The Relic [closed]

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They should have arrived ten minutes ago! Alethi Storm wasn't happy in the least that she was having baby sitters on this expedition. Sure, the money belonged to the university, but what university actually hires thugs to make sure the excavation was a success? They didn't send an army with her when she discovered the missing galleons of Spain carrying tons of doubloons. Nor was she accompanied in retrieving artifacts from the pyramids in Egypt. All of them worth more than their weight in gold. All of them, she took back to safety without armed personnel against raiders and thieves and pirates and syndicates. She and her team could take care of themselves.

It was one artifact. One! And for some reason, she needed a retinue. True there were stories about it really having mystical powers, but what ancient artifact isn't surrounded by curses and magic? The board was just being silly.

Or maybe they weren't. After all, if she did find the relic, it would prove the existence of Atlantis...or something that Atlantis was patterned after. More importantly, it would contain so much information about the culture of that forgotten place. Find of the century indeed!

If she was successful, she would validate her sacrifices in her life. She could laugh in the faces of those who ridiculed her and called her a dork and bullied her. Given, none of them even recognized her anymore. After chucking her thick glasses and opting for lasik, her younger sister gave her a wardrobe overall and a makeup tutorial. Not that she used makeup often. Not in her job description at least. And goodness knows she barely had time to put on makeup during classes. At least her hair didn't need any maintenance. She could go all day without brushing and she'd still look like she went to the salon. But of course, her job required her to use a pony-tail, opting to tie it high up her head, rather than all loose at the nape of her neck when she was in college.

"They're here."

Alethi looked up and saw their plane finally touching down the runway. She stood in the hangar arms crossed, her foot tapping. Whoever was in charge was going to get an earful. They were going to lose precious daylight late as they were.

The plane finally docked in the hangar and she stalked toward the hatch. The words were ready in her head, but as soon as the first man stepped out, the words died in her mouth. She prayed to whatever god was listening that he wouldn't recognize her. No. Of course, he wouldn't. She changed so much. The same name could be a coincidence. Or, he could forget about her altogether. After all, she was the unremarkable, forgettable dork sitting near the trash bins.

Alethi hoped she was that forgettable.

 

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Jason Clark was born and raised a military man. His father and mother both Air Force and Marine Officers respectfully, and they raised him with strict discipline. It made him act out in school, the only place he could cut loose, although it merely made him a thug or bully to anyone in his way.

Then he graduated and was sent into the Marines without much choice. He had been raised for it. Then he saw war for the first time in Afghanistan, car bombs, snipers, assassins dressed like women, every second of the day looking for an attack.

It drained him. But at the same time it made him tougher than ever before. When he left the military he formed his own private armed security force. They specialized it protecting people in dangerous areas. Scientists in the Puru, pipeline workers in the Mediterranean Sea, or like now archeologists in....whatever fucking hell hole jungle this was.

Normally a job coming from a educationAL institution would have made Jason laugh, but when he heard the name involved he had to remember her. Storm, he had vaguely remembered her in high school, little more than a fuck ugly nobody who had shot shoveled in her face constantly. Some even thrown by Jason.

But what really got him about the name was from what he had read in the papers. This girl and her crew went to some scary fucking places and always came back with amazing finds, and alive which was even wilder. So when he got the call to set up protection for her and her crew on this dig in....South America? Where the fuck was he? Goddamm he hated jungles.

In either case he had to take the job. He wanted to see what kind of hardened bitch Storm had become to pull off the shit she had pulled off.

What he didn't expect was a knockout little petite beauty stomping her way to him the second the door of the place opened. He slung his assault rifle over his shoulder and made no attempt to hide his eyes checking her out, she looked stunning. Tank top, cargo pants with a wife beater underneath it all, she looked kick ass. Flat, tight tummy, with perky full cc's maybe d's. Definitely not the same girl from high school.

"Well well if it isn't the great Alethi Storm herself. You have certainly blossomed haven't you?" He said with a smirk. "Here I was expecting that creature from high school."

 

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Alethi's mouth twitched. He still remembered her. "For pity's sake, Jason! Stop ogling at me. The least you can do is hide it, but no. You're still the barbarian you were years ago."

