Story: Cinder was taken away and Blueleaf tried to save her, but was too late when Darkleaf, her evil side, stopped her. Cinder wakes up alone, with the exception of a dark version of herself. Cinder tries to threaten Dark Cinder to let her go, but she was too scared. Meanwhile, Blueleaf tried to find Cinder, but again, Darkleaf blocked her path. Darkleaf prepared to use her powers. Dark Cinder taunts Cinder. Suddenly, Cinder starts singing about her strengths. She attacks Dark Cinder, which upsets her. Cinder breathes heavily, and Dark Cinder bares her teeth. Dark Cinder pushes Cinder and she passes out. She "wakes up" surrounded by shadows. A fake Blueleaf materializes in the shadows. Again, Blueleaf and Darkleaf are fighting, and Jay (Blueleaf's brother) pops up. He growls at Darkleaf and notices who she's fighting with. In Cinder's "dream" she sees fake Blueleaf in the distance, she runs up to Blueleaf, not knowing it isn't really her friend and is surprised when Blueleaf lashes out at her. Blueleaf threatens her again, and Cinder's eyes start to cloud up with tears. 'Why is my friend acting like this?' she thought. She backs off and Blueleaf reverts back to a shadow and reports back to Dark Cinder. Blueleaf warns Jay that Darkleaf was going to capture him, and begged him to run. But it was too late. Dark Cinder woke Cinder up, pinning her down. Cinder didn't even try to resist. When Jay got captured, he woke up in a cage. He looked to his left to see Cinder and Dark Cinder. He remembered Blueleaf talking to him about them before. Cinder looks at Jay almost expressionless, Darkleaf and Dark Cinder are amused by Cinder's weakness, but Jay is horrified at what they did to her. Blueleaf cries out for Jay, but to no avail, she has lost her only two companions. Darkleaf growls at Blueleaf again, and then hears a noise. She turns her head, distracted, and Blueleaf quickly races off. She realizes that she has no idea where she is, or where Jay and Cinder are. When Jay sees Cinder, he thinks Dark Cinder is hurting her 'leave Cinderstripe alone!' Dark Cinder smirks "Cinderstripe is gone." Jay, although disheartened, believes Cinder is still there. Cinder looks away quietly. She suddenly trembled in pain, gritting her teeth. Jay reached out for her. Jay, overcome with anger, growled "You monster!" to Dark Cinder. He Runs over to her with fury. Blueleaf comes in, and Jay stops. Darkleaf then finds Blueleaf and attacks her. Dark Cinder narrows her eyes at Blueleaf as Darkleaf gets ready to attack her. Blueleaf stares coldly at them, her thoughts only on revenge and answers. Dark Cinder sees Cinder start to get worse. Cinder is terrified, looking down at her paws. Blueleaf looks over to see her condition taking over, and she tries to run to her, being stopped by Darkleaf's trap, pulling her to the ground. Cinder's life force is ebbing away and Blueleaf is trapped and about to be "attacked" by Darkleaf. Jay can only watch in fear as his friends are being defeated. Blueleaf thinks she can't do anymore to help anyone. Jay is tired of watching his friends being hurt. He presses a button, it allows him to be freed and he attempts to attack Darkleaf. She is ready, and pushes him back before he can get past and help his friends. Jay realizes he's not completely helpless against Darkleaf. He quickly bites her foreleg and escapes, running to Cinder's side. Blueleaf finds herself freed as well thanks to Jay. When Dark Cinder and Darkleaf go after Jay and Cinder, Blueleaf holds them off. Blueleaf bares her teeth and tells them that she's not going to watch her friends get hurt again. Cinder's state has reached a dangerous point, Jay remains by her side, and Blueleaf continues to fight. Blueleaf turns to see Cinder almost gone. She just knows she has to keep fighting for her, then maybe Cinder will come back. She tells herself this as she prepares to face Darkleaf again. Cinder sees her devotion and wonders why she cares so much. Thinking about it stirs up something inside her. Dark Cinder confronts Jay without her usual smirk. Jay turns around with anger in his eyes, still determined to save Cinder. She looks up and realized how determined her friends were to help her, and she wonders how she could possibly help them. Jay attacks DC and she pushes him back easily, claws extended. She throws him aside and he hits the wall, killing him quickly. His body starts glowing, and his appearance changes. Cinder realizes after all this time why her friends were fighting so hard. She feels for "Jay" what he felt for her and is freed from the shadows, immediately leaping at Dark Cinder to take revenge. Cinder then sees that her condition had faded, and Dark Cinder was starting to become what she was. She looked and saw that Jay was not himself. Darkleaf rushes to Daartrtk Cinder's side and Blueleaf smiles as she sees Cinder back normal. Cinder begins to stand up to go meet Blueleaf, when she turns around and...(cont. in notes)
Story (cont.): she sees Darkleaf holding Dark Cinder. Darkleaf glares at Cinder with anger and Cinder realized that they had to get out as soon as possible. But how could they do that? Dark Cinder's death tore the realm open, creating a portal. Cinder notices it just as darkleaf does. Blueleaf and Cinder make a run for it and narrowly escape as Darkleaf desperately tries to catch them. Darkleaf sees that she has run out of time when the portal closes behind Blueleaf. As Cinder jumps out of the portal and lands, she looks to see if Blueleaf made it out. Blueleaf tumbles through the portal as it closes. Cinder helps her up and they see the real Jay, surprised and relieved to see that he is alive and safe. I'm pretty sure this is the last part I get to do for the collab, and just I wanna say how proud I am of how hard we worked. We started 3 years ago, and we've come such a long way since then. I'm also so grateful for all of you that have enjoyed this collab. This story has been really fun to tell ̶b̶e̶c̶a̶u̶s̶e̶ ̶i̶t̶'̶s̶ ̶s̶o̶ ̶e̶d̶g̶y̶ because Nightstar and I told it together. So yeah, that's my note. Despite the fact that the Pity Party Collab is ending, the story isn't exactly over. As Nightstar mentioned in her last part, we are making a short continued project~
