Okay folks, we have a mysterious figure and sound like something being lit, we now to warn Java of the strangers and/or the pouring liquid and it being lit, now!

It is very likely that whoever is doing this is trying to kill all four of us, so we need to survive. So no killing Jabaro or Java until we find out who that is in the foggy treeline, just warn them about either the pouring liquid or the stranger, maybe the liquid most of all, we're in a fire hazard now!

The options so far:

Letting Java possibly nom Jabaro: Very bad option when there is a stranger nearby who wants to kill all four characters with poured liquid and striking something like lighting a fire in a forested area. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeDVNgsYy0k

Warning Java about the stranger or fire (while mentioning that Jabaro came with no-one else and that whoever is trying to set the place on fire likely sees him as expendable): Either are good options, not sure which of those two is best, but the liquid one might give us a quicker time to get away while the stranger might be better for getting Java to understand that Jabaro is possibly being tossed aside to kill her and three of them.

Kicking Java: Not a good sounding idea, she will take that as hostile and paralyse us, which will waste time maybe, time which is important right now since a fire sounds like it is about to be started.

Well if we get out of this alive, it is possible we could have all four characters form an alliance and maybe even a new tribe.

And possibly a whole lot of boogeymen eaten if there is more than one.

That is of course if we survive first.

are we going to see any full body pics of java by her self?

FUCK FUCK FUCK that's flint and steel.

Someone's trying to light a fire. WARN THEM NOW

Agreed, we've no time to eat, and this likely means that Jabaro if he was really hired or Java if she use to work with whoever that is are expendable to whoever is going to light us in a firestorm. Meaning we should keep them both alive, and then go on a revenge spree for whoever had use all of us.

Shit, you may be right.
Definitely should warn about the liquid first, lest we all go up in flames!

Agreed, avoid death by fire, then after that maybe negotiate out of death by Java.

Well this seems straight forward enough.

"Jabaro can't be your assassin. He's terrified of you. But I know who is. He's standing right over there and about to drench all of us in FLAMING OIL! MOVE!"

And if Java doesn't move, use them powerful bunny feet to... force the issue.

No, not French them http://s2.n4g.com/news/181569_0.jpg

That is possible now that I think about it, since who would hire a dumbass that forgets to shut his eyes when confronted with the snake with the very info he should've remembered.

That or he was expendable to whoever employed him, or maybe they are using that child as blackmail against him.

There's a lot of possibilities here. But right now we need to warn them and book it.

Yeah, Jabaro being an assassin doesn't make sense at all, though it would appear Java's fear of an assassin is completely justified. Maybe they both have the same name by crazy coincidence?

If Jabaro is supposed to be her assassin, then why is he terrified of her? The only reason he found the courage to attack is he's trying to start a life with Kuva and her family--but he's so afraid of Java he nearly abandoned the search and left a missing child for dead. Tanya barely managed to shore up his courage enough to stay; even the sight of her snake minion made him uneasy.

What about any of that suggests he is a trained assassin stalking her across the land?

Maybe. He could be a morally grey person like Kuva, Tanya and Java; having a complicated reasoning for all of this.

Right now we got to make sure that we don't kill him nor let whoever it is who is about to set the whole place on fire kill all four of us. It is clear that they don't give a shit for any of the characters, hell, maybe these guys are the people of that camp.

Well I'm pretty sure of one thing: this is a linchpin moment. Either where Tanya saves the day or it all goes wrong.

Well this also depends on Java.

Hopefully she can trust us just enough to heed our warnings, because if not, we're in for dancing in the ring of fire.

Edit:

I am hoping that people will see the sound thing and remember the liquid pouring and then put two and two together with the stranger in the trees and realise that letting Java eat Jabaro now is a bad idea. Hell, there could be more than one stranger surroundings us right now.

Also, someone raised a good point in Eka's that Jabaro could be being blackmailed into trying to kill Java with the cheetah child.

BLARPH! I didn't realize this was a voting poll update.

What I meant to say was "Kick Java and scream FIRE! LOOK OUT!

