And now here it is. What I've been working on for so long is now completed. Scary, no?

Chapter Epilogue

“And you think that I was really going to fall for that?”

“Yes.”

“I’ve gotten smarter in the past years.” Skie said.

“Smarter, but not taller.” Ia retaliated, laughing.

It was six years after they returned home from One Piece. Since then, they’ve been trying to move on after losing someone close. But it was hard to move on from a place that they had gotten so much from. Meaning their powers. Skie could still jump over the Superior Dome in Marquette (she proved it on a bet she and Ia made. Ia lost ten bucks), Ia could still move things and read people’s minds, and Cam could still get from Negaunee to Marquette in under three seconds.

In these six years that had passed, big things had happened. Ia and Cam finally got married a year after they came back from One Piece (July 14th to be exact) and Skie and Ian’s son was their ring bearer. Since he was only a month old, Ia’s little cousin Lila, who was their flower girl, had to push him in a little stroller down the aisle. Everybody thought it was terribly adorable.

On to Skie and Ian’s son. Ian insisted that his name start with an I, because it was a sort of tradition in his family starting with his mother, Illiana. So, Skie being Skie, and Ian named their son Indiana. Or Indi for short. He had inherited Ian’s fire red hair and calmness. The only thing he had gotten from his mother was her eyes.

Nine months after Ia and Cam’s wedding, their little bundle of joy came along. And who would have guessed, it was a boy. They named him Nathaniel. Nathaniel had gotten Cam’s blue eyes and running abilities but he looked so much like his mother that people often mistook him for a girl which didn’t make Cam all to happy. But their second child, a girl, who was born two and a half years after Nathaniel, looked so much like Cam. Except she had her mother’s eyes and her mother’s mind. The found that out when she was two days old and she floating around in her crib, scaring Kelly who had been visiting when it happened. Ia was happy, Cam... not so much.

Speaking of Kelly, she had stayed in Michigan, getting a job as a designer for various things like logos for stores, designs on t-shirts, stuff like that. She eventually was able to work out of her apartment in her own design business but still drew in her spare time. But before she had left the company she was working for, she had met Spencer. It's his apartment that she's now working out of. They've been going out for a year now.

Skie and Ian had their own second child, who had Ian’s hair again. She was also a girl and they named her after Ian’s mother, Illiana. So they had Indiana and Illiana while Ia and Cam had Nathaniel and Amelia. Indi was five, Nate was four, Illiana was going to be three, and Amelia was 18 months.

“So, why are we on this walk?” Ia asked as they were walking through downtown Marquette past the shops and people and cars. In front of them, they could see the beautiful Lake Superior between two buildings on the sharp hillside.

“I have things to tell you about!” Skie said, beaming. Both girls had one of their children with them. Skie had Lili (Illiana’s nickname) and Ia had Amelia.

“What is it?” Ia asked as Amelia looked around with her big brown eyes.

“Well... Um...” Skie said, waiting for Ia to spazz out because she was probably reading her mind right now.

“OH MY GOSH!” Ia screamed and Skie sighed, waiting for- “YOU’RE EGGO IS PREGO!”

“Would you stop quoting Juno every time I get pregnant?” Skie laughed, being serious, too.

“NO! OH MY GOSH YOU’RE PREGNANT!” Ia screamed, beaming from ear to ear as she refrained from hopping up and down. So she handed Amelia to Skie and started hopping up and down on the spot. The people passing by stared at her, but kept moving.

“Calm down! Yes! I am! Would you stop! People are staring.” Skie said, placing a hand on her friend’s shoulder to stop her from bouncing.

“OH MY GOSH!” Ia cried once more and hugged her, despite Amelia being in Skie’s arms and Lili being crushed between their legs.

“Excited much? Gosh, I wasn’t this excited when I found out this morning!”

“You mean Ian doesn’t know!” Ia said, smiling uncontrollably. “Are you kidding me! I know before Ian! I am awesome!”

“Yeah, you know before Ian. So, I’m inviting you to supper tonight so I can tell ALL of you. So don’t go around telling everybody just yet, will ya?”

Ia seemed to be fighting with herself internally until she finally said, “Alright!”

I-L-I-K-E-T-O-M-O-V-E-I-T-M-O-V-E-I-T

Chey, who was sitting at a lab on the campus of Michigan Technological University, heard her phone vibrating on her desk. It made a loud jackhammer noise and she picked it up and read the caller ID. Skie.

