed slightly the look of discomfort on her face fading." I would not be so sure of myself if I were you," disgustingly Ragyo's vertically sliced mouth moved. Both daughters were creeped out beyond belief, it was far from a family friendly sight for sure." Nui, cast away your body," she laughed looking down at the horde of blondes below fighting against the Honnoji Academy forces.
"Cast away your body," the words echoed down to them all as the fierce looks faded away for the softer more natural face of Nui Harime, that which did not show her true nature.
"Oui, mamam!" the all said in eerie unison. They were too eager to cast away their bodies, even though only one of them truly knew what that meant at all.
"No! No! No!" Shinko came blasting through at his highest speed, it was like watching a white bullet shoot by. The cloths were being shredded with expert slashes but their numbers hid that of the true Nui, his sword was bound to never meet her in time." Can't you go any faster Sento?" he asked spinning as several clones tackled him, holding him back slightly.
'Shinko, we are moving at our top speed. I am not sure if we can make it in time,' the Kamui informed as steam began to spin away from the both of them. Their power was nigh-unmatchable though their speed was lacking for some reason.
"Damn it whatever!" Shinko roared swinging blade horizontally in an arc. It ripped through entire lines of Nui's and yet it never struck the real one, much to his dismay.' Where the hell is she?' he growled charging forward towards the last dozen one of them had to be Nui Harime, the one responsible for all of the pain caused to his father and the death of Isshin Matoi.
Just as he got there, black bladed arms reached up to the respective throats of their owner a sheen running down all of them. A chorus of uproar and laughter rang out like a room of babies all watching the same mind-numbing show. Shinko's sword was brought forward in a slash but it too late a dozen blonde haired heads all were ripped from their bodies and thrown into the air.
The duplicate's all crumbled into a mess of Life Fibers, the real head though rose into the air." No!" his sword came racing across the body destroying it in a huge rush of wind but still the head was gone floating up creepily towards the sky.' Shit!' he went to kick off and fly when a red band shot from the crumpled remains of the Original Life Fiber.
'Shinko. What was that?' the Kamui questioned watching as the blonde haired visage was absorbed by the giant pile of Life Fibers.
"If I could guess, I would say Armageddon," he slumped down to his knees as the mass of thread began to ungulate and contort. Their effort to put it down for good had failed again, this time thanks to Nui's own decapitation something that normally would have been viewed as a success.
The mound of fibers quickly spiraled back up the tower they had once clung to. Their power thumping out like the beating of a human heart, something that Life Fibers would never understand on their own. It began to grow in a giant spiral that had a large bulb at the top a structure for sure that would not have been there if the Fiber remained natural and without Nui.
This bulb though soon turned into something even more frightening, something creepier. Two long tails of Life Fibers emerged from the side of this bulb as if they were a girl's pigtails. Then two spinning disk appeared as the eyes a hue of yellow orange lighting them from behind. A slit opened and quickly gasped as if it were a mouth getting air. That would be because it was Nui Harime, as the Original Life Fiber.
"What the hell is that?" Ryuko said loudly in unison with Shinko far beneath her in fact. The sight was one of incredible proportions even when marked against other sights in the world.
Nui, my pitiful girl who could not don Life Fibers because the ones within her body were too powerful," Ragyo spoke almost somberly. It was like a mother laying her child to rest even if said child had just merged with the Universe's largest ball of yarn." But now you get to wear the greatest dress of all: The Original Life Fiber!" she cackled the somber expression never genuine.
The face crashed between Ryuko and Satsuki splitting them apart as it approached Ragyo's body. Nui's face appeared in the thread one last time as it stared down its master: Ragyo Kiryuin for the final time. Then disgustingly it poured into the wounds as much of its body as possible to repair that of Ragyo. The white haired woman was laughing it up when the threads merged with her.
Rainbow colors raced through ever single inch of what remained outside of her body. It was something of a miracle to even witness, and Ragyo was feeling just how good it felt on the inside.
'No, Ragyo-sama you will be the one to wear me!' Nui's last existing words spoke as she was consumed by the being known as Ragyo Kiryuin. A pleasure raced through the woman's body it was something out of the world and nearly enough to take the task at hand away from the crazed CEO.
"Nui, you feel absolutely marvelous," Ragyo mused staring at the sky almost in orgasmic relief. Externally however the Primal Life Fiber had engaged itself to transform into a Soyuz-like system of rockets that ran from Ragyo's feet down well over twenty feet to the ground, Nui had only made Shinra-Koketsu better by merging with it.
