The question caused Eden to spin on her heels, her eyes wide. Funny, the voice that was speaking to her now didn't belong to the same person who had been shouting to her. Had this person really heard her sing? "That would be me." she replied, removing her hand from the creature. She instinctively pulled her jacket tight around her body, feeling slightly uncomfortable. "Why do you ask?"
Lori shrugged. ”I heard you talking to someone else before you started singing. Turns out, I'm in the same boat as you are.” she explained. ”I have no idea where I am or how I got here but I figured safety in numbers was better than getting more lost.”
"So you ventured out here." Eden breathed, giving the girl a once-over. A slender kind of build, looks quite agile, like a snake. She nodded silently, extending her hand towards the woman. "Pleasure to meet you, I'm Eden."
Another person in the same situation, what was that? 4 now? She wondered how many others were here, and if they were somewhere close. More importantly, what was the creature that happened to be lying in the ground behind them? Stop with the questions, everything will be answered in time.
As the large figure came to a halt on the ground, Eden felt something surge through her. Anger. Her fists clenched, she made a break towards the two figures. She reached the smaller one, pulling him by the collar off of the creature, throwing him onto his back. "How would you feel if someone pummeled you to the ground?" she hissed, standing above the guy on the floor. Just who on earth did he think he was? What gave him the right to render a creature unconscious. She narrowed her eyes at him before proceeding to approach the unconscious creature. A heavy sigh escaped her lips as she pressed her hand onto its torso. It was still breathing, still alive. Phew…
The smaller was, indeed a human, with a large cut over his right eye and heavy bruising around his face. There had been more of a fight then they had seen, obviously. "It jumped me first, lady."
Eden turned to the man on the floor, her eyebrow raised skeptically. "Oh? Well—" Something stopped her from saying anything else as her eye wandered to the cut and bruises. The sight of them softened her, she backed down. The guy had clearly been hurt, and she was being rude by not thinking about how he was feeling. She quickly averted her eye sheepishly. "Sorry…"
He waived her off, wiping a bit of blood from the cut before it reached his eye. "Don' worry 'bout it."
Dionysus turned to the other person that had ventured over, raising his eyebrow at her. "You stuck out here, too?"
Did he just wave me off? Eden's covered eye twitched a little but her face betrayed no emotion. I will worry about it though, he needs some cream for those bruises.
She took a moment to study the man, her eyebrows furrowing when she reached the scar on his face. Just who is he, why is he so beaten up?
"We need to get moving," he said, not waiting for a response. "They'll be more of those," he gestured down at the creature laying on the ground, "an' I doubt I'll hold 'em off for long."
"What even are they?" Eden asked, glancing back at the creature, a sudden burst of frustration spiking her next words. "And no one asked you to hold them off so put a leash on it mister." Calm down, he's just trying to stay alive, and if those things are out to kill us then I had better listen to him.
He squinted his eyes over at her and let out a small growl. "They will kill you without fucking hesitation. I'm not puttin' a leash on shit, 'cause bein' high-strung is the only thing keepin' me alive right now."
“I’m Lorelei, call me Lori.” she introduced to the others before gesturing between the smaller man and the unconscious guy. ”What happened between the two of you? Do you happen to know where we are?”
He squinted his eyes over at her and let out a small growl. "They will kill you without fucking hesitation. I'm not puttin' a leash on shit, 'cause bein' high-strung is the only thing keepin' me alive right now."
Instinctively, Eden shied away, trying to hide herself from the guy. Great, he's angry at me… "I'm sorry, I just.." she couldn't get the words out, so instead stared at the ground, allowing the others to talk.
Laura was running, running towards the roar she heard, no longer towards the sunset, though that appeared to be her direction anyways Finally arriving, out of breath, she sighed. "What the hell happened here?"
That voice… Eden recognised the voice. She opened her mouth to say something, but thought again. The man's harsh tongue made her feel weak, like a child being scolded by their parent. All she did was stare at the woman with a wide eye and a shy smile.
Sighing again, Laura sat down. "has anyone seen a cat?" she asked, in a calmer tone.
"A cat?" Eden asked, a little surprised by the question. "Why would you be looking for a cat?" Now that she thought about it, she had wondered, at first, where her little tarantula had been and now that she was sure it wasn't a dream, the fear crept through her that perhaps Ara had been killed due to the climate. Hopefully that wasn't the case.
"she's my pet. i lost her, and i don't know how long i've been out here," worry appeared in laura's eyes. was izzy okay? what if she'd died? how long was she out cold? where was this place?
Eden knelt down in front of the woman, gently resting her hand atop her shoulder. "I can see you're scared," she murmured, looking deep into those worried eyes. "We all appear to be in the same situation as you, and I'm sure that if we stay together we can find at least one person who knows what on earth has happened." Poor girl, her pet clearly means a lot to her…
She gave a small noise of recognition. "okay…" was she really telling the truth? would they be able to band together and… help each other out? she'd never seen this woman before in her life, and now she was offering her help? wow… was there really nowhere else to go?
Luce skipped over to the group, sensing their distress, he put on a happy facade. "Hello! Does anyone have any clue what is going on and where we are because I don't." He grinned at the guy who was fighting. "Awesome fight by the way, sorry I wasn't much help."
"None of us do." Eden turned to the new person who had just joined them. He was the fifth. She had a feeling that no one else had come with them, this was everyone. "All any of us know is that we are not at home, some of our pets seem to be our main priority, and there are creatures that apparently want to kill us."
”Yeah. That about sums up the situation.” Lori nodded looking at everyone. ”Question is now; who is everyone and how did we get here? Oh! And How The Heck do we get home?” she asked with a slight frown and furrowed brow.
"There ain't no way home," Dionysus spoke, rubbing the side of his face. His temper had cooled. "At least not right now. Ain' nothin' but sand in every direction."
Eden's eye widened in terror as she stared at the man with the scar. "No way home right now?" she mumbled, her voice shaking a little. "You mean to tell me that we're stuck in the desert with mutants who will us at every chance we get?"
No sooner had those words left her mouth, the creature that had been unconscious on the ground slowly started to pick itself up.
Without hesitation, Dionysus pushed Eden aside and smashed his heel of his shoe as hard as he could into the head of the mutant.
"Stay down," he growled, aggression turning his face a deep red.
Tears filled the corners of Eden's eye. One, for being pushed aside, and two, she hated it when creatures were hurt. Even if this particular one did want to kill them all, she didn't like the idea of it being wounded. "Please stop…" she whispered, though she knew it was in vain.
Dionysus backed up, turning to Eden with a mean look on his face.
"Fine," he said as the mutant began to get back to its feet. "Let's see what will happen if I let it live."
As the mutant rose up, it shook it's head a little in confusion. Then in anger. The blows dealt by the man had clearly ignited something inside it.
It made its way for him, letting out the same harsh roar it had done so earlier. Just as it opened it's jaws, about to take a bite from the man who had attacked it, Eden stood in front of him with her arms outstretched. She didn't know what had made her move to defend him, but she felt it was the right thing to do. A tingling ran over every hair on her body, and as the creature would have touched her, it didn't. Well, it did touch her, but nothing pierced her skin as she would have expected it to do.
"Go on," she hissed to the others, "Just get out of here."
”You are nuts.” Lori hissed softly as she moved to stand next to Eden. She fixed the large man with a cold fierce glare as a chill ran over her skin. ”You don't want to hurt us.” she said with a surprising amount of confidence.
"I'm not leaving, this is gonna be interesting" Luce said.