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Ldypebsaby: Yeah, this really is the camping trip from hell. No it's not something she ate, but I wouldn't have eaten the weasel if I was her. As Raina said, weasels will take over the world someday, and I'm with Raina and the weasels.
DemonRogue13: Thanks (sorry that was kinda short, but I can't really say much else.)
Tao's Girl: Yeah, "Kaye" doesn't take kindly to weaklings. Though she's currently possessed by a more primitive spirit, "Kaye" still would get angry pretty quick in this situation.
Tailfeather: A mutant gene kicking in is what's going on. And the reason why Kaye is attacking people is, as I said to Tao's Girl, she is currently possessed by the spirit of a wild animal. It's sorta like what happened to Beast, and no Kaye is not somehow related to Beast.
Dracula'sgurl: Be free my ferrety idiots!! (Sorry to everyone else for that, it's an inside joke.)
Ch 9- The Call of the Wild
Raina didn't have time to run as Kaye leaped towards her. She was bracing herself; it seemed to take a life time for Kaye to just go ahead and hit her, tear her to pieces. Raina watched Kaye sail through the air, claws extended, and teeth bared. Then suddenly, a smaller outline hit Kaye like a freight train in midair. Everyone gaped openmouthed at Ron, who had succeeded in driving the black panther away from the others. Kaye was at least twice as big as the wolf and yet Ron still managed to hit her so hard that she lost her balance and fell to the ground. The huge cat licked her teeth and, tasting blood, went berserk. She had now picked a fight with the jet black wolf, and the others knew it. The two were circling each other, waiting for his or her opponent to spring.
"Why is she doing this?" Raina questioned, wondering why Kaye was attacking her fellows with such ferocity.
"She's not herself." Nate answered. "I mean, she's not exactly a friendly person, but she wouldn't really try to kill anyone!"
"So what are we going to do?" whined Will, who was, like everyone else, scared to death of the dangerous animal.
They were watching Ron try to restrain the panther, but he only succeeded in getting himself scratched, bitten, and bruised.
"Trissy, what have you got in that first aid kit?" asked Nate, hoping to find a solution to their problem somewhere.
Triss was typing furiously on her laptop and didn't answer.
"Triss, what the heck are you doing?" Drake yelled.
Triss didn't even look up from the computer screen to answer, "Looking up leopards."
"Why leopards?" asked Tom franticly, "and why is Kaye climbing that tree instead of fighting with Ron?"
"Because panthers are sort of the opposite of an albino leopard," Triss said, scrolling down franticly on the leopard section of the encyclopedia, "and, RON! GET AWAY FROM THE TREE!"
Triss had spoken too late. Ron couldn't have known that a leopard's favorite hunting spot is from a tree. Kaye leaped from the spreading oak and landed on Ron with tremendous force, knocking him flat and giving him a nasty gash right below his throat. Ron was now at the big cat's mercy. The others stood, all thinking furiously, but not finding a solution to Ron's predicament. By now, Drake had started a powerful earthquake, but Kaye just hung on to Ron as the earth shook, gripping him with her claws and causing deep cuts near the base of the wolf's neck.
"Stop! You're making it worse!" Raina screamed as tears sprang from her eyes in fear for her brother.
"Somebody do something," Rosie sobbed, who was greatly shaken by this event.
"Stop it!" Raina shrieked as a last resort. She then clutched her throat, thoroughly surprised by the rasping noise that she had produced. Kaye still had her claws sunk deeply into Ron, but looked up at Raina.
"What did you do?" Joel asked wide eyed in confusion.
"I don't know." She whimpered, even more puzzled than Joel. "I told her to stop it, that's all."
"Do it again!" Nate yelled, his hopes raised ever so slightly.
"Stop!" Raina shouted to Kaye, the same raspy hiss emitting from her throat.
"Why should I?" answered a voice very unlike Kaye's.
"Did you hear that?" Raina whispered in an awed voice at hearing an animal speak.
"Yeah, it growled, so?" Drake snapped, slightly frustrated about not being in control anymore.
"No she didn't growl, she talked!" Raina corrected.
Just then, a realization dawned on Triss. "Raina," she spoke excitedly, "See if you can talk to Ron!"
"Ok, I'll try." She answered hesitantly. "Ron! Ron, can you hear me.?" She asked.
"Yeah, please help. It hurts." He whispered, mentioning Kaye's claws that were still buried in his flesh.
