You're Not a Bad Person
Chapter 10
In the Forest
…A forest, and one huge one too. She was startled that she could barely see the muddy path that seemed to be the only way out. The sun cut through the canopy of flat oval leaves in intermittent bursts, dazzling her for a second and the then disappearing. High overhead, fist-sized purple fruits hung in groups of three within their leafy pods, triplets of juicy purple ripening in the summer sun. Thousands of tall, smooth trunks of trees surrounded her, not to mention the millions of rocks that were hidden behind moss. The air was thick with the smells of the woodland. The slope directly beneath her was dotted with banks of purple hyacinths, orange and yellow lilies: rhododendrons, and lush vegetation that stretched out into a green carpet beneath, extending into a distance as far as she could see. To her right, she glimpsed matching blue and red ribbons: the blue was a river, mostly hidden by the jungle, but visible for a few hundred-odd yards, at a stretch, and the red, reddish-brown actually, a single road stamped out of a rich clay soil.
Sapphire began to lightly sprint through the forest, twigs and leaves nearly tripped her over several times. She panicked when she saw no sign of a town or anything. She forced herself to sprint until she felt a sharp stitch in her stomach. She slowed down and walked past trees, the smell of the soil was strong around her. She halted. She stared at a bird which seemed like an Oddworld wood pigeon. But it had amazing silver eyes. It was foraging grubs in the dirt and grass around the roots of a tree. It stood up on its hind legs. Its large silver eyes fixed on Sapphire amid the jet-black fur of it face, head cocked quizzically to one side. It chirruped at her, and then streaked up to bole of that tree, spiralling around it to the upper branches, its long tail following after. Sapphire thought.
"Okay, I seemed to be getting somewhere…" She followed on the mud path that seemed to have led her somewhere. She began to enjoy the peaceful atmosphere and she hummed softly to herself. She enjoyed the harmony while she could, without anyone around her, not even that Bart.
A sudden gun fire made Sapphire jolt up in horror and the birds scrambled away from the ground, cooing and crying in fear. "What the bloody hell-"
Another gun shot and it smashed against the rock she was hiding, bits of rocks crumbled. She dived behind another rock and drew her new Punisher.
"Switch onto yea' inferred, boys. He's hiding in the bushes!"
He..?
It was a voice of an outlaw and Sapphire cured under her breath.
"Damn, it seems that they're after me…shit…" She hissed. They must have mistaken her as Bart, and with that thought, she looked down and examined her breasts. Hell, they must have been so blind to mistaken her for a guy like Bart.
She turned around and looked. She couldn't see anything, but only a red glow made her back down and she screamed as she felt a bullet whistle past her head. "This is too dangerous. I must head on." She rushed through the forest, dodging and diving behind rocks and trees as much as she could. More bullets missed her, and that was by luck too.
She pointed her gun and fired about five rounds, and she laughed in pride when she heard an outlaw cry in pain as he fell from the tree. She then rushed through the branches. Bushes and flowers shot past, slapping at Sapphire; flashes of green and purple and violet. A flock of birds rose into the air. She looked up suddenly when she saw more Outlaws aiming their guns down at her. She screamed and shot at the same time, forcing them to collapse and fall. She stopped when she saw a harbour. She smirked. Everything seemed quite and she looked around, panting. These pants were too heavy to run at long distances. The water was calm and it reflected the bright sun. She smiled.
She gasped when she felt a sudden piercing ache in her right shoulder blade. She reached behind slowly and felt some kind of pole stabbing into her back. She grunted and yanked it out. She cried out in horror to see that it was an arrow and it had something dripping out of it, and it wasn't her blood. Blood stained her shirt and she hissed as her eyes grew heavy. She shook her head awake and then she heard an outlaw cheer in pride. She spun around and shot one bullet towards the Outlaw who was laughing. It was only on bullet, but it got him amazingly. She moaned as hot blood dripped down her back and then, black shapes formed over her eyes. She shook her head again and realised that she felt sleepy. She collapsed onto the ground on all four as she couldn't stand anymore and she rested onto the harbour flooring. Her eyes closed, but the last thing she saw was a flock of Clakkerz, holding racks and guns as they charged towards Sapphire.
Then Darkness conquered her.
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Oh noes! That Outlaw got Sapphire. I hope she's okay. I mean, those Clakkerz were random, or were they? Heh, only one way to find out ;)
Disclaimer: In all respect to Lorne Lanning and his world of Odd, I do NOT own anything in this, I only own my OCs:
OCs in this Fanfic or are mentioned: Sapphire the Big Sis Slig, Rose the Landlady Clakker, Dave the 'Multitasking' Slig and Furlong the big bro Slig, Danni the Vykker and Ruby the Slig, Corey and Joey the Big bro Slig.
OCs owned by friends who allowed me to put them on this: Bart the Big Bro Slig.