It was so annoying how he could always easily poke fun at how she looked no matter what she looked like. She couldn't even get back at him because, damn it, he was gorgeous as always. A little harder now, but he still would be on a roll for any popularity contest.

She took a deep breath and motioned for him and his crew to follow her without so much as a backward glance, hips swaying naturally as she walked. "Look, I don't really need you, but the board says I have to take you, so I will. Around here, you do things our way. Whatever I say, goes. This isn't your world anymore, Jason. I don't care whatever shit you've gone through to make you think you're still better than me, because this time," she turned around glaring at him, "you screw with me and defy me, you get killed. I don't even have to lift a finger to send you to hell. Got that?"

She tried to look down on him as best as he could, but that would've been easier if she were taller. Behind her, she could feel her researchers whispering among themselves. They'd never seen her this wound up ever since their brush in with some pirates in Africa who thought they could exchange her for their find.

If anything really changed about Alethi, it was that she would do anything to not be considered weak and frail again. Her life had been hell throughout her formative years until high school, and having a taste of actually fighting back in college and finally earning respect, she didn't want to go back. Ever. Not especially to this guy.

She turned to her lead assistant. "Get everything ready and tell everyone to board."

"Welcome to Morocco, bitch," she grinned at Jason. "Hope you're ready to change professions, because from hereon out, you're going to be my packman."

 

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Jason actually blinked as she snapped at him. He hadn't expected that from her. Like a little fucking chihuahua dog trying to pick a fight with something much bigger and stronger than her. He raised an eyebrow as she barked orders at his men and the stormed off.

He glanced at one of his men who came up beside him and said, "Dude I think she likes you."

Jason rolled his eyes."Let's fucking hope not."

With a sigh her grabbed his gear and followed her. She spun toward him welcoming him to Morocco and calling him a bitch and her packman.

Narrowing his eyes he stomped over to her and her bags. "Let us get something straight right now Storm. You think you are tough, you ain't shit. I've read about your exploits. In Spain you were there when the government had put a big lock down on piracy along with the U.N. Busting a huge drug cartel. Basically crime was being nice when you were there. Those pirates in Africa, they were petty thugs looking to make an easy big score. You got lucky they weren't Solomian or you'd be dead "

He narrowed his eyes. "Out here you have the Zulu diamond mines run by really really nasty folk. Plus the Mateia tribe who like to eat people. So yeah, I'm here to protect you and your little diggers. We are not here to be your bitches."

He put a foot on her hag and said, "In other words," he shoved her bag over, "pick up your own fucking bags."

Then he pushed past her to secure the bus that would take them as far into the jungle as it could before they starting hiking. He gave orders to his men to station on every corner and be on the lookout for tribals and mining lanes.

 

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Alethi wanted to scream in frustration, but she didn't. Instead, she marched into the bus and sat beside her Geodetics engineer, Raul.

"You okay?" Raul asked. "That was pretty rough out there. Like you were threatening someone taking hostages or something."

She rolled her eyes. "It's just...why does it have to be him? Do you have any idea what kind of hell my life had been because of him and his friends? And now, here we go again. Pushing me around like I'm some kind of kid who doesn't know which end of the gun shoots out a bullet. Damn it, Raul! I've had enough of his bullying to last me a lifetime. I don't need this now."

"Maybe if you were a little nicer?"

"Maybe if was even a little bit sorry for what he did, then he can have a 'little nicer'. But did you see what he did when he got off the plane? He looked at me like I'm some porn star straight out of his videos. That man had been disgusting and still is."

"You always said yourself a team that doesn't work together can't finish the job."

"They're accessories, Raul. Not part of the team." She seethed closing the conversation and looked outside. From time to time she glared Jason when he wasn't looking. Why him? Why him?

 

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Jason sat beside one of his men Eric, playing with the bullets in his 9mm magazine. "Why did I take this gig?" He muttered.

"Yeah I was gonna ask. What's up with you and the Chica leader over there?" Eric replied.

Jason shrugged. "We went to high school together. I was an asshole and she was a dork. So she isn't too pleased to see me, even if it is for her own good."

"Was she that hot in high school?"

"No. No she was a trash bag in high school." Jason shook his head.

"Fuck man that's mean. No wonder she hates you."

