Bluefin and Manta eventually became guards at the Summer Palace together. Their lives were busy, but comfortable, and they were spared from much of the actual horrors of the war. They grew closer as they matured. Bluefin finally worked up the courage to confess his feelings to Manta, and she reciprocated them, being in a dedicated relationship
He watched a firebomb had ripped its way through Manta’s left wing, and another one immediately slammed into her head killing her and knocking him out