Chapter 16!
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Diego
I never remembered Trisha being this aggressive. She was always just my helpless cousin that I looked after. The runt. Obedient. Nice to me, friendly. Not like this. A killing machine, you know?
Maybe I never should have left, because now I have to make a hard decision: Kill my own blood cousin, or let her kill me and my...family.
I am bleeding in various places, old and tired. She is small, fierce, and young, but she too is badly wounded.
"Trisha please, leave before I hurt you. I don't want to."
"Oh, Diego. You just don't get it, do you?"
"I want to kill you."
I want to kill you. She wants to kill me. But why? I find myself voicing this question aloud, and hear her snarling, nasty answer.
"You left me, traitor! You think that pack wanted anything to do with me after you left?" she spits.
"No! They cast me out- an outcast! Because of you! This was all your fault, you herbivore!"
That's it; that was too far. She crossed the line.
I lunge, a very un-herbivore-like roar escaping my mouth.
Matthias
"Where did you say the antidote was?" asks Manny as Dorothy pours liquid down Buck's throat. He whimpers and Ellie asks what that is. Something to put him to sleep for a spell, I suppose.
"Apparently, the plant thrives near volcanic activity," I say numbly. Or at least I feel numb. Everyone says I always talk like a professional-well, most people- others say I talk as if I were a waiter at a fancy restaurant.
May I take your order, miss?
Manny frowns, and Ellie does the same as Dorothy runs a hand through her hair nervously.
"Where's Diego?" I force a smile onto my face as I tell them what should be good news.
"He...He found Peaches, or at least we think so." Ellie draws in a sharp breath.
"I really hope- I was beginning to think, I mean-"
Dorothy gives her a small smile, "We all hope so. We need some good news."
But her smile is tainted with sadness, for time is running low and with every second that ticks by, the lives of both our brother and our friend come closer and closer to the end of the line.
A roar fills the jungle, and we look up. Manny snaps.
"Maybe he needs our help, what if Peaches is hurt, why are we just standing here PEACHES IS OUT THERE?"
He makes a break for it and Ellie runs after him, telling him to calm down in a worried voice. Dorothy and I share a look, and she nods. I dart off into the unknown after the two mammoths.