[ WP ] Write an ending scene that hints at the enormity of the quest that came before it .

He knelt on a cliff, overlooking a vast ocean. 
 
 Salty air teased his sweat soaked brow and chest. Dried blood caked his forearms. A dented sword lay beside him, a breastplate rent nearly in two behind. 
 
 He shivered against the warm air, his body growing cold despite it. 
 
 It was the blood loss. He knew. 
 
 `` Bastard!'' 
 
 The low throaty voice of what some might call an arch-enemy spoke from behind, a man with barely ten thousand men left. A tyrant brought low. 
 
 `` You've ruined everything. Now I'll kill you. It's over.'' 
 
 He knew. It did n't matter. 
 
 All that mattered was the others had escaped. They had made it home from this place. They were back in the concrete jungle and not in this twisted land of bloodshed and violence. 
 
 Even so. Even knowing it was n't real. Even with all that. He was glad they had stood for the people. They had brought the brutal regime to an end. 
 
 A heavy fog lay upon the ocean, so he stared into that. Waiting for the cold steel that would snuff his life. 
 
 After so much suffering and loss, he welcomed it. 
 
 Then he began laughing. At first a chuckle. Then a deep, booming laugh that carried over the water. 
 
 The tyrant's face appeared before him, snarling. 
 
 `` What's so funny!?'' 
 
 He could only raise a weak arm and point. 
 
 As the fog burned off in the rising morning sun, as the bright yellow pierced that thick haze, as a new day dawned there was a sight to behold. 
 
 Ships. Thousands of ships were sailing towards the beach. Ships flying the flag of the lost Ninth Legion, ships that had been brought by a brother thought lost. He had come back. 
 
 `` You're right. It is over.'' 
 
 He barely managed it through cracked lips and the searing pain of battle wounds. He smiled. 
 
 There on the cliff that overlooked the ocean. With salty air blowing across his sweat soaked brow. With a world free of tyranny and friends safe at home where they belonged. 
 
 It was there as his brother watched from a ship below in horror. 
 
 A sword descended. 
 
 And his adventure ended.
