Love and Anger- Part 3

(Continuation of Love and Anger- Part 2)

Fira isn't sure what hurts worse, her poor stabbed side or the arm that just got jarred after colliding with a stoat. They do /not/ make that move look so painful. Her mouth is moving and she actually is swearing she's just reverted to muteness. She shakes her arm once but that hurts worse and moves her side which makes that hurt too! Lesson learned, don't move arm right now. She catches a glance of Kentar and has to move again, point his own sword at his neck. Yeah, not getting up until not going to try and kill them all.

Kentar is left coughing, eyes closed, paws at his throat, not seeing the sword as he coughs more.

Aikuen sees Fira get stabbed, and once the again the rage fill him up again. He pulls out his sword, and walks over to the fallen Stoat, with sword raised. Something inside him, tells him no to kill the Stoat. He aims, and shoves the sword down, to pin his paw to the ground. If he made it or not, he shakes his head, and walks over to Fira. He breathes heavily, and asks, "Are... Are you... Hurt..." He looks to the wound.

Kentar had just rest his paw to the ground about to get up until his paw starts hurting, the stoat's eyes shooting open to see a sword though the dead center of his paw, pinning him to the ground, letting out a loud deafening cry

Fira keeps the sword far enough away from Kentar so he's not going to accidentally stab himself while coughing. Believe it or not she's still trying to keep everyone from getting hurt/killed, including him. Sooo Aikuen's sword quickly gets attention but between one sword filled paw and one which is currently seized up she doesn't have enough paws to stop it...That's not good. She grimaces slightly even if she can't hear the cry before she goes to put a foot on Kentar's chest, toss his sword away and take Aikuen's to point at the stoat's neck instead quickly. Lost cause probably but she's trying. Ok, needs a breather now, bad time for blood loss. She nods slowly to Aikuen "Fine, just fine" stretches the truth a little

Orph had sat down and flinches hearing the stoat's cries of pain. He walks over to the others, "Are you two done now?" he asks the stoat and older otter not really expecting a good answer. To Fira he asks,"You ok? Need me hold that for you while you get patched up?"

Kentar can't help but to sob and let out cries at the now ruined paw. His good paw tries to yank the sword out of his paw, giving a loud yelp as he throws it away and grabs his paw.

Aikuen looks to Fira, and shakes his head, "Your bleeding!" He touches the ground, and holds up wet blood on his claws. He looks to Will and says quickly, "Get me the Medical kit quickly!" He hears the yelp and turns back to the stoat, Growling "OH GROW UP! Your paw is the least of your problems, Your nerves will grow back... but your head wont..." He places a paw on Fira wound to stop the bleeding until Will gets back.

Orph smiles at the stoat, "You're cleverer than I was. When I got pinned with a sword through my arm a while back I ... well I was rouge at the time and I tried to chew my own arm off to get free .... I was really stupid that day and the days after it too now that I think of it .... You're a lot smarter than me. Are you ok? .... You aren't going to try an kill any of us again after all that now are you?"

Kentar growls. "Damn...otter" he growls, going to crawl as far away as he can, taking his pack off his back which was there the entire time, slowly trying to get the flask of water as well as bandages, pouring the flask over his paw, yelping. "Darn..." he groans, doing his best to bandage it himself. "I still don't see why I have to put...up with...any of you anymore"

Orph grabs the kit and hands it to Aikuen before guiding Kentar back toward the group with the flat of his sword. "Don't go off by yourself, just stay here til we are .... til you are all patched up then if you want to and don't threaten us you can go wherever you want and if Aikuen says you can't ignore him he's not in charge here nor are you or me or Fira ... you want to go, go just wait til your patched up first and don't try and attack any of us."

Kentar Doesn't move, not planning on it either. "Oh leave me alone" is all he can get out as he wraps his paw tightly in bandages, sobbing away as he tightens them and ties them together with his paw and teeth.

Fira can finally relax again. Will has Kentar covered, Aikuen's got the healing. Perfect. She moves to sit down, keep her arm out the way so Aik can work on her side.

Orph shrugs, "Fine I'll be quite. But if you wander off without giving a reason I will come after you."

Aikuen takes the kit, and pours it out over the sand. Grabbing a flask looking object, he uncorks it, and says, "Sorry Fira... This is going to sting" He pours the alcohol over the wound. Getting the thread and needle he begins to stitch the wound. He ignores Kentar, and just concentrates on the suture.

Kentar growls. "I'll leave as soon as my paw is done up proper. And you know darn well why I'd leave so there's no point in saying it again, stupid kid" he growls, very slowly moving to pack up his things again, left paw totally useless for now.

Fira flinches at the alcohol, wrinkling her nose. Trying not to think about her side too much so she keeps an eye on Will and Kentar. Doesn't look like he got the fight out of his system then.

