Radiant Shadows 12: A Final Goodbye.. or is it?

Lightning starts crying, and I just stand there in shock. "Whaaaa..." I mumble. NOW!? Only a week from the time that I technically murdered and killed my own mother, and about 3 months?! NOW THEY FIND A WAY TO GET ME BACK HOME!? Well. Lightning hugs me, and continues crying. "I-i'm sorry.." She sniffs. "I-I-I don't usually cry, this is a bit awkward-" "It's... it's alright Lightning." (Geez I'm rewriting this and it took this long before my heart starts ripping itself apart out of sadness) "It only makes you human. Or, uh, more like a human I guess." I hug her back, and we stand there for a few minutes, Lightning crying and me just hugging her back. It took awhile, but finally Lightning calmed down enough that she didn't need to lean on me for support.
I spot Philo awkwardly watching. How long was she there? Philo coughs. "Ummm, well, uh.. Celest wants me to tell ya.. urm.. that the portal's gonna be ready in like a while, but it doesn't matter how long ya take, since.. uhhh..." She coughs, rubs the back of her neck, and doesn't look us in the eye. Philo kicks a random rock on the ground (JUST STOP THE ROCK ABUSE) and continues. "Well, she has to trigger it herself, so... take as long as you want." Philo instantly runs off, and Lightning chuckles sadly. "Philo WAS never good with goodbyes.. and never will be." Lightning takes my hand, and we walk back to her house. I pack up my stuff - the extra cloak, the map, and stuff like that - while Lightning silently watches me.
We quietly walk out of the house, and walk around the entire base. We don't need to know where the portal is, since it's hard to not notice a giant black and purple mass that is slowly arranging itself into a portal frame. It's also shooting off sparks. We don't really talk, just walk. Finally, after 5 minutes of awkward silence, Lightning speaks. "So... why aren't you happy to be going home?" I sigh. "Honestly? No clue. I guess I've become attached to this place. It's like a second home." "Will... will you remember me? And Philo, and everyone else?" "Why wouldn't I!?" "I don't know... some people would just rather forget and believe it t'was a dream." "Well, even with all this destruction, ashy soil, and constant lightning and explosions, it's infinitely better than Earth." "Is Earth REALLY that horrible?" "Do you want the simple answer, the long dark answer, or the short nice answer?" "Uh, whichever you think is better for me." "Simple then. While Earth has oil spills in the ocean, dogfights, death, and bad atmosphere, we do have art, technology, spaceships, and lots more cool stuff." "All at the sacrifice of your dimension." "Yea..."
Lightning doesn't appear impressed. "We have potions that can cure anything, a basic understanding of dimension-traveling, human-animal hybrids, living Myths, and (ugh) Angels. If anyone in your dimension saw even ONE of these things, they'll go nuts. Actually, does your dimension have rainbows?" "Umm.. yeah...?" At this, Lightning stops, and stares me down. "Do they have... regular rainbows?" "Yup." "Full-circle rainbows?" "Uhhh.. I dunno." "Twinned rainbows?" "Are you joking?" "Multiple rainbows? Supernumerary rainbows? Monochrome rainbows? Reflected rainbows? Reflection rainbows? Higher-order rainbows? Moonbows? Ooooh, fogbows?" "Listen Lightning, I have no clue, but to make you chill yes." "EEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!" She squeals. Note to self, rainbows make Lightning go crazy.
I place my hand on her shoulder, and she calms down slowly. "Well.." I say awkwardly. "Anything else cool about Supernova?" "Uhhhh... we have dragons, other flying beasts. Bottomless bags, and other cool stuff. What about your dimension?" "Uhhh.. we have technology, robots, and... uh... well, I pretty much already said everything." "Hmmm... maybe I'd like to see one of the technologies you have. While we do have lots of people who explore other dimensions, only a handful have seen yours. We prefer to stick to other places, since your dimension is too strong for it's own good and could wipe us all out/experiment on us. Experimentation is PAINFUL. Ripping out our hair, scales, tails, wings, ears, whatever, just to test on it. Like you'll get the ability to live forever, or inject the DNA into someone to get our features. Yeah, right. You have to be born HERE. HERE, right here, in Supernova!" Lightning starts going off about experiments and how cruel it is.
