Monty opened then her palm and extended it to me. A glass bottle with a piece of cloth inside was the thing she was offering to me. I raised an eyebrow in disbelief and took it. 

"A molotov cocktail?" I asked her, thinking of why would I ever use it. 

"I've notice you don't carry your weapons with you" she said softly. My heart skipped another beat. I didn't care about my weapons, but the moment I lost them. 

"Okay, and how do I burn it? I don't have fire actually" I said with a resigned voice tone. 

"Don't worry about that" she said at the same time she opened both hands and appeared two more molotov cocktails. She handed them to Anna and Emma, still crying. "This is for your safe. If we arrive there and someone attacks you, you throw them. I take charge of burn them"

We all nodded. Monty was about to jump inside the hole in the ground but I stopped her. 

"But why a molotov? You can create anything. Why this improvised explosive?" I asked her in curiousity. She could have created any elaborated bomb.

She only turned her head to face mine, looking me over her shoulder. 

"Because, as far as can be expected, it's the least harmful" she turned around and jumped inside the dark hole. Flynn indicated Anna to follow her, and then Emma jumped. 

He kept looking at me. 

"What are you waiting for, blondie?" he asked me, fingering the hole with his hand. I looked at him with cool eyes. 

"I'm scared" I finally sighed. 

"Of what?" he frowned, he could tell he had never seen me scared. I hide my emotions very well, actually. 

"Loosing someone else" I walked forward and closing my eyes, I jumped inside.  

Soon I felt a soft surface below me, and somehow an invisible effort made me start to swallow through all the tunnel. I opened my eyes only to see grassy round wall around me, passing fast in front of my eyes. Flowers here, flowers there, some mushroom, and some plants more that I hadn't time to see propertly. The tunnel divided in entrances and entrances, that the effort made me enter through. Soon, I heard a soft shout and I'm sure it was from Anna. And then, a 'boom' in the distance. 

We were in the Islands? How could we be there so quickly?

I looked up and saw brilliant light. The effort that was pushing me, this time I felt like it pushed me up, and I jumped out of the hole, only to see the bad scene of our village. It was worst than when we left it. All buildings destroyed, smoke everywhere, death bodies lying on the ground, dismembered, mutilated. The nature of the place wasn't the same at all. Before, you could smell happiness and was always spring. You could see all the colours of the rainbow reflected in the houses, the ground, the countryside, you could see a live town with hopeful and trusting people, hard-workers and peaceful. You could see all the colourful dragons fly above, the birds singing harmoniously, the soft breeze playing with the leaves and sometimes it rained during three hole days. The streams were full and all the flowers were growing up awesome, the trees were blooming... Now, no one was happy, all the place was of a dark grey, no dragons were flying above our heads, no birds singing, no breeze. The streams were all dryed and there were no flowers either, and all the trees were dead. It seemed like the emotions of the villagers affected the hole village. I supose that is the way that this magical and weird world worked. 

"Monty, fire here!" Flynn shouted taking away my molotov and throwing it far away, rescueing me from my deep thoughts. Monty turned around quickly, it really seemed to me that all was happening slow-motion. 

She turned around as her long hair changed from purple to red floating around as she moved. Her light grey long skirt moved softly around her waist and legs, while her hand raised up slowly and she slapped her fingers, making a flame burnt out and travel in the air through the cloth in the bottle. When it crashed in the floor, an explosion was made and flames extended. 

I was so stunned looking the landscape in front of me that I haven't seen two man running in my direction. Flynn saved me, once again. He looked at me with a frown, but he didn't say a thing. I'm sure he was about to argue to me, but he contained himself to say something stupid. He was very impulsive sometimes. 

"Let's go now" he said to me instead, forcing his jaw as he walked away, not even looking back. 

Anna took Emma's hand and they started walking without asking, looking at me sadly. I'm sure they missed they're village too. It was too changed, so unrecognizable. No one could say that this was one of the most beauiful and powerful places in the hole planet; no one could say this was a nice town one day. 

I smiled them softly, making them understand what they felt. I started walking and Monty followed us, at the end of the queue. 

"Do you know where are our mothers?" I heard how Anna asked Flynn, and he took his time with the answer. 

"I know all the hiding places in the hole planet, so, at least your mommys had gone, I know where I'm going" I could feel he was annoyed. No one dared to talk again.

We continued walking, not meeting anyone in the hole way following Flynn. Then, we reached a destroyed house and Flynn stopped. He looked around him for a wile and then he started walking again, surrounding the house. Then, he found a scuttle in one sides of the destroyed house, and he opened it. 

We couldn't see what was inside it, but that made Flynn raise his arms. 

"We're on your side" he said firmly and secure of himself. His face then softened and turned around to face us. "C'mon, quickly" he indicated us, separating from the scuttle, leaving us space to go inside. Anna and Emma went first, quickly jumping inside. Next was my turn. The first thing I saw was four woman carrying large crossbows. Their hair was short and combed in one braid. Their faces were dirty and painted with the colour of the East Islands, green. Their clothing was simple: skinny grey pants, black boots, a wide grey shirt and a wide belt filled with all tipes of weapons. 

