Watch duty

The night was getting late. Even though Gilda was passed out most of the time, she looked as tired as everyone else.

“Alright, I think it’s about that time to get some shut eye.”I said, yawning a bit.

Gilda yawned as well, and you know what they ‘It's contagious’.

“Gilda, you can sleep in the same tent you were in before,” I said,” and don’t worry my friends and I will take shifts in keeping watch; so you can sleep well tonight.”

“Heh, you know what, you guys are alright.” She said, getting up to head to her tent.

“Well, I think that went rather well.” I said, after Gilda left.

“To be honest, I still can’t believe that just happened.” Jordan said, while packing up the soup.

Once we finished packing the soup and added more wood to the fire, we began to decide how watch duty is going to work. Fortunately, our watches were still functional; so we decided to switch off by the hour.

“So who is going first?” I asked.
We were all tired, and we all wanted our sleep. Therefore, none of us volunteered.

“Alright, let’s do this the fair way…” I said bringing up my fist, “rock, paper, scissors.”

We brought up our fists and began to chant the words of the game.

“Rock, paper, scissors, shoe.”

It ended as a tie with paper; so we tried again. Again, we tied with paper. Now I was getting annoyed. We decided to go at it one more time, and it ended as a tie with rock.

“Forget it; I’ll take first shift, Jordan you take second, Taphy you take last…” I blurted out in frustration, “Now go to sleep so when the time comes, I can get some sleep.”

My friends didn’t argue, and they just went to their tents to get some sleep. I found a nice spot near the fire and sat down. I took out my I-phone and earphones, and decide to listen to some music to pass the time. ‘Thank god for apple.’

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GILDA

I was still baffled by what just transpired, but I’m glad to know that their friendly. My saviors are supposedly humans, but their nothing like the stories describe them. The one who I met first was named Daniel, and I was guessing he was the leader of the group. The other two, Jordan and Taphy, had the same body form, but they had different features. They were darker in skin tone, and their personalities were different. None of them were anything like those creatures that attacked me. I didn’t ask about them, but I’ll ask about it tomorrow.

I yawned a bit, feeling the exhaustion taking effect on my body. Wanting to see what the humans were doing, I took a peek out of my tent. The humans were gathered in a circle, and they were doing something, shaking their fists up and down. Feeling too tired to continue watching, I went back inside my tent. ‘These humans are kind of weird.’ I padded down the blanket, and then laid down.

I began to think about the items they carry. They had knives strapped on their legs, and other than that they had no other weapons. However, Daniel was carrying something that looked alien to me. It was black with shades of grey, it was metallic in texture, but it wasn’t sharp. If it were a weapon, I had no idea how it works. Whatever it does it must be powerful, remembering how the creatures went down by some unknown force. The other item they carry was some sort of straps on their wrist. It had circular glass on top. ‘I’m going to have a lot of questions for these humans tomorrow.’

I yawned once again and felt my eyes getting heavy. Even after the life threatening situation I went through, I wasn’t scared. For some reason, I felt safe around these humans. When Daniel told me that I was safe, I felt like I could trust him. His words were sincere, and I could tell through his eyes that he wasn’t lying. With that thought in mind, I began to drift off to sleep.

Onward to adventure

The sun was shining bright in the sky, and a few clouds are spread out through the blue canvas. ‘Man what a beautiful morning.’ Gilda hasn’t woken up from her sleep yet; so we decided to leave her be till she does. While I sent Taphy out to collect more water, Jordan and I were packing up the tents. The night shift routine went quite well. Fortunately, there were no unwanted visitors, and we were all able to get enough sleep. During my shifts, I couldn’t help but think about the situation we are in. we were in a world that is not our own, our kind doesn’t exist apart from myth and legends, and to top it off we have no idea how to get home. My friends didn’t say anything about it, but I’m sure they thought about it. Sooner or later, they are going to bring it up. ‘(sigh) I’ve lead us up a creek without a paddle and there is no possible way to make a U-turn.’

“(yawn) You guys up already.” Gilda said, while coming out of her tent.

“Good morning to you to Gilda…” I said, while strapping the rolled up tent to the backpack, “I’m guessing you’re not much of an early bird huh?”

I chuckled a little at my intended pun.

