Requiem of Earth
Chapter 2: Burning Sensation
Author: Next chapter is here owo I have to say I've had this fan fiction on my mind lately, guess it's a good thing that I'm back into the groove of fan fiction now x3~
Disclaimer: I do not own or claim ownership to any of the characters from 'Rango' and only have ownership to my own characters and plotline.
The agonizing hours of just sitting there and staring at the snake was the hardest thing Evelyn had done in her entire life. Not only did she have to keep herself still while her arm tissue was slowly being eaten away but she had to keep her composure since every second was either her having temporary blindness, dizziness or a wave of nausea going through her senses. Not to mention her arm was tingling and shaking, causing her to use her other hand to keep it still, all while her eyes were trained on the rattler.
Frankly she should have seen this coming, even though she had injected herself with small amounts of various venom through her mid-teens to now the venom from a Western Diamondback was affecting her more than she thought it would. She really hoped that her body would be able to hold out on the large dosage and prove victorious and then proceeding to rub it in the outlaw's face. Though as she struggled she could tell he was smirking with amusement, watching and waiting for her to scream out loud from the pain.
"If you're waiting for me to start... moaning in... agony or something, you'll be... disappointed" she said with a grunt as she kept one eye on him. He only chuckled at her
"I beg to differ, you look ready to roll over and die, yer face says everythin'" he told her. "So I'm sure it won't be long till I hear your wonderful screams" he started to laugh again, but it quickly turned into cough, causing blood to spill from his throat.
"Well I'm not the only one in bad shape, seems you forgot that you're pretty injured yourself" she said with a small smirk before hunching over. She could feel the contents of her stomach wanting to lurch out all over the white floor, but she made herself keep it down. It was bad for Lyn, her saliva was constantly filling up in her mouth and her vision was starting to blur. She could also feel herself running a fever as her body was fighting the venom in her.
"Better off... then you, damn... human" he said, snorting while trying not to cough anymore blood up.
"You know... if it weren't for your damn attitude you could have been treated already... but now you're just suffering cause of your own damn pride" she replied. Even in the animal world the males were very prideful and didn't want help all that often.
"I don't need a human to tell me that something is wrong about my body, that's plenty obvious" he snorted at her.
"But wouldn't you be grateful that someone would help you heal so you could get home safer than in your current condition?" she asked, looking up at the snake. She couldn't see him all that much but she knew he was in much pain as well, considering how bad his wounds looked.
"I can heal on my own just fine I don't need no help from you OR yer kind-" he said before he violently was interrupted by coughing and more liquid going from his mouth. She could hear him heaving and knew that he didn't have that much time if he kept pushing himself like he was. "Dammit... fucking... ridiculous"
"..." she looked at him, her green eyes a bit clouded as her vision blurred from the venom's influence. She could barely see him much less her own hand in front of her face as it blurred with the colors in the background. This was getting bad as she realized that the sun was low in the sky and Danny had yet to return to check on her. Knowing him he probably got so scared that he blacked out and forgot about the whole thing. That or he just overwhelmed himself with work in order to keep it back away from his mind and eventually forgetting about it, he had done both of these things at some time or another so Evelyn wouldn't doubt that it would happen.
She could see him, all of a sudden, looking at her, though at that point she couldn't tell what sort of face he was making, only that it was a negative by how he acted.
"Tch despite wanting to... see death on yer face... I need to get out of here" he coughed and she heard more splashing before she a clacking sound emitting from what was around his body, or so she assumed.
"No... you... can't leave... you stupid bastard" she said as she struggled to get out of her chair, holding on to the table so that she wouldn't completely fall over.
"Oh and what are you going to do about... it?" he asked her "You can barely stand as it is, seems my venom has already rendered your eyesight useless" he chuckled, coughing a wet cough.
"What about our bet?!" she cried before coughing herself, her body trembling from the venom weakening it. "I'm not exactly dead yet! So you can't just leave! No, you are going to stay right HERE!" she commanded, a scowl on her features. All of a sudden he got up in her face, so much so she could tell he was glaring angrily at her and hissing
"YOU human have no right to command such a thing from ME!" he yelled, clearly irritated with her stubbornness. "And there's no point in watching any further, yer already a dead woman" he sneered before lifting his metal rattler and swinging it at her head as hard as he could. It caused a hard smack against her skull and her vision was almost entirely black as she fell onto the cold tiled floor. At this point her breathing was getting shallower and her skin on her bitten arm was burning terribly in tune with the fever she already had. She coughed as vomit suddenly erupted from her stomach without warning.
