Game of Royals

42 Flight

By the time I reached camp I was out of breath, Yumi was nowhere to be seen and Charlotte sat on the log by the camp fire busying her hands with something.

"Charlotte...where is Yumi?"

"She's meditating. You looked tired, is something wrong?" Charlotte looked in my direction.

"No time to explain, except from the fact that we might get killed by a band of bloodthirsty monkeys."

"That's impossible! Monkeys are cute! Though they may be a little naughty."

"Trust me those ones...they are beyond naughty; they are evil or something. But that's not the point, tell me where Yumi right now!"

"Uh...last time I saw her, she was with Stainless Steel."

"Ok. Silk get Charlotte to somewhere sa..." before I could finish my sentence, there was some sort of projectile flying towards Charlotte.

My reflexes were even faster than my mind. I stepped between Charlotte and whatever with my back facing it. Then the impact came. It knocked the wind out of me and I fell to one knee. the pain was like a giant rock lodged into my rib cage. And I knew for certain the impact left a meteor sized bruise on me.

"Just..." I coughed out some blood and out from the corner of my eye I saw what hit me. It was a coconut, and it was green and the size of a basketball. I was gratefull that it didn't hit my head.

"Run!" I managed to get those words out before I coughed out more blood.

Slowly and wobbly and with the help of Silk I managed to stand up.

"Charlotte, support Ling and get him as far away from here as possible. I will create a distraction." Silk said cracking the whip against the ground.

"Ok." Charlotte voice shook as ran to my side and tried to support me. The effort was wasted since I was still a foot taller than her.

"And one more thing." Charlotte turned to face her, but Silk still kept her eyes ahead.

"If anything happens to my Cherie, you will be very sorry." Silk's voice snapped like the whip as she added a honey smile.

"Um." Charlotte didn't appear to be intimidated, she just simply nodded. After a few more fail attempts of trying to support me walking, I said:

"Let me go I can still walk." She let go of my arm.

Before she could say anything, a bunch of monkeys lobbed pineapples at us. Immediately forgetting about the pain I dived towards Charlotte threw my arms around her as a shield. The good news was that the fruit missed us by inch and only the splash struck us. The bad news was that my ribs felt the full impact of the dive. I locked eyes with Charlotte. She was wide eyed and shocked. But there wasn't time for more communication, I grabbed her by the wrist and beginning running without thought to direction. Somehow I managed to bear through the pain even after running through a several hundred meters or so.

"...L..." Charlotte panted I was almost as tired as her, and I hurt too.

"We..hav..e to kee...p on m..o..ving." That was all I could make out.

I looked around checking to see if we were out of imminent danger. Once again reality hated me. Several monkey surrounded us from above the treetops, each held a fruit. Some of them were larger then a basketball and they looked pretty eager to drop them on us. I cursed under my breath; I looked at Charlotte and realized she was facing down trying to catch her breath. She hadn't seen the monkeys yet.