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"What da heck are you? And don't tell me 'I don't know'" Stranger growled.

"I-I'm a hybrid . . . " I sighed. He lowered his crossbow and looked at me like I grew a second head. "The place I came from is called Vykkers Labs. There they preformed painful tests on me, stabbing me with electrified needles, operating on me, and when I act up, they zap the piss out of me." I fought tears. "A-and if I get caught, They might kill me. I killed over five Vykkers when I escaped, not including the other dozen when they preformed tests and when I had a chance to fight." I was crying now. " I escaped to get away from all that. I didn't tell you because I knew you would abandon me, and I'd get caught again! I-I am a hybrid between a Fuzzle, berserker, and a Steef!" I began to hyperventilate.

I turned around and bolted off at high speed. I bolted on the ramps, and I jumped out of the fortress. I darted through bushes I ran back up where we came from, and I climbed up the wall why did I have to change?! Why?! He hates me! And I actually let him grow in my heart. This is what happens when I let others become my friends! They betray me! I climbed up the cliff wall, onto a ledge that contained a mine shaft. I hid in the shadows and I began to quietly cry.

"ROUGE!"

I ignored him.

"ROUGE! WERE ARE YOU?!"

"ROUGE!"

"I AIN'T GONNA SCREAM ALL DAY!"

Go ahead asshole, like I give a crap.

He stopped after a while. The silence hurt the most. I sniveled and breathed out quietly.

"WHY IN DA HELL DID YA JUS' RUN FROM ME!" I felt a large hand wrap around my wrist. I jumped up and thrashed with no avail. His hand didn't even budge! I stopped and looked to the ground

plop, plop, plop

Said my tears plopping on the rocky ground.

"Look, look at me!" I lifted my head and glared at him. That little back sta- my blood ran cold, and my heart stopped. He was upset himself. Not pissed, but the opposite. He sighed.

"I would never take ya back to dem quacks!" my expression softened. "An why did ya think dat I would! I never said so!" I looked at the ground, ashamed at myself. He was right; he never did. Stupid me! Stupid! He gently lifted my face up with his finger.

"Did ya honestly think that I would do it? Take ya back to dem grapes and get tormented again?"

"N-no . . . not really. I-I'm sorry . . . "I said, with my voice cracking at the end.

He pulled me into a hug, and I wrapped my arms around him. I buried my head in his chest, and I cried. I let out all my pain and sorrow of my past out. He had his arm wrapped around my waist and his other hand was placed behind my head, with his thumb rubbing the back of my head in a circular motion. That's when it hit me. He got shot! I pulled out of his embrace, and I looked at him with teary eyes.

"Didn't you get shot?!"

"Yeah, it don't matter though"

I leaned on one hip and I folded my arms.

"Yes it does." I said, while wiping my tears off

"No"

"Yes!" he obviously saw that he wasn't going to win this battle and he sighed.

"Fine." He huffed.

"Where'd you get shot?"

He tossed his poncho on the ground, and then his shirt. I felt my face turn scarlet and he cocked his eyebrow at me.

"If ya looked any harder, yer eyeballs might pop out!"

My whole head turned even hotter and he turned around. There was a bullet wound on his shoulder. It was deep!

"D-do you got a knife or something?" he rummaged through his bag, and he huffed.

"Nope. Fell out."

"I need water then."

He turned his head and looked at me funny.

"Just, gimme!"

He chuckled as he handed me his water. I opened it up and cleaned my finger nails good, not wanting to introduce other creature's blood in him.

"I'm gonna use my nails." He looked at me weird again.

"Oh hush!" I grumbled.

He turned back around and I grew my nails out. I was glad they where narrow. I eased my nails in and grabbed the bullet and pulled it out.

Pop!

I showed him the pointed and narrow bullet.

"Damn! No wonder why it was so deep!"

"Yup. Bandages?" he rummaged through his bag again and he handed me a roll of bandages. I tightly wrapped the bandages around the wound.

"There we go!"

He put his shirt and poncho back on and cracked his neck.

"Lets go fetch Duke and get on outta 'ere." Then it hit me.

"OH MY GOD! I FORGOT ABOUT POOR BOLT!" I ran ahead and I hopped off of the edge onto the ground. I dashed to the sight.

"BOLT! BOLT! WHERE ARE YOU?!" I looked all around and I couldn't find him!

"BOLT! WHERE ARE YOU!?" I saw something move inside the building, I dashed in there, and a very upset and grumbling bolt was sitting in the center of the room.

"Next time, take me off of your shoulder before you change. I don't like getting bucked off."

"I'm sorry Bolt . . . I'm glad you're okay though . . . " I picked him up off the ground and he hopped onto my shoulder.

"Found 'im?" stranger said. I turned around and nodded. I followed him and we both walked outside and gathered the outlaws. I followed stranger behind the building and there was a large mineshaft. We walked into it.

"AH!" I yelped when a flying creature nearly flew into me. "What the hell was that thing!"

I heard laughter coming from Stranger. I huffed.

"It's called a Boom Bat."

"Hrm . . . " I grumbled. He loaded up Zapfly and he shot all of them down. He scooped them all up, and stuffed them in his pouch.

"Talk about animal cruelty!" I chuckled. He laughed himself and I followed him. We walked through to a drop off, strait into water. I swallowed.

"Can ya swim?"

I shrugged my shoulders "I don't know, I've never been in a large body of water before."

"If ya can't, I'll help ya."

I nodded my head. That's all I need; more help! All I am is a weight. I sighed.

He cannon-balled off of the edge and he made a rather large splash. I swallowed, and waited until he was far enough away for I won't land on his head. I looked at a scared bolt, and I took a deep breath. I forced myself off the edge, and I hit the water. Instincts kicked in, and I swam to the surface. I gasped for air.

"Well, I guess ya can swim!"

"Yup" I replied. I was barely able to keep my head above water. I began to try a different method, and it worked much better.

"Whatcha doin'? Doggie paddlin?" I searched for Bolt. Oh fudge! He can't swim! Stupid, stupid! I began to frantically look around-

"I'm right here! Duh!" he yelled in my ear. I looked at my shoulder to a soaked bolt. "Just to let you know, I'm okay."

"Sorry! I didn't have a chance to answer yet!"

"Oh, by the way, you might have some holes in your shirt." I looked at my shirt shoulder, and there were a couple tiny holes from where he latched on.

"It's okay." I sighed.

"Well, he looks upset!"

I nodded my head

"Yup. He's pissed!"I followed stranger out of the water, and we walked onto land. Ahead was a rope, in, guess what? MORE water. I grumbled and I waded in the water with stranger. Stranger Grabbed onto the rope and I watched as he glided up it with ease. I grabbed onto it and I scurried up it with about the same amount of exertion. I huffed. I hated being wet, and I was soaked to the bone.

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