“Ha ha, no I’m usually up early in the morning,” she said, scuffing off my joke,” but I guess I was a lot more exhausted then I thought.”

“Don’t worry about it, I don’t blame you…” I said, “Anyway how your wounds feeling?”

“A lot better, but I’m still a little sore though. It’s nothing I can’t handle.” She responded.

It’s good to hear that she’s doing better, but I’m probably going to have to change some of those bandages.

“So what’s for breakfast?” she asked me.

“Yo Jordan, what do we have for breakfast?” I asked not knowing myself.

He began digging through his pack for our requested meal.

“We have a couple of strawberry Granola bars.” He said bringing one out to show me.

‘Of course.’ He threw two at me and grabbed one for himself.

I opened one up for Gilda and grabbed a canteen of water.

“Here you go…” I said, giving her the bar and canteen, “I know it doesn’t look like much, but it’ll do the job.”

She thanked me and took the items. She looked at it curiously, before taking a bite. Noticing that it’s a bit dry, she took a couple of gulps from the canteen.

“So where is your other friend, Taphy is it?” she asked, after taking another bite.

“Oh, he’s off getting some water. He’ll be back soon.” I answered.

Not long after she asked, I hear a couple of clanks from multiple canteens, signaling his arrival.

“I got the water guys.” He said, holding multiple canteens of water.

“Hey Taphy, catch!” Jordan yelled, throwing a granola bar.

Taphy tried to catch it. However, he had too many canteens and no room for the bar.

“Oh snap!” he yelled in desperation, trying to catch the bar and dropping the canteens at the same time.

When Taphy had the bar in his hand, he had already dropped most of the canteens. ‘At least they were closed.’ We all began to laugh, while Taphy just looked at us with an annoyed expression.

“Oh Taphy, you just make things to easy.” I said, while wiping a tear from laughing to hard.
After that fiasco, I decided to take out the med kit, to get started on replacing Gilda’s bandages.

“Alright, let’s take a look at those wounds…” I said kneeling in front of her, “Can I please have your right arm.”

After removing the bandage, it had some stitches where the wound was, and the fur was a bit messy from the blood.

“Do you know what those things were that attacked me?” she asked, while I was cleaning her arm with water, alcohol, and cloths.

“Sorry your guess is as good as ours…” I said while wrapping her arm with new bandages, “Their bodies disintegrated before we could take a good look at them.”

“Disintegrated?” she said confusingly.

“Yup, melted away like butter on a hot pan.” I said, going for the wound on her back next.

After patching up her back, I went for her wing. I would say that it was the worst of the wounds she had, and the hardest to treat. The wound was deep, and it will impede her from flying. After washing off the blood with water, I began to dab it with alcohol.

“Ouch! That hurts.” She yelled.

“Sorry, should have warned ya ahead of time.” I said, apologizing for my lack of communication.

She continued to wince from the dabs of alcohol, and under consideration I tried to be quick about it.

“What are you going to do now?” she asked, probably trying to ignore the pain.

“I was going to ask you about that. What’s the closest town from here?” I asked while wrapping up her wing.

“Leafwood Village, it’s down a mountain pass that leads into this forest.” She responded.

“Than that’s where we’re going. So how far is Leafwood from here?” I asked.

“Not long, if we were flying, but seeing that you don’t have wings and mine are badly beaten to fly any time soon. It will take at least two days time to get there.”

It was our luck that we had enough supplies to make the journey.

“Then I guess we’ll have plenty of time to get to know each other.” I said, finishing up with the wound on her head.

We finished breakfast and packed up the campsite. Also, I’ve gotten Gilda to pinpoint where we were on the map, and indicate which route we were going to take.

“Alight guys, gather around…” I said getting everyone’s attention, “Here’s the plan. It’s pretty obvious we’re not in Kansas anymore. However, Gilda was generous enough to offer us her assistance to be our guide. Our first destination will be Leafwood Village, about two days from here. Let’s try to get there without any trouble. Once there, we’ll get our supplies and decide our next move. Any questions?”

Everyone stayed quiet, indicating that they had none.

“Good, Gilda, if you may be so kind, lead the way.” I ended.

We began our journey to Leafwood Village.

Author's Notes:

yeah this part was kinda short but oh well.