WEEEEEEE!
Everyone picked themselves up off the ground one by one as they looked around trying to figure out what was going on.
"Alright then," Cagalli said nervously. "I think we just found out what the whole "Warning unsafe zone" thing was about." Cagalli put out as she helped Athrun up off the ground.
"Yeah, I guess so." Athrun answered back.
"Yeah, as freaky as it was, it was also really…random." Milly announced.
"I guess we're good then." Dearka smiled and went back to sitting on his log.
"Mu, I think you should let me take a look at your leg." Murrue said while gesturing to Mu's leg, now soaked through to the bone with blood.
"That might be a good idea." Mu agreed once he caught a glimpse of his leg.
"I think your wound needs attention as well, Kira." Lacus tuned to Kira so that she could investigate his injury and change his bandage.
While the two women treated their men, whom they sometimes wondered if they could pass as children instead, the rest of the group thought about how they were ever going to get themselves out of the extremely unfortunate bad luck they've been tossed into.
"So, how are we gonna work this one out?" Milly started.
"Maybe we can walk?" Lacus suggested as she finished up with Kira.
"I don't think that would- " Milly started but she got cut off by something that sounded a little like a lose, lose situation. Kind of like either you get killed by your worst nightmare, or you jump off a cliff. Either way you die.
"OUCH! Any more alcohol and I'll need a designated driver!" Mu cried out in pain as Murrue tried to apply come rubbing alcohol to his bear scratch.
Apparently, this was no matter of life and death. This was just Mu being the big baby he is.
"If you would just hold still then we would've been done by now," Murrue answered back as she tried to dab on more rubbing alcohol, but Mu grabbed her hand.
"Oh no ya' don't." he jerked his leg away from her reach while she gave him one of her looks.
"Mu La Flaga, if you don't let me see that leg right now I won't sleep in the same bed as you for a month." She knew that would get his attention.
Mu gave her the saddest look she had ever seen. She almost laughed out loud at his cute puppy dog eyes. He slowly brought his leg back up in to Murrue's view. Murrue reached down with her cotton ball again, but he flinched before she even touched him.
"Come on, Mu, don't be such a baby, I didn't even touch you yet!" Murrue laughed as she said this, not expecting Mu to be so sensitive to pain like this. He can handle gunshots wounds and a war, but not a little rubbing alcohol and some scratches from a big fluffy bear.
Murrue went to try once more but he grabbed her hand again. She tried to push down but he kept forcing her hand this way in that in all the directions she didn't want her hand to go in.
"Mu, come on, we need to do this."
"Nope."
"Mu."
"Murrue."
"I'm warning you." That was her warning tone, the one that said 'or else.'
But, Mu still didn't listen; he just kept a firm grip on her arm as the rest of the group watched in amusement. Murrue now moved on to drastic measures.
"Alright, alright, you win, Mu."
"You're not- huh?" Mu questioned her in surprise. He then smiled devishly.
"So you give up, eh?" he asked triumphantly, thinking he had won for once, but oh how wrong he was.
Murrue quickly turned around and started tickling Mu's sides causing them both to fall off their log on to the ground next to the fire; Murrue being the one on top. Mu rolled around laughing while Murrue continued to tickle him all over, laughing as she did so.
"Ok, ok you win!" Mu laughed out loud and she finally stopped her torture.
"Are you going to listen now?" She asked him with a smile.
"Yes ma'am." He answered her obediently, breathing hard from laughing so much.
"Good," Murrue answered while leaning down to lightly kiss him on the lips.
"You know Mu, it sucks for you that she could take total advantage of you right now." Dearka pointed out as Murrue pulled back from their kiss.
"You wouldn't do that, would you?" Mu asked Murrue nervously.
"Let's see, I don't know. Dearka, do you think Mu deserves to be taken advantage of?" Murrue turned to Dearka, but instead of getting an answer from just Dearka, she got drowned in a wave of replies.
"I think the real question is, does Mu deserve to not be taken advantage of?" Cagalli asked, a cat-like grin on her face, a sculpted eyebrow raised?
She pulled Mu's arms up over his head and held them there while she leaned down, her lips only a whisper away from his. She slowly blew on his lips causing goose bumps to dance up and down his arms. She lowered her lips to his neck and nipped at him there until she traveled back up to his lips where she covered his mouth with her own. She bit at his bottom lip before slipping her tongue into his mouth, suppressing a moan from him and 'wooh hoos' from their audience, causing her to smile into their kiss against his mouth.
