In the end

A story by Feather
One thing I don't know why
It doesn't even matter how hard you try
“KILL THEM!” The HiveWing commander screeched, her vibrant eyes piercing the darkness as her stingers slid out of her claws, itching to stab and rip apart the group of LeafWings.
Maple shivered, the intensity of the commander and her soldiers boring into her and forcing her mind to play thoughts of submission, of backing down from this fight as the HiveWings advanced.
Casting a glance at the pale green LeafWing besides her, who twitched nervously yet hummed with confidence, she observed the determination in his eyes and added it to her heart.
She twitched her tail nervously, spreading her wings as the enemy started to dive down on her and her tribemates. Some of them had sharp stingers flashing in the moonlight, or deadly talons extended for blood and teeth bearing.
Flapping her wings and shooting into the sky, Maple’s eyes flashed around the landscape, soaking up the burned soil and charred remnants of the deceased trees.
Smoke still wisped around the air, burning Maple’s eyes as much as the emotions streaming through her. She narrowly dodged a diving HiveWing, spinning around and ducking another solider with a deep orange face.
The orange-faced dragon turned around again to face her, his pale wings buzzing around as he struck out at her face. Dodging nimby, Maple took a quick scan of the HiveWing, grateful to see he had no special HiveWing weapons apart from a short spear.
Baring her teeth, she lunged for him and quickly scratched his forehead, ripples of pleasure engulfing her as spurts of his blood scattered her own face.
Holding a talon up at the wound, the HiveWing thrust at her with his spear, which she tucked in her wings and rolled to the side. Hissing, Orangeface attacked again and just barely ripped the edge of her wing.
The wound unnoticed, Maple flew underneath him. Pulling a venomous centipede from a pouch on her neck, she tossed it on his leg and dove down.
Keep that in mind, I designed this rhyme
She saw his eyes dart to the centipede, and Orangeface ripped it off his leg before the insect did any harm and tossed it to the ground.
Maple just let her lips curl into a smile; a challenge brimmed with excitement. Her enemy was smarter than most she had killed.
She took a dagger from her pouch and avenged on the HiveWing, who gave her the sound of metal on metal as their weapons clanged together and he pressed on.
Her dagger was flipped by the spear and flung in the air, glistening as a moon crept from a cloud and gave it a spotlight. Orangeface flapped his wings and caught the smooth handle in his talons.
By the time he couple use it to strike Maple down, she had wrenched the spear from his other talon and drove it into his leg. Sweets sounds of his cries of agony ringed in her ears.
She pulled the spear back and flung it at him. “I control this game!” The words flew from her mouth before she thought them, and had the pure aura of truth hidden within them.
To explain in due time
All I know
”I don’t think so,” Orangeface hissed, narrowing his eyes and whipping his tail back and forth, though Maple knew in every essence of her what slipped from his stupid little mouth was wrong, wrong wrong wrong. She was the best soldier of the LeafWings, of the HiveWings and SilkWings too. She couldn’t lose.
So she just ripped a second dagger from her pouch, her hunger to kill swarming through when the silver blade caught her attention.
Orangeface twisted in the air as a second LeafWing - her best friend, Hickory - dove into stabbing range within the HiveWing, claws aiming to scratch the stupid enemy. Maple watched as Orangeface scored his own claws across her friend's back, and with Hickory's screech she narrowed her eyes, releasing the blade and sending it flying while rage coursed through her veins.
She didn't check to see if Orangeface had dodged her attack; she banked down to catch Hickory as the dark LeafWing plummeted towards the ground. Beating her wings to go faster, she diverted all her focus to flying.
Outstreching her talons, they scraped Hickory's scales. A claw got caught in his wing, and she held on to him, grabbing his arm with her free talon and beating her wings to go upwards.
Holding on to her companion, who's panicked breathing filled her sense, she only turned her attention to sky when the scream cut through her. And she saw it - a HiveWing, flying high above the battle. He carried a single, large barrel, and from it tumbled down...knives. Flashing silver in the sunlight, they rained down of the LeafWings and the HiveWings - but only the HiveWings dodges the onpour.
"NO!" She screeched, oblivious to the weight of Hickory lessening from her. "LOOK OUT!"
It was too late; her warning was drowned out by the HiveWing's shouts of glee and the pained cries of her tribemates. Splashes of red crossed her vision, and for the first time a thought of dread creeped up her.
Time is a valuable thing
Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings
Watch it count down to the end of the day
The clock ticks life away
It's so unreal
Didn't look out below
Watch the time go right out the window
Tryin' to hold on, did-didn't even know
I wasted it all just to watch you go
I kept everything inside and even though I tried
It all fell apart
What it meant to me will eventually
Be a memory of a time when I tried so hard
I tried so hard and got so far
But in the end it doesn't even matter
I had to fall to lose it all
But in the end it doesn't even matter
One thing, I don't know why
It doesn't even matter how hard you try
Keep that in mind, I designed this rhyme
To remind myself how I tried so hard
In spite of the way you were mockin' me
Acting like I was part of your property
Remembering all the times you fought with me
I'm surprised it got so far
Things aren't the way they were before
You wouldn't even recognize me anymore
Not that you knew me back then
But it all comes back to me in the end
You kept everything inside and even though I tried
It all fell apart
What it meant to me will eventually
Be a memory of a time when I tried so hard
I tried so hard and got so far
But in the end it doesn't even matter
I had to fall to lose it all
But in the end it doesn't even matter
I've put my trust in you
Pushed as far as I can go
For all this
There's only one thing you should know
I've put my trust in you
Pushed as far as I can go
For all this
There's only one thing you should know
I tried so hard and got so far
But in the end it doesn't even matter
I had to fall to lose it all
But in the end it doesn't even matter
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