Raye scouted the terrain out on top of the largest hill he could find. All he could see was hills and to the northeast some dead looking trees.
"Those would be perfect for firewood. After this I can make something for us to eat out of the meat and keep potential predators away." Raye said as he headed for the firewood. The trees were old and dying. He cleared the snow and found mounds of broken branches, enough to last him and the lynx for a month if they were careful. He took as much as he could carry with him back to the cave and set it down near the foot of the cave.
"Well you're back again huh? Yeah don't mind me. Me and mister dead skinless saber tooth here have been chatting up really nicely." Miyu said clenching the knife in her hands wanting to stab the human. The human looked at her and shook his head. He had no idea what she was saying. "Bah you're hopeless." She said then went back to messing with her wrist com. Something was wrong, her wrist com had an extensive library of languages it could decipher and she was positive that his language was somewhere in there.
She cycled through all the languages until she came to one that caught her eye. "Duh… oi… sh? Deutsch? What the Hell is that?" she said and got a rise out of the human. He stopped fiddling with the rocks in the cave and looked at her with extreme interest.
"Sprechen sie Deutsch?" he said to Miyu.
"What? Hold on give me a second." She said to him and tried to set the human's language as the permanent default but an error message appeared. It said "Warning data file incomplete. Recommend you use another language." Miyu ignored it and continued anyway. It would take an hour but soon she'd be able to talk to the human.
Raye didn't know what she was doing and didn't care anymore now that she stopped speaking German. He went back to piling up the biggest rocks he could find into an enclosed circle. Once the circle was complete he took some of the fire wood and placed it into the center. The only problem now was he didn't have any kindling.
"Great all that work for- what am I talking about? I can use the fat on the saber tooth!" he said aloud causing Miyu to jump.
"What are you doing she asked when he moved back to the saber tooth. He stuck his hand in it and began to search around. "Oh my god!" Miyu gagged.
"Got it!" Raye said when he found something yellow-white and squishy. He brought half a handful with him to the fire and placed it on top of the wood. "Now all I need is some wood scraps." He said but he only brought back large pieces. He'd have to carve some off the larger pieces.
He got up and walked to the lynx. When she saw him coming she began to step back. "No you stay away from me!" She hissed. Finally he came to close she pulled out the knife. "Stay back or I'll cut you!" the human stopped and stared at the knife.
'Crap why did I leave that here with her? Wait didn't she have a knife in her supplies?' he thought then started to ransack her neatly organized supplies.
"Hey what are you doing?" she asked as he searched through her efforts. He finally found the knife, matches and put most of the stuff back when he was done but still left a mess. "Yeah thanks buddy, you're really awesome you know that…? Asshole." She muttered as she started to organize her supplies again. When she was done she saw that the human was using her knife to scrape away pieces of wood and put those on the fire pit. He scraped off a really long one, took out a match, lit it then put it under the end of the strip. It caught fire immediately and he put it on the wood chips and fat. It took a few trials and errors before he got a fire going but eventually everything was ready.
"Ha! Look at that shit!" he said triumphantly.
"Holy shit it got a fire going!" Miyu said to herself.
The human didn't waste anytime and took the large metal bowl from the supplies Miyu had set up. He ran outside, filled the bowl to the brim with snow and came back to melt it over the warm fire. Since the saber tooth was gone the unnatural heat source had began to diminish and the pelt was beginning to lose its orange glow and was returning to all white once again.
"This is one weird universe." Raye said to himself.
Miyu looked up surprised at the sound of another Cornerian articulate. She looked around for him but only the human was there. 'Oh yeah the translator.' She thought to herself.
"Now if only that damn lynx wasn't so useless." Raye thought out loud.
"What was that?" Miyu hissed.
Raye jumped at the sound of another German articulate but calmed down immediately after. "Since when have you spoken German?"
"Since I got this to work." Miyu said holding up the wrist com.
The two sentient beings glared at each other. Now that the gap of conversation had been bridged a new void replaced it. The idea of conversing with the other brought up walls, evil feelings of hate, anger and loathing and only seemed to put more distrust in between the two.
"So what are you doing?" Miyu finally asked.
"I was going to make a stew out of this meat before it spoiled." Raye said pointing to the pile of meat.
"And what are you going to do about the blood?"
"I was going to use the ashes from the fire to cover it up. Don't worry about any predators, now that we got a fire going nothing will try to get in."
Miyu nodded and Raye licked his lips. It was a stalemate, neither one was giving any ground in the glaring contest and neither one was going to be the others bitch throughout this ordeal. Raye finally grunted and went back to making the stew. He put the saber meat in and went to get some salt from the supplies to add some flavor. Carnivore meat was nothing in comparison to herbivores. He got to the supplies and found Miyu going through them. She wasn't doing anything just moving them around. Anything was better than talking to the human.
"Hey- whoa calm down!" Raye said when Miyu spun around; knife in hand, fury on her face and an intent to kill in her eyes.
"What do you want?" she snapped.
"Some salt for the stew. Unless you want it plain." Raye said showing his hands.
Miyu began to growl inside her throat but gave him the salt anyway. "Here you go don't use it all." She hissed.
"Yeah sure." Raye said rolling his eyes. This was going to be a long extended stay in Hell. He took the salt from the ground in front of him and brought it back to the stew. Taking out a pinch he sprinkled in just a little bit then sprinkled the rest on the meat he didn't use so that it would last another week and not another few hours.
When the soup was ready Raye realized that they didn't have any dishes so they'd have to wait for it to cool down. He took the metal bowl off the fire using his gloves as buffers against the heat. He placed the bowl on the ground and kept stirring it with his knife he got from the Cornerian.