She eventually felt Mu kissing her back as his tongue raced across her bottom lip causing her to sigh making her mouth open so he could intensify the kiss. Two could play at this game, and he wanted payback. He slipped his tongue into her mouth running it along the roof of her mouth. She fought back as she bit his lip causing him to open his mouth as he cried out in pain against her mouth. She slid her tongue into his mouth and thrust it back as far as she could with out gagging him, thus engaging them in a game of tonsil hockey.
Mu, of course, had other plans. He tickled her sides causing her to jump back with laughter so that they could both take a breath and then he pulled her face back toward him and continued their game with him in the lead. This was greatly arousing Murrue, so she pulled back and let him take the victory as she felt her pride slip through her fingertips.
"Man oh man." Mu said in between breaths of air.
"Holy shit." Yzak called out.
The couple got hoots and whistles form the whole group of teens standing close by.
"Did you guys even breathe?" Dearka asked in utter amazement.
Murrue blushed while Mu just laughed it off.
"You're one hell of a lucky guy, Mu." Kira called out.
"You sure are," Athrun agreed.
Surprisingly Cagalli didn't punch him for that comment, she just nodded her head while laughing a quick 'yeah.' Their moment didn't last too long, however, the ground started to rupture once again. Milly and Dearka ran over to help Mu and Murrue up off the ground while Yzak stumbled along behind them in case his help was needed. The shaking didn't let up either; actually, it made the ground start to crack. A huge ravine started to form right between the two groups, separating them. The ground started to separate leaving a huge gap in between them. It kept going until the ground was about 100 yards apart, too far of a distance to jump.
"Oh, shit." Dearka muttered.
"You said it." Yzak added on.
"Hey, Is everyone alright over there?!" They heard a voice yell from the other side; it was Cagalli.
"Yeah!" Mu hollered back, seemingly being the first to regain his composure.
"Ok, We're gonna try and find some place where the two sides meet! It should be light out soon, so you all should do the same!" Cagalli yelled out their plan from across the crevasse .Everyone on Mu's side nodded their approvals and Mu gave Cagalli's side the thumbs up.
"Ok, we're gonna try and find a place where the two sides meet, like you've been informed. We're gonna stick together. If anyone gets lost, we drop what we're doing and go and find that person. It's then and then and only then that we split up to search. Got it?" Mu pep talked the group before they trotted off into the woods.
He got a combination of answers from the group. "Sure why not," came from Milly. "Alright," from the direction Murrue was in. "Sounds good to me," from Yzak. Then, last but not least, "Okey dokey smokey." You all should be able to guess who that came from.
Mu gave Dearka a strange look before continuing.
"Dearka…ehh, forget it. Anyway, we might as well get started."
Mu's group then began walking through the woods near the edge of the cliff that just formed a few minutes earlier. The forest started to get denser, so Mu spoke up.
"Stay close, I don't want to lose anybody." Mu grabbed Murrue's hand while Milly linked her arm with Dearka's.
"I don't know what you'll do to help if we run into trouble, but at least I have something to hold on to." Milly commented while Dearka smirked.
"Yeah, sure, leave the single guy to walk by himself." Yzak whined from behind the quartet.
"I always told you that you needed a girlfriend, Yzak, but it'll be a cold day in hell when you start listening to me." Dearka teased.
"Please, I get enough of that from my mother. Oh shit, my mother! She's probably worried out of her mind about us!" Yzak panicked.
"I know how you feel, but there's nothing we can do about it really." Dearka stated while looking down.
"Hm." Yzak started wondering what was probably going through his mother's head right now.
She probably thought he ditched the whole idea of even going…oh man. He decided to change the subject to wondering what happened to his little "friends" and hoping that they wouldn't run into them again anytime soon. While he was off daydreaming the group took a turn, but poor Yzak kept going straight. He didn't realize that he was lost until about 5 minutes later when no one answered his question.
"Hey, do you guys think that those bears…are…around…here…oh shit."
Mu and the rest took even longer took even longer to realize Yzak was missing.
"Hey Yzak, I havn't seen your new "friends" around at all, have you?" when Dearka got no response, he turned around.
"Uh, oh."
"What did you do now Dearka?" Milly asked.
"I lost Yzak."
Mu stopped walking. "You what?"
"I lost Yzak."
Everyone turned around overdramatically slow to see…no Yzak.
"You lost Yzak! I can't believe you lost Yzak! Dearka what were you thinking?!" Milly exclaimed, slightly over reacting, but only slightly.
"I wasn't, I'm sorry!" Dearka cried.
"We'll have to split up and look for him then." Mu announced.
"Murrue, Milly, you cover by the ledge. Dearka and myself will look deeper in the woods." Mu explained while Murrue and Milly nodded their heads while Dearka just looked…well…like Dearka in a crisis. Wide eyed, clueless, and slightly crazy.
