Sky's The Limit

Three months had passed since the Legion's defeat, and life had returned to some level of normal. Or at least as normal as it could be. The first major shakeup after Chelic's death was Luminita stepping down. As soon as the castle was made somewhat presentable, Luminita announced the royal line would end with her, and within a few weeks an election was called. The winner was a lady called Ruxandra Popa, an education consultant who worked with Marcel on a few issues, beating the Zeus cult hastily chosen new leader in a landslide. Luminita herself moved out of the castle, living in an apartment close to the local college, where she could continue her studies without much hassle. Willow made regular visits, but they became more and more regular to the point she just moved in. Freyja didn't mind.

The next event was Cassandra and Roxanne leaking that the old world still existed. After this was known, both the Lux Congregation and the souls that once resided in the weapons tried establishing some kind of contact. Mia herself made an effort to learn how to land her own grand, and making contact with the town below was a great success. Roxanne's parents met up with her again, as did Cassandra and Aspacia, the latter revealing that she was in fact a god. Roxanne eventually met up with the boy they discussed when she first landed, and surprise surprise, she felt nothing. It took a while for Roxanne's parents to accept this, but they got used to it eventually. A lot of people moved to the surface, and vice versa. And once full integration was made, a few people had the idea of setting out further to see if anything lay further beyond the forest.

But even if Roxanne was interested in love, she probably wouldn't be able to fit it into her schedule with all the Legion kids she had to reform. If Chelic's defeat led to anything, it was a bunch of terrified kids who needed both parental figures and an education. A woman named Priyanka in Gurut worked on the former, with an orphanage being started to help the Legion kids. And while Roxanne wasn't officially staff at first, she was called in to help with paperwork and getting the kids back with their biological parents. The Gurut royal family did eventually start paying her on commission for her, so that was something. But her, Cassandra and Samuel's main job was trying to help them fit into society under the New Miracle Scouting Group, which expanded merely from hero work to a board for any job. It was pretty successful, to the point it expanded from just for Ex-Legion members to an entire website for anyone in the skyspace to use. As well as the town below at some point, but they didn't have internet yet.

The heroes kept doing what they did. While there were way less Chelic sympathisers than anticipated, they still popped up from time to time. So the heroes all worked to beat them, and pretty much every time was a success. Julian was able to heal them all up back in the Miracle Ship. He wore gloves at pretty much any point after the hole in his hand, only removing them to scare some Chelic fan into behaving. It was honestly a miracle his hand could still function. But Luminita eventually offered him a free course in the same university she was attending, because relying on dead bugs served him well so far, but it probably wouldn't hurt to learn actual medicine, just in case.

And once everything was over, Fightston continued the games, bringing back everyone who wanted to attend. A few people from the surface entered, and were formidable in their own rights. Despite that, the finale still ended up being Cassandra versus Willow. And after a hard fight, Cassandra barely etched the win out.

And despite how hard the work felt, seeing an ex-Legion member either be reunited with their parents or finding a new family felt great, doubly so if they were able to find a place in society after all they went through. And that extended to the top ten. Levin himself was too far gone, not regretting anything he did, and was locked in a cell. Mia still made time to visit him, but any discussions were short lived. Manuel made his way to Miracle about a month after with the idea to expand the Miracle Scouting group further. He locked himself in a room and came out two days later with a website. After that he just stuck around until he found a cybersecurity job and moved out with only a small goodbye note afterwards, alongside what seemed like a poem in Xander's memory, but the handwriting was bad so they couldn't make out anything about the poem other than it seemed dedicated to Xander. And the other members had decent jobs after disappearing for a little while. Dakarai actually shown Samuel a picture of Ziwadi, enjoying a new life working in construction.

And during late nights, Roxanne, Cassandra, and Julian would just spend time on the roof of the airship. Watching over the serene landscape of the skyscape. And when they had less to work with, whenever that was, they'd just explore the world below.

Because for the first time in Roxanne's life, it truly felt like the sky was the limit.