Guardians of the Galaxy .7 Lost togerther.
I looked back at the carnage one last time before fallowing Raye over the giant roots,I had knots in my stomache only a day ago I was sleeping in my bed,and now here we are lost on Moatoob with a very slim chance of getting out alive.I handed Raye his shirt back,he had let me use it the entire night,and went over to pick my shoes up and a large scorpion crawled out of my left shoe!It was the size of a large rat!I sqeeled and droped my shoe down,Raye was standing near the Klekos when he heard me.
He bolted at the scorpion and landed his boot on it,he had to stomp on it a few times to kill it.
"You gotta look INSIDE your shoes before picking them up Minore."He said sternly as he kicked the insect into the waters below,to my surprise,but not Raye,a mouth came up around the floating dead body of the creepy crawly and swalloed it whole.Then the giant fish breached for a second before falling back into the green swamp water,I caught a glimpse of what it looked like.
It was a greenish brown color,like the water,and a large gray frill tiped with sharp barbs began from the dorsle fin to just the begining of its tail.
"What was that?"I sqeaked,that fish was as big as a Koltova!With rows of long teeth to boot.
"I'm not very familar with a lot of the fish that live in these swamps,but I think that was a Banakada shark."He looked at the hole in the algie that the shark had made.
"So then..How are we going to get out of here?"I looked inside my shoe this time as I asked him,still a little jumpy."We keep moving forward.We'll fallow the roots as far as we can,more trees,more roots to climb."He looked into the water and then the sky.
"Lets hope that the SEED hasn't infected this area yet or we'll be in trouble."I had actually forgot about the SEED,if these monster do get infected thier aggresion will encrease ten-fold.
I put my shoes on as soon as I was sure there wasn't anything in them this time,I spotted some vines growing all through out the root system.
I smirked at them,while Raye started slowly climbing the roots,I jumped up and swung on the vines,grabbing the next vine as I got close to it.I laughed as I swung past Raye,he caught on and started swinging next to me."Race ya!"He swung past me,I giggled as I picked up the pace,trying to keep up with him.
The floral senery flew by us,we swung past huge,but beautiful,tropical flowers that were almost the size of a queen sized bed,and some only the size of a mouse.I then swooped right by him and I was now in the lead.Suddenly thousands of blue butterflies swirled around me,I was awstuck by their number and beauty.I slowed my swinging a bit and streached out my hand as a very large butterfly landed on my finger,I smiled at it,it was a deeper blue than all the others that flew like a whirlwind,the whole thing felt like a very fantastic dream.
Then as I grabed hold of my next vine,I felt like I was being stared at,like someone was watching me carefully.
BANG!I whiped my head around to see that Raye had swung right into the limb of a tree with his stomache and now was hanging over it like a man hanging over the edge of a ship with seasickness.I laughed as I swung around to help him.
"Why don't you watch where your going?giggleAre you trying to get hurt?"I giggled,and took Raye's hand and pulled him up.He held his stomach where he hit it,just before it growled again.
Then my stomach started growling."Way to go Raye..Now I'm hungery.Maybe we should find some food though."I laid my hand on my stomach,wishing that the hunger paing would stop.
Then I remember I still had some food in my nanotransformmer.I tapped on a button and two good sized energy bars formed in my hand,I handed one of them to Raye.We sat down on the limb and started eating.It was all I had though,but we had to eat,we needed to keep our strength up.
I looked into the forest below,I wonder how Kollam was doing...
Raye finished his bar and let out a BIG belch.
"Eww Raye!"I scrunched my nose at him."What?"He chuckled."That was rude you know."I said irritably as I took the last bite.
"Aww c'mon Minore,I couldn't hold it in."He chuckled even harder,he is lying through his teeth!
I looked down and saw that the water below us was getting shallow,and I even saw some land."I guess we're getting a little closer to the desert..Right?"Raly looked to the ground as I spoke.
"..No,we are a long way from the desert..It just hasn't rained here as much as back there.But the rainy seson should already be starting soon,give or take a few days."He really knows his way around here,doesn't he?
"We probably need to walk from this point,the dryer it gets down there,the more likly the vines will break and we'll be killed in the fall."He slid down and on to a limb below.
"You coming or are you gonna wait till night fall?"He joked,Irolled my eyes and slid down next to him.
We continued down -this time we didn't fall down- and made it to the bottom,I landed in the shallow water with a small spash.The muggy humid air made my skin feel slick and wet,and I could hear the calls and cries of animals and beast that lived in this forest far off in the distance,and the calls of song birds closer to were we stood,tall grasses rose up on ether side of us through out the marsh,making it a little harder to walk through them.For a planet so beautiful,it was also equally dangerious.
