The Lost Hunter ⚜ Sophomore Year [Crossover Fanfiction]

Chapter 8 ⚜ Co-Captain

In the woods, Through a mist-shrouded trail, shivering I reluctantly follow Allison into the wood "Allison, when you said you need to stop for an errand before we went shopping, a five-mile hike in the woods wasn't what I was expecting"

Allison turns to me "It won't take long."

I shrug "Can you at least tell me what we're doing?"

"You'll see" Allison shifts a heavy black bag on her shoulder as she trudges up the path.

"You know, the human body only has to drop to 95 degrees to be hypothermic"

"Before I forget, I wanted to ask you if you're okay with something"

I look around the wood between the trees "I'll say yes to anything if it includes getting out of here"

"Jackson asked me to go to the winter formal with him"

I blink any real reaction remains imperceptible "Did he?"

"Just as friends. But I wanted to see if you were okay with it first "

Any emotional reactions still imperceptible, I smile "Sure. As long it's just friends"

"Well, yeah. It's not like I'm going to take him under the bleachers during lacrosse practice and start making out with him. Now it's perceptible."

"Oh. Um. About that..."

Allison drops the bag and unzips it "We should be good here. It's isolated enough"

Inside the bag, she reveals a bow and a quiver of arrows. I look down at it. Looks around to see the two of us are indeed completely isolated. Then gives a nervous laugh.

I watch Allison take a normal arrow and twist off the bullet point. She replaces it with the conical flash bolt left to her by Kate. New weapons.

I played dumped "What does that do?"

"We're about to find out" Allison takes a firing position in front of a target pegged to a tree in the distance. Setting the arrow just under the sight, she expertly pulls back on the nocking point of the bowstring.

I tense up as Allison aims. Then lets the bolt soar. It explodes against the tree with a brilliant flash, strange whorls of light spinning into the air "What the hell was that?"

Lowering the bow, Allison gazes at the smoking, scorched target on the tree and shakes her head "I don't know."

I hug myself in the cold while Allison comes back to me with the charred target in hand "Well, that was fun. Any other lethal weapons you want to try out?" 

Allison stops cocking her head, she listens to the woods around us.

A moment later, we both hear it. movement through the brush and leaves and I wonder "What was that?"

Allison warns me "Quiet" Now there's nothing, Not a sound "Hold this." she handed the bow to me.

I play dumb "What? Why?"