Chapter seven: Entertaining Kong.
Kong laid the two humans on the mossy ground. They definitely seemed dead, but Kong was no fool. He roughly prodded the two female humans. The one with the brown hair woke with a start. Kong snorted and Katara looked up to see the giant ape towering over her. She quickly tried scrambling away. But the huge strong fingers of the ape wrapped around her and lifted her into the air. She was slowly brought up to Kong's face. Kong growled softly and sat down slowly. Katara began frantically squirming against Kong's grip, but to no avail. The ape looked at her for a few moments, seeing if she would struggle any more. But she didn't do anything. Kong growled loudly, bearing his fangs. The girl shook slightly. 'She's afraid' thought Kong; 'hmm… what else can you do?' thought Kong. Kong lowered his hand and gently dropped the girl a few feet from the ground. The girl staggered as she landed on her feet. Katara looked back up at the giant ape. Kong looked at her impatiently, waiting for her to do something. Suddenly, a twig snapped and Kong looked to where Ann was laying. She lay completely still, but Kong could see the "dead" human shaking. Kong snorted and returned his attention to Katara who still stood before him. 'If the other one tries to escape, I'll know' thought Kong. Katara looked up at Kong; he stared down at her as though expecting something to happen. Katara suddenly realized she still had her canteen hanging by her side. Kong snarled impatiently, stamping his fist into the ground lightly. Katara slowly reached for the cap of the canteen and laid her fingers on the small piece of bone that kept the water from spilling out. She would need to be quick, if she could blind Kong with her water bending, just for a moment, she might, just might, have a chance of escaping. Kong was getting restless now; this girl wasn't doing anything interesting. 'Look, girl, you've only got a few more seconds to keep me from ripping you apart…c'mon, do something! Run even!' thought Kong. Kong watched the girl for a few more moments. 'That's it!' thought Kong about to swipe his paw at the girl. Katara pulled of the lid with lightning speed, and at her command, a stream of water flowed from her canteen. Suddenly, Kong stopped short. 'What's she doing?' thought Kong staring at the water flowing about the girl. Katara held back the jet of water when she realized that Kong had stopped short with his attack. She looked at the creature's face, realizing that Kong was looking at the water. Katara slowly waved her arm, knowing the water would flow along after it, obeying her command to follow. Kong slowly withdrew his huge paw and sat down, mesmerized by the watery snake following the movements of the girl. Katara slowly continued with the graceful movements, twirling the water around in a circle, sending it flying into the sky, then "catching" it. Kong made a strange noise somewhat like laughing, and the ape clapped his hands, obviously entertained. Kong quickly peered back to where Ann was meant to be, but then realized that she had gone. Katara looked in the direction he was looking in, a smile was about to creep onto her face when Kong suddenly lifted her up in his palm. Kong quickly ran around the ruins, carrying Katara in his right paw. Then, he saw her, Ann, she was getting away. But Kong caught up to her and blocked her escape. Ann fell to the ground in fright. From the ground, Ann stared up at the giant ape. Kong snarled and set Katara down. He knew she wouldn't run, she wouldn't dare. Ann began standing slowly, every twitch scrutinized by Kong's orange eyes. Katara watched the scene before her, Kong was snarling silently, and Ann was shaking violently. Katara noticed the waterfall behind her, and she called a glob of water from it, swirling it around noisily, trying to pry apart the tension. Kong heard the water skimming through the air, and turned to see Katara swirling the water about her. Kong turned towards Katara, once again drawn in by the tricks that Katara performed with the glob of translucent liquid. Ann blinked and rubbed her eyes, then blinked again. She had never seen anyone do something like what she was seeing in front of her, she was seeing a girl swirling water around, through the air. She looked up at Kong, who was looking a little bored now, and Katara was performing the same tricks over and over. Ann had seen this before in Vaudeville, whenever the theatre had them doing the same show again and again. Eventually the audience got bored, and the theatre had the cast start work on a new performance. But as she looked up at Kong, she could tell that he was going to do more than just get bored. Kong growled loudly, forcing Katara to lose concentration, and the water splattered on to the mossy ground. Katara looked up at Kong, he was obviously rather angry at her repetitive performance, the ape roared savagely, and lifted his paw to swipe at Katara. But Ann had already taken action; she quickly stepped in front of Kong and began juggling. Kong stiffened in mid-attack, and stared as Ann then started performing back flips. Kong sat down and clapped loudly while roaring with delight at this performance. Ann then continued to dance about for a few moments, and then finished abruptly, arms spread in the air (her typical way to finish performances). Kong chuckled loudly and clapped, then set his hands on his lap and looking at the two girls expectantly. Ann and Katara looked at each other in confusion. "Please tell me you have more tricks" pleaded Katara, noticing Kong getting restless. Ann shook her head slowly, and turned around just in time to see a large finger flick her to the ground. Kong laughed silently, and then continued to then flick Katara to the ground. The young water bender groaned softly as she tried to stand again. Ann was doing the same, but found herself flicked back to the ground just as she had gotten back up. Katara watched as Kong was about to flick her to the ground as well, but her pride suddenly compelled her to resist and she slapped the hand as it came near. "No!" she yelled as she slapped at the hand. Kong flinched in surprise and Katara quickly helped Ann to her feet. Kong began to move his hand forward again when Ann spoke up. "No! That's all there is! There isn't anymore!" she yelled at the giant gorilla. Kong snarled and roared furiously as he punched the ground in front of Ann and Katara, but the two girls held their ground as Kong smashed his fist into the ground even closer to them. Kong lifted his hand to strike again, but something held him back, and he drove his fist and his anger into a nearby pillar. Kong snorted in frustration for a few more moments, and then stared into the distance, as though thinking very hard about something. Ann glanced at Katara for a moment then returned her gaze to Kong, the ape snorted silently. Kong stared back at Ann and Katara, his face showed great sadness. Slowly, the ape began walking towards the trees, and then he leapt into the high branches and disappeared from sight. Katara and Ann stared at where Kong had just been before disappearing. Katara broke the silence. "Let's go" she whispered. Ann looked at Katara, then back towards the trees, and nodded slowly. "Let's go" answered Ann.
End of chapter seven.
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