We walked by many huge and giant plants,from mushrooms the size of a house to my own hight,one though I misstook for one of the giant trees,due it its enormus size and girth.
"Why is everything so big here?"I looked up for so long my neck started hurting.
"Donno,they've always been this big."Raye walked beside me,he too was staring at the giant plants.We walked for what seemed like hours in that humid swamp,and all to often one of us would get stuck in the mud and had to be pulled out.
There was only a few more hours of day-light left.And the day was very short,longer nights than days here on Maotoob.I was very thirsty,we had no fresh water with us,my lips chapped from the lack,Raye also suffered with me,Raye's ears perked though when he saw a strange round,greenish purple plant growing from a vine.
He pulled out his poket knife and cut the basketball sized fruit from the vine."What is that?"I sure hope its not toxic or anthing like that.
"Its a waten monan fruit.It may have a smooth hard shell,and it has hardly any meat in it."He shook the fruit,I heard a swishing sound in it,like water.
"But its 90 water."I gave him my dagger so he could try and open it.When he did open it,he took great care not to let it spill.Raye handed me half and he took the other,I put it to my lips,it tastes sweet,the closest thing I can compare the tast to was a Nuadaiz dragon fruit.
Some of the bright red juice slid down Raye's throat like a red shooting star as he drank greatfully,I took small gulps of it,I knew I was slightly dehydrated and if I drank too fast I would vomit.
I stored the rest of the drink in my canteen for later,as did Raye.After we had replenished ourselves,we continued to walk on.
"Why haven't we encountered any more large monsters?"I looked around,only now had I relized it."Because of the SEED.They probably pushed every creature out of this swamp first,then left themselves.Lucky break."
Then we heard a loud roar."Cancle that!Run!"He pushed me out of the way as a giant blade came down between us.I looked up to see a giant animal SEED with an ogre like SEED on its back.No let me rephase that,IN his back,it looked like the two SEEDs were really one SEED!
The ogre like one had a sword for an arm,the entire thing was about the size of a van.The beast reared up and then charged at us,Raye and I both managed to dodge it,but I couldn't dodge the blade -I had gotten cornered by some vines.I felt a white hot burning pain surging down my back,it was hard to endure,I pulled out my TECHNIC wand and started to attack,I am NOT about to die here!I will not die here!
I sent out an ice TECHNIC,but it did little damage,Raye ran to me when the blade had hit my back,He took out his fire type sword and ran it through the monsters leg,it tried to kick him away but it missed him.
I doged the blade of my attacker and then I had to dodge the jaws of the lower one,it nipped my leg though.I used my handgun and shot the monster in the mouth causeing it to back away,I saw Raye slash the monsters tail right beforegetting whiped by it,I climed up the vines and put my wand in my transformer and pulled out my sword.
I jumped down and onto the SEED and hung on,the ogre tried to reach me but since I was behind it,it was unable to slash at me with its sword.I took my sword and brought it down on its head,the body slopped over,but the lower body was still alive,it screamed in pain and tried to buck me off.
Raye ran to its head and ran his sword through its head,blood streamed out and it gave one last wail be for falling over,except I couldn't jump off in time.
I felt nothing for a moment when the monster fell on me and pinned me from the hip down,but then it hit me.I tried to scream out the pain,but I couldn't open my mouth,I gasped for breath but it was hard to breath under the weight.
"MINORE!!"Raye screamed and ran as fast as he could,I turned my head to see him try to lift the dead body off,when he couldn't do that he went and got a limb and forced it under the beast,he was able to get some leverage and he quickly pulled me out,but then I blacked out.
I was floating in total darkness now.My cheast felt heavy as well as my eye lids,I wasn't breathing here but I felt no pain.
"Where am I?Am I dead?"My own thoughts echoed in the pitch black abiss,I felt cold too..What is going on?
"Your just pathetic.Why won't you just die?Your holding everyone back.When Kyo attacked you,you just froze,Raye wouldn't have been hurt so baddly if you weren't around."A cold dark voice came from the darkness,it chilled me far worse than the first cold.
"Your Mother would be alive too,the picknic was YOUR idea in the first place.If you were never born into this world she never would have suffered."The dark voice cooed,hot tears rolled down my face,I was even colder now.
"Y-your wrong!"I screamed at the darkness,I dropped down and hugged my legs tight,She sounded so familar,yet her voice was so dark and her words stung like venom.
