Gulp// [Viridian vs Swallowfish]

For a moment Viridian just watched as the creature sank into the sand and the life left its body. He didn't know how he should feel. Disgusted? Relieved? Victorious? Sad? A mixture of all of those emotions swirled in his stomach making him feel queasy.

"It's a fucking fish. suck it, Viri and move on." Stark's voice scratched at the back of his head and he knew her advice, as coarse as it may be, was true. Standing up, Viridian started down the shore to get away from the mutt's body but turned back to stare at it.

"You let a fish do that much damage to you, little brother? That's pathetic." Looking down at his arm, Viri winced at the sight of the wound that was still oozing blood. Suddenly he was running, his knees sliding into the sand and his hands gripping his knife, plunging the blade into the mutt's dead body over and over and over again.

"Who's the winner now, Snippy, huh?!" he shouted at the fish before stabbing it again. "Who's the one alive!? You're pathetic, Snippy! All you did was kill and take! And now you're dead! YOU'RE DEAD, STARK." he stopped, realizing the name that had escaped his lips. The boy's hands gripped the knife tightly and were covered in the fish's blood that had splattered out as he stabbed it. Kneeling on the shore, surrounded by sand and water, staring down at the mutilated body of the mutt, Viridian could only concentrate on breathing. His mind was empty and his body numb, only his lungs seemed to remember their job.

"I may be dead, but at least it wasn't by a fish."

~*~

Walking further along the shore, Viridian stopped and turned his attention to his wounds. His arm was still bleeding pretty bad so he took the bright blue shirt he had taken off and ripped off the bottom to use as a bandage. Wrapping it around his arm, the boy gazed across the shore looking for anything that might be of use to him. After tying off his makeshift bandage, Viridian stood up and walked up one of the large pieces of driftwood that had washed up on the shore. There were many of them sitting on the beach, big enough for the boy to sit on if he wanted to. However, it was not sitting he had in mind at the time, but firewood.

After what felt like forever, he did get a fire going, not without a few splinters and burns littering his fingers. With the orange and yellow flames licking at the wood, Viridian took his empty water jug and went to the edge of the lake. The image of Snippy jumping from the depths flashed in his mind, but Viri pushed it away and dipped his water jug into the lake, filling it up to the brim.

It was a lazy kind of day, collecting more firewood, boiling water, and then drinking it and then boiling a whole other jug to save for later. He checked over his wounds again and eyed the lake. Viri took to sitting on top of one of the bigger pieces of driftwood and stare out across the land towards the large golden buildings in the distance. He had run right past them the first day without even stopping to see if there was anything worth investigating.

Leaning back on one of the large branches jutting up from the piece of driftwood, Viridian watched the heavy clouds pass by and the sun stretch across the sky. His stomach rumbled a few times but he ignored it. A human could go quite a long time without food and he wasn't too worried about it. He wasn't really worried about anything right now. It felt like more of a vacation than a fight to the death.

"You think that now, but just wait little Viri. Just wait."

[Viri uses first aid (-3), collects firewood + makes a fire + collects water + boils water and then drinks water, boils another jug for later, collects more firewood for later]