Zuri, Abby, Strips ~ Private

[zash]

The remains of the fire crackled. A few sparks flew from time to time. The remnants of the wood were glowing red, just barely lighting the room. There were small pieces of wood that were burnt out and one or two fairly large pieces of wood that were still glowing with the fire’s small amount of life left. Zuri had fallen into a deep sleep by this point in time. He did not dream, he did not move, he did nothing. His mind was at a relaxed state.

On the other hand. Korshwik was constantly rustling around. He wasn’t dreaming, he’s just a movy sleeper. He kept tossing and turning. Constantly trying to find another comfy spot. Which with Zuri, he really didn’t have a choice. He was injured and incapable of moving at the time. So not much else to do but lay there and not hurt himself.

[petdr89]

Strips pulled up just in time to avoid colliding into the treetops. Abby transported to another location in the sky before she hit the treetops.

“You stupid f***ing vampire! I can’t believe I ever loved you, I can’t believe I ever asked you to marry me! Why don’t you just die?!” Strips snarled as he sped toward Abby. His body plowed into hers and while they were both falling, he pounded his fists into her skull repeatedly.

Abby tried to dodge most of Strips’s blows, but eventually just ended up teleporting away from him. When Abby moved again, they both stopped; hovering in the air. Abby cackled, “You still don’t get it do you? You didn’t ask me to marry you; you asked Abby to marry you. Abby’s not here right now; not like it really matters, ‘cause she’s never gunna answer you.”

“Then who the heck did I sleep with last night?” Strips asked, flying away from her again but knowing she would follow after him.

Abby grinned, “Creepy, isn’t it?” She asked rhetorically; flying after Strips like he thought she would.

During all this flying, they had managed to get right above Kiko Lake. Strips noticed the water below them, and got an idea. He stopped, hovering above the water. “What’re ya waitin’ fer? I’m right here, come get me!” He yelled, hoping this would entice Abby; all the while he slowly allowed himself to fall toward the water.

Abby grinned again and charged toward Strips, but right as she was about to reach him, he dove to the side. Abby collided with the water; Strips pulled back up into the air.

“Haha! Can’t get me now, can you?!” He thought he was quite clever for coming up with that; Abby wouldn’t be able to fly now because her wings would be too heavy. He shifted directions, and started flying over the land; just made him feel safer being above land.

Abby growled in frustration. She tried to fly out of the water, but it was no use. Still, she wasn’t going to give up that easily. She teleported next to Strips again, clutched his shirt in her fists, and didn’t let go for anything. She could teleport into the sky while she was on the ground, but it wasn’t a very good idea when she couldn’t fly.

They were both sent creaming toward the ground again, but luckily it wasn’t as long of a drop this time. Abby had caused them to shift while they were in the air, so that Strips landed on his back and Abby landed on top of him.

Strips rolled around the ground in pain; he would have sworn his back was broken. Of course, if it was he wouldn’t have been able to move.

Abby smirked, “Can’t get rid of me that easily”. She tried to pin Strips down on the ground, but he was moving around too much. Her teeth aimed for his jugular, but he moved suddenly and they ended up sinking into his shoulder.

“Holy f***in’ s***!” Strips screamed out in pain. Those were some pretty darn sharp teeth. He instinctively ripped his shoulder out of her mouth, wiggled out from under her, and got to his feet and ran to the only tree in the area. He noticed a snick on the ground, and picked it up.

Abby ran after him again, but right as she reached him, she felt something sharp pierce her chest. She looked down long enough to see the stick jutting out her chest, before her eyes rolled back and her body went limp on the ground.

Strips panted heavily; exhaustion overwhelmed him and he slid onto the ground, fell over, and immediately passed out.

[zash]

Finally sunrise came. And of course, Zuri was in the first beam of day. He was still lying on his back, cozy and still. Then the sun rose and a beam of light landed on Zuri’s eyes. “Oh come on.” Zuri said as he woke up. But this time he was able to sit up. And amazingly enough he wasn’t sore any more. “Huh, hey cool.” Zuri began to stand up and then tested out his once busted limbs. “Ah man, that’s better. A little sore if I use my wing to much but I can fix that.” With a good nights rest at his use Zuri once again chanted some words and a green light emitted from his hand and absorbed his wing. Slowly the once bruised and sore wing was fixed and fully healed. About this point in time Korshwik had woken up.

“So you’re finally healed huh? I bet you want to go find your friends.”

“Uh, actually yeah, I am. I doubt they’re at Kiko Lake by now but I do kinda need to get there. But hey kid. If you want you could join me for a bit.”

