Chapter 6:
Hercules and Iolaus had agrred to wait until Fern was better. 5 days they had arrived, Ferlan stood in the garden of the building Fern was being treated. Suddnely, he was tackled to the ground. He and his attacker rolled over a few times, but he ended up on top. He looked down to see he was ontop of his sister, who was grinning up at him.
"YOU'RE OKAY! In that case..." he said, and began tickling her.
"Hey!" she yelled and couldn't say anything else. The loud sounds of laughter caught Iolaus and Hercules' attention and they entered the garden.
"We... giggle ...have... giggle ...company." Fern informed between. Ferlan stopped and looked round at Iolaus and Hercules.
"So I take it you're better." Hercules said.
"Yap. Proved that healer wrong. Ha." Fern said standing up, with the help of her brother, with a proud look on her face and her arms raised in the air in triumph.
"I guess we can set off then." Hercules said and left. Iolaus went over and patted her on the back.
"Glad you're okay." he said with a smile, but stopped as he saw her wince.
"You are sure you're okay right?" he asked worriedly. "We can wait you know."
"No. It's okay. I'm fine." she replied quickly and straightened herself again.
"If you say so." Iolaus shrugged and followed after Hercules. She turned round to see her brother looking at her with a raised eyebrow and his arms crossed.
"Where you pretending to be okay when we wrestled?" he asked.
"NO! Don't worry! I'm fine." she said. Ferlan sighed.
"Fine." he said and followed after Iolaus. As soon as he was safely away, she bent over a clutched her wound in pain.
'I don't know how much longer I can keep this up.' she said to herself. She straightened up again and followed suit.
After packing their stuff and squeezing their way past the healer, who still wasn't convinced Fern was better, they set out again but this time on horse back.
"Hopefully, we won't be ambushed by weird 3 headed monsters this time." Fern said clutching her stomach.
"Well don't go running up to them and firing arrows at them next time." Hercules said.
"Hey! I didn't know it was gonna have a cow and charge!" she yelled in defense.
"You could've dodged." Iolaus piped in.
"I know. I was just frozen to the spot." she confessed.
"I guess you're loosing your edge, Sis." Ferlan joked.
"Maybe..." she muttered and looked down sadly.
"Hey! C'mon, Sis! I was only kidding." Ferlan said. She just looked at him with the same sad expression.
"So...What's it like having a smelly toe shoved through your stomach?" Iolaus asked trying to cheer her up. She looked up at him and grinned slightly.
"It bloody hurt." she replied.
"Really? I would've thought it felt like a butterfly landing." Iolaus said in fake surprise.
"A bloody big butterfly!" she told him.
