Chapter 3
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Rio looked up at the unamused black haired man rubbing the back of his head and then sent a glare in the direction of the bear man who's tired eyes seemed to go from tired to a bit of amusement “Ya couldn’t have brought me up the way you came seriously dude I thought I was gonna die!” Standing up slowly on shaking legs. The black haired man growled “don’t move unless you wanna go back down the way you came without anything attached to you”. Rio looked to the right of him and 'oh god are those the tree tops!' Ran through his mind as he sat back down shakily. “At least the monkey knows how to behave unlike some people”. The bear man gave a shocked look as his tiredness started overcoming him he sorta found this whole fiasco kind of funny. He shrugged and took a step forward towards the red head on the ground and leaned in close to his ear and whispered “nah it was much funnier this way” before standing up straight with a lazy smirk “besides it’s not my decision if ya live or die it’s our precious leader here that makes that decision”. Rio followed the others gaze and thought 'damn it I’m so screwed this guys a hell of a lot scarier than anyone else he’s met thus far and that includes those with huge fangs and claws'.
Rio sits there for a moment thankful for the moment of silence as the dark haired man’s face turned into a scowl “listen here I maybe the leader ya dumb fur brain that doesn’t mean you can pass all you work onto me damn it” pinching the bridge of his nose in annoyance. The bear rolled his eyes as he walked over to Rio and grabbed the back of his shirt and drags him to the edge of the treehouse compound and dangled him over the edge. Rio’s eyes widened as he looked down he instantly latched onto the arm of the bear murmuring “oh god oh hell where really really high up don’t look down don’t look down oh god!” He gripped tighter and continued to tighten to the point even the bears arm started to hurt as he swung it around. Rio didn’t give an inch even when the other bent his arm down. The black haired man looked the other up and down “how is that even physically possible I’m pretty sure he’s bigger than your arm?” The bear shrugged before looking at the other attached to his arm clinging for dear life “ jeez you’re making me feel bad, you can let go now it’s not like I was actually going to drop you well may be a little bit this is actually starting to hurt so let go”. He shook his arm up and down a few times seeing if he was able to shake the red head off before looking at the black haired man who just stood there waiting.
It took a bit before Rio finally peeled himself off of the bear man’s arm shaking slightly as he grumbled “why does it have to be so high up ya couldn’t have built your base underground or closer to the ground”. The black haired man rolled his eyes as he squared down and watched the other closely as he sat his sword down “if we where close to the ground it would make it easier for people to find us”. Rio glanced to the edge trying to calm his breathing as he looked at the other man in front of him he wanted to scream yell even everything was so frustrating and he hates feeling scared since he hardly ever lets it happen but here he was in fear for his life again as he let his frustrations out “first that psycho prince now you people is there seriously no normal ass person in this psychotic world?”
It felt like the dark haired man was boring holes into him as he stood up abruptly “do you mean prince Leon?” Rio sighed as he felt exhaustion run through him as he simply nodded at the other. He watched as the other pivoted turning his back to him “Damn it” he ran a hand down his face as he turned back towards the other and yanked him up from the ground “what is your relationship with that prince ya damn monkey?” Rio growled and pointed an accusing finger at the other as he poked him it the chest as he burst into rage yelling “I’m not a monkey ya jerk and I don’t have a stupid relationship with him he’s the one that kidn*pped me from my school! He’s the one that kept saying things liKe MarRiaGe! And Hero! While wanting me to go kill some other person! And I’m sick and tired of having people push me around!” He took a few deep breaths feeling slightly better after letting all the build up of anger and frustration out.
The bear guy wrapped an arm around his shoulders as he looks at the dark haired man “well doesn’t that sound interesting I was wondering why his clothes looked so weird guess that crazy prince finally did it huh? So we have his bride and his kingdoms hero what is our next move now boss?” Rio’s eyes widened realizing that he might’ve shared a little to much information with these strangers he barely knew. Rio’s head fell forward feeling slight despair at what his fate maybe he felt so awkward “Ahahaha I guess I went a little to wild in yelling at you huh haha…” the dark haired man brought his hand up touching Rio’s chin as he lifted it up to look at him “I must thank you we’ve been trying to get an upper hand on him and you just handed us the key so thank you”. He looked at the bear man as he gestured him to follow which lead him to dragging Rio along with him.
Rio really really wished they where on the ground right now maybe there’s a chance he would be able to escape but there was no way he’d even be able to get close to the edge and look down without his knees buckling. It was laughable really he was one of the toughest guys on the team but even he has fears and being afraid of heights ain’t a bad thing he can get through usually but when there’s nothing but ground far below you it’s horrifying. Rio took note as they walked through the tree house base. He halted in his tracks as they came to a bridge that looked unsafe like the ones you’d see in some jungle movie where the protagonist was running from somebody and they nearly die as they plummet to there fate and somehow save themselves before meeting there fates. Rio looked at the bear man telling him to get moving Rio only shook his head “there is no way in hell I’m going on that thing!”
The dark haired man looked at them while the bear just shrugged. Rio was prepared to fight this to the end sure the bear man was at least two feet taller and twice as wide but he was prepared to fight. What he wasn’t expecting was the dark haired man coming and lifting him off of his feet like he weighed nothing and walked across the bridge. Rio was so shocked he didn’t even fight even after they where off of the bridge and he was dropped to the floor in a wood hut “you will stay here till we come back and since it seems you aren’t to fond of high places or our bridges I don’t really have to worry about you running away since the only way off of here is a bridge and all of them are like the one we crossed. Rio watched the two of them leave to shocked to move from his spot as he sat there feeling uncomfortable an uncertain of what he’s supposed to do next.
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