DC: Hey ppl, im back! THis is my first GW fic so please read and review. Id love some constructive criticism. ENJOY!
"What could go wrong?" James said to his friends. As soon as the words left his mouth, there was a bright flash of light.
"Where the hell are we?"
A panicked teen-age boy with a buzz cut ran around the field. He was muscular and probably only 5'7". He had an oval face with brown eyes. He wore a simple pair of blue jeans and a red t-shirt with a black belt.
"Dude, chillamin. Just enjoy the beautiful scenery for a minute." Another teenage boy said from his seat on the ground. He was darker skinned and husky looking. He was 5'5", with a short fade style hair cut and brown eyes. He wore cargo jeans; dark gray t-shirt and a vest. The vest was once the top part of a camo uniform, and after cutting off the selves and buttons; as well as adding pockets to the inside, he calls it custom awesome.
The field the group found themselves in was indeed beautiful. It was big. Various flowers they had never seen before bloomed in the tall grass and swayed in the afternoon breeze. There was what they would guess was a body of water to the south and mountains rose to the east and north just beyond the tree line. Crisp white clouds brushed an endless blue sky. It was truly a sight to behold. The sound of distant water, wind and grass added further to the ambiance. It was a peaceful place…till Curt started to scream again.
"No, James, I can't 'chill a minute' when we don't know where the fuck we are! One minute we're at the hotel and then *poof* we're here…We need to think of something." the other boy screamed at his darker skinned friend.
"Yeah well, what good is that going to do us? Planning fails, especially when I'm involved…" James stated recalling multiple occasions where his plans are ruined by events beyond his control.
"We could think of where we are, where we need to go, how to get home. How did we even get here in the first place?"
"An awesome explosion of awesomeness." James commented.
Curt rolled his eyes and let out a rather loud sigh, almost a roar of frustration.
"Really?" said a brunette teenage girl from beside a taller, third teenage boy. The girl had long drown hair down to her mid back with blond and red highlights. She was shorter than the boys, only 5'5" and she wore a pair of torn blue jeans, worn tennis shoes, and a darker blue tank top with a white opened button up shirt over it.
"Yes, really."
"Yeah, didn't you know? James is just THAT awesome." Said the taller boy.
Zac, the taller boy, who was garbed in gray jeans and a black button up shirt with flames on it, laughed at the girl, also rolling her brown eyes. Zac was taller than the others being 6'2". He wasn't skinny but he was thinner than average. He had short curly brown hair also with blond and red highlights in it and lighter brown eyes.
"That's what happens when two forces of epic awesomeness come within close proximity of each other." James started, smile creeping across his face "Me and my awesome aura of awesomeness-
"Can we PLEASE just get the heck out of here?" Curt interrupted, his frustrated look deepening at his friend's sarcasm. His temper was getting away from him again he shouted then turning to the girl he asked "Don't you agree Jaime?"
The girl just looked at him, arms crossed. "Actually, I have to agree with James. We need to chill a minute THEN figure this out, running around like a chicken with our heads cut off isn't helping us."
"Come on! Zac?"
Zac said nothing and just stood there gazing up at the sky. Curt then let out a roar of frustration. "Ok then, just to humor you guys, what do you suppose we do, OTHER than just sit and enjoy the scenery?" Curt asked glaring at James.
Jaime ran a hand through her hair and pondered a minute. She looked around trying to figure out which way was north and east and so on. She figured if they could find a town, they could find out where to go. "How about we find a town?"
"How do we do that when we don't know where one is?"
"Here's what we will do." James said leaping up from the ground "We will walk a general THAT direction," James announced pointing towards the mountains. "Till we find something, and then go from there." He shrugged "can't lay a plan in stone this early in the game, specially with my luck" he added as he started to stretch.
"So you want us to just up and go without an idea of where we're going?"
"No, James said that way." Zac smartly replied pointing to the mountains.
"Well maybe more of that way' James said as he corrected his aim towards the forest "Cuz walking that far a distance in the open just doesn't seem safe to me."
"No offence James, but I'd rather walk in the open and see whats coming at me rather than walking into the woods and not seeing what attacking us." Jaime stated.
"Either way, we will have to walk through the woods. We are surrounded by it." Zac said bluntly.
"What I'm saying is if we hang round the treeline we wont have to travel in the open for whoever or whatever to see us, but at the same time we wont really be in the forest so we wouldn't not be able to see." James explained.
"That makes sense I guess." Zac agreed after a few seconds of thought
"Well we can't just up and walk THAT way. We don't know what's in that direction and we totally unprepared for what it may be." Curt argued to the others.
