The black of another slumber fades and I find myself on the bank of a river, the sun's heat on me... Nothing but forest, tall grass and a river was around me. I was having Deja vu, sensing I've seen this scene before. A tingle shot up my back, I turned to see what was there when a streak of green scales fly past with a hiss. I jump and back up. I notice it was a snake as it plunged into the water. It came back up and the rest of the snake emerges from the forest, just over twenty feet in length. "That is a big serpent..." Memories from my dream came back. I begin running towards the forest and it lunges at me again. I jump and it misses.
The snake lunges again, gaining on me. IT sinks its fangs into my leg and begins to curl me up. "HELP! HELP!" I can sense it squeezing my legs but still couldn't feel it. I look over and there stood a fur this time, it's back not to me. I could see the fur's face. She had pain in her eyes. Nikita "This isn't what I wanted to do Blue... but my kids... he said he'd kill them if I didn't do this... He's got my husband..." "NIKITA! WAIT! HELP!" The snakes head came up and opened its mouth, its body squeezing me. "I'm sorry Blue... but you have to die... I don't want to," her cries were hard.
With a hiss, hunger in its eyes, the snakes' fangs sunk into my arm. "OW! HELP!" Its eyes flashed white and I felt myself paralyze. Nikita stood there, crying. A course of red, yellow, blue and green swirls began to appear all over my body. My eyes turning a bright green and blue.
After the 'transformation' The red swirls began to light up and thick, red fire sparked from, causing the snake to hiss and let go, making me fall. The snake opened its mouth wide and hissed, its venom dripping from its fangs. Immense power moved through my body and my green swirls lit up. The fur, whose face was blank like paper, held up a necklace and they stopped. The snake lunged at me and I dodge off to the side, my red swirls running back up and out of nowhere, a blast of fire erupted from my mouth, charring the snake's head, making it fall to the ground. I looked to see where the other fur was, but the fur was gone... all that was left was the necklace in the tree. I picked it up when more snakes began lunging from the forest's edge.
I jumped back and my blue swirls lit up. My eyes caught focus on one snake coming directly at me. It stopped in the middle of the air and was surrounded by a blue like orb. I moved my paw which sent it flying into the other snakes. My red swirls lit back up and I began firing energy blasts from my paws. "I should be totally freaked out right now," I said, knocking one snake at a time out.
Eventually they stopped coming and I find myself alone, in the middle of nowhere. "Hello." I jumped. "Who's that?" "Oh, I'm sorry, I'm Vilar." "What the fuck is going on," I said backing up a little, hearing the voice but not seeing a face. "Don't be afraid, it's weird considering I'm a voice inside your head." "Ok... Vilar, why are you there, or am I just going delusional from the snake bites?" "You aren't going delusional. Anacondas do not contain venom. I'm a spirit... specifically a jungle spirit, I was passed on from serpent to serpent, a few birds but." "So... why didn't that snake do what... I just did?" "Because it doesn't act or... behave like you, mainly because it's not anthromorphic." "Right..." "I assure you, Baskin, you're not insane, I'm like a guide to those who can understand me." "Right... and you get passed on through biting?" "For regular animals. Although for anthromorphic animals... I get passed on via offspring." "Ok..." "Right, there's a few alligators in the water staring at you because they sense your blood, so we might want to go," Vilar said. "Ok..."
I turned back and looked around "Nikita..." Nothing...
Vilar led me back to civilization, after encountering several more snakes and venomous animals. "Keep the necklace on, it keeps the green swirl at bay." "What do you mean?" "The green swirl turns you into an overgrown monster..." "Oh..."
"Channing," Ross said. "What?" "The tracker Louise put on Blue is turning up." "Where?" "A little bit northwest of Miami, the everglades/ Hollywood area." "Let's go." "Wait Louise," Rowan rose a brow. "Yea, she's been deep undercover for a while." "What the hell..."
I manage to walk around the town for a little bit until I find out I'm in Hollywood. I became dazed for a moment as it felt har to move, the suns heat became overwhelming, my eyesight hazed and I froze for a moment. After a snap, everything fell back into order and I looked around. There was a sound of screeching tires and an SUV pulled up. The door opened and Channing yanked me in. "Woah what happened to you?" "I found Nikita," I replied. "Woah, really? Where?" "She was the one who took me... and I ended up getting bit by a snake which gave me these really weird swirls but really cool powers, said she didn't want to do this but I had to die or her kids would die..." Channing punched the seat in front of him and sighed. "What's going on Channing, how are you alive?"
He paused and looked over at me. "Ok... this starts back when we weren't talking... After spring break, I made the final decision to go into the organization., or at least enter, I had doubts I'd make it in. It was me, five other furs and Troy... he had anger problems... and a lot of other mental problems, somewhat spoiled, yada, yada, yada... Everyone but him got in, he would've gotten in if he didn't have all those problems... The trainers didn't break it to him in the best way and he vowed revenge on the six of us who did get in... he'd kill us and everyone we loved... and so he did. He killed off three of us and their families and a few of their friends, whether it was via framing someone or making it look like suicide, he did it... I got your families to safe houses and classified areas, they'll be safe..." "Right, so how are you alive?"
He gave another sigh. "The tired driver was coincidental. See, all trains from Maryland, north, some of here in Florida and some of California have a safety switch. If a train passes a red signal, it'll get tripped with an emergency brake. His original plan as far as we know is, he bled the brakes so no brake fluid was in them when the train would get hit with the red, and make it look like a poor maintenance error where the shop crew was responsible. Then the tired driver took the helm and when word got out he was asleep at the controls, he took the fall. I was never in the crash. I was pulled off at the station just before, in a similar fashion that I did for you on the train... except there's didn't involve a bomb and actually succeeded. They made me leave my stuff so Troy would think I'm dead and we left it that way, ever since then, I've been undercover, tailing him."
"So, for the past six fucking years, you've been alive and let all of us think you were dead?!" He sighed and looked away. "I had to, I would tell you more but the rest is classified," he replied. I sat back and began to let the information sink in.
"Wehave to leave..." "What do you mean?" "He won't stop till he finds you guys andhe already knows where you two are and I believe he thinks Blue is dead. I meanwe have to leave the country to buy us some time, his next target is in Londonon a covert mission dealing with the Channel Tunnel and the last target is inItaly on vacation," Channing replied. "Wait, we can't leave, if we do I getfired and I need this job." "Look,Blue, we have to, we'll get your job sorted out later alright?" I grunted andgave a sigh. This was an epic disaster. I'jE
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Run for It (Sequel to 'A Crush or a Friend')
ActionSix years into the future and Blue is moving on with his life after the death of his love, Channing. Only when he goes to Florida on a work assignment, do things from his past come back to nip at him.