Korshwik looked at Zuri and shook his head. “Actually, at one point in time I would have agreed but, this is my home and I actually don’t want to leave it. Plus, you’ve told me a lot of what you guys do and it’s probably to dangerous for a kid like me.”

Zuri just looked at him. As redundant as that sounded, it was probably true. He did far too dangerous things for this kid to be around them for though he lived in the woods where he gets trampled on if he isn’t careful. “Well alright kid. If that’s the way you want it then ok. Just promise me you’ll stay alive and keep practicing your spells there kid.” But with that Zuri went over, moved the boulder and stepped outside. The sun felt nice. He hadn’t felt it or seen it in quite some time. “Well kid. It was nice meetin ya but, I’m outa here.”

Korshwik looked at Zuri and smiled and said. “Alright. If you ever want to visit, you’ll know where to find me. I’ll see you then.” Korshwik just nodded his head and kinda laughed and said. “See you later Zuri.”

Zuri looked at Korshwik for one last time and said, “See ya Korshwik.” And with that Zuri blasted into the skies and began flying for Kiko Lake.

“Ahh man. It’s nice to finally get out into the sun and the skies. Hey, I’m actually not that far from Kiko. I can just barely see it. I guess I’ll go ahead and speed up and make sure to beat Strips and Abby there. That’s if they aren’t already. Just depends if they ever decided what to do or to fly. I have been out for awhile so…”

Zuri sped up and flew to Kiko as fast as he could. Eventually he saw the Lake and just decided to land in it. He went head first and nosed dived into the lake. He went down pretty far but he just swam back up. His head popped out. “Ah man! That’s freaking cold.” Zuri swam back to shore and got up on land. He looked around to see if you could find anyone. It was still early morning so there weren’t that many people out, if any. Then Zuri saw something black. It was a black kougress with a stick in its chest. “What the?” Zuri ran over and he saw who it was. It was Abby! “What the?! Oh yeah. Full moon, I wonder where Strips is. Hopefully he’s still alive. Oh wait, I guess I should pull this stick out. I wonder if Abby’s alive. Ah man.” For a second there, the thought of Abby’s not being able to be killed blocked the thought of a stick in her heart. “If she’s dead or injured in any way I’m gonna be sure to kill Strips.” Zuri then pulled out the stick in Abby’s chest. “Abby, speak to me. Wake up. Are you alright?”

[petdr89]

Strips was still conked out; he was laying under the tree, not even three feet away from Abby. Zuri was next to Abby; he should have been able to see Strips. Poor Strips, he was the victim yet people are talking about killing him. ((XDDD)) During the night, blood had poured from the wound in his shoulder, and formed a puddle on the ground. The wound had also clotted during the night, however, and was no longer bleeding. Still looked like it was in pretty bad shape, though; the muscle had been torn when he ripped his shoulder out of Abby's jaws.

Abby was still in her vampiric form when Zuri found her, but as soon as he pulled the stick out of her chest, she reverted back to her regular form; gasped for..something...air? maybe? She gasped and sat up; a stunned look on her face.

[zash]

“Abby, thank God you’re ok. I think. How are you? What in the h*** happened last night?” Zuri helped Abby up. He stared at her with worried eyes. He didn’t really noticed Strips. The thought of him left his mind when he saw Abby and how she was immobile.

[petdr89]

Strips could be dieing and nobody would notice! No wonder he's angry at the world; no wonder he doesn't trust anyone! No wonder he wants Zuri's head on a platter! ((*lmao*))

"Uh, I'm okay, I think.... But I'm not entirely sure what happened last night." She closed her eyes as she tried desperately to remember the goings on of the previous night. Usually it took her at least a day to remember everything, but she could remember some of the occurrences now. "I-I remember a fight; Strips and I fighting. He tried to kill me... No wait, I tried to kill him first. I-I bit him, I think. And he stabbed me... That's all I can remember." She looked up into Zuri's eyes, a hint of terror showing in her own.

[zash]

Zuri, seeing the terror in Abby’s eyes held her closer. “It’s alright now.” He held onto her for a few seconds, trying to comfort her. He stroked her hair and held her close to himself. “Crap, we better find Strips.” Zuri thought to himself. He loosened his grip on Abby and laid her back down. “Stay here while I find Strips.” Which that didn’t take long. As soon as Zuri lifted his head he saw Strips. “Ah man.” He thought to himself. He saw the puddle of blood surrounding his shoulder. He stood up and walked over to him. Trying not to touch Strips’ shoulder Zuri listened to Strips’ heart to make sure he was still alive. He then started to shake Strips a bit trying to wake him. “Strips. Strips wake up! Come on Strips.”

[petdr89]

Abby wrapped her arms around Zuri's waist while he held her, and nuzzled her head in his chest. But when he let go, she did as she was told and sat on the ground; knees held close to her chest while her arms wrapped around them.

