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Amaya sniffled more and stoped wipping her eyes, settling to hugging herself and taking deep breaths. The air was still cold with the previous rain and even though she couldn't shiver, she could tell her energy had depleated somewhat.

Some bushes rustled behind her and she spun around to stare wide eyed at Zach. Was... that Zach? He had changed a lot.

"Zach?" The girl wiped her eyes again, despite the fact she wasn't crying anymore. Unlike some of the other islanders, her senses had yet to develop much at all and were still the same as they were when she arrived. One thing she had gained however, was that sixth sense.

Her tongue flickered and she froze, somehow able to pull the feeling she got from the man in front of her as something bad... a predator. Amaya's tail went rigged behind her.

"Z-Zach?"

As the lizard noticed the blood she just stared. Only did her mind stop when he lundged foreward. Human instinct and thought shut completely off and the animal she had come to despise so much took complete control to save her life.

In one quick movement she crouched and spun around, sending her strong tail straight towards Zack in an attempt to maybe hit him off balance. If that didn't work and he grabbed onto it, the end would simply detach and wiggle on it's own accord while she took off in the other direction.

Chubbs murred and grumbled, coughing and hacking up a bad taste in his mouth. He sat up and winced, the sun was bright in his eyes and he covered them with his paw. The head ache was unbearable, his head was thumping wildly, the noises of the jungle where not helping. The bird, the monkeys howling, Chubbs growled and shouted.

" Shut up!"

A flock of birds took off into the sky and it was now that Chubbs began to realise where he was. A flicker of something he remembered popped into his mind and he began to look around, seeing the jungle. He was confused, this isn't where he was last time he remembered. Another bout of pain to his head and a flash of memory struck him once more. Chubbs got to his feet slowly and felt dreched and horrible. He sniffed about and blinked. He knew that smell, but it couldn't be right? And there nearby, those marks on the tree, what had he done?

Chubbs started walking backwards and started running through the jungle, trying to endure the throbbing pain in his head. He felt as if he was smacked over the head with a sledge. He thought he was starting to hear voices, and peered up from where his was, dripping all over the place to see where they were coming from.

Not too far from him, he saw a familiar green figure, and the sight of her brought images flooding back into his mind. And soon after, someone that looked vaguely familiar. The image was there in his head but it wasn't quite him, Chubbs was sure they guy only had one arm. But it looked like this "Zach" and was acting like it. Chubbs was sick of this island, sick of Zach, sick of waking up in the jungle and sick of being coated in... god he didn't want to know. When zach finally dropped, Chubbs barged out from the trees and cracked a few small ones over. Putting himself between Amaya and Zach, he looked at the flaeen freak with a killer look in his eyes and let him remember the time in the cafeteria where they met. And with a big breath, he roared.

Zach blinked at the large, furry man who now stood between him and the now vanishing Amaya. He looked like he meant business. Zach would have been perfectly happy to take the business card and run like hell, but he was too weakened. The instinct animals roamed about the corners of his mind defensively. Zach merely shut his eyes at the sight of a guy streaking. That was just... something he didn't have to see in addition to blood on his hands.

He didn't have any idea what the man wanted till the deafening roar sounded. Even though he'd lost a substantial amount of hearing to his new ears, it was a recognizable sound that sent a justifiable amount of terror down his spine. The same guy from the cafeteria who'd almost strangled him. Covered in what appeared to be... blood?

What the hell is going on!?

By now it seemed like he was incapable of paling, though certainly underneath his reddish skin the blood rushed away from his face. The sluggishness of his brain and the pain generated by every nerve in his body from reacting. He merely sank down further and with his twinging arms tried to protect his head. Already his luck was the same as ever - atrocious.

"Uh... d-don't kill me... p-please..." he mumbled stupidly. There wasn't a more eloquent way for him to put it. As much as the predator was in the mood for iguana, he was not in the mood for a broken neck.

Even as the two converse under the tree she was in nearby, none of the words reached her. Right at that moment she was dead to the world, her eyes wide open and her body pressed tightly to the tree branch she perched on while her body shook almost hard enough to shake the branch.

Slowly, green eyes looked down at the two figures. Good, they weren't following. Her tongue flickered, catching the thick taste of blood in the air combined from Chubbs and Zack.

Once again Amaya froze, staring down in shock. The images of Zack attacking her. The knife. The two bodies she had found charred at the helipad that had been set there just to mess with her mind. The sight of her parent's car, mangled and almost dripping in the cursed red liquid. Their corpses laying in closed coffins. Even the pain of her transformations seemed to add to the madness that stirred in her still young mind.

The teen sat up on the branch, her back pressed against the trunk. Hyperventalating, her face contorted in pure emotional pain as her will finally snapped in two like a dry twig.

A pained, childish and horrified scream echoed out from above. Amaya grabbed at the sides of her head and drew her legs closed, sobbing uncontrollably and shaking.

Chubbs blinked and looked up, two things snapped him out of his stare. There was the fact Zach had took off, which brought Chubbs back to his feet, ready to bound after him, then there was the scram, the ear shattering scream that bellowed from Amaya. Chubbs found himself torn between the two, to stay or give chase. With a short annoyed growl he snapped around to Amaya.

Chubbs made his way towards Amaya, he didn't know what was going on but it looked bad. Did he look so frightening to her now? He stopped at the base of the tree and peered up, she was manic and he didn't know why.

" Amaya?! hun?! what is it? calm down it's alright he's gone... it's okay"

He was worried now, wondering if Zach had done something horrible to her.

Chubbs looked up at Amaya and winced, he wish there was a shower or something near by he could clean himself. But as of now he was saturated and it wasn't coming off anytime soon. He held out his arms to her, offering to help her down from the tree. He really wished he had shorts right now.

Then the was a booming voice that sounded like it was coming from everywhere. He turned around a bit, trying to see if anyone was near him. Chubbs listened to the voice, one he hadn't heard before, and his eyes widened. Someone had been hurt, a staff it sounded like, and one of the islanders did it?

Chubbs blinked and slowly looked at Amaya, as if he was suddenly going to be accused.

Chubbs really wished now he had been cleaner, poor Amaya must have been terrified. He sighed and was glad she wasn't looking at him like a killer, he didn't need that. He gently bent down and scooped her up in his arms with a bit of a grunt and looked around where he was.

With a the mountain as a guide point, he figured he could make his way towards the duplexes. Chubbs carried Amaya towards her home, he felt he had to reassure her.

" I dunno what's goin on hun, or what happened, but I promise, I won't hurt you"