Sorcerer Hunters Fan Fiction ❯ Future Echoes ❯ Epilogue ( Epilogue )

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Sorcerer Hunters

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Future Echoes

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~Epilogue~

 

 

 

"Mama, are you sure that... it's okay?"

 

Dota and Big Mama were watching Carrot and the others as they sat around in a Parsoner town somewhere. Carrot was ogling the various pretty girls that walked by, clever enough not to leap up and overtly grope them, especially not after Tira and Chocolat had confessed love to him so excitedly that time with Hakaishin... but that time was a time in the past; Marron, Gateau, Tira, Chocolat, they'd died, but they'd come back... Hakaishin had come, Hakaishin had gone, Sacher had perhaps learnt something about the power of the human heart, and retreated off somewhere to think about what he'd done. Big Mama didn't expect Sacher to give up, but Sacher knew that Big Mama wouldn't give up either; as long as there was Sacher and Big Mama, the conflict would continue. But that could come in the future; for the present, such world-threatening events had been averted, and things were back to some kind of order.

 

Big Mama smiled kindly at Dota.

 

"Dota... are you saying you'd rather they hadn't come back?"

 

Dota shook her head vigorously.

 

"No, no, no, no! I don't mean that at all! But... when they died... when Mama died... there was... somewhere else, wasn't there? Somewhere they all went, somewhere where you went to find them all again..."

 

Big Mama nodded. "That's true. Another world... another dimension... another time."

 

"They don't remember any of it, do they?"

 

"They don't. In that world, they didn't remember anything from this world... in this world, they don't remember anything from that world. That is how it has to be."

 

Dota fluttered down to the floor, lightly sitting on the floor, glancing up at the vision of the group in front of her. She frowned, not quite understanding.

 

"But... Mama, they... they know they were killed by Sacher, right? And that their souls went somewhere else, right? Mama brought them back... but they can't remember what happened when their souls went to that somewhere..."

 

"You wonder if it was wise to reincarnate them with no recollection of their lives in that other place?"

 

Dota flittered her wings, before turning to Big Mama, nodding.

 

"Well, yeah... isn't that a whole section of their lives, just missing?"

 

"Dota... for Tira, Chocolat, Gateau, Marron... for them, it was a whole lifetime, days, months, years passed in that reality while it seemed like it was barely any time at all for us. While Carrot fought on their behalf, they grew, matured, their lives... they led such interesting lives. But once they came back here, it was almost as if they went back in time; not even a day passed here for us, but for them, it was so much longer..."

 

"Mama?"

 

"How do you think it'd affect them, them having lived entire lives that Carrot cannot even comprehend? How would it divide and separate them, and how would it affect their own lives? The place that their souls ended up was a very different place to this, Dota. It would do them no good to have memories of that place."

 

Dota looked back to the group; Tira and Chocolat were giving Carrot one of their usual ear-bashings, while Gateau and Marron talked quietly about their own business to the side. Dota's look fell a little.

 

"Didn't you say that those two were living together in that other reality?"

 

Big Mama noted the curiosity in Dota's voice, and laughed softly. "Yes, Dota, they were."

 

"Does that mean that they were like... together? Together together?"

 

"Dota, I wasn't there long enough to find out. But... yes, they were."

 

"Isn't that... a bit sad? They were together in that other reality, but... not here... here, it's like they've just gone back to what they were like before! Can't you do something to make them remember that they were together, or something?"

 

Big Mama laughed again. "This really touches you, doesn't it? Dota... something attracted those two together in that other reality. Such things don't happen by chance... if their souls are truly destined to follow such paths, then events forgotten may just be revisited..."

 

Dota looked at Big Mama, smiling slightly. "Really?"

 

Big Mama smiled back, nodding. "Really. They might not consciously remember what happened in that other dimension, but it's deep within them. Just as the memories of this world were deep within them in that other world... they might never remember exactly what happened, but just because they don't remember that doesn't mean that their feelings, their deep, inner feelings, might not be swayed by what happened. Look at Tira, look at Chocolat... would they have confessed their feelings to Carrot, had it not been for this? They didn't even know who he was in that other world... they just knew that they loved him. Isn't that a powerful love, Dota?"

 

"A love that spans dimensions... wow, that's really romantic!"

 

"Theirs is not the only love that crosses time in such a way. Give it time... you'll see."

 

"But I want something to happen nowww...."

 

"Dota, be patient! Just watch them. It might be slow, but... small things might trigger their memories, enough to realise... a touch. A look. A spoken word. Something that echoed something once said... Dota, they get to fall in love all over again. Isn't that romantic too?"

 

Dota smiled. "Yeah, yeah it is... né, Mama... how come they all saw Carrot, though? Carrot wasn't dead, was he? How come they saw Carrot in that other world if he was still in this world?"

 

Big Mama gestured for Dota to sit with her; Dota flew over to Big Mama, sitting on her lap, leaning against her chest, smiling as she watched the Sorcerer Hunters go to their day to day business.

 

"Dota... when Sacher wanted Carrot to remember Hakaishin, he spoke about how Carrot's soul was lost. Perhaps part of that lost soul went to the future. Perhaps it wasn't Carrot at all, just someone who looked and sounded enough like Carrot to remind the others who he was... perhaps it's just destiny, where there's Marron, Gateau, Tira and Chocolat, there's going to be Carrot too... even if it's not Carrot, then at least someone who won't let them forget... does that make sense?"

 

"... I guess. Perhaps it's just one of those things we're not supposed to think about too much. Hey, Mama... do you think... I might fall in love one day?"

 

"I'm sure you will, Dota."

 

"And they'll definitely, definitely fall in love?" Dota motioned to Gateau and Marron.

 

"I think so."

 

Dota wrinkled her nose, smiling as she closed her eyes against Big Mama.

 

"Good."

 

 

~Fin~