The Great War

={Chapter 16: One More Day}=

={WARNING: SELF INFLICTED WOUND, SLIGHT MENTION OF SEXUAL ACTIONS AND STRONG FLUFF}=

Molten, Lefty, Foxy, Bryan and Jon walked through the forest towards the now visible walls of the human kingdom, they were slightly ducking as they moved to avoid being seen by the posted guards keeping visual on top of the wall at the gate. "Alright, you three stay here, me and Jon are going to get a bit closer," Bryan whispered as he stopped and the group crouched in place. "Why? It's only Jon that's being sent in," Molten asked quietly with a confused and annoyed tone, he didn't like the idea of Bryan going closer without him, much less liked the idea of him going alone with Jon, Jon could easily give Bryan away. "It's not as bad if me and Jon are caught, but if you three get seen, then we won't be able to get you out," Bryan replied as he made a small hand motion to gesture at all three animatronics. "Fine, but be quick, and don't get seen, be careful," Molten replied hesitantly as he took a quick glance around the group. "We will," Bryan replied with a small smile, but Molten didn't mean to say 'be careful' to Jon, it was only directed towards Bryan. Bryan and Jon got up and walked off through the forest, closer to the kingdom walls. Lefty sat down with a tired huff, and Foxy followed suit as they sat down and let out a faint snort of discontent, and Molten watched Bryan walk off with Jon until he couldn't see the two anymore before he sat down himself, holding back a faint growl.

Molten, Foxy and Lefty all slightly perked up at the faint sound of what seemed like cheerful shouting, and the three got up into a crouching position to look over the bushes they were near, and saw Jon and the guards on top of the kingdom wall shouting happy greetings up and down to each other. Molten didn't see Bryan, which sparked some worry until the bushes next to the three animatronics shook for a moment before Bryan stepped out, and he gave the three a reassuring smile. Molten made a quick jerk of his head to indicate for the group to follow as he began leading the way back to where the group had made camp a few days ago, and the three followed him quickly, with Bryan behind Molten, Lefty behind Bryan and Foxy taking up the rear.

"So? How'd it go?" Molten asked as the group came into sight of the work-in-progress cabin Molten had started making for Bryan. "It went good, I told Jon that I wanted to live out in the forest because I just liked solitary life better. Jon told me to meet him at the same spot later around sunset," Bryan replied with a happy tone, speeding up a bit to walk beside Molten. "You sure he won't just lead you into a trap? I can go with you, and when my group gets back to the kingdom a day late I can tell them that I had wounded my leg or something and wasn't ready to make the journey yet," Molten replied with a slightly worried tone as he gave a slight tilt of his head. "No, no, you don't have to, I don't want you getting in trouble, and I'll be fine, Jon wouldn't do that," Bryan replied with a confident tone, but Molten wasn't convinced despite Bryan's confidence in his friend's loyalty. As the group of three animatronics were about to leave after giving Bryan their farewells, Molten had made the decision, he waited for Lefty and Foxy to start walking away before he reached down and pulled a dagger out of his ankle pouch, and quickly slashed a deep cut into his ankle, hissing at the pain of this action as he did so. "Molten! What are you doing?!" Bryan yelled with a panicked tone before he quickly grabbed the dagger from Molten and tossed it to the side, putting his hands up against the deep cut to try and block the flow of oil, before he took off his jacket and tied it tightly around Molten's ankle, and kept pressure on the cut. "Calm down, I know what I was doing, kind of, I didn't know it'd cut so easily," Molten stated with a slight hiss in his voice as he slowly sat down. "I freshly sharpened all of our weapons the day before Jon woke up," Foxy stated with both a worried and angry tone, crouching at Molten's side, and Lefty did the same. "Why would you do that?" Lefty asked with a panicked tone as he looked in his back for anything that could help, but he didn't have anything that would. "Well now I really can't go to our kingdom yet, I'll have to wait until tomorrow," Molten stated with a slight smile as he tried to calm the three around him down, but it didn't work much. Bryan made a sort of whining noise with a worried expression on his face as he quickly removed his shirt and removed his jacket from Molten's ankle, now tying his shirt around Molten's wound, because, Molten hadn't even noticed, Bryan's jacket was so soaked with oil that the oil was dripping through the jacket onto the forest floor. "Oh god, how deep did you cut?" Foxy asked as they pulled out a roll of bandages and a pair of scissors, sitting them on the ground. "I don't know, I just tried to cut through a few layers of metal," Molten replied as he made a small grunt at the pain in his ankle as Bryan removed his shirt from the wound and Foxy started wrapping the wound in bandages, and cutting it off from the rest of the roll once they were done, putting the bandage clips in place before putting their stuff back into their bag.

