p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 20px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"Crickets filled the air. There was an unexplained silence about as the poacher kept watch on the vast open savannah night. The poacher's camp had just come back from their latest raid and he paced around the holding cell of their latest capture. They had stolen these massively rare magical beasts from a sanctuary not far from them. The lookout tossed his wand back and forth slowly in his hand as he continued his watch. It was pitch black on the Savannah, save a vast plethora of brilliantly shining stars in the sky. As he stared out, he could see nothing but the slightly swaying tall grass and rustle from the trees. While he paced, he would every so often get the feeling that he was being watched. That there was something lurking out there. His head turned with every few feet. He would call out, em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"LUMOS MAXIMA/span/em and a brilliant glow illuminated the tip of his wand. Brandishing it around his body he looked out again, squinting his eyes to see farther. But every time he would roll his eyes at his superstitious feelings and continue to walk on. /p
p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"If only he was to know that within a few feet of him, Kamau, Newt and Eliana were being lead by a small group of wizarding tribe warriors. As the warriors came to a sudden stop, Kamau motioned for Newt and Eliana to do the same. It had been awkward between the pair since their sudden frenzy in the tent earlier. For the first time since they had met, neither of them knew what to say to the other. They followed in blind silence moving as the warriors did through the grass, allowing them to work their tracking magic which ultimately helped them find the camp. Kamau turned back to Newt and Eliana to consult./p
p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;""You know the plan? Yes?" He asked. The two nodded, on the same page for the first time in hours. "We want to prevent any violence, if possible." /p
p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"Kamau made his way over to Eliana as a couple of the warriors followed suit. They allowed the tracker time to asses the situation and find the best route to the stolen Erumpents. The plan was to divide the group, Newt leading one group to cause a minor diversion while the remaining went with Eliana and Kamau to lead the beasts to style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box;" /span/p
p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;""What are you going to use as a distraction Mr. Scamander?" One of the trackers asked, but before he could answer, another began to quietly snicker. /p
p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;""You going to use your mating dance?" The men around him began to jeer in silent taunts as Newt began to head over to their location./p
p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;""You do the mating dance once for demonstration purposes and you never live it down. Well, c'mon then." He motioned and the jesting warriors got back to business and made their way. /p
p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"Kamau looked over at Eliana as they waited for the single to move. She was sweating with nerves, her mind solely thinking of the spells she would need to remember at the positions to conjure them. He laid a comforting had on her shoulder, causing her to jump slightly and look at him./p
p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;""Do not worry. All will be as it was meant to be."/p
p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;""I know. Just trying to remember my training. It'll be fine."/p
p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;""I wasn't talking about that." He nodded off in the direct of Newt and the others. Eliana forced a half smile and focused back on her inner thoughts. Everything was so much more confusing now that emotions had come to play. It all seemed to have escalated to drastic levels in a matter of several months. She had spent so much away from her own time that she was unsure what she would return to? Would her Uncle think her dead? Was there even any point going back to her own time? It didn't seem likely that she would ever get back. Should she just remain here to live out her days with Newt? Traveling and being in love for the first time in her life. Newt was right to say it was unfair of him to love her, but if not now, when?/p
p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"Her thoughts were suddenly interrupted with a loud and obnoxious blast of noise and she instantly knew it was the infamous mating call Newt had perfected. Simultaneously, Eliana's heart flipped as she knew it was time to face the dangerous task head on. They heard the lookout and other poachers shout and call, each alighting their wands as the rushed over to the call. When they looked like distant fireflies, blazing a trail in opposite direction, the warriors confirmed it was time to move and began to make their way. Kamau wrapped his hand around her arm, motioning for her to stay close and follow. The tall grass proved hard to allow her to move as quickly as she needed to, but with a mass amount of effort she stayed close and soon they made it into the makeshift fenced area. Without wasting anytime, the group began to spread out running amongst the beasts. Eliana made her way through the tall figures, trying her best to make due with the dim amount of light the camp grounds provided her. Their goal was to account for every creature and ride each of them to safety, the other group meeting them back at camp./p
