Wolf and Cat

Captured again

"Fuck!" Groaned Nick throwing himself back. Ja approached from out of the foliage, gun aimed up and his tail swishing, "Nick?" Ja's face quickly changed, his eyes widened and he lowered his gun immediately running to the wolf. "Shit, we thought you were dead". "So you tried killing me?" He groaned, holding his hand over the wound. "I didn't know it was you, shit I'm sorry". Prager walked out to them, holding Kiri by her hair with his gun in the other hand aimed at her head. Despite the pain pulsing through his shoulder, Nick looked at Prager holding Kiri, trying to think what he should do in this situation. Nick painfully groaned, "w-where's Quaritch?" Breathing Horsley. "He's-" Before Prager could finish Nick took a deep breath and reached out his arm, grabbing an arrow aimed at Ja's head. The wolf leaned his head back in pain then looking at the Na'vi woman with her mighty bow aimed up, Neytiri. Leaving his focus from Nick's wound, Ja turned around and sprayed his gun. "Ugh.. fuck.." Nick muttered, he had grabbed the arrow using his shot shoulder, greatly increasing the pain. Neytiri turned and hid behind a tree she was standing near, Ja kept spraying hoping to shoot her or scare her off. Quickly Nick ducked and ran towards Prager holding Kiri, "What'r you-" snatching the gun and shoulder barging Prager with his injured side, Kiri tripped Prager's leg and pushed him back causing him to fall, Nick groaned again from the pain. Nick dropped the gun and grabbed Kiri tugging her away and pushing her forward to run, as they both ran into the forest Nick halted, he couldn't shake the feeling of leaving his recom friends, even if he wanted to switch sides, Kiri turned around, "what? Cmon!". Nick's ears lowered and he stood silent for a moment, thinking. "Get out of here kid, somewhere safe". "Where are you going?". "Like you said I'm one of you, but I'm not RDA either, I'll keep em distracted, go"
"They are demons". "There my friends Kiri, I won't let them hurt you or your people if I can do something, if I can I'll come back I will I swear it". Kiri walked over and put her hand to his heart, looking into his eyes the pull was still there. Hearing more gunshots in the distance, Nick took her hands and pointed to the forest away from the shooting, "go, be safe kid", as he turned away he scrunched his face in annoyance, he didn't wanna leave the Omaticaya but he couldn't leave the recoms to die, they were still a pack to him. Opening his eyes he ran to the shooting, looking around he saw Ja hiding behind a fallen log, prager was sitting next to him with an arrow piercing his side, not lodged deep enough to be fatal, as he stepped to the battle field, there was a ring in his ears and a cold sting at the back of his neck, turning around a Na'vi man lunged at him with a long knife, swerving and pointing the knife at him, Nick grabbed the knife's shaft without thinking as it aimed towards him, the Na'vi man looked at the wolf holding his knife in confusion, clearly this never happens. With his other hand Nick grabbed the man by the throat and pushed him against the tree near them, "I'm not your enemy!" Letting go of the knife blood dripped from his hand, grabbing the Na'vi's wrist he held it up so he couldn't try and stab him. "Mawey brother" he said to the man looking him in the eyes, squinting his face from the pain coursing through his body. "You are not fit to speak those words alien!" The man huffed. Nick's ears remained low, he knew what the man said was true, truly he had no right to speak the language or even call him a brother but how else could he state his point? Letting go of the man Nick backed up and raised his hands, "I won't hurt you, I'll take the sky people away, if jakes here tell him Nick's taking them away, he knows me ok". The Na'vi's tail flicked, but he ran to the forest making call out sounds to the other Na'vi. There was more here and more coming, 'not much time' he thought. Running to Prager and Ja, "where's Quaritch?!" He asked. "He went scouting when Prager found the girl" Said Ja. "Who else is here?". "Just us three, the others went back to bridgehead for a break while Quaritch wanted to quickly scout the river, quickly my ass". Prager was too focused on the arrow in his leg to care about Nick, there was a poison dipped in the arrow causing pain and paralysis to Pragers body, "I can't move my leg damnit.." he muttered.

Ja pointed to a mag on the ground next to the log in the open, "that's the death charges to my gun, your fast and swift Nick, grab that and I should be able to push them back so we can fall back". Nick looked over and nodded to Ja, pacing himself Nick hunched then launched over to the large mag on the floor, once he left the safety of the huge log, an arrow shot down and pierced through the cast on Nick's limping leg, he had been keeping it splayed out so it wouldn't move as much, in doing so the arrow could easily hit him. Groaning out Nick rolled himself to the side into a bush, the sticks and prickles were nothing compared to the sheer agony that hasn't left his body since home base, only getting fiercely worse each minute. Rolling his eyes they were becoming heavy, haven no food or water on top of all the pain, his body was trying to knock itself out so he could heal, but right now that would kill him. Before Nick got ready to leap back out and head to Ja, he saw Quaritch run out and shoot his death charge at the Na'vi, creating an explosion in the air the arrows ceased, after quaritch shot another charge he leaned down and put Prager's arm over his shoulder and lifted the man up, Ja stood up and watched there backs with his gun aimed up. Nick ran out and handed Ja the mag, limping and dripping blood, he knelt down and snapped the arrow so it wouldn't be more of a nuisance on his running. "Where's the ship?" Breathed Nick. Ja took a step and called out, "Bullet!". An ikran with military gear flew down and landed in front of Ja, "we fly ourselves" said Ja, he attached his queue to the animal and hopped on, "I'll take prager colonel". Quaritch walked over and lifted prager in front of Ja so he could keep him sitting on the ikran, they took off into the trees heading for bridgehead. Quaritch turned around and looked at the wolf, blood dripped from his shoulder and wounds to his leg, he was huffing with a limp and his eyes rolling to his head each time he blinked. Quaritch's tears and tail flicked. Another ikran with dark blue skin and orange highlights streaked and marked across its body, almost a volcanic looking pelt, the ikran landed and roared to the sky. Quaritch kept his attention on the wolf, he slightly tilted his head in disbelief, "Nick?". The wolf let out a muffled cough almost dropping to the floor, just barely keeping himself up, Quaritch stepped forward grabbing Nick's uninjured arm, Nick shrugged it off. "I'm fine" he huffed. "Don't t-touch me" the wolf quietly groaned with a cough, his legs collapsed to the floor. Quaritch put his arms around the wolf and picked him up, walking to his ikran he sat Nick in front and sat himself up, Nick facing his chest instead of forward. Quaritch moved Nick's arms around his waist so he could hold on, in doing so he kept his Nick to hold onto him while flying, taking off Quaritch noticed Nick had blacked out, yet again. The colonel put his hand to Nick, facing his head up at him, "stay awake" he said. As they flew over the river Quaritch dove his ikran down, positioning himself and holding tightly onto the wolf, the ikran dove into the water and quickly flew up and back into the air, Nick coughed and groaned at the intense awakening, then back to the aching pain his body was feeling. Nick tightly clung to the colonel and slightly shook himself from the water. Quaritch shuffled himself as the wolf clung tightly around his waist, there was no space between them, this made the colonel slightly uneasy.

Bridgehead was on the horizon.