“Hello, Skie. Kinda busy right now, can you make it quick?” Chey said, looking down at some papers. She was a biologist there in the Science department.

“Hey, since it’s Friday, think you can make it down here for supper at my house round seven?”

Chey looked at her watch, which read 1:27, and she said, “Oh, of course! Sean and I will be there!”

“Yay! See you then, Chey!” and Skie hung up.

Sean was Chey’s fiancé. They had met when Chey had went to Ireland for a semester, they were both seniors and when they graduated (after dating for three months) Sean proposed and so she had brought him home for everybody to meet.

After getting a job as one of the youngest to be hired by MTU, they decided to stay in Houghton and get married during the summer. They were going to get married in July and honeymoon for the rest of July and most of August and return before school started up again in the fall.

Chey put down her phone back onto the wooden desk and heard the vibration again. She looked down, getting frustrated, and saw it was only a text from Ia.

OMG, Chey! U wil never believe what Skie has planned on telling everybody 2night!

Chey, getting curious, texted back but Ia didn’t respond.

A-M-E-S-S-A-G-E

Kelly was sitting at her desk staring out the window down at Marquette with her feet up on the desk. A client wanted a logo for his new store called Rings and Things. It was a jewelry store and he wanted the logo to have red and blue and gold in it. She was having a little trouble.

"Having troubles, Love?" Spencer asked, walking into the little office room that Kelly took over. Spencer didn't work at the design company anymore but rather at the mine. The pay was better and plus he always said he wasn't ever really that good at the design company. Kelly stood up for him, saying he was marvelous.

"Yeah. My client want's me to make him a logo for Rings and Things using red, blue, and gold. He doesn't want it funky, so I'm having a little trouble."

Spencer took a look at what she had come up with so far and said, "I'm sure you'll get it. That's a funny name, Rings and Things."

"He sells wedding rings." Kelly said, putting emphasis on the 'wedding' part. Spencer froze but then left the room after giving her a kiss on the cheek.

Kelly sighed and hear her phone vibrate on her desk next to her laptop. Skie

"Hello, Skie." Kelly said.

"Hey, Kelly! Think you and Spencer could make it here for supper tonight? Round seven?"

Kelly thought about it and said, "I guess so. I need a break from my clients stupid logo. Sure! We'll come!"

"YAY!" Skie yelled and hung up.

Two nano seconds later the phone vibrated again and this time it was a text from Ia.

U WIL NEVER GUESS WAT SKIE HAS TO TEL US 2NIGHT!!

R-E-A-D-M-Y-M-I-N-D

So, at the last chime of seven on the clock, there was a knock on the door, but Ia just let herself in. It was only something she did at Skie and Ian’s house. Skie and Ian lived in a small house in Marquette near the Peter White Library. The siding was sky blue.

On the walls in the entrance hall were pictures of Skie and Ian’s wedding. The wedding they had in this world. It was kind of hard to explain to Skie’s family that she was already married, so she just simply told them that she and Ian were going to get married! The wedding was held a couple weeks after they arrived home with the wedding party changed slightly. Amber did become the Maid of Honor (much to the displeasure of some people (Ia and Chey)) and the Best Man was changed to Cam while the second and third groomsmen were Skie’s brother, Bob, and one of her cousins. The wedding was small, just Skie's family and friends. But even though they got married to everybody on June 30th, they always celebrated their anniversary on June 2nd.

“Why do you bother knocking?” Skie asked, coming in with Indi at her side, peaking out from behind her. He was shy. Which was weird because Skie was loud and outgoing and Ian was up to meeting new people. Indi just didn’t like people. And Ia and Cam were his godparents!

“Hello, Indi.” Ia said, smiling and bending over, holding her daughter, and said, “Do you remember Amelia?”

Indi nodded and came out from behind the safety of his mother and went to touch Amelia, who flipped him upside-down.

Skie grabbed him around the middle and Amelia laughed. She was, remember, 18 months old.

Skie glared at Ia as if it was her fault.

“Mia. No.” Cam said as if it happened all the time, which it probably did, while Nate ran into the house.

“Do her eyes flash green?” Ian asked, coming in with Lili.

“Not that I know of.” Ia said, looking at her daughter, who was struggling to get down. Ia didn’t let her.

“Can she control them yet?”

“Sorta. The only time she can’t is when she gets the hiccups.” Ia said.

“It’s like a mini earthquake whenever she hiccups.” Cam said, walking into the house.