"Alright, you gotta calm down. We're not on Earth, we're in your dimension." She shakes her head, and sighs. "Sorry..." "It's fine." I say. "Look. There's the portal." We stop, and the portal has nearly fully formed itself into a rectangle. Everyone is wandering around, either watching the portal or talking to others. Lightning sadly stares at the portal, and I watch too, holding her hand. I don't notice Galaxia sneaking up behind me, until...
"BOO!" She screams right in my ear, making me jump. Kamaria - who's behind a giggling (rather evilly) Galaxia - sighs. "I'm so sorry. Galaxia, stop being scary." Galaxia rolls her eyes. "Yeah, yeah, anyway. You. Human." Kamaria sighs again. "HIS name is Jax, Galaxia..." She looks me in the eyes. "Are you being hurt or..." She whispers. "Bullied.. in your dimension?" "Uhhhhhh... perhaps...?" Galaxia closes her eyes. "So.. if your now epic fighting skills (#PROSKILLS!!) don't scare 'em away, tell me by talking to the stars on a full moon, aaaaaaaaand..." She opens her eyes, and they're completely black with dark red and bright white dots randomly dotted around. "Well... I'll take 'em out. Or send them to a different dimension, either one." Galaxia blinks, her eyes returning to normal, and runs off. Geez, she matches Alexa in scariness. Kamaria comes up to me. "I am so sorry. Galaxia always had the personality of a psychotic demon. Actually, I'm surprised she gave you something at all. Anyway..." She carefully plucks out a black feather from her right wings, and a grey feather from her left. 
"Here!" Kamaria says happily. "Give one to a great friend, and keep the other. Then, you'll always be connected  no matter what! Now, have a good life! Me and Galaxia.. wait, Galaxia- GALAXIA!!" She suddenly runs off screaming: "GALAXIA!! STOP IT!! YOU DO NOT STAB SOMEONE BECAUSE THEY DON'T APOLOGIZE WHEN YOU BUMP INTO THEM!!" Moon walks up to me, carrying two bags. "Hey dude!" He smiles. "What's up!" I smile back. "Well, since your leaving, and I'll be unable to teach you anymore, I got you a gift!" He hands me the bags. I check inside them, and one of them is packed to the brim with glass bottles, they're practically one accidental bump away from falling out. The other is a bottomless one, and is labeled 'Schoolwork.' Moon must understand my confusion, and explains. "Well, people will get curious if you have a bag that says 'Ingredients' on it, won't they? Plus, as an added bonus, I enchanted it so that they will see it as homework, and it doesn't look bottomless to anyone that hasn't been here!" "Wow, dude.. that's really cool!"
"Thanks!" He grins. "Also, any kind of water is usable. Though, I don't recommend polluted water unless it's a life-or-death situation. I added a very detailed book about how to make all the potions that I know of - and believe me, I know practically ALL of them, living for over 100 years and all - and 10 years of ingredients in there. What's hilarious is that I still have hundreds of years of ingredients around my home." He gives me a pat - more like a hard slap - on the back, and walks off. I hear the sound of people falling to the floor and "Hey!"'s, and I have a feeling of who it is. Alexa walks right up to me, shoving people out of her way. "Hey, you!!" She half-yells, looking dull and lifeless. "I got a gift too." "Uhhh.. ok? What is i- OH GOD!!" I start calmly, then let out a short scream in horror as Alexa casually puts her hand to her wing, and rips out a handful of dark blue and light blue scales. The area where the scales were removed starts bleeding black blood, and the scales drip with the blood too.