While I was walking inside the what I noticed it was a very huge room (dark, but huge), I noticed there were different women in charge of different charges. I knew it because the weapons they were carrying with them. For example, the ones who were keeping an eye in the scuttle were carrying crossbows because they were quick-used weapons, and a sword in case the crossbow don't work. Once you left behind these women, you found ten more sitting in a wood table, drinking some beer and eating something strange. These ones were carrying daggers and swords, ready for the close combat. A bit away from them, were like twenty or thirty women carrying axes, bows, arrows, shurikens and haldberds. Next to them, there was a machine where these women were sharpening them, one by one and carefully. That type of weapons were used for fighting in the distance or throwing them to the enemy, and you had to have very well marksmanship. 

All of them waved to us, some of them looking at us on an odd way, some of them smiling. A strong woman with a deep cut in her forehead guide us through the huge room and we reached a small door. 

"Here we have the bedroom, where we have very tired people so I advise you to be quiet" she told us smirking. "And hurt people recovering"

I gulped when she opened the door. This was kind of oppresive room. At the left side of it, there were bunk bed right next to the wall, sleeping women in it. At the right side, simple beds in a row stucked to the wall. Three women were there lying down, blood covered in part. It was a disgusting vision, I'll admit. 

The aisle that was left in the middle of the room was kind of narrow and had some chairs, filled with clothes, weapons and books. 

"You'll sleep here tonight, tomorrow we'll see" the woman (that told us her name was Rose) said to us, while we passed trought the aisle quickly, trying not to dirturb the people in there. At the end of the room, two doors; one of them very tall and wide, and the following smaller than the other. "The huge door comunicate with the improvised hospital, the other one is where you wanted to go" she informed us. "I'll leave you here. If you need something from me, you'll find me sleeping" she smiled to us and turned around, leaving us alone in front of the small door. 

Flynn took a step forward, and decided he opened the door. We all entered, and four surprised women looked at us widen-eyed. They were sloping in a table, looking a lot of papers and books. Her faces and clothes were all dirty, cuts in her legs and face were seen, and deep dark circles decorated their eyes. 

The brown-haired one was the first to talk:

"Where's Jackson?"

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After we told Jade what hapenned to his son, we felt weak and eyes watering hardly. Her reaction was not as I expected to be. She kept all quiet, hardening her face, looking away closing her eyes. 

"Emma, are you okay?" she asked her without opening her eyes, her voice was trembling and raspy. 

Emma didn't answered, she only ran to her mother's arms and they hugged. Then, everyone started sobbing and crying. It was heartbreaking. 

But the sad moment didn't last long. Jade put things in order.

"Could you get him out of the water?" she asked cool. I gulped but shook my head. 

"I'm very sorry Jade, I couldn't do anything, I'm so really sorry-"

"I'm sure you did all you could do in that moment" she smiled sadly to me, cutting me off. I smiled back. "We'll do his own party when the war is over"

The party was a tradition we had. When someone dies, everyone in the village dressed in white and make a party in his honor, where we all celebrate the memories with the person and we swear we would remember him or her always. 

"And this weird-hair woman, who is?" Ingunn asked avoiding the topic, knowing that was bothering Jade. 

Monty straightened proudly and her hair turned white. 

"I'm Mother Nature, I'm glad to meet you" she introduce herself, bowing a bit in front of the four women. Then, before the widen eyes of our mothers, she hugged Labanka. "I've missed you, dear"

Labanka returned the hug and laughed. 

"Me too, but let me introduce the Chief and the rest" she smiled breaking the hug. She pointed to my mother, who bowed herself. "She's Aurora, the best Chief that East Islands have met and Elsa's mother".

My mother blushed a bit and straightened smiling softly. 

"She's Ingunn, sister of Aurora's husband, the regent of this cache and Anna's mother" and she bowed softly. 

"And last but not least, Jade, Emma and Jackson's mother, war refugee from the War of the Eight Months, borned in the North Islands, Chief Annia Guardian's wife, and major strategist in this war" she fingered her and Jade bowed too. 

"Such a long title" Monty said, but she kissed Jade's hand. "If I were you, I'll be proud of Jackson"

"I am" she said smiling her. 

Monty clasped her hands, surprising everyone. 

"Okay, there's no time to loose" she talked to the four women there, almost ignoring us. "They are not safe here anymore"

My mother gasped. 

"But how?"

Monty looked at us with a face of circumstances. 

"Girls, follow me" Flynn told us three, going out the room. We looked last time at our mothers and we went out. Labanka closed the door in our faces, and we were alone in the bedroom. 

OOOOOOkay here goes another chapter!!! I know the story is going slowly, the chapters are long, and so on... But this is the way I think I have to write this story, so, here it is. I hope you enjoy it!!! I left the story here because my head hurts a lot actually (haven't you noticed I love that word?). I've been writing during three hours and my eyes are tired honestly hahaha. And I thought that the chapter will be very veery long so I cut it here. In fact, this wasn't the way I wanted to happen things, but I couldn't interlace some things and... In the next chapter will appeared all and all will be cristal clear! (at least I hope that)

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