p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"Their naivety that this would be a simple and easy rescue was crushed in mere seconds as Eliana rounded one of the beasts and ran into a guard. Fear shot through her entire body faster than any deadly bullet. She tried to back step, but the man had his arms around her back faster./p
p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;""Ahhh and where are you going, my sweet?" He cooed in her ear as he harshly smashed his faces against hers. She tried going rigid to stop him from moving her, but he used one arm to pick her up along her waist and carried her as he continued on. A rustle nearby caused the man to quickly go on the defence and brought his wand dangerously to her cheek. "And where are your little friends? We've been expecting you to make a stupid move like this." He turned around in a circle on his heel looking around, his wand digging into Eliana's throat. She held tightly to his arm, trying to relieve the pain of his hold on her. "COME OUT, COME OUT WHEREVER YOU ARE!" He shouted into the night air. For a moment it seemed like no one would come, that Eliana would be a sacrifice for the cause, but then slowly Kamau came out from his hiding space, arms outstretched above his head in surrender. They others one by one followed him. The guard laughed as he sauntered over to Kamau. "We didn't think you all were stupid enough to think we'd all go running, do you?"/p
p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;""Just let her go and let the creatures go. We don't need to fight over this. Do the right thing." The man's laughter shattered Eliana's eardrum and she shrivelled away from his mouth. When no one else would join in his tickle, the man pressed the tip of the wand deeper into her neck. She braced herself for the end. /p
p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"But in a split second, a thunderous rumble broke out and she felt the sweet relief as he let her fall. As she fell, she opened her eyes to see whips of spells zipping by her as the Erumpents, who, spooked by the commotion began to run. Eliana turned to see some of their warriors running beside the Erumpents, guiding them out of the pen and into the free savannah night. Suddenly a force hit her from the side and it caused the air in her lungs to cease. Gasping for air, Eliana looked up at the guard once more, feeling around for her wand that had escaped her hand. span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box;" /span/p
p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;""You'll pay for this!" He shouted and jumped her, anchoring his hands around her throat, clenching tight as Eliana's body quickly went into panic mode. Her legs thrashed about as her hand immediately felt around her to retrieve her wand. The space around the man's face was slowly fading to black but Eliana forced herself to move. Her dashing hands landed on the missing wand and she immediately grabbed it. The man's grip tightened ever so slightly and the darkness started to bleed faster into the image of his face. Eliana could feel her outstretched arm start to grow weak. Inside her head, she could hear herself screaming STUPEFY! STUPEFY!, but her opened mouth couldn't replicate the noise. Just before she lost consciousness, something large rammed the man off of her and the air returned to her lungs. It filled every bit of her chest with one big glorious breath. Eliana gasped and coughed as she quickly got to her feet, her arm limply outstretched pointing her wand at the thing that had rescued her. /p
p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"Her vision began to firmly settle and as the double images cleared she could see Newt straddling the guard, his one hand clutching tight the man's shirt bringing him closer into his launching fist. Eliana could hear the fist on bone contact as he packed one punch after another across the man's face. /p
p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"She watched for longer than she knew she should. The image of Newt coming to her rescue and fighting for her, was suddenly very appealing. Between the contact they had had earlier and the image of Newt, vest open and undone, shirt sleeves rolled to expose his unexpectedly bulging forearms and his hair in complete disarray, it was more than she could take at the moment. As she realised this was not the time for such fantasies, she quickly pulled Newt off the man. The guard took the momentary freedom to scatter, running into the heavy scrubs by their side. Newt allowed her to take his arm and the two stared at each other before Eliana launched at Newt's mouth, the two quickly and intensely kissed, wrapping themselves up in each other's arms. The adrenaline of this mission finally taking it's toll. Just as fast as they had collided, they parted./p
p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;""Not…the…time." Eliana breathed out, but Newt didn't seem to mind the timing and brought her face back to his for another passionate indulgence. The two broke off again./p
p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;""You're right… you're… right not the time." Newt pushed her back from him and looked around, in the distance they could see the Erumpents running off with Kamau and the others running after them, zipping hexes and curses back at the opposing men. "Well…in a way, it looks like we may have succeeded."/p
