Chapter 2
Disclaimer:begins to sob NO I don't own Resident Evil and I won't try to say I do, not ever again!lets out another sob
We finally arrived at our destination around noon. It's a lovely clearing, right next to the Rio. Some people would say that it is not a clearing at all due to the fact that the branches from near by tree formed a kind of roof over it, but do you think we cared? When we were younger we had found the place by pure accident. We thought that is was so cool that we started calling it our "training grounds" and "the mystical camp site". We were young and didn't care what others thought. And boy were we proud of this place, we had fixed it up real good. It had become our home away form home.
"Lets train in our swordsmanship" Inu said, "we have named it our training grounds so why don't we train?"
"Yes, let us. Will you join us my Lady Kago?" Andrew asked.
"Oh, how I would love to My Lords, but some one has to cook diner." I joined in their game.
"If that is how it must be then let me tie up the horses and make sure that they have food and water." Andrew said, giving me a bow before he went.
I gathered some fire wood and started a fire. I thanked Good for liters for without them I would never had started a fire. I cooked diner as the boys used branches to fence. Dinner was a lovely stew with some bread.
We then laid out our mats and went to sleep. I took the first watch that night. We switched off every three hours making sure that the fire was still going and that no one was approaching. I had the last watch before dawn.
Near the end of my dawn watch when I heard some branches brake on the leafy forest ground. I soundlessly woke the boys up. We quickly rolled up our mats and woke the horses. More branches broke as the intruder came closer and closer. It was approaching from the left side of the camp. I drew my sword and took my place in front of the boys, ready to protect them to my last breath. It suddenly hit me that it could only be some animal that is native to the Bosque. Either way I would fight it to the death.
The intruder was coming closer and closer. We were tense when the sound came right in front of us, right behind a tree. Andrew grew restless and shot the tee, the sound drew the thing out off hiding.
I gave a sigh of relief to see a half grown wolf pup. It looked like it had been abandoned, or something, it was thin and weak, and half starved. I dug into one of my saddlebags and pulled out a small hunk of meat. I healed out the meat to the pup. It walked to me with cautious steps. It sniffed the meat and then ate it with a little less enthusiasm than I expected.
"There you go little one, if you need more I will hunt for it." I told the pup as it ate the meat. "Will you stay with us, little one?"
It looked at me with big ice blue eyes and panted happily. This wolf did not act like a wild creature, but like a rather large house dog. It started to lick my hand and sniffed around for some more meat.
"Kago, we need to get going if we want to be back by midnight." Inu said after the wolf had sniffed us all out.
"O.K. but we're taking Wesker with us." I said with a mischievous grin.
"Sorry, but who is Wesker? I don't want any sico maniac guy coming to my house." Andrew said.
"No, not evil sico Wesker. My puppy!" I said, laughing wickedly.
"O.K. ............... lets ride" Inu said, gibing me a weird look.
I picked up Wesker and mounted my horse. We rode on in silence for a bit. Wesker fell asleep in my lap and I almost followed him in sleep. (Yes, we found out that Wesker is a boy. Gee ain't I lucky? I'm surrounded by stupid boys! JK ) the steady rhythm of the horse and the sound of hooves on the loosely packed earth could put almost anyone to sleep. This was how it was for several hours, us humans occasionally joking and talking, the animals nicking, baying or lightly barking in a playful manner. We were all just enjoying our time out in the wild with nothing to do but use our imagination to make up our own adventure.
Wesker suddenly woke up, barking like a mad dog. He jumped off the horse and stood barking dangerously. Suddenly he went silent and scampered to the back of my horse. The hole Bosque was dead silent.
"Erin what's going on?" both boys asked me in a frightful whisper.
I suddenly heard a moan, several more joined it. From the sound that they maid I estimated that there were at least five of these creatures.
The smell of rotting flesh reached my nostrils. It was so strong that not only could I taste it in my mouth but it almost gagged me. I moved with lighting speed to grab my bow and string it. I laid it across my lap and drew my sword. I made my horse move to stand in front of the boys horses and prepared my self to attack.
Time stood still as I waited for what ever was coming to come. I suddenly remembered something a close friend had told me. "you will never have a true adventure if you are prepared for it, a true one only comes when you are least prepared for much of anything." See what funny things come into your head when your waiting for disaster to strike. But seriously, she had a point and I could know understand that point because I was stuck in an adventure that I would never have been on in the first place if it wasn't for the attacks that have been happing in out forest.
