Since I promised a long chapter, here's one!! Everyone thanks for the reviews!! I'm over 100 reviews!! I never expected that. Everyone keep reading and reviewing :D
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The next evening, the gang was gathered in the main room of Ninja Ops. Everybody had rested a lot since yesterday and was now fit. At least a little. Hunter and Dustin had dropped by the police station today to tell them Dustin's side of the whole story. Dustin still couldn't describe the rape but with Hunter by his side told them what happened as good as he could, stopping when he broke down in tears. After that he went to the hospital for a blood test. They would get the results later.
Sensei had planned some sort of a night game for them. Sensei split them up in two groups: the winds against the thunders and Cam. They were cuffed together. Shane in the middle with at his right Dustin and at his left Tori. In the other team, Hunter was in the middle with his brother at his right and Cam at his left. All were in training outfit. The whole idea from the game was once again teamwork. Now they were forced to work together. One group were the hunters while the others were the prey. They were sent in the forest. The prey got a five minutes head start to go hide in the forest, the hunters had to find them. If after an hour, the prey wasn't found, they won. If they were found, the other team won. Streaking was not allowed. The winds were the prey first.
" Good luck!" Sensei told them. The winds bowed as they ran out of Ninja Ops and into the dark forest. They ran as quickly as they could for 3 minutes and then stopped in a cave.
" Alright, here's the plan. They probably think that we ran deep in the forest. So we run a little further and double back. We stay in the neighbourhood of Ninja Ops." Shane told them. Dustin and Tori nodded. That sounded good. As long a they didn't have to run to much.
Five minutes had passed and Hunter, Blake and Cam left. A few feet from Ninja Ops they stopped, closed their eyes and focused on their lovers, trying to sense them.
" I think they went straight ahead." Hunter spoke after a couple of minutes.
" No, they're still around here." Cam argued.
" I honestly think they don't went to far." Blake said.
" True, Shane probably has a plan. He doesn't do anything without a plan which means we have to figure out what the plan is." Hunter replied.
" Alright, let's think. It's dark, they're not stupid so they probably didn't went to far in the forest." Cam reasoned. Blake and Hunter nodded their agreement.
" Let's go!" Blake said. They ran straight ahead through the forest as Hunter first thought.
A few feet further, the winds looked from the shadow of a tree. They had heard their reasoning.
" Dude, they're so onto us." Dustin spoke.
" Yeah, Cam's smart, he knows what we're up to." Shane agreed.
" So what do we do now?" Tori asked.
" We run into the other direction." Shane spoke. Dustin and Tori nodded as they ran out of the shadows and past Ninja Ops. A few feet further, they found themselves face-to-face with the thunders and Cam.
" Crap." Shane said. Tori and Dustin laughed.
" We saw you guys hiding there…" Hunter started.
" So to confuse you we ran into the forest…" Blake continued
" And quickly doubled back." Cam finished.
" Return to Ninja Ops." Came sensei's voice through their morphers. They walked back inside.
" 40 minutes. Well done. Now the other way around." Sensei said. Hunter, Blake and Cam bowed and disappeared on to the forest. They ran for five minutes straight and then came to an hold.
" The winds are never gonna expect we're running deep in the forest so that's exactly what we're gonna do." Cam said. Hunter and Blake nodded. They ran further. Hunter tripped over an tree branch and fell, dragging the other two with them. They quickly stood back up.
" Everyone okay?" Hunter asked.
" Yeah." Came the reply. They ran further, this time in a slower pace.
The winds decided not to waste any time on thinking this through so they just ran blindly in the forest, trusting on their inner ninjas.
" Guys, we need help!' came Cam's panicking voice through their morphers. They abruptly came to an hold.
" Cam? What's wrong?" Shane asked worried. The others listened impatiently until Cam continued. If Cam was hurt, the others were too and that wasn't good.
" We sorta ran of a cliff and Blake's losing his grip." Cam reported.
