A.N. This chapter was inspired by a story I found called The Tallest Tree, by thesassylorax on Tumblr.

Many decades passed. Once-ler and Norma were now old. Ted and Audrey kinda were too, since they were only about a decade younger than them (physically I mean). Lorax Jr had a family of his own, though not all his kids inherited the ability to understand trees and animals. Only one, Norma Jr, who was more into nature than her brothers, inherited that ability. Her two brothers were named Once Jr and Jaime. Jaime had been Ted's father's name.

One evening Once-ler and Norma decided to sit outside and enjoy a Humming Fish/Swomee-Swan concert. They sat down on a clear hill, the scarves Ted and Audrey had given them decades ago wrapped around their necks. As the hours passed they grew more and more tired, until finally they decided to just lie down in each other's arms and go to sleep...

The next morning Ted and his family left on one of their trips to the valley. They stopped by the Lurkhim but found it unlocked and empty. Once-ler and Norma usually left it unlocked if they were out, since the animals kept non-family members away anyway, so Ted and his family figured that Once-ler and Norma had fallen asleep somewhere outside. They split up and went to look for them.

"Hey Beansprout." Lorax smiled as Ted walked by near him.

"Oh hey Mustache." Ted smiled. "Have you seen Grampy and Grammy anywhere?"

"Nah, but they're probably near the river." Lorax shrugged. "They like to listen to the music of the Humming Fish and Swomee-Swans during the evenings."

"Thanks." Ted called his family over and they all headed for the river.

"Whoa, look at that!" Once Jr pointed, having gone ahead.

The rest of the family caught up and stared. On a hill, which used to be clear, were two Truffula saplings. What made them stare was the fact that one was a light purple, a rare color, and one was...green.

"Weird." Lorax stared. "No Truffula has ever been green before."

Lorax and the Wiggins family went closer and studied the trees...that's when they saw two scarves around the trunks of the tree. Ted and Audrey picked them up.

"These-these are the scarves we made Once and Norma decades ago." Audrey stared. "You don't think...?"

They took another look at the saplings. Ted slowly lowered his finger towards the green one...which gently moved it's tufts across his finger.

"Hello Ted." A soft but familiar voice said.

"Grampy..." Ted gasped; he then looked at the purple one. "Grammy?"

"Yes it's me." A different but still familiar soft voice said.

"They...they turned into Truffulas." Lorax Jr said.

"They must've died last night and Mother Nature..." Audrey realized.

Ted suddenly smiled. For the first time, he wasn't hurt by death. This time, he was just at peace.

Not too much later, Sally visited the valley with the urn containing her husband's ashes. She knew she was dying next and wanted to be by her parents with her husband spread out near her. This time the rest of the family was able to say their goodbyes before Sally died. And this time, they actually saw her being turned into a Truffula sapling. But then to their surprise a second sapling sprouted next to her. Sally had become lavender, but the new sapling was a light blue.

"Hello son." A voice Ted hadn't heard in decades said.

"Dad!" Ted gasped happily; he then hugged the light blue sapling as gently as he could.

He and his dad spent many hours talking. Most of the rest of the family left, but Audrey and Lorax Jr stayed to chat with Jaime Sr as well. Jaime Jr, wanting to get to know his namesake, stayed too.

Later Ted and Audrey were next, and they became really special Truffulas: striped Truffulas. Ted became red and orange and Audrey became green and blue.

And that was the last of the new breed of Truffulas, the rest of the family became part of the wind.

Future people knew the story behind these different-colored-fruitless Truffulas, for Lorax spent many hours each day talking to those trees. Because of that the area of the new Truffulas became a favorite hangout for couples. Lorax never had to worry about someone coming to chop down any of the trees in the valley, for the town, especially Lorax Jr's descendants, continued to protect the valley for centuries.