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This Means War

I giggled. "Yeah, I bet there are a ton." I said sarcastically. After walking for a bit more, I paused, seeing something up ahead. "Hey, look at that. Does that look like a cave to you? Waaaay up ahead?" I asked, squinting my eyes. "Just through those trees."

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"Yeah, they said some Jaxlor's were heading our way. I guess they waited too long to send the message." I looked back at him. "I hope they're still alright. I can bet you they don't look as messy as us."

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I nodded, walking down the patch and moving branches of leaves out of the way in the process. "Watch out." I held a branch back for Sam to walk through. "I hope we find these guys soon." I ducked, dodging a branch. "And duck in about five seconds." I warned him.

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"You got that right." I raised a brow. "Keep it though. Just in case... You don't want any Jaxlor's to find it." I shook my hands, trying to get some of the mud off of them. I didn't want to wipe them on my pants. But if I didn't come across any leaves soon, I would. "Where should we go from here? Maybe down that way?" I pointed to a small trail farther back and towards the left of us.

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I frowned, as he helped me up. "That wasn't supposed to happen." I looked up at him and saw he was trying not to laugh, which made me laugh. "I'll just think of it as a little coating of war paint." I looked down at the mud on my hands and smeared two fingers across each cheek. "See?" I spit my tongue out at him.

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I nodded, picking up the bottom or the rope from the mud and pulling on it. "It won't budge." I said between my teeth, pulling even harder. I planted my feet in the mud, pulling on the rope as hard as I could. "Got it!" I said before I let out a small squeal, falling in the mud as the rope got free.

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"Alright." I slid the rest of the way down, landing firmly on my feet. "Woo! That was somethin'." I looked up. We needed to cut the rope now. But if we did it wouldn't be much use. "How are we going to get the rope down?" I asked. "We could pull it til it comes off the tree."

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"Ok." I called down. I inched my way towards the edge, grabbing the rope and inching my way down. My backpack was making it more difficult than I thought with it weighing my down and all. "Almost there." I mumbled to myself. I could pretty much jump from where I was.

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I nodded. "Alright. Go ahead then." I waited for him to climb down the rope so I could go next. Hopefully fast because I didn't know who was coming. While I waited, I picked my walkie talkie up and phoned the others. I let them know what happened and to stay on their toes. The Jaxlors knew Tilerians were here and they were out looking for us.

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"And we can't go back. That was the only path this way. It wouldn't be good to retrace our steps." I sighed. "We have to go down there don't we?" I nodded towards the slope. "It's really the only way we [i]can[i] go right now... Unless we cut through the thickest part of the forest. But that might not be smart... Considering we don't know what wildlife lives here. Like snakes and bugs."