Phoenix

Epilogue - To The Ashes

We were staring out into the unfathomable horizons of the sea when Garreth wrapped himself around me and his arms took away the remaining coldness that the breeze had left in me. It was comforting and gentle and it warmed my insides until it caused my mouth to swell and smile. I knew what he was thinking: he had lost me from the ocean and now here I was trapped in his embraces but he never had given up any chance of taking me back to his love. Life is good; he made me realize and forget the horrible mistakes I had made a few years ago but he insisted in telling me that those were not my fault. He was right and Alexia, a selfish tyrant, had manipulated my mind to do her own bidding. It was not only me —I envisioned DK whenever I saw sands beside the sea and I wanted to pretend he was there.

Garreth was the seas moving back and forth washing away everything; DK was the sand always waiting along the shore, or he might also be the sun in Miami when it is extremely high. I missed him.

When I am with him, I do not have to worry anymore about what the future might bring because we are together. Some things, like the question of what those Sacred Weapons can do in the hands of the Elders, could wait because Garreth was what only mattered now in my life.

Despite that fact, the fire inside us never died; there is still a war we are fighting. The B.A.D. Project was still bringing injustice to the innocent lives of hypergenes who had been hiding for too long. Garreth has seen even more clearly. But, now that the Elders had the weapons back, protection will be given to them and soon, there will be justice.

Garreth took my hand and the look on his face was telling me that we obtained now our peace. Fire consumed the Knights' Bahamas Base and we watched it turn to ruins and to ashes that blanketed the ocean together with its dark past and Alexia's years of dominion.

There are no Dark Knights anymore.

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