Chapter 4: I'll Miss You
Hours later, when the sun began to sink lower towards the horizon, Amumu and Annie set off to hunt for tributes, or for food. Annie's stomach was grumbling and she whimpered slightly. "Friend, its okay," Amumu laid a cloth hand on his friend's shoulder.
Annie started to cry. "I just want Tibbers!" she wailed. Soon, Amumu began to feel teary. "WAHHH!" Amumu wailed. Annie looked up and gasped when she saw her friend be tackled over by... Ekko it seemed.
"Amumu!" she cried, and rushed to her friend's aid, but skinny arms slammed the little girl down. "Amumu! Amumu!" Annie wailed, her vision blurry with tears and as her face was smashed into the ground by Jinx.
Amumu began to cry, a stream of tears literally flowing from his eyes. "Woah!" Ekko was alarmed as he was knocked off balance, the knife he was using knocked from his hands and swept away in the current.
"You... Can't... Hurt... My... Friend..." Racking sobs broke Amumu's voice. Tears kept on flowing out, and he grabbed the knife that was swept near him. His eyes glared to Jinx. "DIE!" Annie never heard Amumu scream like that. The knife was thrust straight for Jinx, at her exposed side.
"Jinx!" Ekko cried and grabbed Amumu's arm before the tip of the knife could even leave a scratch on Jinx. But Amumu was surprisingly strong, and Ekko had underestimated the mummy. Amumu instead, directed the knife straight into Ekko's chest, forcefully.
Ekko let out a gurgling sound, blood streaming from his mouth. He collapsed on the wet floor, heaving for breath. "EKKO!" Jinx yelled. Annie and Amumu suddenly never crossed her mind. All she was thinking of was her dead friend, her dead partner, the boy she really had a crush on.
Ekko's eyes began to close. "If... I could... Turn time...Again..." he whispered, "We'd win... the... Game..." And with that, Ekko let out one last breath, and fell still, the tip of the knife jutting out of his skinny back.
Jinx wailed at the top of her lungs, and then turned to look at Amumu, who was helping Annie get up. "D-DIE!" she screamed, pulling out her own knife, and lunging to Amumu. Annie was too late to stop Jinx, and Amumu reacted late, since he had been crying of happiness that his friend was okay.
The knife slashed the cloth of Amumu's mummy wrappings cleanly, and blood spurted out afterwards. Amumu made a choking sound, before the small child fell to the ground, gasping. Annie rushed to Amumu's side. "Amumu!" she cried, looking into the teary eyes of her best friend.
"T-Tibbers..." Amumu whispered, and shakily withdrew a bear made of cloth, and laid it down beside Annie. That was all the dying mummy said, and then fell still.
"Amumu... Thank you," Annie wailed quietly, clutching the replica of Tibbers, "I'm naming this bear Teary, after you." Amumu didn't respond, only his glassy yellow eyes gazing up towards the sky.
Just then, a helicopter of some sort, came flying down. The belly opened up, and Amumu and Ekko's bodies began to float upwards. "Amumu! I'll miss you!" Annie cried at the top of her lungs, her eyes puffy from crying.
Annie clutched Teary in her arms. "I-I'll miss you," she and Jinx whispered at the same time as their friends were carried out of sight and the helicopter flew away. They both whispered again, "I'll miss you..."