AN- Hello, ShadowRebirth37 here!! Yeah, this is my first side project to The Ghost and the Raven. This is one of my favorite ever fics, and I think you'll love it, too. This one-shot is basically about what might have happened if Prozen, after finding Raven, decided not to take him back with him, and what might have happened if Shadow, after just being released, stumbled, literally, across the young human. Let's just say that things are going to get quite funny. ;) Lol. This is the kind of fic that will make you laugh hysterically for hours on end, and go 'awe'. Lol. Hope y'all like it!! Without further delay, here's Lost!
.:Lost:.
Prozen glared down at the small ebony-haired child he had found, trying to decide whether or not if he should take him. He was very thin, and was covered in scrapes and bruises; he looked like he was about to fall over from exhaustion. The gun the child was pointing at him shook in his small hands, and it looked like he was going to drop the heavy pistol at any moment. The child, Raven, as he had called the boy earlier, didn't move, and frankly he looked like he wouldn't be able to take another step before collapsing.
'Kid can barely hold the gun up, let alone be any use to me…' Prozen made up his mind, turning away from the child, that couldn't have been more than six, as he heard a report come on the radio from the jeep.
"Sir! I believe we have found the Organoid! He's near your position and moving fast!! You need to hurry if you want to intercept him!" one of the scouts said, his voice cracking and fading through the radio's poor signal.
"Good work!! Send me the coordinates and we'll intercept." Prozen said through his radio, getting back into the jeep.
"What about the boy?" Harding asked, casting a glance at the small child.
"He's no use to us, now hurry! We need to catch that Organoid!" Prozen yelled, narrowing his red eyes. Harding nodded and pulled a U-turn, speeding off towards the open desert, leaving Raven coughing in the dust.
Raven wiped the dust from his eyes after the sand settled. He looked down at his feet and bent down, picking up the gun that he had taken from the Gustav's cockpit. 'I might need this, in case I see a cougar or something…' he thought, looking at the heavy weapon in his hand. '… or if that big Organoid comes after me…' he added mentally, remembering what the man on the radio had said.
'If the Organoid is nearby, it might come after me… I need to find somewhere to hide…' Raven thought, casting a nervous glance up at the sky. The Organoid, the one that man had released, terrified him, it was really big and mean looking, and it have dove at him with its talons spread, like it had wanted to grab him and carry him off somewhere, after it had been released.
The sound of a rock falling made him jump, and he turned quickly, scared the Organoid had found him. Fortunately, it was just a large raven, which spread its wide shadowy wings and cawed loudly, flying up into the pale desert sky. As soon as the large bird was out of sight, Raven started to walk further into the canyon, opposite the way the white-haired man had gone.
'I hope there is a cave or something, I need to find somewhere to hide and spend the night…' he thought, slowly walking further into the canyon. It was getting really hot, and Raven was starting to feel dizzy. His vision started to get blurry, and his stumbled slightly, pain washing over him from a headache. He brought his hand up to his forehead, trying to ease the pain in his head, but it was no use. The gun slipped from his hand, falling to the stone with a loud clunk, and he fainted.
Shadow flew as fast as he could, trying to outrun the soldiers in their Zoids. At the moment he was ahead, but they were starting to gain on him. 'What do they want from me?!' Shadow thought, looking back at the soldiers. He looked back forward and screamed, for one of the Zoids, a Guysack, had gotten in front of him and had a net in its pincers, waiting for him to fly into it.
Shadow pulled up, narrowly avoiding the net. The Zoids pursuing him, however, were so focused on him they ran right into the Guysack, creating a pile-up. Shadow snickered and circled the wreck, before winging off towards a canyon to hide. 'Good… this canyon is a dead-end, which means they probably won't look in here, and that usually means that there will be caves…' Shadow thought, smirking as he flew deeper and deeper into the wide, sand-bottom canyon.
He must have flown for the better part of an hour, when he saw something down on the valley floor. Curious, Shadow started to circle, like a Reiniger Organoid over its wounded prey. He slowly glided down to the canyon floor, landing silently on the sandy stone. He shook the sand from his armor and retracted his wings, yawning loudly, for the flight had left him exhausted.
Shadow looked down at the object in question, and couldn't believe what he saw- a young boy, no older than six, unconscious on the sandy ground. 'Why is a little human hatchling all the way out here?' Shadow thought, cocking his head at the human. He growled softly as he leaned down, gently licking the boy's face, trying to wake him up.
The boy groaned and opened his eyes slightly, blinking several times. Shadow growled again, and the boy's gaze met his. The boy became very pale, and his breathing stopped; he looked as if he had seen the Death Saurer. Just as Shadow opened his mouth again, the boy screamed; which startled Shadow and made him scream as well and leap backwards.