"Leave the rest to me!" she said still almost on the brink of something. Before the rockets attached all fired up their power building exponentially. This build up was soon followed by a cry of joy? Pleasure? both things that Ragyo should have had nothing left of and yet she rocketed into the heavens expressing all of them.
"Hold it you bitch!" Ryuko shouted jumping up and down from the ground. She wanted to give chance but there was no chance she would catch up even with Shippu.
"Calm yourself Matoi. I have already figured out what Ragyo is planning," Inumuta pointed out clinking onto his right wrist, a keypad had appeared there. His eyes scanned through countless points of data before feeds in holographic form emerged across the courtyard." She is planning on using the REVOCs satellite manually."
Several people brought up complaints in background to which Satsuki replied with:" It's an activation signal. Your Goku Uniforms will not be nullified."
After those words left her mouth though the unthinkable occurred. Red blotches began to fill the sky after and aura floated across the planet first in bands of red, then orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and purple. Absolute Domination had awoken every dormant Life Fiber on the planet and they were beginning to rise, the only benefit the planet's population was over seven billion there was time yet.
"Not that it's begun. Who is going to go and fight her?" Shinko brought up walking to the center of the holographic feed. His blue eyes were fierce and a glare set everyone that was not an Elite Four member or Satsuki slightly in fear.
"Kurosaki that is something I do not know," Satsuki sighed looking at the ground. Their combined might may have been enough but maybe not, the only thing they had done to her prior was due to a momentary opening and slashing from two sides. Their chances of catching her off-guard again were very slim.
Ryuko stepped to the middle of the circle of students her face stern and somewhat hidden behind downcast black and red hair." I'll do it," she stood firmly there in the center looking for any objections but only getting surprised gasp.
"Hey, Ryuko let's go on a date!" Mako popped up in front of her best friend shocking the girl in more ways than one." I mean when you get back! We can dress in cute outfits, put on cute accessories, and eat ice cream and cheese. When you win girls can wear whatever they want right? So why not have fun with that freedom?" the sole Makanshoku daughter said pleading her case.
"Sure," Ryuko nodded holding a thumb up to her best friend through all of it. It made sense really when they won it would all be smiles and rainbows for sure.
Satsuki kept her steely eyed looked and glared at her sister." We are all counting on your then Ryuko. For the survival of mankind," the young lady said with her typical sternness while a bubbly Mako quickly popped up beside her.
"And girls fashion!" the brunette smiled whilst giving a thumb's up.
Shinko mumbled something lowly before looking up at Ryuko, who had cleared her throat." I won't let any of you down!" she roared loudly for all there to hear. Her eyes were then closed and her breaths slowed to a point of almost non-existence." I need one last favor from all of you. I need to wear all of your Goku Uniforms," Senketsu began radiating a faint golden light.
A collective nod happened as a rainbow of stars flooded out from the ground. Several thousand people gave away their Goku Uniforms the Elite Four led the charge of course, followed by Mako and the Two Stars. Satsuki looked at her sister as the One Stars gave away their uniforms as well. Satsuki too stood and handed out Junketsu to her younger sister.
Shinko though stood calmly there watching as the display occurred keeping his Kamui. He then took steps towards Ryuko in the swirling mass of lights and Life Fibers his eyes glaring a hole through her.
"Listen to me Matoi. This is my father's last will and testament. You better use every ounce of his power or else," Shinko then shouted from just inches away as a golden storm brewed up around the one he swore to protect.
"Kurosaki. Count on it," she smiled.
Shinko said something in a low mumble to his Kamui. His green eyes showed understand and then Sentokitsu faded from his body its power being added the collective Senketsu. Shinko then smiled and backed away allowing the transformation to commence.
Senketsu's sealed eye busted open as the stars all bored into his frame empowering him like never before. Ryuko stood there within the matrix of Life Fibers as always awaiting the incoming flourish of power that came from the beast clamped down on her the fibers were tighter and stronger and yet not painful.
Glowing red the Kamui reappeared on her frame more of less appearing as a hybrid that included inspiration from both Junketsu and Senketsu. A pulsating rush of energy spiked her black and red hair vertically, a humming sound of golden light transforming it into a blonde hue. Her blue eyes shimmered as Senketsu wriggled around her frame. A loud scream forced the twin open eyes of the Kamui Senketsu to appear and a swirling pattern of golden petals to appear at her waist.