"I did it!" she told Triss. "He answered too. He wants us to help him."
"Of course he does, we could have told you that!" Will stated.
Triss frowned at Will and said, "Raina, you are the only one who can get Kaye to calm down!"
"And how am I supposed to do that?" she questioned frantically.
"Raina, are you really that dense? You have a new mutant power. You can talk to animals!" Triss exclaimed, shaking from fear, excitement, and fatigue.
Raina sat, wide eyed, as she tried to process the thought. She then started to speak to the furious panther. It was hard for her to find the right words.
"How do you speak to a panther?" she asked herself.
"Yer doin' it right now, stupid." came a growl a few yards away.
"Um, could you please let go of my brother?" Raina inquired shakily, petrified of speaking with the wild animal.
"What's in it fer' me?"she said in a low, scratchy voice.
Raina immediately knew this wasn't Kaye. For the whole twenty four hours she had known Kaye, Raina had been best friends with her. Even though Kaye wasn't a social person, and had the maternal instinct of a rock, Kaye was pretty dignified and wouldn't sink as low as hurting an honest person.
"What do you want?" Raina asked, puzzled as to what a panther would request.
"I want him to die." She snarled, gesturing to Ron.
"Why?" Raina questioned, realizing that the panther wasn't going to back down.
"Because he picked a fight with me first." hissed the shadow.
"Could you just let him go?" pleaded Raina.
"Well, seein' as how you don't have anythin' I want, no." the malevolent creature laughed, digging her claws farther into Ron, causing him to yelp sharply. Raina stood horrified at the cat's lust for blood.
"Triss, this isn't working," Raina moaned, tears rolling down her cheeks after seeing her brother be mauled like that.
"I didn't think so," Triss whispered, trying hard not to look at the battered and bleeding Ron.
Nate was rummaging through the first aid kit, trying to find something to help. He brought out a small oxygen tank and said, "Triss, you didn't bring a first aid kit, you brought half the infirmary!"
"You dropped this," Will remarked, holding an empty injection.
"Will, you're a genius!" Triss gasped as she gave him a hug.
"I am?" he said in disbelief, blushing as he was unused to attention from females, apart from his mother.
Triss didn't answer, because she was reading the back of a small bottle of liquid labeled Ketamine.(1) She then filled the injection to a certain extent, as she had watched Kitty do many times.
"What are you doing?" Nate asked, wondering what his twin could be up to.
"I'm going to put her to sleep." Triss answered, nodding toward Kaye, but turning her head quickly as Kaye gave Ron a vicious slash across the muzzle.
"Raina, can you distract Kaye?" Triss asked urgently.
"I think so," she replied.
"Good," Triss added finally, before disappearing into the woods not five yards from the panther and her victim.
"Hey, ugly!" Raina snarled at Kaye taking a braver approach than last time.
Kaye roared in anger at the insult and turned her attention to Raina.
"Do you know how dangerous that was?" she spat, baring her endless rows of teeth.
"You let him go now you bloodthirsty wretch!" Raina retorted, throwing a small stone and hitting Kaye on the ear.
"You've got courage. I'll remember that as I kill you." The animal smiled widely, looking even more ferocious as she grinned.
"Quit smiling, pansy, and fight!" she bellowed, trying to seem more confident than she felt.
"I'll only fight you once he's gone." The cat warned, lowering a claw against Ron's unprotected throat.
"Over my dead body!" Raina replied maliciously.
"That can be arranged." Kaye answered in a sinisterly silky tone.
Just as Raina thought the cat might actually fight her, or finally kill Ron, she saw the black leopard wheel around sharply and swipe at something. Triss managed to scamper up a nearby pine, but not before Kaye had left four claw slashes on her tail right to the bone. Kaye started to ascend up the pine to Triss, who was trying to find a way out of the tree without getting killed. Kaye was getting dangerously close to Triss when she slipped, sliding down the bark and leaving the tree scratched badly. She started to make her way back up the tree, but slowed and fell again. The panther then decided to circle the tall, skinny tree, but her eyelids began to droop, and her movements became slower and more sluggish than before. Kaye finally crumpled into a heap at the base of the pine tree, the hypodermic still hanging from her skin.
1) Ketamine is an animal tranquilizer that pretty much knocks you out flat in about two minutes. It can be used on humans though.
