I have no idea how long this story is going to be… I'll see it when my ideas run out xD

Do any of you have any ideas of situations you want to see Mello, Near and Matt in when they are in the forest? I have no idea myself in which part of the world they are exactly… a fictional like forest most likely, but I'd like to think it looks a bit like Alaska :)

By the way: /\/\/\/\ means time skip.


Chapter 2: Follow the smoke

It seemed like forever, but finally Mello reached the ground. He had managed to land between the big trees so his wouldn't get stuck in one with his parachute.
Although they were safely on the ground again, Near still wouldn't let go and hugged Mello tightly with his face hidden in his chest.

'Near, you can let go of me now,' Mello grumbled.

The pale boy slowly removed his arms and he blinked a few times. 'It actually worked? We're safe on the ground?'

'No, we're dead and this is certainly hell 'cause I still see you!' Mello sneered. 'Of course, we're safe on the ground!'

'WHAT DO YOU MEAN SAFE ON THE GROUND?!' a yell came from somewhere.

Mello recognized Matt's voice and looked for his friend that had landed first.

'Get me down! I'm up here!'

Mello and Near raised their heads only to see Matt's red hair very clearly against the green of the tree… he apparently got stuck in because of his parachute.

He sighed and started climbing up the tree where Matt was in to get him down.

It's a good thing I always climbed the trees back at Wammy's when I hid from Roger…

'Matt, how the hell did you manage to get stuck in here?' He had finally reached his friend.

'It's not like I jump, no wait, get pushed out of a plane every day and have to make my way down with a parachute,' Matt said slightly irritated.

'Well I haven't done it before too, but I still landed perfectly.'

Mello snickered when he heard Matt grumble something under his breath and continued to help him with unfastening the backpack part of the parachute. When he was freed of the thing Mello helped him to get a good grip on the tree so he could climb down.

'Thanks,' Matt muttered when his feet reached the ground safely. Mello knew helping him get out the tree wasn't the only reason he said thank you. The redhead didn't liked getting pushed out of the plane, but it did safe them.

He began to climb down to the ground when had an idea. He stopped climbing down and went up higher in the tree instead.

'Hey, what are you doing?' Matt asked. 'The ground is the other way, you know!'

'I'm gonna try to climb to the top of the tree. Maybe I can see a small village from there,' he answered and he climbed further without more explanation.

The trees here were certainly larger and much higher than the trees at Wammy House, but his condition was good so he managed to reach the top without using all of his energy. That was good news, because he had to make his way down to the ground after this too.

When he finally reached the top he had a far overview over the forest that seemed to go as far as he could see. Mello turned his view around to search for anything or anyone that they could go to for help. There were no such things, but he saw from very very far away a big smoke cloud. The smoke had an almost black colour and was obviously from a large fire that still burned. The only thing what could cause a fire that big could only be the plane that had crashed down. Above the smoke cloud stood the sun. Mello could see the sun was already going down in a sunset so that would mean they had to walk to the west.

If there are any people out there that could help us it's where the plane is. People will go and look what happened when they saw a smoke cloud that big. Otherwise people of the airline company they flew with would pretty much know where the plane crashed, right?

Satisfied with his plan he started to make his way down. Matt and Near waited for him and wanted to ask him about what he saw, but they waited until he reached the ground before letting the curiosity win.

'And?' Matt asked curiously. 'Did you see something?'

Mello nodded. 'I saw an enormous some cloud to the west. It just has to be the plane we jumped out. If we walk over there it's most likely to run into people who could help us as I couldn't see any other sign of life for as far I could look.

'How far away was the smoke cloud you saw?' Near asked quietly.

Mello wanted to say something insulting back as he always did to the albino boy, but he gave a normal answer instead. 'It was pretty far away, but it's our only option for now.'

Near simply nodded that he understood.

I'm stuck with him anyway for some time. I'll have to talk to the little twit if I like it or not.

'Oh man…' Matt whined. 'We really have to walk that far?'

Mello punched his friend. 'Quit your whining. Do you want to return home to your games or not?'

This seemed to get the attention of the redheaded gamer as his eyes widened in realisation that he had no gaming device whatsoever with him. 'Let's go then and get the fuck outta here!'

Matt started walking in some direction, but Near stopped him. 'Matt, it would be better if we started walking tomorrow. The sun is already going down so it will be dark soon and we haven't got any light source to see our way through the forest.' He turned to Mello. 'Right?'

He actually didn't want to admit it, but Near was right. It would be better to start when the sun came up again.

'… You're right. We'll start walking tomorrow.'

/\/\/\/\

I have no idea in which part of the world we are now, but it's freezing at night apparently!

The sun went down not long after they decided to stay where they were. They hadn't made a fire and only made a bed of fallen leaves. When the sun disappeared it got colder every minute until it was shivering cold. They all had only their jackets on with a simple shirt so their clothes didn't provide much warmth.

'T-this suck-ks,' Mello shivered. 'Where d-did the warmt-th from earlier g-go?'

'Y-you know…' Matt began. 'We could cuddle t-together… that helps I t-think. I think I s-saw that on TV once.'

Mello's eyes narrowed when he thought about the idea of cuddling together… including Near.

'N-no, I'll r-rather freeze!'

'I'm f-fine with it,' Near said.

So without any more being said Matt and Near went to lay next to each other cuddled up while he lay shivering on his own.

Matt shot him a glance. 'Mels, just d-deal with it. You jumped out of a plane today. I think you could do this to k-keep warm too.'

Matt stuttered already noticeably less and Near had his eyes closed as he tried to sleep now he was much warmer and less shivering.

It took him a moment and one big shiver to crawl over to Matt's side and forget his stubbornness.

At least I'm lying next to Matt… It could be worse…

And so after a while he fell asleep too.


I noticed I write my stories in a certain way. I take a character (like Mello) and write what he sees and does in third POV with in between his thoughts in first POV. I wonder if this way of writing is easy to read?