"Oh really?Its no ones fault but your own Minore.It's all YOUR fault!"I looked up from my legs to see...Me?
But was she right though?If I hadn't begged Mother to take me on that picknic then the Tengogh would never had her!If I had faught Kyo in the first place Raye may not have been hurt!
"Your wrong,your wrong,your wrong..."I said over and over,the cold had gotten so bad now,I was slipping.
My doplerganger place her icy cold hand on my cheek and lifted my face up,her smile was twisted and dark."W-Who are you?"Her smile turned into an evil smirk.
"You."As soon as that word left her lips,I felt unbelievible cold and pain,I wanted to scream so baddly but there was no breath in my lungs,my heart felt like it had stopped all together.My body felt so heavy.
I wanted the pain to stop,I wanted it all to stop!
But then,then I felt warmth,like someone was holding me very tightly,I could feel the pain slowly ebbing away,and I no longer felt cold,The dark woman that claimed to be me vanished.
"Don't die.Please don't die Minore."I heard someone whisper,like begging for me not to die.The darkness ebbed away slowly and I flutter my eyes open to see Raye holding me up carefully in his arms,Raye's face was ful of pure panic.
"R-Raye.."I could hardly speak,and every breath I took was a labor itself,his eyes were red,and he looked like he was trying to hold back the tears that dared to pour out of him.
"Minore!Y-your alive!You-your heart had stopped beating and I couldn't feel a pulse,I thought you had died.."He pulled me closer to him,I was glad to see him really.
Then I flinched at the pain in my back,Raye saw the open wound and quickly used a TECHNIC to heal the flesh wound,my legs weren't broken,at least they weren't no longer,I looked at them too see that the femer bone in my left leg had been fractured and Raye had healed it.
I looked at him..
Then I burried my face in his chest and cried.He put his arms around me and held me close,I didn't know exactly why I was crying..But I just couldn't hold back the tears."Thank you..For bringing me out of that dark place."I sniffed,he held me even tighter to him.
The sky was growing dark now,and I had finally calmed down.Raye stood up and helped me up."We best find a safe place to rest for the night."Raye looked up to judge the sky.It was patly cloudy now.As soon as we started walking again,Raye stopped infront of me,almost making me run into him.
"Whats this?"He bent down to examine a small box,it was all black with multi colored wires sticking out of it,many broken and sharp.
"Its probably a rogue radio box..It pretty old though,I don't think it'll work enough for us to call a rescue ship."He dropped the box,it beeped."Wha-"Raye picked it back up and relized somthing,I'm confused,why is he so interested in a tiny box that doesn't work?
"Well I'll be darned..Its not a radio box..Its a cloaker!This was what made the sygnal we were suposed to fallow!"My jaw dropped,THAT is why we are lost out here!?
Raye chuckled at the irony of it.I wasn't as bemused though,but then I looked to the sky to see dark clouds forming.
"Hey Raye..didn't you say the rainy seson would be starting soon?"He then looked up and put the claoker in his nanotransformer as quick as lightning.
"Minore we have to get to higher ground NOW!"He started pushing me forward.
"Raye what is your problem?"I didn't like the way he was pushing me at all.
"The problem is when that rain starts falling,this place is going to flash flood!"And we started to run,this was the lowlands.And I'm pretty sure a monster would come swiming in with the flood.Rain poured from the sky as bolts of lightning flashed across the sky,loud monsterios thunder deafened our hearing for a brief moment.The water was raising fast.
"Raye over there!"I yelled over the thunder,there was a hallowed out spot high in a tree,the sky grew darker,I relized the sun must be setting,Moatoob has longer nights than days,which is bad for us,considering what happened last night,I'm still shuddering over it.
Raye pushed up the tree,once I was on a limb I helped pull him up.The water lapped at us,it was rising faster than expected,the wood was slick and I almost slipped a few times.
With only a few more limbs till we reached the hole in the tree,Raye slipped and fell into the water!I quickly took his hand and held onto him.
"RAYE!"I screamed as the waters stonge pull tugged on him,I decided to try somthing,I tied myself down useing a vine and with my newly freed hand,grabbed onto him and pulled him back up.Raye smiled at me,and we continued our race with the water untiil we made it into the tree.
It had a floor to it so at least it wasn't hallow,and the walls had ivy growing on its walls,but nothing harmfull.It was very dark and I wasn't able to see very well,but it was warm and dry,both Raye and me where panting hard.
