Act Four - Home
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Chapter Twenty-Six - Sleep
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Charmy stood over Tails with his fist still raised.
Cream jumped to Tails side without hesitation.
"Stop yer quarrelin' it's not the time" Marine said pulling Charmy's arm back down.
He wouldn't turn away even as the pressure on his arm grew.
Finally Marine yanked his arm and sent him spinning to the ground.
Before Charmy could react Marine set herself down on his stomach.
"Marine... what are you doing?" Charmy asked as she repositioned herself to lie on top of him.
Marine ignored his question and instead pressed her lips against his, gaining a soft moan of shock and joy from her little bee.
"I'm still the captain, i'm in charge" Marine said as she pulled away from him.
"Tails..." Cream hovered over Tails and the quickly growing bump on his cheek.
"I think I actually deserved that..." Tails commented as he cringed from the pain on his face.
Cream started to fuss over Tails but he gently pushed her back.
"We need to see to him, I don't think his leg is all that got hit." Tails said motioning to Usagi.
Tails got up with a small groan and Cream followed him to Usagi's side.
First glance only the leg looked bad, but now, they could see it was much worse.
Cream gasped as she noticed the large red pool forming behind his head.
"CHARMY, MARINE, we're going to need help here!" Tails called back as he rushed to Usagi's side.
Cream lifted him up a bit to find where the bleeding was.
The second she saw it, she had to stop herself from dropping him.
"It's his ear..." She said softly, looking away from instinct.
Tails cringed a little as he saw what Cream had seen.
Part of Usagi's ear had been ripped off from the hit he took, the right ear continued to bleed profusely.
It was just part of the tip that was gone but for rabbits, that could be horrible.
"A lot of blood runs through there..." Cream commented through held back tears.
"Charmy! Look for help nearby, we need to get him to safety!" Marine said pulling him from the ground.
Charmy buzzed off as Marine moved closer.
"We need some sort of cloth to stop the bleeding... but we don't have any..." Tails said looking around in frustration.
"I've got a bunch... just turn around for a moment" Marine said with a small blush.
"There's no time to waste" Tails said not noticing the blush on her face.
"Just do it mate, or Charmy will wanna wallop you when he gets back..." Marine said and Tails turned around just now getting her meaning.
He heard a soft grumble and then a ripping sound before Marine handed him a long strip of fabric.
"Plundered if from a pirate... figured he must'a done the same to some other poor sheila..."
Tails made sure not to look as Marine redressed while he went about bandaging the wound.
Cream snuck a glance but still felt a little sick.
"Not too tight... if you kill too much blood flow, the entire ear could go..." She commented, thinking back to everything her mother had taught her.
"How do you know all this?" Marine asked and Cream blushed a bit.
"Mom always said I should be able to take care of kids when I got older... she just assumed they were going to be rabbits..." Cream blushed more as did Tails but he didn't let it get in the way.
Every layer of light blue fabric was quickly turning a deep purple until finally the bleeding seemed to stop.
"The rest of him looks ok... we'll need to make a splint for his leg but that shouldn't be hard..." Tails let his body rest a second.
Cream and Cheese flew up to a small branch and broke it off.
They landed and Cream started to pull up her dress.
Tails saw her start and quickly turned away with a soft blush.
"You could have asked me to look away..." Tails said staring at a small leaf.
Cream looked up at him for a second before ripping off some cloth for the splint.
"To be honest... I didn't really care if you were looking..." she said with a large blush flushing her face.
Tails blush grew to the point where his ears felt like they were on fire.
"Just... don't tell my mother..." Cream added with a nervous tone.
Tails couldn't make up his mind, "Should I be blushing or going pale?"
Marine slumped to the ground causing both Cream and Tails to look.
Cheese looked up from the splint he was putting around Usagi's leg and at the raccoon for a second.
"I'm dog tired... think i'll rest a spell..." Marine was asleep before she hit the ground.
"All the adrenaline... it must be wearing off... which means..." Tails felt his sentence be interrupted with a yawn.
"Here comes the... crash..." Tails fell to the ground in exhaustion.
Cream helped Cheese with the splint as the fatigue from the situation began to take hold of her too.
Cream finished the splint with half closed eyes and soon drifted off to sleep.
Cheese stayed awake, his soft wings still beating their normal pace as the group rested.
A new set of wingbeats came as Charmy returned.
"nearby village... will be here... in a bit..." Charmy panted before he too collapsed.
His frame came to rest to Marine's and she pulled him closer in her sleep.
Cheese was now alone, among all the tired friends.
He had to stay awake... he just had to.
There was always another time... to sleep...
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Loud footsteps brought Tails back to consciousness.
A set of sharp claws greeted him followed by a hanging tongue.
