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Everything became deathly silent as my eyes began to open only to revile a horrid sight. The V-22 was split in half with one half laying just feet away from a steep 300+ foot drop. The other half of the aircraft had fallen into the depths below. Faline was laying limp against a large hunk of metal still inside the mangled aircraft. Aaron, Chad, Carson, and Scott were laying on the ground either dead or badly hurt.

I attempted to stand only to collapse in pain. I could tell that both my wings were broken, but could tell nothing about my body's true injuries. I attempted to stand again, only to fail and collapse in immense pain once again. I began to relax at the sound of footsteps behind me. Probably the enemy coming to finish us off. I thought to myself before closing my eyes. I was ready to leave, knowing that I would soon be with my brother, parents, and fellow soldiers.

I allowed myself to relax as the footsteps came to a stop over my back. I felt an arm reach underneath my neck at the base of my head, then tighten as I was jerked upward by my head. My eyes flung open as the man lifted the front part of my body off of the ground. "Hello Taro." the man said in a victorious tone as my sight began to clear up only to revile a face that I once trusted, Holland.

"I wont let you ruin me!" he said before the sound of metal sliding against plastic caught my attention. He then raised his free arm, reveling a large 10 inch combat knife in his hand. He quickly repositioned it before embedding it deep into my chest, causing me to cry out in agony. He sat for a moment with a victorious look on his face as I tried to free myself from his deadly grip, but was failing. The warmth of my blood running down my chest fueling my fear.

He then began to make a seesawing motion with the knife, causing it to maul my chest. I roared with pain before going limp with only him holding me up. After a moment, he withdrew the knife causing a wave of pain to rip through my body before letting me go. I limply fell to the ground onto my stomach which sent a small shock through me. My blood soaking the ground around me and beginning to well up in my throat, sending a revolting taste throughout my maw.

Holland then walked in front of me and crouched. "I know you were eavesdropping on me a few days ago. You forget that im a failed Draco experiment." he said with a large smile on his face. "You wont stop me from killing everyone on this wretched planet." he said as Aaron began to move. I weakly looked his direction, Aaron was crawling to his M4 which lay about 5 yards away from him.

Holland laughed slightly before looking over his shoulder at Aaron who now had a hand on the weapon. Holland jumped up and ran over to Aaron, kicking him away from the weapon before withdrawing a 45 Revolver and shooting him in the head. Holland then picked up the M4, cocked it, and locked his gaze with Carson, who was laying against a boulder.

He walked over to him and they began to talk. Carson was trash talking Holland, fighting with everything left in his body. Holland only laughed at his attempts before standing and shooting Carson with the M4. He then walked over to the pilot of the V-22, who was laughing. He betrayed us to! I thought to myself before turning to Faline.

I have to reach her, she's the only one that can do anything now. I ordered myself before painfully beginning to crawl toward her. She was about 10 yards away when Holland killed the pilot. Seconds later, another shot rang out. I was struggling to reach her as the pain became more and more immense.

Then another shot rang out, there was no one separating Holland from her now. Falines eyes began to open as Holland appeared in my field of view. She weakly looked his direction, but was flung to the ground as he hit her in the head with his Revolver. She yelled in pain as he began to kick her closer and closer to the edge.

NO, NO HE CANT KILL HER! I yelled in my mind before beginning to move my paws underneath me in an attempt to stand. He began to laugh at the weak figure that lay before him, he was going to make her suffer before he killed her. NO, NO! I yelled in my mind as I managed to successfully plant my rear leg into the sand, causing my rear to rise above the rest of my body.

He kicked her ever so closely to the edge of the cliff as I got my front feet planted into the sand and began to stand. He then raised the Revolver and took aim at her head. "BRAAAAAAAK!!" the sound of gunfire caused Holland to spin to his left and drop to his knee with the pistol ready to fire, he was getting shot at. He fired 2 shots toward the direction he was looking before I managed to leap at him with the last of the energy.

"YOUR MINE!!" I yelled as our bodies collided, sending both of us over the side of the cliff. I watched as he flailed around helplessly in the air. I then watched as the ground neared us. This is it. I thought to myself as we grew closer and closer to the ground. I couldn't but smile as the thoughts of my life began to flood my mind.

My parents, brother, friends, enemies. Meeting Firedrake, Faline, Blitz, and Tyson for the first time. Then being reunited with Sam. I could remember a picture that was taken of us on base one day, it was the only picture we had all taken together. I was behind Sam, who was Punching Carson in the arm. Carson was laughing at Chad, who had Scott's head wrapped In his arm. Aaron was casually leaning against a hanger that we were standing beside.