"Senketsu Kisaragi!" she roared as the transformation stopped. Its power was almost inconceivable and probably would have been had Shinra-Koketsu never been created. It morphed into a rocket a 'Super Shippu' if one would have been so inclined.
With thunderous force, it tore off towards the heavens awaiting the final battle with Ragyo Kiryuin.
'Matoi, you better come back safe,' Shinko wanted to shout but kept that within his head. The one he had sworn to protect had become something more to him, more than he wanted to admit as well.
A red-pink star began to rise through the atmosphere at incredible speeds easily surpassing that of Mach eight possibly even more. Above the planet though Ragyo stood watching the matrix of her own design appeared in patchwork at first and then neatly into a cloth of incredible proportions, one that would disperse Life Fibers across the very cosmos.
"Beautiful. This is the Cocoon Planet Genesis," Ragyo laughed looking at her face in the reflection of the Life Fibers that were wrapped around the planet's atmosphere. It was like a vanity mirror on a ludicrous scale and said image was brought by her satellite. A golden frame though soon appeared in the scales she glared into." What?" she could not have been seeing that right could she?
An impact rang out with a thud as her body was repelled dozens of feet away from the satellite, Koketsu trying to respond and grant her some form of stability." Ragyo, that's enough!" Ryuko shouted handling both Scissor Blades to the best of her ability.
Shaking the stun of being punched in the face of Ragyo straightened." I see. You stitched together all of those excess Life Fibers you had just to get here," Ragyo laughed lightly still on her high-horse about achieving everything she needed. Ryuko's Kamui transformed back into the normal Kisaragi form." You though are too late.
Look just beneath the soles of your feet Ryuko. My signal has made it to every Life Fiber across the Earth. The fusion of mankind into clothing can no longer be stopped," Ragyo laughed still noticing the giant hole Ryuko's frame had made in the shell that encompassed the Earth.
"I'm not going to give up that easily. Everyone's efforts can't go to waste, I'll stop you, you crazy bitch," Ryuko responded holding both halves of the Scissor Sword over her head. Both blue eyes cast down on her face, the blonde hair shifting with the motion." I have a date riding on this one!" she shouted as the two blades fused together a screw being tailored out of their two ports.
Ragyo laughed as Ryuko's teeth were grit." Such nonsense," Ragyo laughed while the blades morphed into a combined Decapitation Mode, the Scissors themselves growing incredible in scope.
"We'll see! Haa!" Ryuko charged bringing them down on the waist of Shinra-Koketsu. The sound of impact though was far from fabric tearing and body being torn, it was a clang as if the blades did not even work.
Ragyo's head was back again laughing wildly." Those Scissor Swords are nothing more than hardened Life Fibers too. If you remember Ryuko my Absolute Domination rules over all Life Fibers," Ragyo pointed out almost showing off. She was ever confident in her Shinra-Koketsu, though she missed out on a thing or two about its so called Absolute Domination.
Ryuko's teeth grit as her muscles tensed." No way," it seemed to be the same two words to describe anything relating to Ragyo Kiryuin that however did not make them the right or only two words to describe her.
"Now though, you have committed the grave sin of pointing your sword at this divine garment," the dominating figure remarked as the 'eyes' around Shinra-Koketsu transformed into a series of sharpened curved daggers." For that you will pay dearly," instantly they all fired off like coiled snakes.
Ryuko dodged to and fro slapping some away with the Scissor Swords but the recovery of each was astounding. Her best effort was quickly failing as every time she would hit one two more would come towards her making it almost impossible to keep up with the bombardment. After several attempts, she finally could not block them anymore, and all of them drove through her torso.
Ragyo laughed as they were yanked out thrusting her daughter away with a massive whoosh." Pull yourself together, Ryuko!" Senketsu informed as they were rapidly floating away. The attack had been no joke.
"I'm fine, I got this!" Ryuko kicked off firing towards her mother with absolute aggression on her face.
The two beings of somewhat ludicrous power ranking went to town on one another over the fabric web that covered the earth. A purple spear met that of a rainbow and they clashed over hundreds of feet of threading, their wills clashing just as much as their bodies did. Had anyone been able to see it, the exchange would have been beautiful if not even exquisite.
"Poor girl. Bound by the will of Soichiro. Why can you not comprehend the truth of truth behind the universe when you are this powerful?" Ragyo asked as they continued to exchange over the cocoon that the Earth had strikes though were clearly getting the better of her daughter who could barely keep up with most of the strikes.
