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From Friendship came darkness, and from darkness came light.

The eclipse was still alive, but she couldn't fight anymore. She still had some servents left, but the power of the shield kept them from Trishanku - for the most part. The net Reticulum was over the clearding, trapping the titans and their allays. They knew the darkness would eventually kill them, and many of the dead were nothing but stars, for there where no bodies they could live in.

And not everyone had returned. Pictor and many others were still trapped in the belly of darkness, where there was no escape. Lepus, the loyal messenger and spy, had died far away and couldn't escape his old body. He is still there, and that is why rabbits have less courage today - it lays trapped by Lepus in the darkness beyond the stars.

The defendants cried for all of them long. But there was some hope to save Pictor from the darkness. As for Lepus, his light was a red star on the sky, unreachable for the fishes, who carried the souls through the portals, but a visible consolation for the rabbits.

Now, after the battle, Lupus announced things had to change. The First Wolf was wounded and tired after the fight. After all he had survived Pyxis and immediatly fought the darkness itself, what nobody else could have done.

Lupus called for all the fighters. Firstly, he renamed the clearing Trishanku, which should be called Mimosa from now on, in remembrance of the brave fox and both the beginning and the end of the great war. Then he told everyone, that they would build a new realm in this save space, like Andromeda, but much smaller.

There were two bright lights among the defendants, which had left the battle last. These were Sol and Lunis from Mirfak's pack. Lupus entrusted them with the new realm. Their fighting brothers, Sirius, Canopus, and Arktur, became protectors of the land.

But the titans and their children drew back. They had exhausted themselves in the war. Now they still had to fight the darkness. They had no power left to create.

So this task was transferred to Sol and Lunis. They made a safe land, that they could watch, and started to fill it with all kinds of beings. All the inhabitants of Andromeda that survived the war, could live here in peace, protected by the wolves of Mirfak's pack and far away from the silent fight against the darkness. Soon, this land had new god, the children of Sol and Lunis. Of them and their adventures will be much to tell soon, and even some titans joined them.

But before all that we have to part from the titans. For Lupus rests now, exhausted by the fight, his son by his side. One after the other, the titans returned, except Pictor and Lepus, and together they ould strengthen the shields and keep the darkness away. They only fought to preserve the light now.

A victory was a dream they would never see true, unless new power would come from somewhere. Lupus told them they had to endure this for a long time, until the war would change one last time. And with the great Wolves and great Bears, the five scouts, the messenger Pegasus and all children but Pictor, son of Canis Major, they endured.

The great heroes of Andromeda joined them as well: Mimas and Erakis, Bootes with the hunting dogs, Aldeban, Arae. Castor and Pollux were together again, Lynx had returned from the dark. The titans also opened the Cepheus-Sea again, to hold on longer, although it's flames were a grave danger.

The fighters were weak, but many, and their pack was sticking together. They took turns, to share the burden, and thus some titans may visit us from time to time, hidden in the bodies of smaller wolves.

For yes, the new realm, Mimosa, is our earth. The animals here are the heirs of this time, which had seen the darkness. But over time, all animals became smaller to fit into such a small world that was so much smaller than Andromeda. Only a few carry the spark of the old times, and other stories will tell of them.

Andromeda, however, the Light-Reach, is lost. Today, there are only the Starfields, a pitiful remnant of the beauty of once, where all souls return to if they leave this realm, and from which they return to Mimosa after a while.

The titans are still out there, little pup. And Lupus and the great heroes are with them. They protect us, never tired, so that the darkness won't kill us. Just look up to the sky at night, when the stars appear, and you can see them; they and the darkness they fight. They keep us safe here.

But they don't see everything ...