Disclaim:

I do not own The Lunar Chronicles

I only own a few characters

The Lunar Chronicles belongs to Marissa Meyer

Side notes:

This contains spoilers! So if you have not read 'Cinder', 'Scarlet', and 'Cress' and you don't want spoilers, don't read this!

One

Lily made her way down the empty road.

She needed time alone to think. Too think about what had just happened.

A few minutes ago, she had spotted Carswell Thorne!

She knew she should probably contact somebody, maybe Emperor Kai. But she couldn't bring herself to do it.

Footsteps sounded in a nearby alley.

Lily jerked her head towards the alley. The graffiti covered walls had started to lose it's bright colour and there was trash littering the alley.

She heard shuffling and instantly grabbed her portscreen just in case.

She had spotted Carswell Thorne while she was walking but he had rounded a corner and disappeared.

Maybe he was here!

Lily heard a loud banging noise.

"Ouch!" someone said.

Clutching her portscreen tightly, she made her way to where she had heard she cry of pain.

"Ah!" she exclaimed.

There was a girl with short blond hair, a very big and muscly man, and two other people that she recognized with ease. Carswell Thorne and...Lihn Cinder! Lihn Cinder had a startled look on her face. She took a deep breath before speaking.

"We're not going to hurt you." she said.

Lily detected that she was trying to sound reassuring.

Despite the non-reassuring voice, she found herself almost believing her but she decided against it, this was Lihn Cinder she was talking to! A wanted criminal!

After a long moment of silence, Lihn Cinder spoke again.

"Umm...I'm Cinder." she said awkwardly.

Lily waited a while before she spoke.

"I know. You're Lihn Cinder, the worlds most wanted criminal." she said, her voice slightly shaky.

"She speaks!" said Carswell Thorne, nudging the blond girl.

"Well obviously." Cinder said, rolling her eyes.

Lily wasn't sure what to say so she examined the people in front of her instead. Lihn Cinder had her hair tied up in a messy ponytail and was wearing some fancy servant clothing. Carswell Thorne had a blindfold on. The muscly man had tousled hair. The blond girl was standing close to Carswell Thorne.

"Hello? Are you still listening?" the blond girl said, speaking for the first time. "My name is Cress. This is Carswell and this is Wolf."

she said pointing to Carswell Thorne and the muscled man.

Lily nodded in acknowledgement. She wasn't quite sure if these people were her to kill her. Probably not...

They didn't look like they were going to harm her.

"And you are...?" Carswell Thorne asked.

"Stop it Thorne." Lihn Cinder said sternly. Then she cleared her throat. "What's your name?" she asked.

"I'm Lily." she answered. Then she added "What are you doing here?"

"We're sort of trying to get to the moon..." Lihn Cinder started.

Lily tucked her portscreen back into her jean pocket.

"Are you against Queen Levana?" she asked.

Hopefully, they were. Lily couldn't stand that woman.

Cress's expression brightened. "Yes we are! Can you help us?" she asked.

"Woah, woah, woah. Not so fast, we don't know if we can trust her." Carswell said.

Lily bit her lip. If they were against Levana, then she would help. If Levana took over the Commonwealth and became empress, Lily would lose all the comforts that New Beijing brought her would be lost!

"Well, we sure could use some help..." Cinder started.

"How do you know she isn't one of Levana's spies." the man called Wolf retorted.

"Hmm..what can you do?" Lihn Cinder asked.

Lily thought. "I can fly a hover, and spaceships. Oh and I can fight." she said, trying to be helpful. It was true! She had been taught how to fly hovers and spaceships couldn't be all that different..right? And she knew how to fight as well.

"Well that could be useful." Cress said.

Lihn Cinder nodded. "Do you want to join us?"

If Lily joined them, she would be helping her country. She would have to stay on guard though, they might be dangerous. But if it meant defending her country and keeping Levana from becoming empress of the Commonwealth, then she would do it.

If this meant saving her sister, she would do it.