"Come, take a look Ryuko, at that once blue planet, at the shining Sun, at those far away stars belonging to far away galaxies," Ragyo began whilst still thrashing her daughter with a vicious cycle of offense. Shinra-Koketsu was more than just a force that applied Absolute Domination, it was a fearsome garment of untold terror.
"They are all fixations of space Ryuko. But even this beauty will be gone one day. All creations will ultimately perish, that was determined the instant this Universe was born," Ragyo laughed still even as they clashed across the portion of space around the Earth." Life Fibers work in accordance with that principle. They are part of the truth behind the Universe!" a loud laughter escaped Ragyo even as they did battle.
"Enough!" Ryuko blitzed forward like some form of missile or legendary warrior from another story. The combined Scissor Sword pushed Koketsu's defense back but it failed to get close to Ragyo, in a murderous way to be more accurate.
"You are my daughter! How can you be so dull?" she raised a very interesting question.
"I wasn't raised by you!" Ryuko growled throwing her weight forward with grit teeth. Her blunt answer was one that had all sort of truth behind it, as it explained the difference between herself and Satsuki.
"Oh, I see!" the dagger became javelins and quickly moved into towards her." How rude of me?!" like a demon Ragyo roared as they pierced her daughter's frame. Protruding from her back arms, and even upper thigh they were all intentionally painful and at the same time almost caring as to not outright kill her.
Ryuko free-fell for a bit before straightening up the wound closing." Ragyo, you should know that wasn't nearly enough to kill me," she straightened up healing all the damage away almost instantly.
"I must have unwittingly held back. It appears that I still have some faint trace of the human heart," Ragyo looked at herself confused for a moment as if there was some form of reflection there.
Then something snapped within the woman as her teeth sharpened." I shall cast it aside!" Shinra-Koketsu morphed into a demonic dress one that showed Ragyo as the true evil she was.
"This is the end!" Ryuko's frame was jabbed hundreds if not thousands of times over. Koketsu's butterfly-like 'eyes' ripped through Ryuko's body like it was nothing even with the most powerful state of Senketsu active and with Ryuko putting up her sternest defense. Anger seemed to be overpowering even if it was almost pointless in the moment.
Ryuko faded backwards with chunks of her frame missing blood floating away within them." I decide my fate! You're not the boss of me!" she defended as the wounds closed and she prepared yet again to go to war.
She charged and began exchanging strikes once again. Her regeneration sped up and the damage she was taking quickly faded before she really felt it." A shame that I have to kill someone who has such a high affinity with Life Fibers!" Ryuko was bashed around and stabbed several dozen more times before being thrown to the layer of red cloth that bound the planet.
She skipped across it on her back before attempting to regain balance." If that's the case maybe you should go easy on me!" she shouted healing the wounds away but feeling the pain.
"Ryuko we need to finish this. We are running out of time," Senketsu informed looking at his wearer carefully.
"All right," the girl said gripping the Scissors around the handles as tightly as she could." I'll end this now!" she fired off moving the thread around her feet as she did so. Ferocity personified Ryuko blew her way forward towards the woman that had enslaved all of mankind.
The only issue was she already had a piece of Shinra-Koketsu bored through her entire torso. It nearly severed her down the seams, blood flowing out from the giant wound." End what, exactly? Your own life?" Ragyo laughed like a crooked hyena.
Ryuko's pointed back head suddenly gained a smile rather than a grimace." No, yours," she leaned forward with a broad grin despite having blood rushing down the sides of her face.
"What?" Ragyo looked in awe her demonic glare freezing into that of a scared toddler.
"You said it best yourself. It takes a little life-threatening to wake Life Fibers up. The closer I get to death the more powerful I become!" Ryuko explained it in two ways whilst clutching the part of Shinra-Koketsu as tightly as she could.
"You took that on purpose?" the white haired entity looked stunned as he daughter kept a firm grasp.
"Sure, did. I looked at it like tough love and took it right on the chin, just like you would huh, mom?" she taunted glaring towards her mother as the drilling fabric began to spin backwards out of her frame.
"We did this so Senketsu and I could reach peak strength!" the teenager continued with a broad grin.
"It matters not stupid girl! Life Fibers cannot harm me!" Ragyo laughed still confident even as the tendrils of the Kamui Senketsu wrapped around her back.
