Blahhhhh
After they all eventually stopped staring at the 'jungle,' they proceeded to walk through the gap to the mass of trees and vines. Everyone except for Yzak, who was still pretty pissed off at the world for getting him lost. He eventually caught up and allowed his jaw to drop.
"Who knew a place like Orb could have such a huge jungle in it." Milly looked around at the trees and birds.
It all seemed so natural, but it couldn't be, could it?
"I don't see what the big fuss is all about, it's just some stupid forest." Yzak snarled, but really, he thought it was pretty sick.
"Hey, Yzak?" Milly sounded.
"Yeah?"
"Shut up,"
"What's his problem anyway?" Milly turned to ask Dearka.
"He's an anal retentive bastard with a god complex," Dearka replied.
"Woah, are you alright?" Milly asked amazed as everyone stopped and stared.
"What?!" Dearka cried out in confusion.
"Those were some really big words in there kid, are you sure your feeling ok?" Mu joked while Murrue fought back a laugh.
"No, no I'm not, Mu,"
"Come on Yzak, I need to put your leash on." Milly called out to Yzak while the group walked away from him.
Yzak scoffed at a tree for a good twenty seconds before noticing anything.
"Later on, bud!" Dearka called out to him.
"Huh?" Yzak looked up to notice the group a good thirty feet away from him continuing to walk.
"Hey, wait up, don't lose me again!" Yzak cried out as he caught up with the group.
"We didn't lose you, you lost yourself." Dearka retorted while smiling nervously.
"Well that's a load of shit." Yzak snapped back.
"Yeah Dearka he's right. That is a load of shit, you even said yourself that you lost him." Miriallia replied cruelly.
"But, I, he, ugh!" Dearka stuttered. "What kind of a girlfriend are you anyway?"
"A mean one," Milly sang back.
Yzak stuck his tongue out at Dearka.
"Oh so you'd rather be back up there with you new little friend?" Milly asked while gesturing to the top of the cliff.
"Ahh, no, wait a minute, whose side are you on anyway?" Yzak cried out while looking around to make sure his friend wasn't anywhere near by.
"I'm my own team boys, and I'm winning too." She retorted.
Everyone laughed at Yzak while he frantically searched around until he continued to scoff again, this time at the ground. The next thing you know Yzak's sinking into the ground, wait, what? Yes, he's sinking into the ground.
"What the hell is going on here?" Yzak cried as he grabbed onto Dearka's leg.
"Hey, let go, jerk!" Dearka yelped as he too started to sink.
"What the fuck?!" Dearka was now accompanying Yzak in trying to figure out just what the hell was going on.
"It's quicksand, hold still!" Milly cried out.
"Hold still, what do you mean hold still?! I'd like to see you hold still in a pit of quicksand!" Dearka whined.
Milly cracked him over the head with her fist, so he obeyed her anyway, even though he was going to die.
"Today sucks," Yzak pouted.
"You suck," Dearka snapped.
"You're funny," Yzak snorted sarcastically.
"You're funny looking," That earned Dearka a cocoanut, which was hit in the head with Yzak's fist.
"Oww, cocoanut," Dearka whined.
"Would somebody get me a tree branch so that I can get these two idiots out?" Milly sounded off partially annoyed and partially amused.
Everyone just stared at her.
"I know how much everyone can hate the two of these people, and also how convenient their deaths could be, dying in quicksand in the middle of an unknown jungle," She paused and contemplated that thought a bit. Yzak and Dearka were nervous for a while, but then she snapped out of it. "Unfortunately, we have to get them out. So let's go…NOW!"
Everyone jumped back into reality all at once as they searched for a tree branch worthy of their approval.
"Hey I found one!" Athrun called out from in the bushes.
"That's a stick, dumb ass." Cagalli snapped back at him from in front of him somewhere.
"Ouch, Cagalli, that hurts right here." Athrun answered back with a hand over his heart.
"Screw you," Cagalli answered back while throwing a rock at him.
"Ouch, that one really hurt, except this time here," Athrun yelped holding his hand over his head where the rock hit.
"Serves you right," Cagalli smiled triumphantly.
"Hello, dying over here," Dearka called from the quicksand.
"You know it would be so much quieter without them around," Milly said, the thought from earlier of letting them die came back again.
"You know you're absolutely right Milly," Kira agreed and then soon after everyone else did as well.
"What are you thinking? I don't like that look Mr." Dearka stated suspiciously.
Silence.
Dearka and Yzak blinked.
More silence.
"Ah, keep looking, it' no fun without em," Milly finally decided now that Dearka and Yzak were up to their necks in quicksand.