“It is.” Ia said, nodding as she followed him into the kitchen.

Skie and Ian walked in and stood at the peninsula counter opposite of Cam and Ia, who had sat Amelia down on the counter.

“So, when’s Chey and Kelly gettin here?” Ia asked, leaning most of her weight a bit over the counter so she wasn’t entirely on her feet.

“Kelly and Spencer are coming soon and Chey and Sean should be here soon.”

“Oh. Sean is coming?” Ia said, her excitement dropping.

“Yeah? What? Is that a problem?”

Ia straightened up and didn’t meet Skie’s gaze when she said, “No.” in a total tone that everybody knew she ment ‘Yes.’

“What’s wrong with Sean?” Ian asked, looking at his friend.

“Nothing.” Ia snapped, turning so she was staring at the wall with her arms crossed, her back to Cam who was originally to her left.

“Come on. You’ve been like this every time Chey brings him around!” Skie said, whining a little as Ian walked around the peninsula to the oven to get the lasagna out.

“No I haven’t!” Ia snapped, turning around to face Skie with fierce eyes.

“Yeah, you have.” Cam said, agree with Skie and picking up Amelia from the coutner so if Ia did something she wouldn’t be in any danger. They could all hear the boys playing upstairs and Lili trying to play with them, but it seems that Indi had slammed his door shut so she couldn’t get in.

Skie sighed, irritated, and said, “Be right back.” and stormed out of the kitchen.

U-P-I-S-D-O-W-N

They were all sitting at the table (the kids upstairs since they ate before the adults except for Amelia, who was asleep in the living room).

“So, Skie, what are you planning on telling us?” Chey asked. She was sitting next to Sean who was sitting next to Kelly who was at the head of the table and beside her was Spencer, then Cam, then Ia, then Skie at the other head, then Ian and back to Chey.

Skie coughed up the little water she had in her mouth and glared at Ia.

“You told?” she snapped.

Ia scoffed, hiding her laughter, and said, “No! Technically you said that I couldn’t go around telling everybody! I just told her you were going to tell us something!” she said with a broad smile.

Skie continued to glare, but turned to everybody and said, “Guys, Ian and I have great news!”

“We do?” Ian asked, just as confused as everybody, minus Ia, was.

“Yes! See. Ian, I’m pregnant!”

Chey squealed along with Ia and Kelly as they stood up and hugged their friend as she sat there in her chair.

“YOU ARE!” Ian yelled, finally bringing his jaw up from the table and getting excited.

“Yes!” Skie said and Sean, Spencer, and Cam were compelled to congratulate Ian on a job well done.

“Shall we eat?” Skie asked as a chunk of lasagna disappeared from the pan and ended up on Cam and Ia’s plates.

“Thank you!” Ia said, grinning.

“You’re welcome!” Cam said in the same tone as everybody gave them looks of ‘you should stop.’

“Oh my God!” Sean said in his deep Irish accent. He was having trouble getting use to half the people at the table have extraordinary abilities. Spencer found it fun to watch. Ia knew he wanted a cool power of his own, but was happy that Kelly didn't have any powers. That she was normal.

To creep Sean out more, Ia didn’t use her hands to feed herself. She just picked up the fork with her mind and fed herself like that. Something she usually didn’t do because she wasn’t that lazy, but she only did it when she was eating in the presence of Sean, whom she did not like. Why, you may ask? She doesn’t know. She just didn’t like him. Chey knew this and shot a look across the table at Ia and continued eating. Ia didn’t like this look, or this silence, so she said, “So, Ian! What’s for desert?”

M-U-S-H-Y-P-E-A-S

Once desert was finished (a chocolate pie that Skie had half of) they spent the rest of their time talking and laughing.

They heard a loud raspberry come from the arched doorway leading from the living room into the small dinging room. It came from Amelia, who had crawled in.

“Hello, Mia!” Sean said, being, with Kelly, the nearest to the door. Amelia, unlike her mother, liked Sean a lot.

Sean picked her up and set her down on the table, where she crawled over to the middle and sat down. Ia had put her dark brown hair up in pigtails so the light feathery brown strands were sticking up from either side of her head. Her great big brown eyes were scanning over everybody and then they sort of blanked out and she said, “Help... me...” in a soft sort of deep whisper that nobody had heard her say before.

Ia’s laughing face turned suddenly to stone. The colour fell out of her face and her eyes grew huge. Amelia looked around, almost as if she were scared.

