24Hey, new story. Not much to say other than Neither I nor Fox-Hero own Twokinds. We only own our OCs. I own Atom, hehe, another Atom story. And Fox-Hero Owns Ace.
Chapter 1
Greetings from the forest.
A lone fox keidren limped along the road, clutching his side where a large claw gash was.
"God damn ferals." He muttered angrily, sitting down on a fallen log he inspected his wounds.
Pulling his hand away he noticed his fur and his shirt was soaked in his blood. Taking of his shirt he placed it next to him on the log.
Just at that moment a figure could be seen sprinting down the road, it was only a silhouette at this point but is was drawing nearer. Panting heavily, the figure doubled over, clutching its belly trying to recover it's breath. Standing up again it clutched a small pack to it's chest and kept running while glancing behind it every so often.
Look at the figure coming closer to him the male keidren wondered what the person was running from.
As the figure neared a blue shirt could be seen flapping in the wind. It stopped again, panting for breath.
"I wonder what's got it all riled up?" The male keidren said to no one in particular.
The figure stood up once again, and started a slow walk. It was obviously out of breath from all the running.
The Fox keidren tried to stand up, only to be shoved down by the pain in his abdomen. Grimacing he looked at his cuts. Ripping a strip from his white shirt he made some makeshift bandages and started wrapping them around his upper chest.
The figure could now be made out to be a keidran, small in stature, tail swinging back and forth limply. It yawned, and rummaged in its small brown pack for something. Somewhat intrigued the fox keidren watched from afar hoping not to be noticed.
It took out a small knife and began to file its claws, muttering something. It was about 50 meters away from the male when it picked up it's scent. Looking directly at the male keidren. This did not go unnoticed by the recipient of the stare. The Fox keidren's eyes widen in fear, he was just attacked by ferals and now a unknown female was staring at him with a knife in hand.
The female stood up a little straighter and gulped. She was still holding the knife in one hand and the pack in the other as she approached the male Fox. She held the knife up in a defencive notion as she stared him down.
Seeing that the female was being difficult he tried giving a deep predatorial growl, which only caused him to wince from his wounds.
The female's eyes widened at the growl and she cowered for a second before noticing his wounds. She put the knife slowly back in her pack and continued to stare him down. One wrong move and she would kill him.
The Fox keidren, all interest in the female in front of him, gone. He glared at the female and growled.
"What do you want" wincing at almost every word he spoke.
The female keidran reached him and looked away. She thrust out her pack in front of her and said, in a scared voice, "Please don't kill me."
The fox keidren looked at her in a way that said 'are you really that thick.'
She looked at him, big brown chocolate eyes that screamed fear and she said. "Please, sir, take it and let me live."
The Fox facepalmed and said in a monotone voice.
"You know you are the second most idiotic keidren I have ever seen." He continued in his native tongue. "Do you even know our native language?"
The females eyes widened, nodding vigorously. "I know it." She said, blinking at him. "Does this mean you won't kill me?" She asked hopefully.
The Fox sighed "I was never going to even hurt you in the first place."
The female sighed in relief. "Thank you so much!" And she hugged him, forgetting his wounds like the dumbass she was.
After a long rant to the female keidren about looking before you pounce he calmed down.
"Sorry." She pouted. "I was careless and stupid!" She started crying, feeling really bad.
"It's okay, don't worry about it, by the way do you have any actual bandages in your pack."
She nodded happily. "Yup!" and she pulled out three rolls of bandage. "I'm Atom by the way!" and she handed them to the Fox keidran.
"Thanks, I'm Ace by the way, a Northern Fox if you couldn't tell." he started to give a small chuckle before grimacing from removing the makeshift bandage wrap, and putting on the clean fresh ones.
Your welcome. I guess I'm," She picked at a black spot of fur on her hand. "A Cheetah. Don't know where from though." Smiling sadly she looked at Ace. "Nice name." She added.
"Same to you." He paused sighing, before looking up quizzically at Atom. "And what were you running from? If I may ask?"
Atom gulped. "Well, uh, I guess I was running from humans?" She said, twirling a bit of her hair nervously.
"Look if you don't want to talk about it, it's ok. I've done stupid crap in the past so you're not alone in that sense"
She sighed and visibly relaxed. "Thank you. So why are you all beat up? Or do you not want to talk about it too?" She asked him, eyeing his now bandaged wounds.
"It's simple" Ace replied "I was jumped by three or four Ferals, only just got away."
Atom nodded, she had no idea what ferals were but they sounded bad. "Oh." She said shortly. "Ferals are bad, right?"
Ace looked at her with a deadpan look "You have no idea what ferals are, do you?"
She gulped. "No?" she tried.
"Okay well they are...(insert explanation here) and that's why you never trust potatoes."
Atom nodded. "Oooh. Now I get it. Thanks! So, Ace, we should get going. They have probably noticed I'm gone by now and we should leave." She Put the remaining bandages in her pack and offered Ace a hand up. Ace gripped the outstretched hand and was pulled up from the log. "Thanks."
"Sooooo… Um, which way do you wanna go." 'Please not that way, please not that way.' She muttered under her breath, glancing at the way she had come.
"Uh do you know where the nearest healer is." He paused "that you're in good terms with" he added.
"Well, um," She glance up at the way she had come. "It's be, ugh, that way." She pointed in the way she had come. "I know this one guy…"
Ace noticed the look in her eyes "you sure you want to go back...?"
She nodded. "I have to if you wanna get healed. And it's the only one I know." "That won't turn me in." She added quietly.
"Very well, if you have a cloak in your sack of mystery you might want to put it on" he said cracking a smile.
She smiled softly. "I might." And with that she withdrew a large black carefully folded cloak and swung it around herself. "We should get there by sundown." She said and smiled from the darkness of the cloak's hood.
"Well then, let's get moving while there is still light." Ace replied.
As they started moving, neither of them noticed a pair of golden glowing eyes behind them.
"You hurt my friends, I hurt you."
Thanks for reading!