"They trained me to be an asshole Eric. But seeing her now....she is different. She is strong and beautiful. The kind of girl my father said I should be on the lookout for because she is the one who would be there forever."

Eric laughed, "And instead of saying that, you decided to be a fuckhead? Smooth man. Really smooth."

 

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The journey going to the site was relatively peaceful--except, of course for Alethi's and Jason's little spat--but it always was. Always the calm before the storm. Soon, the bus stopped taking them as far as it could get them. As usual, Alethi took the lead and talked to the local who would be their guide. The guide and his team were jittery and scared so Alethi tried to calm them as best as she could and went to Jason reluctantly.

"Hey, Saad's our guide to the place and he doesn't want you and your men touting big guns. Says he's nervous about it. You better leave your heavy artillery in the bus. Hope that doesn't emasculate you." She couldn't resist putting that little jab in despite Raul's warnings for her to play nice. She definitely didn't want him to think her a little weakling, not after suffering him all those years.

She called out louder addressing everyone. "Trail's going to be up rocky mountains before we head into the jungle. At the end of it, there's an underwater cave to the entrance. By the length of it, we're going to need some scuba gear. How many do we have Alex?"

"Four."

Alethi shook her head. Should have brought more. He turned back to Jason. "Looks like you and your team will hang back at the entrance. We only have enough for 4 and we need at least five." At least that was a relief. She didn't have to put up with him especially in a place that she could call her own. Ruins. The only place she could really be happy and excited. And there would be no Jason to ruin it for her! Not unless he brought his own gear. No...don't even think about the possibility!

 

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Jason sighed and slung his rifle off his shoulder. With a snap of his fingers the men took their rifles off and split them into pieces which then fit into their backpacks. Nobody would leave their weapons behind. For now, they would simply be hidden. Jason could see the look on Alethi's face as he once again defied her, in a way at least.

He listened carefully as she explained the journey they would have to take. ListenING to her mention the underwater cave and try to deny him and his team access to the actual site.

With a sigh Jason nodded, "Only four scuba suits for a dig that you knew you needed at least five people for. Yet you stand there and tell me how prepared and confident you are. Don't be a child, we aren't in high school anymore and the soon you realize I am only here to keep you from getting your pretty ass killed, the sooner things will get smoother between us."

Jason reached into his pack and pulled out a small air canister with face mask. "Me and my Men have these, they will give us two hours of underwater breathing. And I have an extra for your fifth guy." He told her with a smile.

"Let's move people, we have to get over the mountain before sundown or the winds will freeze us to death even in our coats." He called out. "Everyone follow Storm and watch what she says. If you need help ask me or my men to carry you or give you some oxygen."

He gave Alethi a flick gently on the nose. "See? I can be a team player." He smiled. "After you boss." He gestured her to begin the climb.

 

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Of course, as military, they would come prepared. Shit. Well, there goes her place of solace. She wasn't going to shake him off. She doubted he would even flinch if she told him about how cold the water is. That would be nothing for him. Not with his bulk and the bulk of his men.

She glared at him and gave a small yelp surprised that he dared flick her nose. Still treating her like a helpless little child! She had half a mind to push him over the mountains once they were high enough. The man was infuriating!

Seething, she proceeded putting as much distance as she could between her and Jason lest she actually push him off the edge. Instead, she talked to the guide about the legends surrounding the mystical valley of Mamoun. Saad insisted that he and the rest of the guides be left behind before they reach the valley floor. According to him no one who came down there came back, and he didn't want to risk that.

Alethi, on the other hand, got herself excited over the prospect of uncovering some mystery. Why didn't they return? For the moment, she forgot all about Jason and his men and talked to her guide with child-like awe and wonder.

As they spoke, Raul rode up to Jason. "I'm really sorry about Alethi. She really isn't that hostile, you know? She's usually a lot nicer."

 

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The trip up the mountain wasn't nearly as bad as Jason thought it would be. The winds were calm and the sky was vlear, though it did remain fairly cool this high up. All in all he wasn't saddened by the climb. In fact, it felt like great exercise. On the other side of the mountain they said goodbye to the guides who were only too eager to bail on the group.

"That's a good sign." Eric said. "Not even the natives wanna deal with this thing."

