Hypothermia chapter 7
Himino opened her eyes to find herself above the ground. She noticed that someone was holding her. She looked up.
"Hayate?" she stood up in surprise, started to fall backwards and accident kicked Hayate. Hayate grabbed her foot after it kicked him as Himino now hung from a tree. She also now tried desperately to hold down her skirt she thought she was wearing but soon remembered she was wearing heavy clothing from when it was cold. She tried to kick Hayate several times more before realizing this. The branch started to crack before completely braking off and sending them both to the ground below.
"Nice going Tulip-head..." They both got up and noticed that there was no snow and it was warm. No one else was around; Takako, the knights, or Tsumetai.
"Where are we?" Hayate pointed up so Himino looked. There was a flock of typies that flew over-head. "We're in-"
"-Leafania!"
"Takako, not so loud." The couple was standing on a cliff near a beach; very lost. "I haven't seen this part of Leafania before but there are Leafanian animals everywhere so it must be. That and it looks like Leafania." Sasame scratched his head.
"So what should we do?" Takako had lost the book after they had fallen.
"I guess we start walking and try and find someone. Or we could build a boat." Sasame turned to where Takako was but noticed she had already started walking. He hurried to catch up with her.
Go walked through the woods of Leafania carrying two unconscious boys; Shin and Hajime. Go was thankful that they had at least staid together through the fall, which no one could see anything in. It was so dark. He thought it would be better to walk then fly because if he dropped one of the kids when he was walking, it wouldn't be so bad as if he were flying. He shook his head at the thought. He was worried about Mannen and the others. 'I hope they're ok. Hajime and Shin should be fine. I only woke up a little while ago.' He looked at the two and smiled at his little brothers.
A large green typi popped its' head out of a bush and looked at Go. The looked at each other and blinked several times before the typi completely came out of the bush then hopped along the ground.
Go was curious as to what this typi was doing so he fallowed it. The typi led him to a small hut that was in ruins that was made of stone. It was missing part of its' roof and a piece of a wall. It probably used to be a Leafanian's home but was now abandoned. There were human-like people living in Leafania. (AN/ in my fic :p.) Go went in after the typi into the hut. He walked slowly while looking around. There were two small beds in which Go place Hajime and Shin then looked for the typi. The typi had perched himself on the top of the wall which bore no roof. He looked up at.
"Thanks typi." And smiled again.
Mannen stared at the sky. He was lying on his back in a small clearing. He felt weak and it hurt to move. He only woke up a few minutes ago. The last thing he remembered was darkness and falling. There was also the feeling of his blood flowing from his wounds, which still remained. It was different from before, though. He turned his head to on of his arms and say that there was a white bandage that was stained with blood.
'I wonder who did that.' He looked around as much as he could and found there to be no one else. Frustrated, he closed his eyes in an attempt to sleep but a sound caught his ear and he opened them once again. When he did this there was a girl looking down at him. She looked part fox. (AN/ it's the girl from the end of chapter 5). She looked curiously down at him.
"Did you do this?" He asked her and she nodded before walking out of Mannen's line of site, which wasn't very far. She returned to a side of him with a hand-woven basket with herbs in it. She was tending to his wounds.
Mannen tried to talk to her while she did this since he couldn't do much else. "Do you have a name?" She didn't answer. "Can you talk?" The girl nodded. "Quiet aren't you?" She nodded. "Who are you family or friends?" She didn't answer. Mannen sighed. "Well, my name is Mannen."
"I do not have a name." Mannen looked up at the girl when she had said her first words to him. "I have always been on my own."
"Then I'm gunna call you...Reki." The girl looked at him surprised then got up and walked away only to return a moment later with a clay cup that had cool water in it and was slightly green. He guessed it was from more herbs she put in the water. Mannen suspected it was medicine of some sort.
"Why are you helping me?"
"Because you are hurt."
"Yeah but you don't know me and didn't you think I was dead or something? Some people would have just left me there."
"I do not know how to answer your question." She looked at the knight curiously as he began to sit up and drink the medicine. When Mannen was done drinking the medicine, they slowly walked over to a tree, the girl helped Mannen walk, and Mannen sat down and leaned against the trunk. It was then when Mannen noticed his back hurt when touched. He no longer had the wings like before but the holes in his shirt, of course, still remained. The ice crystals, which had formed on his cheeks, had also disappeared and any other trace of what had happened except his wounds and ripped clothes. "I like the name." Reki said which caught Mannen off guard.
"So you've always been alone?"
"I have also been accompanied by animals of this forest."
"What do you do all the time?"
"Survive. But I also look for interesting objects."
"So you're a treasure hunter?" Reki looked at him strangely. A look as though she didn't understand. "Never-mind. Where do you live?"
"In this forest."
"Where do you spend most of your time I mean; your house?"
"I move around often but I do have a place where I keep things I find." Mannen found her interesting. It was quiet for a few minutes. "I will go find food. I will be right back." And with that she ran off into the woods.
Mannen felt so useless being so weak and he hoped that he would regain his strength soon. He guessed between getting sick, his injuries, and using a lot of his power left him worn. He waited for Reki to come back. Mannen had instant like of the new girl.
He looked around and it was only then that he started thinking about where he was. "Leafania..."
"I am back." Mannen didn't even hear her footsteps. He turned to her to see that she was carrying a huge leaf with two strange looking fish on it. She put them down then began to dig a hole with her hands and after that she put stones around the outside of the hole. She left again to come back with sticks and dried leaves. She put these materials in the hole then disappeared into the forest once again. This time, she came back with a piece of glass and held it in a position until the leaves began to burn.
"One of my findings." She was saying about the piece of glass. "It got stuck in my foot one day while I was walking near a village."
"Ow...Didn't that hurt?"
"Yes. But it happens often. Everything I have was found by me." The fire became larger and the Leafanian girl came and went from time to time to retrieve wood to feed the fire.
When it became dark, Reki put the two fish on a stick each by sticking it down the now-dead-fishes' throats then stuck the sticks into the ground near the fire so they would cook.
Mannen looked at the girl huddled near the fire. It had grown rather cool after dusk.
"I am used to the cold." Reki had noticed that Mannen was staring at her. When she said this, he quickly looked away. It was then when Reki took one of the fish sticks out of the ground and handed it to Mannen, who took it gratefully. She took the other and they ate together, quietly.
When they were done the stars were out and they decided to sleep. Reki curled up on the side of the fire she was sleeping on and Mannen slept against the tree underneath its' leaves and the stars.