p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"Eliana wasn't listening. She was paying too much attention to Newt's moving lips, still swollen from their kiss./p
p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;""Newt, I have to tell you. I don't care…about… going back. I just…" He place a finger to her lips and winked as he ran off towards the raging fight./p
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p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"The celebration outside was underway and the fire seemed to dance as fiercely as the workers at the sanctuary. The cheers and roars of victory accompanied the crackling of the large bonfire. The Erumpents had been successfully been rescued and were resting safe in their field. The fight had resulted in an overwhelming win for the sanctuary as the poachers had ended up retreating when they realised there was more wizarding tribes waiting for them on the outskirts of their camp. /p
p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"Kamu sat in a chair by the fire and lit a large cigar, content with the simple spoil of the night. A worker laughed as he came over with a tankard of lager. Looking around the man leaned down to Kamu./p
p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;""Where is Mr. Scamander? He should be here enjoying himself." Kamu drew in a large drag of the cigar and as he removed it, he breathed out the smoke in a loud snort. He pointed his cigar over to the way of Newt's tent./p
p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;""I don't think he'll go to bed unsatisfied." The worker looked over just in time to see at a distance Newt and Eliana entering the tent, trying to abstain from touching until they were properly hidden away from everyone. The two men laughed deep in their throats, knowing exactly what Newt and Eliana had planned for their celebration./p
p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"If only he was to know that within a few feet of him, Kamau, Newt and Eliana were being lead by a small group of wizarding tribe warriors. As the warriors came to a sudden stop, Kamau motioned for Newt and Eliana to do the same. It had been awkward between the pair since their sudden frenzy in the tent earlier. For the first time since they had met, neither of them knew what to say to the other. They followed in blind silence moving as the warriors did through the grass, allowing them to work their tracking magic which ultimately helped them find the camp. Kamau turned back to Newt and Eliana to consult./p
p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;""You know the plan? Yes?" He asked. The two nodded, on the same page for the first time in hours. "We want to prevent any violence, if possible." /p
p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"Kamau made his way over to Eliana as a couple of the warriors followed suit. They allowed the tracker time to asses the situation and find the best route to the stolen Erumpents. The plan was to divide the group, Newt leading one group to cause a minor diversion while the remaining went with Eliana and Kamau to lead the beasts to style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box;" /span/p
p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;""What are you going to use as a distraction Mr. Scamander?" One of the trackers asked, but before he could answer, another began to quietly snicker. /p
p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;""You going to use your mating dance?" The men around him began to jeer in silent taunts as Newt began to head over to their location./p
p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;""You do the mating dance once for demonstration purposes and you never live it down. Well, c'mon then." He motioned and the jesting warriors got back to business and made their way. /p
p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"Kamau looked over at Eliana as they waited for the single to move. She was sweating with nerves, her mind solely thinking of the spells she would need to remember at the positions to conjure them. He laid a comforting had on her shoulder, causing her to jump slightly and look at him./p
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p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;""I wasn't talking about that." He nodded off in the direct of Newt and the others. Eliana forced a half smile and focused back on her inner thoughts. Everything was so much more confusing now that emotions had come to play. It all seemed to have escalated to drastic levels in a matter of several months. She had spent so much away from her own time that she was unsure what she would return to? Would her Uncle think her dead? Was there even any point going back to her own time? It didn't seem likely that she would ever get back. Should she just remain here to live out her days with Newt? Traveling and being in love for the first time in her life. Newt was right to say it was unfair of him to love her, but if not now, when?/p