"Thanks a lot back there.."He panted,I just nodded.The opening wasn't very big,but just big enough to house us for the time being."Its fine really..."I finally managed to say,he shook his head.
"No...I would have died if you hadn't caught me."He smiled,and I smiled back.Raye took a few of the vines and made a small bed out of them,I did the same but mine was sorta lumpy and had a bunch of sticks in it."Here let me help you."
Raye came over and helped get the sticks out and the smooth the rest of the leafs out.Then he took some moss and covered the enterance to hide it from the animals that may lurk outside.
"Raye..thanks.."I had downcasted eyes,I didn't know why."Its alright,you don't hav-"I looked up at the smileing Beast."No Raye..I-"
The inside of the tree was lightly lit by a faint light blue glow,just faint enough where I could see just a few inches infront of my face now,then I noticed somthing in the corner of my eye that was causing the light,I turned to see a wonderiously beautiful flower sitting right behind me.
The flower's long slender petals were a gorgious dark twilight purple near its center,then a deep blue as lovely as a shinning deep sea saphire,and a pure white as brilliant as a star laced the tips oh so perfectly on each and every one of its many petals.The stems that held its pollen glowed with a light blue light,the tips of the looked as water was about to delicatly fall from the very tip,and roll slowly from the petal and to the ground.I lightly touched the petals,they were softer that anything I had ever known,or ever will,the aroma was devinly sweet and soft.
"..A Moatoob wild passion flower.."Raye spoke so softly and gental as he kneeled down beside me,suddenly more started to bloom around us,dozens of wild passion flowers lightly lit up the hallow."My gosh.."A gasp escaped my lips,Raye came closer and I relized for a moment he wasn't looking at the flower...but me insted..
"M-Minore..There's something I have to tell you.."I pulled my gaze from the flower to look at Raye,I saw something in his eyes,I started to get a strange sensational feeling deep inside me,I could feel a light blush on my cheeks as my face grew warmer.There was one on him too,he took a very deep sigh.
"Minore...Ever since we did our first mission on Nuedaiz I...I've felt somthing twards you..Not like a friend but.."
He took ahold of my upper arm and lightly started pulling me closer to him,his forhead lightly brushed against mine.I don't know why but I didn't reject him,in fact...
I've felt something for a while but I didn't want to believe it..
I denied it,over and over,but now here we both were..
Alone.
I knew we were very close friends but..I wanted to be more than that now.
I leaned myself closer to him,his lips barely bushing my skin,I could feel his heated breath on my face as he placed his cheek against mine and planted a small kiss there,I could feel my heart beat faster,I returned it by kissing his cheek lightly and nuzzled up closer to him,I felt so safe and warm in his arms.
He lifted my face to his,pauseing for just a moment and kissed me.One of his hands found its way to one of my curves and he was rubbing it to rythem to our kiss,the other stroked my hair and the rested at the back of my neck gently.
I had my hands braced against his chest as he pulled me closer and tighter,intensifying our kiss,his tounge brushed mine.He held me tightly but tenderly,I never wanted him to let go,ever.
My heart was racing,and I could feel his pounding right into my chest.I found it a little hard to breath,my head became very light as I relaxed into his chest,and Raye broke the kiss slowly,I was still a little dazed with what just happened.
Raye turned his head from me."I-I'm sor-"
I cut him off quickly by resting myself comfertably into his arms and closed my eyes again,I could feel him resting his own head ontop of mine,I was able to fit right under is chin.I let out a paceful sigh as he stroked my hair.
"Raye..Do you really..Lo-"
He took his index finger under my chin and raised my head up and into another short but gental kiss,Cutting me off..But it may have answered my question.
The air filled with the sweet and delicate scent of the wild passion flowers,through a small hole in the moss the three moons shown fully.
I thought I'd ever see the day that I could even stand being ten feet away from him..Now look at us.
Typical.
Raye laid back against the wall of the hallow and I rested on him,a wild flower glowed brightly next to us,illuminating the small area with its tender glow.
I quickly fell asleep with his arms around me.(And yes,we kept our clothing on.)
When morning came all the Moatoob flowers had folded back up,hideing their wonderious beauty.I lifted my eye lids slowly,at first I was surpised to see Raye holding me..
Then I remembered last night.I felt somthing hot breathing down my neck,Raye was still sound asleep,he looked very peacefull and serene.
He had a firm -but equally gental- hold on me.My hand slowly rose and dropped with the movment of his chest as he was breathing.I really didn't want to wake him.
