nah i didn't mess up...I left it that way so you peeps would wonder about it for the rest of your lives...MWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
*ahem* anywho...heres the next one.
Chapter 7
After a while they reached the stream. It was a gentle flowing stream and the banks were carpeted with a thick layer of moss. They laid Spider down on the moss and Invy did her best to clean out his wounds, Shriek did the same with her own. In the meantime a couple of the males went and brought back the kill they had caught earlier, though no one was really in the mood to eat anything.
“How is he?” Shriek asked, a worried look on her face.
“The bleeding has stopped.” Invy said, “But I’m worried about whether or not any vital organs and such were damaged.”
“Will he pull through?” Hoth asked.
Invy hesitated a moment before saying. “I don’t know…he’s lost a lot of blood.”
“He will pull through!” Shriek whined, “We just need to take care of him…”
“And why would we do that?” Delta said with a slight snarl.
“Because he would do the same for us!”
“Perhaps I should rephrase…Why should we take care of him?”
“Same answer!”
“But the rest of us are not Spider.” Delta countered, “We are capable of making our own choices, our own decisions. Besides…Spider himself said that we can’t afford to stay in one place very long and he is obviously too weak to travel…”
“Are you suggesting we leave Spider behind!?” Shriek growled, “To die!?”
“Well…” Delta said we a cruel grin, “He was too weak to pull through that fight with flying colors now…after all it’s the survival of the fittest out here.”
“What about the project we were all created for?” Shriek snarled, “If we lose Spider the chances of the project succeeding drop!”
“Think about it…there are only three females and the rest are male.” Delta said seriously, “If you ask me…that’s not a good ratio. We don’t even know how long pups take to mature or how long we would live for that matter. And if we only have the life span of sligs well…I seriously doubt the project would succeed anyway. So I’d say we carry on the best we can, focus on our own survival and not some weakling’s.”
“Do what you want then….” Shriek sneered, tears flowing, “but I am not leaving Spider.”
“So you would end up dieing yourself?” Delta said, raising a brow, “Sorry I am not going to let you die for the sake of a weakling.” Delta approached Shriek then and tried to pick her up. Shriek growled viciously and smacked Delta with her good hand, making him stagger back a bit in surprise.
“Spider is not weak!” Shriek howled, “He has survive more hardship then you can imagine!”
“And that was when he was younger.” Delta growled, annoyed at her stubbornness, “He is now what? Seven? Almost eight? Obviously he is past his prime.”
“He is not past his prime! He will live for many more years! We just have to help him recover!”
“Again we the ‘helping him recover’ bit.” Delta snarled, “It would be a wasted of our time, not to mention put us all at risk of being caught.”
“I’ll say it again…do want you want…but I am staying with Spider.”
Delta snorted and plopped down, he had given up…for now.
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