"Thank you, god!" Dearka said relieved, that they didn't leave him and Yzak to die. Actually, screw Yzak, he deserves to die.
"What the hell are you all smoking?!" Yzak, unfortunately, didn't take it as well as Dearka.
"You all just wait until I get out of here!" he yelled as he started to sink even more.
"Shut up or we'll just save Dearka and leave you to die!" Cagalli yelled as Yzak growled.
"I think you should just go find some new friends, like a bunny, or something." Dearka suggested.
"Very funny, but sorry, I'm taken. I already have a pet bear." Yzak answered back sarcastically.
"We found one!" Kira and Lacus called out in unison while Dearka tried not to laugh at Yzak.
"Woohoo!" Dearka cheered.
"Finally," came Yzak's voice.
Kira and Lacus pulled the branch through the bushes and over to where Dearka and Yzak were stuck. Kira shoved the tree branch into the quicksand allowing Dearka and Yzak to grab onto it while the others positioned themselves at the other end of the branch so that they could pull.
It was Milly in front, then Murrue with Mu behind her with his arms around her waist grasping the tree branch at the same time. Athrun and Cagalli were behind them, Cagalli in front of Athrun so that she wouldn't be the one getting crushed if they fell. Kira and Lacus were behind with Kira on the end seeing that he was probably the strongest next to Athrun. But Athrun was Cagalli's pillow so that's how that one flew.
So basically we have two bitches stuck in quicksand and a mob of people who happen to always be in the wrong place at the wrong time trying to pull them out with a ridiculously large tree branch. You all can just imagine what that must look like, scary huh?
"Ok, when I say so, pull. Ready- ahh!" Dearka was rudely jerked forward as the entire line pulled on the tree branch.
"I didn't say go yet, jerks!" Dearka whined as the group desperately tried to pull him and his counterpart out.
"Hey, whoever's in the back pull harder, dammit!" Milly yelled from up front.
"Believe me Milly, we are," Kira yelled back as his feet dug further into the ground.
"Just hang in there a little while longer, Murrue," Mu coaxed Murrue as she started to crumble.
"My feet," Murrue's legs tried to give out on her, but Mu tightened his grip around her waist, not allowing her to fall.
"It hurts, Mu," Murrue cried out as she felt one of the cuts on the bottom of her foot split open.
"I know," Mu looked up to see if there was a way to make this easier on them.
He then spotted something.
"Hey, Yzak, lose the jacket, you're weighing us down!" Mu called out to the platinum haired teen.
Yzak obeyed while muttering something about them always picking on the one with anger issues. Once Yzak's jet black jacket to his suit was gone, things got a little easier. The group moved back far enough so that Kira could wrap an arm around a tree.
"Ok, on the count of three, everybody give it all you got, 1…2…3, PULL!" Milly shouted out as everyone pulled like their lives depended on it.
To their surprise, it worked, Yzak and Dearka finally slid out of the quicksand. Unfortuantley for them, once they pulled the duo out, the two let go of the stick and the whole group went for a little fly. Athrun, Milly, Murrue, Kira, Mu, Cagalli, Lacus all sounded out their colorful vocabularies in order.
"Wah!"
"Shit!"
"Dammit!"
"WOOH!"
"What the hell?!"
"Fuck!"
"Oh, my!"
The landing wasn't any duller than the fall.
Milly was sprawled across Cagalli, who was on top of Mu with Murrue on the bottom. Behind them, Athrun smashed into Lacus who in turn smashed into Kira who ended up getting rammed into the tree that was behind him and then on top of Athrun and Lacus, who were having an unwanted bonding session.
As for Dearka and Yzak, well, basically Dearka clotheslines himself on a tree branch and Yzak tripped over himself and landed face first in the dirt.
"Well, that was disappointing," Dearka said from the offending tree branch he was currently stuck on.
Yzak looked up from his place on the ground with an offending remark but then stopped upon seeing Dearka.
"How did you manage that one?" Yzak questioned Dearka.
"Shut up, it was a low hanging branch,"
"Dumb ass,"
"Dirt face," Dearka retorted.
"What are you five?" Yzak questioned.
"No…6six," Dearka answered back.
Yzak just smashed his face back into the ground assuming that if god wanted him there so bad, then he should just stay there.
"I'm not paid enough for this," Yzak muttered into the ground.
"You're not paid at all for this," Dearka reminded.
"Shut up,"
While those two had their usual daily argument, the rest of the group finally showed signs of life.
"Ouch, hey, how did I end up on the bottom?" Athrun whined from below Kira and Lacus.
"You just did," Kira replied casually.