But suddenly I heard something outside..Something familar..Yelling as if it was stuck in something,it sounded pretty mad to.
"Oh keep your shirt on!I'm pulling as hard as I can!"I heard an old Beast yell,you could hear how hard he was strugling with somthing.
"WELL HURRY UP!!Its slimy in here!"
Raye snapped up and I would have been flung if he didn't grab me!"Fuma?"He had a dumfounded look in his face,I stood up and poked my head out to see Fuma and Felix just a few limbs away!
Fuma had somehow gotten stuck in a giant venius fly trap with his rear end sticking out and Felix was there trying to pull the small Beast out!I had the biggest smile on my face,Raye popped his head out just above mine.
"FELIX!FUMA!Over here!"I yelled!I can't believe it!Their alive and right here!Felix saw me and let go of Fuma -causeing the little Beast to start yelling even louder and harsher- and started walking twards us.
"Minore,Raye!Glad to see your both alright!Wanna give me a hand?"He waved over to us as Fuma kicked him.Apparently he didn't like being stuck inside the harmless plant.
I climed over to a limb and made my way to them,Raye ducked back inside for just a moment and then fallowed behind me.As soon as I was on the same branch as Felix,the large Beast embraced me with one of his huge hugs.
"Ah Minore!I knew you both were alright.You two would never go down without a fight,that much I know!"He gave me a huge grin,then he gave Raye a rough pat on the back."Well we better get Fuma out before he gets mad!"Felix laughed.
It almost felt like we didn't even seperate at all!
Felix grabbed Fuma's kicking legs,and I grabbed Felix and Raye held on to me.
"On the count of three!One,Two THREE!"We pulled hard,Fuma came out covered from the waist up with a green/grey/brown slime!We all fell backwards on one another,the slime that was on Fuma -and there was a lot of it- splashed onto my face!
"UHG!Gross!"I quickly wiped it off,Raye laughed and I wiped my hand on him,he stuck his tounge out with disgust and made a strange noise,like he was gagging.
"Grr What took you guys so long?Any longer in there and I would have drowned in that stuff!"Fuma was trying his best to clean himself."Good to see you two haven't been eaten though!"He smirked at Raye.
"Naw,I think the monsters here like chewy little Beast's like you!"He joked,but with Fuma's temper..Well you know!
"Hey Ever heard of respecting yer elders!"Raye had a devilish grin on his face now,and Fuma didn't like it one bit!
"Now who was it that got stuck in a giant plant again?Oh yeah,YOU!"He started laughing hard,Fuma snarled and Felix had to hold him back -and he had a hard time doing that- to keep him from doing something to Raye,I giggled as Raye made faces at Fuma.
"All right all right now thats enough!Raye put your tounge back where it belongs before I cut it off!Fuma knock it off he ain't hurt'n ya!"Felix siad sharply but he kept his voice level.
We all jumped at Felix's sudden take of control and Raye put his tounge back in,and Fuma stopped his struggle with Felix.Raye looked over at me and gave me a thumbs up and a wink,I really couldn't help but smile.
"Ok now that thats settled.You two find anything?"Raye took the cloaker and gave it to Felix."This is what we think caused the strange sygnal."Felix inspected the box.
"Well I'll be darned!This isn't no cloaker,its one of the satilite shelding devices.Strange enough,the SEED didn't really like these things and started attacking the satilites.These things are VERY expencive so good work on finding this."Felix placed the box in his transformer for safe keeping,right before we heard Fuma laughing his head off!
"Hey Raye,ya got somthin on your cheek!HAHAHA!"Fuma pointed at a small light pink mark on his cheek...
The kiss mark I gave him last night!Both of our faces grew bright red,Felix saw it,looked at me then back at Raye.
"Well now..It looks like you two are REALLY getting along now!"Felix smiled warmly at us both.
"Well,we need to head north from here,once we reach the dessert we should be able to make it to a Alliance camp."Felix pulled out a compass,as if nothing had happened."Ok lets move out!"
He really isn't such a pain after all.
Minore:Blushes deep redGuess Passion flowers spark love...Raye is a pretty good kisser though.
Raye:Yeah well,that was just the first one!Just wait till next time!XD
Minore:...Blushes even harder,if thats even possible
Me:I had this moment stuck in my head since chapter one!
Minore&Raye:YOU WHAT!!
Me:Well I better go before these two love birds kill me!REVIEW or I will steal you journal/diary!AND POST EVERY WORD ON THE NEWS/WEB/AND TOKYO'S GIANT TEEVEE SCREANS!Cue manical laugh