Chapter 4

Floran has to get Yuki out of here, but even if Floran manage to get her out of here, we would be hunted throughout the forest. Wait, Floran remembered something that Idalla said a long time ago.

"Yuki, do you have something called 'spaceship'?" says Floran. Yuki sits on the floor, turns around, and looks at Floran.

"Yes, I got to this planet on a spaceship, why?" asks Yuki, but Floran has no time to explain.

"Where is the spaceship?" Yuki looks at something on her wrist before answering.

"It's a few miles to the east from here." Floran doesn't know what miles are, but Idalla said it was some kind of way to 'measure' distance.

"If Floran started running towards the spaceship, how long would it take? A day? Two days?" Yuki gets up from the floor, and walks to the bars.

"Why are you asking this?"

"Just answer the question, how long?"

"If you're fast, it would take less than a day, maybe even less than half a day." That's good enough for Floran. Floran heard from Idalla that spaceships can fly into the stars, so if we reach it in time, Yuki could get out of here safely. Floran moves to the lever of her cell, and push it down. The door opens, and Yuki looks surprised. Floran doesn't have time for this, so Floran grabs her hand, and starts to pull her out of the dungeon.

"Where are we going?" asks Yuki.

"Out of here," says Floran.

"What? Why?"

"Not talk time, move time now." The prisoners in the dungeon start to make noise, but Floran hit the bars with Floran's sword, and they fall silent again. We stop near the entrance, and Floran looks around the corner. There was only one guard at the other side, who looked very bored. He probably had to stay guard there, and he was missing the party that the others were having.

"Wait here," Floran says, and walk around the corner. Floran heads straight to the guard, who notice Floran's approach.

"Hey, where are you going?" asks the guard.

"Floran is hungry, going to get some food."

"You're supposed to guard the fish girl."

"She's in her cell, she's not going anywhere." The guard seems to think on it.

"Fair enough, and while you're at it, get something for Floran too." Floran walks a few steps. Once Floran gets next to him, Flora pulls out Floran's sword, and hit him in the head with the hilt. He didn't see it coming, and falls to the floor. Floran looks at Yuki, and wave her over, while looking around to make sure no one heard or saw what happened. When she gets to Floran, we go on our way of the dungeon, and we were lucky that it was pretty much empty. Once we get above ground, Floran looks around, and can see that everyone is at the party. We take the opportunity to sneak out of the tribe, and head into the forest. Floran knew the forest very well, Floran probably doesn't know what 'miles' and 'hours' are, but Floran does know where East is. Floran starts running as fast as possible, but I hear Yuki calling.

"Seba, wait!" Floran looks back, and notice Yuki falling behind. Floran slows down so that she could catch up.

"We have to go faster," says Floran.

"I can't go that fast." Floran should have expected that, otherwise she wouldn't have been captured in the first place. Floran could only think on one solution, so Floran puts it into action. Floran grabs the fish girl, puts her on Floran's shoulder, and run. Floran is surprised that Yuki was really light.

"What are you doing?!" asks Yuki.

"Floran is carrying you," says Floran, even though it was pretty obvious.

"Why?"

"It's faster." Yuki goes quiet for a moment.

"How long do you think it will take them to notice I'm gone?" After Yuki asked that, we hear noise in the distance, and Floran knows very well what it is.

"Floran hoped for long." Floran doesn't even stop to look, Floran just keeps running as fast as possible. We might have a head start on them, but I worry mostly about the Florans that might be in the forest. Not only that, but since Floran is more focused on reaching the ship, Floran had no time to erase our tracks. We continue on our way, Floran hopes to be going the right way, and haven't seen anyone so far.

"Okay, turn right, and keep going forward," says Yuki, and Floran does as instructed. Floran sees a hill in the distance, but instead of going over it, Floran starts running around it. Half way going around the hill, I hear Yuki yell.

"Watch out!" Floran had enough time to look to the right, and see someone dropping down on us from the top of the trees. Floran looks around, and quickly throws Yuki on some bushes. Then, Floran pulls out Floran's shield just in time to block the blade coming Floran's way. Floran prepares for combat and pulls out Floran's sword. Floran look at her attacker, and it turns out to be one of Adjoda's hunter, Luliku.

"How did you know Floran was coming here?" asks Floran.

"Floran didn't, but Floran didn't trust you, never did. Floran suspected you would set her free, and try to get her to her ship," says Luliku, and points at Floran with a spear.

"Yuki, are you okay?" asks Floran without taking her eyes away from Luliku.

"Yeah, I'm fine."

"Listen to Floran, Floran will open a path for you. When that happens, you use it, and run as fast as you can without looking back."

"What about you?"

"Floran will handle her." Luliku laughs when Floran says that.

"You think you can beat Floran, one of the chief's best hunters?"

"You forget something Luliku. Just because Floran never defeated the Ixodoom, doesn't mean Floran can't beat you."

"Why don't you prove it with your actions?" Floran wasn't exactly lying. Floran always survived the Hunt, but Floran have seen Luliku fight before, and she's very strong. It doesn't matter, Floran only wants Yuki to leave, no matter if Floran lives or dies here.