"Even when I take that Absolute Domination ability for myself?" Ryuko grinned as the tendrils started to drain away Koketsu from its host. The rage building in Ryuko showing in the furious draining process." Dad's final weapon was not the Scissor Sword or any of Nudist Beach, it was and always will be Senketsu and me!" Ryuko howled fighting the struggle of Shinra-Koketsu.
"W-what?" terror began to grasp the CEO. She was freezing in awe at the sheer intelligence of her husband.
"The unlimited absorption ability that the two of us possess. Every time we brought in a Nexus Thread, or shredded a COVER, we were growing stronger and stronger!"
"It took a while too Ragyo. It was not until our battle now with Shinra-Koketsu that I learned that. All of that was preparation for my evolution so people could hear me and I could gather a will of my own! Because..." Senketsu spoke leading into the next thing Ryuko was going to say.
"We are not people!" she howled." Nor are we clothing!" she shouted furiously while still absorbing Shinra-Koketsu.
"But at the same time we are both people and clothing!" Senketsu shouted angrily.
"Get this through your damned head Ragyo! People cannot become clothing!" Ryuko shouted her voice more like the rage of a starve lioness." People are people! And clothing is clothing!" she shouted a fiery burst of light exploding out from around her frame.
"What is this garbage?!" Ragyo shouted her features growing more frustrated and angry.
"That is just who we are Ragyo!" Ryuko shouted as Absolute domination flourished from her body in a near oblivion inducing light.
"Listen to me all Life Fibers!" Ryuko grabbed the microphone-like protrusion at the top of the satellite." People are people! Clothing is clothing! Return mankind to the humans they once were!" she shouted and like that the Earth began to change.
The rainbow that had been cast by Ragyo slowly retreated in reverse order slowly opening the red fabric that surged around the Earth. Across the entire planet, the red curtain began to rip and tear as people were released and even the most stubborn of Life Fibers lost their will to feed and reproduce.
The rebels on the Earth cheered and congratulated one another on their success, or rather Ryuko's success. The Kiryuin family curse had been lifted and a major crisis had been evaded by the actions of one.
"How? How could my life's work all be for naught?" Ragyo said looking stunned. She had been reduced to the nude as the Shinra-Koketsu had been torn away by its own ability.
"That's right the Earth will never become a Cocoon Planet. Surrender peacefully and we can go back together," Ryuko said calmly and serenely knowing the battle was over.
"Ridiculous," Ragyo purged her heart from her chest holding her life source calmly in her right hand." I decide my own fate! I'll follow through on my word before you do!"
"Don't!" Ryuko shouted body glowing with the purple hue of Senketsu.
"Life Fibers are still spreading throughout the Universe. It is only a matter of time before they find their way back here onto the Earth," Ragyo pointed out very factually. She was right as well there was no way the Earth had been the only inhabited world that they had stumbled upon.
"Even so, humans will stay can human. You can count on it!" Ryuko shouted as her mother merely grinned.
"We shall see," the woman said almost foreboding before crushing the pulsating heart in her hand. Her body fading away in a whip of Life Fibers and stars.
"Let's go back Ryuko," Senketsu informed looking up at his wearer with a saddened glimmer.
"What's the matter Senketsu?" she questioned looking down to see the threads slowly coming undone from her Kamui.
"It appears that even I could not fully grasp the power of Shinra-Koketsu," he responded as Ryuko looked down at him." It is overwhelming we need to hurry back."
"What?" she was instantly yanked away and thrust down through the atmosphere in a fireball-like fashion.
"Let's go home," he repeated as they tore through the air towards the ground, towards Honnoji Academy.
Fire raged up arou8nd the both of them as re-entry and the friction of such grew more and more intense. Kamui and wearer were flying down at incredible speed whether they wanted to or not. Ryuko barely could grasp the situation while her Kamui knew the facts all too well. At any rate they were shooting down with crazed speed.
Ryuko's stun faded and she noticed her Kamui's flaming frame." Senketsu don't push yourself!" she instructed shouting as if he were no just a few inches away.
"Ah, Ryuko," he mused before looking at her with a both soul-filled eyes." Don't you think it is a bit late to say such a thing after all we've been through?" he continued as they tore through the air like falling stars.
"Senketsu!" she shouted seeing the fire around them heat up. Her skin repaired the burns but Senketsu was no as lucky and the worst part was the heat was only going to get worst." Please Senketsu. You don't have to do this alone!" she pleaded as their frame burned more and more the ground getting closer though at what seemed relatively slow.
