Fight or Die Sequel

Selfless

- Moon

I sat in silence around the fire. Everyone was stunned as Qibli explained the situation.

"So what do we do?" Turtle asks. "We get her back. I'm leaving tomorrow. Anyone who wants to come can." I say.

Darkstalker immediately stands up. "I will come." he offers. I smile ruefully at him.

Turtle also stands up. "I will come too." he says softly. I smile at him as well.

I look at Glory. "I want to come. But I have Lunaria, I can't." she sighs. I nod. "Don't worry Glory, it's ok." I assure her.

It would be ok if no one came, it's not their problem, they just care about us and want to help us get her back.

"We would come too, but we are banished from Pantala, if we were to go we would get shot on sight." Cricket says referring to herself, Blue, Luna, Swordtail, Sundew, Willow, and Mandrake.

I nod again. Sundew shrugs. "I'm pretty much bulletproof. I will come." she says. I smile.

Mandrake wants to come, but really doesn't want to be the third wheel when being around Qibli and me. So he stays quiet.

I stand up. "Meet us here tomorrow morning. Right at sunrise." I say.

And with that I turn and walk away towards our house.

Qibli rushed behind me.

Tears were about to fall from my eyes. "Hey! Moon!" Qibli shouted. I could barely hear him so I just kept walking.

Qibli grabs my wrist to stop me. I turn and look at him.

"Moon," he starts. "What?" I snap.

He winces. "Hey, things are rough right now. I know that. I'm hurting too. But don't let that come between us. Do you think trying to save Sunset will be easier if we work together, or avoid eachother." he reasons calmly.

I close my eyes and let a tear fall. "You're righy, I'm sorry." I whisper.

He pulls me into a hug. I feel Qibli kiss my head lightly. "Do you think it's our fault. If we hadn't gotten inbetween this war. Would she be gone? Would Deathbringer have died?" I ask him.

"No it's not our fault. If we hadn't interfered with this war Sunset might have never been born. Or she would be destined to go to the academy and kill for the rest of her life." Qibli explains.

"I don't know about Deathbringer. But if we live in the 'what ifs' we won't ever get anywhere. So let's just focus on getting Sunset back." he says.

I nod. "Okay."

- Qibli

We left that morning. Darkstalker was the first to show up. I never really liked him. He gave off very... intense vibes? I'm not sure, it just rubbed me wrong.

We never were buddy buddy. But Moon trusts him. And considering she reads minds there isn't much to not trust about whatever Moon says. But either way, I trust Moon with my life, so I guess I trust Darkstalker.

All I know is he protected Moon with his life while I couldn't. For that, I am in debt to him.

Darkstalker shot me a glance, obviously hearing my thoughts. I ignored it.

We stayed on the edge of Pyrrhia while traveling. We were pretty far from home by the time it was dark.

It was starting to get pretty cold. "We should make a fire." Turtle suggests.

I nod. Darkstalker reaches out his hands as if to just make the wood ignite. Moon stops him. "Save the magic, we can make a real fire." she says.

He shrugs and sits down.