Jericho's Find
#1 of Jericho
Hey im not used to writing and sorry for any mistakes I missed. I do own and created theses characters tell me what you think and I would like feed back and if I should continue this story :)
I figured I would write all this down for an account of my earlier life as well as an other person. I'll start when I was 17. I was ha well still am an over looked person I guess, never standing out but not quite fitting in with all the other people and was all ways trying to not be like every one else. Not incredibly smart but not dumb by any means I'm average height and build of 5'9 and 145 pounds shaggy dark brown hair and light blue eyes. I say this to help understand that I'm not a very special person, and the girl I'm going to tell you about is very a special person.
It was a cold day day in January oddly no snow on the ground but freezing all the same. I was walking through the woods that are at the back of my families horse farm. The woods were pretty quite only the faint sound of branches creaking in the wind after standing for twenty minutes watching my breath mist in the air. I almost didn't notice the twig SNAP to my right and the sound of a foot on dead dry leaves. As I start to walk towards the sound thinking who the hell else would be out here in the cold and resting my hand on the handle of my old LMF two Gerber knife, "cant ever be to pre paired " I start to walk heel to toe in the direction of the sound. After about three hundred feet I heard what sounded like some one falling down. Curious I keep walking up and stop as the sounds of soft muffled whimpering rises to my ears, I quickly close the distance to the large oak and stop dead at what I see before me at first I think its a large red fox sprawled out on the forest floor till I notice the human like legs the long red hair on top the head the five fingered paw hands that were still strangling dry leaves and twigs in last effort to keep moving and then the large cuts on its leg, arms, and back. Stepping closer I notice its body shaking shivers and labored breathing. I walk to with in arms reach and kneel down by its left side and glance at the claws on the paws and then begin to inspect the wounds. The ones on the arms aren't to bad but the ones on its leg and back are deep and looking infected. I rip the shemagh of my neck and cut it into strips, as I touch its leg to tie the make shift tourniquet with surprising speed it swings its left arm back and catches me in the chest with three very sharp claws. "Whoa I'm not going to hurt you calm down calm down". I wait a sec as the gurgled growl fades away as well as its consciousness I tie the tourniquet on tight then get to work on second wound on the back finishing on that one. It takes a few seconds for the pain in my chest to make its way up to my brain as it dose I take a quick glance down and see three growing red slashes on the skull on my shirt. The whole time the creature was laying on its stomach, I take off my pea coat and lay it out flat on the ground gently grabbing its non injured shoulder and flip it over on my coat. As it lays on its back. I take a second to process the sight of the long slender face then the womanly features. At this point I slap myself mentally "not the time mate" got to get her warm and the wounds better tended to. Picking her up I notice how light she is, as I'm warping the front of the coat tighter I notice the beginnings of ribs sticking out under her fur "shit" she's must have been out her for days. looking around as I'm heading back to my house its already getting dark and its a forty minute walk back "Greaaaaaaaaaaaaaatttttttt this is going to be a fun one".
"Crap its cold" stumbling after hitting a branch the girl stirs enough for her to struggle against my arms and growl, but became little more then a twitch from my point of view. "Easy easy I'm not going to hurt'cha" the wind starts howling and crawling, through the thinning tree's and my T-shirt I'm wearing. Looking ahead I see the lights on the back of the house, and loving the sight of the grey smoke wafting from the chimney. Picking up the pace I cover the last couple hundred feet to the door opening it with a grunt and a kick. I walk in and sigh as I feel the heat from the wood burning fire place hit me, kicking the door shut. I hurry to the living room setting the red furred female on the couch, taking a second to look at her I almost can't see her chest just rising and falling when she takes a breath. Thinking quickly blankets, first aid kit, towels, and hot tea. I take the steps upstairs two at a time to grab the blankets and towels. Skipping steps on the way down and still running to the living room, start to folding the blankets around her. Placing my hand on her forehead she's burning up. "Crap" need to help get that fever down, heading to the kitchen I wet the towels and grab the first aid kit. I place the wet towel on her forehead and start to clean the cuts and stitch the deep cuts together. "Ha guess that first response training was worth it".
One hour later, two plastic gloves, four towels, three rolls of vet wrap, four large bandages, and two cups of hot tea. I found my self sitting in a chair listening to music on my tablet and looking at the fox girl still unconscious on the couch. She's around 5'7 dark red fur with black on her fore arms, shins, cream white fur started at her chin went done her and black chest and a white tip of her large puffy tail. Which hung out from under the covers flicking back and fourth from time to time. She would also growl to assuming at the bad dream she was having. As the song "the light before we land" by the Delgados faded in my head and the numbers on the clock 2:27 AM faded into blackness "who are you?" I ask to myself.
"Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr I hate the morning it always is to bright well suppose I should fix breakfast.................. who's on my couch..... oh that's right that girl from the woods, man she sleeps like a rock" I can almost feel her snoring from here. Before breakfast I need to check her temp and those cuts. Good the cuts aren't infected and they didn't break open during the night, and her temp is down "that's good". Well maybe the smell of beacon, stew and coffee might wake her up I need to get her to drink and eat something as well