Chapter 5
The Gorlock hunters
A/N: I've been trying to complete Balthazar's storm, so this one has seen little updates. Now that I've finished writing the final chapters for it, it's time to start working on this one more, so updates will appear more frequently.
Rosaline and Tails watched the Gorlock in silence. "It's bound to go away eventually." Tails took out a laser from his pocket. It was surprising that it still was intact after the crash. He toyed with it in his hand. He wouldn't know whether the energy cells worked however, until he fired, which was something he wasn't very eager to do.
"Isn't there a way to shoo or take down this thing?" Miles asked, and Rosaline perked up.
"Of course there is, if you have some type of weapon to kill it. However, I lost my rapier. Do you want to know what happened to it? That Gorlock ate it! That clever and cruel beast. I can't believe he was able to do such a thing, can you?"
Tails sighed. "The Gorlock's hide seems tough, but I should have enough energy in my blaster to fry him. But I need you to distract him." Rosaline took a look at Tail's blaster, and then nodded eagerly.
"You can count on me!" She replied, and for the first time, she didn't continue on, glorifying herself. She probably would when the Gorlock fell.
Tails took out another laser from his other pocket, and watched Rosaline run out and start yelling at the Gorlock. "Over here, over here." The Gorlock turned, and charged at her.
Tails took his chance, dived out from the bushes, and fired his blasters with a fury. The best went down in seconds. Relieved, he walked toward Rosaline, who was rejoicing with success.
"I did it! I did it! Did you see how I tricked the Gorlock! Got him good too, very good. We make a great team, don't we Tails? We sure do!" Suddenly she stopped her exclamations, and stood fearfully in a direction. There was a plane landing down where they were at. When it landed, three armed men exited. One was a lion, one was a panther, and Tails guessed the last one was a leopard.
"So, Rosaline, having a good time out here?" They were armed with guns. Perhaps they were trying to hunt the Gorlock. They stared at the dead Gorlock. "You didn't kill it, did you? You never had the courage for it."
"Oh, shut up Tom. It's dead, can't you see. Someone had killed it." She looked at him coldly. "What do you want?"
Tails looked at the plane. All the parts he would need to fix his own were right there. He knew, however, that the pack Rosaline was talking to certainly wouldn't give them up.
"We want to teach you a lesson when you take our prey." They answered, and they approached dangerously close to Rosaline. Rosaline did not step back.
Right before they could pounce on her, Tails fired. The first blast singed one of the men's shoulders, but Tails was careful not to aim to kill. Rosaline, taking her chance, knocked the panther's head with her own, causing him to fall on the ground unconscious. Tails fired another bolt at the lion's legs, stunning him. Before any of them could recover, Tails and Rosaline quickly tied a rope around them, tying them to a tree.
"You won't get away with this, Rosaline!" The Lion cried. Tails looked at their claws.
"They could cut out of the ropes, couldn't they?" He asked Rosaline.
Rosaline nodded. "They won't however. Not when I'm watching them. Tails handed her a blaster.
"To keep you safe, you know." Rosaline smiled at him.
"Thanks Tails, and I'll use it honorable and bravely against my foes in battle!" Tails quickly left to get the parts to fix his plane before Rosaline started running her mouth like an engine again.
It didn't take long. In about an hour, he had all the necessary parts he needed. Rosaline quickly ran to Tails. "I hear another Gorlock coming. They're probably going to untie themselves, but I'm going to let them do it." She smiled mischievously. "They won't even know what got them."
Sure enough, another Gorlock came, chasing the three cats. "Keep running!" One of them cried.
"I'm going my fastest!" The panther yelled back. Their screams could be heard through the entire forest.
Rosaline waved to Tails as he started up his plane's engine. He carefully flew away from the trees, and waved to his friend Rosaline. He picked up altitude and sighed. Perhaps he would meet her again. And he would "meet" her again, just not in a condition where one can say hello.
It wasn't much later that he arrived in his laboratory's runway. He made a swift landing, and looked around. No one was nearby. And at that moment, Tails knew something was wrong. The lab itself was too quiet…
He looked around for a few seconds, turning every few seconds, terrified. Suddenly, someone came up behind him, but before he could make out who it was, he was in darkness…
A/N: Finally, some good old suspense.