She holds out her hand. "Here. They are really sharp, and can cut anything. It's also unlikely to break, as you could put a 100 ton weight on em and they'll be fine. Not even a crack. Anyway, these scales won't cut ya, so stop looking so scared and disgusted and take. The. Damn. SCALES!!" She screams, and I take them out of fear that she'll kill me. "Ok, see ya, bye!" Alexa walks off. Talk about cold. She's the whole Ice Age. Lia comes over, apologizing to the people Alexa pushed. "Sorry..." She apologizes to me. "Alexa's... lacking, in the warmth and kindness department. I'm surprised that she didn't just say 'Don't die pathetically.' Anyway." She hands me a necklace with a large golden star pendent and 6 smaller silver stars on each side. "Less of a special use, more of an accessory." I give her a hug. "Thanks." Lia looks over her shoulder, and suddenly books it. "ALEXAAAAAA!!" She screams. "DO NOT GET INTO A FIGHT WITH GALAXIA RIGHT NOW!! YOU'RE BOTH STRONG, ALRIGHT!? DON'T KILL EACHOTHER!!"
Philo floats beside me. "Sup?" She says, still refusing to look me in the eyes. "Hi!" I answer back. "M-my gift is going to require the help of Celest... I'll give it to ya later..." Philo then either runs really fast or teleports away. Did she stutter? Anyway, Lightning turns to me. She leans over...
And gives me a tight hug. I hug her back, and we stand like that for what feels like hours, but it's actually only a few minutes. I can tell everyone around us are smiling, but for once I don't mind. After Lightning lets go, I pick up the bag with the ingredients, and Lightning grabs the one with bottles, somehow magically not tipping any of them over. We walk over to the portal, which has completely finished in a rectangle shape. Celest looks over, and me and Lightning nod. She then uses teal magic, and the portal suddenly is consumed in a ball of light. When it disappeared, inside of the frame had silver and mixes of grey swirls. "WAAAAAAIT!!" Philo screams. "Celest!! I have to ask you something!" She then runs over, and whispers something to Celest.
Celest thinks for a second, and nods. "Alright." She 'says.' "Little help, Lillie, Ray, Psycho?" They come forward, and Celest whispers what they have to do. They all nod, and charge up their powers. Celest looks sad. "This may hurt... a bit." "What wi-" Celest and the 3 others suddenly spawn a HUGE bunch of lightning in front and on me, and it hurt A LOT. When it eventually passed, I couldn't stand and fell to my knees. "You said it wouldn't hurt that much!" I say, but not very loudly. "Sorry... I didn't expect it to hurt that much..." Philo mutters, helping me balance. "What did they do?" I ask. I note that the trio had backed off and retreats into the crowd. "Well, they gave you the ability to travel between here and Earth." Philo says shyly. "I didn't know what else to give you. This was less from me, and more from everyone." I turn to the crowd, and grin. They, knowing that I love the gift, cheer. "Hey, Jax?" Lightning says from behind Philo. "I'll get out of you lovebirds way." Philo smiles, and runs away before either of us can hit her with something.    
Lightning coughs. "Anyway, here's a bracelet, it will help you focus the energy so you can teleport smoother. This is my actual gift for you." I smile, and move closer to her...
...and take off her fake ears. "Here." I say, handing them to her. "You look much better with these off. You should be owning the fact you're different, not hiding it." Lightning smiles, and takes them back. "Thanks Jax... goodbye..." I smile sadly. "Goodbye Lightning." I put the stuff that Galaxia, Kamaria, Alexa, Lia, and Lightning had given me into the bag I had originally, not the ingredients one. I turn towards the portal, take a deep breath, and step through. A blinding light fills my eyes, and I pass out...
=+*To Be Continued*+=
Fun facts!
-Lightning doesn't know that Earth is a planet, and thinks it's a dimension.
-Philo hates goodbyes, since she considers it as a literal bye. As in "I'll never see you again" bye. Why? She's nervous about losing someone forever.
-Alexa can barely use emotions, and lacks an understanding of other people being hurt by words.
-Lia is a sweet lil bean, and the most she can swear is "shoot."
-Galaxia doesn't understand the words "You're being way too scary Galaxia."
-Kamaria is the only thing/person that can make Galaxia calm down when she goes into a psychotic rage.
-Moon was born into a normal family, but he unexpectedly gained immortality at age 20. 100 years later, he still doesn't look a day over 20.
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