It had been a few days since Clarion and Milori had found out about Flake and the others. Today was the final day of going over preparations and everything was running as smooth as ever. Over the next few days they would be traveling the world to bring winter to the mainland.

Milori walked through the dim lit cave and carefully watched as animal fairies checked them over to make sure they were ready for tomorrow's flight. Everything was calm and quiet as the owls stood silently. Then suddenly there was a loud screeching towards the back of the cave. Both the animal fairies and the owls turned to see what the commotion was.

An owl suddenly leaped out of place. It quickly began to ram itself into the walls of the cave. The owls would only move out of his way as fairies began to chase after it. He tried to flap his wings once or twice, but it kept shrieking when he tried.

Milori hadn't moved from where he'd been standing and watched as the owl came charging towards him. All the fairies froze thinking the owl would attack him, but it stopped. The owl let out huge puffs of breath and stare angrily at the sparrowman.

Milori's eyes were narrowed as he stared deeply back at it. He placed his hand on the flat of its beak and watched as the fear and anger slowly escaped the bird. Its breathing became slower and more calm.

A fairy was suddenly by Milori's side, "What happened?".

"I don't know, when I tried to go near his wing he lost control,".

He then noticed the owl's wing was oddly positioned. Milori nodded and then slowly began to move his hand down the side of the owl's large body. As he came closer to its wing he could feel the muscles in its body tense. Finally, his hand grazed the edge of the owl's wing and the owl flinched fiercely.

Slowly, Milori turned and looked at the underside of the wing. The fairies all watched in amazement, surprised by the owl's calmness. Under the wing Milori could see a thin chip of wood stabbing into both the owl's wing and its side. Carefully, he removed it and threw it into one of the nearby bowls of fire. Immediately the owl's tension disappeared and the fairy then guided it back in place.

With a nod the fairies all got back to work and Miloro exited the cave. Once outside Milori looked out across woods below. Then he looked out toward the border, he could see tiny figures and he had to squint to be able to see them. Instantly he recognized them. Crows. There were two of them at the border! Flake.

He hadn't seen her since early that morning. She was probably there now, at the border! Milori quickly hopped into the air and began flying down towards the ground. He continued onward just above the trees.

When he was nearly there he heard screams and he quickened his pace. Within moments he's at the border to find both Flake and Ilene being chased by a crow. Then, in a matter of seconds, the two are corned. Everything suddenly goes black for a second but then all of a sudden Milori is standing in front of the girls yelling, "Run!".

Quickly Milori throws a few punches at the crow causing it to take a few hops backward. Then Milori suddenly blacked out once more and this time the only thing that brought him back to reality was two screams. All of a sudden the crow he had been fighting was on the ground. Milori quickly whipped around to a crow baying down at the two fairies.

"No!" Milori called out as he began to run over to them, but within an instant he is lying in the snow. The crow he had fought was now standing on top of him, digging one of its claws into his thigh and the other was being used to twist his arm behind his back. He could feel his arm snap under the pressure and Milori grunted in pain, "No! Don't hurt them!". He was then forced to watch the life and all that was good be sucked away from them.

Then, the screams stopped. The crow hopped off of him and disappeared along with the other one back into the sky. Milori got to his feet, stumbling a few times as he did. "No, no, no!". He quickly ran, not caring about the pain he was in, over to where the girls had been. There lay two motionless fairies held in each others arms, he watched as the glow of their wings faded.

A crowd slowly gathered at the edge of the woods and the border as tears began to well in his eyes. Suddenly he could sense that a fairy was beside him. The gasp of surprised made him instantly realize it was Clarion. She reached for his hand and all of a sudden the pain in his leg gradually disappeared and his arm felt as if it had mended itself. She then burst into tears and began to cry, he welcomed her into his arms.

Dewey then made it to the front of the crowd. When he saw both Clarion and Milori sobbing he knew something was wrong. Then he saw. Tears began to stream down his cheeks. Flake had told him so much about her sister and they had always hoped that one day they would meet, but now they never will.

Gasps were suddenly let out and both Clarion and Milori looked over to see that Milo and Hailey had finally joined the crowd. The two came forward, it made the two rulers feel even worse to have to watch as the two fairies saw their deceased friends.

Everyone was crying, even the ministers and those who hadn't known Flake or Ilene. The clouds darkened and then there was officially no happiness left in world.

I'm so sorry I didn't post this sooner! I guess I didn't exactly post this sooner than yesterday because I actually posted it later. I was kind of lazy today. I hope you liked the chapter! If something was messed up or something give me a break it's 3 a.m my time *YAWN* Good night! For some of you good morning! :)