The Wings On My Back

chapter 12

     We take what we need from the old house. I grab Embers bow and satchel and place them both in an old duffel bag that was in sam's old house. Alex manage to find him a Baseball Bat that he treated like he treated his camera. Ash sat on a stone sharpening his daggers. I walk over to where Alex is cradling his bat.

"Hey." I say awkwardly. We haven't spoken cence Ash saved us. He looks up but doesn't say anything.

"Look im sorry ok?" He snaps out of nowhere. "I just don't trust him"

I place my hand on his knee as I sit next to him.

"I know. I Don't trust him ether but he's our only hope. And aren't you the one who stopped me from killing him"

"Ya but that wasn't directed, you weren't yourself then, that was.... I don't know but it wasn't you. I did it for you not him" He says getting up and walking away from me.

"Wait, how are you alive?" I say remembering my scream that should have killed him.

He doesn't answer me. "I'm going that stream we're low on water I'll be right back" He said trying to change the subject. As he walks off, I walk over to Ash and draw both my swords and thrown them at his feet.

"Show me" I say with my most commanding voice

"Show you what?" Ash says still not looking at me.

"How to use them" I say nodding towards the swords. He finally looks up at me then the swords and sighs.

"First of all, I saw when you tried to fight those trolls with them, you were holding them in the wrong hands and you weren't holding the upright." He says while picking up the swords and placing himself in a "proper" stance. "Your enemy especially the trolls will try to attack from both sides hence having two swords."

He hands them to me and kicks my feet in the right spot. He grabs his two daggers and puts them both eye level two him.

"Come at me as you would a troll" He says waiting for me to move. I bring the first strike towards him and he puts me on my ass. I get up and try again this time with more force as I lunge at him with both swords he dodges everyone like he knows where they're going to go. He knocks one of the out my hand and then the other. In the end of it i have Two razor sharp daggers on my throat.

"We have a lot of work to do" He says handing me my swords then walked away to the pile of supplies we have made. "Go get Alex we need to leave now" I stick my tounge out at him as a small child would and walk towards the stream.

It took me at least fifteen minutes to find the stream. As I come up on the stream notice Alex swimming. So... I decide to sit and watch him climb out the water and dry off. He took a quick look around him then bent down to take a drink and fill the canteens. I noticed something on his left shoulder. I gasp without realizing it, I know it was loud because Alex got up and headed back towards camp. I can't believe what I just saw. It was a lone, broken wing.

Alex is a fairy too.

I sprint back towards camp in tears not knowing if they were tears of anger or joy. That explains why Alex isn't dead from my wretched banshee scream. I try to beat him back to Ash but when i get there he's already carrying mine and his bag on his shoulders. I slowly walk towards him and notice Ash shrink down from a tree in the corner of my eye.

"We need to head east and at sunset we'll make camp" Ash says breaking the awkward silence. Thank you Ash.

We begin to follow Ash as Alex stays towards the back. The sun begins to go down and we find a spot to break camp. Alex pulls out a small tent and makes a fire. Ash seems to stay as far away from it as he can. Then I notice there is only one tent.