Hospital
I don't own Star Fox if I did, we would have seen more of Kursed or Krystal by now
"I'm bored," Falco announced after a while. "I'm going for a walk."
"Fox told us not to leave the room," Siris said suppressing a yawn.
"I'm not gonna go far," Falco said standing up, leaving the room.
Siris sighed, this wasn't going to end well, he knew it.
He glanced over at the clock. It was almost three in the morning, no wonder he was tired. He yawned again, more loudly this time.
"It couldn't hurt to take a short nap, if something were going to happen, it would have happened by now," Siris thought before he glanced over at Kursed and closed his eyes.
Outside, Falco was wondering around the floor, so far he hadn't seen a single person hospital staff or otherwise.
"Man, this place is completely deserted," Falco thought to himself as he roamed the third floor. He guessed that was a good thing; it meant fewer people to be a problem.
As he walked down the hallway, he passed a doctor in the hall, a panther, Falco didn't pay any attention to him and continued walking until he went around a corner, past a supply closet and saw something leaking out from under the door.
"What in…?" He said walking over to the door.
He put his hand on the handle, taking a breath, he opened the door, and the body of a panther tumbled out onto the floor nearly landing on the bird.
Falco's mind flashed back to the doctor he had passed in the hallway. He quickly turned around called Fox on his communicator, already running back towards Kursed's room.
Meanwhile, Fox was patrolling the ground floor and thinking about getting a coffee from the cafeteria when his communicator beeped at him urgently.
It was Falco, he sounded out of breath, like he was sprinting, he was supposed to be watching Kursed in her room on the third floor.
"I just found the body of a dead doctor, his coat and id tags are missing, Kursed is in danger!" He said urgently.
"Get back to Kursed's room now!" Fox yelled at him before turning around and sprinting back to the staircase, running up them taking them two at a time.
"I'm already on my way!" Falco responded.
As he sprinted up the stairs, taking them two at a time, he called Siris on his communicator.
Back in Kursed's room, a panther entered the room quietly as not to wake the wolf sleeping in the corner and locked the door so he wouldn't be disturbed. He pulled a small foldable knife from his pocket and approached Kursed's bedside taking quick glances at the wolf to make sure he hadn't moved.
He smirked and looked at the sleeping Kursed.
"This is the last time you double-cross anyone Kursed," He said quietly, raising the knife.
He grabbed Kursed's neck, she woke up and saw the panther standing over her with a knife in his hand about to stab her in the chest. She tried to scream, but it got caught in her throat, She glanced over at Siris sleeping in the corner of the room and tried to call out to him but she couldn't. At about the same time Siris's communicator beeped loudly, waking the wolf.
"Kursed is in danger!" Fox's voice yelled loudly through it making Siris jump awake and see the panther, about to stab Kursed in the chest with a small foldable knife.
"Leave Kursed alone!" Siris yelled startling the panther making him spin around, accidentally cutting Kursed on the arm with the knife.
Kursed yelped in pain and grabbed her arm.
"After I kill you I'm gonna take my time with the girl," The Panther said.
"What do you want with Kursed?" Siris asked thinking he could gain some information from him.
"She double-crossed some very powerful people and stole a lot of money," The Panther said.
"I didn't…steal…anything," Kursed said gasping and coughing, still trying to catch her breath from being choked.
"Who are you?" Siris asked hoping to buy a little more time until Fox got back. "Panther Caroso?"
"No," The Panther answered before lunging at Siris with the knife.
Siris instinctively backed up to avoid the blade, it cut across his shirt tearing it, but it didn't break the skin under it.
"Hold still!" The panther hissed slashing the knife at Siris again. It cut his upper arm making Siris yelp in pain and grab his arm.
He wished he had a weapon with him, a knife, anything. Siris glanced around the room for anything he could use as a weapon. His eyes landed on the food cart; there was a knife sitting on an empty plate.
Siris lunged for it, but the panther beat him there and knocked him against the foot of Kursed's bed. The Panther yelled and stabbed downward at Siris who twisted out of the way and pushed the panther back away from him.
The panther kicked Siris back, he crashed into the food cart, knocking it over with a loud crash. Kursed looked at Siris, waiting for him to get back up again, but he didn't move.
