Chapter 9:
Zaz opened her eyes again. Everything was a lot clearer now. She looked down at herself and saw she had nothing but bandages covering her body. She turned her head and saw a lot of injured Korbos in the same or worse condition than she was.
"You're awake!"
Zaz turned and saw a female Korbo coming up to her. She knelt down on her knees to take a look at Zaz. Judging by her voice she was the same Korbo that was there when Zaz woke up the first time.
"Who are you?" Zaz said in a hoarse voice.
"My name is Kizo," she told her, "My husband Hogi and I saved you along with many others who got injured in the attack. It is just our way of saying thank you for trying to save us."
"Trying?" Zaz was confused. Did they fail?
"I'm afraid many died when the Dust Monkeys came," Kizo told her, "including our daughter Lilla. And that's not all. They took someone. One of yours."
Zaz knew exactly who she meant. Her uncle! Now two family members were taken. But wait...!
"Where's my Mom?" Zaz asked, "Is she okay?"
"Is she the one with the purple hair?" Kizo asked, "Because if she is I'll take you to her."
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Zaz and Kizo went to a small house that was only slightly damaged from the attack. Hogi was tending to someone on a bed. When he moved out of the way Zaz saw it was her mother Gaz! Zaz held Gaz's hand. She was barely breathing, and had a lot of scars. She was wearing bandages like her daughter. Zaz sobbed as she held Gaz's hand to her face.
"How could this happen?" she sobbed, "How could my family be taken away from me? First Dad, now Mom. What have I done to deserve this?"
Suddenly Gaz opened her eyes. "Zaz?" she whispered, "Is that you?"
"Mom," Zaz said tearfully, "I'm sorry. I thought showing them those visions would work. But I failed. We failed."
"We didn't fail," Gaz told her, "I'm not that badly hurt. After I get better we can go and find the others and rescue your father."
"But what about Uncle Dib?" Zaz asked.
"I can feel he's okay," Gaz said, "Don't worry about him."
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Tak lay among the rubble where her son was buried. Suddenly some Korbos showed up. They saw her lying there looking scared.
"It's okay," one Korbo said as he helped her up, "We'll get you some help."
"No, you don't understand!" Tak told them, "My son is trapped in there!" She pointed to the pile of rocks. The Korbos pulled rock after rock away until they were finally able to free Dak. He coughed and gasped as he regained his breath. Tak held him in her arms as she, the Korbos and Mimi headed back to a nearby campsite.
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Dib opened his eyes. He realised he was still in the bedroom, only this time the bed sheet was over his and Chimpah's bare bodies.
Tak will kill me if she finds out what I did, he thought as he got up and got dressed. He looked out the window and saw they were landing on Hijo. Soon it would be time to put Dib's plan into action...
Dib: I did what!?
Me: Yep, you did.
Tak: Oh my god!
Me: Hey, chill out guys. Story's not over yet.
