Book 3: Heart Strings

Chapter 9: X

Heart Strings

Chapter 9

X

Suna sat up and looked around. Blinking the sleep from her eyes and she realized one thing, and one thing only...she had to go to the bathroom. Pigsy looked at her, he was on watch, with Red Son. Both had warm drinks in their hands. Suna stood up and walked over to Pigsy snuggling into his chest. Pigsy chuckled and patted her back affectionately.

"What's wrong kiddo? Have a bad dream?" He asked, hearing the small whimper. She shook her head and looked at Red Son who rolled his eyes and looked away. SHe leaned forward and whispered in Pigsy's ear.

"I gotta go to the bathroom, but there isn't one here. Gotta go into the woods...but I'm scared." Pigsy nodded and looked at Red Son.

"Hold down the fort for like, five minutes Red." Red Son understood and just waved him off taking a sip of the tea.

Pigsy looked down at Tang who was curled up on the other side of him. He shook him for a second. The monk's eyes opened a bit and looked up sleepily at Pigsy.

"Imma go take Suna to the bathroom." He informed his partner before going into the woods. Tang sat up and looked around at Red Son.

"Kill them."

Red Son stood up and walked into the woods.

Suna sniffed around a little before shoveling a hole. Pigsy gave her some privacy by turning around and spotted a bushel of bananas. Keeping these larger forms took a lot of energy. Eating was a way he maintained it. Suna came back around the bend and took Pigsy's hand.

"Done?" Suna nodded and started walking back toward the camp. Suna stopped Pigsy sniffing the air and then walked a few feet to one side and looked down.

"That's where Raya said not to go cause there's a cliff." She said, her voice cracked. It was rather adorable. Perhaps Fox spirits were like wolf spirits and they grew fast.

"Good call kid. We should go back the other way then." They both turned to see Red Son standing there. A fireball held high over his head.

"I came to warn you about the cliff. I guess you remembered. Good job." Red Son said to Suna. Suna's tail wagged faster. Pigsy chuckled looking down at Suna.

The pain was instant and it ripped through his whole body. Red Son had hit him square on the head. He had thought Red Son would have at least used his flame, but this way it would look like they just accidentally fell down the cliff after they wandered back toward the camp.

Pigsy and Suna fell over the cliff. It felt like they fell for quite a long time Pigsy curled around Suna. They hit the sides a few times. Pigsy was sure that he hit his head twice, but wasn't too sure what happened after that. He must have fallen unconscious. Then the water washed over them.

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Red Son sat down and nodded to Tang who was curled up still.

"They fell over the cliff. I'll give them another 30 minutes before I...go looking for help." Tang nodded.

'No, no...no please!' She heard in her head. Tangs soul was beginning to wake up. She wouldn't be able to hold him down for much longer.

'Oh don't sound so oblivious, Tripitaka. You know why I'm doing this...I want to kill everyone you ever cared about. I want you to beg for death.'

'What did I ever do to you?'

'You had that damned monkey kill off my mistress. The white bone demon.' This was news to Tang. He knew that she had several servants. He also didn't want to mention that she wasn't dead. They saw her not too long ago.

'Pigsy isn't dead...it takes a lot more then that to kill him.'

'What about your daughter? Suna? She wouldn't have survived that fall. No one could.' Red Son could hear the argument.

"He keeps something from you mistress...I don't know what yet, but he is." Red Son said. Tang grabbed one of Red Sons knives and put it into her belt loop. SHe would need that in the war to come.