Aikuen finished the stitch, and cuts off the excess. He rubs a paw lightly over the suture, to make sure it was done right. He nods some to Fira and packs up his Medical kit. He stands up and sighs, but not saying another word he walks over to Kentar, and just towers over him. His eye twitches and he says evilly, "Hello...Mate!" He still carries the medical kit in his paw

Orph glances from the stoat then to the otter standing over the stoat. "Patch him up /right/, Aikuen," the rat remembers that look and doesn't like it.

Kentar is busy packing up the things he had to unpack to get to the bandages. "Get lost otter...rat," he growls. "I am not taking help from you"

Orph says, "Might be a bit of a wait til Fira can fix you up, hope you're not in too much of a hurry."

Fira's worn out but still she's got to make sure nothing bad happens. She grunts as she gets up again, going to walk up to Aikuen's side and place her good paw on his shoulder.

Kentar Eyes Will. "Not letting it touch me either" he growls.

Aikuen tosses the kit in front of Kentar and says, "You will stop and you will patch yourself up right... Or else you don't like using that paw anymore, for the rest of your life." He sneers, and the calm spreads over him when her paw is placed on his shoulder. He looks down, and says, "I cut the nerves in your hand...An old soldiers trick... They can grow back, I just need to set your paw correctly, now I'm offering to help you..."

Orph's eye narrows, "Care to repeat that because I'm sure you had more sense than to say something like that before."

Kentar eyes Will again. "Not letting...It...Touch me either," he then glares at Aikuen. "Why should I accept your help after the way you all have treated me, hrm?"

Fira rubs Aik's shoulder lightly though she looks down to Kentar "How about because you stabbed me, tried to kill me but I'm not letting everyone kill you? Cool your temper already before it gets you in worse trouble"

Kentar growls as his good paw reaches to the hilt of is dagger. "Why should I trust you hrm? No, you stay away or your head will be posted on a pike"

Fira is loosing her patience now, even she has limits "Oh for the love of peat. Do we have anything in that healing kit which will just knock him out without having to hit him round the head?" see? She's nice. She's giving avoiding further brain damage a go.

Orph sheaths his sword, he'd really like to hit that stoat for calling Fira 'it' but that won't help any. "Ok. We'll leave you here to die or whatever if you want us to. Happy now?" He rolls his eye and walks over closer to the otters.

Aikuen laughs slowly and it crescendos, he wipes a fake tear from his eyes and says, "There is a few problems with your plan. One, i don't see a pike anywhere around here. Two. if you can pop of my head, i will truly be surprised. And three..." He pulls out his skinning knife, which is a dagger sized knife, that is curved. He pulls out his dagger, in the other paw, and expertly twirls them "Ive been killing since before you were even born... what chance do you have...against me..." He smiles and shoves both knives into the ground, the hilts is all that can be seen. He asks again, "I can run faster then you can crawl... get back here, and let me set your paw." He looks to Fira and nods some.

Fira doesn't stop Aikuen this time, lets him deal with it now, watching Kentar with a small sigh. Very up and down kind of day.

Kentar Growls and draws his dagger. "I'd rather die then let you touch me" he growls and stands up as quick as he can, throwing his pack onto his back.

Orph shakes his head, "Don't give him any ideas."

Aikuen points to the dagger, and laughs, "Is that all? This'll be easier then I thought" He pops his neck, back, and every claw in his paws, before getting into a boxing stance. He smiles to the stoat, "You can go first... It wont last long anyway..." Both dagger and knife are still in the ground.

Kentar Frowns and turns his back, starting to hobble off. "Buzz off otter" he growls, heading off towards his old village.

Aikuen sighs, and follows closely behind the Stoat, and places his paw on his shoulder, "Stop mate... I'm sorry..." He slams him in the neck with his armor.

Kentar blinks. "What are..." thud. Down on the ground, and out.

Aikuen knells down and says, "Sorry matey..." He picks him up over his shoulder and walks back to the camp.

Fira cringes slightly. Painful. Still, she waits for Aikuen to bring him back "Stops him at least."

Orph nods a little, "Now he'll get patched up and when he comes to we'll see if he still wants to kill us or not." Will's getting tired of all this real quick.

Aikuen nods some to Fira, as he places the knocked out Stoat against his pack. Taking the makeshift bandages off of Kentar, he pulls out his arm sling from his own pack, then places it on Kentar and setting his cut paw arm. He pours the flask over the paw and checks the wound, He looks back and says, "already sealed... that's good." He places the two planks on top of his paw, and in the palm, wrapping the bandage around, creating a splint. He steps back, and says, "Should i bring him around?"

Fira rubs her eyes a little. Long day "Given how angry he currently seems to be he probably still will. Needs to calm down first" she sighs "Don't really know what to do with him, need him to calm down."

