a final

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goodbye

₊❏❜ ⋮ ⌒ LIKE THE KING ... of Wakanda says; death is not the end. It's more of a stepping off point.

And he was right.

      "Hello!" Adi yelled out, a empty white room was all he could see.

     "Adi?" Dally stepped forward, tilting their head to the side so they could see better.

     "Adi? Dally?" Zay stepped forward, catching the attention of the two who were confused, yet smiling.

    "Zay?" Charli looked towards Zay with wide eyes, and then he looked towards Adi and Dally. "Adi? Dally?"

    "Everyone?" Liam moved forward, eyes darting between everyone that was standing around.

     "Liam?" Kohana croaked, her voice cracking as she took in everyone who was standing in the white room. "Everyone?"

    "Koie." Kat moved towards their wife, quickly wrapping her arms around Kohana.

Everyone else was extremely quick in moving forward and wrapping their arms around each other. They had somehow found their way back to each other. They were united once more, and that was all that mattered.

      "Congratulations." Someone stepped out from no where, a robe placed over their body. They looked like a being of higher levels, someone who would be in change of a place like this. Wherever they were. "You saved everyone."

     "Even at the price of your lives."

The heroes paused, and looked towards the being that stood tall.

    "As a reward, you'll be granted one last change." The being smiled faintly. "A change to live without having to be a hero."

The heroes believed there was a twist, a but, something.

    "If you would like to go back to a world you had found, one where you had grown, than I can grant you that wish."

    "Do our families believe we're dead?" Charli asked, his mind drifting towards his mother who had hugged him goodbye and kissed his forehead.

    "Your family's had been given the prize money, along with a new community where they now live with other families of heroes."

    "Can we see?" Zay asked, stepping forward and wanting to know if he could see his family, to see if this person was telling the truth.

    "Of course." And their surroundings changed. Each hero gazed at their family members who smiled happily. They had properly grieved and moved on. They accepted what their children had chosen to do.

     "If you don't choose to leave, than you'll stay here."

     "We can't go home?"

      "Unfortunately, no."

       "I have an understanding that some of you had created families. Here, anything you would like is anything you can have."

It was up to the heroes. To stay in the afterlife, or go back to one of the worlds they had been in. Stay or leave.

       "What will you chose?"

The King of Wakanda smiled at the people. He had accepted the heroes into his culture, into his lives, into his family. He didn't know them all, yet his dream he couldn't control had brought them all to him. It's what he owed them.

      "You can choose to come back with me, where I'll wake up and the world you had helped save will welcome you with open arms. Or you can stay here, where you can finally rest."

             "It's up to you, heroes.
          it's finally in your control."