Fly With Me
Chapter One: Stuck In the Caves
I don't usually write things down, especially with my brother's secret being the biggest one of all; he's an alien from a planet called Krypton, and he possesses the strength of ten men, can run faster than a speeding bullet, can shoot fire from his eyes, and can hear conversation miles away. But what else am I to do to keep sane? It was normal day three years ago when I met him, Jacob Black, but then all Hell broke loose as Smallville was hit with it's second meteor in 16 years. But I began my story a few hours before that when Clark, my brother, was graduating.
"Clark Kent," the Principal called Clark forward to get his diploma, he made it through high school, I was only going into my Sophmore year of high school, yay. Anyway they got to Lana Lang's name and she was a no show. Everyone was looking around and that's when the military showed up.
"Don't panic, but a meteor shower is predicted to hit Smallville in about 3 hours," the military said but everyone started panicking. Mom, Dad, and I rushed home and started packing, I had no clue where Clark went until he came home. He said he had to find certain stones to stop the meteor shower, his biological father, Jor-el , told him he had to. After he left Shelby alerted our attention to Jason Teague pulling up in a truck, he was all bloody and beaten up looking.
"You could say I'm having a bad day," he said.
Before I could stop myself I opened my mouth and blurted out the first thing that came to mind. "That's a bit of an understatement." Big mistake, cuz right then Jason turned on me and pointed a gun, so I did what any rational 15 year old would do, I ran for it, with my parents calling my name and Shelby following close by.
I don't know what possessed me to run towards the Kawatche caves but that's where I ran . I was outside an entrance I've never see before when I saw a dark skinned kid standing there, he had long dark hair pulled back in a pony tail, and he was looking like he was lost. That's when the meteors started to fall and I saw one headed straight for us. I ran forward and tackled him to inside the cave, Shelby followed just as the entrance caved in trapping us inside. We both were coughing as the dust settle away.
"Thanks, if you hadn't tackle me out of the way I would have been crushed by the cave in," the guy said in a husky voice.
"No problem, wow, it' s three hours already, I guess when you're trying to evacuate time goes too fast," I said.
"Where are we?" he asked.
"In the Kawatche caves my brother discovered three years ago, but I've never been in this part of the caves," I said trying to put myself from under the dirt covering my legs but I couldn't move. "And I'm stuck."
"Oh, here I'll help," the kid said easily pulling me out from under the dirt.
"Thanks, I'm Stevie Rae Kent by the way," I said.
"I'm Jacob Black, me and my dad are here on sort of a vacation when all this happened, didn't help that I got lost," the kid said.
"Nice to meet, I'd say we could try and find our way out of here but one way is blocked and the other is completely dark and I don't have a flash light," I said.
"Neither do I," Jacob said.
"I do have a candle, sort of, but it wouldn't last long enough to find our way out of hear," I said pulling out a tall thick candle and a lighter, I lit the candle and the cave walls came into view. "I must of scared you , with the sudden tackling and everything."
"You did, but I realize you saved me," Jacob said as we both sat down, he looked at me. "Oh you're bleeding." He touched my forehead, I winced in pain. "Sorry."
"It's okay, it just hurts," I said I saw he was bleeding too. "You're also bleeding." I barely touched his cut and he winced pulling away. "Sorry."
"It's okay," he said looking around. "At least it's a big place we're stuck in, I get claustrophobic."
"I'm very claustrophobic, if we're stuck here to long the walls will start to close in on me," I said.
"I guess we should keep each other distracted then," Jacob said.
"Where are you from?" I asked.
"Quileute Reservation in Forks Washington," he said.
"Cool, I was born and raised in Smallville, it's a bit more exciting than you think but it gets it's boring periods," I said.
"How old are you," Jake asked.
"15," I said.
"Same as me," Jake said, I saw him smile and I mirrored the smile. "So where do you live?"
"On a farm, the Kent farm, I've lived there with the Kents ever since a psychopath came in and bit my parents then taking them away, no idea why I was spared," I said.
"A psychopath BIT your parents?" Jake asked his smile quickly fading.
"Yeah, they've been missing every since, with the amount of blood that was on the floor everyone pronounced them dead," I said," I was only 4 at the time but I still have nightmares from that night," I said shuddering.
"I'm sorry to hear that," Jake said.
"It get easier to talk about as time goes on but," I said.
"That's how it is for me with my mother, she died when I was young," Jake said.
"I'm sorry to hear that," I said, I didn't ask how she died because I figure he would tell me if he wanted to. We talked and talked for hours when suddenly a barking down one of the tunnels startled us.
"Shit! I forgot Shelby," I said running down the tunnel, following Shelby's barking. I heard Jake calling my name, telling me to wait, then curse as he grabbed the candle, burnt himself on said candle and followed me, feet pounding noisily on the dirt floor. I don't know what happened next but suddenly I found myself pinned down by a heap of dirt covering my legs, a large boulder pinned my right leg painfully to the floor.
"Stevie Rae, are you okay?" Jake's voice called through the darkness, I guess the cave in caused the candle to go out.
"I don't know, my legs are pinned down, and I can really feel my right leg, let alone move it, I think a boulder is pinning it down," I said coughing.
"I'd try and pull you out but I don't want to hurt you," Jake said, I felt him sit by my head. Shelby whined and came up and licked my face.
"Shelby, can you find your way out of here?" I asked the dog, who was pretty smart. Shelby barked as a reply. "Go find Clark, he can rescue us." Shelby barked and ran away.
"Are you sure your dog can find some help," Jacob asked.
"Pretty sure, he's like Lassie, very smart," I said.
Jake laughed. "Okay, sounds good." After awhile I started to feel drowsy and only wanted to sleep, but I felt hot liquid under my hands and could tell I was bleeding somewhere.
"Jake, keep talking, keep me awake," I said my voice sounding weak.
"What's wrong?" he asked.
"I-I can feel blood soaking the dirt, my blood," I said.
Jake gasped. "Stevie, it'll be okay, just don't fall asleep."
"Then talk to me, please," I begged.
"About what?" he asked.
"I don't know tell me a Quileute legend," I said.
"Well, okay, we are supposedly descended from wolves," Jake said.
"Wolves?" I said interested.
"Yeah, well the men who turned into wolves, and there's the cold ones. They are an enemy tribe my great-grandfather, the last leader of our tribe, caught them hunting on our lands, but they only hunted animals when others like them drink human blood," he said.
"So wait, you're saying the cold ones are vampires?" I asked.
"Yeah, pretty much, anyway, so my Great-grandfather made a deal with their leader, they went by the name of Cullen, as a surname of course, and they are never to enter Quileute lands, or the treaty would be broken," Jacob finished his story.
"Wow," I said.
"Do you know about any of the Kawatche legends?" Jacob asked.
"One, it's about Naman," I said.
"Sounds interesting, tell me," Jacob said.
"Well Naman fell from the stars in a reign of fire and graced the Kawatche people, he had the strength of 10 men, could shoot fire from his eyes, can run really fast, like faster than a speeding bullet, and he was invincible. He had a friend, who was like a brother name Sageeth, but Sageeth betrayed. Naman left, promising one day to send another in his place, there was knife discovered in this cave called Pa'lock, it gave the holder all of Naman's powers so they could protect the knife to return it to Naman, I'm not sure what happened to the knife, Lionel Luthor got his grubby hands on it and it disappeared," I said. We exchanged a few stories about growing when we heard a voice and saw a light coming towards up.
"We're here!" Jacob yelled but I passed out right afterwards.