Strips sensed a disturbance in the force; some one had entered his comfort zone, his bubble. Though he didn't wake up at first; not until Zuri started shaking him and yelling did he wake up, and he woke up with a panicked jolt. For a brief moment in his mind, he pictured everything last night, and pictured Abby coming after him again. So when Zuri woke him up, it was no wonder he didn't try to rip Zuri's arm off. He probably would have tried, too, if it weren’t for the fact that he couldn't even move his arm; the muscle was too badly torn. He felt dizzy as well; with the amount of blood he had lost during the night, that was to be expected. His vision was blurry, as he looked up at Zuri. But when he realized who it was, he rolled his eyes, closed them, and rested his head on the ground again.

[zash]

When Strips jolted up it kinda scared Zuri. “Neeee, What the?” Then Strips fell back down. “Well duh you idiot. Stop moving so much. I take it your at least alive. So will ya confirm it by saying something?” Zuri lowered his voice and said. “Do it for Abby over there. She’s alright but a little freaked out right now.” Zuri really couldn’t do much else. So he looked at Abby and said. “He’s ok. He’s till alive and kickin.”

[petdr89]

Zuri's word's echoed in Strips's head 'duh you idiot...I take it you're alive...will you confirm it?' Strips smirked, "F*** you" he said, playfully. He never thought he'd be so glad to hear Zuri giving him a hard time. But was he still alive? He wasn't sure; his eyes were still closed so all he could see was blackness. I'd be kickin' your a**...if I could move he thought when he heard Zuri's last sentence.

Abby was rocking back and forth, waiting for Zuri's diagnosis. When Zuri finally said Strips was okay, she slowly started crawling toward them.

[zash]

Zuri began laughing. “Hahahaha. Yup he’s alive alright. Good O’l Strips.” Zuri just began to shake his head. “Well Strips is alive and Abby’s alright. I guess I didn’t have it so rough after all. I though these guys would just walked here or fly here and be like, “Where were you, you lazy bum.” Well Strips would be like that at least.” Zuri thought to himself. “Well alright. Now all we have to do is heal you guys. I though I had it bad but good grief you guys. Hahaha, I missed all the excitement.”

[petdr89]

Abby reached Strips and Zuri, and tried to snuggle next to Strips to help both him and herself feel better, but Strips pulled away from her. He staggered to his feet and clutched his chest with his only working hand, which felt like it was going to explode. "What'er ya talkin' about, man? I don't need healin', I'm perfectly fine" he said sarcastically.

[zash]

”Like h*** you are. What the heck man. Come on. We still have to take you somewhere to get bandaged up. I mean there has to be a hospital around here somewhere where you guys can get patched up and everything. Especially you Strips. You probably could use a little blood and some bandaging. And I will force you if I have to. It won’t be that hard to drag you in there. I could just keep hitting your wound over and over again till you do.” Zuri then turned his attention to Abby who seemed hurt, not physically but mentally. “And come here Abby.” Zuri then tried to hold Abby to try to comfort her. It seemed that Strips really didn’t intend on being Abby’s friend right now.

[petdr89]

Abby was more than happy to have Zuri hold her; his warm body was comforting. She was a little confused, though; the way Zuri sounded made it seem like he thought she needed to go to the hospital, but there was nothing wrong with her. There was a hole in the middle of her shirt where the stick had punctured, but no wound.

"And what do you purpose we tell them when we come strolling into the hospital? 'Oh, hey, hi, I was attacked by a vampire, ya think ya could help me out?' Do you realize how weird that's gunna sound?" Strips wanted to yell, but he couldn't quite get his voice up that high; just saying what he had left him feeling a little winded. He kept his back to Zuri, but turned his head to the side just enough to see Zuri coddling Abby. He rolled his eyes, "why don't you just go make out" he muttered.

[zash]

Zuri was getting really ticked off by this point. Abby was thrown, she can’t help it if she transforms. This was something he truly had in common with her. They both transformed and really had no control over their bodies. They can’t help it if they do something. Zuri killed his own mother. Like he really wanted to do that, he didn’t have control, much like Abby during a full moon. “Alright here.” Zuri let go of Abby again and grabbed the stick. He rolled it in the blood on the ground and then threw it at Strips’ head. “That’s your reason. You got a stick stuck in your arm after falling out of a tree or something. So if that helps then there ya go. You really don’t have any other choice. But if you wanted to you, rip off some more of your shirt and use that to bandage it, whatever you need to do. I swear man I’m about to throw you into the lake.” Zuri knew that one, Strips hated water and two, he most likely couldn’t swim in his state.