“I haven’t heard her say that before!” Skie said.

“Uh... Come here, Amelia,” Ia said, getting up rather quickly from her chair and picking up the baby, who went not to her mother, but to her father.

“What’s a matter?” Cam asked her as she buried her face into his shirt.

Ia, almost panicking, said rather rushed, “Cam, bring her here.” she said and went into the living room. Cam followed after.

“What is it?” he asked once they got into the dark room, but Ia led him upstairs into Skie and Ian’s bedroom, shutting the door to the kids and turned to Cam and said, “She didn’t just make that up.”

“What do you mean?”

“I’ve never told anybody about this... but on the last day we were on the Going Merry... when Luffy and I were in the bubble underwater... I heard that same exact statement.” Ia said, almost getting hysterical.

“What?”

“It was in my head. It was very faint, like a whisper, but not. It was like something you would hear in a breeze of the wind! It scared me... but I haven’t heard it since... till now. And I think I know now who was saying that to me and Amelia.”

Cam, looking very confused at Ia’s sudden quick outburst, asked, “Who?”

Ia took in a breath and braced herself, “Zac.”

There was a silence as Cam placed Amelia down on the bed and turned back to Ia and said, “What? Zac is-”

“Dead, yes, I know. But it was.” Ia said.

“Are you... are you sure? You sure it just wasn’t your own mind saying it?”

Ia looked at him as if he were crazy, “No! I knew it wasn’t my own! And I just got it confirmed three minutes ago with Amelia!”

“Calm down! I’m just saying. It’s kind of impossible for Zac to be thinking if he’s dead, you know?”

Ia stared at herself in the mirror and didn’t like what she saw, herself becoming crazy. She turned away quickly and went and sat on the bed with Amelia, who she brought close to herself.

“Help... me...” Amelia said again and Ia just whispered, “Stop... stop... stop...”

Cam was about to sit beside her when Amelia said, “Help... me... Ia...”

“Did she just say your name?”

Ia stared at her daughter, whom she had placed back on the bed.

Amelia repeated what she had just said.

“Why do you need help Zac? And- wait, why are you talking to me through Melia! Talk to me you idiot!” Ia barked, standing up and yelling at the ceiling.

“I thought you weren’t going to be mean to him now that he’s dead.” Cam said, going to sit by Amelia who wasn’t speaking anymore. She just looked scared. She didn't like the voices in her head.

“Apparently he’s not dead so I can be mean to him all the hell I want.” Ia yelled.

“Not in front of Mia.”

“That’s my rule.” Ia snapped back at him. She was usually the one to say not to swear in front of the kids to Cam, but she was hysterical now.

“Look. She’s stopped.” Cam said.

“She might start up again.” Ia said warily, standing away from her little girl, who was being held by her father.

“No. She’s going to sleep.”

Ia looked at her and sighed, wondering if that would be the last of it.

O-V-E-R-K-I-L-L

“Please!”

“No.”

“PLEASE!”

“No, Sanji.”

“But you know how much she ment to... the crew.” Sanji pleaded.

Izzy gave him a look and said, “Sanji, we are not naming our daughter after Ia.”

Yes. Two years later and Izzy and Sanji finally had a child. While on Earth, six years had passed, in One Piece, only two had passed.

They had gotten married six months after Ian, Skie, Ia, Cam, and Chey left. They had gotten married in December (December 14th) in front of Shanks crew and their crew. Shanks was so proud that he now had a son in this world that he cried. It was funny!

“But Ia starts with an I!”

“I was thinking about naming her after my mother.” Izzy said, ignoring her husband, and gazing into her daughter’s face. Unfortunately for her, their daughter had gotten Sanji’s blond hair instead of her red hair. But she did have a heart shaped face and Izzy’s dark blue eyes. She was a month old already.

“We’re running out of time! Soon she’ll end up answering to anything! Chair, floor. Table, ceiling?” Sanji yelled.

“Illiana?”

“No.” Sanji said flatly.

“How’s about India?”

“No.”

“Iona?”

“No.”

“Iolanthe!” Luffy said, popping up behind them.

“NO!” both Izzy and Sanji yelled.

"Why not name her Isabella?"

"We're not naming her after me." Izzy said, turning to Luffy.

"Your name is Izzy!" Luffy shouted.

"It's short for Isabella, you idiot!" Izzy shouted back.

"WHAT!?" Luffy shouted.

