Once Wumbo has gone outside he fiddled with his flashlight as he walked around the back of the house.
It was pretty early, with the sun still coming up.
He stopped at the beggining of a small manmade pathway at the entrence of the forest and hit the flashlight against his palm a few times.
"Great, must be out of batteries" Wumbo mumbled as he put it in his jacket pocket, hand still loosely grasped over it.
The scout started into the forest path, thanks to traversing this path a few times before he got to the small clearing at the end in just a few minutes.
In this clearing in the forest sat a decently sized camp site, this was the camp site the friends used when they wanted to either camp or drop by for screwing around by drawing pictures in the dirt or cooking things on a open fire.
Birds could be heard occasionally chirping in the lively forest.
There was 3 tents to the left and a open fireplace slightly to the right of them.
"Yo?" Wumbo called as he slowly walked twards the tents.
No response.
"Are you in there?" Wumbo called again as he started to check the tents.
First tent...
2 sleeping bags and a lantern...
Second tent...
2 sleeping bags and a lantern...
Third tent...
1 sleeping bag and a lantern...
The third tent was a solo tent, so this was normal.
Wumbo crawled back out of the third tent and gave a stumped sigh.
'I just don't get it' Wumbo thought while he walked over to the grassless dirt over to the right side of the camp.
Wumbo grabbed a stick and started drawing random things in the dirt to pass the time.
After about 7 minutes passed and the sun was fully up.
Wumbo just noticed a patch of compact dirt on the ground thanks to the extra light causing the dirts features to be more easilly seen.
He took his hand and felt how compacted it is, now knowing that it wasn't his eyes playing tricks on him.
Sure enough it was some kind of footprint he couldn't identify.
Wumbo was very perplexed at this and looked where it was pointing to, deeper in the forest where no manmade pathway was.
'Damnit, did something come by in search of food or did someone that was lost stumble onto here' Wumbo started brainstorming.
'Either way i have to see who it is' He confessed to himself, not wanting to go incase he got lost.
It was pretty dark in the forest considering it was morning.
Wumbo took out his flashlight and banged it against his leg to make it turn on, though it wasnt very bright.
He started into the general direction the footprint was, holding his breath and kept his right hand close to the pocket the pistol was in.
The pistol only had 1 clip in it because it normally isn't needed or even fired.
Wumbo stumbled into a really small clearing with clothes on the ground about 2 minutes into walking into the currently unknown part of the forest.
Wumbo bent down and saw black sweat pants, a white T-shirt and some boots.
It hit Wumbo like a payload blast once he noticed this was Lasor's boots and his normal attire.
Instantly, Wumbo jumped to his feet and drew his pistol looking around the now seemingly clostrophobic clearing, knowing very well that the thing that is the cause of his friend's dissapearence could be lurking around for its next victim.
Suddenly, a ton of birds flew into the sky after a ruffle from a tree.
Something moved and was moving fast.
Wumbo knowing he had to stop this THING from hurting anyone else then instantly dashed after it in an adrenaline fueled sprint.
He dropped the now dead flashlight and dashed after whatever this thing was into the unknown part of the forest gracefully moving through the rugged terrain of rocks and close together trees.
After a while the beast began to outrun Wumbo's speed due to there being too much stuff on the ground slowing Wumbo down.
Still running Wumbo fired a single shot into the trees, startling the beast.
The beast fell onto the ground just outside Wumbo's view, still running at around its top speed.
Then they came to the rocky wall of a mountain side, unable to climb it.
"I got you no-" Wumbo screamed before the beast used its momentum to bounce off the earth wall right back into Wumbo, aiming for center of mass.
Wumbo attemped to dodge and only got cut by one of its claws on his left arm.
Wumbo fell on his butt and caught his breath seeing the thing run into the safety of the shady forest.
Wumbo was bleeding pretty heavilly due to his heart racing from the running and the suprise the furred beast gave him.
He knew he would bleed out never to be found again if he diddn't head back to the camp, so he started slowly walking back to the camp trying to steady his heart rate and making sure not to move his left arm.
During the excruciating long bloody walk back to the camp he grabbed the dead flashlight.
After the torture of the walk he was able to rest his damaged body, he went a little overboard with the running and he is all flustered from everything that had just happened.
He used leaves to help stop the bleeding aswell the cold of the metal of one of the lanterns in the tents.
His concousness faded and he passed out, he is bleeding way less now...
Cody and Sam were on the couch watching TV.
Cody now had a big red shirt and work pants on.
Cody spoke.
"Wumbo has been gone for a while."
"He is probably just playing with Lasor at the camp." Sam answered
"You know what, i'm going to go check on them." Cody said, a bit worried
"Be my guest" Sam said as he sat on the couch armrest to armrest when cody got up.
7 to 9 minutes later Cody entered the camp to find wumbo slouched to one way and a bleeding arm with blooded leaves and a lantern.
Cody immediately noticed the bloodstains everywhere and quickly picked up Wumbo and sprinted back to the house in a messely 5 minutes.
When Cody came hrough the door Sam saw Wumbo and said "JESUS CHRIST, what happened?"
"MOVE" Cody shouted as sam jumped from the couch.
Cody layed Wumbo down on the couch as he ordered Sam to get a cold wet sponge and a giant bandaid patch.
Sam came back with the supplies a minute later.
"Is he going to be OK?" Sam asked
"I don't know, don't ask." Cody said panicing as he started to get to work...
Wumbo awoke feeling like shit on the couch about an hour and a half later.
"He's awake" Sam yelled.
Cody came rushing in and helped wumbo sit upright on the couch.
Wumbo's senses came back to him as he noticed he was home and his arm was tingly and hurt like hell.
"My arm is killing me..." Wumbo muttered
"No wonder, i found you passed out at the camp with a gash in your arm" Cody informed Wumbo
"Get some sleep in your bed for now." Sam told him
Cody grabbed wumbo and carried him into his bed now that they know he was alive.
Sam called Wumbo in sick for work for the week untill he recovered.
Wumbo slept most of the day and woke up the next morning feeling slightly better now that his body has recovered its energy.
"NGHH" he made a sound as he tried to prop himself up with the arm with the gash, forgetting about it at the time.
He dragged himself into the living room where Sam, Cody and Lasor was, overjoyed to see that their friend was ok.
They cheered once he entered the room.
Wumbo's eyes widened at the fact Lasor was here.
"Just where the hell have you been?" Wumbo tried to scream
"You need to lay down?" Cody asked
"I'm fine." Wumbo said
Sam moved to sit on the carpet infront of the couch to let wumbo sit down.
"I have been out and about town." Lasor replied
"I even came back with groceries." He continued
"But away for so long?" Wumbo asked
"Time flies when you're having fun, i guess." Lasor said, giggling.
Wumbo accepted this because he just went through alot and diddn't feel like argueing.
They sat, bullshitted, and had fun around the TV till after a few hours Frozn the Scout broke in the front door.
Frozn had shiny glasses with white hair and was wearing big reflective glasses.
"Guess who's back?" Frozn said exitedly
"AYYYYY" Screamed cody
"Joy." Said Sam
"WOOP" Lasor threw his arms into the air.
"Oh hi." Wumbo said weakly
"Shit, what happened to you?" Frozn said in suprise to the big bandage on Wumbo's left arm
Sam, Cody, Lasor and Wumbo stared at eachother akwardly, not wanting to bring it up right now.
"We'll tell you later" Sam said
"ok..." Frozn said
And everything was as it should be in the house.