"Ryuko this is for the best," the Kamui informed entire frame being coated in the heat of the atmosphere, his protection reaching out to his wearer." Your father can rest in peace now. We have won," Senketsu went on to say as they blurred down towards the ground in an inferno.
"Kurosaki gave you his Kamui! Use all of its power already! You can't be holding back here!" Ryuko cried as the flames grew more intense and she felt Senketsu pulled more away from her.
"What do you think allowed me to come this far? He embedded a strong will into those Life Fibers to keep you safe, he cares for you," Senketsu continued as they burned more and more. His frame was entirely consumed and yet there was nothing more he could think about than her." Besides, Sailor Uniforms were meant to be grown out of," he continued as parts began to turn even more to ash than before.
"No farewells, you idiot! You are making it through this damn it!" Ryuko shot back with all the will she had left to carry on her concern for the Kamui showing blatantly on her face.
"I am glad I met you Ryuko. This has been fun," he continued as they approached the lowest cloud layer blowing through it like nothing at all. Honnoji though was still thousands of feet away and he was not holding out for more than the next dozen or so.
"You are not leaving Senketsu! I can't be alone!" she shouted pleading as the Life Fibers before her began to break apart in the heat and stress of re-entry.
"Alone? You are not alone Ryuko. You have not been since the first day you found me," Senketsu informed body slowly fading away." Find something Ryuko, find clothes that are cuter than me. No tears from you, you're a strong girl. This is what is meant to be," he continued as their approach grew narrower and narrower towards the school.
"I'll do just that then! I'll put on clothes that will make you jealous!" Ryuko said with her normal spit-fire attitude. Her features morphing bravely to humor the Kamui.
"Good," the fire died and the Kamui disappeared from around her in a long corkscrew Honnoji still being several hundred feet beneath her now nude descending frame.
Tears streamed down her face as she screamed" Senketsu!" out at the top of her lungs.
Down below though they were arranging frantically for her arrival.
"Ryuko hang in there!" Satsuki's voice rang out through the air that overwhelming Kiryuin aura flooding the air even that high above the ransacked school.
Just before impact with the ground she collided with her sister's body with a thunderous boom. Both of them were sent reeling back with Satsuki's heels digging deeply into the ground only to be torn away and her body forced were still doomed for death by crashing at this rate unless their momentum was halted.
"Damn it, Ryuko!" Shinko ran forward throwing his hands towards Satsuki's back. The force billowed through him as well throwing them back still even with their combined resistance.
"Ryuko!" Mako pounced in next pushing with all of her strength against the back of Shinko. She too though was overwhelmed with the force and they were all thrown to the wayside bodies helpless to stop the descent.
Then the Elite Four pushed back onto Mako led by Jakuzure and ending with a building-like Gamagori. Their strength though massive did not stop it and they too were pushed across the courtyard with high speed, all of that weight and still no heed in the progress.
The rest of the Makanshoku family added in their strength as well but that was no enough. No, the only heed came when the horde of One and Two Stars jumped in with their remaining strength. Even then that heed was only after several hundred more feet of skidding and when they did stop they all laid on their backs pushed beyond fatigue by the stupid stunt.
"We-welcome back Ryuko," Satsuki managed to muster holding her sister as closely as possible.
"I'm home, sis," Ryuko responded as they all laid there completely beat from the long fighting.
"What'll happen to what's left of the Life Fibers?" Tsumugu asked as he and Mikisugi overlooked the rising sun over Honnoji Academy.
"They'll shrivel and die without a proper energy source. Needless to say they won't come back," Aikuro responded to Kinagase as honestly as he could.
"So, I can finally wear pants again?"
"Yeah," Aikuro responded as the entire area around them filled in with the recovered student body.
"And I guess we'll clean the mess?"
"That's what adults do. And even if we didn't those kids have a date to go on," Mikisugi responded laughing.
"Very true," Kinagase responded as the sun's light sparkled above the school's top like the shining star that it was.
Finally the fall of the Kiryuin Curse and the end of Life Fibers on Earth was we know it. In the sweetest joy of victory there is a somber tone of sadness: a life flickered out in one last heroic effort to save someone. But as always from the depths of despair hope arises, a date is waiting on the horizon in more ways than one.
Thank you everyone for tuning in for the length of this fic, it really means a lot to see the support given on this project even though it was OC based and even if I did not put my best effort forth for the first few chapters.
Next chapter is the end, hope to see you there,
~Herodan