Ldypebsaby: Yeah, this really is the camping trip from hell. No it's not something she ate, but I wouldn't have eaten the weasel if I was her. As Raina said, weasels will take over the world someday, and I'm with Raina and the weasels.
DemonRogue13: Thanks (sorry that was kinda short, but I can't really say much else.)
Tao's Girl: Yeah, "Kaye" doesn't take kindly to weaklings. Though she's currently possessed by a more primitive spirit, "Kaye" still would get angry pretty quick in this situation.
Tailfeather: A mutant gene kicking in is what's going on. And the reason why Kaye is attacking people is, as I said to Tao's Girl, she is currently possessed by the spirit of a wild animal. It's sorta like what happened to Beast, and no Kaye is not somehow related to Beast.
Dracula'sgurl: Be free my ferrety idiots!! (Sorry to everyone else for that, it's an inside joke.)
Ch 9- The Call of the Wild
Raina didn't have time to run as Kaye leaped towards her. She was bracing herself; it seemed to take a life time for Kaye to just go ahead and hit her, tear her to pieces. Raina watched Kaye sail through the air, claws extended, and teeth bared. Then suddenly, a smaller outline hit Kaye like a freight train in midair. Everyone gaped openmouthed at Ron, who had succeeded in driving the black panther away from the others. Kaye was at least twice as big as the wolf and yet Ron still managed to hit her so hard that she lost her balance and fell to the ground. The huge cat licked her teeth and, tasting blood, went berserk. She had now picked a fight with the jet black wolf, and the others knew it. The two were circling each other, waiting for his or her opponent to spring.
"Why is she doing this?" Raina questioned, wondering why Kaye was attacking her fellows with such ferocity.
"She's not herself." Nate answered. "I mean, she's not exactly a friendly person, but she wouldn't really try to kill anyone!"
"So what are we going to do?" whined Will, who was, like everyone else, scared to death of the dangerous animal.
They were watching Ron try to restrain the panther, but he only succeeded in getting himself scratched, bitten, and bruised.
"Trissy, what have you got in that first aid kit?" asked Nate, hoping to find a solution to their problem somewhere.
Triss was typing furiously on her laptop and didn't answer.
"Triss, what the heck are you doing?" Drake yelled.
Triss didn't even look up from the computer screen to answer, "Looking up leopards."
"Why leopards?" asked Tom franticly, "and why is Kaye climbing that tree instead of fighting with Ron?"
"Because panthers are sort of the opposite of an albino leopard," Triss said, scrolling down franticly on the leopard section of the encyclopedia, "and, RON! GET AWAY FROM THE TREE!"
Triss had spoken too late. Ron couldn't have known that a leopard's favorite hunting spot is from a tree. Kaye leaped from the spreading oak and landed on Ron with tremendous force, knocking him flat and giving him a nasty gash right below his throat. Ron was now at the big cat's mercy. The others stood, all thinking furiously, but not finding a solution to Ron's predicament. By now, Drake had started a powerful earthquake, but Kaye just hung on to Ron as the earth shook, gripping him with her claws and causing deep cuts near the base of the wolf's neck.
"Stop! You're making it worse!" Raina screamed as tears sprang from her eyes in fear for her brother.
"Somebody do something," Rosie sobbed, who was greatly shaken by this event.
"Stop it!" Raina shrieked as a last resort. She then clutched her throat, thoroughly surprised by the rasping noise that she had produced. Kaye still had her claws sunk deeply into Ron, but looked up at Raina.
"What did you do?" Joel asked wide eyed in confusion.
"I don't know." She whimpered, even more puzzled than Joel. "I told her to stop it, that's all."
"Do it again!" Nate yelled, his hopes raised ever so slightly.
"Stop!" Raina shouted to Kaye, the same raspy hiss emitting from her throat.
"Why should I?" answered a voice very unlike Kaye's.
"Did you hear that?" Raina whispered in an awed voice at hearing an animal speak.
"Yeah, it growled, so?" Drake snapped, slightly frustrated about not being in control anymore.
"No she didn't growl, she talked!" Raina corrected.
Just then, a realization dawned on Triss. "Raina," she spoke excitedly, "See if you can talk to Ron!"
"Ok, I'll try." She answered hesitantly. "Ron! Ron, can you hear me.?" She asked.
"Yeah, please help. It hurts." He whispered, mentioning Kaye's claws that were still buried in his flesh.