The boy scrambled to his feet, staring wide-eyed at him. Shadow's circuits were still racing, and he tried to calm down. The boy slowly started to back away from him, but Shadow took a step towards him, growling softly in an attempt to calm the child down. The boy looked down at his feet and ducked down, fumbling with something shinny.
Shadow cocked his head at the unknown object, until the object revealed itself to be a gun when the child lifted it up and aimed it directly at him. Shadow snarled and lunged, plucking the gun from the child's hands with a deft snap of his jaws. Growling, he crushed the weapon, crunching it up in his powerful jaws. The boy became even more pale (if that was even possible) and stared at him, his violet eyes wide with fear as Shadow spit the chewed-up gun out onto the ground.
"Its okay, no need to be scared, I'm not going to hurt you…" Shadow said softly to the shaking human, trying to calm him down. The boy just looked at him, eyes filled with fear. 'Why doesn't he just settle down? Oh… right… he doesn't understand me… duh…' Shadow mentally slapped himself, remembering that humans couldn't understand the Organoid language.
Suddenly, the boy bolted to the left, running further into the canyon. Shadow roared and spread his wings, flying up into the air to follow him. 'I really must've scared that poor kid… I need to find some way to show I'm not a threat…' Shadow struggled to think, but was unable to come up with a way to prove his harmlessness to the boy.
The boy ducked under an overhang, hiding in an indent about six feet deep and seven feet across. The entrance was slightly low, only around three feet high, and that meant that Shadow would have a hard time reaching him. Shadow glided down and landed before the overhang, roaring as he retracted his blood-colored wings. He leaned down so he could look in at the child, growling quietly. The boy was back as far as he could go, pressed against the back wall, looking at him like he was some sort of a bloodthirsty monster.
Shadow growled softly, extending his neck so he could reach the boy. The boy shrieked, which made Shadow freeze. Before Shadow could so much as breathe, the boy kicked him on his sensitive nose. Shadow pulled his head out and wailed, more surprised than anything. As Shadow was preoccupied with his stinging nose, the boy tried to sneak away.
Shadow saw him trying to get away, and he wasn't about to let him run back out into the desert on his own. He snarled and bent down, snapping his jaws shut on the back of the human's shirt, and lifted him up so that his feet no longer touched the ground. The boy screamed and squirmed, trying to get away.
"No… stop squirming, it's okay…" Shadow growled softly, trying to let the human know that he wasn't in any danger. The boy kept struggling, and Shadow's patience was wearing dangerously thin. "I'm not hurting you!!" Shadow roared, stomping his foot. The child stopped squirming, but started making sad, sniffling noises. Shadow was confused, until he saw tears dripping down onto the sand.
'What to go, Shadow, you made him cry…' Shadow thought sarcastically, cursing himself. Growling quietly, he lowered the boy to the ground so that he was standing on his own two feet, and released him. The boy stood there for a moment, unmoving and silent other than the sniffling. Shadow snorted quietly and lightly nudged his shoulder, but the boy turned and ran to the left, towards the end of the canyon, which was only about twenty or so yards away.
Shadow turned and followed him, mentally beating himself up for making the boy cry. He watched the boy disappear from view behind a bend, but Shadow knew the child wasn't going anywhere, because the dead end was ahead. He rounded the turn, and froze, for he couldn't see him anymore. 'What? Where'd he go?' Shadow thought, looking around for the child.
Then, he heard the child behind him. 'Very clever, he hid behind the turn…' Shadow thought, hearing him trying to sneak away behind him. Sighing, Shadow wrapped his tail around the child's legs, lifting him up into the air. He brought his tail up around to his front so he could face the boy as he hung upside down, looking back at him with cloudy eyes. Shadow sighed and lowered the boy to the ground, laying him on his back and uncoiling his tail from around the boy's legs.
The boy quickly got up and ran to the dead end, crawling in a small indent. Shadow walked over to the indent and leaned down, so that he could see the child. The boy was sitting in the indent, legs pulled up to his chest, his chin resting on his knees. His side was to Shadow, and Shadow couldn't see the odd red marking on his cheek from where he was.
Shadow growled and cocked his head at the shaking human, nosing his shoulder lightly in an attempt to comfort him. The boy sniffed and closed his eyes, tensing his body, almost like he was expecting him to attack. Shadow purred quietly, gently licking the tears from his face. At that the child's eyes opened, now a little brighter and clearer. Shadow smiled and snorted excitedly, happy that he had finally gotten the child to stop crying. The boy looked at him strangely, but wouldn't move out from the indent.
'I need to show him I really am not going to hurt him…'
Raven hid in the indent, just trying to get away from huge Organoid. He heard it walking over to him, so he pulled his legs up against his chest and rested his chin on his knees, tears still streaming down his face. The Organoid had terrified him when it roared, and now he was just trying to hide from it.
