Reposting!!!!!! After this chap it will be new!

Chapter 2: Waking Up

I didn't have any idea how bad I was hurt…until…they told me…

Leo groaned softly and tried to roll over. Thick blankets and the all too obvious pangs of an injured body made him groan. He weakly started to sit up.

"NO," came a sharp order, the voice sounded old and feminine.

Leo opened his eyes, an older Hispanic woman stood over him. She smiled lightly but placed a hand on his shoulder and pressed enough to make him lay back down. Someone grunted in the corner.

"Arturo, your friend is awake," the old woman said, glancing over her shoulder.

Another figure moved to the edge of the bed. He had dark-green skin and gold eyes. Leo's golden-brown eyes widened in surprise.

"Esmeralda! Mi nina! Come the other is awake!" the old woman called.

A figure quickly came in. Arturo watched Leo carefully, examining him. Leo realized that he was laying in a bed, covering blankets, that his body was bandaged. He tried to move again but a powerful green hand pushed him down. The gold eyes flashed sharply. Leo winced a little, his body hurt. Arturo looked at Leo again, and cocked his head.

"Arturo! leave him alone…you big lug...you're probably scarring him." said another female voice.

Leo's eyes widened even more. She had forest green skin, dappled with darker and lighter patches, giving her a slightly "Camo" look. Her eyes were golden like Arturo's.

"Perdon," she said softly," Arturo's my brother...he's mute."

Leo just stared struggling to work through the knowledge and the confusion of not knowing where he was.

"Um?" he managed after a moment, "How? Where? Where am I?"

"Arturo...my son...he found you with a jaguar on top of you in the jungle about a month back," replied the older woman, "you can call me Maria...what's your name son? Humm?"

"A month?" Leo sputtered as he tried to get up again, only to be thwarted by Arturo again, "I've...It's been a month? I-I..."

"Calm down!" snapped Esmeralda, eyes flashing, "You'll open your worst wounds again!" Leo froze, wincing at the raised voice, his head pounding as he squeezed his eyes shut against the pain. The girl looked upset and moved to his side.

"Sorry," she said quickly, "I'm Esmeralda...you can just call me Esme for short."

Leo sat still for a moment, taking in deep breaths to calm himself.

"I-I...my name is Leonardo...you can call me..." Leo said after a moment sinking back onto the blankets as exhaustion stole over him, sleep pulling him under.

"Leon," Whispered Maria, " a lion..."

I stopped being "Leo" after that…I was Leon…lion…because Arturo told them I was brave even as the Jaguar took my head in its jaws…I pierced its heart with my blade…

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