Hurricane Island [Diddy Kong x Dixie Kong]

Chapter 80: Three Days Later

About three days later, several things had happened. Now, inside a room with some small stretchers, were lying on them some little kongs, all of different species. Those kong children seemed to be at rest after the tragic event there.

Suddenly, one of these children, who was an orangutan, began to open his eyes slowly as he seemed to try to regain track of time. Later, he tried to get up, still with a lost look and rubbing his temple... but then clutching his abdominal area, where apparently, he felt a stabbing and unbearable pain that made him emit a slight squeal. When he observed himself, he noticed that he had a kind of white sticker attached, which he began to remove.

"Hey, don't take that off!" another of the children, who was a capuchin monkey on the stretcher next to him, suddenly exclaimed. "And how good that you already woke up."

"What?" Jemky said, looking at him strangely as he put the 'sticker' back in place, but not before he had seen what he had under it. "W-what is this?! Why..." he added before giving out a squeal of pain after trying to stand up.

"Calm down, don't move so abruptly or it will hurt," Rocky replied. "It's that you have a wound. We confronted those tamers while trying to escape with our dads, don't you remember? If I'm not mistaken, one of them shot you. And according to what I've heard from some people in white coats who are around here: they took out the projectiles in you and then they stitched up your wounds, and that's why you should rest like everyone here."

Jemky gave him another look of weirdness for a few seconds. Then, he turned to observe the rest of the room, where on other nearby stretchers, Mandrew, Melenky and also Diddy were still asleep.

"They're still asleep," Rocky said. "But according to those people, they'll soon wake up."

"And you weren't asleep too?" Jemky asked.

"Yes, but I think only for a few hours after that massacre. That tamer who had an eye patch just shot those sleeping syringes at me. The rest of you were hit with gun projectiles."

"And where are our dads?"

"They are resting in another room here; they still have to recover. In fact, your father is also already awake and must only recover from a few blows like me; he was only shot with sleeping syringes too. My father has also already woken up. The others are still asleep... Well, that's all I've heard so far."

"Oh, but how long should we rest- Ahhh!" Jemky gave a squeal and clutched his abdomen after trying to jump off the stretcher. "Heck, this hurts like a cauldron! Not even when Dixie shot me or someone gave me a good beating... Hey, and by the way... if the monkey is also here, where is Dixie?" he added, pointing to Diddy and noticing Dixie's absence.

"Uh, well... From what I heard: she has been very affected. I think they're still doing some kind of healing for her, that's why they haven't brought her here yet. She received only those syringes too, but... I think they were quite a few."

"Ah, so she's still healing," Jemky said as he carefully got off his stretcher, then began climbing onto the Mandrew's. "Uhh, hey, Mandrew... are you awake?" he added, shaking his shoulders.

"Hey, don't move him!" Rocky replied. "The white-robed people said that they must not be moved like this, or they will have complications."

"And then how much longer will they be-"

"W-what?" a different voice was heard, which belonged to Mandrew.

Suddenly, Mandrew began to open his eyes too, although with more weakness and emitting slight squeals of pain as he tried to get up.

"He's alive!" Jemky exclaimed, showing excitement and pointing to Mandrew.

"Don't move too much, Mandrew," Rocky said, heading to him and trying to calm him down. "You don't have to get up if you can't. They took out the projectile that those tamers fired at you, that's all. Now you have to rest."