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Going Home Chapter Five By Blackdawn Da'tou laid her hand on a dead tree and jumped over it landing on the other side, she was doing okay by covering six miles in less than three hours, but it wasn't good, she hadn't even made it to the base of Mount Hyla and her wounds were slowing her down, luckily it was still morning and she had about nine hours to go before it would turn dark. Bending over laying her hands on her knees and tried catching her breath, she hadn't even started her day and she was already out of breath, her sides were even starting to hurt. Straightening her back and looked behind her, Gr'it-in wasn't following her, so she looked at Mount Hyla and started back off in a jog.
Almost eight hours had gone, one more hour before she would have to stop and rest for the night, and she had made it to Mount Hyla, matter of fact she was on Mount Hyla. Da'tou was in a casual stride and half awake, aches and pains had made their way into her joints and muscles, surprisingly, her wounds weren’t hurting her like earlier, the pains she was experiencing now were from a hard day’s walk. Earlier she had stopped again but this time was to eat on some fruit she had found, she even had wrapped some in a large leaf and brought it with her, later on she had found some thin vines and had tied them to the leaf that was now hanging from her right shoulder. Da'tou was half asleep in her walk/climb until she was awoken by a prickly feeling on her right leg, looking at the leg and seen something moving but it was small, bending down to get a better look then jumped back falling onto her backside swiping her hand across her ankle and calf then jumped back to her feet and ran a few feet away. She had been so asleep she hadn't even noticed the large colony of marching ants she had walked straight into. Yeah they were only ants, but there were thousands of them, all marching in one direction and killing any small creature in their path, they wouldn't be able to kill her in her condition but would be enough to add onto her injury list. More time had past and Da'tou made camp, this time able to create a fire without worry of anyone finding her, the fire she created the old-fashioned way: A piece of stick with a tip smoothed out by a rock, two small pieces of kindling wood placed side by side and a handful of dried moss between it. The process only took five minutes, but she had been taught how to start a fire this way by the villagers of West Xingasa when she was a child, only a year after her Mother died. Da'tou sat on her heels enjoying the warmth of the fire while she waited for her food to cook, tonight's menu was: Fruit, some of which had been squashed earlier from her encounter with the ants, and, Giant Tarantula. It may have sounded gross to eat such a large, and deadly spider, but its meat tasted like shrimp and they were considered a delicacy in these neck of the woods, especially if a female had eggs. Capturing and cooking Giant Tarantula was relatively simple, that's if the person knew what they doing. Da'tou first pulled out a rolled up leaf that was placed under some hot ash with the end of her stick and blew on it, inside the leaf were Tarantula eggs, one out of the three spiders she had killed was filled with eggs. After a few seconds of cooling down she opened the leaf and began to eat the cooked eggs, it was just like eating a regular omelette but very sour. After she was through eating the eggs, which only took less then a minute, she pushed the cooked spiders off the burning twigs and proceeded in eating their little bodies with some fruit. She didn't have anything to drink but the moisture from the fruit would be able to hold her off until she could reach the Puru River, and even by the time she reaches the river, it'll still be a half day’s walk before she would reach the boundaries of Xingasa. 30 long minutes went by for Da'tou of eating her food and thinking about the next day, but she pushed that to the side and laid down on her side hugging the heat from the fire. Her wounds now felt like they were mere skin abrasion then cuts and gashes, something that only made her want to scratch at them. Then, she closed her eyes and went to sleep.
The next day finally came and Da'tou started back off on her journey home at the crack of dawn yet again. Time past and Da'tou was now standing knee height in the Puru River drinking the cool water from an oversized leafy cup, she finally made it, but now she only had to reach Xingasa. Lowering her cup letting the leaf unfold and fall into the water then seen the 30-foot anaconda, the giant snake was right at her feet staring at her with it’s head lifted out of the water, it's forked tongue flickering out every few seconds. She did not move but stared back at it, it just might be looking for a warm spot to curl up on, or was looking for lunch, and Da'tou hoped she wasn't on the menu, it would be a failing battle for her if it did decided to eat her. Da'tou had waited a whole minute until it casually lowered its head back into the water and swam away.
The encounter with the snake happened over 30 minutes ago, and as Da'tou calculated, she would be just at the boundaries of Xingasa if she traveled down river, Xingasa was just a mile away and Da'tou now wasn't feeling too hot about being around humans. She had time to cool off and deeply regretted leaving Gr'it-in. Da'tou had been sitting on her heels for some time now looking at her alien reflection in the running river thinking of Gr'it-in. He was one of her, the first of her species she had seen in 53 years, since her Mother died, there were so many questions that needed answering, and she just left. Would she see him again? Would she see another face of her species? She balled her fist slapping the rippling image and sat back as the thought started to bring back her Mother, closing her eyes and shook her head from side to side now trying to get her Mother out of her head. How pathetic can I get? Da'tou said to herself, I can't even remember my own Mother's name. Placing her wrists on her knees holding back the urge to cry as her hands turned into fists, why was all this happening to her? Living with humans really wasn't bad, but after meeting Gr'it-in, it set something off, something that made her feel so different from the people she had lived with her whole life, and she just ran away. Wiping a single tear away with a sniffle and got to her feet, maybe the wise woman could help her in finding her path, and with that thought, she turned around, not paying attention to who was just a few feet in front of her and jumped when she saw him. There, Gr'it-in stood on a fallen log staring at her. "You!" She almost yelled as if he were some irritating pest, "How...how did you find me?" "I followed you." He blankly replied, "Now let me ask you something." Stepping off the log walking to her, "Why did you leave?" Da'tou sneered, "Because I wanted to go home. I went through hell and back and didn't feel waiting around or helping anyone else." Gr'it-in chuckled, "Home?" Walking around her, "You do not mean this?" Lifting his arms ever so slightly showing the vast thickness of vegetation that was mostly surrounding them. "Well," She said, "Not this jungle exactly but a village south of here, just along this river." Gr'it-in looked at the river then back at Da'tou and asked, "What is your name young one?"