A sudden growl from the Organoid right beside him made him jump slightly. Raven saw the Organoid lean down to him, and he felt its smooth nose push slightly into his upper arm. Raven closed his eyes and tensed, expecting to feel the Organoid's teeth biting into him at any moment. The Organoid made a noise like a purr, and then it licked his face.
Raven opened his eyes, surprised that the Organoid hadn't attacked. He looked at the Organoid strangely, and was surprised to see it almost smile. It snorted suddenly, ruffling his black hair. Raven blinked and rubbed his eyes, trying to clear his blurry vision, cloudy from crying, and clean away the tears.
The Organoid growled again and nuzzled his shoulder, making a strange, almost cooing noise, before lifting its head away. Raven looked up at the Organoid, confused on why it was being almost gentle. The Organoid looked down at him, smiling and wagging its tail back and forth. Raven had to hold in a chuckle, for the big Organoid was acting more like a friendly puppy than a bloodthirsty Zoid. The Organoid leaned down again, lightly nosing his side, causing Raven to laugh, for it tickled.
The Organoid made an almost purring noise and flopped down on its side, rolling onto its back like a dog, wagging its tail and pawing the air with its back leg. Raven couldn't help but laugh at the Organoid, for it looked like a harmless puppy.
Before he could stop himself, Raven reached out and laid his hand on the Organoid's chin, and ran his hand up and down its jaw, scratching it like one would a cat. The Organoid closed its eyes and wagged its tail harder, purring loudly and raking the air with its back claws. Raven started to laugh, for the Organoid looked like it couldn't hurt a fly, and the only danger it posed was to lick him to death.
'Maybe I was wrong… maybe he isn't going to hurt me…' Raven thought, smiling at the comical Organoid. As soon as he stopped scratching, the Organoid's eyes flashed open and it rolled back onto its stomach, still looking at him. It cocked its head, nosing him curiously, as if it wanted him to come out. Raven laughed, for the Organoid touched his ticklish side, and it looked comical.
"Do you want me to come out?" Raven asked the Organoid, knowing that he wouldn't get a response. He was surprised when the Organoid nodded and stood up, giving him room to get out. Raven did as he said and crawled out, a little unnerved by the Organoid's presence, but not terrified, as he had been earlier. He stood up and brushed himself off, and jumped slightly when the Organoid nudged his shoulder.
The Organoid started purring again and nuzzled his shoulder, rubbing the side of its snout against him, like a cat would. Raven couldn't help but chuckle, and he reached up and laid his hand on the Organoid's smooth snout. It growled softly and licked his face, and then nuzzled his shoulder again. He laughed again, and rubbed the Organoid's reptilian crest. The Organoid purred louder, and pushed its snout gently against his chest. A sudden flash off to the Organoid's right caught his attention, but he was more preoccupied with the black Organoid in front of him.
Suddenly, the air was split with a deafening crack of thunder. Raven screamed and hugged the Organoid's snout, squeezing it like his life depended on it, eyes shut tightly. The Organoid didn't pull away or shake him off like he had expected, instead it just stood there, letting him hang on to its snout. Another loud crash made him whimper in fear, and hug the Organoid's snout tighter. The Organoid purred softly, but its purr faded to a low growl as a cloud burst, dumping rain on them.
Raven felt tears forming in his eyes and leak out, but he was too scared at the moment to do anything besides cling to the Organoid. The Organoid snorted, and Raven felt it pull its snout from his grasp. Another crash of thunder made him jump, and he grabbed the Organoid again, this time wrapping his arms tightly around the Organoid's neck, eyes still closed. The Organoid obviously didn't expect this, for it grunted in surprise and froze, but again didn't push him away.
The Organoid growled softly and pulled his neck from Raven's grip. Raven was drenched with cold rain, and he knew if he didn't get out of it soon he was going to get sick. Suddenly, he realized that he didn't feel anymore rain soaking him. He opened his eyes and looked up, but all he saw was red. It took him a moment to realize that the red was the underside of the Organoid's wing, and that it was shielding him from the cold pounding drops.
"Thank you…" Raven said quietly, his voice strained from crying and from the desert air. The Organoid nodded and lowered its head to his level, licking his face again. Raven chuckled and hugged the Organoid's snout again, closing his eyes and sighing.
'Maybe getting lost wasn't so bad…'
.:End of Lost:.
AN- Ahh… wasn't that cute? ;) Lol. I really like this fic, it's one of my all-time favorites. What did you guys think? I was thinking of continuing it, what do you think? Should I continue it, or leave it a one-shot? It's up to you. Lol. Please review guys!! I accept anonymous reviews, and will reply to all anonymous reviews in my profile!! Again, as always, all flamers will be fed to Leiden and Geier!! If you value your life, don't flame. ;) Lol. Normal, nice reviewers, no need to worry, you're safe from Leiden and Geier. XD Lol. Now please review, I want to know how I did!! ;P
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