Welcome one and all to Chapter 6

I'm back again from the land of fixing things that needed to be fixed to bring you this chapter. I have of course had plenty of time to think about what I could do with chapter 6 and I have found what I want and what I need .

Hope you guys enjoy Chapter 6

Chapter 6

Jack woke up to the sound of birds, he opened his eyes slowly to see the top of the tent and felt a weight on his chest. He lifted up his head slightly and saw Nara lying on his chest. He smiled at her remembering the night they had last night because of Trace and Flora Jack thought of thanking the two but thought that would get very awkward and thought against it. Coming back to the world he then slowly patted Nara's shoulder so that she would wake up. She slowly opened her eyes and smiled at Jack her grasp on him tightening. Jack then said, "Come on we need to get up and get out of here so that we can keep moving on and heading towards our next destination." Nara looked at him and asked, "Where is our next destination no one ever told me." Jack smiled at this and said, "Sorry I forgot to tell you but our next wanted destination is going to be Tiger Territory, Trace has a house there and needs to get some money so that he can buy those two slaves from the captain." Nara then said, "You could have remembered to tell me, but where are we going after that?" Jack smiled and answered, "Now that part there is a secret and you will know later." Nara didn't seem very happy with this at all but shrugged it off knowing that she would never get it off of him, he was very good at keeping secrets. Nara then threw off the blanket covering them and stood up starting to get her clothing back on. Jack then did the same standing up and putting on his BDU. He was lacing up his boots when Nara finished getting dressed she looked at him and said, "I'm going to go wake up everyone else while you sit here and finish getting ready." Jack nodded his head and felt his shoulders; they were starting to get bruised due to the weight of his plate carrier. His duffle bag he got rid of in the last town and bought a new bag that carried Nara's things and some of the ammo in it. Most of the ammo he carried on himself he gave her all of the pistol ammunition in her bag and the holster to it. She looked really cute with it on her hip and he smiled at himself and went back to what he was doing. All of the assault rifle ammunition he carried in his tac bag and his tac vest. He thought of taking his plate carrier off but really that would be a bad idea because he would have to leave it behind because nobody's bag would have enough room to carry it and even if possible it would not get rid of the wait of it. He just put on the plate carrier and put the vest on top it was a good idea to have the plate carrier anyway it was just like armor just none of the swords could go through it since it was designed to stop a bullet it could easily stop a sword in its tracks, not that it wouldn't hurt. In any large problem or fight Jack would through his Plate Carrier onto Nara so that she would be protected since she did not have the years of hand to hand combat that he had. He walked over to the tents with thoughts in his mind mostly about what he would do in a situation like that millions of possibilities rushed throughout his mind but he did not pay attention to a single one right now his mission was to get the group to safety. Jack walked out of the tent to see Nara at Keith's tent waking him, she had already woken everyone else and Mike and Evals were already out of their tents. Jack went over to the fire pit and started to rebuild it getting a nice fire lit so that they could cook breakfast and then get back on the road. Mike came over and asked, "Is there anything I can help with?" Jack just answered, "If you could run out and get me some small branches that be helpful, thanks." Mike started walking towards the forest to go and gather logs as Jack kept the small fire going. Eric then came out of his tent alongside the strange Keidran he now knew as Kat. Jack then said, "Glad to see that you are awake I will get breakfast started as soon as Mike comes back with some branches that I asked him to go and get." Eric looked at him and said, "Why are you commanding my slaves? You have no right they are mine." Eric's face was full of fury as he started charging Jack. Jack did not see this sudden change come from Eric but did notice Eric start charging at him. Jack did not want to kill him knowing that Trace would not be very happy so Jack went on the non-lethal approach. Just as Eric had reached a few feet away from him he reached down grabbed Eric's legs and swung him around. Luckily for Jack, Eric was extremely light so Jack was easily able to swing him around and through him on the ground like a sack of potatoes. Jack then pounced on top of Eric so that he would not be able to do anything else to harm anyone else including himself. Jack heard the sound of a hammer being clicked back as he saw Nara standing there pistol in hand pointing at Eric ready to fire in the heat of any danger. Nara must have just returned from fishing Jack saw due to the small bag she had that was full of fish. She must have walked into the clearing to see Jack take Eric spin him around and slam him to the ground and thought that Eric was a threat. Jack just waved her off she put her finger on the hammer and pulled the trigger slowly moving the hammer down to a resting place putting I on safe and then holstering it keeping eye contact with Jack the whole time. Trace walked out of tent at that moment with Flora in tow to see Jack on top of Eric, Eric's face in the dirt. Then Mike into the clearing seconds