Stranded with a Rogue
Chapter 2
A shelter
When they woke next morning they didn't pass even a glare, they realized that they had to survive somehow and they wouldn't be able to if they didn't work together. So they set about finding wood, or rather, Wave did. Silver had to put all his concentration into stripping the bark from the trees and making them into planks. Wave felt a grudging respect for Silver's power as she watched him.
"We'll need something to hold them together." Said Silver in a tired voice, he looked exhausted and it was only (by Wave's watch) half an hour after they had started. "Like nails?" Silver shot a glance at her, too tired to glare. "Yes." "I have some." "But only so many." "And if you hadn't interrupted me I would have been able to say that I found a small pit while looking for wood. It looked like there might be metal."
Wave lead Silver to it and he lowered himself in, he ran his hands all over the walls, "Yes, it is." She heard him sigh, "More work." "Wait." Silver watched with amazement as she searched through a bag she had taken to carrying everywhere, it was a shoulder bag and could hold quite a bit. She pulled out a pickaxe. She leapt down beside him. "Let's get to work." Soon they had a wide variety of lumps. Silver soon abandoned getting the lumps so he could shape them into nails, Wave got the lumps.
Soon they had more then enough nails. "Say.... some of these lumps are jet, diamond, onyx.... could you shape some of these into smooth balls Silver?" Silver shrugged, a few more wouldn't hurt. So he did. There was a bit of sapphire too so he shaped some balls for himself.
The house was large enough to carry four people, a kitchen (of sorts) and a "living room" (of sorts). Silver lifted it and himself into a tree then lifted Wave up. They secured it to the tree, the tree was sturdy enough to withstand any storm. Even Metal Sonic in his Metal Overlord Form would need twice that size to go around it completely. So they could easily assume that the roots were even bigger.... they probably spread into the sea floor.
"So now what?" Asked Wave. "We won't have any technology, that's for sure, but we can try to make beds or something." There were weird clearings all around the forest with cotton growing in them, and vines hung around plentifully. So they quickly made a cotton/vine ladder and attached it to one tree, from there, if they timed it right, there were two vines that they could use to swing right onto the thick branch their tree house was attached to.
There were numerous streams too, they couldn't find their way out of the forest easily because the streams were so intricately woven together they seemed to make a spider web over the whole island, you could find yourself going in circles. So Wave and Silver stuck to the area within a loop made of three streams, their tree house was located in it. Wave was the one who was having a harder time with no technology than Silver was, but she was smart and soon they had a few things that would benefit them.
Silver found a way to weave the cotton into mat like things, so he weaved two large ones then used another cotton strand to seal the edges together, they stuffed the hollow area inside with more cotton, effectively making mattresses. Wave made an oven out of sapphire with Silver's help, he was able to bind the stone together so it was one big piece, and they put logs in there, Silver helped her fashion a door for it from jet and a handle from some gold they found.
If they had had a way off the island Wave would be thinking of how much money they could get from all the precious and semi-precious stones and all the precious metals on the island, but at the moment she was more concerned with what they could do with it.
They had an axe too, thanks to Silver again, so they had a neat pile of firewood beside the "oven". Silver, with his ability to levitate, could easily collect bird eggs for Wave to fry for them, on the oven's surface. Silver made some cloths out of more cotton and Wave would use them for washing. So all in all, that one day brought lots of good stuff. The only side effect was that Silver was tired beyond belief. "Wave? I'm going to go lay down?" She saw him wince as he tried to loosen his shoulder, "Just a second..." She came over and tried a massaging technique she had learned for Jet in case he got tense and needed one.
Silver was surprised by this but didn't comment. He thanked her then went to bed while she cleaned up. Then, eventually, she went to bed too.
Authoress: ;) Need more ideas. ^^ Ideas are completely welcome.