"D...dam...it..." she croaked as she tried to get her weak body up, but it hardly moved and she could feel her will growing weaker and weaker by the minute. This really was a bad idea; a foolish bet for a human to make, even one such as her who had had injections of venom already.
"Pathetic" the western diamondback said, staring down at her slowly dying body "Seems yer not as strong as you thought. Serves you right" was the last thing he was heard saying before Evelyn's eyes gave in and closed, causing her to shut into unconsciousness.
She was dead. It was something he was absolutely sure of and, thus, did not need to stick around to savor in the moment. As much as he did want to see her life leave her eyes there wasn't that much time to just sit there and wait. It had already been almost five hours since they had begun their deal and she was only now starting to get affected by it. He didn't have all day, or night in this case, to sit there and watch, he had to get out of there and find a way home. Though, of course, he had to get healed first. Even if he hated to admit it the human was right, he couldn't go home with the condition he was in.
But considering it was fairly dark out he wasn't going to get anywhere in the building, especially in such an unfamiliar place. Perhaps it would have been smart to keep her around, at least until he was able to get out of the building and out on his own. Oh well, he was going to have to get out by himself before he died from blood loss.
"Shit... my vision..." Jake suddenly stopped as his eyesight started to fail him just like how the human girl's had only a while ago. He had been moving non-stop, giving little time for his battered body to heal after that sneak attack weeks ago. Even thinking about the event made the outlaw grumble in irritation, already planning his revenge plot once he saw the bastards. There was no one in the West that humiliated or jumped him and lived long to tell the tale.
"What the fuck?!" suddenly a loud human scream went from the room he was now in, which meant that his chances of escape were dwindling fast. "Why is there blood across the floor?!" the person yelled as Jake slithered as fast as he could into a corner. Though with the wounds he had he went a lot slower than he had hoped and not only did the human see his trail of blood but they saw part of him go under some equipment. "Oh great, one of the damn snakes got out again!" the man yelled before the clattering of boots went somewhere else out of the room, causing Jake to sigh with relief before cursing the human race once again.
"Humans are so stupid" he said to himself as he slowly started to come out of his hiding place, though that proved to be a mistake when suddenly there was a quicker pace of running back in the room. He had a shovel in his hands as he came to where Jake was. The snake tried his best to get back into his hiding hole, but the human and pulled him back, causing him to curse and thrash around. Though, to be frank, the human wouldn't be able to understand him and could only hear hissing and an attempt to shake a rattler that wouldn't be there to a normal human. "Let go of me you damn human!" he hissed, knowing he couldn't be heard.
"Shit you don't look good at all" he said as he put the snake on the table, making a pained hiss as blood was smeared upon the metal surface. "Look at you, it's almost impossible to help you now, especially with our vet gone" the human said. He snorted but flinched when Jake lunged at him, his fangs exposed but were dry because he had used all his venom on the human woman earlier. "For a nearly dead one you still have a kick to ya" he said before shoving the shovel in the snake's face, knocking Jake down and coughing. Blood was already starting to flow steadily from his wounded body and he was starting to feel weak and dizzy in the head.
Despite this Jake tried to move, only to find out that he could barely do anything, that his body had stopped responding because of all the blood loss. "There now" the human said in a hushed tone "Just stay calm and still, you'll be in peace soon enough" such a disgusting amount of 'care' in his tone. It was so condescending how he thought he was helping the rattlesnake by killing him. How Jake hated the race, they were all so ignorant to the world around them, even those who thought they were 'helping' them. Though right now he didn't have a choice in the matter, his body refused to move and he was getting too weak to have himself not rest. His head lifted up in time to see the human move the shovel's tip above his neck.
'Shit...' he thought to himself as he tried to wriggle, but it did next to nothing. The body only moved slightly to Jake's commands, but other than that he was completely helpless. It was so frustrating! The Grim Reaper of the West was reduced to being as helpless as an earthworm out of dirt! He growled at the thought of this he didn't want to be killed like this! Especially not by a God-forsaken human!
Just when the human was about to put the shovel down onto Jake's neck the door to the room flew open and a figure stood within its frame, breathing fairly heavily. It shocked both the human and Jake at the sudden new visitor. But that wasn't the only thing that was unexpected, then the figure rushes towards the human and punched the human in the face, knocking him out instantly. When that annoying human was knocked out Jake looked up and his eyes widened when he realized that it was that human girl from earlier, the one he was SURE she was as good as dead.
