Chapter 100 - 100. Self-Sufficient

"You're here! Are you the one that found the golden egg?" A girl wearing worn out blue jeans and a matching jean jacket came up behind the four. "Hmmm, hhhhmmmmmmmmm...Yeah OK, I will let you off for now."

"You three, this is my youngest sister Lapis. She is energetic to say the least." Garnet sounded like she could barely handle being around her youngest sister.

"Yuuuup that's me. So you three want to learn first aid right? Basic? Situational? Emergency? Or the crash course on all three?" Lapis listed off the different courses she offered for the campers to learn. She had to change level based on the campers taking the class because she had some who wanted to specialize in different fields who would need more advanced knowledge.

"You can cover them with the crash course in all three. Try to focus on emergencie situations." Garnet said this then turned around to leave them to their course. She had things to prepare for when the rest of the campers would get there in a day. If the camp was not ready she would spend her week ten times more stressed out than she normally would be.

"Alrighty then. Crash course with a focus on emergency treatment. I will give you all some helpful pamphlets about triage and other things later. But first, you need to go out and catch a chicken."

The three of them just gave Lapis blank stares. "Did you say to catch...a chicken?" Jackson was careful with his words wondering if he may have heard wrong.

"You got it! We have free range chickens all over the camp. Just go catch one so I can have it for my dinner tonight and In will teach you to suture stitches." None of them saw how this connected to anything medical wise.

"You don't mean…" Jackson had connected the dots.

"I'm going to deal with the chicken and prep it for dinner. But after I have set it up and humanly slaughtered it the body is perfect for learning to suture." Asher and Laura were looking at her horrified.

"Are yous seriously going to hurt a chicken just to teach us?' Laura had a tear in her eye already. She didn't plan on harming any animals at all.

"No, I plan to slaughter one of the chickens my family raises for the camp's food source and kill two birds with one stone. I can teach you all suturing then move on to other skills and I can have my meal ready. If you want to back out then I will go do it all by myself, but I really want a nap sooo you can do it for me." Lapis just smiled cutely while she said these things.

"Self sufficient. The camp is self sufficient. That's why you all know how to gather, and hunt, and climb, and track. This camp doesn't have any goods shipped in does it?" Jackson now realized he had yet to see a brand name food good or really anything other than some paper goods or building materials.

"Exactly, you're the smart one aren't you?" Lapis had an even broader grin hearing that one of them understood the way the family lived. "My family even cut the trees to build the cabins. My parents have lived out here since they fell in love in highschool. It's so romantic." Lapis was swooning over it. Her high energy and overly romantic tendency was a weird mix. "No go on and get it or else you will lose points for nothing."

Lapis went inside the cabin leaving the three hanging. They were totally thrown off by the direction that their first aid class had taken. "I think this is their version of dissecting frogs from biology class." Jackson was still on point with his puzzle solving ability.

"but...I don't want to bring a chicken to its death. I need to protect them!" Laura found her inner animal lover coming out and taking over. She always loved cute animals and to her baby chicks were adorable. In her mind, she could only think that the chickens would produce more baby chicks and without the chickens they wouldn't. There was no deeper thinking, just the pursuit of cuteness.

"They were literally raised for this, you need to get a grip. Didn't you eat the food this morning? Where do you think it comes from, magic?" Asher was a lot more logical in this after processing it. Usually, the food would be dealt with and cleaned up before it gets to the grocery store. This was just him having to do the dirty work.

"It sounds like it will be worse than it really is. If you don't want to do it then don't. I am not happy with it either but Asher has a point." Jackson was coming around more and more to the idea. This was something that he would need to face more if he was going in to search and rescue operations. He could see the worst in a human's poor situation. If he froze up someone could die, he should prepare himself early.

Laura saw the determined looks on Asher and Jackson's faces. she was not ready to run off and do these kinds of things and had never planned on it. However, the experience of being hurt while sparring really hit her pride hard. She felt that she was much too weak and unreliable unless she learned to really take care of herself. Since she received her super powers she had been learning lessons every day on how to care for herself. It was up to her and not her parents anymore.

"Fine, but if it gets gross you two are in charge of dealing with it. And if I think it is going to be mean for the chickens then I will rescue them." Laura was saying silent prayers to apologize for the chicken and its family.

The two boys just looked at each other. "She is definitely going to cry."

For sure, she will definitely cry." Asher and Jackson accepted this knowing that they would be in the role of counseling Laura when the worst happened. Lapis was sure to just brush it off, her happy energetic personality would just breeze over other things, they were sure of it.