Orph asks, "Won't he just wake up on his own after a while?"

Aikuen place a paw on Fira, "I can bring him around now, or naturally let him, which should be any minute now....Well when he comes too... Hopefully he'll see that we just wanted to help him" Then the fact that he just stabbed Kentar through the paw hits him, and he sits down suddenly, "Oh... did.. did i do that... No wonder he was so mad..." He rubs his face in his paws.

Fira nods slowly "Perhaps that would be for the best...though I'm sure he'll find a way to still be mad" She's got a bit more life back into the arm she hit him with and can move the paw again, if stiffly. Still, she places her paws on Aik's shoulders "I think it was fair enough" hey, she got stabbed for no good reason, he got stabbed for stabbing her, it's fair.

Orph drops down onto the sand to watch the waves a while, it's been a long day.

Aikuen shrugs and places his paw on top of Firas, "I just cant let him go back to being a slaver... I just cant..." He sighs and looks at Fira, with still red eyes.

Orph listens a bit but is mostly lost in his own thoughts.

Fira smiles faintly, looks tired "Would be bad. He'll have to calm down eventually then I'm sure he won't still be looking to be a slaver" she hopes anyway.

Kentar groans and starts to wake up slowly, his head moving as his eye slowly opens up. "Mmh...ow..."

Aikuen Smiles to Fira, "For his sake... I hope your right" He sees the Stoat waking so he digs into his pack and pulls out a glass bottle. Uncorking it then placing it near Kentars good paw he says, "How do you feel mate? Your head must be thumping away..."

Fira tenses slightly. Moment of truth. Has he calmed down or are they going to have another fight? She's keeping back a little.

Kentar groans and slowly opens his eye. "Yes...dumb otter, of course...so...does my paw" he mutters, slowly sitting up, and rubbing his head with his good paw.

Aikuen shrugs off the insult and nods and smiles, "Yes i know... But ive set it up, so in three days... you will be able to fully use your paw again, like nothing ever happened to it." He points to the bottle, "Thats Damson wine... Straight from the abbey... it'll dull the pain..." Other then the pointing, he makes no other movement.

Orph still sits with his back to the others looking out over the water, his ears swivel about keeping him aware of the three behind him.

Kentar slowly looks at the bottle and takes it, taking a nice long drink of the wine. "Mmh..." he eyes the bottle. "So...What now? Am I a prisoner?"

Aikuen shakes his head, "No... See, your not tied up or anything. Were just your friends who used you, and who are truly sorry for what we did... But we didn't want to see you go and ruin yourself..." Its a long shot, but he goes for it.

Fira has noticed Will too, watching the rat for a moment before she slowly looks back to Kentar. Yeah, she's still keeping back and quiet, hoping Aikuen can solve all.

Orph don't think the stoat's back to his senses yet and don't much care, "How long have you been traveling with us, come on what do you think?"

Kentar looks over to the others. "So...you expect me to accept the sorry and forget everything like that?" he asks...

Orph says, "No but it'd you can't stay mad forever."

Fira shrugs a shoulder "Not really but would have been nice...Did try and kill us, kinda evens things out a lot"

Aikuen looks to Will, then Back to Kentar, "He's right... Cant stay mad forever... And also, no, i don't expect you to forgive us like that... But.." He looks to Fira and smiles to Fira, then back to Kentar, "You stabbed her... don't know if i should forgive you for that...

Kentar eyes the otter. "I've been treated like trash mostly since the day I left with you. Fine, don't forgive me for stabbing her, but I'm not sorry for any of it. So...until further notice, I'm still quite angry at all of you, and I wish to be left alone."

Orph asks, "What did we do that you think makes it ok that you stabbed Fira?"

Fira waves it off with a paw "I'm sure he was just angry. Can live with him being upset" it comes without swords and threats of slavery so far which is nice.

Kentar frowns. "You guys wouldn't let me leave. Only way I could have left. But no, you...friends...have to keep me here against my will" he frowns.

Aikuen stands up, and looks to Fira, "As long as you think so... So can i..." He hmms a bit, and goes back to looking at Kentar, "If i didn't splint your paw... You would have never been able to use it again." He picks up the dropped saber and plunges it into the ground, "Take off you splint and grab the sword with the cut paw... Ill stand perfectly still... and if you can cut me in anyway... well let you go..." He stands about a two feet behind the saber. He sighs... Fira... is not going to like this...

Fira's faith in Kentar not hurting them has been a little broken so she is indeed a little concerned.

Kentar looks up and frowns. "Either you let me go where I will, or you will die in your sleep" he says. "Plain and simple"

Aikuen is on his last straw with Kentar, He places a footpaw against the upright saber, and a paw on the hilt and leans forward. The saber slowly bends till its at a 45 degree angle, he lets it go and the bent saber remains upright in the ground. He waves a paw "Fine... go... I don't care anymore..." He steps back and stands behind Fira, keeping his gaze off the stoat.