" Where are you guys?" Tori asked.
" I don't know but…" Then everything went silent.
" Cam!" Shane yelled.
" We have to find them!" Dustin yelled panicking.
" Dustin, calm down!" Shane said. " Come one." They ran further, trusting on their Inner Ninja and each other. After a few minutes, they stopped running, knowing they didn't have much chance finding them if they kept running blindly.
" Let's think this through. Where in the neighbourhood is a cliff?" Shane asked them. They thought about that for a moment.
" I know! Where the forest stops and the beach starts!" Dustin exclaimed. Tori and Dustin were about to start running again but Shane pulled them back. Dustin and Tori looked at him, irritated.
" Guys, that's miles long. We need to get this cuffs off." Shane told them. Shane had a point. Without cuffs it would go easier to find them.
" How?" Tori asked. Shane closed his eyes for a moment, concentrated on his Inner Ninja and with a fast movement trusted his arms up, breaking the cuffs.
" Sweet." Dustin said, impressed. Shane rolled his eyes.
" Come one!" Shane yelled. They quickly ran further.
" Can't we just steak?" Tori asked. Dustin and Shane cursed. They should've thought about that earlier. This running was costing them precious time. They had no idea what happened or in what shape their lovers were. They streaked the remaining distance and finally reached the cliff.
" Now what?" Tori asked. Around here it was pretty dark. They heard the waves but they couldn't see them. Of course today it had be clouded so that the moon and stars were covered.
" Come one, guys, where are you? Give us some sign!" Shane screamed. A lighting shot through the air, momentarily lighting the sky.
" Down there!' Shane pointed down. Seemed like they had lost their grip. They had no clue what their condition was.
" We have to get down there!" Tori yelled panicking. Dustin was about to climb down when Shane pulled him back.
" Dustin, are you nuts?" Shane yelled.
" We have to help them!" Dustin yelled back.
" Ya think? Climbing isn't gonna work. We can't afford that some one of us gets hurt too 'cause then we can't help them at all. Why the hell couldn't they streak themselves to safety!" Shane said frustrated. " Okay, we just jump or rather streak down, praying we land safely or we're screwed."
" I liked climbing better." Dustin muttered but nodded. As did Tori. Shane was their leader and they trusted him. They took one last breath and jumped down. Strangely enough they landed safely on one knee. Dustin looked up. Man, they sure did jump a whole way down. They quickly ran over to the other three.
Hunter seemed unconscious, blood dripping from a wound on his for head, Cam's leg was in a weird angle which didn't exactly looked healthy and Blake's arm laid trapped under his body and was like Cam barely awake. With some force, Shane broke the cuffs.
" Cam, can you hear me?" Shane asked. Cam groaned. That was good enough for an answer.
" Don't worry. I'll get you back." Shane said. But how? He looked around. They better first thought of a way to get back before jumping down.
Dustin kneeled down next to Hunter, checking for a pulse. He was relieved to find one. With a piece of his shirt, he cleaned away the blood. Hunter looked awfully pale.
Tori turned Blake on his back, relieving some pressure from his injured arm. Blake groaned in pain. She looked helplessly at him.
" Guys, we have to get them out of here." Dustin said even more worried about Hunter who seemed to be even more pale. Shane nodded.
" Sensei, can you teleport us back in about a minute?" Shane asked. This was once again one of there good-ideas-when-it-was-to-late things. They could've though about that earlier.
" Yes, Shane. I'll get the system ready." Sensei replied. Shane nodded at the others and carefully lifted cam form the ground, Tori helped Blake up and let him lean on her. She held one arm around Blake's waist while with the other, she held Blake's injured. Dustin ,too lifted Hunter from the ground.
" We're ready, sensei." Shane spoke. A bright flash surrounded and they were back in the safety of Ninja Ops.
