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Lil note: someone said that they were sad that I have short chapters… I SHALL MAKE THIS ONE LONG!

I stretched out my wings and turned over, I started to open my eyes, only to be blinded by the sun.

"Get up, we're going to ambush the careers," Miri said.

I blinked and sat up, "I thought Sapphire was the only one left."

"No, Sapphire rounded up some of the others who were out doing something, there are a total of four of them."

"Great," I sighed and took some beef jerky out of my orange bag.

Diana handed me a water bottle and then sat down, "So what's the plan?"

James sighed, "Dessity and I can ambush by air."

"Good, now here's the plan for us three on the ground, we're going to surround around their camp in three spots, then once they are off guard we will attack," Miri said.

"How will they be caught off guard?" Dawn asked.

I swallowed, "I'll distract Sapphire, as I am, James can throw daggers down on the other careers to catch them off guard, Diana, you get in their tent, because James is throwing down the daggers they will probably go in their tent, I'll probably come inside too, take down whoever you can before I do."

"Then what?"

"Dawn and I will circle into the tent as soon as the careers go in," Miri said.

I grabbed my quiver, and slung it over my shoulder, Diana handed me my bow, nodded at Miri, and then got her sword out.

"James, Dessity, you start flying overhead, give us a signal to let us know that the careers are distracted, ok?" Miri said.

"Ok," I said shakily.

James grabbed my hand and squeezed it, "Ready?"

I hesitated, and pulled my hand away, "Ready."

I slowly flapped my wings and rose into the air, James by my side, the familiar feeling coursed through me. I tightened my grip on my bow, I didn't have a clue as to how I was going to distract Sapphire, I mean… what if everything went wrong and I ended up…dead…

I felt like the plans for this ambush came out to quickly, we should have thought things over, yes, some of the plan was my idea, but they didn't have to listen to me.

"Dessity," James said.

"Yeah?"

"We're over their camp, get ready to distract, give me the signal to throw knifes, and I will give Miri the signal so that – "He stopped.

I swallowed, "Wish me luck…"

"Good luck," James gave me that look again.

I looked down, this was one of the worst times to become soft, I shook the thought away and tucked my wings in to dive. I stopped abruptly and scanned the area below me, Sappire was near the tent screaming at another career who was juggling three daggers. The two other careers were further away, they were burying something in the ground, probably a trap for the mutt if it came back.

I closed my eyes, tucked my wings in, and dived towards Sappire.

At the last moment I snapped my eyes open and unfurled my wings, I found myself hovering fifteen feet above a totally oblivious Sapphire. I took the advantage of her not seeing me to load my bow and aim it at the ground next to her. The cord slipped past my fingers, it gave me a slight jolt back, I steadied myself with my wings. The arrow landed with a thud on the ground next to Sapphire, she looked up just in time to see me dive again.

She laughed as I landed near her, "Bird girl, how nice to see you."

"Shut up Sapphire," I growled.

She pretended to be surprised, "Oh… you don't scare me, because remember… I could kill you," she snapped her fingers, "Just. Like. That."

I swallowed, all I had to do was make sure that Sapphire didn't see Miri, Diana, James, or Dawn. If it came down to fighting, it came down to fighting.

"Carter, go help John and Emma with the trap, I'm just going to talk with this…goose," Sapphire nodded to the career next to her.

I got my bow ready, so far so good, Sapphire didn't even care to look at the sky to see if James was flying, waiting for my signal. Sapphire smiled at her knife, she held it up to the sun and sighed.

"Such a perfectly good knife… I think I'll use it to kill you."

I stepped back, she laughed, "Oh not right now, no, I'm going to kill you when it comes down to the two of us."

"You don't even know if it will!" I yelled at her.

"Oh but I do!" She smiled dreamily.

She gazed down at her knife, out of the corner of my eye I could see Diana slipping into the back of the career tent. I looked back at Sapphire, she was still admiring her knife, I quickly gave James the signal, opening and closing my wings three times. Within a minute I could hear the other careers screaming. Sapphire jerked her head in the direction of the careers, she growled when the girl, Emma, stumbled to the ground with a knife lodged in her shoulder. Emma screamed in pain, but managed to get back up and run for the tent. The other careers had made it to the tent already, I made a silent prayer for Diana just as Sapphire flung herself into the tent.

"I'll take care of her," James landed beside me with a thud, and nodded at Emma, who was practically dragging herself to the tent.

I looked away as James made his way towards Emma, she hissed at him, "If you know what's good for you, you will walk away!"

James swallowed and took out a knife, "I guess I just don't know what's good for me then."

Emma moaned as she slowly brought herself upright, she took out her spear and slashed it at James, James sighed, and then suddenly lunged at Emma. I gasped, I had never seen him move so fast. I watched in awe as he tackled her to the ground and slashed at her with his dagger, she managed to jab him in the arm with her spear before he knocked it out of her hands. I closed my eyes, I heard the beginning of a scream come from Emma, it stopped suddenly though and I opened my eyes.

