Yes! The fifth vote came in! And pretty quickly, too! Thanks so much for all the support for the series, and today, this is the FINALE OF THE FIRST ARC! Sorry if it's short, it's sorta like an epilogue, so…

Anyway, thanks again for all the support on the series so far, and next week, I'll have the eleventh chapter out and ready for reading! Thanks again for letting me continue this! Winter-Watcher Forever's character will be in the next chapter, sorry about that, and oh yeah, he won, the answer was Ka. Any ideas for a new story?

Point of view for this chapter is...Morrowseer?

Aargh! Seriously! I don't own Wings of Fire, just stop pestering me!

Grr, come on, she's got to be alive. She has to be!

Morrowseer was trying to find a way into the collapsed water reserve and find Scarlet, whether she was dead or alive.

If she was alive…

He'd hate to see how angry she would be.

"Hey Chameleon! Have you finished setting up the explosives?" called Orca.

"Yep! Just wait for me to get out first, this should just take out the wall of rubble!" he called back.

Morrowseer kept pacing as Chameleon ran out, and Orca pulled the trigger for the dynamite.

With a ear splitting CRASH the wall was destroyed.

Upon walking inside, they could see that the tunnel was extremely dark, wet, and empty.

Lighting up a match, they saw the pristine walls of their hideout turned gray, and cracks all over the wall.

Dang it Scarlet! Why'd you have to pull that lever?

Morrowseer had no doubts in his mind that if Scarlet was still alive, that she would find a way to kill his daughter and her friends, even if she could be useful.

Not that he cared.

They walked around for a bit, putting down candles to light up the place. When everything was bright enough to see, they noticed a limp figure against the wall farthest away from the tunnel.

It was Scarlet…

She was barely breathing, breathing ragged and harsh. She had a dark spot on her head that looked like the color of the one on the wall, and it had a red Inge to it, even deeper than her hair. She was bruised all over, and was in a near death state.

"Ah!" Chameleon jumped at the sight of her, scared that she was dead.

"Come on, she's still alive, we can help her." Morrowseer confirmed.

They picked her up, and did what they could to revive her.

She woke up he next day.

Her eyes were gaunt and beady, and she looked like she had forgotten what she was doing. She was connected to the makeshift IV drip that was stabilizing her condition. It was just lucky that Chameleon happened to be a doctor from the rainforest, where the most catastrophes happened.

She said something to them

She said, "Chameleon? Orca? Morrowseer?" in a horse voice that sounded painful. It looked like that was all the strength she had at the moment, as she passed out directly afterwards.

She looked better.

She was sitting up, and definitely looked more alert, and her breathing was becoming more even.

She was able to eat again.

She was disconnected from the IV drip, and was able to drink the soup and eat the bread they gave her.

She said something...more.

It was afternoon, and she was looking much better, but she said something that he would never forget.

"I'm going to find Winter and Moonwatcher, and all their friends. I'm going to murder them."

Stay tuned for season two of Jade Academy, The Broken Queen Rises