Quick thing before the chapter, someone says "Idk" this isn't a mistake, nor is it me abbreviating, it's just that sometimes people do say this. It does happen, so I figured that it would be best to just have him say that. 'K?

On with the chapter:

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I woke up to a blaringly hot sun, and a strange, handsome face.

Said face was tan, with greengage eyes and a mop of black hair that reached his shoulders.

Oh, look, there were two- no, three- no, wait, it was two, and-

"Urgh" I groaned, feeling tired, drowsy and weak.

"He's awake!" called the man above me.

I shielded my eyes as my human-shade,-er, the other guy, moved.

I saw another man behind him. He was fat- [no offense bro!] and was wearing a vest, a fur coat wrapped around his middle.

I got up and immediately regretted it because my arms were weak and wobbly, and my abdomen had no doubt obtained some wounds, but minor as they were, they still hurt like hell.

"Hey," said tall dark and handsome- er, I mean the guy I saw, "Take it easy," his voice oddly soothing.

I nodded. After a while he helped me to my feet, which hurt like a bitch, considering I'd managed to somehow sprain my ankle. Oh well, I suppose it could have been worse.

When I was up I took a look around. We'd, thankfully, crashed in a dry area, so there was no fire. There was, however, a giant sized crater around us, a giant ball of fire- which would thankfully keep any sane animal away, which means we should probably get out of here before any ostriches show up [no offense to any ostriches reading this, prejudice is a horrible thing, and- urgh, I think rubbed off on me]- and there was also six bodies laying on the ground.

One was of a girl, she seemed to have a few minor injuries to the head, she wore her long, blonde hair back in a braid with a pair of denim shorts and a blue tank-top. She was wearing converse, so I felt slightly optimistic on her chances of survival.

There was a buff guy too, he wore a beige tank top and black pants with boots. Okay, maybe he'd live. Maybe.

There was another blonde, she had streaks of blue and orange in her hair, though, she was wearing a shirt that said FIR. Wow. She had black jeans on, wonder what she was thinking wearing black jeans in Africa of all places, or, for more emphasis, Sub Saharan Africa, where the sun was a bitch [unless you're used to it] and wearing black in July was a- well, actually, since it was winter here, I guess it won't be that bad. At least it isn't summer *shudders* now that's a death wish.

Then there was a brunette dude. He was pretty buff. Tank top, shark-tooth necklace, brown pants. Pretty good looking too. No, incredibly good looking.

Then there were two twins, they were both brunettes, but one had died his hair green with brown flecks while the other had done the exact opposite.

Then there were the awake people.

A girl, yellow-boned, with brown-red dreads and a blue tank top with black pants. I had the weirdest feeling that I'd seen her before. She was tending to the blonde with a braid.

Then, twins, they had long, blonde hair and wore the same kind of grey-green tanks and khaki shorts, the girl's being shorter. They were tending to the other twins and arguing. A lot.

Then there was a red-head. He was… lanky, but slightly more muscular than tall d-, um, the guy that woke me up. He was tending to the Falling in Reverse fan. Hmmm, wonder if she's hear of- I'll ask her later.

The fat- er, chubby, blonde dude was looking at a book, frantically flipping pages.

I signaled to the guy helping me that it was okay, that I was fine, even though in reality I was exhausted beyond my wildest dreams, craving water and food, even though I'm not sure I'd be able to keep either of the two down, and honestly, I could really use a- Idea!

"Um," I said, my voice slightly hoarse, taking a branch from the ground nearby, careful that it wasn't a snake, "I-I'll go looking for some silver-cluster leaves."

The guy next to me seemed to be the only one who heard me, since he was the only one not occupied, "I'll help you," he said, "Safer."

And then he smiled at me, and even though I highly doubted that he knew what we were looking for, I let him come along, he was right, after all, in my current state I couldn't defend myself, from anything.

I told him what we were looking for, a small-ish green bush, most likely up to our hips, with green leaves that kind of looked like there was a faint silver-ish hue around them and had lighter undersides with slightly waxy-different-ish underside textures.

We found it, surprisingly he was the one to find it. Not that I thought he was stupid, I'd just highly doubted from the way his eyes moved around frantically that he'd had too much experience with predator movies and not enough experience with Africa. Not that he was wrong, it was dangerous, but between my branch and my knowledge of this fine country and his… presence? We would be able to handle ourselves for a bit.

I chewed the leaves for a bit before taking them out and placing them on my wounds, feeling their cool numbing effect.

I pocketed a few dozen. Okay, almost the entire bush, and other dude [I should probably learn his name] helped me carry them when I told him they were… medicinal? I'm not really sure, but I did tell him that they were affective against scorpion and spider stings/bites and that they were… numbifiers.

