And So She Wonders

if the sky falls

'The oceans are fading, the sky is red, the stars are disappearing and we are dying. Where are our heros now?'

The phrase was his last words. The world was at its end.

'Please! Promise them, you'll stop the sky!'

She was dead.
The last conversation they had was over the phone.

'No! Let me be there when it happens!'

She'd fallen sick and dying. They'd turned off the machines keeping her awake before she could get there.

'I'm sorry...they're in your bag...others already gone...I'm last'

They was gone too.
Of course she'd heard that if you had all of them, (impossible!) than you'd stop the end. But they said the end wasn't coming.

'He wants...humanity...gone...'

He'd willing gave it up, put it in her hands.
But by taking it, they set off ticking time bombs.
Themselves.

'Last akuma...poisoned us...when we go...so does...humanity'

When the first quake hit, the doctors had said all they had to finish their call was three minutes.

'If I do it will you...?'
'I...don't...know'

It was red and looked like it was falling when she died.
As much as she wanted to curl up and cry, she couldn't.
It was time.

'At the end...say my... last...words'

When she reached the gramophone, she did not doubt what disc played or what words she sang, just that the sky was turning to the light blue it once was, the shaking of the ground stopping and the screams turning into hopeful shouts.

Finally, she realised that the world had returned to normal; aside from the gaping hole that now, after all of her fruitless efforts she knew would never be sewn closed.

But still she whispers the last words of her best friend.

'This end is my new begining, don't be afraid'