p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"Her thoughts were suddenly interrupted with a loud and obnoxious blast of noise and she instantly knew it was the infamous mating call Newt had perfected. Simultaneously, Eliana's heart flipped as she knew it was time to face the dangerous task head on. They heard the lookout and other poachers shout and call, each alighting their wands as the rushed over to the call. When they looked like distant fireflies, blazing a trail in opposite direction, the warriors confirmed it was time to move and began to make their way. Kamau wrapped his hand around her arm, motioning for her to stay close and follow. The tall grass proved hard to allow her to move as quickly as she needed to, but with a mass amount of effort she stayed close and soon they made it into the makeshift fenced area. Without wasting anytime, the group began to spread out running amongst the beasts. Eliana made her way through the tall figures, trying her best to make due with the dim amount of light the camp grounds provided her. Their goal was to account for every creature and ride each of them to safety, the other group meeting them back at camp./p
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p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;""Ahhh and where are you going, my sweet?" He cooed in her ear as he harshly smashed his faces against hers. She tried going rigid to stop him from moving her, but he used one arm to pick her up along her waist and carried her as he continued on. A rustle nearby caused the man to quickly go on the defence and brought his wand dangerously to her cheek. "And where are your little friends? We've been expecting you to make a stupid move like this." He turned around in a circle on his heel looking around, his wand digging into Eliana's throat. She held tightly to his arm, trying to relieve the pain of his hold on her. "COME OUT, COME OUT WHEREVER YOU ARE!" He shouted into the night air. For a moment it seemed like no one would come, that Eliana would be a sacrifice for the cause, but then slowly Kamau came out from his hiding space, arms outstretched above his head in surrender. They others one by one followed him. The guard laughed as he sauntered over to Kamau. "We didn't think you all were stupid enough to think we'd all go running, do you?"/p
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p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;""You'll pay for this!" He shouted and jumped her, anchoring his hands around her throat, clenching tight as Eliana's body quickly went into panic mode. Her legs thrashed about as her hand immediately felt around her to retrieve her wand. The space around the man's face was slowly fading to black but Eliana forced herself to move. Her dashing hands landed on the missing wand and she immediately grabbed it. The man's grip tightened ever so slightly and the darkness started to bleed faster into the image of his face. Eliana could feel her outstretched arm start to grow weak. Inside her head, she could hear herself screaming STUPEFY! STUPEFY!, but her opened mouth couldn't replicate the noise. Just before she lost consciousness, something large rammed the man off of her and the air returned to her lungs. It filled every bit of her chest with one big glorious breath. Eliana gasped and coughed as she quickly got to her feet, her arm limply outstretched pointing her wand at the thing that had rescued her. /p
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p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"She watched for longer than she knew she should. The image of Newt coming to her rescue and fighting for her, was suddenly very appealing. Between the contact they had had earlier and the image of Newt, vest open and undone, shirt sleeves rolled to expose his unexpectedly bulging forearms and his hair in complete disarray, it was more than she could take at the moment. As she realised this was not the time for such fantasies, she quickly pulled Newt off the man. The guard took the momentary freedom to scatter, running into the heavy scrubs by their side. Newt allowed her to take his arm and the two stared at each other before Eliana launched at Newt's mouth, the two quickly and intensely kissed, wrapping themselves up in each other's arms. The adrenaline of this mission finally taking it's toll. Just as fast as they had collided, they parted./p
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p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;""You're right… you're… right not the time." Newt pushed her back from him and looked around, in the distance they could see the Erumpents running off with Kamau and the others running after them, zipping hexes and curses back at the opposing men. "Well…in a way, it looks like we may have succeeded."/p
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p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;""Newt, I have to tell you. I don't care…about… going back. I just…" He place a finger to her lips and winked as he ran off towards the raging fight./p
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p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"The celebration outside was underway and the fire seemed to dance as fiercely as the workers at the sanctuary. The cheers and roars of victory accompanied the crackling of the large bonfire. The Erumpents had been successfully been rescued and were resting safe in their field. The fight had resulted in an overwhelming win for the sanctuary as the poachers had ended up retreating when they realised there was more wizarding tribes waiting for them on the outskirts of their camp. /p
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p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;""I don't think he'll go to bed unsatisfied." The worker looked over just in time to see at a distance Newt and Eliana entering the tent, trying to abstain from touching until they were properly hidden away from everyone. The two men laughed deep in their throats, knowing exactly what Newt and Eliana had planned for their celebration./p