Zig Pt 2/2
It took a lot of convincing (and some help from his mother) to get Abe to allow the slig to stay in the village while he recovered. Cili took him into the their hut (much to Abe's disgust) to tend to his wounds.
"Hmmm" Cili muttered as she detremained the sligs injuries, "a couple of broken ribs, some gashes, and a concusion. This poor guy is lucky."
"Should have been left for dead." Abe snorted.
"Abe! He did try to help our son. Give him a chance will ya."
"Ok, but if he makes one wrong move...."
"Fair enough." Cili turned her attention back to tending the slig.
"I'm heading to bed." Abe said as he walked off.
"Be joining you in a few." She continued tending the slig. When she was done she put him on a spare bed, yawned and headed to bed herself. Abe was already asleep and she undressed and snuggled up close to him. Abe was awakened by her getting in bed.
"Cili..?" he said tiredly.
"I'm sorry love, I didn't mean to wake you." Cili said with a yawn.
"I know. I just...wanted to apologize for overreacting to the slig."
"Abe, there's no need to do that. You were just acting on your intinicts to not trust sligs."
"It isn't just that love, its that Omi is well...our only child. I would be devesated if something happened to him."
"I know love. I don't know why I wasn't able to concieve another."
"Nor do I. I guess we are only meant to have one kid."
"I guess so." Cili yawned again, snuggling up closer to him, Abe wrapped his arms around her and they both entered the dreamworld.
Zig woke up in a completely alien surrounding. He looked around causiously, noting that he was in a wooden hut on a bed of furs. His wounds were bandaged up and he was without his pants, which he didn't mind.
"You're awake, thats good." a voice said, startling him. He looked up to see the same mud he saw before he was knocked out. The young mud was sitting on the edge of the bed, looking over his bandages. "Sorry 'bout what Dragadon did to you, she was just protecting me."
"Where am I? And who is this Dragwhatchamacallit?" Zig asked.
"Dragadon? She's kind of the family guardian. And you're in my fathers village."
"I thought muds didn't have fathers..." Zig said confused.
"Well....it's kind of hard to explain. My name's Omi by the way. You?"
"Zig. So, why did you help me? I mean, after all of what us sligs did ter yer."
"Well me and my mother tend to be a bit more open minded. It took both of us to get Abe to let you stay here."
"Abe? The Abe? The Abe in the wanted posters in the factories?"
"Yeah that's him, my father."
"Abe's yer Dad!" Zig said, shocked, "How he do that, I mean he's sterile right?"
"Not anymore, um can't really explain that either."
"So what will yer do with me now?"
"Well I guess you can stay here, with us."
"I doubt I would fit in, considering..."
"Don't be so negitive, you just need to be given a chance."
"Really?"
"Yeah."
Several weeks have past, and Zig was now fully healed. Though Omi and Cili treated him as an equal, Abe was down right cold to him. No matter what he did, he couldn't get Abe to accept him.
"Why can't yer dad accept me?" Zig asked Omi one day as they took a walk.
"I don't know." Omi sighed, "I guess it's because of the bad treatment he got before he started freeing fellow mudokons.
"Well I can understand that..." Zig said glumly. Zig suddenly looked up, look of terror on his face.
"What is it?" Omi asked.
"A flying slig, I hear a flying slig."
"How close?"
"Can't tell, us sligs aren't known for their hearing abilities."
"We better go tell father that there's other sligs close to the village."
Just as they reached the village outskirts something grabbed Omi and lifted him up into the air.
"No!" Zig cried as he saw the flying slig start to carry Omi away. He tried to grab on but the slig was too fast.
"What's going on?" Abe said running out toward him, "Omi...No!" Abe started to chant but Cili stopped him.
"No Abe! If you try to possess him hell drop Omi by reflex!"
Zig knew he had to do something, he noticed the flying slig was stay close to a tree, taunting Abe and the others. Getting an idea, he quickly scampered up that tree, the flying slig ignoring him completely. He made his way to a branch that was on the same level as Omi.
"Omi" he whispered to him as he reached out to him, "grab on."
Omi stretched his arm out, but he was just barely out of reach. "I can't reach."
"Frack." Zig hang upside down by his tail and started swinging himself until he was able to grab on to Omi.
"Abe now!" Cili said. Abe didn't hesitate, he chanted and blew up the flying slig. Omi swung down and fell safely from Zig's postion. Abe and Cili run up and embraced Omi, thankful he was alright. Zig climbed back down, Abe smiled at him, thankfully. Zig smiled back. Abe approached him and pulled his mask off.
"You won't be needing that anymore." he said, "you can stay as long as you wish. I won't bother me anymore."
Zig couldn't believe how much his senses impoved without the mask on. "Thanks Abe."
"Don't mention it. Zig."
Zig beamed with pride....
|