Okay, so, whew, here we go.

I . . . don't even know what to say. It's been three years guys. Three years! Three years of writing this silly little story that's way more popular than what I thought it would be.

My goal was 21 Favourites and Follows and you all way surpassed that. How can I even thank you all. I may start crying.

As of November 24, 2017 Friday, this story has 85 Follows, 87 Favoutes, 114 Reviews, and 19,511 (Traffic graph) views! I can never thank you all enough; I read every single review and cried with warmth in my heart. I would like to thank you all individually but give a special shoutout to LunarCatNinja, Matt, East Walkers, and acrisfu for being especially consistent reviewers and helping get me in gear with their comments. Also to ravenpie152 as well as AshBlackRabbit for their recent support and encouragement.

frick, I may cry.

I do want to apologize if any of the last few chapters seemed a tad off; they were exceedingly difficult and I'm bad at endings but I hoped to wrap up enough while leaving a somewhat open ending. There's a reason some things are off, which I will get to in a moment.

Honestly this fic is set up so that a sequel could potentially come after it. The main focus of THIS fic, Sacrifice, was about Zak accepting who he is, not really his powers developing.

Now, before anyone asks; no, there will not be a sequel. At least not any time soon. If there would be (and I had considered it), it would involve the wonderful cryptid allies and Absalom and Françis. They were originally supposed to be in this but I ran out of room. The fight with Arthur was supposed to be a build up of compare and contrast between what a Monster actually is and isn't, hence why the other Cryptids weren't involved. It was Zak's fight, against Arthur and himself.

Man I'm a block of cheddar. So cheesy.

No sequel doesn't mean no one-shots though! I do plan on some little writings connected to this universe. I'm not completely abandoning these characters. But just in case . . . keep an eye out in 2019. You never know :D.

World Of Sacrifice will be updated with info on my writing process as well as abandoned ideas for the fic, but feel free to leave it be if uninterested!

I also am going to make an effort to fix typos; because I lost original files, I will need to export and go through each chapter to fix them. I will leave all the old Author's notes because even if they're annoying, they show how I grew as a person.

There's not much else to say I guess.

But I will answer one question in sure you may have.

Why Arthur?

Well I wanted someone familiar, but one with motive. We don't see much of Arthur in the show, and after War Of The Cryptids where he was willing to kill Zak if it meant he could kill Argost, he simply disappears. Where did he go? What happened? I felt it left a big enough hole and the fact that he loves his job could be used as motive if he had been expelled/stripped of his title. People can change drastically when hurt enough, and hatred with an object of blame? Not to hard to make as an antagonist.

I had more reasons but they seemed to have slipped my mind!

(. . .expect a prequel one-shot for Arthur.)

Anyhow, I want to sincerely thank everyone who has read, whether they've been here since the early days, or arrive years after it had finished. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for putting up with my silliness and non-corrected typos. Thank you for your comments, your kind words, and even just your reading this.

Thank you, and Happy Reading and Writing.

~Sirrius The Moonblade/Rachnoch Surren