"Shane, take Cam to his room. Tori and Dustin, take them to one of the guestrooms. I will come to assist you to take care of their wounds." Sensei ordered. They nodded. Sensei followed Shane to the room. Shane went to get some bandage ad a bowl of water. Then ,with the help of Sensei, wrapped it around Cam's leg. It appeared to be badly bruised but lucky notbroken which mend Cam would be able to walk soon.
Sensei went over to Tori's room and assisted her putting a bandage around Blake's arm. One again they were lucky his arm wasn't broken but still, it was better that he did as less as possible with it. Tori thanked sensei and stayed with Blake while Sensei went to check Hunter
Dustin had already put a bandage around Hunter's head.
" Dude, I mean sensei. He still looks awfully pale." Dustin said worried.
" Do not worry, Dustin. He is unconscious but he will wake up soon." Sensei spoke.
" Thank you, sensei." Dustin bowed as sensei left the room to check on his son who had woken up for a minute but was now fast asleep again with Shane holding him tightly. Sensei smiled, stayed to talk to Shane for minute and then left to do some meditating.
Blake ,too was asleep with his good arm holding Tori who had her head against his chest, listening to his regular breath. She was so relieved he was okay. She didn't want to loose him.
Dustin sat in the chair watching Hunter sleep. He took Hunter's hand. This sort of things kept happening to them. It was like there was some sort of an evil spell on them, which was stupid but he had been watching 'Charmed'( You gotta love that show :D) again. Hunter stirred, groaned and opened his eyes.
" Hunter!" Dustin exclaimed, hugging Hunter tightly. Hunter softly rubbed Dustin's back. Dustin pulled away.
" I was so scared." He said, burying his head against Hunter's chest.
" That makes two of us." Hunter said, softly stroking Dustin's hair.
" What happened anyway?" Dustin asked.
" We kept running further into the forest. But the further we went the darker. We barely saw where we ran and tripped more then once. Suddenly we were hanging of that cliff. Blake had managed to grab hold of something. Those cuffs really cut into our skin painfully but it was sort of an extra support to hold on to each other. Cam reached my morpher and called you guys but before he could tell were we where, Blake lost his grip and then everything went black." Hunter told him. Dustin filled him in on what happened after that and also told him Blake's and Cam's condition.
" You jumped off that cliff. Are you nuts?" Hunter nearly yelled.
" Well, yeah. It was the only way to reach you guys." Dustin replied, crossing his arms.
" Dustin, that was a whole way down. You could've hurt yourself." Hunter spoke softly, looking in Dustin's brown eyes.
" It was the only way. Trust me, if we had another choice, we wouldn't havejumped." Dustin said, staring in Hunter's blue eyes where he could drown in any time.
" Thanks for saving us." Hunter said. Dustin smiled. " Now let's go to sleep." He added. Dustin laid in Hunter's strong arms, resting his head against Hunter's chest. Hunter placed a soft kiss on Dustin's for head.
" Goodnight." Hunter said, before drifting off into a dreamless sleep. Dustin mumbled something back and ,too fell asleep in a not so peaceful sleep.
A few hours later, Dustin woke up, holding back a scream. That same nightmare again. He turned away from Hunter, crying softly. He tried not to wake Hunter up. He knew he was gonna keep having this nightmare every night and he really didn't want to wake up Hunter every time he had it.
Hunter wasn't sleeping very deep and noticed Dustin turning away from him and crying softly. He wrapped his arms around him and pulled him close again. Dustin turned around and cried against. Hunter's chest. Hunter didn't speak. He knew Dustin just needed to cry it out. He softly ran his fingers through Dustin's hair.
" I really tried not to wake you up." Dustin spoke as he was calmed down a little.
" Dustin, it's okay for you to me wake up. I'm here for you." Hunter soothed him. Dustin nodded thankfully, closing his eyes and falling back asleep. A peaceful this time…
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See, I'm perfectly capable of doing longer chapters ;-) the next chapter, Hunter and Dustin go shopping and run into those five idiots. What will happen?? How will Dustin react to this??