A/N I'm writing this author's note, after i finished the chapter, the next day infact! So that's slightly wierd! But anyway, thank you for the two reviews I got, I would wait for more, but I really want to know what you think of this, the last chapter! Because this chapter was written before you reviewed, any comments unfortunatly won't be in there! But thanks anyway, and I'll use them in my other stories... Thanks MuggleBuddy and SmileyFacePerson for the reviews so far, I'm glad you like my story! I shall put both your individual comments at the bottom, so I don't spoil anything! Read on for the last chapter! Sorry, it's a little soppy I guess!
Ty came over to me, and crouched down beside me and the body of my sister.
"Kayla, you're glowing," He said simply
"What has that got to do with anything?" I looked up at him with tears rolling down my cheeks, "My sister is dead!" I screamed at him, feeling my old anger coming back to comfort me.
"You might save her!" He shouted back, then he added, quietly "Feel the energy, use it!"
I glanced down at my hands for the first time and saw that indeed they were glowing, with as bright a light as that in which the Goblin Queen had disappeared into. "I don't know how!" I sobbed, "I can't do it, I can't save her, I just don't know how to!" I looked once more at Shaylee, lying on the stone floor, her ebony hair falling around her pale face. I had tried to save her, and had just made it worse, it was all my fault.
Ty reached out and turned my face to his with his hand. He cupped my face in both his hands, making it impossible for me to turn away from the drowning blue of his eyes. "You can do it Kayla, just feel it, you don't need to know how, just do it." And with that he bent closer to me, kissing me softly on the lips, "Feel it," He whispered, taking my hands in his, and placing them on my sisters body, one on her head and one on her chest.
I closed my eyes, so that I could feel only her beneath my hands, and Ty's breath on my lips. I felt a warmth in the centre of my body, and I sent that into Shaylee, along with all the love I felt for her. I opened my eyes to see her glowing gold too. Then the glow faded, and she opened her eyes, so similar to mine. She smiled when she saw me.
"What happened? Did you do it?" She whispered, I nodded, more tears rolling down my face,
"Hey, I could use some of that glow too! If I'm not breaking in on your love fest of course, you two" Fin shouted from where he had been placed. I blushed but walked over to him. I repeated the action with him and this time I could feel the bones knitting back together, and when I opened my eyes Fin was grinning at me, he stood up, a little slowly, but he was definitely standing,
"Thanks Princess,"
"Kayla, will you help... The King, my... father" Ty said, from where he was now standing over the dazed looking king. I walked over and placed my hands on him, this time both on his head. The warmth flooded down my hands and into him. When I opened my eyes he looked at me and smiled,
"Thank you, I understand now," He said sadly, then he turned to Ty, "I'm sorry Tynan, I have done you and your parents great wrong, I hope in time, you can learn to forgive me, and perhaps see me as your father, one day,"
"I hope so too," Ty said, helping me to my feet. He looked down at me, with a smile on his face, "So you know who I am now," He raised an eyebrow, "Or at least who I thought I was, and now we all know who I actually am. Apparently,"
"I do indeed Prince Tynan,"
"I should have told you, but,"
"I shouldn't have assumed either," I interrupted,
"You have to admit though, it was more fun this way," He grinned at me,
"Maybe, just a little bit more fun," I smiled, then turned to Fin, who was standing by my sister, they were both nudging each other, "Did you know about this?"
"Maybe, just a little bit!" He laughed,
"Hey Princess, we saved your sister, killed the Goblin Queen, who is in fact my biological mother, and rescued The King, oh and the World of Hadanim, that's a lot to go through together don't you think?" Ty said, laughing,
"You know it is, and do you also now I'm always going to think of you as Ty," I looked up into his drowning blue eyes, that sparkled with laughter, I reached up and stroked his cheek and then his soft blonde hair.
"That's ok, I can answer to that," He said and he bent down and kissed me. I briefly heard Fin and Shaylee giving wolf whistles, but mainly all I knew about was his arms around me, and the feel of his lips against mine. He pulled away still smiling at me, "Do you know how long I have waited to do that!"
"You already did, when you cut my hair!"
"About your hair Kayla, when you two were having that kiss-athon, it well, there was another golden glow, and it grew back," Fin said, sounding amused and puzzled. I reached my hand to the top of my head,
"This better not be a joke Finley of Hadanim!" I ran my hands through my hair, my long hair that reached the whole way down my back, "Its back! This is so sad, but I feel like crying all over again,"
"Not again! Jeez Kayla!" Shaylee laughed,
"Ahem," We all turned to look at the King, "I'm sorry to interrupt, but according to the Prophecy, you must appoint a ruler, for Hadanim,"
"But, you are the King," I said, puzzled,
"Yes, but everybody thinks I'm dead, and I actually would much rather live a quiet life,"
I looked at Ty, "I suppose you are the rightful heir," I mumbled,
He looked distressed, "But that would mean,"
"That I wouldn't see you again," I nodded, feeling tears slipping down my face again, "Sorry Shaylee, I'm crying again," I glanced at my sister, but she was also crying,
"You could stay here with me," He said,
"No, I couldn't, I need to be with my family, I don't belong here, except maybe the occasional visit. But if you were here, I don't think I could bare even that," I sobbed, and he lifted my face to look at him,
"Then I refuse, I won't stay here,"
"It's your rightful place, your duty,"
"Ahem," We turned to look at the King again, "Sorry, I keep interrupting, but there is in fact no law in place in Hadanim stating that the next monarch needs to be the "Rightful Heir" as it were, I mean its tradition but, what's in a tradition. Besides, you're not really eligible, being in line to your own throne and everything,"
"You mean," I looked The King through teary eyes.