Faline was laying against me and I was leaning against Firedrake who was looking down on me with a smile. Blitz and Tyson were laying in front of us all on there sides which caused everyone to laugh after the picture was taken. I closed my eyes before hitting the ground, leaving the picture to signal my final moments. The picture then began to fade away before I passed out.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~FIREDRAKE'S POV~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"Ez ka dalued?" "featah featah!" I could hear voices, they were standing over the top of me. I got a slight kick to my right side by one of the men. I then opened one of my eyes just enough to se what I was up against. 2 men were standing over me. Just these 2? Too bad for them! I thought to myself before sweeping my tail underneath them, knocking them on there backs.

I then jumped to my feet and fired 3 rounds into the chest of one man. I then locked my maw around the seconds throat. He quickly stopped moving and I let him go. "My head!" I said to myself before raising a paw to my right side which now seemed lighter than usual.

That's when I noticed it, a horn lay on the ground where I had been laying. "How lucky am I?" I said in joy as I picked it up. It was one of the horns that ran down my muzzle, the bullet had collided with it. "BOOM!!!!" a large explosion to my right caught my attention. I looked toward that direction to see the V-22 burst into a ball of flame and begin to spin wildly. "No." I said quietly before beginning to run toward its direction.

I took a few steps before everything began to spin. I gritted my teeth as my head began to ache. The bullet must have gave me a concussion. I thought before beginning to run only to stop again after running 40 yards. "I've got to get to them!" I ordered myself before once again beginning to run. An AH-6 quickly passed over me, and I glanced at before continuing on my painful journey.

I could hear gunshots now, I was close to the crash. I could tell due to the black smoke that was pouring out from behind a small hill. My condition had gotten worse, I could no longer see straight. My vision was wildly swinging from side to side which made walking almost impossible. I reached the top of the hill just as a human hit Faline, causing her to fall out of the mangled wreckage.

Taro was attempting to stand, and had his gaze locked onto the human that was beating Faline. "I've got to stop him!" I said to myself before coming to a stop and planting my feet about 35 yards from where they stood. I quickly positioned myself to shoot. I couldn't take aim, the swaying was too severe, I had a higher chance of hitting Faline than the human, but I had to try.

I began to fire wildly on the Human, who spun and dropped to his knee, reveling a nasty looking pistol in his grip. He fired 2 shoots at me, which came extremely close to me when Taro yelled out, "YOUR MINE!" and leapt into him, sending both of them over the edge of a massive cliff. "TARO!!!!" Faline before attempting to stand.

"Faline!" I yelled to her. She turned to my direction and began to limp toward me. "Oh my God, Firedrake your alive!" she said before letting me use her for support. We then walked to the Cliff-side and looked down. The human and Taro lay limp on the ground below. "NO!" Faline said before burying her head into my chest. "Taro." I whispered in disbelief.

He then rolled onto his back, sending a rush of joy through out my body. "TARO! FALINE HE'S ALIVE!" I yelled in joy. Faline then looked back over the edge and jumped. She gracefully flew down to Taro's side when a voice came through my headset. "Talon, where are you. You were supposed to be at the EVAC position 20 minuets ago!" the voice ordered. I knew this voice, it was Josh, the pilot that flew us in and out of combat on almost all our missions.

"About half a mile north west of the EVAC position beside a cliff." I said happily before slowly making a decent down the cliff. "Copy Talon. On my way!" Josh said as I reached halfway down the cliff.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~TARO"S POV~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

My eyes began to ease open. I was on my right side starring at the half of the V-22 that fell down the cliff. My body was numb. I slowly began to scan the V-22 wreckage, when in reached the prop. Laying with a prop blade through his back, was Holland. Yes, I did it! I thought weakly to myself before beginning to laugh. We had won, what was I to be sad about anymore. I then rolled onto my back, still laughing. I watched as Faline leapt over the edge of the cliff and Firedrake begin to slowly scale the Cliff side down to me.

I stopped laughing, I couldn't laugh, I couldn't breath. Faline landed beside me with tears in her eyes. "TARO!" she yelled as my hearing began to slowly fade. She then began to scream something at me, but I couldn't hear her. Firedrake then approached my side and began to shake me, his eyes also beginning to tear up. They looked off into the sky at something out of my view then Firedrake lifted me onto his back.

As he did so, I got a glance of a V-22 that was landing about 15 yards away from us. We boarded the aircraft and Firedrake set me down as everything slowly began to go black once more. A human and Faline then appeared over me. The human started to pump on my chest and Faline was crying and saying something to me. I could feel the aircraft lift off before everything went completely black.