Da'tou slightly cocked her head back a little, "Da'tou," Feeling a bit eery over him calling her "young one", "and don't call me "young one". You make it sound like I am a child." "But, you are a child, and why is your name pronounced as Da'tou? A name like that is suppose to be pronounced as Da'dtou-di, there is no such name as Da'tou." Da'tou narrowed her eyes on him, "I'm not in the mood for any games right now. My name is Da'tou, it has always been that, and you can just fuck off if you don't like it." Gr'it-in howled, "Never in my life have I met a child as disrespectful to a..." Da'tou interrupted him with her own howl, "I told you once old man! I'm not a fucking child. I’m 60 years old, a fucking elder when it comes to these people! Call me "child" one more time and I will beat the living shit out of you!" He snarled in surprise with a shake of his head making his thick dread locks slap across his mask. "Your Mother should have never allowed you to live!" "That's it!" Da'tou yelled, jumping onto Gr'it-in slamming his backside onto the rocky bank and started punching his sides, being she couldn't hit his face from the metal mask covering it. Gr'it-in lifted his right-hand grabbing Da'tou by the neck and tossed her to the side then jumped to feet and ran for her. Da'tou first hit the ground on her shoulders then turned the impact into a roll that successfully and gracefully got her back to her feet, hardly dazed from the impact but was shocked at Gr'it-in's astonishing speed, before she could even think of what to do next the thick bones of his big knuckles slammed against her chin making her fly backwards. "Da'tou!" A female voice yelled, seconds later an older human woman with thin, greying hair was on her knees beside Da'tou, but it didn't take her long before she had jumped to feet with a rock in her hand. "Leave my baby alone!" She yelled, throwing the rock at Gr'it-in which he easily side stepped, this time picking another and threw it at him, then picked up another and repeated the process two more times until Da'tou grabbed the woman's shoulder. "It's all right," Da'tou said, rubbing her chin moving the hurt and numb mandible trying to get the feeling back into it, "That was a lucky shot Gr'it-in." "Huh?" The woman said, spinning around to Da'tou, "You know him?" "Not formally." Gr'it-in snorted, "You are worse then a Young Blood." Without thought, Da'tou had jumped past the woman to Gr'it-in and fell to knee level on her right hand and foot hand with her left leg lifted and swinging around to the back of Gr'it-in's knees, not even a second later had she knocked his legs out from underneath him making his large body fall backwards, smacking back onto the bank. Da'tou jumped back to her feet already in a fighting stance waiting for him to get back up, and waited, then waited another few seconds, about a minute went by until she was at ease. He was out, but she didn't know for how long. "Da'tou!" Two men yelled simultaneously. Da'tou only lifted her head watching the two men come stomping out of the bushes with smiles on their faces, one being her foster brother, Kere, and the other her foster father, Mayara, then looked back to the unconscious Gr'it-in. "Don't come any closer!" She yelled. With a groan, Gr'it-in had sat up then pushed himself to his feet, Da'tou going back into her fighting stance. "Wanna go at it again Gr'it-in?" Gr'it-in turned his head and howled in surprise at how many humans had gathered, none though being armed. "Cjit oomans." He said in the Yautja tongue. "What's going on!?" Another male voice yelled from the depths of the forest closely followed by two others calling out. Gr'it-in stepped forward with his wrist blades unsheathed and stood in front of Da'tou, "We will settle this later, Da'tou, first we have to get out of here." Gr'it-in though was answered with a course laugh from Da'tou and he turned around looking at her. "What is so funny?" "You're afraid of them?" Letting out another laugh, "The only people who you should really be afraid of is my Foster Mother and I. The men here couldn't hurt a fly." The smile coming off Kere's face making him look at his adopted sister in denial. Da'tou chuckled rubbing the back of her head, "There's nothing here to worry about Gr'it-in, they're my family, they're the people I was trying to get to that live down the river." Gr'it-in looked at her, "Your home is with...humans?" "Yes, I have been living with them my whole life, and it even baffles myself sometimes." "And what is that suppose to mean?" Kere blurted. "Your whole life?" Gr'it-in asked, "But how?" "It's a long story Gr'it-in, I'll tell you about it but that's only if we can come to a truce here, you quit calling me "child" and I'll quit calling you "old man"." Holding out her hand for him to shake it but realized he looked a little baffled with her gesture, "You're suppose to shake my hand if you agree." Without another second gone by Gr'it-in lifted his hand and shook hers. They lowered hands and Da'tou smiled to herself, this felt like a new beginning for her life, and together, the group of Humans and Yautja walked to East Xingasa, only the humans started walking first with a worried Gr'it-in walking behind them beside Da'tou. Copyright © 2003-2005, Blackdawn. |