after Trace left his tent seeing as well the strange seen in front of them. Jack then said to Eric, "I am not a force to be reckoned with so I suggest that you back off and just sit and be quiet, unless I need you." Jack slowly got up off of Eric who stood up slowly and went to go and sit next to Kat. Trace then asked, "What exactly just went on out here?" Jack answered with, "I asked for Mike to kindly help me out by going and getting me some tree branches so that I could start on breakfast. Thank You by the way Mike." Jack nodded over at mike who said, "No problem." Jack continued, "After Mike had left Eric came out of his tent and I told him I was glad to see him awake and I would start breakfast as soon as Mike got back with the logs. That is the point that Eric got mad and charged me which was a bad move in the first place." Jack looked at Eric and then to Trace who had a strange face on but Jack ignored it. Jack then got a serious look on his face and said, "Alright, listen up. From now on when I am in anyone here's presence and I hear someone calling someone else there slave. I will knock them senseless right where they stand before they can say, Shit I said the wrong thing near Jack." Everyone just nodded and Jack was satisfied and started to set up the fire so that he could start cooking the fish that Nara had caught from the river about a click east of their position. Once Jack had a nice fire started he took the bag of fish and gave her a big warm hug just to show he was thankful for her going out and getting the fish. Jack started to put the fish on the fire a satisfying smell of fish being cooked filled the air, all the Keidran's noses perking up at the smell. Jack smiled at the sight slightly chuckling and continued to prepare the fish. Jack saw Mike sitting over on a log his head slightly lowered as if he was sad. Jack then said, "Mike can you come over here for a moment." Jack could feel Eric's eyes burning a hole into his back but he had felt this feeling many of times before in the Military. Mike then said, "What do you need I am already probably in a whole lot of trouble." Jack frowned and said, "You are in no trouble at all Mike, if Eric decides to punish you, you come and tell me about it and I will deal with it. Under my watch no one is a slave and nobody owns a person they are not property they are people just as much as the people who think that they are not. Most of the time the people that keep slaves are less like people than the slaves." Mike smiled at this happy that someone would have his back if Eric tried to do anything to him. Jack then said, "Tell that to Evals as well it counts towards him to if Eric gives any of you two problems then come and tell me." Mike nodded and started to walk back over to where he was sitting but changed and started off towards Evals to go tell him the news. Jack turned back to the fire and started to get back to tending the fish when he heard a twig snap off in the trees in front of him. He reached over quicker that the eye could see and grabbed the pistol from Nara's holster; she was right beside him watching him cook the fish. He then yelled towards the direction of the noise, "Come out and show who you are before things get messy!" Jack kept the pistol trained in the same direction as he saw the bushes move right where he was pointing then gun. After about four seconds of watching the bushes rattle he started to slowly walk over to the bushes. Jack slowly crept up on the bushes not knowing what to expect but what he saw surprised him. Hiding behind the bush was a small tiger Keidran he seemed to only be about a year old and from what Jack could see the small tiger boy was crying and wound tight in a ball of fear. Jack instantly thought of the best thing to do and that was to comfort the boy. Jack then said in a soft voice, "Hey do not fear, I am not going to hurt you. Come with me I can get some food in your belly and help you." The little Keidran just curled up into an even smaller ball and started to cry more still in fear for its life. Jack then thought of a better plan the small Keidran did not trust him because he was human. Jack looked over to Nara and said, "Nara can you come over here real fast." Nara nodded and stood up slowly walking over to Jack. She then asked him, "What is it?" Jack just pointed to what he was looking at and she looked over to where he was pointing and gasped seeing the little Keidran boy. She then realized that Jack had probably tried to help him but the Boy could probably not even understand human aka English. She walked up closer to the boy and said, "Hey, there is nothing to fear, we are here to help you. Come on get up and let me get you something to eat you look like you haven't eaten in a while." Jack just looked at her and realized that she must have been speaking in Keidran in which he mentally slapped himself realizing that whole time that the young Keidran could probably not even understand what he was saying. Whatever Nara had said must have worked because the small boy began to lift his head to look at her and he had stopped crying. Nara bent down and lifted the boy into the air so that she could take him back to camp. Everyone was sitting waiting patiently to see what was happening over there that is when Nara started to walk over. Flora looked over to see that Nara had in her hands a small almost a year old in human years Tiger Keidran. Flora just stared in surprise as she guessed that was the noise that Jack heard and would have shot happy to know that Jack knew when and when not to shoot. Nara then sat down next to the fire where she was before and sat the boy on her lap and then small boy looked around. Everyone