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The autumn air was crisp and cool, the sun had just rose over the horizon and the birds were chirping away. The small family awoke to a peaceful morning, the fire had died off sometime last night and black ash was the only thing left.
"Good morning everyone," Oona sat up, "How did everyone sleep?"
"Pretty good, well as good as sleeping on the ground goes," Nonny answered.
"What about you kidos?" The ginger asked.
The children sat up Rini was the first to speak, "I slept good Dad,"
"What about you Kyo?" Rini poked her brother.
"Alright I guess...I think I was laying on a rock the whole night," Kyo said.
"Aww, my poor baby," Oona was all mushy on Kyouhei.
"Mom, I'm fine, I was just a little rock."
"Ok Kyo, what was on that to-do-list of are's?" His father asked.
"Find better food, see if yours and Moms legs are better and if not, find some way that you can move around, explore the creek down the hill and start building a better shelter."
"Ok...lets start with seeing the condition of me and your Mom,"
Kyouhei took off the splints he made for his parents and helped them stand, Oona was perfectly fine, Nonny...not so much, he had to sit (well sort of fall) back down on the ground quickly.
"How's your ankle babe?" Nonny asked his wife.
"It feels fine now," she moved it around a little, "I can move it without pain."
"That's great Oona," Nonny was happy she was not injured any more.
"You must've just twisted it," Kyouhei stated.
"Yep, now I can help you guys with whatever now."
"Ok, now we need to figure out how we can make Dad mobile," Kyo said.
"It's ok son, don't worry about that now, just do the important things," Nonny stated.
"Ok Dad...so now what should we work on, building shelter, find better food or explore the creek," Kyouhei's stomach growled, "I say food."
"Ok where should we start?" Oona asked.
"We should prepare traps for little things like squirrels and rabbits and big things like deer."
"I don't want to eat a cute little rabbit or squirrel Kyo," Rini sadly exclaimed.
"Well you'll have to if you want to eat, you can sit in the shelter while I prepare whatever we catch, so you won't have to see it," Kyouhei patted his sister on the shoulder, "Ok?"
"Yeah, that's ok," she gave him a big hug.
"Alright, lets go make some traps!" Oona yelled.
The kids looked at her and just shook their heads at her over enthusiasm. They gathered the materials, little sticks, rocks, some rope they found in the car, now all they needed was some bait. Kyouhei thought for a moment, "We can set up our deer trap along a game trail where they'll just have to step in it and the rope will catch and hang them from the tree branch," he continued, "But we need some bait for the little animals, hmmm..."
"What about some acorn paste?" Nonny suggested.
"Acorn paste?" Oona and Rini asked in unison.
"Yep, acorn paste, you take a couple of acorns, crush them up and add a little water and voila, you got acorn paste, great idea dad," Kyouhei exclaimed.
After making some acorn paste, Kyouhei starting laying the traps. He put the large animal snag on the game trail he'd found, the little traps he put near trees, under bushes and other places where little critters might be.
"How does the little traps work Kyo?" Oona asked.
"Do you really want to know?"
"Yeah, I can take it, I'm just curious."
"Ok, I prop this rock up on this stick so it's stands up, then I put some acorn paste on the stick and when the little rabbit or squirrel comes and licks it...Boom! The rock falls and we have a small meal," Kyouhei stated.
"Oh, that's a good idea," Oona stated uneasy.
Kyouhei then set up a few more little traps and the whole family helped Nonny to their logs beside the campfire and just sat there.
"Well now what?" Rini asked her twin brother.
"I guess while we wait for something to hopefully get in our traps we could go down and explore the creek."
"Ok, you kids be careful," Oona cautioned, "I'm gonna stay here with your dad."
"Ok mom," the siblings said in unison.
They walked for a bit down to the creek area where all was quiet, besides the birds and water trickling. Kyouhei took a shoe off and stuck his toe in the water, to his surprise the creek wasn't very cold, actually it was very warm.
"This water's really warm, and you what that means right?"
Rini shook her head, "How would I know?"
"It means that this creek's source is a spring, that means water we can drink!"
They were both very excited, the whole family had been surviving on the little water they had from the bottles they had brought for the car ride. They quickly ran back up to their campsite (you could call it that) to tell Oona and Nonny about their discovery. After telling them, Nonny instructed them to follow the creek until they found the spring and fill up every container they had. After walking for a good while they finally found the spring, they started filling all the containers when they heard something, it sounded like footsteps. Rini clung to Kyouhei's arm in fear, "What is it?"
"I don't know," he whispered, "But I'm about to find out."
He rose slowly and crept towards the sound, with his sister close behind. The sound got closer and closer until they got to a small clearing where they saw something they'd never thought they'd see here.
Ooooo! Cliffhanger! What do you guys think it is? Until next time RA out!