The Panther looked at Siris lying next to the overturned food cart before turning his attention back to Kursed an evil grin on his face. With nowhere else to go, Kursed rolled off the bed onto the floor accidentally pulling the I.V. out of her arm in the process, Kursed was running out of options quickly.
"Who hired you?" She asked as the panther walked around the bed.
"It doesn't matter, all I care about is the enormous amount of money they paid me to kill you," The Panther said coldly.
Kursed backed against the bed as the Panther approached her, she grabbed the bed sheet and tossed it at him and tried to vault over the bed but he grabbed her by the tail and brought her down and pulled her onto the floor.
He rolled her over and put his knee on her chest, pinning her down so she couldn't move.
Outside Falco and Fox arrived back at Kursed's room and tried to get in but it was locked.
"It's locked!" Fox said frantically.
Kursed could see him through the small window banging on the door to get in.
Out of nowhere, Siris grabbed the Panther and flung him away from Kursed looked to the side to see what was going on and saw Siris back on his feet, fighting the Panther.
"I'm getting sick of you," The Panther growled to Siris. Again, Siris wished he had a proper weapon with him.
"Kick it open!" Falco shouted on the other side of the door.
A dull thud resonated through the room as Fox kicked at the door with his boot.
The Panther charged at Siris in an attempt to stab the wolf in the chest. Siris saw the knife coming and knocked the Panther's arm to the side and punched the Panther in the chest making him stumble backward a little
"Maybe this won't be so hard after all," Siris thought. He regretted that a moment later when the Panther cut across his abdomen with the knife.
The Panther laughed and pressed the attack. Siris had some training in hand-to-hand combat but not a lot. It wouldn't help much if his opponent was armed with a knife and he wasn't.
Siris growled holding his abdomen, bearing his fangs at the Panther as he backed up.
The Panther knocked Siris to the floor where the two wrestled for control of the only weapon. Siris flipped over, pinning the Panther down and gained control over the knife hand, which he smashed against the floor until the Panther let go of the weapon.
Siris quickly grabbed the weapon off the floor and tried to stab the panther with it, but the feline caught his arm in one hand and tried to punch the wolf with the other, his fist made contact with the side of Siris's head but did little to deter the wolf. Siris hit the panther in the face causing him loosen his grip. He growled and slowly drove the knife into the Panther's chest, he gasped and spat up some blood and was dead a moment later. Siris exhausted from the fight moved off the body of the now deceased Panther and went over to Kursed, who was sitting slumped against the bed, unmoving.
"Kursed?" Siris asked.
"I'm still here," She responded. "Thank you."
A blaster shot sounded, from out in the hallway and Fox forcibly kicked the door open and rushed into the room, blaster drawn. He stopped when he saw the imposter, dead on the floor, his own knife sticking out of his chest.
He saw Siris slumped against the bed cradling Kursed in his arms, she was deathly still and looked like she had been in a fight and lost, the I.V. had been ripped out of her arm.
"Krystal…" Fox said dropping his blaster to the floor and rushed forward, dropping to his knees by Kursed tears staining his face. "Is she…?"
"No, she's alive," Siris said as Fox ran his hand through Kursed's hair. "Barely,"
"Fox?" Kursed asked, cracking her eyes open.
"Yes, I'm here," Fox said half expecting her to hit him again. Instead, she grabbed and squeezed his hand.
"Please don't leave again," she said.
"I won't," Fox promised.
"Never make a girl a promise you know you can't keep, Fox," Kursed said before passing out.
They put Kursed back on the bed where she belonged, once she was settled Fox said.
"We should move her to the Great Fox. It's safer. How was he even able to get in here in the first place?"
"I don't know," Siris said.
"You and Falco were supposed to be guarding Kursed," Fox said clearly mad at the two. "What happened?"
"Don't get mad at me, Falco is the one who got bored and went for a walk," Siris said
"And you fell asleep!" Falco retorted.
"Enough," Fox said. "Arguing isn't going to help."
He reached over and pressed the call button on Kursed's bed.
There we go another chapter is done. I think it's going rather well so far