Sigh… The final installment. I thought I'd never live to see this day…! T.T

Well, I'm sure you're all dying to know how everything ended. So I'll wrap it up and get started on the next big project.

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Epilogue

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And so, Queen Angel wrote in her book, that is how it went. Perhaps, one day, if the bahamuts invade our fair planet again, this book will offer some sort of help. But we all know how unpredictable bahamuts are.

For the thousandth time since she began writing, she turned back to the front of the book and began flipping though the pages, re-reading her work. She was no writer, no bard, no poet, nothing like that, but she felt that she had done a good job. She felt that she had better have done a good job: compiling this story had taken her the better part of the week. She had interviewed everyone and resurrected memories that she had locked away to get the proper information for this chronicle.

Overall, not too shabby.

She put the pen back to the paper and wrote again:

Perhaps you would like to know what happened to everyone when the battle ended and the chaos began to settle. Several interesting things occurred, and they might surprise you.

Firstly, I'll say that I never thought my sister was lovelier than on her wedding day. I've never seen her quite so happy. Today, about twelve years later, she and Palom are still happily married and have three children: Lena, their eldest (who is at school in Mysidia now), Fynn, and Jack.

Interestingly enough, it was Sefi who married first; Odin and I were wed two years later. After I was crowned, ten years ago, I noticed something amazing: Baron seems to have grown fuller and healthier, even though we've expanded very little. The very last shreds of doubt in the kingdom have vanished, and more and more people are flocking to the city every year. There are small villages popping up all over the place, due to overcrowding! It would seem that the prophesies of my grandfather and uncle were correct, afterall. I feel bad that I ever doubted them.

That aside, I have two children myself: Cera, the princess, and her brother, Chang.

It didn't take very long for Exeline and Kain to become good friends. In fact, they became such good friends that, a few years ago, they decided to get married! They have adopted a little boy, and his name is Kenji.

Exeline also runs a training studio in the city, and offers lessons to all; even if they can only afford to pay her in hard work.

Half a continent away, Porom is Mysidia's elder, and is currently attempting to teach Lena how to be an elder. By now, she's found out that Lena is far too much like her father, and will never be an elder. In my opinion, Porom would have more luck training one of her nephews. But she's just as stubborn as ever and is convinced that she'll make a lady and a leader of Lena yet.

My beloved Red was also crowned queen of Damcyan recently; her parents, like mine, decided to retire and spend their golden years in peace. Red seems to be depressed, since she hasn't seen her parents in months. She thinks they are probably in Troia.

Speaking of parents, mine simply retired and let me take over. Mom and Daddy have been living quietly and happily in Mist for the past several years, although they travel constantly (Mom said that it's wonderful to be able to travel with little to mind except whether those adorable shoes in the shop window come in her size). They still manage to make their way back to Baron every month; when you have your own private airship, I suppose it's easy.

Sadly, Eblan has lost it's prince to the road; our sweet little Aron, 17 this winter, is a traveling historian now. Fortunately, sometime after the war was over, Rydia had another child: a princess, who will rule where her brother won't. I'm sad to say that princess Minh knows little of her big brother, because he's almost never home. In fact, now one has seen him for a long time. We all wish that Aron would get an airship or a hovercraft, or at least invest in a pet chocobo or something, but he likes to walk on foot (he's a very handsome young man; I hope he settles down soon…). Luckily, he has his mother's summoning powers and magical abilities, so no one ever worries about his being eaten by wild beasts.

Poor Yang was faced with quite a dilemma when Odin married me: his oldest was dead and his only other child was leaving. So what's a monk to do when faced with an empty throne? The answer came in an unlikely package: a young boy showed up on Yang's doorstep shortly after the war, much the same as he'd found Exeline and Kenji. The boy was looking for his family, all of whom he had lost to Doom Ninjas. Of course, Yang let the boy into the castle and set him up training as a monk. I don't know what the circumstances were, but somehow Yang and this boy, Yoshi, became pretty close as time went on. Yoshi is now the crown prince of Fabul.

Of the dwarves, we know very little. We know that Giott had a little too much to drink at the celebration party and made a complete fool of himself (but he didn't care), and that Luca was very mad about something (I guess she found out about Palom and Sefi somehow). Sadly, Giott died of a heart attack three years ago, and Luca is the queen now. This worried Palom a bit at first, but after we heard that she had been coronated we never heard from her again. I can only hope that she's been a good queen; we haven't talked since she was crowned.

I haven't heard much of the summons or the bahamut colony on the moon since I was 18, but I understand that everyone who didn't take Akstaron seriously (because he was rather young) saw him with a new respect. I suppose that if you outwit your older brother, banish him, and then kill him, you're a pretty big deal. I pray that Akstaron rules the summons for a very long time.

Angel stopped and looked back over her epilogue. It was almost done; she was more satisfied. She looked out the window and at the horizon, a mountainous expanse that led between Baron and Mist.

There was a person walking down the path. His figure was vague, but he was clad mostly in green robes and had a crown of dusty hair on his head.

Speak of the devil! Angel thought. She ran to the window to make sure that it was really Aron; a vibe assured her that it was.

She dashed out of the library and down the stairs to alert her friends and family, leaving her almost finished masterpiece lying open on the red velvet chair. She paused and thought about that for a moment.

"Oh well," Angel muttered to herself. "I can finish it anytime." She continued on her way, intent on finishing the epilogue as soon as she could.

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OOOOMMMGGG! IT'S DOOOONE!

(Doubles over trying to breathe normally, which is very hard to do right now...)

Okay, I'll try to calm down now.

Sooo... I guess that's a wrap. I'm planning to write a few more fics for FFIV, but there are other things are on the way. There's something pending for Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates. It's my new fave lately!

Well, I've got a lot of work to do, even though I'm done with my first bug odyssey. Thank you again, my friends, for sticking with for so long. Particular thanks to AngelWings 008 for such devotion to this story; I've never had such a reader before! I love you!

And off I go. Once again, into the bowls of my studio, to scratch out a new adventure!

Freida L. Right.