The Fate of my Soul.

Epilogue

"Mo Yuan. Can you hear me?"  a voice is calling me from far away.  "Open your eyes Mo Yuan."

Its Zhe Yan, I recognize his voice, my brother.  Opening my eyes, it takes a while for my sight to clear, but as I shake my head lightly, his face comes into view.  "Zhe Yan."  I whisper.  

"Shifu."  another voice cries beside me bringing an instant smile to my face.  Turning my head, I can see the girl.  She is in her female form.  How lovely, I think to myself.  

"Seventeen." 

Slowly I sat up and looked around.  I am on Kunlun Mountain in my meditation cave and my Disciples are all here.  Though they look as if they have aged.  

"Mo Yuan, you've been gone for 35,000 years.  Do you remember what happened?" Zhe asks me.

35,000 years.  The Chaos had raged all around me as I fought to gather my scattered soul.  Every single piece took my mind back to a lifetime of mistakes, love, hate, broken dreams, pain and devastation assail my mind as each piece of my soul was gathered and among it all, was her voice calling me forward.

"My brother, did he make it.  Is he alright?" I asked looking straight at Zhe Yan.

"Your brother?"  Bai Zhi, Jun A and I are fine Mo Yuan, it is you that is not." he said.

"Bai Zhi?  He's not dead?"  I asked stunned.  I don't understand.

Looking at me, Zhe Yan frowned as he moved closer.  "Bai Zhi is fine.  Why would you think he is dead?" he asked, but I merely shake my head.  

"My brother Ye Hua, did he make it?"  I asked again.  My mind is now muddled, there are things I remember clearly, but they seem to not exit.

"Ye Hua?" he asks with a frown.  "Who is Ye Hua?  Mo Yuan, you have just awoken from the deepest of slumbers, your mind too has yet to heal."  he informed me.

Was it all a dream?  No, I know it wasn't.   Closing my eyes, I feel the girl take my hand into hers as she sits quietly beside me as I try to piece together a rational explanation.

Suddenly my eyes once again open.  "The Golden Lotus."  I say looking directly at Seventeen.

"It is fine Shifu.  I took care of it for you" she informs me with a smile.

Fine?  So he hasn't been born yet?  Nodding I once again close my eyes, as my disciples busy themselves around me and Zhe Yan returns to his scrolls.

Rising once more, I ask Zhe Yan how they had assisted my soul back into my body.

"The Soul Lamp." he says pointing next to me.  

"Good." I say as I rise.  I do not want to lie down any longer.  I have a future to build and I will not waste another minute.

Taking her hand I ask to be left alone as we walk together to the Lotus Pond.  Sitting her down beside me my mind goes back to the past and all that had happened before I sealed Qing Cang in the bell.  She is still my disciple, nothing had changed during my time of deep slumber.  Looking back at the pond, I can see my brother is still in his Lotus Form, the golden spray of his spirit still glowing about his watery jail.  The jail that I myself will free him from, now that I understand what has to be done.

It was not a dream, but what could happen.  This I clearly understand now.  And the only way to prevent it from happening, is to do what I never had the courage to do before I scattered my soul.

Turning to face her, I immediately set our futures in motion.  "I never told you, but I am telling you what I should have told you all those years ago."  I said as she lowered her head.  

"I am in love with you.  I have always been in love with you.  I want you for my wife"  I had said it. There was no more to say to her.

Nodding her head, she slowly raised her eyes to meet mine.  Her smile is so beautiful.   "Thank you.  It is all I need to hear.  I accept." she whispered softly.  It is the sweetest most loveliest sound I have ever heard.

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3 Year Later.

 Ye Hua had yet to be born, and this time, I would be the one to bring him forward. Within the pieces of my own soul, lies his fate. This time, I have been given a chance to make it right.   

Qian Qian is in labor, and Kunlun Mountain is abuzz with excitement.  The soul lamp has been burning for 3 days and 3 nights while she remained in bed allowing the ancient magic to take effect.  Beside her is the Golden Lotus.  Pieces of my soul that had remained in the lamp are being infused into the Lotus and from the lotus into the baby.  Ye Hua my son will be given life, and the chance to live a life free of the hate that I had seen had I left him to be born elsewhere.

And within seconds The fate of my soul had been born.

The End