Suddenly five zombies came limping out of the trees. I quickly grabbed my bow and fit an arrow to the string. I got the lead zombie in the forehead, right were they shoot them in the Resident Evil game.(see what good video games are?) I heard shots fired from the guns that the boys have and three more zombies hit the sack for good. I drew my sword and sliced the head of the last zombie but not without getting bit.
I let out a growl of pane and Wesker joined in that growl. I waited to see if here were any more zombies, but not a leaf moved in the stony silence that followed. I sheathed my sword and let out a sigh of relief.
"Lets go, unfortunately we have to go in the same direction that the zombies came from." I commanded in the dead silence. My arm started to itch but I ignored it. It wouldn't do of the boys started to worry about me.
"We should take care of that bite." Andrew said.
"Don't worry I'll be fine once we get home. Come on, we need to get moving if we want to be there by night fall." I said.
Num with fear and surprise, the boys followed my orders without much complaint. We followed the trail till noon. The shock of the morning's battle had disappeared and was replaced with predictions of what was going to happen to us this afternoon.
We settled down to have lunch. I kept an image of calm and absolute coolness about me on the outside but I was really about ready to just run away and never return. I had a terrible time killing anything, plus I never liked dead things anyways.
I was sitting there by the fire, when Inu came up to me with the first aid kit. I had been absently scratching the bite the entire time.
"We need to take care of that bite. You know that. Your dog even knows that. He's been whimpering because you won't stop scratching it so he can take care of it." He said and grabbed my arm.
I gave him a bewildered stare and then looked over where Wesker had been sitting. He was sitting there whimpering and just looking at me with his big blue eyes. I had never thought that they would all worry about me even if I looked like I was fine.
Inu cleaned me up and bandaged the bite. He was gentle and quick, I never felt his hands touch my arm at all. He gave my arm a small pat on the bandages to tell me that he was done.
"Thanks" was all I could say at the time.
Half way through lunch Wesker started barking again. I was instantly on my feet with my sword drawn.
"Stay here. I'll go see what's up." I said trying to keep the fear out of my voice. "Ok Wesker, show me what's wrong." The wolf ran ahead of me and I followed as close behind him as I could.
I got only twenty feet before Wesker stopped and growled fiercely at the ground. I got down on my hands and knees. I found nothing in the litter around me.
I stood up and walked forward a bit. The ground beneath me suddenly gave way and I was pitched into darkness. I gave off a pitiful scream as I fell. I heard Wesker give off a bark and follow me down. A few seconds later I had landed on a soft, squishy, pile of something with Wesker landing on my chest.
I heard a faint thump above me and some one way "Crap I need a new pair of pants." I quickly moved out of the way.
Saddlebags flew down the shaft and two boys landed on top of them. Wesker barked happily when he recognized there sent.
"Ow! Andrew, get off me! I can't breath! Plus you're all wet." Inu yelped.
"All right, all right. I just needed to catch my breath. Sorry" Andrew said in reply.
They scrambled off the mushy thing and came up next to me. "Why the hell did you follow me? You guys could have gone and gotten help." I hissed at them.
"Sorry when just heard you scream. We ran after you to see what was happening and we fell soen with you."
"Fine!" I hissed "Why are the Saddlebags with you?"
"We were taking them off the horses and draping them on each other just to see how strong we are."
"Stupid boys" I muttered. It went pitch black at that moment. It was fast and sudden, no warning at all.
Instead of screaming like I wanted to, I went to the saddlebags and shifted through them. I blindly relied on my sensed to tell me what was going on.
Andrew and Inu were scrambling around, trying to find one another and the light switch. A Few seconds latter I heard the two of them collide with each other and fall down. The force of the impact temporarily knocking them out.
Shaking my head I continued to shift through the bags. A moment later I found what I was looking for.
I turned of the industrial strength flash light. The boys were just waking up from there little "nap" thanks to Wesker liking them to death. I turned the light to were we full and let out a defining scream.
Oh a cliffy!! I hope you all like it. Sorry I haden't updated in a bit, to many things going on. Plz R&R.
--- Kagome ---
