Stay with me!

James acting without giving it a thought. He swiftly turned while hugging the clueless Zarina so his back was facing Yang's gun, not Zarina's.

The bullet pierced through James back and he groaned in pain. The bullet was fairy sized, they had some on the boat because Yang thought just in case. (A/N Don't question it. XD)

Zarina was still confused by the fact that James had switched their positions but quickly snapped out of it when she heard James groan. She felt warm liquid when her hands moved to his lower back and gasped. Her instincts made her let go of him immediately and he fell to the ground, worsening his injuries. She screamed at the sight before her and her friends stopped talking among themselves and turned to her. They all shared similar shocked expressions and rushed to James' aid.

Zarina was too shaken up to realize what just happened. She only knew that James was hurt and he was dying. Everyone surrounded the fallen pirate and were scared and confused and didn't know what to do.

"Vidia! Go get Queen Clarion. NOW!" yelled the alchemist, showing much panic in her voice than she wanted.

The fast flying fairy zoomed off without an other word to fetch their Queen. James' identity didn't matter anymore.

James knew that he wasn't going to make it, so he decided to make his dying moments worth while. "Z-zarina..."

Zarina ran over to James and crouched next to him while he lied on the rock with his life essence pooling beneath him. He lifted his hand with much difficulty and Zarina gripped it hard.

"Zarina...I w-won't be able t-to make it" the pirate said softly before coughing up blood. Zarina knew it was true but refused to believe so.

"NO! You're going to make it. Y-you'll be fine." Zarina sobbed while holding his hand against her chest and James smiled heart brokenly and shook his head weakly.

"I-I'll give you all the pixie dust you want! We'll go to the mainland together l-like you promised! We'll go look for t-treasure! Just STAY WITH ME!" screamed Zarina and shaking James' hand violently.

James forced a smile on his lips and tried to sound happy and said "You are my treasure, and I love my t-treasure s-so very much..." he looked into Zarina's teary eyes one more time and he let his own tears fall. "I'm sorry..."

Zarina felt her heart stop when James' hand fell limp in hers. She shook her head violently and shook his shoulders attempting to wake him up and shouting "NO NO! STAY WITH ME! PLEASE STAY WITH ME! No please... I love you too..."

Tinkerbell and her friends, who were watching the whole scene from behind Zarina, were heartbroken and felt horrible. For blaming James for all the bad things that happen and not trusting him. They let their own tears fall as well.

Vidia landed onto their rock with the Queen and fairy Mary following her close behind.

"How is he?" Asked the Queen worriedly.

Tinkerbell turned her head to look at them through her teary eyes and shook her head sadly.

Queen Clarion nodded with grieve and walked over to Zarina. "Come dear, let's bring him back to the hollow" she rested her hand on Zarina's shoulder. She nodded and said "O-okay."

As the others sprinkled some flying dust onto James' corpse to bring him back to the hollow, Zarina used this time to look for his murderer. Her eyes landed on a pirate ship and on the pirate who looked at them smugly. Yang. Zarina squinted her eyes angrily at him. An idea popped into her mind, she knew it was absurd but decided to do it anyways.

She took off with so much speed that all the other fairies saw was the wind that she had picked up. "Hey! Where are you going Zarina?!" yelled Fawn.

At Zarina's house...

The alchemist landed in front of her door and kicked it open angrily. She went into and grabbed what she needed including a few types of dust and stuffed them into a sack. Then she went into her room and lifted up the mattress of her bed.

Under the mattress was a sack filled with red and blue dust. It was dust that can turn her into a human. She had created the dust while researching for an antidote for James to turn back into a human. She tested it on herself in an open area and it worked perfectly. She never gave it to James because she didn't want to. Back then she didn't know why she didn't want to let James become a human again.

But now she knew why. She was a selfish brat and didn't want James to leave her again so she hid it from him.

'If I let him turn back into a human, he wouldn't have died... This is all my fault!"

Her guilt gave her another reason to continue doing what she was going to do. She knew that she might put her life at stake, but there was an old saying "A life for a life."

She looked at James' dueling sword at the corner of the living room and took it with her before she left her house with the sack of things she needed.

She looked at James' sword and said to it "Don't worry James', I will avenge you." and flew to where she needed to be.

WOOP WOOP! suspense suspense suspense! You guys can decide if Zarina dies or not. I can go with either. :) anyways, REVIEW! :D