Jason shrugged, "Probably superstition leading to irrational fear."

"Or maybe he met your girlfriend." Eric mocked

"Oh go fuck yourself with poison ivy."

As the group finished their way down into the basin where they would make first camp before heading into the jungle at first light tomorrow, one of Alethi's people can up to Jason And apologized for her behavior.

Jason smiled and clapped Raul on the back. "My friend, she and I have a bad history. There is nothing to be sorry for. She will get over it eventually. Either way she is stuck with me so we will all have to deal."

He gestured to Raul. "Pro tip Raul. Pull your socks all the way up to your knees out here. Not only will it keep your feet cooler but you will also get leg protection against biting bugs. Pass it around your team. Wouldn't want anyone to catch Lyme disease or maleria." Jason smiled and nodded Raul away.

 

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As much as Alethi hated the thought of all of them being in one camp, she begrudgingly let them all stay in one campfire. She made the rule of sticking together, and she wasn't about to break it, but no one said anything about having to mingle with Jason. She did all she could to stay away from him as much as she can until they all turned in for the night and broke camp the next morning.

As weird as Raul's sudden insight on what to do was, Alethi agreed that pulling up her socks would make a better guard against everything in the jungle than her bare skin. She called him brilliant but he refused to take credit for anything.

A few hundred meters into the jungle and they found the first warning sign: an old mangled body with its rotting head in a silent scream. A local, by the looks of him. The body was torn in places, obviously not the work of a human.

"Let's get moving, but be careful." She didn't need to say it, but it didn't hurt to be cautious.

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Off the side of the valley a pack of beasts woke sensing something coming. One by one the humanoid beasts stood, each over seven feet tall and all muscle, sniffing the air for new prey.

 

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Jason didn't like the signs on the body, hanging rotten and dried from a tree. He judged it had been up there nearly a year, based on how dry it was. But the wounds all over the body are what bothering JAson the most. There were many cuts and slashes across the chest, belly and throat. The cuts were rough, jagged and definitely not done with any blade.

Eric stepped up beside him, "What the fuck? What made those?"

JAson shook his head, "I don't know. Best guess, one of the tribes around here cut him up with sharp rocks or something. But the power it would take to do that....Look those cuts aren't sawed like you would need with a rock, they are too smooth for that."

"Dude fuck this jungle. This is a lot of shit to deal with for some stupid trinket." Eric shook his head and pushed away.

Jason looked out to Alethi, who marched forward without a single sign of fear. The girl was so determined to proove how tough she was, it was going to get her killed sooner than later.

He pulled out his hand gun and checked the chamber, making sure it was ready to fire. No chances to take here. Paranoid or not, he would not let anyone die on his watch.

Not again.

 

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The deeper they went in, the more bodies they found that they had to stop as some of the researchers hurled whatever food they downed at breakfast. Alethi looked around and examined the bodies. The rips int he body were similar to how tigers tear through their prey--if tigers were this huge.

For the most part the jungle was silent, but every now and then they heard clicking sounds. At first Alethi didn't pay it any mind, but the clicks were getting louder and louder.

"Jason, please tell me the clicking is coming from your equipment," she said unhooking the pouch on her side to reveal a long chain with knives at both ends.

"They're coming, aren't they? Whatever that is." Raul cocked his own gun.

The clicking sounds were slowly surrounding them and all at once stopped. Alethi could hear everyone breathing hard, motioning for her researchers to stay in the middle of the perimeter she found herself and Jason's men were making.

A few breaths later, the first of the beasts came out, lunging straight for Alethi. She threw one end of the chain at it, burying it at the shoulder, but it didn't stop or slow. It didn't even seem to feel the wound.

No sooner than it burst out from the thicket than the others came out as well charging at them with bared claws and fangs.

 

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Things got worse as they moved deeper into the jungle. More bodies, some torn up even worst than the first one. Then there starting some wicked clicking. At first Jason thought he was imagining it, but Eric asked him about it and Alethi replied by repeating the question a second time.

Jason shook his head and cocked his gun, "Fan out, protect the scientists." He ordered, moving up in front of Alethi. His eyes only for the jungle as the clicking seemed to be swarming around them. Movement to his left stole his attention for a second.

