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James:
It was morning again far to quickly in James's opinion. It felt as though he had only just closed his eyes when he was woken by the sounds of people outside and the light streaming through the tent. It seemed Sirius had also been woken by this and, whilst James had to admit Sirius did look angelic throughout the day, in the mornings he was more akin to a grumpy cat. Letting out a sigh James hauled himself up and stepped out of the tent. He looked around and saw frank discussing somethings with Mary and Alice, they both had concerned looks on there faces. Seeming to notices James's gaze frank beckoned him forward.
'Everything alright?' James asked hesitantly,
Frank gave him a grimace before answering.
'Well, as we've already established were on a tropical island in Oceania,' he said,' and the problem is the rescue services wont be looking for us in Oceania, they will be looking along coast of America,'
'but that's thousands of miles away from where we are!' James said, alarmed
'we know,' said Mary, 'which means we cant rely on them to find us, we will have to send a signal out ourselves,' She explained
James was about to ask how they were going to do that when allice answered his question for him.
'The cockpit of the plane is somewhere in the jungle,' she clarified hopefully not far from here, it will have radio equipment the Benji might be able to salvage, we're putting together a team to search for it,'
'I'm coming with you,' James said immediately. It was so important to him to get of this island, his parents were waiting for him, his life was waiting for him.
'We thought you might,' Said frank, 'can you ask around and recruit more people, its safety in numbers around here,'
James nodded, it was left unsaid that the safety they needed was against that thing in jungle. James was sure not many people would want to track through that after what happened the night before. Unfortunately his suspicions were confirmed, most people turned him down with an awkward smile and a half-assed explanations. Still James through he had managed to wrangle together a pretty good team. It was him, Frank, Alice, Remus, the twins, Lilly, Marlene and Dorcas, Mulciber and peter. The only reason Sirius was not coming was due to the fact he was still worried about his brother and was going to continue looking for him. Mary, Benji and a few others opted to stay at the beach and keep everything in order until they got back.
waving good bye to Sirius James Started to trek through the jungle. It had been a peaceful walk so far the group was mostly quiet and were content to listening to the sounds of the jungle and to focus all there energy on locating the cockpit. James began to let his thoughts wonder as he looked around but he was brought back to earth by a hard roughly grapping his shoulder. letting out a yelp of surprise James turned around found himself face to face with Mulciber. His face was contorted into one of amusement and anger as he looked around at the rest of the part, who were watching the situation cautiously.
Mulciber let you a laugh before taking his hand of James and focusing his attention onto frank.
'You, your the leader of this operation right' He questioned. However he didn't give Frank time to answer as he spoke again.
'What are u doing letting this guy on your little mission, don't u know you cant trust brown folk, I wouldn't be surprised of he was the one who made this plane crash in the first place,' He declared, cocking his head towards James
'What did you just say,' Remus yelled advancing on Mulicber but Dorcas got there first, she decked him right in the jaw and he fell to the ground with a sickening crunch.
Mulcibers amused expression contorted unto one of rage and he rubbed his jaw. For a moment he didn't seem like he was going to do anything until he pushed back his jacked and pulled out a hand gun. Peter let out a gasp and retreated into the trees as Mulciber slowly but menacingly got to his feet. he pointed his gun a Dorcas and was about to spew more of his bullshit when. A roar sounded from behind him.
James moved forwards in an attempt to take the gun from Mulciber in his confused state but he stopped in his tracks when he saw just what had made that roaring sound. A polar bead was stood there, in the jungle, its jaw was gnarled and it looked ready to attack . Everyone went silent, no one dared to more a muscle. Then Mulciber snapped out of his trance and pressed the trigger on the gun. He missed.
This provoked the Polar bear into attacking as it pounced on Mulciber racking its ling claws down one side of his face. James raw forward and grabbed the gun. He turned and gave the gun to the person on his left that turned out to be Fabian and gave him an nod. James would have shot the polar bear himself he being vegetarian made him hesitant to kill any animals, even murderous ones, although for some reason James never seemed to have that hesitance when killing humans. But that was a story for a another time . Gideon advanced and, with surprising skill shot the polar bear in the neck.
Mulciber pushed it of him and got to his feet breathing heavily. He was large claw shaped gashes all over his body. In the back of James's head a voice said, serves him right, and whilst he agreed, it was not the most pressing issue at the moment was Fabian that spoke up this time, he reasoned that since Mulciber was no longer able to walk through the jungle Peter and Remus should help him back to the beach. They both agreed and as they were leaving Remus saw Fabian murmur something to Remus, he wasn't able to catch most of it but it was something along the lines of keep and eye on him.
The rest of the group continued to trek through the jungle, according to Alice she saw smoke coming from this area last night. Everyone was acting odd around James now, and he did now appreciate it one bit. Frank kept patting him on his back and Lilly kept sending him apologetic glances. He didn't know what they had to be sorry for, it was Mulcibers fault, and besides, he was used to it. Growing up in a white conservative area was hard on young James and it definitely affected his self esteem in his teen years. He was thankful for the fact that his friends stood up for him but now he was just wishing someone would break the silence.
Thankfully Marlene soon spoke up, asking about there line of work before they got on the plane. As it turns out Frank was a teacher, as was Alice, only frank taught secondary and Alice taught primary. Dorcas said she worked in a tattoo parlour but James had already guessed that from seeing the spirally flowers stretching from her arm to her neck inked on her body. James could also see Marlene's name tattooed on her wrist. Fabian had already established that he was a doctor and Lilly said she owned a chain of bookshops and Gideon, like James, worked in the military. The once awkward silence dissolved into friendly chatter as they started to to get to know each other when Marlene pointed out something in the distance.
