Search Party(Chapter 45)

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You were seriously getting tired of traveling through dark, narrow tunnels heading only the gods know where. Though it was hard to see you, David, and Zion adjusted your eyes to the dark as best as possible.

As you guys stumbled along in the dark, you were looking for the others but also a way out of this place. Whether that meant with or without B/f/n was uncertain. 

Later Y/n, we'll deal with that later.

You continued on with your search. squinting through the dark. You suddenly stopped in your tracks when you saw a shadowy figure move in the dark. Zion and David noticed you halted, so they did the same, with David carefully drawing his sword, and Zion magically brought forth a...baseball bat.

Zion sensing your confusion whispered "What?! It was the only thing I could think of. Besides, these make great protection. See?"

Suddenly you saw the bat grow into something much bigger, a full on wooden club. 

"That's more like it" You whispered back.

"Zion? Y/n? David? is that you?!" It was Leo.

"Leo!" You've never been happier to see the Latino elf.

"I have Ghost Boy with me too." Suddenly Leo exclaimed "Ow!" as he more then likely received a punch from Nico.

"Where's Jaguar? I thought she would have found you guys by now." Leo asked worriedly. 

"We don't know, but we'll find her. She must be close by." You reassured.

So you guys started heading further down the tunnel, looking for your missing friend. 

However, the more you looked the more jumpy everyone became. Then you felt the space open up more, and you realized you were in a cross section of tunnels.

"What happened here?" Wondered David. You glanced at what he what he was talking about. 

One of the tunnels must have collapsed,  or just the entrance. The gateway to enter the tunnel was blocked by a large pile of boulders and pebbles. There was no going that way. 

"Jaguar!" Exclaimed Leo. You looked to see Leo rush towards the rock pile. Uh oh, that can't be good. You thought to yourself as you rushed to join Leo along with everyone else. The scene before you caused a sense of dread to run through you. 

Jaguar was lying on the ground, non-moving. She was full of scrapes and cuts, and what was worse was that her legs were being crushed by the rocks.

"We have to dig her out! Now!" You yelled out as you rushed to remove the heavy boulders off of her legs. The others soon joined you. 

Once all the rocks were removed you dragged Jaguar away from the pile and checked her condition. She was still breathing, but she was knocked out cold, leaving a possibility of concussion. You examined her wounds. Luckily none of them were fatal, but they needed to be cleaned immediately to prevent infection. You then looked at her legs...

One of them was without doubt broken. Both were badly scraped and bruised. 

You began to dig in your pockets looking for supplies. From your pockets you pulled out ambrosia, wrapping cloth, rubbing alcohol, and cleaning cloth. The weird thing is that you don't remember placing those objects in your pockets! 

Putting the thought aside, you started by force feeding her some of the ambrosia,  after a couple seconds her eye lids flew open, her eyes clouded with pain. 

"My leg...I think it's.."

"Broken? Yes it is so I am asking you to remain calm and sit still." You finished.

"Yeah I know, unfortunately this isn't the first time I've broken that leg." She grunted.

Everybody except Leo, who insisted on helping out, stayed back and were setting a perimeter. 

To distract her as you reset the bone you asked, "how did this happen?"

She had a grim look on her face, "well, I was walking down that tunnel," she paused, indicating towards the collapsed tunnel. You nodded for her to continue. 

"So as I was heading along, I realized I was being followed. Later I discovered that it was a cyclops, so ran until I reached the end of the tunnel. He caught up with me and we had a stare down. Then..." she paused, unsure.

"Then what?" You asked, encouraging her to continue.

"Well, you know how Poseidon is the god of the sea and lord of horses? Well he is also the earth shaker, meaning he is the god of earthquakes as well. So I may have made a tiny quake to collapse the tunnel where the cyclops was standing. However it was too strong and it ended up collapsing the whole tunnel...and I couldn't run fast enough. A stupid rock must of hit me in the head. I don't know how long I've been out."

 "Well it's okay now." You reassured her as you finished crafting a walking boot out of fabric and wood, and fitting it on her. All the while Leo was cleaning up her wounds, you were surprised that while you were talking, Jaguar didn't flinch once.

You decided on giving Jaguar a tiny piece more of a corner of the ambrosia, making sure that it wasn't too much, because too much of this stuff will kill a demigod.

"Thanks doc." 

You smiled, "No problem, you were a good patient. Wanna sticker?"

"YOU HAVE StIcKeRS???!!!!" Exclaimed an excited Leo. Everyone started laughing. 

"And thank you too Leo, though you are still annoying as ever, you have been a good friend to me and helped me a lot." Jaguar stated, looking up at him. He placed his hand on her shoulder.

"Well now you know." He stated.

"Know what?" Jaguar asked, confused.

"What friends are for."

Jaguar smiled, "Thanks buddy." She said as she messed up his already crazy hair, both of them laughing.

"Yeah we all love those friendship bonding moments and all, but we have to get moving. I sense something coming." Nico warned.

"He's right," Zion added, "I can sense something too."

So you and Leo helped Jaguar up on her good foot, with one arm around your shoulders and the other around Leo's, you told Jaguar "Alright, just keep your weight off your broken foot for a while, but soon you should be able to walk on it with the boot." She nodded. 

"Alright, lets go this way, I sense an opening this way, plus it doesn't smell dangerous." Zion suggested.

"Ok, that tunnel it is. Let's go." David stated.

So of into another long, dark tunnel you go. You just wished you could get out of here soon, you long to see the sun and breath in fresh air. This place felt like it was draining the life out of you. 

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