NOTICE: THIS IS THE LAST CHAPTER OF THIS STORY.
This one is based on the TV series.
The Nightwing's wings felt leaden as she flew away from the cabin. She knew she should just keep flying, but when she heard the unbanded Silverwing ask Betty, "Where's Marina?" she knew she couldn't just fly away. Without Marina, she would never have been able to get back into the air.
She banked and her wings felt normal again, despite the dread that filled her heart at the prospect of facing the cannibals. She landed near the Silverwing—was his name Shade?—under the eaves. There was a clump of bats there, including Betty and some others the Nightwing knew. She was about to ask Shade or Betty where Marina was when she heard a thump on the roof, and then another one. A shadow fell over the moonlit eaves. One bat gasped. The giant bats were there.
The Nightwing pressed herself closer to the wall, her muscles tensed up, trying to restrain herself from flying away as fast as she could.
"Shade?" one of the cannibals said. He pressed his body closer to the roof, his head inching closer to their hiding spot. Shade let out a shaky breath, gasping with fear.
"Goth!" came a hissing voice. "Here!" The giant bat withdrew his head, and to her relief, she heard the whoosh of wings flying towards the chimney. Not towards her.
Then she realized something—if Marina hadn't escaped, she was still in the cabin! The cannibals were in the cabin now! The Nightwing heard a low, sinister laugh coming from the cabin. The cannibals had found their prey.
Just as she was about to rush in there, she heard frantic wingbeats exiting the cabin. She looked down and saw a bright orange shape darting out and actually sighed with relief.
If you couldn't already tell, that was a continuation of the first chapter. After writing it, I realized that the bat that Marina helped up was under the eaves with Shade and Penelope later, so I just wrote that in so it fit.
Goodbye, Human beings!
(Get it? Get it? That wasn't a typo; 'Human' is capitalized in the Silverwing books.)
