The bunny continues to wail and scream, she now glows in a dark grey hue.

The man struggles as he pushes himself up, as he stands, he puts up his arms to shield himself from the shockwave.

Slowly, he makes his way towards the bunny, each step being harder to put down as he gets closer. Yet no matter what, he pushes on, desperately trying to get to her.

Step by step, the man trudges forward and comes closer to the bunny. As he reaches the bunny within his arm’s length. The man quickly hugs the bunny tight.

“Hey, hey! Cut it out would you, I’m here, we’re here together, you and I. Don’t lose yourself or all of this will mean nothing…” the man tenderly says to the bunny as he holds her tight.

Slowly everything calms down as the bunny calms down.

The man lifts the bunny up while still embracing her, “Come on… we gotta be strong here, no matter how this end. We need to go on…”

The bunny replied with embracing the man back tightly as she continues to cry.

As the man sighs in relief, he’s surprised to see the area begins to shake once again. And more cracks of white light show up.

The bunny stares at the bell she wore on her arm and again glows a dark hue, as she releases a surge of energy. Thus, pushing the man back.

“I… can’t… so much pain… you, me and…” she again looks at the bell on the floor.

The man again knocked on the ground looks at the bunny as he tries to stand. But is unable to as more constant streams of shock waves emit from the bunny as though in rhythm with her heart beat, continue to hold him down.

“We failed... we... I... failed... everyone... and you...” the bunny cowers down.

“I’M SORRY, I’M SO SORRY!” The bunny wails over and over again, “I LOST EVERYON!” as strong burst emits as she says. The bunny looks at the man, “what hurts most of all… is…”

The bunny bites her lip in frustration, “I LOST YOU AND-” she cuts herself off unable to say what she wants to and just screams loudly in grief and sorrow.

“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!” as wails an ear-piercing shriek, she releases a shock wave enough to knock the man out.

The man was unable to do anything as his vision begins to fade; he listlessly says “don’t...”

As the man closes his eyes, he again immediately opened them in shock as he hears a surprising sound of someone being slapped.

The man notices the whole area growing lighter, he then looks at the bunny. Now seeing her holding her cheek in shock.

The man sees the culprit, “Shitty… Priestess…?” he says dumbfoundedly.

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The priestess glares at him, and in response to what he just said. She then kicks him in the sides, “Humph! Ungrateful much!”

The man curls up as he holds his stomach in the area where the priestess kicked him.

The priestess then glares at the bunny, making the bunny shiver in fear.

The priestess sighs and scratches her head, “Geez… why are you so whiny all the way to very end! I mean come on sis!” She childishly says as she stomps her feet.

The bunny and the man froze and simultaneously react, “eh?!” “what?!”

As the priestess laugh at their bewildered reactions, she picks up the bell and opens the wooden box that was given to the man by the gentle hairy creature Joan.

“Alrighty, time for this to come back!” the priestess tosses back the bell into the box. And as she does the whole area begins to fully crack and break, revealing a more illuminated space.

The darkness all gone, now as if stars where dancing around. The whole area glows a calming and warm light.

The priestess looks around looking very much satisfied, “K, I did my part…” the priestess looks at the man and gave him a gentle smile, “Now it’s your turn”

The man laughs, he stands and perks himself up, “I know…” he ends with a smile back at the priestess.

The bunny looked at them confused as to what is actually going on.

The man and the priestess laugh as they see the bunny’s confuse face.

The priestess walks towards the bunny and lifts her up to hug her tightly. The bunny was still confused but was very delighted by what the priestess did.

The priestess then tosses the bunny to the man, the man quickly catches the bunny of course. “See ya later…” she says as she walks away and vanishes.

The man and the bunny looked at each other and can’t help but laugh at to how wacky and weird the whole situation looked.

As the bunny stops laughing, she asks, “What now?”

The man gently smiles, “Now…” he then lifts up the bunny, “It’s my turn” as he says, he kisses the bunny.

The bunny then begins to glow brightly white and slowly she grows bigger, her form changing that into a woman. She stands on her feet wearing the same clothes from when she was a bunny, but in human version.

The man then embraces the woman gently, “Took a while…”

The woman was confused, “Eh?” she scutters about for a bit.

The man looks at the woman’s face and kisser her forehead. A small light emits from it.

“You remember that time at the park?” the man smirks.

The woman slowly remembers everything clearly. As she did her face contorts with a wryly smile and tears flowing down her face as she hugs the man tightly, burying her face on his chest.

The man laughs, “I guess that’s a yes then!” the man chuckles as he cuddles with her.

“Hey!” the man prompts, “I made good with my promise, didn’t I?” the man smiles, shadowing his movements to the time where the man and the woman in front of him, were young and alone in the park that one night when she ran away.

The man drops his hands to hold the woman’s hands, “I told you…” he smiles warmly, “I’ll never leave without saying goodbye…”

The woman replies with a forceful hug as tears come running down her face, slightly pushing the man off balance. The man holds her tight as he caresses her head.

The area around them slowly grows brighter, as the woman notices she slowly begins to float.

The woman continues to hold on to the man, “p-please… not yet… don’t… I-i… promised…” she says tearfully.

A flash of white light then echoes what she said during that night when they were young.

* * *

As the boy smirks saying his promise, the girl laughs, “alright! If so, then I promise…” she pauses to think for a moment her hands slowly embracing the boy, “to… make you happy always and forever!” she says gleefully.

The boy laughs, “I won’t ever doubt it…” he smiles, as the girl and the boy share a gentle kiss.

* * *

The man hearing this memory made him laugh, the woman on the other hand formed a weak smile as she continued to cry.

“As I said, I never doubted…” the man hugs the woman even closer as she continues to float up.

The man moves his hands onto the woman’s shoulders, “You never broke that promise…” the man says as he caresses the woman’s face.

The woman holds the man’s hand on her cheek, feeling the warmth it gave.

“Lucky for me…” the man moves the woman’s face closer to his. “so did i…” he then passionately kisses the woman.

The space around them glittered in warm light. As the man and the woman share a tender embrace as they lock their lips together one last time.

The man moves his head back, “Now go…” he says as he gently pushes the woman upward. Yet still holding onto her hand, the man and the woman slowly separate.

The woman continues to float up, till finally her hand separates from the man.

The man smiles and puts on a cheeky grin as he shouts, “Bye-bye!”

As he says a blinding white light enveloped the whole area. The woman instinctively closes her eyes.

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Slowly as the woman opens her eyes, though her sight was blurry.

She sees that she lays down on a bed, medical utilities all around, a nasal oxygen mask on her face.

Next to her was another woman sleeping and holding her hand. She looked at her and notices her waking up.

The sleeping woman still drowsy clears her eyes a bit and looks back at her.

As the sleeping woman’s eyes clear, with a shocked and speechless face. Slowly tears come running down her eyes as she joyfully hugs her tight.

The woman then glances around seeing more people. Two men and another woman.

She notices their familiar faces, the younger man wearing a sports vest, the beautiful woman with shiny hair, and the older scruffy looking man with a fedora.

The woman begins to cry as she hugs the person to what she understands was her sister.