Look, I know everyone is super-mad at me for last chapter, but please just read this one, no matter how mad you were for last time. Please. You'll be glad after, okay?

Started this right after posting 25, so hopefully the wait wasn't too bad for you guys. Hey, y'know what I discovered the other day that I forgot to put in the A/N last time? I am absolutely terrified of roller blades. Sure wish I'd known that the other day before 'Carly' got me to go roller blading with her and 'Helen'. Sigh.

Disclaimer: Taz, Dex, Bronson = scoobs5601, Rebecca and Diesel = Blumacaw13, all the other OC's = me

A tired, scared, silver sabress raced through the trees, legs aching, muscles burning. A white baryonx chased after her, but the sabre could see her destination. She managed to momentarily lose the dino in the forest, which gave her just enough time to run to the clearing, and see a wounded kangaroo surrounded by her pirate brothers.

"R-Raz...?" whispered Shira, before speaking up "Raz! Razzy!"

"Shira," she turned to Squint "Raz is, is..." trailing off, he pointed to the sky, indicating she was gone. Shira's eyes filled with tears, but she blinked them back. She could see Raz hadn't crying during her defeat, so she vowed not to cry either.

"Who?" she hissed. Everyone, even the attackers who were concious, pointed to Soto. Shira leapt forward, slashing at him fiercely with her claws.

"How. Dare. You. Hurt. My. Sister?!" she roared, ripping into the sabre with every word. No-one stopped her, not even Soto's pack, as Oscar ushered them back.

"Easy, she'll just kill us too," he muttered. And anyway, she's doing the world a favour getting rid of him. If someone could only kill Gutt...

After recovering from his depression, Diego scrubbed at his eyes with his paws, before turning his pent-up grief on Gutt in anger. He lunged for the ape, but soon met with a thick tree trunk.

"Ow..." he mumbled, rubbing the back of his head.

"Weak kitty," sighed Gutt, producing many fishbone swords he had previously hidden. Still swathed in Shira's fake pelt, Diego raced away from crazy old Gutt, heading in the direction of the main fight.

Back in the clearing, everybody was trying to pull Shira off of Soto's bleeding corpse, as she had long ago killed him but was now "avenging Raz", as she put it, by digging her claws into him over and over, leaving long slashes down his body.

Finally, Ellie managed to tear Shira away from Soto, setting her down beside Raz. One by one, the herd placed the cubs beside Shira, who was now lying next to Raz, resting her head on her lost sister's chest. Suddenly, what really happened dawned on Shira. Raz had sacrificed herself to save the cubs.

"Oh, Raz..." she quivered, burying her face into the kangaroo's purple, blood-stained fur. The rest of the pirates gathered around Raz also, silently paying their respects to her.

This was interrupted when Diego, still tangled in the phony pelt, burst into the clearing, Gutt on his heels. He tripped and fell, skidding across the ground on the side of his face, like when Shira had pinned him in Switchback cove originally.

The ape charged, about to kill, but Shira, already having lost a member of her family, wasn't ready to lose someone else. She threw herself at Gutt, but soon realised her errors. Gutt kicked a rock aside, unveiling a small pool of lava, with a few bone swords marinating. He pulled one out, stabbing it into Shira's leg.

"Oh my gosh!" screamed someone. Squint watched curiously as a female rabbit, about his age, raced up to the pained sabre, cupping her head in her paws. A musk-ox and small mountain lion cub followed suit. Dex, now awake properly, smirked maliciously.

Squint suddenly felt a surge of memories rush into his head...

A young Shira lay on the deck of an ice ship (not one of Gutt's though), a cut on her side bleeding into her fur. A honey coloured rabbit with dazzling lime eyes hurried to her side, despite Squint's shouting of various warnings.

A wolverine stood over the sabre, that same smirk on his face. A mammoth moved to where Squint's younger sister was tending to Shira's wounds. Shira protested, knowing she would survive just fine, but the doe persistently tried to heal the tiger.

The mammoth lifted her, carrying her to the very edge of the ship, before he let go.

"Izzy!" gasped Squint, recognising his missing sister, blood sister. He ran and squeezed her tight.

"Squint!" she sobbed, holding him as they both cried.

Mikayla stared at the scene, and watched Shira's eyes fill with pain, but she knew it wasn't from the wound on her leg. It was because she missed her own sister. Mikayla felt her own eyes fill with tears, and Oscar saw this. Soto was dead. Nobody had any power over Oscar now. He was free to be himself. He ran at Gutt, dodging the heated weapons throw at him, and lunged for the ape's throat.