That's when the attack came. Creatures leapt out of the brush like wild cats. They were cats....No wait....they were people....No that wasn't it either.

What the fuck was going on here?

Bullets began to fire from guns. Jason spun and saw Alethi use her blade to stab a creature after her, the blade sunk it and the monster didn't give a fuck. It tackled her to the ground with a screech. Jason was there instantly, pressing his gun to the creatures skull and pulled the trigger.

Brains and bone exploded from the beast and it flopped on top of her. JAson quickly kicked the body off Alethi and pulled her to her face. "You alright?" He asked, but she couldn't answer as a beast leap onto Jason's back.

He staggered away feeling claws trying to tear through his flak jacket. With a grunt Jason flipped the beast over his shoulder, dropping it to the ground in front of him. Hie gun was there before the creature could bounce and two bullets to the head put it down for good.

Jason looked up and saw two shadows flee into the brush. Everyone else spinning around to make sure attack wasn't coming from another direction. "REPORT!" Jason roared.

"Clear!" Gerald cried.

"Clear!" Rich cried.

"What the fuck?" Eric roared staggering into the group, with a bloody shoulder. "What the fuck? Those were like Tiger fuckers. Asshole bit me. I jerked and it only grazed me, but dude fuck. I hate cats. Now I hate this fucking jungle."

Jason spun toward Alethi. "Well expert? The fuck was that?"

 

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Alethi quickly stood back up and moved forward to help him, but he quickly got things under control and she turned away to another creature. She dodged its attack and swung up its back cutting straight through its spine on the neck. It thrashed and threw her off before dying.

Another creature broke through the ranks and she pushed a researcher out of its way taking a deep gash that ran down her back. She growled and threw one end of her chain. The beast caught it and pulled her toward it. She used its clawed hand, stepping on it and then struck it in the eye before burying the blade under its chin, dropping it.

Soon the fight was over and Alethi could suddenly feel her injuries, her adrenaline gone. The one on her back felt like it needed a stitch. And then there were other gashes from when she was tackled. The thing sunk its claws before Jason got it off her. There were several gashes at her side and one a hair below her left breast and the other sliced at her shoulder.

After seeing all her researchers were accounted for, he came up to Jason. "Thanks for saving everyone," Alethi muttered giving her thanks grudgingly. Saved by the man she hated, now she owed him her life. Damn it!

Alethi jumped as Jason demanded an answer from her. She was a bit shaken, sure, but she wasn't about to let it make her stupid.

"Guardians from Atlantean legends, most likely. I'm not sure what they are either, but they resemble those in the myths. I'll have a team bring back one of the cadavers for experiments and figure out what the hell these were, but we need some of your men to help them get out of here. There are still a few on the lose." She looked around. At least there were no casualties among her colleagues. Raul was injured but that look on his face said he was determined to continue.

"Maybe you should also take some of your more injured men out. I'll send half the med team with them. If you want, you can go too. I'm pretty sure this weird stuff isn't what you signed up for." It took quite a bit of effort not to let the pain on her face show.

The truth was, she was more rattled than she let on. In all her expeditions, magic and mythologies were all hoaxes, but this was something different, entirely. This was a story coming to life and it seemed like she had bitten off more than she could chew.

But she couldn't stop. Not when she was this close. Besides, she had to be strong for her team to continue following her. And so she could show Jason she wasn't they type he could bully anymore. She was not going to show any weakness to him. Not the slightest. Not even when she was bleeding and in pain and terrified.

 

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Jason shook his head and waved everyone in, "Gather round!" He roared, pulling the group of his men and Alethi's men around. "Listen up, clearly there are crazy fucking things around here, so in order to make sure an ambush like that can't happen again, we are going to move as a tighter group. My men will be on the outside of our ring. From here on out I want conversations kept low or even non existant or we can hear that fucking clicking if they come back."

He looked at Alethi, "Let's move the group to the next campsite, and then provide medical attention there. WE need to get away from these bodies in case they like to come back for their dead." He pointed through the jungle. "Lead the way."

She chewed her lip in frustration, clearly not liking his orders. But she turned and marched the group forward. Jason saw the gash on her back, and sighed. She was bleeding badly and would need to stop for stitches soon or she'd collapse. Great way to start a journey.