Jaime rolled her eyes. "And I'm sure YOU know where we can get supplies? Yeah, we don't know whats up there but we wont know till we get there, Maybe there is a town up that way or maybe it's a slave camp, we don't know." she retorted.
"Its kinda old to have slave camps around anymore isn't it?" Zac asked. Jaime just looked at him with a look that said 'no shit'. Curt opened his mouth to retaliate but fell silent.
Jaime sighed "All in all ,I agree with James, we should find a town. Like I said, we don't know where one is till we just head out and find one. Id say the mountains are our best bet cause we can see where a town may be from that height." She reasoned, taking charge of the situation. Looking back at James she saw a smirk for an instant on his face as he nodded.
"Sounds good to me then." Zac stated.
"Then lets go." James said as he began walking followed by Jaime and Zac.
Curt shook his head before following his friends. He just couldn't win this one. The group of four began to make their way to the forest and then to the mountains. "This still doesn't answer my other question. Where the fuck are we?"
"How the hell are we supposed to know, dude." Zac said.
"Question: did anyone bring camping supplies?" Jaime laughed. "Cause its going to be a LONG time before we reach those mountains."
" Oh sure," James began with a serious look on his face, " let me just dig in my bottomless pocket of holding and pull out my emergency camping supplies." If it weren't for his overly sarcastic voice one would've thought him serious.
After what felt like hours, the sun was setting low on the horizon when the group finally reached the edge of the forest. Already it was starting to get cold as the mountain cast a huge shadow across the valley behind them. The group looked into the now dark forest then back at each other.
"Not it." Zac, Jaime, and James said all at once.
"What?" Curt said in a confused tone.
"Its dark out so its probably a good idea to set up camp. Last one to call 'not it' finds firewood." Jaime said, laughing insidely to herself.
"Guess who pulled the short straw?" Zac laughed.
"Hey, THAT isnt fair. I didn't know that you guys were going to do that."
"We didn't either." James shrugged " Just how it happened. Don't feel bad though, Zac's gonna help you while me and Jaime make gigantic skewering devices." he finished bursting into laughter.
"Say what now?" Zac replied as Curt laughed at him.
"Well, seeing as how we have the knives" James stated, pulling out his folding blade and Jaime pulled hers from a clip on the side of her pants. "and your gonna wanna see in the dark, Zac does have his lighter, you know. See how much sense I make sometimes?"
"How are we supposed to get wood then? We don't have axes."
"Pick it off the ground, dumbass. Grab some fallen limbs, dried up old log, anything that can burn." Jaime answered.
Without saying another word, Zac pulled out his lighter and he and Curt headed into the woods to find something to build a fire with. They didn't go to far so as still to see the others in the edge of the wood. Jaime and James cleared a small area just inside the treeline out of the wind for the fire. After a clear area was made for them, James went to one of the trees and pulled down one of the straighter branches. It took a minute to come down but a few good hard tugs dropped it and James from the tree and landing hard on the ground.
" Ow."
It wasn't long before Zac and Curt arrived back with arms full of old logs and leafy branches. James, who was now carving the wood he had pulled down, had placed all the much smaller and leafier twigs and branches from his branch into a pile in the center of the area. Curt threw his load down into the pile and Zac placed his off to the side. Zac came over and tried to light the smaller twigs underneath but they wouldn't catch. After another few minutes more of this, Jaime ran out to the field and grabbed a handful of the tall, dry grass and brought it back to Zac. After stuffing that into a crevice of a log and trying again, it finally caught fire. The group huddled around the warm flames while James still whittled away at the branch in his hands.
"What are you making James?" Curt asked.
"Well I'm not making a branch." he said in a hysterical laugh. "but seriously I'm making a gigantic skewering device. You know, one where you impale objects with," He held the bare stick, a good three feet long and thick as a couple fingers, in his hand in front of him testing the balance. " I don't know about you, but I'm not gonna fistfight a wild animal." He continued whittling away at the stick.
"I'm good with my knife." Jaime said.
"Well, I don't know about you, but I'm getting some sleep." Curt said bluntly.
"Not it." James randomly blurted.
"Not it." Zac and Jaime followed
"Let me guess…" Curt sighed. "Night watch?"
"Damn right." James said darkly, tossing his half finished spear over to Curt. "Don't break it."
DC: Just so everyone knows, this is my first GW story and is not only written by me but by 2 other ppl as well so it may take a while to update. Also, I am going to be revising and reposting my saiyuki story in the near future so keep a look out.
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