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Adder limps off.

As he makes a walk through the forest a thousand feelings rush through his mind. What is wrong with me...Why did I have to scream at Cinder...Why did I let Stalagmite die...Why did Randall die for me...Why does everybody die for me even though my life is meaningless...Why does everyone hate my species so much...

He feels a pain in his left foot, but he keeps walking.

''This world as we know it is nihil. It has no point, as if everything we know and care for will be gone to waste. Why do we even live at all?''

Eventually he finds a fallen log over a river. He prepares to jump, but is knocked unconscious.

Adder sees faces in the fire. Humanoid faces. All of them. Gutted, beheaded, burned at the stake, ripped to shreds, hung, devoured alive, dried to husks, and having their shriveled corpses put on display, not necessarily in that order. And then...He sees him.

A face so humanoid and anthropomorphic, he could have sworn it was a being from the Old World. The face splits open into a thousand worms and eat Adder alive, ripping him atom by atom.

He wakes up again in a black and purple prism. He tries to slam against the walls, but he cannot even move. Giant clawed hands with four long fingers move around the prism.

It's the Twilight Cage.

Where everyone goes where they die. A bureacratic society, and a corrupt one at that. Everyone stays in here waiting for judgement, judgement for the punishments they will receive. Eventually they get plunged into the depths of Hell.

Adder suffers the same fate, and sees his friends...Cinder being forced to serve under a Dryptosaurus, Wraak being turned into a living immobile voiceless blob of oil and being shot continuously, Exedra being forced to endure infinite pain...

AND IT'S HIM AGAIN.

The ground swirls, it twists, it eats itself, and as a hand with three claws suddenly flies right at Adder's face and tears it to shreds, he blacks out.

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"Uuhh...ma...k...GYAAAAHH!"

Adder wakes up suddenly and sees himself in a tree. Someone is in front of him. He can make out two graves below him.

It's Cinder.

"What happened..."

"You idiot," Cinder jokes. Then she gets serious. "We found you on a fallen log on top of a river."

"How did I just faint like that?"

Cinder shakes her head. The makeshift hood she styled with her head feathers begins to fall apart once more, and so much black feathers lay scattered around her eyes Adder thought she was wearing mascara and then cried a lot.

Well, she did cry a lot this week.

"Pulmonoscorpius. It attacked your left foot with its tail as you left us. I had to treat the infection as fast as I could before it got out of hand. I'd hate to lose another friend this week."

"You...actually bothered to save me?" Adder is astonished anybody would go this far.

Cinder laughs at how shaky Adder's voice is. "Oh, shut up, Adder, we don't need another crybaby in the group." Yes, Cinder just called herself a crybaby.

Wraak wakes up and drops to the branch the two are on. "Well, two of our friends are dead, one of them(Jeremy) has left us..."

Adder jumps down to the graves. Next to Stalagmite's grave there us yet another gravestone.

REST IN PEACE RANDALL

He taught us one thing: that no matter who, they all have good hearts inside. He was a good friend, and he meant well.

He will never be forgotten. May we continue to fullfill his wish for a better world.

-Cinder

"So...He did die yesterday...Now there is only five of us...Now what do we do about the prophecy?"