The Beast That is Humanity

Ava jumped again, this time pulling in another fish.

Jason unhooked this fish for her and set it with the others, refitting her line with a fresh worm so she could continue, smiling a bit at her, although there was a bit of nervousness in his smile for once.

Ava kept her eyes averted, too shy to make eye contact, "Thanks..." she muttered, then cast again.

Jason nodded. "no problem" he said smiling shyly at her. he moved so he was next to her, watching the fish in the water.

Ava caught one more, "Sorry... I can't keep this up... I have to go.." she said softly, handing him both the fish and the pole, running back to the beach.

Jason sighed. they had enough food for awhile. He picked up the deer, and the fish and walked back to camp slowly, greatly weighed down by their food.

There was a girl's scream from a little ways ahead.

Jason sprinted forward, dropping the meat and fish as he lept up into a tree on the edge of the clearing where the scream came from, looking for the source.

Ava was on the ground, gritting her teeth as tears rolled down her cheeks, holding on to a tree as some odd creature that looked somewhat like an alligator, but yet like a tiger, too, had it's teeth clamped around her leg, trying to pull her off. It jerked back, pulling on Ava as she screamed again, her grip lost.

Jason let out what could only be described as a primal shriekd as he lept down on the creature, spear in hand. once he landed he drove his spear through the creatures back aiming for it's heart.

The creature fell easily, it's head rolling to the side, but its mouth was still locked around her leg.

jason pushed hsi fingers into the mass of teeth and forced the jaws apart, moving her leg free before letting the jaws clamp shut once more. he looked at her, panting. "are you alright?' he asked moving closer to ehr.

Ava's eyes were red, tears on her face. The teeth had cut pretty deep into her leg, bone visible. She didn't say anything.

Jason ripped shreds out of his shirt, wrapping them around her wound to stop the bleeding. his hands were cut pretty badly from prying the creature's mouth open, but he paid more attention to her deep injuries. before long her leg was wrapped up with the bleeding stopped. he moved next to her, wrapping his hands up clumsily. "from now on stay close to me" he said panting a bit. he didn't mean it in a mean way, but now they definately had things to fear here.

Ava nodded, wiping her eyes.

Jason gently wrapped his arm around her and kept her close to him. he had actually been scared when he saw her like that...

Ava held onto him tightly, as if it would save her life.

Jason gently hugged her close to him. "we need to get back to the others" he said softly. He picked her up gently in his arms, throwing the food they had hunted onto his back as he held her bridal style in his arms, carrying her the whole way back to where the others were still camped. once in the general area, he let the meat fall off of his body and sat down on a fallen log, keeping Ava close to him, checking her leg out to be sure it was still not bleeding.

The wound wasn't bleeding as bad anymore, but it still was pretty deep and would need a while to heal.

Jason gently pulled ava onto his lap and held her close. "i wonder what the hell that thing was..." he murmured.

Ava sniffed, "I don't know..."

Jaosn smiled at her. "well whatever it was it can't hurt you now" he said smiling softly at her.

Ava nodded, curling up into a ball, being very careful to not move her injured leg.

Jason smiled softly at her and ran his fingers gently through her hair to relax her.

Aiden ran over to the two of them, "Ava?" he shouted as he ran over here, "Ava, are you alright?"