By Day I Cry, By Night I Howl
By Unicorn13564 (Kim)
Chapter 8: Suspicions
Horo's eyes slowly opened, and as his vision came into focus, he quickly saw that he was in his tent.
'Could it be? Had it all been a dream?'
Horo sat up, then, as he tried to crawl out of the tent, a great amount of pain shot through his side, causing him to grit his teeth and moan. Suddenly the zip to the tent came undone and in crawled Ren.
"Keep still." He ordered, watching Horo slowly settle back down. Horo looked down at the bandages around his waste.
"What happened?"
"I was about to ask you the same question."
Horo lowered his head into his hands as the pain in his head was so excruciating.
He was running again, but not through the forest, through the village. He attacked someone, but his face was masked by the shadows. He scaled up a wall and howled into the night.
"What's wrong…?" asked Ren, seeing the expression on his friends face.
'For some reason,' panicked Horo, 'I can't tell what's real and what's not, its all so confusing…'
Horo winced as Ren removed the bandage to reveal a deep wound.
"You're gonna need to get it checked over."
Horo whimpers a bit as Ren bathes the wound with a clean cloth.
"Don't worry; I won't let anything happen to you."
Horo looked at Ren. "Why'd you say that…?"
"Because I'm a friend and friends should stick up for one-another and protect one-another." Horo forced a smile, but Ren didn't smile back. "I… I know sometimes I act like I hate you… but you do know you can tell me anything… right…? I mean- were friends, and I would prefer it if we listened to each other instead of… instead of pretending something's not wrong or nothings bothering us…"
Horo looked at Ren. "Ren… there's something I need to ask you…"
The young Tao's head shot up in interest, "Yes?"
"…Do… Do you believe in werewolves?"
Ren sat their, looking at Horo blankly as if to say 'please tell me your not serious'. Horo quickly looked in the other direction, "Never mind… I was only joking… how'd I get here anyway…?"
Ren stared at Horo, "You mean you don't remember…?"
"Yes… I just want to know how you know…"
"Who said I knew anything…?"
"Doesn't matter." Said Horo, deciding Ren wasn't going to tell him even if he knew, and tried to drop the subject.
"If you must know, I found you lying in a bush." Said Ren, trying not to sound like an idiot.
"…In a bush…?"
Horo watched a man from a distance
"Yes, in a bush." Ren stopped bathing the wound and covered it back up. "I need to go to the village later. Your not fit enough to walk the trail like this so I'll bring the doctor to you."
Horo agreed and watched as Ren left the tent. A few hours later, Ren left for the village and returned with the doctor as agreed.
"Now, you have to stay inside your tent and try not to move so much, it will only cause pain and you wouldn't want to catch your injury on something. If it starts to bleed, which it shouldn't, but if it does put pressure on it and get Ren to come and get me." He instructed, "It will be sore for a few days and Ren will have to apply some antibiotics every day for three-five days. After that you will have to be careful but it should heal on its own." With that, the doctor left.
A few hours later, Ren came in to check up on Horo. "How are you?" he asked.
"I've been better."
"…So, you going to tell me what happened?"
"I wish I knew."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"Nothing." Horo replied.
"Look," said Ren, peering out of the tent, "The moon if full." Horo's eyes widened. "Wonna look at it with me?"
Horo instantly buried his head into his pillow and uttered a muffled response. "No."
"But you like the moon."
"No, I'm tired."
Soon hours had passed since Ren had left the tent to go look at the moon, and had eventually gone to bed. Horo just lay there, wondering once again if Ren was still awake. Horo coughed; his throat dry and sore. It had been dry for some time now, and the bottle of water next to him was completely empty, yet he didn't want to leave the comfort of his tent, and Ren has specifically told him not to move. Horo called out to Ren but got no reply, so decided to limp out into the night and down to the small river a few minuets away. He didn't look at the sky as he knew the moon was full. He walked up to the crystal clear water and gasped as he saw the reflection, then laughed to himself for a reflection couldn't make you transform, and he still wasn't one-hundred percent sure if he was a Lycan. Horo turned round when his bottle was full and was about to limp back when an overgrown crow dived at him and clawed his head; making a small cut on his forehead. Horo glared at the crow as it flew off into the sky, only, as it passed the moon, so did Horo's eyes. The bottle dropped onto the floor, spilling the water. Back at camp, Ren shot up as he heard a near but distant howl and rushed to see if Horo was alright, only… he was gone…
Unicorn13564: Don't ask why he keeps drinking water from a river coz I don't know myself. (Sighs) He's going to catch something if he keeps doing that. Bless… I feel like I'm being cruel to him… oh well, I'll make it up to him in later chapters; think I should make him kiss Ren? Oh, the reason I updated so soon after the other chapter is because I realized I left the updating a little too long, so as a token of my apology, I updated again.
