Chapter ten

(OH GOD, I'M SOOOO SORRY, I WRITE THIS STUFF ON THE IPOD, AND WHEN I WENT TO GO AND COPY IT, I CLIKED PASTE INSTEAD AND DELETED IT ALLLLL. On the notes app, there is no undo button, so once it was gone, it was gone . after that, I just got soooo uninspired to write it over again. That's why this chapter is so late, oh gosh I'm sorries!)

Achary rose, almost ceremoniously, out of bed. She was a morning zombie, The black under her eyes even blacker than normal. She even moaned like a zombie.

She pulled herself out of bed, moving on her fluffy black slippers. She went to get breakfast, and entered the dining hall part of the jet. She looked to her counterpart, who was apparently up earlier than her. The man's head hovered over a bowl of Cheerios, his hands holding his aforementioned body part. She "mmmed." him in greeting, too tired to form coherent sentences. He did the same.

They both screamed and bolted up, now fully awake, as a loud bang sounded off somewhere in the jet. They both calmed their hearts, and looked at each other. They then went down to investigate.

The group of four all waked along, trying to find an animal. Suddenly, they heard rustling nearby. They perked up.

"What was that?" Chris asked. Martin stepped forward.

"I dunno, but I'm gonna find out!" Martin declared. Marteen giggled and ran after her counterpart, the two clad in green soon following.

They were so absorbed in tracking down the sound that they slowly all strayed from each other. By the time they noticed, they were completely divided. Marteen stopped suddenly.

"Uuuh, me? Where did the others go?" Marteen asked. Martin stopped and looked behind him, only to see Marteen, the green siblings no where to be found. He scratched his head sheepishly.

"Oops."

Kris stopped, not hearing the crunch of leaves behind her. She turned and saw that the other three were gone. she groaned.

"Great. Where did those three go?" she growled to herself. She trudged on, seeing a clearing up ahead.

Chris soon stopped as well, noticing their absence. He huffed. It was in the middle of the night, they take the energy to drag him out there, and now they're gone! He yawned and continued his trek up ahead.

Zach and Achary both looked around cautiously, and jumped at every sound. Suddenly, a loud roar sounded off, and they both ran away in different directions, Zach's voice going as high as Achary's in pitch, and Achary's voice going up twice as high as they both screamed horrendously.

Chris snapped his head up, hearing a loud cry nearby. He ran out into the clearing, and was surprised to see a big ledge. The scream came from the top of it. He looked up to see someone in black blindly scrambling across the top, seemingly unaware that there was a quite a drop below. To his horror, the person didn't notice it, and ran straight off it. The screams came full force with renewed horror. Chris bolted towards the person dressed in black.

He had a good idea of who it was, but that didn't really matter to him at the moment. Enemy or not, he wasn't about to let someone fall to their death.

Kris struggled to lift her legs any more, slowly falling back asleep. She kept shaking her head, trying to wake herself up. Suddenly, before she knew what hit her (literally), some slammed straight into her.

Both of them groaned in pain, and when they finally payed attention to each other, they both bolted up and pointed to each other.

"Achary/Chris?!" they cried out at the same time, but upon further inspection, they weren't who the thought they were. Both of them looked at the gender flips, both startled at the difference. They turned as they heard a throaty growl. Thy turned to find an animal with gleaming eyes and white teeth staring them down. They both screamed and fear hugged each other.

Achary held her eyes tightly shut. They snapped open, however, when she heard peculiarly familiar voice.

"Are you alright?" Chris asked. She looked up at him in astonishment. After a few moments, she promptly reddened and pushed against him, falling to her feet, wobbly and awkward.

"Ge- I-, Get off me!" she cried out. He widened his eyes and mumbled an uncomfortable "sorry". Before he did much else, Achary went on and skedaddled out of there.

Kris flapped her peregrine , as she ran away, Zach in hand, a peregrine falcon had happened by, and she used that as a means of escape. Zach was out cold, an hung limply from her claws.

A little flying later, and he slowly awoke. He looked around, and upon seeing that he was high above the ground, immediately sent out a high pitched scream.

"Gah! H-hey! Don't worry, I got you!" Kris cried out. Zach looked up to see Kris falling her wings.

"We're fine, we got away." she reassured. Zach said nothing and looked on. What happened exactly? He remembered the big scary shadowy thingy, and then... He felt warmth crawl up his neck as he remembered their shared fear hug. They were so close, touching cheek to cheek, and he distinctly remember a certain 'area' that didn't exist in the male version pressed up tightly against his chest. He fainted again.

Achary walked up to her bed. She sat on it and hugged a nearby pillow. She buried here face in it, beginning to blush again. What was different about it? So what, kris had saved her before from that hippodile, so why should it be different with the male version of the green kratt?

"Stupid wild rats..." she muttered embarrassedly.

By the time Kris landed, Zach was awake again. She gently put him onto his feet. In a heartbeat, Zach was out of there. Kris blinked, then "hmmped" offendedly.

"Your welcome." she said angrily. First she was dragged out of bed, then chased down by an animal, and when she saves Zach, he does nothing but run, not even a "thank-you". She stomped home, deactivating, too angry to fly.

Zach held his heart, leaning against the jet door, safely behind it. THAT was embarrassing. He went to the spare spare bedroom and sat on his own bed.

What if... What if shes angry that he didn't thank her? He wildly shook his head.

'Why should I care?' he thought, 'Girl or not, she's just a dirty wild rat!' he told himself.

He didn't succeed in convincing himself. He sat under the blanket, obsessing over what he should and shouldn't have done, all night long.

Kris, Chris, and the blue siblings all, somehow, found each other again. The blues both lit up at the sight of their siblings.

"There you two are! Come on, let's go find that animal!" they cried out.

"NO!" they both cried out simultaneously. the greens walked to the sleeping bags, huffily climbed inside of them, and that was that.

Martin and Marteen blinked, silence succumbing. They frowned and sighed in defeat, then retired to their own sleeping bags.

"G'night." "Night."