Bleu<br/><br/>'<em>Locked...</em>' She thought, trying the door handle. Taking a quick glance around, she lowered her shoulder and bashed the door hard, the wood splintering and the door crashing open. '<em>Unlocked...</em>' She continued, smiling and slipping in, propping the door up quickly back in the frame, so it would at least look closed at a distance. Bleu laid Ridge down in a closet and started looking for the attending human or Pokegirl in charge.<br/><br/>Poking her head around the corner, she watched a young figure with pink hair sit in a stool behind the counter. Flicking her tongue out, she sniffed the girl silently. '<em>Not human... smells frightened... probably friendly... Only one way to find out...</em>' Moving slowly behind the girl... reached out... and...<br/><br/>Serenity<br/><br/>Planting herself down on the stool, Serenity was just about to reside herself to whatever life she had when a scaled claw clasped around her neck and pulled her off the stool. The hand stifled her scream as she was pulled back into one of the back rooms. After she was released, the same hand turned her around.<br/><br/>"Ssssh! Sssh, ssh!" A hissing voice came. After stopping her screech, she regained her bearings enough to see who it was. Covered head to tail in mud and muck, there was a Pokegirl, a Naga she thought, 'sssh'ing her quickly. Heart still racing and blood pumping, she regained herself. "I'm a friend..."<br/><br/>"A Feral? Who can talk?" Serenity asked, more then a little confused. The Naga looked at her perplexed.<br/><br/>"What? Oh..." She wiped the mud from her face and tried to straighten her hair some. "No, it's an act... only way to get here without getting shot... speaking of which, is there a safe place I can put my Tamer?"<br/><br/>"You brought your Tamer here?! They'll kill him!"<br/><br/>"Yea, I figured that. I knocked him out, and made it look like he was to be dinner... I stashed him in a back room and ooooh boy is he gonna be mad when he wakes up."<br/><br/>"Yea... yea, here, lemme help you." The Naga lead Serenity towards where a man was lying unconscious on the floor, dust and sand on his clothes. The Naga picked him up while Serenity lead him to a back room, well out of the way of daily traffic. Laying him on the table, the Nage wiped her skin some more. "By the way, I'm Serenity... were you... on the boat?"<br/><br/>"Yes! Yes, we were! I'm Bleu, and this is my Tamer, Ridge... I thought we were the only ones who survived! Where's your Tamer?" She asked quickly. Serenity diverted her eyes before answering quickly.<br/><br/>"Fifty feet out the door, and two feet down." Bleu's eyes got softer as the realization hit her.<br/><br/>"Oh... I... I'm sorry."<br/><br/>"It's alright... I'm done mourning, I guess..." Ridge moved on the table. "Oh, he's waking up."