Abri: Chapter I
#3 of Abri
Yeah, so here goes my second attempt at creating an enthralling series that will at least fulfill my own odd-ball sense of writing passion. Please enjoy, and comment! >:3
Rustling through the Serengeti of a New-Age forested habitat bore a group of three individuals, two covered in armor from head to toe, and then a passenger behind them both, seeping with wet blood and tarnished bandages.
"You don't realize just how hard it was to bring you here, do you, you impudent boy?" shouted the taller female, her voice hoarse and almost over-bearing. Across from her stood the smaller, yet stout female who had a firm grip on her hip, scanning the horizon overhead.
"Hey, Tesla...How long do you think it'll take for them to realize he's gone?"
Turning her head to stare at the individual and her question, Tesla gleamed.
" It's not a matter of when they realize anything, Fia...It's a matter of how much longer we have till the child reacts with poison."
Instantly, Fia's ears drew downwards, her claws clutching at her chest at the thought of the male behind her dying in front of her eyes. This made her turn to take a glance at him, and then she sighed.
"What's your name, boy?" she muttered with a small touch of sympathy in her soothing drawal.
"Does it matter?"
"Don't give us attitude boy!" Tesla sneered, reaching over and snapping him across the head with the back of her paw.
"If it weren't for our captain, you'd be just another unfortunate captive who was too foolish enough to leave this prison when you could!"
"S-Sister Tesla. . ."
"Enough talk, Fia. We're heading to the southernmost gate, and then hoping for the best from there. Make the boy walk faster" the older woman commandeered, slashing through the thicket with a swipe of her rapier.
Continuing through the vast, humid forest, the two female wolves drove at their end with piercing through the sharp vine fixtures and various EXs, which were a type of military anti-retaliation android, who very often took the appearance of rabid beasts, machines, or even walking beings like themselves.
"Have at you, diligent pawn!" shrieked Tesla as her rapier stabbed through the exterior of a canine-like EX that had almost resorted to using an automatic explosion measure.
"A-Ah! They..They keep coming!"
"Keep at them, Fia! They can't have the boy!"
The older female took a quick glance behind her, widened her eyes, and cried out with a gasp, running her paw across a metal blade that had torn straight through her stomach region, choking vigorously. This caused boy behind her to gulp, his icy blue eyes closing at the horrific scene that had played out before him.
Meanwhile, Fia violently tore through a couple of anti-air M-EX's, retracting her spear long enough to break it into a dozen dagger-like objects, incinerating the outer shell of the opposing squadron in front of her, which had done the job, but had ultimately left her without a weapon in return.
Panting to herself steadily, she ran to the corner where the boy and Tesla were fighting close-by. Sliding her paw to clear the way of any hanging plants, her emerald-colored bangs ruffled past her forehead, looking ahead.
"I think that's all of them, Tesla..."she murmured, tying a quick knot of fabric around a bleeding wound that she had received prior to the excavation.
"Tesla, can you hear me? Tes--Oh my lord!" cried the smaller sibling, clasping her mouth with opened eyes that cried for urgency. Quickly she strode down to her defeated blood-relative and rose her head, gasping for words.
"Y-You...T-They hurt you..."
Tesla grinned through the amount of useable facial muscles that had kept on functioning for the most part.
"They got me."
"Tesla, No! You can make it out of here with us both, so I'll just...Ah!!" Fia screamed, immediately hearing that loud popping noise of a dislocated ligament once she had attempted to raise the older one on her feet.
"The poison!?"
"That's what they're made out of...Heh, remember? They're meant to kill, in one way or another" Tesla muttered gently, turning her gaze towards the background, where the lone wolf of a captive sat, drowned in his own kind of sorrow, away from the reality that the situation was in. This made her angry.
"B-Boy!--Gah...Hey, you..Quit moping and follow my sister, now!"
Raising his head slightly, his gaze still retreated downwards.
"It's not like they won't find us all eventually.."
" Listen to me!" cried the female wolf in retaliation, her white-colored fur along her lower torso starting to mesh into a variant of black and violet.
"We did this much for you, so don't be so damned selfish..."she murmured, her blazing red hues soon dripping with hot tears while attempting to steady her back against a tree beside her.
"If you...do nothing to help leave this place...and have my sister fend for herself...I'll be sure...."she coughed violently.
"I'll be sure to kick your ass in the after-life, you got it!?"
"Tesla, don't say that! We can...We can..."She went silent, cocking her head eastward to the sound of rustling grass. This caused Tesla to groan, shooing them to leave.
"They're on to us by now. You two go now. Go now!!"
Fia swung her fist to her sides and groaned heavily, nearly disgusted with the choices that she had been given. Promptly, she marched to where the boy was sitting, picked him up with all of her might, and dragged him by the arm towards the gate, rushing out as fast as possible before the sound of the opposition became louder.
It wasn't until a few feet afterwards that a gigantic explosion crashed both of the younger wolves' ear drums, initiating a response to the two that the enemy had found their whereabouts--and most importantly, that Tesla was in fact no longer with them.
Quickly, they trudged southward, the boy clinging lifelessly to the girl's arm as the blood on his body became more apparent and widespread.