Jason was angry, angry at himself for not seeing this coming, for the few people that were injured, it was his failure.

As the group moved, Jason hung back to talk with Eric. "You okay?"

Eric nodded, "Yeah it just grazed me, probably don't even need anything more than a Band-Aid. Just mad at random were-tigers."

Jason agreed, "Yeah, this has turned out to be a more complicated mission than we had thought. At the next break, we are pulling out our rifles."

"Ah man leave your dick in your pants man, aint nobody wanna see that?" HE moaned.

"Good your to know you're okay." Jason said and moved to the front of the group quickly, so he could keep watch on Alethi.

 

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In one fell swoop, Jason took charge. She didn't like it one bit, but she had no choice. He was right and she was starting to get a bit lightheaded due to blood loss. She could shake off the thought that he didn't want to back out. For some reason, the combination of his bravery and his quick command made her admire him...no, that was just her blood loss talking. She wasn't thinking straight.

She marched nearer toward the site until it was dark. They could have gotten to the actual site, but with all the injured, the going was slow. With the light fading, they made camp, and alethi slumped in her own tent as soon as she got it up. She knew she needed to do something, but she couldn't remember. Something about needing a medic. What for? She didn't know. She wasn't thinking straight anymore.

Raul, then poked his head in the tent.

Medic. Yes, of course! "Raul, is everyone being cared for?"

He nodded. "As soon as one is available, I'll send her directly to you."

Oh, right, she needed help too. "Thanks."

"Oh, and Alethi? Looks like your nemesis isn't as uncaring about you as you think he is."

She only barked a laugh and shooed him away. "Get some rest."

Uncaring? Of course he cared...about grinding her face in the ground. Worse, she owed him. She had to remedy that quickly.

 

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Jason moved about the camp making sure medics focused on the worse injuries first. He stopped by every single person except Alethi to make sure they were okay. The he focused on setting up an armed parimiter around camp.

Finally he grabbed one of the medics and asked, "Has anyone seen to Alethi yet?"

The medic shook her head. "She won't accept help u til everyone else is done."

Jason sighed, "Dummy." He nodded, "Alright give me some gauze and a suture kit."

He took the medical supplies and went off to Alethi's tent. She sat with her forehead on her knees moaning softly. "Knock knock." He said, she jerked up and let out a cry at how much that hurt.

Jason nodded, "That's what I thought. Stay still." He moved around behind her and took a seat with his legs sticking out in front of him on either side of her. He grabbed her hips and slid her back until she was nestled against his crotch. Then he set about cleaning her back with gauze and alcohol.

"Don't move, I'm about to start stitching." He warned.

 

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For the moment, she felt like she was going to pass out. She didn't know if she was really feeling pain or if she was just aware of someone else's pain. Until Jason appeared. She turned to him so quickly in surprise, she definitely felt the pain and cried out. God! That hurt like hell!

Before she was aware of what was going on, she found herself with her ass touching...his crotch. As massive as her blood loss was, she still felt a blush creep up her cheeks. "What are you--Aaaaaahhhh! Ow, ow, ow!" She gripped his pant leg so tightly, her knuckles turned white.

It was bad enough that he had to rip her shirt out of the hardened blood that stuck the cloth to her back, it was worse that he used alcohol on her injuries.

"Hey, g-give me a break..." She had never had stitches before and from what she had seen, it was going to hurt like hell. He didn't let up though knowing that she would be in worse shape if he didn't take care of her.

She growled and sobbed as the pain burned her back. Soon the pain became intolerable, and mixed with the blood loss, she passed out.

 

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Jason was relieved when she finally passed out. It meant she would stop squirming and he could finish the job on her back. She was lucky. The cut was deep but it missed her spine and major arteries. Just a flesh wound he was able to stitch it up and bandage her up with gauze. Although she would have to wait a couple of days before she got into any underwater caves. Especially in weiRd jungle water with any number of parasites.

Once his job was done, Jason laid her gently on her stomach and covered her with her sleeping bag. A quick trip outside had him setting a box of juice and some bread beside her for when she woke up. She would need food and sugar when she came to.