stared at the boy until the boy saw Trace and then instantly curled up real tight against Nara and started whimpering in fear. Nara was confused and asked the boy, "What is wrong?" The boy replied, "That man over there looks like one of the ones that came to my village destroying it and killing my mother and father. I was out playing with a friend of mine when it all happened. My mother was fending off one of the men and when she saw me she let her guard down and screamed for me to run before the man stabbed her in the gut she landed dying next to my father who was already dead as well." The boy then started crying out of sorrow then instead of fear for the loss of his father and mother. Nara then said, "Do not worry he will not hurt you he will only help you. Now let us get you something to eat." The boy nodded and Nara saw that Jack had just finished the last fish and was pulling it off of the fire. Jack divided the fish for everyone; luckily Nara had caught enough for everyone to have their own fish including the boy. The boy tore into his fish as soon as it was in front of him Nara realized that the boy must have been starving since he has been all alone for a while. Nara was happy that the boy had run into them and not some slavers or else the poor boy would be a slave now and not free. After everyone had finished there meal Jack announced, "Alright everyone, get your things packed up and ready to move. We will be moving on here in a few minutes." Everyone nodded and started to pack their things. Nara was occupied with the boy so Jack happily did everything on his own not minding at all and happy that they had found this boy and not someone else. Nara started to talk with the boy, "What is your name?" The boy took a seat in front of her facing her and said, "My name is Jackson." Nara nodded and then said, "Well then Jackson I guess that this means that you will be traveling with us now for a while since you have nowhere else to go. How a bought I tell you the names of everyone?" Jackson nodded and Nara continued, "The biggest one here that is over taking down that tent is Jack, if you ever need help he will be there for you, you can trust him because he will help you with whatever you need. Next the other tiger over there next to the man with blue hair is Flora, you can trust her as well. She will help you out if you ask. Next is the man with the blue hair his name is Trace. You can trust him he is a good guy he would never try and harm you in any way so you can trust him to. Next the man with blond hair is Eric, just stay away from him he has some problems so it is better just to avoid him. The Fox and the Dog over there are Mike and Evals, Mike's the Fox and Evals is the dog. They will help you if you need the help but just go to me, Flora, Jack and Trace first before going to them. Last is the other Keidran over there her name is Kat. You can trust her but like I said before just come to me, Jack, Flora or Trace before going to her." The small boy nodded understanding what she was saying then Nara asked, "How much human do you know?" The boy replied, "Not that much, my parents really never taught me it thinking that I would never need to learn it." Nara nodded and said, "Don't worry I'll teach you some more so that you can understand what everyone is saying." The boy nodded his head and then gave Nara a hug in thanks for what she was doing for him and then added in, "Well since I have no mother now do you think that you could just be my new mother now since you are being so nice to me." Nara's head spun at this question but then slowly answered, "If this would make you happy then yes I can be your new mother." The boy smiled and hugged her again and then stood up. Everyone else was ready to go and where just waiting for Nara and Jackson to finish up. Nara then announced to everyone, "Okay everyone this is Jackson he is a new member to the group. Templars attacked his village and killed his parents and he ran away like his mother told him to where he then ran into us. That is why he got scared when he saw you Trace." Trace nodded understanding this he had it happen to him many times before. Nara then continued, "He has asked me if I could be his new mother and I have accepted so that he can have a mother in his life which is very important to have." At least Nara thought it was she never had her mother by her side ever she was always alone and a slave. Jack just kind of stared at her for a moment realizing that this happening meant that he was technically a father and he smiled at the thought. Jack then looked around and saw that everyone was ready to go and said, "Let's get moving people." They all then started heading off towards the next village getting closer and closer to Trace's home and even closer to their final destination.

Hey guys thanks for sticking with it

Sorry that this chapter took a while I mean this is the first chapter that actually got over three thousand words without them even leaving the campsite were in other chapters campsite scenes are only about 500 words long and go real fast I said that I would slow everything down and I was not joking at all.

Now some important news; I will be gone from the 14 – 21 of this month I am going on a trip. Now that means that Chapter 7 will probably not be out until after this time period but I will come back and hit it hard when I get back from my trip. Things are about to start getting interesting now that I am getting ideas from a man named HalflingRunner. He has been giving me some cool ideas and I plan on using them so stay tuned and ready for when chapter 7 comes out because It could blow your socks off.

Thanks for the help and see you soon

-AuthorSkills