"I reckon these folks be the one he was talkin' bout." a thick accent came from above his vision.
Tails looked up and saw a medium sized dog with long green fur.
"That buzzing nusciance... he one O' yours?" the figure asked Tails pointing at Charmy.
"Yes... our friend needs help..." Tails motioned towards Usagi and the dog jumped over there in a few leaps.
"Please if there is a village nearby... we need to get there..." Tails began to pull himself from the ground.
The dog gave him a look before jumping back in terror.
"The rabbit smells like a cat... and the fox got two tails... No no no no no..."
"I don' mess with no voodoo, you head that aways... you and your buzzing friend..."
"Wait just, we need help..."
"In a bit you alls find a road, guards go long every otter day and they can go and help you..." He was backing towards the trees with his hands raised.
Tails took a step towards him and the dog leapt for the trees and out of sight.
"I don need no trouble, take you voodoo and travel that way..." came from the bushes before silence set over them.
Tails roused the groggy group.
"Did that weird dog get here..." Charmy asked as he woke.
Tails looked down for a second.
"He came... but he left..."
Everyone looked down for a minute before they heard a rustling sound.
"I din feel right leaving like that... i'll guide you to the road but keep those two with the voodoo away from here..." The dog said from the bushes.
"But we can't even see you, quit flabbing and get out here!" Marine yelled into the trees.
"No no no no no... I stays here, away from yous, and yous can follow my voice... no voodoo needed..."
Tails shook his head.
"There isn't any voodoo, we got here when" Tails was interrupted by a large bark.
"Ey! I said no Voodoo, don you go and cast notting at me!" The dog called from the bushes again.
Cream stepped forward, "We won't hurt you, thank you for leading us, can we ask your name?"
"Thank you little missus... just keep those away from me and I don care, you can calls me Guide... I don need no voodoo knowing my name no no no no no." The answer came back.
"Thank you Mr. Guide..." Cream said cheerily before turning back to the others.
"We will need a stretcher... or Usagi won't be able to come with us..." Charmy said looking at their injured friend.
Two long sticks flew from the bushes and rattled until they came to rest next to Charmy.
"Those can help yous with your friend... but I wish you wouldn't. Voodoo is something you don wanna ever mess with." Guide said from the bushes.
"Thank you..." Cream said hesitantly before looking around.
"We still need something to put between to carry him on..." Tails commented.
Marine tackled Charmy to the ground.
She jumped back up with his bomber jacket in hand.
"Sorry there mate but he needs it a bit more then you." She said carting off his prized jacket.
"We can use his shirt as well, those two will easily hold the bugger up..." Marine said pulling his shirt off.
"Watch it child, the Voodoo is strong, don go loosing yous mind..." the voice came back from the bushes.
"Shove it, I ain't no ankle bitter." Marine bit back fastening the stretcher.
When they were all ready to go Tails and Charmy hefted Usagi onto the stretcher and lifted it from the ground.
"I can show you the way for a bit... after that i'll have to leave..." Guide called jumping farther into the trees.
"Just you follow me and you don have to worry bout any more then that voodoo."
They walked for the entire day, the constant calls of Guide pulling them along.
The moon began to rise with the night before Guide said more then "This aways."
He crashed into the clearing they had stopped at but quickly put a good distance between him and Tails as well as Usagi.
His long fur fell over most of his face and the green coloring made him hard to see against the trees.
"I don got more time, keep going that way, when the sun come up follow her and yous be at the road in a bit... don go ahead no more tonight, rest here..." He seemed jittery as he told them.
"Thank you..." Cream said drawing closer.
"Choo" Cheese said having only woken up a bit ago.
Guide jumped backwards so fast he tripped.
"Gah, no no no no no, she's a little witch with a little familiar. I helps you, remember? Please don hurt me, I don want nothing to do with voodoo no no no no no!" he cried as his limbs struggled to pull him farther away.
"Please..." Cream started just to see him rush off.
"You leave old me alone and goes that aways in morning, tell nobody I helps the voodoo no no no no no" were the final words they heard from their odd companion.
Cream just sighed and looked at Cheese.
"He may have been odd, but I think we should listen to him..." Tails said.
"You know he wanted you and Usagi gone right? Marine turned to him.
"No I mean about the resting part, I think it's time to get some... sleep..."
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A new chapter, and a new act...
let me apologize to the world of english grammar.
I just had a bit too much fun with their little guide's accent but it really fit what I was going for.
For those out there in need of romance... i'm sorry there wasn't that much in here...
As for Cream's little... uh... well you know what i'm talking about...
That was just to show a little bit of something but set up for something else...
Man... i'm having a real hard time with my no spoilers thing...
"Don worry now, he's gotta lot more in store!"
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Till Next Time
- One Psychopathic Maniacal Fox