"Well you're right about not being able to make the journey back home until tomorrow," Foxy mumbled as they stood up and sat their back up against a tree, and sat down, placing their back against the bag. "Thanks for the help," Molten stated to Foxy and Bryan as he tried standing, but the pain of doing so was too strong. "Hey! Just sit down and rest your ankle for a while, the more you move around the more oil you'll cause to leak out, I don't think anyone here wants you bleeding to death," Bryan stated quickly with a worried tone as he helped Molten to another tree, and sat Molten down with his back against the tree. "Bleeding to death? How on earth do you know that oil for us animatronics is like blood for humans?" Molten asked in response with a confused tone as he made a slight hand motion towards Lefty and Foxy, who were now quietly talking together. "I-I'm a visual learner, and I've seen that kind of stuff during fights with animatronic patrols," Bryan replied quietly, making it obvious he didn't like talking about it, which was understandable, Molten didn't like being a soldier at first because of the many deaths of both humans and animatronics you had to witness, but he's gotten used to it over the years. "Sorry about your jacket and your shirt by the way," Molten stated with an apologetic tone, but he gave Bryan a small smile. "Eh, it's fine, I'll just wash them off in the river," Bryan replied as he picked up the clothing for a second, and dropped it again, making the sound of a wet plop as the clothes landed. "The river? You mean where we had our ever so magical first kiss?" Molten asked in response as he spoke with a teasing tone and slightly nudged Bryan's arm with his own. "Yep, that's the one," Bryan replied with a giggle at Molten's sarcasm, and he put his hand in front of his mouth as he laughed. Molten smiled back before he slowly grabbed Bryan's wrist and pulled Bryan's hand away from Bryan's face, causing Bryan to freeze with a curious expression. "Don't cover up your laugh like that, you're beautiful when you laugh," Molten mumbled as he stared at Bryan with a small smile, and Bryan smiled back with a look of adoration before letting out another small giggle. "Thank you," Bryan stated softly as he leaned a bit closer to Molten and took Molten's hand off of his wrist and held Molten's hand in his own. "Anytime beautiful," Molten replied with the same soft tone, looking fondly at Bryan. Bryan didn't want to do it in front of others, but he couldn't help himself, he placed his free hand on Molten's cheek and pulled Molten into a passionate kiss, and Molten made a slight hmph sound into the kiss as Bryan caught him off guard. "You're an amazing kisser, did I ever tell you that?" Bryan stated quietly as he slowly broke the kiss. "No, but thank you, you're an amazing kisser too," Molten replied with a smile and a slightly amused tone as he moved his free hand to Bryan's thigh, slightly rubbing Bryan's thigh with his thumb. "Thank you," Bryan replied with another smile as he placed a soft peck on Molten's cheek. "You're welcome, you look hot shirtless by the way. Any chance you want a few hickeys on your ribs or something? I'll give them to you for free," Molten replied with a teasing and slightly lustful tone, taking his hand from Bryan's grip and began rubbing his hand up and down Bryans torso, letting his thumb graze over Bryans nipple. "No, no, Molten, we're too early into the relationship for that," Bryan replied quietly as he slowly and gently pushed Molten's hand away from his chest, and he moved Molten's hand down to his waist and smiled at Molten to show he wasn't uncomfortable. "Alright, alright. I'll come with you to wash out your clothes in the river later by the way," Molten stated in response as he smiled back at Bryan, and Bryan nodded as his smile slightly grew.