"Easy for you to say, you're on top," Athrun pressed further into the matter.
"Well getting all anal about it isn't going to fix anything," Kira shot back matter of factly.
"Well why not? I mean, come on, we're stranded in the middle of the woods, no food no water, no phones, Hell, we have no connections to life as we know it whatsoever. Who wouldn't be anal?!" That's it, Athrun has officially lost it.
"Lacus, I really think it would be in your best interest to remove yourself from on top off Athrun before he goes on a massive killing spree or something," Kira suggested as he eyed Athrun suspiciously.
While those two also had their daily argument, the other dog pile started moving as well. Cagalli was the first to speak.
"Hey Milly…get off,"
"Can't, it hurts, sorry," Milly replied from on top.
Cagalli then started fidgeting causing a bit of discomfort for the two people below her.
"Ugh, how about you all get off?" Murrue demanded more then she suggested.
"I can't move until this one does," Cagalli whined while gesturing to Milly.
"And I can't move until both of them get off of me," Mu explained.
They all looked up at Milly.
"Wait, wait, wait, you guys didn't even give me the chance to redeem myself," Milly complained.
"Ugh, fine Milly, what's your excuse?" Cagalli went along with Milly's antics figuring that they wouldn't be going anywhere anytime soon if she didn't listen.
"I can't move until I can feel my body again." Milly answered back to the blonde princess.
Cagalli would've fallen over, she really would have, but seeing she was already on the ground, that made it slightly complicated to do so.
"If no one moves, then there's going to be a problem here," Cagalli said calmly…too calmly.
"Nope, sorry, can't," Milly replied.
Miriallia, you're really trying my patience today," Cagalli growled.
"You know for someone who has a concussion this really isn't too healthy," Murrue spoke up from her very uncomfortable position on the bottom of the dog pile.
"You're lying on my arm, Murrue, did you know that?" Mu asked out of the blue.
"Oh, I'm sorry," Murrue replied very unsympathetically.
"Yeah, me too," Mu agreed.
"Ok, will somebody please help me out here, I seriously can not feel my leg at all," Milly called out to Kira, Lacus, Athrun, Dearka, and Yzak.
"I would, but I'm kind of hung up," Dearka called out from his tree branch while laughing at his own joke.
Yzak put his face through the ground for the third time that day.
Kira, who was finally up and moving, was making his way over to help Milly when he stopped and stared at Dearka swaying back and forth almost gracefully from his tree branch, almost.
"I'm not even gonna ask," Kira stated as he turned and walked the other way slowly.
"I think that decision was best," Dearka agreed as he continued to sway back and forth in the breeze.
"I'm just waiting for that branch to break," Yzak said from the ground with his head propped up with one hand.
"And I'm waiting for some force of nature to smash your face back into the ground," Dearka retorted.
"Fuck you," Yzak snapped back.
While Dearka and Yzak went at it again, Kira went over to pull Milly off of their dog pile. He grabbed her by the waist and she grabbed Cagalli's arm and pulled her up off of Mu and Murrue with herself. Once Milly and Cagalli were up, Milly spotted Yzak on the ground.
"Wow, Yzak, what happened to-" It was then Milly bursted out laughing before she could even finish her sentence upon seeing Dearka hanging from the tree branch that snagged his shirt.
"What happened to you?" Milly laughed.
"This tree here attacked me," Was Dearka's response.
"Oh, ok, well you have fun with that," Milly responded as she turned to walk the other way.
"No, wait Milly, come back! I thought what we had was passion!" Dearka yelled dramatically after Milly.
"We did, but Yzak stole it," Milly replied still walking over to where Mu and Murrue were still lying.
"Yzak, you asshole, why are you always the one there to ruin my life? Dearka whined.
"Because I can, end of story," Yzak concluded shutting Dearka up.
Milly made her way over to Mu and Murrue to find out what their issue was with getting off of the ground.
"Hey, you guys can get off of the ground anytime now,"
"You know I would if my arm wasn't stuck," Mu replied dryly.
"Hey now, don't go blaming this on me, there's permanent dents from your fingers in my back, so stop complaining," Murrue spoke, causing her lips to get dangerously close to his,"
"Well, maybe if Mu rolls over, you can get up off of him, and then he can get up," Milly suggested.
"I don't know, I kind of like this position," Mu responded slyly.
"Mu," Murrue's warning tone rose form her throat as her eyes narrowed at him.
"I could get my pay back for what happened last night," Mu grinned devishly at Murrue who was starting to panic.
"MU!"
"I'm just kidding, Murrue, don't worry," Mu smiled as he rolled Murrue on top of himself.