"How the-" he was about to say before she shushed him. If this was any other time he would have snapped at her but right now he was going in and out of consciousness, the blood loss finally getting to his brain and the rest of this senses. The last thing he remembered before going black was him getting gently scooped up into some sort of towel or cloth and put inside a brown something that provided warmth and enough comfort for him to get completely knocked out.
The drive home was crazy, so rushed and quick it had to be in order to sustain the snake's life. Evelyn knew she had a limited time now that the animal was passed out from blood loss. But another tricky part was not only getting home and treating him before he died from blood loss, but also making sure that she didn't wake her mother up. It was risky, but Lyn had to do it or else she'd lose him.
So once she got into the drive way Lyn grabbed the bag and medical supplies she had taken from the zoo's clinic and hurried into her home. She made sure the click to inside the home was as quiet as possible and that she took her shoes off so that only her sock would go against the floor. She tip toed with the bag to her chest, lightly using her fingertips to feel the snake and make sure that he was still breathing. Thankfully he was and there wasn't a wetness so the blood wasn't seeping through the towel, so that meant that he had stopped bleeding... hopefully.
'One of the few times I'm thankful my mother lives on the opposite side of the house from the kitchen, no way in hell she'd hear me' she thought to herself as she put her supplies and bag on the counter before getting a shallow pan and filling it with water that was luke warm so not to irritate him. Once everything was ready and the supplies she carefully lifted Jake out of the bag, not really afraid that he'd bite her since he was probably still unconscious and even if he wasn't he wouldn't have the strength or venom to seriously harm her.
Once lying the towel on the table Evelyn carefully moved his body onto it before her hands carefully started to take his things off. It was a bit difficult to get the strap of bullets from his midsection, but she managed to get them off before putting them aside carefully. Lyn was going to go for the gun on his tail, but her hand stopped as it hung over the metal, her min contemplating on if she really wanted to try and take it off. In the end she withdrew her hand, figuring that it would be too much trouble and she didn't even know how to remove it anyway. So she left it alone and just took off the remaining piece of clothing on the snake, his hat, which made him almost seem bald without it for some reason since it fit him so well.
"Ugh..." a moan came from his lips at the removal of the hat, but he didn't truly begin to stir until he was put into the water. As Lyn started to use a cloth to wipe at the wound on his body the outlaw lifted his head slightly, his clouded eyes trying to focus on who it was that was treating him. When he could finally manage to see who it was he was only able to say one word in a pained whisper "...Why..."
"Well that's a good question there, you see" she said nonchalantly as she cleaned him up "I probably should have left you to die, I mean you were a real ass to me, hitting me over with your metal rattler and leaving me to die despite our deal" she sighed. "But I am a woman of my word, I promised that if I lived through your venom I'd help you and so here I am, cleaning up your body" such a simple explanation, though she guessed that the snake probably didn't get much help, considering how he acted she wouldn't be surprised if no one would want to help him out.
He didn't say anything for the remainder of the cleaning, hell he didn't even make a sound as she injected with him with antibiotics via syringe, which made her very surprised but glad. Afterwards she bandaged him up before cleaning up the area where he was treated, making sure everything was bleached and clear of all evidence. Once that was completed she got a new towel and put the snake on top of it before putting his hat and belt into the bag and proceeding to take everything she brought with her into her room. Once in there she got down to cupboards on the bottom of her L-shaped countertop and slid one of them open. There she spread the towel comfortably around it so he wouldn't be disturbed before putting his belongings next to his body.
"You'll be sleeping in here for now, it's the safest place in the house since my mother doesn't snoop around my room" she said softly. He seemed to only grumble in response, not having the energy to form any sort of words towards her. She put her hand lightly on his head as a gesture of reassurance "Get some rest, you really need it" she said before she slid the door till a crack was open to give him fresh air and a small view.
The only thing left now was to go to the cupboard next to it and put both her bag and the borrowed medical supplies within it. She was going to have to return the supplies to the zoo somehow, but for right now sleep was needed, she could worry about the details in the morning.
Evelyn knew it was going to be trouble trying to keep the snake alive and bring him home, but it was going to be worth... at least it'd better be or else she was going to be seriously pissed off.
Author: Hey guys, sorry for not putting this section on the last chapter, kinda forgot owo;; anyway I'm glad that people do like this story. I think its a great revamp of the last one even though its pretty much almost a completely different one. There are some same elements that are going to be transferred from the other series but other than that its entirely new. I don't really know if I'll keep doing chapters for Curse of the Awakened, I mean I would love to but this fan fiction has kinda taken over inspiration wise xD I also know its gonna be incredibly long, or at least longer than Curse of the Snake Demons.
