The Razgriz Aces [Book 2]

Epilogue Part 2

Sooo… this is it.  After one year and seven months, this is the absolute final chapter.  It’s kind of sad, I’ll admit.  I’ve gotten really attached to these characters.  And of course I’ll miss my amazing reviewers because I’ve met some really awesome people because of this story!  Hope you enjoy the chapter!

Quote of the Chapter:

“Amidst the eternal waves of time

From a ripple of change shall the storm rise

Out of the abyss peer the eyes of a demon

Behold the Razgriz, its wings of black sheath

The demon soars through the dark skies

Fear and Death trail its shadow beneath

Until Men united wield a hallowed sabre

In the final reckoning, the beast is slain 

As the demon sleeps, man turns on man

Its own blood and madness soon cover the earth

From the depths of despair awaken the Razgriz

Its raven wings ablaze in majestic light”

~The Legend of Razgriz Poem

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Epilogue Part Two

Genette 

I guess since I started this story, I should be the one to end it.

We all got married within the same year except for Bartlett and Nastasya because Bartlett is Bartlett.  They married on August 23, 2011.  I don’t know why they chose that specific date but it was a great wedding.  It was all the way in Yuktobania.  The Yuke soldiers were all over Blaze, Nagase, and Cassie which I will admit annoyed me, Chopper, and Grimm.  But the girls stuck close by us most of the night.  I don’t think they liked having so much attention on them.

Cassie and Grimm got married next on March 18, 2012.  It was really awesome because it took place in an airplane hangar at Heierlark.  Cassie had worn a massive ball gown for a wedding dress.  How do girls walk in those things?

Nagase and I were next and we got married about a month later on April 29, 2012.  Our wedding was small and simplistic on a big, private yacht, but I loved it.  Nagase had looked stunning in a simple but elegant A-line gown.  She’d even grown her hair out and it was about an inch below her shoulders at our wedding.

And finally, Blaze and Chopper got married.  They had the biggest wedding (Chopper has a big family).  They got married on October 28, 2012.  It was a bright and sunny day in Aspen, Osea.  It was an indoor wedding with a view of all the changing aspens outside.  It was absolutely incredible.  Blaze had worn a fitted dress that flared out at the bottom with one of the longest trains I’ve ever seen.

Snow introduced us to his wife who was overjoyed to meet us and repeatedly thanked Blaze, Nagase, Chopper, and Grimm for protecting her husband although Chopper didn’t want to take praise for something he didn’t do and told her he wasn’t there to take care of Snow.  She acted as if that didn’t matter.

A year after we were all married, we were to be revealed as the Razgriz.  The required information had been put together much faster than anyone anticipated and our reveal will begin in Covent Garden Theater in Oured.  The reveal will be taking us all over the world: Yuktobania, Belka, Sapin, Emmeria, Estovakia, Ustio, and other places that border Osea.  Cipher, Pixy, Bartlett, Pops, Andersen, Major, and Geller were even on the trip, something we are going to enjoy immensely.  We will travel by private jet, and let me tell you, that is the coolest way to travel, especially when it’s designed specifically for you.  The squadron, Cassie, and I are collaborating with airplane builders and we’re personalizing our very own jet.  Coolest.  Thing.  Ever.

So now, as I’m sitting here writing this, with everyone sitting behind me (they all say hi) and trying to distract me (mainly Chopper) and telling me to add things (mainly Cassie and Grimm) and telling me to change something (mainly Nagase and Snow) and showing me a mistake in the writing that I need to fix (mainly Blaze), I think of everything we’ve been through.

It was easy on none of us.  It was an emotional rollercoaster with my sister taking the brunt of a lot of things.  She finally opened up to us about what she was hiding before Chopper ‘died.’  It hadn’t been easy for her and she’d had to pause between sentences to gather her wits to go on.  We’d all been shocked.  We had always joked about Blaze being psychic about some things but her having dreams of Chopper crashing and having it actually come true was nothing to joke about and now I realize why she never wanted to tell us.

Afterwards Chopper went into full detail about his ordeal as a captive of the Belkans.  I wanted to be sick from what I heard; I can’t go into detail about it.  It’s too horrific but I’m amazed Chopper lived to tell the story.

I look back on what we went through and sometimes I wondered how any of us got out alive.  But I realized it was because of the choices we’d made.  At the time we made them, they always seemed to be the wrong one but now, I see how right they were.  If we hadn’t dug deeper into the 8492nd Squadron, we might never have realized that Hamilton was a traitor and my sister might be dead now because he would’ve ordered her death for being a ‘traitor’ to Osea.  If we hadn’t left my sister alone at Versailles and let her go to her house in the middle of the night, she might never have been kidnapped and we might never have found out Chopper was alive.

Everything has a reason, and sometimes, I would really like to know what that reason is.  But as long as everything turns out for the better, I guess I’m okay with staying in the dark.

I’m not sure what lies ahead of us now.  We all have steady jobs, steady love-lives, steady lives in general.  To be honest, I’m scared of what the future brings but I’m ready for it.  I figure that as long as I have my family and friends with me, we can accomplish anything. 

As long as the spirit of the Razgriz lives on within us and the citizens of Osea, the impossible can be accomplished.

Long live Razgriz.

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The ending was really hard to write because I wasn’t sure how to end it… but I hope this tied up a few loose ends.  There will be a sequel that will be more of a series of short stories in one story of certain events that happened after this story.  There will also be a prequel but not sure when that’ll be up but I’ll send a message to everyone when it’s up!  Please review!  I really appreciate them!