Miyu decided to sit across from the human in the small circular room and from that point on they sat there glaring at each other. Miyu being the one for conversation was the first to break their mental battle.
"So…." She said.
"So." Raye responded.
The silence came back with a vengeance and neither one of them said a word until the soup was cool enough. "Soup's on." Raye said then took big thirty gulps from the bowl.
"You're disgusting!" Miyu hissed.
"What?" Raye asked putting the bowl down.
"I wanted some now your human germs are all over it!"
"First off there are hardly any germs on this frozen Hell hole. Second I am the one that has been doing everything so shut the hell up and enjoy this damn meal!"
"What if I don't want to?" Miyu hissed and stood up.
Raye stood up as well. "Then I'll eat it all and you can eat snow for all I care!"
"Bah! Snow? I have all the rations I need."
"How long? Days, weeks, months, years? I don't think so. Like it or not we're stuck here with no chance for rescue from my side and I'm pretty sure your side won't be coming any time soon."
"They'll come, maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow but they'll come." Miyu snapped.
"Your army must be pretty pathetic to leave one of their own behind like that. No wonder you're losing the war. If it weren't for Star Fox you'd be our prisoners by now!"
Miyu brandished the knife "Us loosing? Ha! You forget skinner that we have already taken captive three of you planets while you have yet to find any of ours. If anything I can see you losing the war by the time my lot comes back, saves my sorry ass, puts you in the brig and tortures you!"
The room was silent and still. Raye was speechless, she knew so little of what they were doing out here. The Earthen Military picked up some distress signals near this planet's area and went to check them out. Raye began to giggle like a madman, and then the laughter grew into deep booms.
"You have no idea who you are fucking with! We are the Earthen Military, we will never give up! We are human, we will never surrender! We are going to defeat you and your miserable species and when we do we'll have fun deciding how we kill you all. Call it a righteous genocide if you will."
Miyu began to shake with rage. "Why you!" she shouted before rushing at Raye with the knife. Raye managed to disarm her by kicking the knife out of her hands but she wound up tackling him to the floor. They began to wrestle each one attempting to dominate the other. They kept at it for several minutes and even knocked the bowl of Saber stew down spilling the contents everywhere. It wasn't until the rifle on Raye's back went off did they come to their senses. They pushed each other off each other and panted on the ground.
'She's tough… this won't be easy at all.' Raye thought.
'He's tough… this won't be easy at all.' Miyu thought.
Raye got up first and began to clean up the mess. Once that was done he drug what was left of the saber tooth towards the south side of the room and began to work on it with his knife he found on the floor from when he kicked it out of the lynx's hands.
It was a long time before they spoke again, Raye stayed busy with the saber tooth and Miyu kept watch over the fire. Finally Raye said.
"Hey Cornerian, we're stuck with each other so we're going to have to get over it. I could have killed you back then but I didn't because I need you to scout prey for me. If you help me I'll help you. Deal?"
Miyu thought it over; she didn't have any other choice "Alright human. I'll scratch yours if you mine."
Raye grunted then moved to the large saber skin laid out in the middle of the floor. It was strangely still warm to the touch but didn't offer the same heat it made the room a while ago. It looked good to go and he didn't know how to make clothes out of it so a large blanket would do fine for now. He would get it of course since he had no fur or extra layers of clothes like the Cornerian but if she really needed it he would cut it in half. If he did that though it wouldn't cover them up fully so the only way they'd both get the benefit of the skin would be to share. Raye shivered but not because of the cold.
"I'll be right back." he said then headed for the mouth of the cave. As he suspected the light was fading away and the temperature was dropping. He came back with his face numb and teeth chattering.
"Where did you go?" Miyu asked.
"To check outside real quick. There's nothing out there, no signs of any animals but they are out there if the saber tooth was camping here. Only question is where which is where you come in."
"Me why me?"
"I know that Cornerians have heightened senses of smell, hearing and some of you sight which is why I need you to find the animals for me and I'll take care of the rest."
Miyu scoffed. "Forget it I'm not your hound dog!"
"It's either that or starve."
Miyu hissed "Fine I'll do it."
"Another thing, the temperature is dropping fast so I recommend we get settled for the night. How's the fire?"
"Really good actually, I haven't needed to put any more on yet."
"You're kidding! It's been at least three hours!"
"I know but still this wood is really good at staying alive."
"Well that's good we can both get a full night's rest." Raye said taking the saber tooth tiger skin and wrapping it around himself. It was dried out now so the blood was gone but it lingered a smell something fierce. But even though it had downfalls it was still warm to the touch, like laundry fresh out of the dryer.
"Hey what are you doing?" Miyu asked.
"I need this more than you do. Unlike you I don't have a fur coat all over my body and several layers of clothes." Raye grunted and laid down on the left side of the room opposite of the lynx's side.
"Fine." Miyu growled. She wasn't going to complain that would only raise issues, she didn't want to seem weak and he was right he did need it more than her. She was slightly comfortable with the temperature especially with the fire going. She took the blanket from the supplies and threw it on herself unfortunately it was a summer blanket and didn't offer much protection from the cold.
"Don't try anything while I'm asleep or it's both our heads." Raye said suddenly.
"It would be worth it." Miyu snapped.
With that they both attempted to get some sleep.
AUTHOR'S NOTE~~~ Hey guys hope you enjoyed. For those of you who are curios I am not making all this survival stuff up. I am going off the best of my knowledge and a trustworthy website. If you got any... objections to the survival things tell me. Anyways hope you enjoyed ^^.