The Jason slipped away and saw to insuring the camp had a peaceful night. He did not get a wink of sleep, choosing instead to guard all night long and give Eric some extra rest. I'm the morning he saw Alethi emerge from her tent and he smirked.

Walking up to her he called, "I hoe you drank the juice and ate the bread I left for you." Despite being up all night he looked fresh and rested. The military trained him to go on full power for at least 72 hours without sleep. Fucking Marine boot camp sucked.

"Listen I did a little tracking last night and we appear to be on the very edge of some kind of tribes land. I think we need to lay low for another night." He leaned in and whispered to Alethi..."I saw the tribesmen eatING one of those creatures. These people are not ones to be fucked with."

 

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Alethi woke feeling a lot of pain, but not as bad as last night. She tried to remember the events the night before through a haze of pain. Jason helped her and she couldn't do anything about it. Again, she was helpless before him. At least, she was right about one thing. With how gruff he treated her, she was sure Raul was wrong. He was only helping her to gather more ammunition to humiliate and throw shit in her face so he can gloat and laugh at her unpaid debts.

At least Raul brought her breakfast. She gobbled it all up and went out the tent, groaning as she suddenly came face to face with Jason. Shit...the last man on earth she wanted to see. She grimaced as she realized he brought her food. Yet another one added to her list of debts.

"A tribe?" His discover piqued her interest, barely hearing the danger in his report. "Maybe they know about the temple. We could probably observe them. See if we can make contact. Oh! And we could document their existence. Maybe they can reveal to us some lore we have no idea about." The more she thought about a new discover, the more she forgot about the dangers they presented.

 

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Jason couldn't believe her. Hadn't she heard him when he told her about theM fucking eating the were-tiger things. "Did you not hear the part where I said they are eating those tiger creatures?" He asked. The look on her face said she was not going to give up getting a peek at the people.

"Fine. You want to see? I will take you. Just you And me. Twould people will be able to sneak in and out without trouble. everyone else will wait for us here."

He sighed and armed himself from his pack while she gathered a camera aND notepad so she could take notes. Quickly Jason led her through the jungle, toward where he knew where the camp was. He motion for her to step lightly and keep very quiet.

They reached a clearing where the village was. Alethi almost stepped out into the field before he grabbed her arm and pulled her down. From the brush they watched as two village women carried large baskets of water across the clearing. They were halfway to a small hut when they paused as a large black man emerged from the hut.

The woman stopped and set down their baskets quickly. Without a word they turned around and bent over to grab their knees. The man stepped behind them and whipped out his cock and began to fuck them. The women made no noise, no protest, they simply let the man do what he wanted. When the man was finished he stepped back and the women grabbed their baskets and continued into the hut like nothing had happened.

The man watched them and sniffed the air deeply. Suddenly he tensed and took another deep breath. Slowly he turned toward exactly where Jason and Alethi were hidinG. He growled and suddenly began to vilently shake. With a roar his skin exploded and a tiger man was stand in his place.

He howled and was instantly answered by countless more howls. with a swift movement he started toward the two observers.

"Fuck me! Alethi run!" He cried. "Get to the others and tell them to be ready. I'll stall him. Go now!"

Jason pulled his gun and jumped over the brush waving his arms. "Here fucker here here herE. Follow me you freaking bitch!" He darted through the village leading the tiger man away from Alethi.

 

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"I heard you," she said absently, but think abouthow amazing this would be! A new kind of people. One that can live in the same place as those creatures. Please...I want to take a look at them. Even just see them for now."

Finally, Jason gave in. If they didn't have a wall of enmity between them, Alethi would have hugged him. She quickly took with her an action cam and her notes before following Jason. She was so excited at the prospect thAt she didn't realize she had been walking too far until he jerked her back into the bushes.

There she saw the women and started filming. She tried to angle the camera to see what was in the basket, but she couldn't see for herself, so she raised the cam hoping it got a peek inside the basket. As her other hand scribbled what she saw, she almost dropped her pen as the man used the women without regard for them. It didn't even seem like the women felt pleasure. Like they felt nothing at all.

Then the man started to act strangely setting his eys on them. Alethi dropped the camera and the notepad as the thing changed and called for the others.