I do hope Java can become a permanent character, though I am mostly saying this because I'm biased to snakes

Same.

Warn Java about the figure: Chances are she will have to drop Kuva and let us go to deal with since she has to be up close to hypnotise and she has no bow+arrows or javalins to attack from afar and having to hold 3 people and go after the figure would be impossible. Helping her gives us the greatest chance to save everyone here including a hypnotized Jabaro and konked out Kuva.

That or the poured liquid, since that means that whoever that figure is has plans to use the trees and undergrowth by setting them on fire and killing us through the smoke or the flames.

Wonder how long Tanya will stay fat

Bringing attention to the new one on the scene to the only other now conscious person would be a benefit to all, specially if said person is trying to either start a wildfire or something.

Also, this is a shot in the dark but, I think I might know who the newcomer is >w> someone that has been forgotten for many pages now

What is your guess of who they are.

I guessed Daniel, but then I saw some of the details and it looks like a native.

Thats who im guessing and it may well be, clothing or no. Gotta remember he DOES trade with natives often

A possibility, could have gotten a wag too. XD But yeah, it could be Daniel though I doubt it, or it could be someone working with him.

We'll have to see what happens next.

The lamp shattered on the ground, and is leaking oil. If the oil had splashed all over them and around them, the oil being set on fire might have done some damage.



It ain't exactly EXPLOSIVE though, so it probably won't do jack shit.



The best it would do is cause a fiery distraction. Maybe it could be used to light a torch. Or hey, maybe there's a FIRE BENDER lurking about.

My bet is that Java is hypnotizing Jabaro to get him to spill the beans.

The rough sound of friction between two surfaces could possibly be an arrow being drawn against a bow. The figure in the woods may be an archer-- i.e. the ASSASSIN Java spoke of. Warn Java or she may be shot.

Also, props to Java for being able to hold Tanya in her arms and restrain Jabaro with her tail, all while balancing Kuva over her shoulder.

I want Java to be my fitness trainer.

You would hear a creak from a bow and arrow being drawn, but that is possibly too. Either way, we're in still in a lot of danger and we need to warn Java of either possibilities.

And we're in a forested area, and those can light up very easily especially if conditions are right enough and then there is still an issue of smoke, and we're surrounded by trees and bushes. And then there's the problem that we're close enough to where the lantern was dropped. Meaning that there's another one if we're that close if someone is lighting it, or they had something and poured it far away.

Correction on my part: bows don't creak.

So either possibility could happen and either choice is good at least.

Are you people dense? Warning Java about Jabaro got us into this mess in the first place. Ignore the stranger and fight back, It's time to finally nom that noodle, before shi does so with Jabaro or us! Maybe the fire will be enough of a distraction to get us free. Or at least just tell her about the liquid, but stop giving everyone all our information up front!

Furthermore, why do you trust this snake? She's kidnapping and brainwashing people!

First, there is a stranger on the edge of the trees and bushes. Second, they're doing something with either a bow or liquid. Third, this only makes Java's story look true in some elements because I sure as hell don't remember Jabaro mentioning someone else around here to help us. Fourth, they seem rather willing to sacrifice us three if they are with Jabaro. Fifth, how come Jabaro just suddenly remembered an important detail just before Java knocked him out like it would not occur to him or seem like he was making it up on the spot before realising it was true. And sixth, why the hell would a snake hinder itself with fog when it can actually do that trick at will. And seventh, if they have poured liquid and are setting it up to lit, then don't they know that this will likely kill all four characters through a resulting wildfire/forestfire either through smoke and/or fire.

First, irrelevant we don't know anything about them. Second, You don't know that nor do you have any evidence supporting it. Third, no it doesn't you're assuming Jabaro knows that other person which there is no evidence of. Fourth, you're assuming that person is going to kill everyone present, another assumption for which there is no supporting proof. Fifth, how good are you at remembering things while terrified and in mortal peril? Maybe Jabaro left that piece of information out on purpose, maybe he just forgot to tell us, maybe when you warn people that something can paralyze with a glance you don't complicate the warning with "but only if they do X" he still told us the truth. Sixth, you once again assume someone summoned or created fog in a swamp without any supporting evidence. Swamps are wet, moist, foggy places it is far more likely that the fog was a natural part of the environment and not something conjured up by some mystic force. Seventh, no one poured anything out, Java broken the oil lantern we gave Jabaro and the oil lanterns contents spilled out.