"Ok, but why are you separating yourselves from us? I figured you'd want to go with Murrue, if you know what I mean." Milly asked slyly.
"Because Yzak needs an extra punch or two, so I'm going to accompany Dearka and personally beat the shit out of that obnoxious pilot." Mu responded dryly, ignoring Milly's comment.
"Alright, how about we meet back here in an hour or so?" Murrue suggested.
"Sounds good, but how do we know where here is?" Milly asked, pointing out a possible problem.
Mu answered by promptly taking off his black jacket to his suit and hung it on a branch. He didn't really car for it anyway. Underneath where the jacket concealed most of he shirt, were rolled up sleeves and an unbuttoned collar; just like him.
He snorted his disapproval of the heavy black fabric. "I didn't like that thing anyway, so we'll use that to find our way back. Once you see my jacket you'll know that you're where you're supposed to be." He walked over to Murrue.
"Are you sure you're gonna be alright, Murrue?" He asked.
"Yes, I'll be fine, don't worry about me."
Mu gave her a soft kiss on the lips.
"Be careful, alright?" He added before turning around.
Dearka wandered over to Milly to say goodbye.
"I guess I'll see you in an hour or so?" he asked with a small smirk.
Instead of answering him with a well thought out joke, Milly stood on her tip toes and gave him a light kiss on the lips.
"Be careful, Dearka." And with that, she and Murrue were off on an Yzak hunt.
"S-sure thing, Miriallia." Dearka answered back to her even though no one could hear him, except for maybe Mu, but he didn't care.
"Let's go kid." Mu grabbed Dearka by the collar and dragged him along to look for poor Yzak.
"Gah!" Dearka was rudely pulled form his reverie but followed along shortly after.
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"So, Murrue…" Milly began.
"Hmm?"
"How far have you actually gone with Mu?"
Murrue blushed as her mind raced back to her and Mu's little game about 30 minutes ago.
"No much further than heated make out sessions on our bed at night."
Milly gave her a suspicious look.
"What?! I'm serious, we havn't done anything like that yet, I promise you."
"I believe you, don't worry, me and Dearka havn't even made out yet. Oh and…sorry that was a personal question I asked back there." Milly apologized, cutting herself off, not really knowing what she was thinking.
"It's alright, really, keep going with your story." Murrue really wanted to hear what Milly had to say about her and Dearka.
"Ok, well, Dearka practically melts every time I touch him let alone kiss him. So, I don't like to rush and make him nervous." Milly laughed at the memories of leaving Dearka stuttering like a fool every time she pecks him on the lips.
"It's just the opposite with me and Mu. The first time he kissed me I thought my legs were going to break on me." Murrue laughed at the thought.
"Yeah, I remember Neumann came to tell everyone that he had caught the Captain and the Commander kissing on the bridge. It was probably the funniest thing just watching his face while he told us." Milly winked while watching a blush creep up on Murrue's cheeks.
"So, when did you start having feelings for Mu?" Milly questioned boldly, wanting to know what the story was.
"Not long after the 8th fleet was destroyed, when we first landed in the desert. That was when I started to feel something for him. I always did enjoy his company, but not the way I did later. It got a bit more intense."
"I had the feeling there was something going on between you two. The way you always told him to be careful when he launched. And the way you two were always flir- I mean talking whether it was in the hallway somewhere or in your office." Milly joked, but was kind of serious at the same time. She thought it was cute the way they acted around each other.
"I guess we were just meant to be, huh?" Murrue asked while laughing.
"I guess so." Milly answered back.
"Hey! We were not flirting!" Murrue cried out upon catching Milly's little flaw.
"Well then, wait until you see the surveillance camera's Neumann snatched up before we disembarked. I actually think they were going to show them at last night's party. It was going to be called, "The things your faithful military personnel does when you're not looking," That must've been good." Milly watched as Murrue paled to a ghostly white color.
"I'm just kidding, but Neumann still did catch you and Mu's moments in the halls together and showed it off to everyone in the mess hall one night."
"All of them?" Murrue spoke out with barely any vocal.
"Yep, all seventy five of them," Milly almost looked like the devil himself when she said that.
"Seventy…five?" Murrue squeaked?
"Yes, seventy five." Milly confirmed.
Murrue gulped loudly while turning the other way. "Oh boy." She could hear Milly laughing from right next to her.
The two were talking so much that they didn't realize how dangerously close to the edge they were getting. It wasn't until Murrue's next step that made them see.
"So what about you and- " Murrue was cut off when she slipped and she gasped when she saw the dark crater beneath her feet.
"Murrue!" Milly cried as she grabbed onto Murrue's hand, the weight pulling her down with her. She noticed the rock crumbling where Murrue was once standing.
