Sorrow's Promise

Final Notes

We've come to the end of this journey at last. I hope the experience was as fun for you as it was for me!  Thank you so much for reading, and a big thank you to everyone who left comments or voted or added the story to your library.  

CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE:

~All Disney and Kingdom Hearts characters and storyline belong to Disney and Square Enix. I do not profit monetarily from writing these stories.

~Star Wars, Doctor Who, Lord of the Rings, and X-Men, all of which were referenced or quoted, do not belong to me, either. (I sure wish they did haha!)

~Meli, Aiden, Zephyr, Kaj, and Chander belong to me, so please ask my permission before using them. (I doubt anyone would want to, but I'd prob give it if you asked!)

~Special thanks to bloggers whumpgalore and ysande-jin for their whump prompts on tumblr. I don't think I directly used anything of theirs, but their posts were an inspiration as I wrote the second and third drafts of the end of the story.

~I was also at least partially inspired by the first chapter of FFN user honibun's fic, "Anachronism". My Realm of Darkness time gap wasn't nearly as long as hers, but the ideas are similar.

FUN FACTS:

There are 4 references to "Simple and Clean" throughout the last part of the story. Did you notice all of them? They can be found in -

Chapter 35 - "'Yeah, I walked away, and I never heard you asking me not to go.'"

Chapter 39 - "'I do love you, and I will...walk on water, or do whatever else it takes, to prove it to you.'"

Chapter 50 - "Maybe, just maybe, the future didn't have to be so scary after all."

Chapter 54 - "'Yeah, let's not worry about anything beyond this moment right now,' I murmured. 'Just...keep holding me.'"

Also, all of my OC's names were chosen based on their meanings -

Meli: "Of the sea" (Native American), similar to Kairi and Aqua

Zephyr: "West wind" (Greek), similar to Sora and Ventus

Kaj: "Earth" (Latin), similar to Riku and Terra

Aiden: "Fiery" (Irish), in reference to Axel

Chander: "Moon" (Indian), in reference to Saix

WHAT'S NEXT?

There IS going to be a sequel to this story!  I've written an entire first draft, and I'm a little over halfway through the second draft.  It's going to be called "Inferno's Edge", and will follow the storylines of DDD and KH3.  

HOWEVER...as of now I'm not planning on posting the sequel on Wattpad.  I greatly appreciate those of you who did read this story, but it didn't really garner as much of an audience as I had hoped on this site.  So if you'd like to read it, hop on over to fanfiction.net!  You don't have to have an account to read or leave reviews.  My username is the same over there as it is here, actress4Him, and if you do have an account you can follow me so that you'll know when it gets published.  I'm hoping that will be sometime by the end of July, or maybe early August.

In the meantime, I have also published some oneshots that I wrote to go along with Sorrow's Promise! They're over on FFN, as well. Some are in between scenes that I had imagined happening but that weren't really needed in the plot. Others are re-writes of chapters that did make it into the story, but told from another character's perspective. There's also a few in between scenes that couldn't be included in the story because they had to be told from another character's perspective. I wrote them just to get them out of my head and onto paper, and to entertain myself when I was stuck elsewhere, but hopefully they'll entertain you, as well. I post a new one every Wednesday, and am currently working through the list of requests that I've received.  So go read through the 14 or so that are there, and leave your own request if you'd like!

Again, thank you so much, everyone, for joining me on this journey! Hopefully I'll see you again soon, and may your hearts be your guiding key!