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“FUCK OUR SHIP IS ON FIRE,” Jay yells from the docks, Lizzie runs towards the docks in a panic, “BOTH OF THEM?” She yells, cut off by screaming and an explosion coming from a nearby building. Chip stands in shock, the entire town on fire, “We have to do something!” Gillion yells, running towards the chaos. “G-Gill wait!” Chip grabs Gillions hand, “We have to find a way out!” Chip pleads, however Gillion doesn’t listen, “There’s people there!” Gillion runs towards the source of the fire, “Jay get everyone inside the bar, it’s the farthest from the fire!” Chip yells, Jay nods and starts pulling their crew to the bar, “Chip? Chip where are you going!?” She notices he’s not going towards the bar, “I have to go after Gillion!” He runs towards where Gillion went, “Chip please, I can’t lose you both!” Jay yells, her voice broken with tears. Chip sees Gillion, sword to sword with a Dragonborn, who Chip immediately recognizes, “Sethel… why are you doing this!” Chip yells, Gillion turns and sees chip, Sethel takes the distraction and stabs Gillion in the side with his sword, “GILL-” Chip cries, running to his side. Sethel stretches the wings on his back and flys off, continuing to spread fire across this town, “Gill please, please don’t do this to me,” Chip hugs Gillion close, crying into his shoulder, “Someone help, please someone,” Chip cries as he tries to help Gillion up, Chip sees Jay run over from the flames, moving to help Chip carry Gillion, “What happened!?” Jay struggles to speak as they bring Gill into the bar, Ollie gasping and running over to help, “I-Is he okay!?” Ollie’s face is covered in ash from the fires, “wait…” chips heart stops, “Aslana! She’s still in the lake!” Chip dashes out of the bar, despite everyone’s yells. Chip runs to the the lake which is surrounded by fire, he can hear Sethel lighting things on fire nearby, “Aslana!” He sees aslana peak her head out of the water, “Aslana come on! I’ll- I’ll help you to the ocean!” Aslana looks around, noticing chip is blocked by fire and can’t get to her. “Chip, just go, please, you can’t get past the fire!” Chip shakes his head, “I- I can’t! I can’t leave you!” Chip falls to his knees, crying, Aslana gives a weak smile “I won’t be able to make it out of here, but you can, just promise me you’ll make it out,” Chip nods, wiping his tears and standing up, “I’ll come back! We’ll end this and after, I’ll come back!” Chip says before running back towards the bar, “I need your guys help! We need to stop him!” Chip pulls out his swords, Lizzie gets up to go to his side, “We can’t just leave Gillion here!” Jay says, holding a cloth to Gillions chest, chip walks over, “Ollie, you stay with Gill, make sure he doesn’t get up, he needs to rest,” chip pulls Ollie and Gillion into a hug, “we’ll be back, I promise,” tears fall from Chips eyes onto the hardwood floor. “Please, stay safe,” chip whispers before getting up and walking out of the bar with Jay and Lizzie. The trio walk towards where Sethel is, “Sethel!” Chip calls out, ready to fight. Sethel lands before the group, laughing, “you can’t take me down!” He grins, chip grits his teeth and swings his sword at Sethel who moves out of the way just to have Jay try to stab him in the chest, however she misses and stabs him in the arm. Sethel then throws Jay against a building and he’s about to throw fire at her but Lizzie jumps between the two so she gets hit. “Lizzie!” Jay yells and catches Lizzie before she can fall to the ground. “Stop right there-” someone coughing interrupts everyone, they turn and see fill holding his side with one hand, holding a sword up with the other, “Gill I told you to stay- where’s Ollie!?” Chip yells, seeing the boy stepping out from behind Gill, “Ollie I said!” He gets cut off by Sethel holding him up by his neck, “What a shame, you’re a strong man Chip, I could’ve made you stronger,” he throws chip to the ground and flys up, creating a big fireball to throw at Ollie and Gillion, Jay gets up and pushes them out of the way, getting hit by the fire ball, now a deep burn on her back. “Jay!” Chip yells out, limping over to her, Gill already helping her up as she coughs out ash, “Ollie, Aslana is still in the lake, go to her and STAY with her!” Chip orders, “I’ll come find you after!” Ollie nods and runs off, Ollie runs to Aslana, who is struggling to breathe in the hot water. Gill hands Jay to chip and runs to Lizzie to bring her to the Chip and Jay, “I will defeat you, you foul beast!” Gillion holds his sword up, he makes the sword ice cold and throws it at Sethel, it hits him right in the chest and he falls to the ground, Gillion runs over to the other three, “Are they okay?” Gill asks, coughing some blood, “Lizzie is passed out and Jay isn’t breathing!” Chips body is shaking from worry and fear, Gillion puts a hand on chips shoulder, “we’ll get hel-” Gillion falls to the floor, his own sword impaling him, “Gill!?” Chip screams, startled, Sethel is holding the stab wound on his chest, readying another fireball, “I let you escape once, I won’t make that same mistake!” Sethel yells, “Don’t! Please! Kill me, but leave them!” Chip begs, standing in front of the 3 unconscious bodies, Sethel laughs, “I’m not dumb, I know they’ll try to get revenge, and I won’t let that happen!” Sethel throws the fireball and everything goes black in chips vision, he hears his own body fall to the floor.
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Ollie runs to where the fight originally was, tears falling down his cheeks, “C-Chip shes gone! Aslana suffocated from the hot wat…” he trails off as he sees Sethel flying away and Chip lying dead on the ground next to Jay, Gillion, and Lizzie. Ollie falls to his knees, his voice leaving him. He has never felt more alone until now, he was alone and stuck, with no where to go, no one to hug, all he could do was cry. So he did, he cried his eyes out. He mourned the death of his family, of chip, who was always there to make sure he was okay, of Jay, who was there when his mom wasn’t, for Gillion, who taught him how to be himself, for Lizzie, who taught him to be strong when he couldn’t. He couldn’t be enough, he wasn’t strong enough to save those he loved. It was all his fault…
He was alone.