Another chapter! Sorry it took a little while. Right now I'm in the process of going through and editing the rest of this story and also revising a bit of it. This is something I should've done a long time ago. When I say revising, don't worry it's nothing drastic. Back when I started this story my writing skills weren't as sharp as they've become, and I'd a dreadful speller. So, I'm just fixing things up to my approval. Now, on to the story; it's getting suspenseful XD

When Kira returned with Athrun on his back and Cagalli trailing behind slowly, everyone at the campsite stood with wide eyes, speechless, all with a million questions running rampant inside their heads. But, out of the million questions, they all managed to ask the same one.

"What happened?"

"Athrun tried to take on cat boy all by himself. I tried to help out, but…I got knocked out almost as soon as we started fighting," Cagalli answered, leaning back against a tree, sliding down into a sitting position.

"I came just as Athrun was about to get his head lopped off," Kira added while gently setting Athrun down onto the ground near the slowly dying fire.

Murrue and Lacus instantly got up to help take care of the Aegis pilot.

Kira took off what was left of his suit jacket and handed it to Lacus. She rolled it up into a ball and lifted Athrun's head up slightly so she could slide it underneath it. She brought her face down to his neck to examine the deep gash. Everyone's attention was turned to her, their thoughts and questions on hold. Lacus brought her head back up, half grim, half relieved expression sketched across her face.

"Well?" Yzak asked worriedly. Leo was gonna pay for this. No one beats up Athrun Zala except for him.

"He was very fortunate. The cut's not deep enough to do any permanent damage," There was a collective sigh of relief. "But," The sigh of relief quickly morphed into sharp intakes of air. "It's a deep cut…he probably needs stitches,"

They all knew what that meant. They had no phones to call for help, no way to reach a hospital, and more importantly, no stitches.

"I had a needle and skin suture in my first aid kit, but…" Lacus looked down at Athrun, genuinely worried for her ex-fiancé.

"So, what do we do? We don't even have bandages to dress the wound," Cagalli spoke nervously, her normally strong and confident voice shaking with worry.

"Wait," Murrue suddenly spoke, light in her voice. Everyone turned their attention to her.

"There's a certain kind of tree sap that you can treat cuts with. It's perfect for wounds like that. I don't know the name of the tree it comes from but I know it looks like. Also, you can use spider webs to stop bleeding,"

Everyone's features seemed to brighten at Murrue's words.

"I'll need a knife…and a body guard," She added on distastefully.

"Athrun has a knife in one of his pockets," Cagalli announced from her position against the tree she collapsed against earlier.

Murrue leaned over and searched though his pockets, pulling out the knife in question and a pack of gum.

"Gum?!" Dearka exclaimed happily.

"Unbelievable," Cagalli hit the back of her head off of the tree supporting her.

"Guess he really appreciates fresh breath," Mu laughed from the other side of the fire, finding the sheer absurdity quite amusing.

"That's what you think," Cagalli muttered, drawing a flourish of laughter from the group.

Murrue laughed to herself and stuffed the gum back into his pocket. She stood up and looked around, tawny eyes falling on a platinum haired boy.

"Yzak?"

"Yes, Murrue?"

"Any objections to escorting me through the jungle?"

Yzak looked from her smiling face, down to the knife in her hand, averted his gaze back to her face, smiled sheepishly and shook his head vigorously.

"No, ma'am, not at all," His voice was almost a high pitched squeak.

"Now wait a minute," Mu suddenly spoke just as they began to leave.

"What's wrong, Mu?" Murrue stopped and turned around to face him.

"Athrun almost got beheaded not ten minutes ago and you wanna go out there now? Please, isn't there a way we can make sure it's safe first? I know Athrun needs help now, but, two more downed people won't help us in the least,"

"Oh, don't worry, Mu. I don't think our friends coming back for a while," Kira said with a sly smirk crawling up his jaw line. It wasn't something you saw every day.

"Oh yeah, and what makes you say that?" Mu asked, one eyebrow skeptically rising.

"Let's just say, I took care of him," Kira answered, trying hard not to laugh out loud. Cagalli wasn't as controlling as she bursted out into a short fit of laughter. Kira had most definitely taken care of him.

"Let's just hope you're right," Mu spoke with worry under toning every word.

Mu sobered everyone's somehow cheery moods with those five simple words. The thought of losing anyone to that monster was unbearable. Behind their worried eyes and torn smiles, they knew that the last thing Yzak would do would be to let either of them die; and if their death's were inevitable, they would as least have the dignity to not go down without a fight.

Murrue and Yzak ducked underneath branches and vines as they entered the thick jungle. Despite what Kira had said, they were still careful in their steps, senses heightened against the eerie silence. Would one knife really be enough protection against that crazy lion? That question was probably on top of both of their minds.

