~Moon
After Rika and I went shopping for some bit, getting flowers and some candy, we went back to the hotel, rested for a short bit until we had to get up and I met up with her in the lobby with Sky and the rest of the gang. I still needed to tell Rika a lot of things and I knew that. I just had to get the right time...
We walked out of the hotel and started to travel once again. I kept Rika near me, both of us not transforming at all, but kept her under my arm the whole time with her head on my shoulder and matched my pace. I wasn't going really fast. Just a steady pace that Rika could go with.
“There’s a cave up ahead. We’ll rest there.” Both Rika and I sighed in relief because we had to be at least walking for half of the day non-stop.
Once we got inside the cave, Rika sat down on a rock and I sat beside her.
“Moon..” I looked at Rika and she blushed and smiled automatically which made me wonder a lot. “I have to tell you something.. I-“ She was cut off by screaming from somebody and the cave suddenly starting to cave in.
Rika held onto me as other halfers avoided rocks and running around everywhere. I pulled Rika to the closest exit which suddenly got closed up by the cave in and then seeing that that entrance was closed, I helped her along to another small passage that led deeper into the cave. That's when I smelled Luna's blood. I had completely forgotten about her... and I can't lose her again.
“Luna?" I stopped in place as I looked around, but my scents were mixing in together to where I could hardly smell anything. But I had to find Luna. “I’m sorry, Rika,” I told her as I let go of her hand reluctantly and went off to search for Luna.
Just as I was getting close to where I could smell Luna's blood the strongest, the roof collapsed above me and I barely got out of the way, a rock hitting my head along the way. I didn't really feel myself collapse but I felt the blood running down my face.
“Moon!” I heard Rika's voice not far off as my vision blacked out. Shit...
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"Hey, leopard... Come on... You gotta wake up!!" I thought I heard that voice before. It was that girl, Vana. Oh god. I'm stuck with her, aren't I? "Wake up!" My eyes snapped open and I glared at that girl which made her jump back. That's when I remember I got hit with a rock... and I left Rika behind. God, I'm so stupid!
I pushed myself out as best as I could from the rocks as I felt dried blood on my face and I crawled over to the closest wall I could get to and leaned against it as a headache sprung on me.
"Can I try and help?" Vana asked me and I looked at her, since she was bending down next to me. She was trying to be nice at least.
"Only if you have any bandages," I told her in a raspy voice. How long had I been out? I could only see some light coming in from the rocks but it had to be getting close to night.
"No... But you're a strong kitty, aren't you?" She asked and I looked at her.
"Yeah, but I don't think I can transform. We wouldn't be able to move around a lot..." I told her and her smile somewhat dropped.
"Oh... Is something wrong? Besides your head?" She asked and I sighed. Rika was on my mind. I knew I shouldn't have left her. I knew Luna could take care of herself. God, was I stupid or what?
"I left my girlfriend behind," I told her as I stood up and continued to lean against the wall. I wouldn't be able to clean this blood off of me for a while. There wasn't a stream anywhere. Great.
"Well, that's bad. But can I... stay with you? I don't know where to go..." Vana told me and I smiled.
"Sure. Just don't treat me like a pet," I told her and we slowly moved to where I made a slow and steady pace. At least I still remembered everything.
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~Jake
I didn't even bother with the cow as I plopped down onto the bed and slept the whole night, ignoring his somewhat snores that he gave off. Once it hit morning, I changed the bandages on my wounds which were healing slowly, my leg feeling a lot better but my arm not. I had a feeling I might lose it if I wasn't careful.
Once we got downstairs, we started traveling again, with Giovana just walking beside me this time and talking non-stop. I growled to make her quiet down and only a little did she. She was so annoying.
“There’s a cave up ahead. We’ll rest there.” I heard somebody say, it probably being Sky, and we headed over there but almost immediately, I heard the cave caving in with people screaming and moving about to avoid the rocks and I wasn't screaming. I was just avoiding the rocks as best as I could. Then the rocks collapsed, hiding the entrances and exits around me. Great. Let's just get stuck in a cave again.
Though I lost contact of where Vana was... Great. And I said I would keep her near me.
Though I wasn't expecting to get stuck behind a huge pile of rocks where I was out. At least nothing really happened to me except my wounds were open again, especially my arm. At least I still had the nerves connected and I could move my hand some.
"'Ello? Anybody 'ere with me?" I turned around and wasn't particularly surprised to see Ennis.
He ought to be somewhat of help to get out of here. I had experience cave-ins before and wasn't particularly worried about it, but I could see a lot of passageways that were blocked off. Woo.
I walked out from where I was and followed Ennis's voice until I found him
"So I'm stuck with the funn' lookin guy? The lion?" He sighed and I knew I wasn't going to have any fun now... And was I really funny looking?
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~Luna
I talked to Pierce a bit before I went upstairs to sleep with that Vana girl as my bunkmate. She's just a bundle of joy... As soon as I woke up, I got ready with her, her attitude improving from the mansion, or trying to apparently.
Once we got ready, got downstairs and started traveling again, I could see Moon was enjoying himself with Rika, holding her to him and playing with her tail on and off. It made me smile, and wonder when I was going to be able to find somebody of my own. It just made me hope, really.
“There’s a cave up ahead. We’ll rest there.” I heard Sky say up ahead of the group and we all walked up to the cave and sat down.
I just wondered around the cave until I heard the roof of the cave starting to collapse and almost immediately, a rock scraped my arm and stabbed me in the leg when it hit the floor and shattered into millions of pieces. I suddenly smelled Moon's scent coming near me but the wall collapsed to quickly and the whole cave stopped shaking. I could smell some other scents around me as I sighed and turned around. I knew I could get through this wall of rocks so might as well see where I end up at the end of this hallway...
What was interesting is that I was coming upon blood splatter on the ground, not from me since I was only bleeding into my clothes and my scratches were stinging, but it was more of a really familiar smell. It was Pierce.
I ran over to where the blood splatter led me and I found Pierce bleeding from the shoulder heavily. At least he was conscious.
"Pierce!" I exclaimed as I went over to him and grabbed the last bit of bandage I had left in my pocket and started to wrap up his wound.
"Look, Luna, you don't have to do that..." Pierce told me but I shook my head.
"You're not going to die from a shoulder wound. You're pretty cool. We're not going to lose you now," I told him as he looked at me curiously before he helped sit up and I wrapped up the rest of his wound carefully to where his arm was in a sling.
"Thanks, Luna..." Pierce told me with a small nod as I helped him up and we both leaned against the wall that he was leaning against.
"Why didn't you use the bandage for your wounds?" Pierce asked me and I shrugged.
"They're not that big of a deal. Nobody can die from just a scratch," I told him with a smile and he gave me a small smile back before he winced.
"Come on. Let's just rest here for a while and see if somebody comes by," I told him as we sat back down again and I helped him with his wounds.
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LONG POST!!!! XD God, this took forever, but I hope I got everything right along with the personalities! ^-^;;;;
Featured in post: Moon, Rika, Sky, Jake, Vana, Ennis, Luna, and Pierce
~Anime-chan :)
