VIII
"Gah," Noriko sounded as though she was caught off-guard and she was. Shimako looked over and was surprised to saw the other girl got sucked into the soggy ground, quirking her brow Shimako leaned over and took the girl's hand trying to pull her out from the ground. "Oh shit," Noriko said feeling coiled around her waist. "What, what is it?" Shimako asked as she gave one last hard yank launching the other girl into the air along with something that latched onto her as well.
"Grrahh…" Noriko roared as her right hand transformed into sharp claws before digging it into the fleshy thing around her waist. "Holy cow, that's some leech…" Shimako said looking up at the girl that grabbed onto a tree branch with one hand while her other one sank into the muddy looking leech of enormous size. An eerie puff of smoke moved slowly from Noriko's claw-liked hand as the flesh mud-leech started to freeze over and dropped right off of her, but soon she followed and dropped from the branch as well. Shimako wasn't sure what's wrong with her captor though she hurried over to the girl's side and help her up did she noticed the bloodstain on Noriko's left lower back. "This is not good…" Noriko murmured while suppressing the urge to cough.
"Let's hurry out of here," Shimako said while supporting the girl as they moved through the watery forest (flooded forest). Noriko started to lose her vision view after a while of walking with Shimako's help, just as when they're finally out of the forest and into a more dried and thin forest. Noriko pushed herself away from Shimako so that she could lean against the large tree and started to cough badly as the blood churned and traveled up to her mouth.
"Oh no, is it poisoned?" Shimako asked hurried to Noriko's side and pulled the girl's shirt up and looked at the blacken wound on her lower back. "I'm seriously questioning the animals that inhabit that forest," Shimako commented as she laid Noriko on her stomach. "H-here…" Noriko said weakly pulling out a hunting knife. "C-cut it… open and f-f-force the… poison out…" she finished coughing up more blood. "Okay, okay, just don't die on me…" Shimako said feeling slightly panicky with all the blood being coughed out by the other girl and how the darken spot kept on spreading. Quickly, Shimako took the knife and worked on the wound, cutting it open a little more before tossing the knife aside and gently worked on and pushed the poisoned blood out.
Resorting to the last straw, Shimako leaned over and sucked the poison out of the wound and spit it out. Every now and then she would wiped the blood off her mouth as she continued on with sucking out the poison, slowly the darken spot retreated until there's only a small red circle around the wound. Tearing the sleeve of her shirt, Shimako bandaged up the wound and turned a totally passed out Noriko over. Letting the girl's head rest on her lap as she sat with her back against the tree, relaxing letting exhaustion invade her body and mind as a light breeze passing by.
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"Sheesh, this place is so drippy…" Sachiko murmured looking outside the abandoned tent she'd found a few minutes ago. "You know, the way you say it sounds like you're some old perverted geezer…" Yumi commented barely awake, which only thicken her smoky voice all the more. Sachiko couldn't help but blushed deeply after realizing what Yumi meant, it really does sound perverted.
"Anyway, this is the rainforest, the beginning of the flooded forest…" Yumi yawned the wounds were still bothering her even though it had already slowly healed itself up by now. "Oh…" Sachiko felt slightly miffed (when she's embarrassed) rubbing her cheek. "Come over here and get some sleep," Yumi said padding at the empty spot next to her, innocently thinking it's just like sleeping with her cousin even though this person is her enemy turned ally on a truce. All the while Sachiko's mind tried to rationalize as to why the other girl wanted sleep together with her, and then finally she gave up and closed the tent and sat down next to a sleepy Yumi. "Sleep," Yumi said with her eyes closed as she reached out and pulled Sachiko down next to her. Rolling on her back, a small smile bloomed upon her face, Yumi drifted back to sleep as Sachiko rolled on her side and propped her head up looking over at that sleeping face next to her.
A few hours later a roaring sound woke them up from the slumber, "Oh come on!" despite the pain, Yumi got up and opened the tent to look outside at the starless sky (hard when the trees so thick) to see who dare to woke her up at this time of the night. "Huh? What…?" Sachiko asked sleepily. "Oh hell, not again!" Yumi shouted coming back and dropped herself on top of Sachiko just as something swiped by, flattening the tent completely. "Huh? What? What happened?" Sachiko asked as she's finally fully awake now that the steamy air blasted at her in full force. "This is getting ridiculous…" Yumi grumbled rolling off of Sachiko.
Not far away, Sachiko saw the gleaming red eyes blinked in the darkness and a low rumbling noise seemed to be coming from that direction as well. "Damn, I'm too tired for this…" Yumi said weakly waving her hand in the air. "Have fun with it…" she continued. "Uh, sure?" Sachiko said pulling out her spear. With a flick of her wrist, the handle extended itself and glowed deep blue until the entire spear is of that color. Sachiko brought it over her head with both of her hands holding onto it, she took in a deep breath and drove the head of the spear straight into the ground sending surge of statics down the spear onto the ground and toward the pair of burning eyes a bit away from them. A screech and a loud thud emitted from that direction, and then followed by a loud roar with enough force her hair and the trees nearby swayed slightly.
"I don't think its happy being zapped by you," Yumi commented while retying her hair. Just so, a light aquatic glow from the beast signaling something painful to come, and Yumi leaped on her feet and hissed from the pains her wounds induced for the sudden movement. "Remember last night when I got a rock on my side?" Yumi asked backing away a little bit. "Yes, what about it?" Sachiko asked looking over at the other girl. "Well, let's just say that this place makes it feel right at home…" "Uh-oh…" Sachiko noted pulling her spear up and got into her fighting stance. "You say it; let's try our best not to get burn to ashes this time too okay?" Yumi said in a half-serious and half-joking tone. "Heh, I'll show it what I got…" Sachiko smirked holding the spear in her right hand as she changed her stance and leaned forward low enough that her left hand touched the wet ground. "Show me your demi power then," Yumi grinned as she too leaned forward just slightly, letting her hands hung loosely.
A/N: Woo... another one, and yes I did, for whatever reason, I forgot and renamed Sachiko's weapon. Shame on me again I guess (laughs). Enjoy the cliff-hangy chapter.