Fantastic EDDventure

Chapter 23: Aftermath

Art by @PaintOurPaws thank you for the wonderful picture! Here is the finale, finally...

... Paws, I need you to draw me chapter pictures more often, they're awesome!!!

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(3rd person/authors POV)

It felt like hours as Krissten talked about the guys, Valerie and Miguel felt like they already knew them. She spoke so fast but they could understand what she was saying, happy that she was feeling better talking about her friends. Val had never seen Krissten so happy in her life, she could see the shine in her eyes as she talked. Hours passed when the three finally made it to their destination, a building, it had the F.D.I. symbol but it was upside down to not cause suspicion. They exited the van and entered into the building, where Krissten was surprised to see inside was most of the F.D.I. members and a really HUGE gate in the center of the room.

Krissten was confused to say the least, but her confusion was put on hold when she saw them. Her parents. They were both there, and when her mother looked her way, she gasped and got the attention of her father and he saw her too. Tears could be seen in their eyes, but Krissten could feel something wet fall on her cheeks. She put a hand up to her face and saw that she too was crying like them. She had missed them and she didn't even realize it until now. They ran to her at full speed and enveloped her into their arms for a missed hug. All three family members were reunited, crying in each others embrace, but the parents were more relived to see their daughter again.

"Why?" Darren asks his daughter after releasing her from their hug. Krissten looks at her father in confusion. "Why did you do that? Run away? You worried us to death..." Krissten was hesitant to speak, but grew confident. "You guys were so busy with your work and never had any time for me, when I would ask something of you, you would bat me off like a fly on your shoulder... You ignored me, all the time." Both parents looked at their daughter in shock, then looked at each-other.

Maura placed a hand on her daughter's shoulder, making the young girl look at her mother. "You... do you remember when your brother was announced, you know, that day?" Krissten nodded at her, "We were worried if that were to happen to us, it would happen again. So... your father and I decided to distance ourselves from you so you wouldn't have to go through loosing someone else again... I guess it only made us more distant in another way..." She said sadly.

Krissten was beyond shocked, they were ignoring her for a reason. She felt tears sting the corner of her eyes as she hiccuped and reached out to her parents as they accepted her hug. "Come on honey, lets go home." Maura said, Krissten had a face of distraught for a second that both parents saw but shook off as nothing as she quickly made a smile, and Darren nodded at an F.D.I. member and said member pressed a single button.

The gate whirred to life as it gleamed in power, "Come on kid, some of the members are gonna stay here and make this an extra F.D.I. building so we have other places, but we belong in our own dimension..." Miguel said to Krissten, making her nod and the three family members and guardians entered the gate, returning to their own home.

And you must be wondering about the Eddsworld crew?

Well...

They actually kept their promise.

You see, Tord never decided to leave to be the red leader, he still was, but he decided NOT to take over the world, worried of breaking Krissten's promise. Tom often fought with Tord, but they actually got along on some occasions. Edd would take care of both Ringo and Baxter, as well as Tord watching over said puppy. And Matt, he actually stopped being a narcissist, not really. But, on some nights, he would go into Krissten's old room, since the guys didn't have the heart to clean it out so they kept it as it is, and sit on her bed. Not creepily, but he would look over the photos he took with her at the ComicCon and remember the fun times he had with her, missing the said raven haired girl deeply. Paul and Patryk missed the girl, but knew she would be alright.

Everything seemed... Peaceful at last.

No more harm.

No more tears.

"..."

No more heartbreaks.

No more trouble.

"...o"

No more....... huh?

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".....T....est............test..... 1....2......1.....2..... can you hear me?

"Yes I hear you, state your business soldier"

"I saw the girl. Coven. She left back to home through the gate sir."

".... Was she alone?"

"No sir... She had her parents and The F.D.I. Generals with her..."

"I see..."

"My $!$739 was with her...."

"Don't worry A, we'll get our hands on the girl, no matter what. So have patience. Follow them, don't let them out of your sight! I want her in my grasp, and nothing is stopping me from getting that POWER OF HERS."

"Yes, understood BLACK LEADER."