Disclaimer: I, sadly, do not own PJ&O.
"Come on Ria!" cried my best friend Cass. "We're almost there," she shouted. I gasped for air as Cass waited impatiently. I was very petite and out of shape for a 13 year old, while athletic Cass didn't have a drop of sweat on her.
"Wait," I tried to even out my ragged breaths, "so all we have to do is get to a pine tree and we're safe from those freaky horse man?"
We had been running for the past 30 minutes. Cass and I were just walking back to her house from school, when horsemen popped out of nowhere and started shooting arrows at us. Cass immediately started running away, dragging me with her, mumbling something about a pine tree.
"Yep," said Cass calmly, taking a bow and arrows out of thin air. I stared at her, my brain making dizzy circles.
"What in the-" I collapsed to the ground. "Am I hallucinating?" I breathed.
"Shhh," hissed Cass. "Okay, when I say 'for Apollo' run for the tree as fast as you can up the hill. I'll be right behind you," whispered my friend.
"For Apollo?" I asked weakly, the only thing I was able to process. "and Cass, you know I'm full of bad luck."
It was true. Somehow, wherever I go, bad luck follows. I'm like a walking, talking Friday the 13th. I'm pretty used to weird stuff. That's the only reason why I haven't passed out yet from the horsemen-and-freaky-bow-and-arrows-coming-out-of-nowhere-stuff.
"Just run for it," argued Cass, and as always she won. I sighed, and crouched behind a bush, getting ready to run for the hill. Cass grinned at me, and promptly scaled a tree, disappearing into the leaves. I shook my head dryly. Cass had Hunger Games Fever bad.
"Snap! Crack! Snap!" burst the dead branches on the forest floor. I scrunched up my face and almost fell over from staying so still.
Hooves appeared right underneath the tree Cass was hiding in. I tried not to whimper, stuffing my knuckles in my mouth.
"Where are they?" grumbled one of the horse dudes. He was holding a bow armed with a sheath of arrows. They arrows were tipped with green, smoking liquid. I flinched.
"Be quiet!" snapped another one, sweeping his gaze. I shakily gulped praying for some miracle.
The forest was dead silent.
"FOR APOLLO!" screamed Cass jumping epically, Jackie Chan style, from the tree, rolling onto one knee and began to shoot arrow after arrow, the horsemen turning into dust.
I stared in horror and amazement, until my brain finally kicked in, and my legs started pumping as fast as they could to the hill. Hope inflated as the top of the hill slowly got bigger and bigger.
Suddenly, a piercing shriek ripped through the forest. My head whipped around to see a fallen Cass half-way up the hill, clutching her arm, which was steaming and an arrow was sticking out of it. I recoiled at the sight. My best friend being shot with not on my bucket list.
Cassandra Lilianna Rosenberg, yes that was her real name, was my best friend. She was an idiot and always hotheaded, standing up while I tried to drag her away. She annoyed me to no end. But, she was loyal and always there. She was that one annoying, loud, best friend who you hated but loved anyway.
Unfortunately, I just couldn't get rid of Cass. I stopped, turned back, and ran over to her limp body. I dragged her to a tree, which would probably cover us for a few seconds.
"Ria! You idiot! What are you doing?" gritted Cass painfully, through her teeth.
"Saving your lucky behind," I shot back. "Now hold still." I covered her mouth and yanked out the arrow, fast and hard.
She let out a muffled scream and then faded to unconsciousness. Usually I would have thrown a party if Cass was silent, but now…
I looked around, my palms sweaty, and one of the horsemen's ugly faces leered at me. "Well, well, well, what have we got here?" he sneered.
Squeaking, I scrambled back, and my hand slipped on Cass's weapons. My hand curled around on the knife's hilt, my brain pounding painfully.
My arm was a flash, and the horsemen appeared into dust. I blinked in surprise, and then heaved Cass over my shoulders, as arrows flew at us.
The top of the hill, emerged and I stumbled to a wooden house by the pine tree, heaving Cass.
Somehow, the arrows kept on missing, but I finally got to the porch, Cass is extremely heavy, especially for someone with no muscles at all, and trying to dodge arrows and die.
I sighed in relief, leaning against the pine tree for support, gently placing Cass's body on the ground, when a whish flew by my ears, and I looked at my right leg. An arrow was sticking out of it.
Blood rushed from my face, and I collapsed into a heap next to Cass, darkness enveloping over me.
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