"I did it!" she told Triss. "He answered too. He wants us to help him."
"Of course he does, we could have told you that!" Will stated.
Triss frowned at Will and said, "Raina, you are the only one who can get Kaye to calm down!"
"And how am I supposed to do that?" she questioned frantically.
"Raina, are you really that dense? You have a new mutant power. You can talk to animals!" Triss exclaimed, shaking from fear, excitement, and fatigue.
Raina sat, wide eyed, as she tried to process the thought. She then started to speak to the furious panther. It was hard for her to find the right words.
"How do you speak to a panther?" she asked herself.
"Yer doin' it right now, stupid." came a growl a few yards away.
"Um, could you please let go of my brother?" Raina inquired shakily, petrified of speaking with the wild animal.
"What's in it fer' me?"she said in a low, scratchy voice.
Raina immediately knew this wasn't Kaye. For the whole twenty four hours she had known Kaye, Raina had been best friends with her. Even though Kaye wasn't a social person, and had the maternal instinct of a rock, Kaye was pretty dignified and wouldn't sink as low as hurting an honest person.
"What do you want?" Raina asked, puzzled as to what a panther would request.
"I want him to die." She snarled, gesturing to Ron.
"Why?" Raina questioned, realizing that the panther wasn't going to back down.
"Because he picked a fight with me first." hissed the shadow.
"Could you just let him go?" pleaded Raina.
"Well, seein' as how you don't have anythin' I want, no." the malevolent creature laughed, digging her claws farther into Ron, causing him to yelp sharply. Raina stood horrified at the cat's lust for blood.
"Triss, this isn't working," Raina moaned, tears rolling down her cheeks after seeing her brother be mauled like that.
"I didn't think so," Triss whispered, trying hard not to look at the battered and bleeding Ron.
Nate was rummaging through the first aid kit, trying to find something to help. He brought out a small oxygen tank and said, "Triss, you didn't bring a first aid kit, you brought half the infirmary!"
"You dropped this," Will remarked, holding an empty injection.
"Will, you're a genius!" Triss gasped as she gave him a hug.
"I am?" he said in disbelief, blushing as he was unused to attention from females, apart from his mother.
Triss didn't answer, because she was reading the back of a small bottle of liquid labeled Ketamine.(1) She then filled the injection to a certain extent, as she had watched Kitty do many times.
"What are you doing?" Nate asked, wondering what his twin could be up to.
"I'm going to put her to sleep." Triss answered, nodding toward Kaye, but turning her head quickly as Kaye gave Ron a vicious slash across the muzzle.
"Raina, can you distract Kaye?" Triss asked urgently.
"I think so," she replied.
"Good," Triss added finally, before disappearing into the woods not five yards from the panther and her victim.
"Hey, ugly!" Raina snarled at Kaye taking a braver approach than last time.
Kaye roared in anger at the insult and turned her attention to Raina.
"Do you know how dangerous that was?" she spat, baring her endless rows of teeth.
"You let him go now you bloodthirsty wretch!" Raina retorted, throwing a small stone and hitting Kaye on the ear.
"You've got courage. I'll remember that as I kill you." The animal smiled widely, looking even more ferocious as she grinned.
"Quit smiling, pansy, and fight!" she bellowed, trying to seem more confident than she felt.
"I'll only fight you once he's gone." The cat warned, lowering a claw against Ron's unprotected throat.
"Over my dead body!" Raina replied maliciously.
"That can be arranged." Kaye answered in a sinisterly silky tone.
Just as Raina thought the cat might actually fight her, or finally kill Ron, she saw the black leopard wheel around sharply and swipe at something. Triss managed to scamper up a nearby pine, but not before Kaye had left four claw slashes on her tail right to the bone. Kaye started to ascend up the pine to Triss, who was trying to find a way out of the tree without getting killed. Kaye was getting dangerously close to Triss when she slipped, sliding down the bark and leaving the tree scratched badly. She started to make her way back up the tree, but slowed and fell again. The panther then decided to circle the tall, skinny tree, but her eyelids began to droop, and her movements became slower and more sluggish than before. Kaye finally crumpled into a heap at the base of the pine tree, the hypodermic still hanging from her skin.
1) Ketamine is an animal tranquilizer that pretty much knocks you out flat in about two minutes. It can be used on humans though.