"What the actual fuck Karkat!" Gamzee growled, scowling at with the troll laid up against the tree. Karkat groggily lifted up his head, rubbing his eyes as his vision wavered and quivered to readjust to the bright light. "Sollux get your ass over here!" Gamzee barked, slamming his fists into the tree, mere centimeters above the horns of Karkat. Karkat flinched, yelping slightly as his lisped friend stomped his way over to the pair. "Nothing much wath tholen, just a bit of food and water. Perhapth a native? Didn't even know they were thill around." Sollux said, mainly to himself, pondering the thought. Gamzee growled louder, hitting his hands harder against the tree. Karkat yelped again, twitching more. "This son of a bitch could have ruined this whole job! And you're fucking worried about who stole the food?!" Gamzee shook his head, walking away from the two, mumbling to himself.

Sollux shook his head, staring at Karkat. "I'm so sorry Sollux, but nothing bad really happe-" "Fuck off KK." And with that, Sollux followed Gamzee's path. Karkat sighed, watching Sollux vanish from his sights.

He stood up, stretching his sore muscles. His eyes scanned his surroundings, and quickly passing over a pair of soft, green eyes. He reverted his gaze back to the area he saw them, and shook his head in disbelief as he saw that the eyes were no longer there. His legs moved toward the camp, but it appeared Karkat left his head at that tree. Was that just an animal? Or was it a person? Karkat's head swirled at the thought of the eyes.

They were the first soft, nonthreatening eyes he had seen in awhile. Gamzee was gun crazy the past few days, nearly killing Karkat over calling him a "Fucking unintelligent Fuckface." And Sollux, Sollux didn't even look at him anymore really. If they talked it was a series of curses and insults to one another, usually resulting in Karkat's body being littered with bruises from both the Gemini and the Capricorn. He shuddered as he came closer to the camp. Gamzee and Sollux had gotten to be such strict, hard asses with Karkat about this mission. What exactly made this one so important? Why did they bring him along? Was there an ulterior motive? Karkat reeled at those thoughts, flinching as he heard a gun go off, then ran full speed to see if Sollux was alright. Funny how his brain automatically assumed that Sollux was the one hurt. Somewhere deep inside of him he knew Gamzee was a dangerous, loose cannon. Even if he didn't want to acknowledge it just yet.

The minute Karkat arrived, he yelped at what he saw. There, bleeding muddy yellow blood, was Sollux, with a gun shot straight through the stomach. And also there, stood the Purple Blood, holding a smoking gun.