Who Am I? (A One Direction fanfic)

CHAPTER: 9

RECAP; I realized what they're staring at when I heard a threatening and terrifying roar
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Of a TIGER....

   
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Zayn's POV:

That roar gave me goosebumps. I snapped my head in the direction of the tiger. I gulped hard when I saw him staring right at us. My face fell faster than a corpse in a cement boots. In that instant I can feel my skin become greyed, my mouth hung with lips slightly parted and eyes were as wide as they could stretch.
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I saw him and was mesmerized. His great convex head poked through a bush. A pair of amber glowing eyes scanned us, trying to establish which among us was the easiest of prey. Those gold orbs were filled with hatred as he paddled out of the bush with a grace, shoulders bunched and muscle rippling.
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Giving me the clue of what going to happen next, He flashed his giant, vampirish fangs at me. He looked deep into my soul and saw the fear. He whisked his tail hinting us that he is going to attack any time soon.
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Time slowed down, as he starts racing.
We looked at each other for the last time as we held our hands together. I think this is the end. Sometimes your heart needs more time to accept what your mind already knows. There's no time and no escape we gave up.
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"I'm sorry" Louis apologised under his breath.
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"Untie the vines please. Zookey hurry up" She begged.
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I closed my eyes cause I can't see my friends dying in front of me, I waited for the tiger to attack . But the girl pushed me from her way and stood in front of us.
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"Storm! Stop," I heard her yelling, which causes me to open my eyes wide.
She was standing in front of us yelling on the tiger to stop. She bends down a little to the eye-level of the tiger.
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"No!," she shouted again blocking his way, in return, to which he growled loud. Raising his paws in the air.
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"No, Storm They Are Not Food," she shouted, pushing his paws away.
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"Storm Calm Down they're our friends,  they are not food, they won't harm us, come here" she extended her arms. After a pause the tiger raised his paws and hugged her, licking her face.
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"That's like a Good boy," she said playing, running her hands through his fur. After a moment he turned and paddled back into the bushes.
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We stood there shocked, giving each other What-the-fuck-just-happened look. I open my mouth to speak, but the words just don't come out. However, Liam decided to speak.
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"Wh-What was that?"
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She plotted herself up in standing position looking down playing with her fingers.

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"What?" She whispered
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"Why that tiger didn't attack us? How you stopped him and why?" Louis asked with furrowed eyebrows.
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"H-He is my friend I raised him since he was a baby, " she answered slowly.
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"Why you saved us?, yesterday you tried to kill our friend and now you....." I was yelling at her when I heard harry calling  us. We turned to see harry consciously standing right behind us and rubbing back of his head.
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"Harry!" We cheered, we jumped hugging him.
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"How are you feeling now?" I asked
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"Uh-Good, well, thanks for sucking that venom out tho," he said smiling
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"What? Venom? What are you talking about?,"?
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"I was bitten by a rattlesnake and someone from you sucked that venom out remember?"
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We exchanged glances cause none of us had a clue about what Harry is talking about and none of us sucked that venom out. So this means that she was right, she wasn't doing anything wrong, she was just trying to help. Now I realized how wrong I was.
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I turned my head to see her standing right there where she was standing before
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"So you were sucking that venom out yesterday?" Louis asked
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"Yes!" She replied
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"Thank you for saving us," I thanked her and she smiled.
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"We are extremely sorry for the pain we caused you," we apologised in unison.
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"Uh- it's ok, I can understand," she said smiling weakly, and now we sat on the sand.
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"How many of you are there?," Niall finally said something
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"I-I- it's me and my shadow," she said as tears formed in her eyes.
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"This means she's stranded just like us," harry said running his hand through his hairs.
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"So what's your name?" I tried to change the topic.
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"I- i-i don't know. I Don't remember anything from my past when I opened my eyes, I found myself here, no matter how hard I try to remember nothing strucks." she stuttered.
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"Do you want us to give you a name?" Harry questioned, looking at her, with a gentle expression on his face. She nodded, not making eye contact with any of us.
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"How about Cassandra? Emily? Claire?" Niall asked.
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"Oh C'mon Niall," I said
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"How about Veronica? What do you guys think?" Harry asked, scratching back of his head.
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"Yeah, it's a good name?" I said and the rest nodded.
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"So do you like your name?" Louis asked her. She darted her head up to look at us and smiled, she clearly liked her name.
Picking a name for someone wasn't as hard as I thought.
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"Alright, your name is Veronica, we're going to call you Vennie or Vi for short though. Okay?," She nodded her head, agreeing.
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"Thank you for giving me a name but I would like to know all of yours," she said, tucking a strand of brown hair behind her ear. One by one we introduced ourselves.
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"Guy's it's getting dark, let's sleep," Niall said in between yawns. He is right, it's getting dark, we should sleep. We all laid next to each other and we forced Veronica to stay with us. She didn't lie besides any of us she is lying a bit far from us. I can understand it's hard for her to trust us, but I know she will, with that I closed my eyes and fell into peaceful sleep.

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