"No-one makes my girl cry..." he hissed in the dying monkey's face.

"Your girl?" whispered Mikayla. Oscar blushed deep red.

"Uh, yeah... if that's okay with you..."

Despite how gentle and peaceful the moment was, Taz couldn't help herself. "Take that Captain Butt!" she yelled, causing everyone but the pirates, who were grieving, to giggle.

Diego wrestled out of the pelt. He knew know that Gutt had lied, and now Shira needed him most. He licked her behind the ears, kissed her on the cheeks, but he knew it was in vain. Shira couldn't stop crying, but the pirates had all turned away from the body now.

"I guess it's all over..." sighed Manny. A roar erupted.

"Nope," muttered Diesel. Rudy appeared suddenly, towering over the herd. But he had no intention to attack, even he could sense the emotional pain of the pirates in the air. Instead, he gave them all soft, kind nudges with his snout.

"Now d'ya see why I like him?" asked Buck, to which Shira nodded. There was a moment of silence, until...

"Well, Ah think we can all call tha' a job well done, righ' mates?"

"Raz?!" screamed everybody.

The kangaroo's golden eyes fluttered open, one by one. She was quickly embraced by her siblings, and soon after the rest of the herd. During the excited babble of Raz's return, Rebecca cleared her throat.

"Excuse me?" everyone turned to her "I, me and the others, were wonderin' if, maybe... we could stay, on the island, for a bit?"

The herd considered it, and eventually agreed, with some persuasion from Mikayla.

"Alright, we need to get Raz and Shira back to the caves so that they can heal," ordered Manny. Izzy grinned.

"I can heal 'em, healing's my thing."

The herd - plus the new additions - packed up and just about got back to their clearing. Jasper decided to stay in the water by the waterfall, as he was limited as to where he could go, but he agreed to converse with the others at times. Hollie's wing had no serious damage, so she could fly again soon. Rhianne, Herbert and Meghan all had to go home, but Louis was allowed to stay with the herd for the night, as his parents had already cleared it.

Later that night

Izzy finished putting the cast on Shira's leg.

"Okey-dokey, that should do it," she declared. Shira smiled.

"So I can get up and go see Raz now?"

"Well, no, you can't walk for a while, it'll damage your leg."

"But my leg feels fine now!" protested Shira.

"Look, if you walk on that we may have to amputate it!" groaned Squint.

"So," Taz appeared at the entrance, Diesel at her side "I'm guessing if you guys ever made a career out of this, Squint would tell the harsh truth..."

"While Izzy sugercoats it for him?" finished Diesel. Both nodded. Taz and Diesel rolled their eyes before exiting, ready to tell Raz that Shira was okay now.

Raz lay, heavily bandaged and barely concious, on a makeshift bed, sipping a herbal concotion through a hollow rock, like Izzy had instructed. She was excited to see Izzy again, but the happy reunion could wait until later, when they were all healed and well again.

"Raz!" the kangaroo looked up to see Taz and Diesel

"Hey guys," she whispered weakly. "So, 'ow's Sheila doin'?"

"She's fine, but she can't walk for a while," Diesel informed her. Raz smiled.

"Ah'm jus' glad she's okay."

"And we're just glad that you're okay," said Taz with a smile, holding the kangaroo's paw "We all thought you were really gone."

"Then ya shoulda checked fer a pulse, mate," she smirked. Izzy had used a lot of Lotus berries to numb Raz's wounds to the point where they wouldn't hurt anymore, and then bandaged them up with long leaves and soft vines. Neither Raz nor Shira could move for at least a month, maybe two for Shira, as the burning sword had burnt away some of the fur on her leg, and obviously caused inside damage to the leg.

"You should get some sleep," decided Diesel, helping Raz lie straight again.

The kangaroo sighed, but obliged. "'kay, bu' the first chance Ah get Ah'm goin' ta see Sheila."

"Alright, alright," agreed Taz "Man, you're persistant."

"All part of bein' a pirate, Taz," she smiled. "All part of bein' a pirate."

Come on now, I could never really kill her off!

Man, another ridiculously short chapter. Plus it was really bad... oh well, I wanted to get this up ASAP, may go back and edit it later. Warning: The next few chapters will also be short, because I'm going to do a little scene between each pairing, two per chapter, so the next few chapters may be short, depending on how things go.

BTW, does anyone know the couple name for PeachesxEthan? Coz I have no idea...

Think I may've rushed this too much, but it's not over yet, so there will be more with the new crew getting settled in, and Buck, Diesel and Rudy, etc, etc, this isn't where it ends. Thanks for reading and please review! :)