James squinted through the trees and could just about make out the cockpit of the plane. The plants of the jungle had already begun overtaking it as James could see ivy creeping up the sides. The party rushed forward first in delight and then in eagerness to get into shelter as it immediately started to pour with rain. they all clambers into the the plane eventually and stood around catching there breath. However there relief was short lived as when they looked at there surroundings the cockpit was full of dead bodies. Horrible and mangled that had organs spewing out of them, some were missing arms of legs, other missing their whole torso. James could make out the pilot slumped over in his chair. James felt lucky that he was used to the sight of corpses as when he looked around at some of the passengers faces they all looked like they were going to be sick or were going to faint.
Swallowing his fear James walked towards the control panel followed by Fabian and then Dorcas. They surveyed the damage and found that, while it had sustained some fall damage, the pilots radio was mostly intact. Alice was just about to start taking it apart so they could bring to back to the beach when that sound happened again. A horn across with a scream ripped through the jungle closely followed with the crunching of gears.
Sirius:
When James and the others left he began to look around the beach for any sign of his brother. But, was that man really his brother? When Sirius ran away he always had hope that regulus had managed to escape to, that he was out there living his own life, making his own decisions. But one look at the brief case adorned with the black family crest that regulus was wearing told Sirius all he needed to know.
IT was nearing the hottest part of the day and whilst Sirius was wearing sun cream that he had managed to salvage the sun was beginning to get unbearable. Opting for a short break in one for tents Sirius found a sight he was not expecting. His brother was laying on his side, leg wrapped in a splint, looking oddly peaceful as he slept.
Sirius felt a wave of guilt wash over him, he had been so caught up in his own life, so happy he had gotten out of the hell-hole that was his house he had neglected to think about regulus. Well, that was a lie, he thought about regulus every day, but he always imagined regulus as young, as the age when he and Sirius had been close and regulus hadn't been brainwashed by Walburgers ideas. It was as though he didn't want to imagine regulus all grown up, becoming his won person without Sirius to guide him. But now, out of all he possibilities, all the planes in the world, regulus had been on that on with him, sitting a mere four isles away, and now sleeping a mere two feet away from Sirius.
It must have been fate, Sirius resolved, the fact that they had met one the plane, survived the crash and landed here, on this island. Although there were some things that didn't quite add up. Why was regulus on a regular British airways plane, why not a private jet or first class? Sirius thought for sure that Walburga would have made sure Regulus was on the the best plane money could buy. But still, Sirius was just glad that regulus was, mostly, alright and , admittedly, Sirius was a little glad that his brother was on this island with him, it meant that they might have a chance to repair there relationship, to become brothers again.
He knew he hadn't been the nicest to Regulus in the years leading up to him running away and that regulus would want nothing to do with Sirius when he woke up and Sirius wasn't sure if he would even like Regulus, what if he had become an elitist prick like the rest of his family? But still, Sirius couldn't help but hope that maybe, just maybe, he and regulus would have a chance.Moving of his knees and into a more comftable position Sirius seated himself nest to regulus's bed. Was it a bed ? Sirius supposed with the lack of supplies comftable bedding would not have been easy to acquire. Still as Sirius looked at the position he was laid in he felt sorry for him.
Resolving to look through the wreckage of the plane to find something more comftable for Regulus Sirius exited the tent and started to walk across the beach towards the plane wreckage. As Sirius was walking he took the moment to appreciate the beauty of the beach, Crystal clear blue waters, golden sand, beautiful weather, Sirius couldn't help but feel at peace, feel like the island was offering him comfort and harmony. He had become so transfixed by the waters he didn't notice the gaggle of three people stumbling out of the trees at first. After doing a double take he rubbed his eyes and tried to figure out who they were.
'Sirius, a little help over here!' one of them yelled. Sirius identified the voice as Remus and rushed over to help them. They were carrying a man he couldn't quite recognise into the medical tent. He was bleeding profusely and had a large gash down one side of his face and one on his torso that was bleeding profusely. Peter ran to find Mary leaving Sirius and Remus alone.
'what happened to him?' Sirius asked, 'Is anyone else hurt?'
Remus chuckled,' everyone's fine Sirius, Mulciber provoked a polar bear and got attack but Gideon shot it,' There was a comically awkward silence as Remus looked at Sirius's face for a reaction.
'I'm sorry what?' Sirius asked, disbelievingly.
'I'm as surprised as you are,' Remus admitted, 'but that's not the only reason we had to bring Mulciber back,' He said, grimly.' He first tried to pick a fight with James and when Dorcas tried to stop him he pulled a gun he had found in the wreckage on her,'
Sirius had so many questions but the one at the front of his mind was just who on board owned a gun and why hadn't they spoken up about it? He was about to ask Remus if he knew when Mary came running in with another woman he didn't recognise. He watched as she poured water on the wound before wrapping it tightly with a gauze. By now Mulciber had been out for a while and Mary recommended they let him wake up naturally so they all exited the tent. As they were leaving Sirius snuck a glace at regulus but he was still sleeping peacefully.
Remus explained to Mary and the woman that had introduced herself as Ai what happened and Sirius noticed the two girls exchange a look of sadness and a what he thought was anger when peter said about how Mulciber had threatened to shoot Dorcas and James. Sirius wasn't sure why but he resolved to ask them later has just then the same horrific sound that they had heard last night sounded throughout the jungle, and it had come from the direction that the party that had set out to find the cockpit were.