Hello, My Name is: Alex

Part 8

After Hog had explained to Star that she had been knocked out and Hog ran into the forest with her, Star groaned. 

"Do you know if the others are safe?" 

Hog bit their lip and shook their head, "No, I kinda needed to get you to safety." 

"Did you leave any way for them to find us?" Star then asked, looking around in case someone showed up out of the blue. 

"No," Hog shook their head again, and then added, "But my clones are with them, so they should be able to find us." 

"What, can they sense you or something?" Star asked curiously. 

"Sort of. They can get a sort of pull towards me," Hog said uncertainly. 

"Ah makes sense, I guess," Star said, shrugging, "Well, which way did you come from? We should walk that way." 

Hog's eyes widened for a moment, and quickly stuck up their hand, "Shhh!" 

Star cocked her head to the side and looked around. 

Suddenly a loud screeching noise came from above them, and Hog felt something push them to the ground from behind and something stab into their stomach. 

Hog yelled out in pain, and Star tackled the creature on top of Hog, knocking it off of Hog momentarily. 

Hog gripped their stomach tightly and tried not to look down at the wound and turned their attention to the creature that had attacked them. 

A Wyvern, Hog realized what it was because of the dragonness of it, and it only having two legs. 

Star had her arms and legs wrapped tightly around the creature's neck, the Wyvern squirming on the ground and clawing at her to try to get her off. 

Hog sucked in a tight breath, and their vision started to go in and out as they noticed someone else rushing in with a short sword and attacking the Wyvern as well. 

Moon knelt beside Hog concerned, "Hog?! Hog, can you hear me? Stay awake okay!" 

Hog grimaced, and did their best to nod, in the extreme pain they were in. 

"I need you to move your hands," Moon said, trying to move Hog's hands that were grasped around their stomach. 

"No," Hog grumbled, light-headed, "It-it hurts." 

"I know," Moon said, "But I can heal it. Move your hands!"

Bar rushed down beside them both, coming out of seemingly nowhere to Hog, and forced Hog's hands to the ground. 

Hog cried out in pain, tears threatening to flow, as Moon quickly put her hands on the bad wound and started to say an enchantment, her eyes going solid black as she did so. 

The pain went away almost immediately and Hog sucked in a tight breath, their eyes widening as they felt their skin and blood returning to their body, the only refinance of the wound was a large scar. 

Moon's eyes returned back to normal and she let out a breath, and wiped some beads of sweat off of her forehead, and said, "You should be fine." 

Hog nodded, dazed, and was still looking at their scar, which was visible through their partly ripped shirt. 

Hog noticed that the Wyvern was dead, on the ground not to far away from them, Star breathing heavily and a large scratch on her arm. 

Moon noticed that and stood up, "Here, let me heal that for you-" 

"No," Star said, shooing her away, "I don't do with magical healing, sorry." 

Moon frowned, "But I can make the pain go and-" 

"I know what you can do," Star said simply, examining the wound, "It's not that bad, I have some stuff in the car if you guys didn't blow it up or something, that I can use to help with it." 

Moon didn't question her further, though it seemed like everyone there was buzzing with curiosity until their attention was driven to some other's arriving on the scene. 

"WHAT DID WE MISS?!" Al exclaimed, gesturing towards Hog on the ground, still, and the dead Wyvern. 

"Just me almost dying is all," Hog said, sitting up uneasily, and doing their best to stand up, Bar quickly following them and letting Hog lean their weight on them. 

The others gaped at that and Star said, "Please tell me that Ferox is okay, at least?" 

There was an awkward silence from everybody and Athen slapped his forehead, "I can't believe I forgot we had a freaking Chimera in the trailer."

"He should be fine," Gash said, glancing at Hog's scar, "I don't remember anything happening to the trailer." 

"Good," Star said, "Then let's go back, I have some stuff in the car we need to grab and-" 

"Okay," Book interrupted awkwardly, "So there might be a slight problem with that..." 

Star glared at him, "What do you mean?" 

"There are police around there," Rad explained, "What do you think they will do when they find the car empty and a Chimera in the trailer?" 

Star groaned, "I was trying not to have to interact with the government this week." 

She started to walk past the others, in the direction where the others had come from, holding her arm, "Well, come on, I don't know where the heck I crashed my van."