[b][i]The End[/i][/b] As the collective forces of offtopic fight the writhing queen and her scores or darkness Acro approaches prepared to end the fight. Blaze fights the queen with shards of astral crystals he harnassed, keria adeptly avoids her attacks, titan and coblat fire on the queen as they avoid her attacks. Acro arrives and everything changes, blinding light floods the battlefield, and the dark vines begin to wither, shrieks of the dark beasts echo around the clearing, and the queen turns her gaze to Acro and Ember. Ember feeds power directly into Acro as he charges a ball of pure energy in between his hands. Acro throws the ball at the queen and she is powerless to stop its immense power, the queen is frozen in place by astral tendrils reaching from the ground and the energy from the ball leaves runes on the ground and the queen pulsing with astral energy. Acro looks back at his spectators and looks to Ember before speaking to the fox, "go now my friend, I won't be making it out of this," The spectral fox stays in place for a moment before Acro opens a portal, looks to his fox and says, "go, for Rain" Ember looks back one more time before walking through the portal. Acro yells at the queen and all the beasts in the surrounding area, "Come! Fight me! You'll all have your turn!" Hordes of the astral beasts converged on Acro as the runes on the ground began to glow with power. As as the last of the beasts entered the circle, the queen began to break free of her restraints and Acro finished the ritual. Acro tore open the rift between his realm and nowhere and banished himself, the queen, and all the creatures of the dark forest back to the nowhere. Everyone finds themselves awakening in spot where they first walked through the rift. [i][b]New beginning[/b][/i] Rain was startled by a portal opening up next to her, she thought that after all this time being associated with Acro, she would have gotten used to it by now. As Rain turned to greet Acro, she saw only Ember and bent down to pick him up. "Hello Ember, what are you doing here?" As Rain picked Ember up, all the recent events in the astral realm hit her and she learned that Acro was gone Rain didn't grieve, Rain didn't cry, she sat down, closed her eyes, and reached out with Ember in her arms. She didn't find what she was looking for, but something else found her.