I wake up to a snuffling noise near my ear, I groan as I sit up making whatever had been sniffing, start to growl. I gulp and get up slowly, ignoring the pain I had, I move my head to see whats growling as I come face to face with a wild looking dog. I back away slowly, keeping low but staying ready to attack. I glance at Grenades body only to see it had been ravaged more, her throat torn out and some skin and muscle gone, leaving just bone. This dog had eaten her, eaten my friends dead body. I glance at my arms seeing similar bite marks but my skin had not been torn away, it had been broken to where there was bleeding but I at least wasent missing any skin or muscle.

The dog growls at me and leaps, i dodge to the side then I hear a yelp and I turn to see the dog had collapsed, a feathered end of an arrow sticking out of its side, right between two of its ribs. I gulp and back away looking around for where the arrow had been shot from. "Found one!" A male voice calls. I look and see a man with silver hair and blue eyes walk out from the trees followed by a woman with blonde hair and blue-green eyes.

"That's one of them alright" the woman says. The man pulls an arrow out of the quiver on his back and raises his how, aiming it at me, I gulp and try moving away a little, only to end up slipping in the fresh blood of the dog, I groan when I fall.

"Should I shoot?" The man asks.

The woman looks at me "no, this one will die soon anyways, leave him, if the wolves don't get him then the birds will" she says. The man nods, eyeing me like a dog eyes a bone, I had a feeling that if the woman hadn't been there then the man would have skinned me alive and enjoyed listening to my screams of pains. The woman kneels next to Grenades body "so young" she says softly, it was obvious the woman didn't see that Grenade had been on the same side I was.

"Rest well, Maria Cal Swifriv" the man murmurs. I stare at him confused, it was like he recognized Grenade, but that had to be impossible, none of the team had any family, we were each other's family, no one had outside family. The woman sees the confusion in my eyes and nudges the man, whispering something to him, making the man sigh. The man kneels down next to me "Silvia wants me to explain how we know Maria" he says and points at Grenades body when he says Maria.

"P-please do" I croak, my voice a whisper, barley audible.

"Haha it speaks!" The man exclaims, getting hit upside the head by the woman.

"Thats a he, be nice to the dieing" the woman, Silvia says.

The man glares at Silvia and then looks at me "now, I better start explaining" he says "Maria here, is a girl who came to us two years ago, she was.......eight I think" he tells me "she told us that she had gained power, the highest ranking on Sebastian Barren's team and that she would help pro-" The man was quickly cut off as a gunshot was heard in the distance.

"Time to go!" Silvia says quickly and pulls the man up, I try getting up as well, making it to my feet before I fall on my first step. I try to reach out for the man or woman but they had already left, it was almost like they had never been there but a footprint could clearly be seen in the blood-soaked dirt. I scrabble through the blood and mud, heading towards the tree line, if Mr.Barren or the others found me like this then I would be dead for sure. I successfully make it to he tree line and use a tree trunk to help support me as I pull myself up, my injured leg throbing, the wound caked in mud.

I wince as I try walking, kicking something and falling, I groan and curl into a ball, not wanting to move. After a while I slowly uncurl and look to see what I had tripped over, sticking out of the crumpled and crushed leaves was a handle, gun like in making, yet it didn't have the correct appearance to be a gun. I carefully pull it out, it had an odd shape, like a miniature bow near the front, I recognized it from weapons training, its what Tremor called a crossbow.

I didn't know it but I would rely on that crossbow for so much more then I would a normal crossbow. This crossbow would save me for a long time and I could not let that protection go so easily.