Murrue looked down at Mu suspiciously, he usually didn't just give up that easily. She decided to just brush it off for now, he looked innocent enough. Milly leaned over and helped Murrue to stand and supported her. Mu rolled over onto his stomach so that he could push himself off of the ground, but a sharp pain running up his right arm stopped him from doing so. He pushed himself up a few inches and then collapsed back onto the ground in pain.
"Mu, what's wrong?" Murrue asked worriedly as she and Milly knelt down next to him.
"My arm, something's wrong with it," He managed as Murrue looked down to the arm he was gesturing to with his eyes.
"Well no shit," Milly rolled her eyes. Murrue took that opportunity to hit her in the stomach.
Murrue pulled his arm out from underneath him and looked it over. Once she turned it over, she realized what the problem was. There was a gash in his arm about as long as her fore finger. It wasn't life threatening or anything like that; he probably just hit a rock on his fall down to the ground.
"Well I found the source to the pain," Murrue announced.
"You must've cut your arm on a rock when you fell," Milly concluded.
"I don't think it'll need stitches or anything like that, but it should be taken care of," Murrue looked around, but there was nothing around where they were to fix a wound like that.
"I really don't know how you're gonna do that Murrue," Mu sat up using his left arm this time.
"I'm sure it will be ok until we can wash it and find something to put on it, it already stopped bleeding, so we'll look for something once we get dumb ass number one out of the tree he somehow managed to get himself stuck in," Milly explained while looking over at Dearka, who was still swaying from the branch.
Mu and Murrue looked up to where Milly had her head turned too. It took all of their well being to not burst out into laughter right then and there.
"How, did that happen?" Murrue blurted out the first thing that came to her mind so that she could get the thought of laughing out of her head.
"We're still trying to establish that one," Milly answered almost embarrassed that her significant other was hanging from a tree and nobody new how he even got there in the first place.
"Maybe we should just let it go and concentrate on how he's going to get out of the tree," Mu called out as he got himself up off of the ground to help Murrue hobble her way over to where Dearka and the rest were.
Mu was looking up at Dearka trying to figure out how to get Dearka down when he felt something wet dripping on his arm. He looked down at it and realized that it looked suspiciously like quicksand. He looked up to find the source and realized that he was standing under it.
"Hey Dearka," He questioned.
"Yeah," Dearka called down form the branch.
"You're dripping quicksand on me," Mu almost complained.
"Oh, well then I have a suggestion for you…MOVE!" Dearka retaliated sending Mu back a couple of feet with Murrue in tow.
It was about five more minutes before someone finally spoke up with an idea.
"We could always just leave him here and come back for him later," Yzak tried.
"Yeah, you would say something like that," Dearka pouted. "Next idea, and he doesn't get anymore say in this," Dearka ordered while sticking his tongue out at Yzak who in turn flipped up his middle finger.
"Up yours, buddy," Dearka snapped back.
"Someone could climb the tree and then saw the tree branch off," Athrun spoke up as he held a hand over his chin.
"Yeah, hold on while I whip out the saw that I keep in my back pocket," Yzak snorted.
"Hey! I thought I told you to shut up!" Dearka yelled at Yzak while swinging around not really getting anywhere.
"Or at the rate you're going we could just wait until the tree branch- "Mu didn't get to finish his sentence, because before he could get the last word out, Dearka's tree branch snapped and he ate some serious shit.
"…breaks," Mu finished as he looked down at Dearka.
"Ooh, that one hurt," Milly said quietly as Dearka slowly picked his face up off of the ground.
"Owie," With that word spoken Dearka let his face smash back into the ground as he lost consciousness.
"Ok, while he sleeps, I think we should find a clearing," Milly suggested as she pivoted on one foot and turned to walk the other way when she stopped and finally took in her surroundings for the first time in the past half hour.
"Holy shit, ladies and gentlemen, I think I found one," Milly said aloud as everyone else slowly turned to match her gaze.
They finally realized that they were indeed in a clearing. A very nice one at that, there was a small stream running through it and it was hazed over a bit by mist, there were even logs sprawled out from the fallen trees, almost like someone had moved them. They weren't very neatly arranged, but it would do. There was a lot of space in the middle of where the logs were, so it would make a perfect fire pit. You could also hear the roar of what sounded like waterfalls, and actually start to make them out about sixty feet away at the beginning of the stream.
"Wow, this is one decked out forest," Yzak was the first to speak out as the rest continued to stare all the while making their way over to plop themselves on a log to collect there thoughts.
While they all gaped and what not, Dearka had managed to pick himself up off of the ground and over to the log that Yzak was sitting on.
