All Washed Up

The ocean rolled onto the eastern shore of the delta, waves larger than usual as if the sea was angry. Within one massive roll of water, the faint glimmer of white and pink can be seen as she is tossed to and fro by the surf. The dragon is unconscious, half-drowned, and has given herself up to Davy Jones and his locker more than once only to be rejected and sent back to the world of the living kicking and sputtering. She had failed, lost her leader, and hadn't even known about the ambush! Those rotten beasts would get what was coming to them in due time, but for now, Kyou was lost to the darkness of her mind until the wave she rode spat her harshly onto the beach. As if beating the dragon for daring to enter the sea, the waves crashed down on her several times before she came around. Sputtering out seawater from her lungs and throat with a fiery burn in her chest, and blowing the salt from her nose, Kyou sat up on her elbows and wobbled for a moment. The heat of the sun beat down on her glaring white coat, the bright pink of her pelt seeming to warm faster than the rest of her, but the sand burned beneath her paws. What fresh hell was this?

Kyou sat up, slowly blinking her eyes open despite the brilliance of the sands and sun, looking out through squinting, straining silver eyes to take in her new surroundings. Real thoughts hadn't even formed in the nearly perished shinobi, but one stood out clear in her mind. 'Hattori! Get to Hattori!' Had she even made it to the same land as her leader? With a groan, the woman stood up on pink splashed legs, wobbling with a hated weakness. The sea had washed her clean of strength for the moment, but she had to find him. If she managed to find any of her former band, she would be glad, but she had last seen Hattori fall from the same cliff she had. Had the ambush wiped them out? Had their leader been assassinated? The dragon snorted more salt from her nostrils, sneezing heavily as she took her first unsteady steps up to the shade of the palm trees close by. Should she call out? Wait? Curse her ocean-clogged mind, what should she do?!