I was surrounded by darkness, I walking in the middle, or what seemed to be the middle of it, and came upon more still darkness. My stomach burned in pain and I could hear distant voices. I felt myself distant from everybody.
It was quiet, but I could hear screams in the back of my skull, and then it dying. Wait a second... Just where was I?
"You. I thought you still lived," I heard a voice call to me, my head whipping to where the voice was directed. Dad? Oh God, it was him.
"I don't know, Father," I replied to Dad as he walked, I think, over to me. The scene around me changed to my den, my old room. Where I had killed my father.
"Well, well. Nice to see you again, Moon. What happened to you? Finally died?" My dad laughed as he pawed himself over to me, laughing, the scars on his neck and stomach glittering.
"How am I supposed to know? You're dead. I thought you would know," I spat back at him as I walked to the back of my den, holding my stomach slightly, and went to where my bed was, standing over it.
"Well, yes, I know where your fate lies in this world, Moon. How memorable to having me let you live. I would love to kill you, as I tried when I was alive, but that's not allowed. You have a choice. Stay alive, or go dead. I already think I know what your choice was," Dad laughed as I sat down near my bed and rubbed the tiger fur that was my bed. I knew my choice.
"Let me live," I told him as I spun my body to him, and what came so close to my face was his paw, hitting me on the forehead.
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My eyes slowly opened to the scenery I was in. The cave, still, but the fight was over, with halfers healing each other and helping each other out. My stomach burned alive as I felt a cloth against my wound, which was apparently my shirt. I winced, and apparently, Kasumi, who I guessed saw me earlier, saw me wince.
"Moon!" She exclaimed, smiling. I groaned as I felt the bullet being taken out of my stomach by Tamotsu, and then gauze being wrapped around my body. I winced more as I tried to keep a straight eye on Kasumi.
"W... Where is..." She cut me off. She knew who I was talking about.
"Gone. She escaped, the little traitor," Kasumi hissed as she looked over at the dead hunters that were scattered on the floor. My hand clenched into a fist.
"Dammit," I hissed as I once again, winced in pain as Tamotsu slowly sat me up so that he could get all of the gauze around me.
I knew we needed to get out of here before the leftover hunters that had escaped came back with reinforcements, and I knew a place not far from here where we could camp for the night. Not many people knew about it, though. I would have to guide them, even though that might not sit with the situation at the moment...
"Where... Where's Sky?" I asked Kasumi, I turning my head towards her.
"I'm right here. What's up, Moon?" I heard a voice say from within the crowd of halfers, and Sky come out of the crowd over to me.
"We ne... need to get out of here before reinforcements come... I know of a place... Do you trust me?" I asked, my voice cracking at the end. It was extremely hard to keep an eye on everybody without my eyes going somewhere else.
"Yeah, of course. You've kept with us this long, not like Rika. You helped us fight the hunters. Yeah, we trust you," Sky nodded happily, with everybody nodding along with her. It made me smile a little.
"I'll need to lead you, if that's alright, just as long as somebody helps me walk," I nodded to Kasumi, and she nodded back.
Kasumi helped me up, and we headed out of the cave, the injured slowly following, I included, but we went at a steady pace to where we could all catch up at. We slowly went through trees, to where I was directing to everybody and we soon got a bit far away from the cave to where we came upon a waterfall and river, herbs in the grasses to where we could slowly heal.
"Wow!" I heard one voice say from the group as Kasumi helped me over to the river so that I could get some water.
"I'm fine for now, Kasumi. Thanks for helping me," I told Kasumi strongly and she smiled as she went back over to Tamotsu and the group so that they could help heal everybody.
I scooted over to a tree that was next to the river after I took a desperate drink from it, and slowly drifted off into sleep.
~Moon
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Hope this is alright, and I hope I got Kasumi and Sky right! ^^ I kinda just got to a place where we could all rest up, and I hope that's okay! ^^