Pay attention to what's actually going on and stop leaping to conclusions. Don't tell Java about the person in the woods because information and figuring out how to turn it to our advantage is all we've got at the moment and tipping our hand every opportunity isn't helping us.

I would like to point out that it was a red fog: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/21250074/ which swamps don't have, and we're not even in a swamp by the look of it, more like a humid treeline and bushes that don't even look that wet in this comic page.

Meaning that fog was artificial, created by someone since no such red fog can I find exist in nature. So why would someone release something that technically hinders both parties since they can't see well enough in it.

And also, yes I fucking do have evidence that stranger is doing something, because what the fuck is that brief sound of friction between two rough surfaces about? That is either a bow like Cownugget is suggesting, or that someone is trying to light something.

And the lamp is shattered, but I can't tell if it is too close or far away from where all four characters are.

Again, I am curious on who the fuck that stranger is, what they're doing right now with two objects right now when we heard liquid pouring in the previous page.

Also, don't call people dense for thinking a different way about some of the info in front of them. It is both rude and disrespectful. You might get this in response if you do both of those things and if you're wrong https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r639MjBUJFU

What i'm wondering is, is kuva still breathing? Or is that just too light for Tanya to hear over everything else? I'm just curious cause it hasn't been mentioned in the things we can hear at all, as far as i recall.

Looking at the image without zooming, Java is totally devouring Kuva in that first panel

Personally i think that the person in the woods has set a trap for java and we need to warn or rescue her ;w; I mean, spooky person has her eyes all covered up to stop peralasis maybe. She has a long snout, and a roundish nose. I think she's a possum ^w^ But the person in the woods does not look like she's making the scraping sound. She looks like she's a lookout. That means there are multiple people surrounding around us. So i think we have multiple people surrounding us ready and set to set off a trap. We should run ^w^

Or maybe the reason all those villiagers dissapeared is because they quickly changed out of their normal clothes, leaving them on the ground and changing into fighting clothes. Maybe they are pissed off and ready to fuck us up ;3;

That would explain a lot from the undamaged weapon's leading us here to little details like there being fresh fruit left on the table and as for reasons why I'm guessing Jabaro and Java are valuable to the right people or they are wanted out of the way, remember the village seemed surprisingly well off. And this obscuring mist would help people trying to stay hidden in one place as opposed to Java who is on the move and whoose powers work better with a clear view.

Warn Java about both the stranger and the pouring liquid it likely there is about to be fire.
I can't believe I didn't realize it before this was a set up against both sides Kuva said someone has been spreading rumors about her and Was to told Jabaro was an assassin, an easy way of pitting them against each other and ensuring neither would trust what the other says.
I know I made mistakes in my previous assumptions but who ever is really behind this would have no way of predicating Tanya and out of the four of them Tanya is the only one who would ever consider talking it out, Kuva is to impulsive to talk Jabaro thinks he is fighting a monster so he wouldn't risk it and Java believes she is dealing with an assassin so she wouldn't trust a thing a cheetah says.
Sidenote if we ever get a safe moment to say so and Java is found innocent apologize to her for stabbing her but say "to be fair you attacked me with no warning with someone who I at least loosely considered an ally incapacitated over your shoulder."

yeah tanya should say sorry for stabbing java, we all love java so much ;w;

I do really like this naga character I truly hope they are not hurt

Damn! Where is your mammal solidarity, y'all? Kick the stupid snake

I hope we get some bonus pages later on for alternate endings such as Kuva not letting Tanya go after eating her,or if it doesn't happen Tanya eating Java or maybe one where instead of Kuva getting the drop on Tanya Tanya manages to counter and eat her.