Milly dug the toes of her shoes into the ground as she tried not to slip off the edge, but it wasn't working as well as she'd hoped.
"I'm slipping Murrue!"
"Don't let us fall!"
I…can't!"
The last thing the two saw was the beginning of the sunrise before plunging into darkness.
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"Did you hear that?" Dearka asked Mu.
"It sounded like the girls, let's go!"
The two raced to the edge of the cliff through the weeds and trees as fast as they possibly could. When the two hit the edge they scaled it until Mu saw something familiar. He picked it up as he examined it.
"What's that?" Dearka questioned.
"Murrue's necklace." He answered back as he flipped it over.
Love Always
That's what he had engraved on it when he bought it. It was heart shaped, 2 Karat gold and lined with diamonds. It cost him well over 500 dollars as a result. He slipped it into his pocket and stood at the edge.
"Well I think we know where we have to go." Mu spoke up.
"You're kidding me right?" Dearka responded.
"Am I ever?"
"I had to side with the man that makes the impossible possible, didn't I?"
Mu nodded his head as they both got ready to jump.
"On the count of three, one…two…
"Three!" Dearka shouted as he jumped and started to slide down to the bottom.
"See you the bottom, pops!"
"Pops? Oh, he's done!" Mu shouted as he too jumped and slid down the ledge.
30 minutes later
"Oww, my freaking head." Dearka whined.
He looked up and saw Mu still out cold. He also saw the girls.
"Hey Mu, wake up! I found the girls!" he nudged Mu trying to wake him up.
"Huh, what?" Mu lifted up his head.
That got Mu up and moving. He was immediately at Murrue's side upon seeing her.
"This is defiantly not what she needed." Mu said as he lifted her up and nudged her.
"How about it?" Dearka agreed while he watched over Miriallia.
She was he first to come to and Dearka helped her stand.
"Are you alright?" He asked her.
"I just fell off a cliff, what do you think?"
"Yup, she's fine." Dearka announced happily.
It didn't take long for Murrue to come back to reality either. Once she opened her eyes she regained her senses quickly and was able to move almost right away.
"You gonna live?" Mu questioned.
"I'll be fine, but I can't say the same for my feet." She answered while gesturing to her already beat up feet now bleeding from scraping against all of the rocks and roots on her fall down.
Mu gently hoisted her onto his back with a little help from Milly, who was a little scratched up as well; but all in all, she was feeling pretty good for someone who just fell off a fifty foot cliff.
"I guess we have no place to go but forward." Dearka stated as they started walking.
They walked for about 20 minutes before seeing some light in front of them.
"Hey, a way out?" Milly wondered.
"It's possible. Mu answered back as they continued on.
The light turned out to be more than just a way out. All four of their jaws dropped as they made their way to the end of the line. It was, a jungle; a tree infested, wild bird sanctuary. Before they could even take another step forward, they were all pulled out of their daze by a sound that resembled screaming. They turned around to see Athrun land directly in front of them. It looked something like this:
"Ahh! Oomph!."
All of their eyes widened considerably as the scene unfolded in front of them.
"Athrun, are you ok?!" A voice called from up top; Cagalli's voice to be exact.
"I'm fine." Athrun answered from the ground.
"I'm coming down!"
"NO, WAIT-
"Whoahhh!"
Cagalli landed right on top of Athrun, which looked like it hurt a little.
"We're coming too!" Kira called out from above.
"Wait, don't do it!" Both Cagalli and Athrun yelled; but it was too late.
"Owie." Athrun cried out in pain as they hit him and Cagalli.
"Great now all we need is-
"Ohhhhhhhhhh shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!"
"…Yzak." Mu finished while looking down at Yzak.
"No fair, we got knocked out!" Dearka whined.
"Hey what's that over…there…whoah." Cagalli started but slowed to a stop once she saw the jungle.
Editing sucks! I'm going to kill myself!
Wandering Cat: Yes, I do like to pick on Murrue, she's just so pickable. You'll see a lot of that throughout the fic, but the only reason I do it is because she has Mu to fix everything XD. I'm glad that you like the humor, and also hate the government.
xxravenwingxx: Yes, I've finally revised everything and there's no longer inserts in the chapter. I'm also sorry the chapter got long and boring. I'll try and make my chapters more interesting. Well, I think that's it, but thank you for the review and constructive criticism. I appreciate it and it does help. I hope you continue to read and enjoy my story. If you have any other concerns, feel free to leave them in a review or PM.
shiny smile: Yes, I think we all want to give Yzak a hug at some point, as much of a jerk as he is sometimes ;) I'm glad you like the story. If you have any suggestions feel free to tell me.
For everyone else, thank you for all of your reviews up until now. I hope you all continue to enjoy my story!