"She's dead," James said as he wiped sweat off his forhead.

I stared at him, a cannon went off, he didn't even noticed me and nodded towards the woods where Miri and Dawn were hiding. I jumped back suddenly when a boy screamed from inside the tent, Miri skidded to a stop next to James and glanced at me.

"Diana has taken one of the boys down," Miri said as a cannon went off.

Miri nodded at Dawn, and then at me, "I'm going in."

I watched Miri slip into the tent with a long knife in her hand, James went in after her, I sighed and followed behind. Once inside I saw Sapphire holding a knife to Diana's throat, it was surprisingly quiet in the tent, I looked at the other career boy who had a spear poking Diana in her back. Once we stepped in Sapphire snapped to action, she brought back her hand and stabbed Diana in the chest, then she grabbed a sword that was on the table next to her and swung it at Miri. Miri ducked and tried to slash Sapphire in the side with her knife, but she missed. John grabbed Dawn, he was about to jab her, but for some reason he backed off and just pushed her aside. I stared after her for a moment before I realized that John was in front of me with a knife, I dodged just in time, he stabbed the air where my head at been. I grabbed an arrow from my quiver and thrust it into his thigh, he cried in pain and staggered back, when he recovered he yanked the arrow out of his leg and glared at me with pure hate. I tucked in my wings and did a summersault across the room, I loaded my bow once I was upright and looked at Miri. She was fighting off Sapphire, I turned my attention to James who was charging at John with his spear in front of him, embedding it into John's stomach. John cried in pain and fell to the ground like a concrete statue, now it was just three against one, not counting Diana who was breathing hard on the ground. John's cannon went off seconds afterwards.

"Dawn! Get behind Sapphire, we got her!" Miri yelled at Dawn, who was standing beside Miri.

Dawn stood there, as if she was thinking, then she did something that I never thought she would do. She turned from timid to terrible, she brought out a small dagger, and instead of swinging it at Sapphire, she smiled at her, grabbed Miri, and then sank the blade of her dagger into Miri's chest. Miri gasped and fell on the ground, without thinking I shot an arrow at Dawn, she shrieked and then fell to the ground, silent. The cannon went off, I looked at James, tears forming in my eyes, Sapphire laughed and then ran out of the tent.

Jame stepped forward, I put my hand in his way to stop him, "Don't…"

I sat down on the ground next to Miri, I couldn't believe that she was dead… then the thought occurred to me, her cannon didn't go off, and neither did Diana's.

"They're alive!" I stood up.

"Duh, our… our… our cannons didn't g-go off," Miri said softly from the ground.

I sat down next to her, grabbed my backpack and started to dig out the healing cream, Miri stopped me, "Dessity, that ole' cream can't save me now."

"But Miri, it helped your other wound – "

Miri smiled softly at me, and then slowly closed her eyes, I covered my mouth, tears slipped down my cheeks. James put his hand on my shoulder, I stood up and slowly walked over to Diana just as Miri's cannon went off.

"I'm so sorry…" I whispered to Diana.

She smiled, "For what?"

"All this…" I said through tears.

"Don't be sorry… I'm happy Dessity…"

I took her hand in mine and squeezed it, she kept talking, "I'm going to be with him Dessity…"

"Who?"

"Aden…" She said in a whisper as she closed her eyes.

Diana's cannon went off, I stood up and covered my face with my hands, James wrapped his arms around me, and this time… I let him.

"Come on," James said, "we have to go."

I sniffed and nodded, "Let's grab… all the food we can.

James walked over to one of the makeshift tables that the careers had made that had orange bags on it, he took as many as he could hold, then he looked at me with soft, kind eyes.

For a moment I remembered home, I could hear my mother singing in the kitchen with my baby sister Avery, while Rosie danced around. I could see the dress that my mother had bought me laid neatly on her bed. My hand flew up to the blue bird necklace that I was wearing, I closed my eyes.

"You know…" James said softly," that's a blue jay."

I opened my eyes and looked at him, "What?"

James nodded to my necklace, "It's a blue jay."

"It's a bluebird…"

James smiled at me, "Blue jays are very protective of their nests, now… why do you think your mother wants the necklace to protect you?"

I swallowed, a blue jay… it made sense.

"Come on, let's go," James said as he walked out of the tent.

I slowly followed him, before I walked out I glanced back at Miri, she was sleeping peacefully on the ground, I held three fingers to my lips and then held them out.

"Goodbye Miri…"

I did the same with Diana, tears streamed down my face as I walked out, James was in the air waiting for me, I closed my eyes and slowly flew into the air. James took my hand and we slowly flew away, deeper into the woods. The sun started to go down, James didn't say anything to me, he didn't need too.

Miri the brave one who was always there was dead, Diana the curious and courageous one was dead…

And there were only three of us left.

OMG only three left! This is getting interesting! Ok I hoped you liked this chapter… there are only going to be like… 2 or 3 more so… YAH!