The Islands of Myth

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Vash smiled to himself and thought how best to answer her question. "Well we do have good weapons on us, and I think that might have been the biggest of the snakes we will find, besides I believe it is safer here"he said to her question after a few minutes of thinking. "Do you think I would let a pretty girl like you die here?" he said to Bell while looking at her still smiling. They continued walking still for about an hour. Damn it, I wish I hadn't kicked that door or we'd be going faster Vash though to himself. They decided to stop for a break and Vash sat down by a rock remembering time before the wreck.

Bell blushed slightly and smiled back at him. Once they where sat down for a rest Bell sat down next to him and put her feet up on the rock. She rested her chin on her knee's and looked around. They seemed to be pretty far in. She wondered whether they where going the right way. Bell looked over at Vash's foot. "Is it painful?" She asked. She didn't know much about first aid.

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"Well, not really" Vash replied. "I guess it was stupid to kick the door down too, it wasn't locked or anything" Vash sighed to himself still thinking about the door. Damn, was the stupid thing made out of steel or what? he though to himself. He got up deciding to himself that they should press on. All of a sudden Vash fell down in pain and looked down at his leg. A crab was pinching his exposed knee. Damn it crab, wait a second, when was there a hole in my pants over my knee? Vash thought this before he got up and yanked the crab off of his knee and threw it as far as he could. "Annoying little pests" Vash said turning to Bell. "Do you see anymore?" He looked up and down the small clearing and didn't see anything else. He sat back down on the ground feeling intense pain in his knee. He looked at it and saw that it was bleeding steadily. "Shit and I thought I was going to be ok" He said to himself as he sighed again and leaned back against the rock thinking again.

Bell looked around and sighed she kneeled down by Vash and looked at his knee. "You need to clean it and cover it with something, it's exposed and going to get infected.." She said sitting back next to him she put her right and on her neck and ran her fingers down the chain around her neck until reached the heart locket at the bottom, she traced her thumb over the outline of it as she always did. She hadn't looked in it for a while. She didn't want to it was so painful to think about everything else. All she needed to think about right now was getting Vash and herself to the other survivors.

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Vash smiled and picked up the medbag. "This is exactly why I brought this with me" he said not only reasurring Bell but also himself that he wouldn't be killed that easily. He started to get out a few bandages and a sanitized cloth when he saw that Bell was looking at a locket hanging from her neck. He started to look at the picture inside but stopped himself. He rubbed the sanitized cloth on the injured knee wincing a little and wrapped the bandages all the way around it three or four times and secured it. He sat there still though watching Bell wondering what was wrong with her.

Bell kept tracing her thumb around the locket, looking forwards, not really paying attention to anything. She snapped out of it and closed the locket. She noticed Vash looking at her. Bell smiled and looked down at his knee. She let go of the locket and noticed the sun apearing to be getting darker. They where either getting deeper into the jungle or it was getting later. "How long do you reckon it will take to get there." She asked trying not to seem too impatient.

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" I don't really know" Vash responded. He got up and started forward with a little more speed. After about twenty minutes or so they came to a new clearing, one that had a dead andaconda in it. "Hey I killed that beast a few hours ago, were close" he said to Bell. He sat down on the boulder he had been on only four hours ago before he had met James and stared at the snakes dead body.

Bell sat behind Vash, not wanting to look at the snake. Something about them just spooked her. Her back was just touching Vash's she smiled, she felt safer. She wondered how many survivors their were and how far off corse they had gone before they crashed. "Vash.." She said quite quietly "..Do you know where we are.. The island I mean, where is it.." Bell felt awkward asking all these questions. But they bugged her and she wanted to keep her mind off of other things.

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"You know Bell, I've been wondering the same thing since I woke up under the driftwood" Vash said quietly. I wonder how many died also Vash thought to himself. "Is anyone even alive besides the five people I saw earlier?" Vash thought outloud. Vash sighed and stared at a tree trying not to remember the crash and then the wreck. But the memories came back and he started to cry. "Why us?" He said to no one in particular.

Bell heard crying and instantly turned around and put her arms around Vash. She hated seeing people crying, it made her feel so down. "Vash, don't cry, we'll make it out of this, all of us will." Bell said trying to be as optimistic as she could but even she knew that the chances of someone finding them were very small. Bell put her legs around the other side so she was sitting next to Vash. She rubbed his arms, hardly noticing the dead snake infront of her "Shhh Don't cry." she whispered.

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Vash wiped the tears from his eyes. "I'm sorry you have to see me like this, I haven't cried in ten years." Vash got off the rock. "We should go now, were almost there anyway." He started to walk forward in the dirction of the clearing that James had led him to. Vash stopped by the snake and kicked it's head then kept walking slowly forward.

Bell picked up the medi-bag and put it over her shoulder and walked over to Vash, trying not to get to close to the snake. She looked up at Vash then to the ground, he had such a glum expression on his face. Bell looked ahead, the jungle was quite dense now and the tree's were closer together. Bell swerved around the tree's stumbling quite often but picking herself up immediatley, she looked at her boots incase she tripped over anymore roots of the tree's even though she nearly bashed into a tree trunk. Bell looked over to Vash "I take it the gardener is a bit of a slacker." She said laughing slightly trying to lighten the mood a little.

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A smirk found it's way to Vash's face after the comment and he couldn't help it. He started laughing like crazy at the joke. He leaned against a tree laughing so hard that he sank to the ground still laughing. He stopped laughing when he heard another hiss and then what sounded like a bird cry. Vash stood up quickly and got into a good position behind the tree and motioned for Bell to do the same. "I think something's coming" he whispered to her as he pulled the gun up into a firing position. "And I don't like it..." he continued.

Bell smiled slightly at Vash's laughter, 'Sure it's a little over the top but it's better than crying right?' She then heard a hissing. Her eyes widened and she did as she was told and looked round. It was definately getting closer. Bell still had the gun on her back, she was pretty scared, she put her hand on it just in case and looked around. The hiss was even louder. Bell looked to Vash and grabbed the gun, there it was. Coming towards Vash, she didn't have time to warn him. She just aimed and shot, hoping to kill it.

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The hissing grew louder to Vash. He was pondering where the thing was when the hissing grew loud and a shot erupted three inches from his head. The hissing stopped and Vash looked around. He first looked at Bell who was holding a smoking gun pointing what appeared to be towards him. Vash followed the direction the gun was pointing at and saw a big repltilian lizard with wings. Holy shit! Vash thought. "Damn, where'd that thing come from and what is it?" he said looking back at Bell. He stepped up beside the lizard thing and poked it with the end of his rifle. It didn't stir so he hoped it was dead. He looked back at Bell and fainted.