Harmonic Sync

Chapter 31: Reunion

Once we had reached the valley that looked out on Eldrant I sat down on a log. Tear, Natalia and Guy were already there. We had picked Anise up on the way.

"Well another year has gone by and here we all are once again." Anise said lightly and I sighed.

"I have a feeling there's nothing waiting for us anymore, but yet I still have hope that he'll come back, he promised." I said lightly. Sync grabbed my hand lightly and leaned my head against his shoulder.

"Tear will you sing that Hymn from Eldrant?" Natalia asked and Tear sat down and started singing. It was beautiful and I knew nothing could go wrong in the world we were all going to create together.

"There's another world inside of me that you may never see, there's secrets in this life I can't hide, but somewhere in this darkness there's a light that I can't find or maybe it's too far away or maybe I'm just blind..." I sang lightly and I looked at Eldrant and felt a presences coming closer to where we were. I jumped up and rushed past Tear and the others to look out on the field below.

"It's can't be..." I said when I saw the person coming towards us.

"What is it, Zora?" Sync asked from not that far behind me.

"Luke!" I called out and he looked up smiling lightly at me. Everyone came over and joined me in smiling at our friend who had finally returned to us.

"I made a promise didn't I?" I smiled and hugged Sync lightly as we all waited for him to get up to us. Tear hugged him tightly and I smiled at the warm scene around us.

This was how life should be, just a bunch of friends spending their lives together. Nothing could break the bond that we all had together, not even death.

"Zora, I see you two finally got together and it's about damn time." I blushed and then I realized that it wasn't Luke really who knew that.

"Asch...the two combined...they remember everything." He smiled and Sync rolled his eyes, but smiled.

"Now we have to deal with two in one." I chuckled and I wiped the tears out of my eyes.

"I don't mind it really; we have both of them back. Just as it should be."

"I have to say this is probably the best coming of age day I have ever seen." Guy said and I laughed with everyone.

We all live together on this Earth and we all have as much a right to live as anyone else. We all have a right to do what without the need to feel as if we are inferior to one another just because we were created for a purpose that we had no control over. People like Luke, Sync and Ion, they all have as much a right to live as anyone else and if only I could see my dear friend again to make sure he had the happiest he deserved in death. Everyone's lives matter not just one, the circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant, it is what you do with the gift of life that matters.

"Zora are you alright, you're crying?" Sync asked and everyone looked up at me.

I wiped the tears away and smiled lightly.

"It's nothing, I'm just happy to have all of my friends back, or at least the ones who promised they would be back. Asch, Luke I'm so happy to see you both again, it doesn't matter if you're one person now, you're both still my friends no matter what." Luke smiled and I knew I had said the right thing.

"So I have one question." Anise said lightly and everyone looked at her.

"What is that Anise?" Natalia asked.

"What do we call you now, I mean you're both Asch and Luke, do you prefer to go by one or the other?"

"Luke. That's my birth name and I think it's about time I took responsibility for my country." I smiled at the response. Sync grabbed my hand lightly. Luke looked at me and I saw he was expecting me to say something about my country.