Setting
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Again, with a deep growl the beast jumped at him, but this time Haruko was prepared better for the attack and smoothly side-stepped the creature's long claws. In a swift move, he brought up his sword and rammed it into the animal's thigh, eliciting a pained roar. Haruko grinned predatorily, eyes glinting with barely supressed excitement. Although the fight was very dangerous, he did enjoy the rush that came with the adrenalin and it had been a while since he was involved in a real fight like that.
One of the large wings came swinging at his head and only at the last second Haruko managed to duck under the leathery appendix, not noticing the claw soaring at him from the other side. "AH!" he exlaimed, as pained shot through his side where the creature had managed to strike him. Haruko stumbled backwards, away from it and clutched his side with his left hand, keeping himself upright by using his sword as a crutch. Out of the corner of his eyes, he could see Sam struggling with the other beast, several scratches adorning his face. Still, he was managing, so Haruko turned his attention back to the danger towering over him.
Suddenly though, the creatures turned away from their prey and fled and Haruko breathed a sigh of relief. Sweat was tickling down his face and he rubbed it off with his hand after putting hin weapon away. "Brilliant fight, huh?" he stumbled over to the other two with a grin on his face. He looked down at Sam who sported an equally broad smile and fell to his knees next to him. "We did it!" he agreed with the sentiment.
"Oh well, that'll heal." He muttered as he turned to Haruko, checking if he was fully okay. His eyes seemed different from before; a fierce and confident look that he barely had seen before with Haruko. A wide grin appeared and he pushed Haruko over for a moment.
"You have real fighting spirit, can you fight this beast!?" He yelled, roaring like a tiger and clawing at him, without touching him. Though, he couldn't hel but burst into laughter because of this weird theatre he just did. You needed to be upbeat, right? If you wanted to survive, being cold and sober was not something that would help.
The guys had been sitting for a while, since their energy would be depleted by now, even after a good night rest. Sam didn't really care, even when this place was dangerous, as long as he was with his friends, he was fine. Sam looked over at Haruko and chuckled. "Thinking back, those animals are whimps. Being scared off by guys like us. I understand, though. I'm as frightening as a tiger." he said, making the roaring noise he made before. If it wasn't sam, you would almost think this guy had issues.
Haruko laughed and pretended to fight Sam. "Oh no!" he exclaimed dramatically, "Help! The beast is upon me!" He laughed again and smiled up at his friend. "You really make a convincing tiger, Sam." he told him, chuckling warmly. "No wonder these animals ran away like that, you must have scared them off."
He lay down against the soft grass ad looked up into the clear sky with a sigh. This planet was actually quite beautiful ... if there was only air to breath and no predatory creatures. He looked over at Sam and smirked slightly. It was really great to just hang out with him for a while. Should they ever make it off this planet, then he would definitely try to continue building a friendship with him. "Should we get going?" he asked after a while. Haruko really was getting quite hungry and they should try to hunt for something edible.
"Good idea." He said as he got up, steadier than before, realizing his leg was healing.
"....Maybe we should try out the fruits after all." Sam muttered, giving Haruko the right to lash out at him for not listening. Hunting down food would be dangerous, and fruits would be more easier to get since fruits didn't move. Sam looked around for a sign for food, and paused when he saw a few red apple-like figures hanging on a small bush.
"I don't remember apples growing on bushes, but we could give it a try." He said, noting that they could be posionous. Maybe they could cook them?
"This wasn't a bad idea after all." Sam mumbled under a few munches. The fruits were more juicy than he could ever remember from an apple, maybe because they didn't have some in so long. The decided to make a fire and put the fruits on a stick and heaten them up, to avoid possible posioning. And if they'd get posioned, they would have the antidotes, so danger wasn't really there.
"Hey, Haruko. I've never heard you talking about your family." Sam suddenly started, as he was thinking of his father. Making him slightly sad, but he just ignored that feeling, hoping a conversation would cheer him up.
They got up from their place on the grass and started looking for something to eat. Haruko swallowed a comment about having said so before, but couldn't hide his smirk when Sam agreed to look for fruits instead. If he was honest, he was childishly happy to be getting his fruits after all, but tried to hide his beaming smile as much as possible, it was rather embarrassing after all.
He walked over to the bush Sam had pointed out and pulled of one of the apples, sniffing slightly at it. It really did smell quite sweet and he took a small bite of it. "You're right." he agreed. "They are delicious!" Haruko bit into the fruit again, sticky juice running down his chin, though he didn't care. He was just glad that they could finally have something to eat and something so nice made it even better. He moved closer to the fire, as the air had cooled considerably since this morning and rubbed his hands together.
Haruko was slightly startled at Sam's question regarding his family, and looked thoughtfully at the other boy. He usually didn't talk much about his family, not because something bad had happened to him in his childhood or anything like that, but for the simple reason that he didn't know what to tell others. "There isn't really much to tell you, Sam. My parents died when I was ... " he thought back to what he had been told as he could barely remember the incident, "four, I think..." He shook his head. "Anyway, they were part of a crew of a spaceship as well and when they died and I was given to Lucian, he was the ship doctor there and he raised me till I was fourteen and then I joined your father's crew to be trained in medicine as well." Haruko's expression was a bit sad, as he just now noticed how long it had been since he had last seen his foster-father. Lucian was not really the father type, more like a mentor, but Haruko cared much for him as he was the only family he had left.
"What about your family, Sam?" he asked the other boy, "Do you have any family besides your father?"
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