“What about Iris?” Zoro said as he was working out.

Izzy and Sanji looked at each other with bright eyes.

“Iris?” Izzy said, smiling.

“Yeah! Iris!”

“Alright! Iris it is! Thank you, Zoro.”

“No problem.” Zoro said. Over the two years that have passed, Zoro had become more softer around the crew. Harsher around his enemies. Nobody knew why he had become softer, but maybe it was the loss of Chey that caused it. Who knew? All they knew was that Zoro secretly kept hoping that soon Chey would come back so they could be together.

“I could have told you her name.” Kari said, walking out from her and Nami’s bedroom.

“Then why didn’t you?” Sanji asked, turning to Kari with angry eye.

Kari shrugged and said, “You didn’t ask.” and walked to the kitchen.

Through the two years, Kari had gotten them all out of tough situations. Like escaping the Navy, or warning about if the island is safe enough for Pirates.

“Hey, Nami. Iz and Sanji named their baby Iris.”

“Iris? I. Of course.” Nami said, placing down her map and sighing.

Kari watched Nami and said, “Still jealous?”

“I AM NOT JEALOUS!” Nami screamed.

Kari giggled and said, “Alright!”

Nami’s eyes narrowed as she asked, “Why are you giggling?” in a tone that sounded like she was going to kill.

“Well... Ia did tell me about the time you got totally jealous over Sanji and Izzy!”

“I will kill her.” Nami vowed to herself.

Kari sighed and stared out the porthole. She always hated June 2nd. The day... he died. She stared out at where Izzy finally let Luffy hold Iris and the baby almost fell out of his arms and was caught by Sanji.

“Oh Great.” she thought as she felt herself being tied into another vision. Most likely of the future.

“Oh, it’s the present again.” she thought as she could see another world completely different from the one she was in. She could see Ia, fretting again. But over what? For some reason this vision was vision only. She saw a little girl sitting on the bed beside Cam.

Ia was pacing around the room. She was saying something, but what was she saying? Kari hated it when her visions came muted. Or if they were just noise and no vision. She liked the complete set.

Eventually this short vision dimmed and she could see the normal again.

“Another vision?” Nami asked, taking a sip of tea that she must have made while Kari was having this vision.

“Yeah.” she said quietly.

“What was it?”

Kari had decided not to tell the crew about the visions that she saw of the others in their world. She got about one a week.

Kari turned to face Nami and said, “Oh... not much.”

“A lot of your visions have been that way. Is something wrong?” Nami asked.

“Oh no. Just a vision of nothing important. Just some random people. It was a present one. Had no sound again.”

Nami shrugged and took another sip.

S-U-D-D-E-N-L-Y-I-S-E-E

It was a few days later and Ia was home alone. Nate and Amelia were at her parents’ and Cam wasn’t there. It was around 1:30 in the afternoon when Ia couldn’t take the silence any longer and decided to drive to Marquette.

It was when she was in the parking garage in the lowest level they had just put in next to Snowbound Bookstore.

She was the only car down there (all the other levels were full) and the orange lights made it feel like it was one in the morning and not in the afternoon.

Ia stepped out of her car and slammed the door shut. At the other end of the structure she could see the flickering orange light in the corner. She glanced over there quickly but had to look again for what she saw was someone she hoped she would never ever see again. He was just sanding there, looking at her with a smile that said he was going to get her. He was going to get her back for what she and the crew had done.

The Candyman.

In the few flickers that happened she saw him standing there but on the fourth flicker... he was gone instantly.

8-11-08

Ok, there are a few things I need to get out before I officially finish this thing. Dedications are one.
But there is something new, now (as of 10-11-08). I accidentally lost a bet to Kelly and now I have to dedicate the entire series to her. Which means that the first one is gonna be dedicated to someone else!

Who Are You Trilogy: To Kelly. One, for making me loose a bet but two, for helping me get into Fanfics. For that I thank you.

Who Are You?: To packardball for reviewing that which you read!

Why Are You Here?: To Skie for pushing me to update just as much as I pushed her.

Where Are You?: To Zac and not just because I killed him in this but because he gave me actual constructive criticism.

SongTime is another.

THE LAST SONGTIME!

I Like To Move It Move It- Crazy Frog
A Message- Coldplay
Read My Mind- The Killers
Up is Down- From POTC At Worlds End
Mushy Peas- Jim Wearne
Overkill- Collin Hay
Suddenly I See- KT Tunstall