We headed back to the crater, which took a little long considering this is a flat grassland with only a few trees to differentiate different places, and the number of animals giving us the evil eye didn't help…

We also found a marula tree, I picked a couple off, knowing people were bound to be hungry.

We were just lucky not to run into any predators on the way back. I guess it's good that one large meal can sustain them for a week…

We got back and dropped the supplies off before I suggested leaving to get some water and more food because I was hungry and could tell others were too. We managed to make some water-carrying things using wood and sharp rocks. We found a watering hole and I told the black-haired dude, who's name I found out was Toothless [our conversation on names was interesting, as you can probably tell by looking at ours'], that there was a crocodile only a few feet away, which wasn't all too strange considering that it was near nightfall, a.k.a near the time hippos and nocturnal animals would start coming out.

We managed to collect several hollowed out branches. We also managed to get some food, yeah, I may have possibly, accidentally, sorta, kinda stepped on a squirrel. Heh, heh, whoops…

We headed back to the campsite, the others were all awake by now, the fire from the plane having gone out, good thing the gas tank didn't explode, or if it did, that it didn't kill us.

We introduced ourselves.

The blonde twins were Tuffnut- male, and Ruffnut- female.

The brunette twins were Barf- brunette with green streaks, and Belch- the one with the opposite.

The blonde with a braid was Astrid.

The FIR fan was Stormfly.

The redhead was Hookfang.

Toothless and I were, well, Toothless and I.

Fat- er, chubby guy was Fishlegs.

Buff dude in the beige tank was Snotlout.

Dude with the nice brown hair and good muscles who was definitely a hunter, was Eret.

Yellow-bone who I swear I know is Meatlug.

And that's, well, everybody.

We started a fire and heated the water to rid it of germs, as well as cooked the squirrel for dinner. We each got a piece, a tiny piece, but a piece nonetheless. Coupled with the marula fruit, we didn't really go hungry.

We made weapons, because honestly I [and I'm pretty sure Meatlug and Eret] was starting to feel a little naked out here with nothing to fend off a predator.

We decided to try and find civilization tomorrow and head to bed after organizing watch shifts [Hookfang and Toothless for an hour, Hunter boy and me for an hour, Yellow-bone and FIR girl for an hour, chubby dude and blonde braid an hour, Brunette twins an hour, blonde twins an hour and Muscle dude with the beige top took last shift. Alone].

Yellow-bone, Hunter and I went to a tree, and when we got confusing looks from the others we decided to elaborate.

"I'd rather take my chances up there," I pointed to the tree, "Where the risks are leopards, monkeys, birds and maybe some snakes, none of which are definite to come, than down here with all the other predators and insects, all of which are definite to come," I said.

The others shuddered and quickly changed their sleeping spots to above ground. Thankfully there was a toilet paper tree Weeping Wattle tree where we landed. They're the best places to sleep.

We were awoken when our shift came, by small taps on the shoulder. Raven haired dude had come to wake me up.

So now it was just Hunter dude and me. I decided I wanted to question him a little on certain things.

"How do you know so much about the African Savannah?" I asked.

He seemed a little startled, "Huh? Oh, you mean how I know about the toilet paper tree?"

"Oi! Respect! It's called a Weeping Wattle!" I said, mock-offended.

We both laughed a little.

"No," I said, "But seriously, how do you know about this stuff?"

He shrugged, "I've been hunting before. My dad took me camping a lot, so he taught me how to set up traps for things like Impalas and Warthogs, taught me how to fix wounds without using modern medication, taught me how to find water, how to find edible stuff, and, most importantly, where to sleep."

I nodded.

"What about you?" he asked, "You seem pretty well-informed yourself, and how did you know about the silver cluster bush leaves?"

I shrugged, "I grew up here," I said, "In Botswana, obviously our schools gave us a few lessons on how to survive in the wild, I mean, if we got hurt at home and didn't have any meds then wouldn't you think it'd be great for us to know that that aloe vera plant outside could heal us faster than dialing our parents?"

He shrugged, before looking at his watch, "Our time's almost up," he said, "So what's the deal with that chick, Meatlug?"

I decided to tell him, "Idk, but I feel like I've met her before," I said.

He looked at me funny, "Idk?"

I rolled my eyes, "What? People say it all the time."

"I know," he said, "But you just don't seem the type to abbreviate words in your speech."

I leaned back against the tree and crossed my legs, "Well, tough toenails."

He seemed amused, then the alarm on his watch went off, "Come on, time to wake up FIR Girl and Mystery Chick."

"Mystery Chick?"

"Well she was just 'Chick' until you came along and started that whole mystery about knowing her."

I just rolled my eyes with a smile playing on my mouth before accepting his extended hand and going to wake the others.

They were groggy and it took a while, but we managed. Then came the land of peaceful sleep.

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done! C ya! And to anyone wondering if this'll be Hicceret/Eretcup, the answer is-

-httyd4eva

peace out yo ;P