XII. I Said What?
The vulpine stared at her speechless at what she had said to him "when did I?...This makes no sense" He thought to himself. The vixen became worried a few moments later when the vulpine still hadn't made a move or a sound she groaned loudly at him to snap him back to his senses.
"Krystal...I-- I never told you that I loved you.." He said trying to hide his real emotions for her, he was too shy to admit that he did love her. "Yeah you did..The night before we went into the--" Krystal stopped to cough before finishing "Before we went into that temple you said 'Krystal, I think I'm in love with you'" when she was finished the vulpine's face had gone blood red "I--I thought you didn't hear that.." he said he kept blushing he never liked being put on spot like this, even though he was a leader and a hero to many he was still shy towards newer people to him and never has he been shy of anyone like he had Krystal.
"I made a mistake." he said, he was confused and didn't know what to do, the whole situation he was in had not really settled into his mind but he felt a sickening feeling in his stomach after telling her that. "So you don't love me?" She said it was obvious she had not expected the vulpine to react this way.
"Krystal I--I" He continued to say he wanted to just get away from this situation in any way possible. "Krystal hold on i'm going to get something for your wound real quick i'll tell you in a minute.." he said getting up and walking to his Arwing again, he was trying to think of not one but two things now, how to save her and how to either ignore his emotions or let her know his real emotions for her.
He went into Krystal's Arwing looking for anything he found a box of bandages and also tried to use it to contact The Great Fox. "Dang" the vulpine hit the screen when it said he could not establish a connection with the ship.
The vulpine sat in the cockpit of the Arwing thinking about the whole situation until he had finally thought of the way to do this. "It's okay...All I have to say is that we should get to know each other better until i build my confidence, that's all.....I can do this" He thought to himself gathering confidence to confront her.
When the vulpine had finally got to her he noticed something, she had passed out apparently while he was gone. He kicked the ground angrily at the fact that he had finally gotten a way out of his situation and it didn't matter. The vulpine bandaged her and tried to figure out what to do about her medical issue.
He normally hadn't acted like this in an emergency situation, normally he was cool and everything went fine but this time he was worried and trying to figure out what to do, he finally grabbed her and got into her Arwing. Setting her down on his lap he slowly took off, it was dark and the vulpine could hardly see where anything finally taking off he flew straight not even knowing where he would go but he knew anywhere would be better than waiting. He looked at Krystal and sighed he wanted to tell her so much but now she probably wouldn't listen to what he had to say, he kept on thinking about her and he was determined to just tell her the truth he loved her and would risk anything for her. He could hear tree limbs snapping off the side of the Arwing, he had been lost in thought and flew too low he couldn't see anything until finally he could somewhat see the reflection of the moon off some water he paid close attention to his radar which was now showing a map for him.
The vulpine kept looking at Krystal on and off until he finally paid attention to her for one more second than he should have. The ship flew into some trees and then flew into the ground with a loud crash. Not only had the famous hero lost his cool in a situation he had also crashed, something he had never done without being in combat before.
The vulpine's head hit the radar screen when he crashed almost knocking him out and leaving a gash on his forehead. He saw blood running down the radar screen, but all he could see was a red blur running across a black blur. Krystal woke up at the sound of the crash startled that she woke up in such a strange position it had thrown her down in front of the vulpine's knees she heard the vulpine breathing heavy above her and she tried to figure out where they were.
She pushed him out of the way, got up and saw where they were, all she could see was darkness and a few areas in the windshield where it had cracked she then looked over at the vulpine and saw him slumped down face down on the screen. "Fox?" she said but he didn't answer he had passed out, the vixen sighed at how life had drastically changed for her in the past few months and was worried for both of them. She sat there beside Fox motionless thinking about how he would answer her question from earlier and fell asleep beside him in the cramped up cockpit of the Arwing.
-Author's note for this chapter on next-