The Martian Ending Novels & Stories

He smiled. Thunder cracked with red lightning in the dark clouds, lighting the whole ground red. Moratia looked at Ruin’s body in the crater as it dispersed into dark fumes. The fumes rose higher and higher into the sky until it merged with the skull shaped clouds. “Goodbye… Marikh…” Squalls rushed across the ground, probably carrying with them Moratia’s parting words to Ruin. Mizkeal followed her gaze to the thundering clouds as they slowly dispersed away, revealing a clear, gray sky.

After saying all that, she turned and walked out without hesitation. The door slammed shut behind her. I stared at the ceiling as tears slid down my face. The mother who raised me had died a horrific death. The person responsible was still warning me not to cause trouble. I closed my eyes and took a slow breath. When I opened them again, nothing remained except overwhelming hatred. I reached for the pendant hanging around my neck. I pressed a tiny hidden button on the back. After five years of marriage, even Suzanna never knew it was an emergency communicator.

Real pain filled her face. “No! This is not how it ends!” she cried. My father added his strength. “It ends now. For all of you.” The origin point surged. Light exploded outward. It struck Martha’s projection and burned through the link to her hidden place. Her carriers dropped at once. All of them. Lifeless. The connection to their controller had snapped. Martha’s image flickered. Tubes and machines in her chamber sparked and failed in the vision. She looked straight at me one last time. “You… took everything.”

The eye flared angrily. The creature roared a sound so deep it made the air crack. The tear shrank further. The creature’s grip slipped. With one final push from Morrow, the opening snapped shut like a slammed door. The sky returned. The strange stars vanished. The towers went dark. Silence fell over the broken city. Smoke drifted upward. Maria dropped to her knees in relief. “It’s over,” she whispered. Above her, Morrow, Helios, and Orion hovered quietly. Alive. But exhausted.

“LEON—!” His grip loosens. Slowly. Deliberately. “…goodbye… Maria…” “NO—!” The light explodes. Everything disappears. Sound— gone. Time— gone. Everything— gone. And in that final moment— just before the world completely collapses— I realize the truth. He didn’t choose survival. He didn’t choose himself. He chose to end it. Even if it meant— losing everything. And then— darkness. Complete. Absolute. And I don’t know if either of us made it out alive.

Chapter Fifteen Quinn I lean back in my chair, wiping tears from my eyes. A logical part of my brain tells me I need to stop. But for some reason, I lack all self-control and don’t click away. Someone knocks on my office door, and I look up, prepared to hide behind my monitor if need be. But it’s just Marissa, and I wave her in. “Oh my God,” she says and comes around to my desk. “Stop watching those clips of dogs greeting their owners after they come home from the military.”

I couldn't help wondering if the moment she put on those earrings, the child inside her had already died. By the time we finished cleaning the house, it was well past midnight. Mom wrapped up what was left of her and ordered Charlie to bury her behind the hill. The entire house fell into an eerie silence. Mom's eyes glinted with a predatory sharpness as she locked her gaze on me. "From now on, we're in the same boat," she said.

I guess that true love stories never have endings after all. Dean took my hand in his and interlocked our fingers as the flight attendant announced that the plane was about to take off. "Let's go home, shall we?" He said with the most beautiful smile. T H E E N D. _____ Thanks for reading! ~Chris xx.

In the end, she gets me, and the underworld gets Vincent too. I see Chrissy getting married to Xavier and living peacefully—a fair ending for them for staying with me through thick and thin. I see Maria and Martha living peacefully in my house after I am gone, and Martha working diligently in my place until she becomes the director, with Maria as the team leader of her team. As life ends well for Lacy’s friends, it doesn’t for Lacy. I can’t help but feel sorry for Lacy’s destiny, and feel bad for myself for choosing wrong in the first place.

“William, our souls has been split. Neither can return until we are one again. Our Sotiria is coming, she will help. Until then this is goodbye.” My heart breaks as I see Mars run away into the distance, I don’t allow myself to blink until he disappears. Tears stream down my face as the flowers continue to wither away, I look around trying to find healthy ones. Hoping that the ones that look healthy will lead me back to my body and bring Mars and I back together.