Kentar takes his saber and sheathes it before looking to the three of them, sighing. "I'm fine here" he sighs quietly. "Just because I'm staying does not mean I forgive you. Any of you"

Fira sighs faintly, very long day "Can live with that...thanks" she glances back to Aikuen briefly, aiming a light tap at his leg with her tail. To happier thoughts and letting Kentar get out of the spotlight again like he wants.

Aikuen smiles to Fira when she taps him,and he picks up his pack and says, "Come on... i caught a cod last night... I've been letting it ...er.. Mare-in-ade... since this morning. should be right for the cooking!" He smiles and heads back to the fire.

Kentar watches them for a moment, sighing. "Sorry bout stabbin' you" he says quietly to Fira, finally closing his eye and sighing.

Fira moves to settle down not far from the fire, have a nice sit down again "Cod, I approve. Dinner's definitely needed" she glances back to Kentar again, smiling faintly "Sorry about whacking you in the neck"

Kentar blinks and huhs. "Excuse me? You did what?"

Fira hehs "Maybe shouldn't go through the whole list. You were running, I got in the way, you stabbed me, I hit you in the neck, you fell over...arm hurts like hell too if it helps even things out some more"

Aikuen goes behind the tent and emerges with the cauldron. He dumps out the extra water and places it on the fire. Soon after the smell of fish and what smells like basil begins to fill the air, as the otter pan fries (yes, with a cauldron) the cod. He keeps his ears on the conversation, but doesn't say anything as he watches the fish.

Kentar frowns some. "When did you hit me in the neck?" he asks. "Are you sure?"

Fira raises a brow slightly "Well...yes. Just split second after you stabbed me...how else would you have ended up on the ground?" confusion. She looks back to Aikuen "Didn't I hit him in the neck?"

Aikuen looks up as his name is called, "Er... Aye you did... Clothes-lined him i think..." He goes back to the fish, and prods it with a claw.

Kentar blinks. "Uh...Okay...well. It would explain why my throat hurts."

Fira smirks faintly "There you go, it even has a name apparently. Don't think I probably did it quite right but, heh, yes, not important. Hope it doesn't bruise too badly."

Orph's whiskers twitch as he smells the cooking fish, "Mmmm. How much longer til we can eat?"

Kentar shrugs. "I dont remember it but okay" he shrugs, yawning before sighing, looking to Will and Aikuen next. "I'm sorry" he then closes his eye again.

Orph says, "I'm sorry too. I shouldn't have hit you or run off. .... Are you still mad at us?"

Aikuen takes 4 skewers and splits up the fish into each. He hands one to Fira, then one to Will, "Your noses knows best... it's done now!" he laughs a bit, and stands up and walks over to Kentar, "Does your throat hurt enough that you cant get this down... matey..." he holds out one of the skewers. He waves his other paw, and says softly "Its... alright mate...sorry for stabbing you in the paw."

Kentar looks at the fish and dismisses it with a paw. "I'm not hungry thank you" he says before looking to Will. "I'm...still angry, yes, but...not as much."

Long day but seems to be getting a bit better again. Fira stretches out, she's half way to dozing off already, she may as well get comfy while she eats, seeming happy with the meal to the point it's getting more attention than any lip reading

Orph is too busy eating to say anything at the moment though his ears are ever alert to what may be going on around him.

Kentar watches Will and mutters -I'm sorry- again very quietly, yawning and rolling on his side.

Fira doesn't take too long to work her way through her fish before she's just left with a fishy skewer which she does still chew on. Lying about on the back and just playing with the skewer between teeth and tongue. Fiddling basically. After a moment she closes her eyes to the sun and minute later the fiddling's getting slower since she's dozing off.

Orph has been using his now fishless stick to draw in the sand before dropping it. He looks up at the stars coming out, "Hope tomorrow's better than today was."

Aikuen tosses his skewer away behind him, and he looks to Fira. He chuckles and mumbles to Will, "Its been a weird day... a long day... Were all tired..." He gives a quick kiss on Firas cheek, before settling down on his bedroll, not sleeping, just resting for now, he says, "Today... was good... and bad..."

Orph walks over and settle down between Fira and Aikuen. He hasn't had the best luck trying to burrow in the sand without the sand fill the hole back in with him in it so til they reach firmer ground the rat will have to sleep above ground like a normal beast. "Yeah. Night Pa," the rat yawns and curls up to go to sleep.

Aikuen smiles and closes his eyes, "Night Will, Night Fi..." he grunts, "... yah" He sighs and begins to doze. Hoping that morning will bring a more happier day.