He told her to go but she shook his head. "I can't leave you!" But he wasn't listening as he came out of the bushes. "Jason! No!" But it was too late. The creTure had its eyes on him.

She knew if she helped, they would be outnumbered soon. Besides, she didn't have her weapon with her so she would only be a burden. They wouldn't stand a chance. Growling at herself, she ran back to camp as if hell was on her heels. Her back hurt and she felt some of the stitches tear at her back, but she didn't care. Adrenaline helped her foget.

She screamed at the first man she saw as she burst through the camp. "Tell a quarter of your men to get ready. The rest of you come with me. Jason's in trouble."

Alethi went back to her tent and grabbed her chain. As soon as she got out, the men were ready and they ran back to where the village was supposed to be.

She cursed herself. This was her fault. She should have reined in her curiosity, in something so unknown. But no. She just had to know. She just hoped that she wasn't too late.

They burst through the scene, rifles blazing. Alethi's chain was a whirl. Choking enemies and stabbing at their vital points all the while looking for the man she left behind. "Jason!" Her heart raced, nervous about what happened to him "damn it! You better be alive, you son of a bitch!"

Please don't let me be too late...

 

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Jason had to keep them distracted. He knew he had to keep them interested in him so that they wouldn't go chasing after Alethi. So Jason took them through the village, jumping over barrels and hide racks, weaving through the buildings. Every once in a while he would spin and Cap a couple in the knees, dropping them like sacks of mud for a few minutes until they got back up and continued chase.

Aparent ly if you didn't blow off their heads, they healed and got back up. Good to know. It meant that some of the ones they had dropped during that first attack probably lived. Either that or their friends brought them back to town for dinner.

Jason looked back and screamed. The whole village seemed to be after him now. At least fifteeN snarling, snapping beasts chased him to the far side of the village, where suddenly he lost his footing and tumbled down a steep hill end over end. He grunted as he bounced off branches and rocks as he rolled himself into a ball and tumbled at least forty feet downhill.

When he came to rest the air had been knocked out of him. His gun lost on the hill somewhere. But it seemed the Tigers didn't follow him. Slowly Jason rolled onto his hands and knees, taking deep breaths before he stood.

There he faced a cave entrance. Jason should point this out to Alethi, she would cream her panties over a cave to explore. Yet for some reason Jason found himself walking into the cave.

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As the assault rifles cleaned through the village of monsters. Jason emerged from the hill. In his hand he held a phallic statue.

"Hey!" He called as he saw them. "Check this out. I found a dick!"

The statue was a penis, carved from jade, every detail of a powerful cock present, veins, the bulge of the urethra, even what appear to be jizz leaking from the fat tip. It was actually uncomfortable for Jason to hold. Not only because it was heavy but also because it was a huge cock.

Alethi came running over her eyes on the cock. When she touched it the cock suddenly and violently began to pulse bright green as if a flashlight had been switched on inside the cool stone. Without warning the cock squirted out a thick green fluid onto Alethi's chest. The juice instantly disappeared into her skin.

Jason saw her eyes flash bright green and then cock of jade in his hand suddenly burst into fine green powder.

"Ummmm......." Jason muttered. "Oops?"

 

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The rifles made short work of the things faster than she could kill them, but still there was no sign of Jason. Without any sign of a dead body, she continued looking, her heart pounding frightened for him.

Finally, she saw him emerge with something in his hand. He was large unscathed, but for a few light cuts.

She grabbed his collar, hiding her relief. "Don't you ever do that again!" Sighing, she took a look at his discovery, a little disgusted at his exciting find. She owned a dildo, sure, but this looked too...real. "What the hell..." As soon as she touched it, the thing reacted, and the next thing she knew, her brain was going overdive.

Something delved into her. Unlocked desires she had been burying for years. She was the ugly duckling who no one wanted that turned into a rabid swan everyone was afraid of. But the man in front of her wasn't afraid, was he? Would he screw her?

She bit her lip wanting to feel the touch of a man for the first time. She couldn't control her desires. She wanted him. She ached for him.

Closing the distance, she pressed herself against him, her soft breasts on his hard chest. "Thanks for saving me again." She could barely feel the pain on her back as her body started to throb with heat she couldn't control.