"Well, look what the cat brought in," Yzak spoke, and this time, his voice wasn't as monotone as it usually is, it was almost like he was shocked for once in his life.
Dearka just looked at him, then the awkward silence again.
Someone whistled a bit, then Dearka burped; incredibly loud. Everyone tried not to laugh, but failed.
"Are you serious?" Milly laughed. "Stranded in a jungle and all's you can think to do is burp?"
Then they fell silent again.
Then, they were all corrupted by something, rather someone, and from that moment on, would never be able to look at each other the same for the rest of eternity. Ok, well maybe not eternity, but it was good for effect.
"Yzak's into whips and chains, kinky, kinky, Yzak's into whips and chains, lucky, lucky bear, lucky, lucky bear, lucky, lucky bear, Yzak's into whips and chains, lucky, lucky bear." Dearka sand while he swayed back and forth on his log.
But before anyone could say anything, he started on his next victim.
"Milly's into whips and chains, kinky, kinky, Milly's into whips and chains, lucky, lucky me, Lucky, lucky me, lucky, lucky me, Milly's into whips and chains, lucky, lucky me."
"DEARKA!" Milly jumped up off of her log only to be restrained by a laughing Athrun and Kira.
"Athrun's into whips and chains, kinky, kinky, Athrun's into whips and chains, lucky, lucky Cagalli, Lucky, lucky, Cagalli, lucky, lucky Cagalli, Athrun's into whips and chains, lucky, lucky Cagalli."
"Now who's laughing?" Milly questioned a gaping Athrun who was staring in disbelief at Dearka and then switched his gaze over to a laughing Cagalli rolling on the ground blushing madly, or maybe it was just from laughing, whatever the case, this was not cool.
"Kira's into whips and chains, kinky, kinky, Kira's into whips and chains, lucky, lucky Lacus, lucky, lucky, Lacus, lucky, lucky Lacus, Kira's into whips and chains, lucky, lucky Lacus."
"That sucks," Athrun laughed at his best friend.
"You suck! Now shut up!" Kira cried out as he pounced on Athrun taking him to the ground.
"You wanna go? You wanna go?" Kira asked Athrun while beat the living crap put of him with his fist.
"Yeah, as a matter of fact I do wanna go," Athrun answered back.
"Well alright then!" Kira exclaimed as he grabbed Athrun's arm and twisted it behind his back.
"OUCH! I don't wanna go any more, I don't wanna! Don't mess! Don't mess!" Athrun cried out as he pounded the ground.
While those two wrestled on the ground, Mu and Murrue shifted uncomfortably on their log as they waited for Dearka to continue, they were after all, the only couple left, and Dearka wasn't about to stop and let them go free, so they braced themselves.
Dearka smiled at them evilly before singing the last verse to his song.
"Murrue's into whips and chains, kinky, kinky, Murrue's into whips and chains, lucky, lucky Mu, lucky, lucky Mu, lucky, lucky Mu, Murrue's into whips and chains, lucky, lucky Mu."
"Al…right," Mu managed.
"I'm, going to go look for some…uhm…food…yeah…food…" Milly stuttered as she got up to leave.
"Ooh, came I come?" Dearka hopped up anxiously.
Milly sighed and then gave her answer.
"As long as you promise to never ever EVER, sing that song again." Milly answered back while whipping her head around for affect.
"Ok," That one didn't take much thought.
"I'm going to go look for some firewood," Cagalli announced.
"We'll help," Mu and Murrue called out in unison.
"I'll go look for some water," Lacus announced and walked away from the clearing even though there was a stream right next to them, but seeing that Dearka might pop up somewhere, she figured she'd rather get lost than hear that song again.
"I'll help her, we don't want Lacus to get into any trouble, seeing as she's the only sane one around here," Yzak jumped up and followed Lacus into the woods, leaving a very confused Athrun and Kira in his wake.
Athrun and Kira exchanged a "What the fuck is happening to us?" look and then to everyone's
retreating backs, and then back at each other while blinking vigorously.
"This is going to be one long tragedy," Athrun spoke up.
"Yep, don't you just love our friends?" Kira asked him.
"Can't get enough," Athrun replied truthfully.
"You know you like it," Kira answered back playfully.
"Life wouldn't be any fun without 'em," Athrun concluded.
"No way in hell,"
That song's too much. It had to be done. Editing sucks. Never do it yourself ;)
Shinycry: I'm so glad that I made your day. I'm really sorry to hear that your brother has gone off to college, but, what are you gonna do? I don't have to worry about that since im the oldest XD I wouldn't care anyway, me and my brother don't exactly have a tight knit relationship ;) I hope everything works out for you!