Blu and Diante walked on. Through the forests to find their way. It was nearly daybreak and they haven't found a single sign that they were anywhere near where they should be.

"Its times like these that I really wish that I brought a spare GPS. Now here we are, alone… you think Clyde and the rest of them got any further?" Blu asked.

"Probably. I think we should turn back. It is about to hit daybreak and we should follow them, you know."

"Yeah, I know, I know. Let me just survey the area from the sky one last time and we will head back alright?"

"Fine by me." Diante said as he sat down on a rock nearby.

Blu took off into the air, looking for any sign of their proximity. But he couldn't see anything. Something caught his attention in the darkness of the night however. He turned to his left and saw something big and orange. Like a giant ball of light coming from the forest.

"That's not a light… it's a… (gasp)!"

Blu flew back to Diante.

"Diante, Diante, we have to get out of here! Now! There isn't much time, I think it has already caught up to us!" Blu panicked and grabbed Diante's bad wing and tried pulling him to move.

"Ow! Ouch! Blu, that's my bad wing!" Diante slapped Blu over the face so he could calm down.

"Blu, what the hell are you talking about?"

"A forest fire Diante. It is moving fast towards here and if we don't move we are going to be cooked alive! Unless you want to be turned into a thanksgiving turkey, lets go!" Blu and Diante both began to run through the forest in a general direction of where they came from.

Too bad Blu didn't see that the fire had already engulfed the forest in their path too. And they were running straight towards the wall of fire.

Blu and Diante stopped in their tracks when a flaming tree branch collapsed onto the ground beside them.

The fire was all around them now, the trees all being burned to ashes.

"Blu, come on, I see a opening. Let's go!" Diante said as he rushed towards his escape. But Blu wasn't so lucky.

A heavy tree branch fall onto Blu from the sky, pinning him down to the floor. He was stuck.

"Diante! Diante! I need your help! Come on, pull me out! Wait, Diante where are you going?" Blu asked as he saw Diante slowly start to try and run away.

"Diante! What in Christ sakes is wrong with you? Come back here and help me up!" Blu tried pushing on the log, but it was too heavy. It was getting harder to breath, and he felt a sharp pain in his talons as if something had snapped there.

"Diante! Don't do this again!"

Diante stopped in his tracks and turned around to see Blu. The fire was coming closer to him, if Blu didn't get out of there soon, he would indeed by cooked.

"I'm sorry, I am so sorry Blu."

The pain Blu was feeling was unbearable. The log seemed to have punctured his skin somewhere in his stomach, and he was bleeding. His talons hurt, his breathing was restricted, and blood stained his feathers and was flowing free.

"Diante… Ow! Y-y… you gave me your word! You promised!"

Flashback to when Blu and Diante were in the ventilation system of the animal shelter in Buenos Aires

"I need you to promise me, that you will get me back in one piece. And if I am ever hurt beyond the point of repair. Or it seems like I would die anyway, I need you to finish the job."

"Alright, sure."

"No, I don't need that, I need a promise. I need your word."

"Okay… I promise"

End of Flashback.

"Y-You remembered?" Diante asked.

"Of course I remembered! Now are you going to let me die here, and recreate the trauma that you have been through in the past. Betray me like you did Jewel and Roberto, and let me down. Or have I met a decent bird who is at least going to finish the job!"

Diante was bewildered by it all. He could barely see Blu. The fire was coming too close, and Blu began to blur out of his sight.

He picked up a pretty heavy stone, and walked over to Blu. He wasn't going to let what happened with Jewel happen again.

Not now, not here, not ever. Nobody would know, Blu could finally die, and he could leave. Nobody would care. Nothing, nobody.

Diante approached Blu, and saw him. He was struggling. He was fighting. Blood stained his body and he was making sound like he was in excruciating pain. No, Blu never asked him to do it. Blu wanted to live.

Diante raised the stone, high above Blu. Blu looked him in the eye.

Diante let his arm slack.

"So which is it?"

Diante stopped, the stone hovering just a few centimeters from Blu.

"Huh? You were never sorry for your actions. You never cared. Everything that happened between you and Jewel happened because of you, and here you are about to do it to me! Everything between you and Aberdeen is a lie too."

Aberdeen. He wanted to be with her so he could forget about his past. But how could he if he does this?

"You are a the most dirty, evil, low-hitting person I have ever met! You never are sorry for anything you do! You don't even have the courage to help me!"

Diante tossed the stone. He climbed next to Blu and helped him free from the log. It was very heavy and after it was clear, he hauled Blu over his shoulder.

"I'm sorry. Come on, lets go." Diante said to Blu as the two left as fast as possible. The heat of the fire was unbearable.

They moved until they were ahead of the wall of fire, when they tried to make themselves comfortable, they kept walking. The two of them alone.

Again it was silent between the two. They stopped after daybreak. They were way behind schedule.

But being late sure does beat the alternative. Better late than boiling in a fire.

The two rested in a area of the forest that was torched. They were both covered in mud, dirt, ashes, and Blue's blood. Something they had to pay attention to now.

After dealing with that by tying a long leaf around Blu's waist, they had their first meal.

"Thanks Diante, I guess I owe you one." Blu said to him while eating some of the rations they took when they went off.

"You don't. You made me realize something-"

A sound echoed from the burnt out terrain beyond. It sounded like howling.

"You think that is the rest of them, Clyde, Aberdeen, and Julius?" Blu asked.

"No. I don't." Suddenly a look of terror spread across Diante's face.

"What? What's the matter?" Blu asked.

Diante didn't respond.

"Who is it? Who is out there?"

Diante shook his head and looked at Blu.

"Wolves."