"Are you sure you know what this tree looks like?" Yzak asked uneasily.

Murrue narrowed her eyes and smiled cockily. "What's the matter, Yzak, scared?"

Yzak scoffed and turned his head, coming dangerously close to blushing. "Never,"

They continued to walk in silence after that. After about ten more minutes of walking, a certain tree caught Murrue's attention. They walked quickly over to it, happy to see that there was plenty of sap oozing from in between the cracks in the bark.

"You know it's quite a coincidence that we found this tree," Murrue spoke as she scraped the sap off the tree with Athrun's knife onto a rather large leaf,"

Yzak squinted an eye at her, frowning ever so slightly. "And why's that?"

"Usually these tree only grow in Hawaii,"

Yzak could've died; he really could've, if it weren't for the sound of twigs cracking in the distance. He looked to Murrue, who hadn't seemed to hear it. It must've just been picked up by his sensitive ears. But, he still didn't like it. He heard a grunt from the woman collecting tree sap and looked again to her. She was wincing, causing him to bend over and look her in the eyes.

"Can you sense it?"

"Yeah, it's…close," He helped her stand, but they both instantly froze when they saw their furry friend thrashing about in the woods. It looked like it was in pain.

Yzak pulled Murrue behind the tree they were standing near and they peeked around the side. Said feline was roaring in pain, scratching at itself, trying to alleviate the pain. It was like it was in shock by the fact that it was injured. It was then they saw the wounds that Kira, Athrun, and Cagalli had inflicted on it.

"Kira wasn't kidding," Yzak whispered.

"Yeah, I guess not,"

The creature collapsed on the ground breathing heavily. It looked dead, but they knew better. Yzak grabbed Murrue's arm and slowly started to lead her away. They tiptoed around all of the twigs and brush lying around so that they wouldn't be noticed. They were pretty sure that Leo wasn't about to move anyway, but, you never know really. They stayed quiet until they knew they were out of earshot. Yzak wasn't paying attention to where he was walking, so, being the idiot he was, he walked right through a huge sticky spider web.

"Ahh! Spider web! Get it off get it off get it off!"

Murrue couldn't help herself, she just had to laugh. Yzak, the poised cool and always collected Duel pilot was dancing around because a spider web was stuck on his head.

"Murrue! Get it off!" She just continued to laugh.

It was then that Yzak realized something. Where was the spider? His eyes instantly widened. He spoke too soon. In front of his face was a big hairy black spider. It was swinging from the web that was now adorning his head, tidling it's legs as if it were licking its fingers. His eyes widened considerably and Murrue almost choked on herself laughing to hard.

"AHHH! SPIDER!" Yzak shook and his head ran around trying to get it off.

"Hey, Yzak?" Murrue spit out between laughs. "I think it's poisonous,"

He froze and looked right at her for a moment.

"AHHHH! POISONOUS SPIDER!" Murrue then decided that he had enough and moved to grab the web to use for Athrun's wound before Yzak wet himself.

She grabbed Yzak who was now running in place and pulled the string of web with the spider on it from the mess in his hair and tossed it off to the side. She grabbed the web and pulled it gently from his hair.

"You gonna live?" She teased handing him the web.

Yzak didn't answer, but just stomped off in the direction of camp, clearly embarrassed.

A short walk and they were trudging back through the bushed surrounding their campsite, startling everyone a bit.

"Hey, you found the sap," Cagalli spoke up. She had now shifted from the tree she was leaning against when they left to a cozy spot next to the fire and Athrun, who was still out cold.

"You found a spider web also?" Mu spoke up, noticing Yzak was carrying one, pushing himself up against the log he was resting against.

"Well, actually, the spider web kind of found Yzak," She smiled. They all looked at her strangely.

"Let's just say, I had no idea that crouching tiger hidden Yzak over there was arachnophobic,"

Everyone looked at each other with a smirk on their faces. They all then bursted out into laughter of course, making Yzak pout like the little girl he could sometimes very well be.

"Man, if only Athrun were conscious," Dearka choked out.

"Yzak, you bitch," Cagalli sang happily.

Their laughter was cut short when they heard a tired moan. They all looked to find emerald eyes peering up at them, obviously confused. They waited anxiously for him to speak, hoping that this wasn't going to be some cliché memory loss story where he wakes up, looks around and asks everyone who the fuck they are.

For once, they all got lucky.

"You're all the most obnoxious people I have ever met in my entire life,"

They all sighed with a laugh at his words; things were finally starting to look up.

Yes, you really can use tree sap to treat cuts. It's only supposed to treat minor cuts and the tree usually only does grow in Hawaii, but, hey, this is a fanficiton. You can also use spider webs to stop bleeding. You'll see how it works in the next chapter. Usually the spider web thing is only effective if you don't walk into it XD