"You can pick anyone to be King, or Queen even,"
"Well then I know exactly who to pick, how does King Finley of Hadanim sound, has a ring to it I say," I beamed at Fin who looked completely shocked,
"Me? King?"
"You were the leader of the revolution, of course it should be you," He walked over beaming, he lifted me up and swung me around,
"Thank you Princess," And he planted a kiss on my lips,
"Excuse me!" Ty said, grinning too, "One minute your crying over me, the next your kissing the King of the Fairies! What a relationship this will be!"
"Now I do hope you will stay for my coronation?"
I looked at Shaylee, "I would love to see the coronation!" she said, smiling. So we walked back through to the Great Hall, where our Trial was held. (The King of course didn't come, he said a quick goodbye and hurried off before anyone noticed him)
We stood in front of the Throne, facing many confused looking citizens of The Golden City.
"The curse has been lifted!" Ty shouted, "This woman, has broken the spell, the goblin Queen is no more, Citizens of Hadanim, you are free!" A great cheer rang out, "And welcome your new King!" Finley sat on the throne and another golden glow burst out, shining through the whole hall, and as far as anyone knew, the whole world. With the glow gone, so were the Goblins, and strangely Sullivan, the royal adviser. Also crops began to grow, the flowers burst forth and trickling streams turned once more into majestic rivers.
The next day was King Finley's coronation. We had all stayed in the castle, bathing, and organising clothes. Then at noon, we entered the Royal Throne room, the room where I had first met the Queen, the room with the magnificent golden doors. As I stood next to the throne, I looked out at the crowd of fairies and humans that were gathered in the room, and even outside the Palace, from the windows you could see that the crowd reached far off into the distance.
I was wearing a dress, that was a dark, forest green, it had a corset laced with gold. The neck was high and my hair was loose, and woven with real silver leaves, with tracings of gold. The sleeves of the dress went much further than my hands and the skirt was long and quite loose, and flowing.
I looked at Shaylee, standing beside me, she was dressed in a pale green dress, a simple design, which suited her perfectly, and her hair was put up and laced with daisies, which made her black hair gleam, and seem even more black.
Fin was sitting on the throne wearing a dark red velvet tunic and red trousers, also of velvet. He also had matching boots. Around his neck was a long red cape, that flowed all the way from the throne onto the floor. His blonde hair was completely loose, except for little plaits which kept it back from his ears, which of course made him seem the complete fairy King. He was also wearing the new Royal Crown, a golden circlet with instead of a shining amythest, a shining ruby, the new stone and colour of Hadanim. He also had a golden belt with his own sword sheathed in it, which had been newly encrusted with rubies.
They I turned to Ty, Prince Tynan, the lost Prince of Hadanim, or Prince Tynan of Berinum, or Ty, my friend, and my love. He was wearing a lovely blue velvet tunic, and blue trousers and thigh high boots. He also had a new belt, but his was silver, at which hung a sword, whose hilt was encrusted with sapphires. It was Kladener, the sword of the last King of the Fairies. His wavy blonde hair rested on his shoulders, he turned to look at me, and smiled. I smiled back.
These people were the people I loved most in the world, in any world, they had helped me through everything, had helped me to become a better person. I knew I had changed, and I wasn't sure how my parents would take that. I suddenly thought of my parents, how they must be worrying. I knew that as soon as this coronation was finished we would have to go back, leaving Finley, King of the Fairies, to his country and his people.
"Long live King Finley!" A chorus irrupted, not only from the room but from the surrounding crowds as well. As everyone was cheering, Fin leaned down to us.
"Now's the best time, so long, my dear friends, do come back soon, I might need your help again!" He grinned at us,
Ty took one of my hands, and Shaylee took the other, we headed down the hall, past rows and rows of cheering guests. Then we were in the corridor of the Golden Palace,
"This is it, we're going home!" Shaylee grinned at me, as we walked down the corridor, and into a lonely looking room. There was a mirror, almost identical to the one in my own Palace. We looked at each other and stepped into it. We walked through the mists, and I felt things changing, ever so slightly. Then we stepped out, and we were in that empty room in the Palace of Galidren. I looked at my sister, and at Ty, and then finally I looked at myself in the mirror. We were all wearing the same clothes as we had been when we first stepped through the mirror.
"It wasn't... a dream or something was it?" I whispered
"No, but I think perhaps, everyone might not be so worried as we expected them to be," Ty said, with a smile, "Perhaps instead of being gone for days, maybe even a week, we were only gone for a few minutes, or an hour. We won't know until we go and see,"
So, still holding hands, we headed down the grand stair case, and into the main hall, where both our families were sitting, eating dinner.
"There you three are," My mother, Queen Riona said, looking a little puzzled by the sight of us holding hands,
"We were almost ready to send a search party, no-body had seen you in the last hour!" My Father added,
"I see you've met my son then," King Robert said, smirking at me and Ty, we dropped hands quickly,
"Yes, we've met him," Shaylee said,
The End
A/N Well did you like the Gateway through the mists? I did! In fact I may write a sequel, maybe, as I do like these characters a lot! But it's all up to you, what did you lot think? Of the whole story and this chapter, I would like some long reviews with some criticism, so I know what to improve for my other stories, and any future ones. But no flames please! So go on, press that little blue button, you know you want to!
MuggleBuddy- Thanks for the applause, but I had to make her be alive, because I love happy endings. I guess that's my downfall! And about the Godfather spell thing... I hadn't thought that out, and you are right! Except maybe, because there was no object of the spell, the spell broke? Perhaps that would work, what do you think?
SmileyFacePerson- I have to agree, it's a horrible way to die, but that was the centre of her power you see! And I have no idea what you mean with Ty and the Harry Potter movies!