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Escape
John woke but kept his eyes shut, remembering what had happened before he blacked out. His shoulder hurt, badly, but he was alive, something that shocked him. He cracked open and eye and looked around. Darkness. Fear gripped him, his chest compressing again, his vision threatening to fade again. Just as he began to black out, a scream rang out, echoing and reverberating, drawing him back from the edge of blackness. He opened his other eye, pushing himself up and looking around. He was in a cave. His wooden sword was still clutched in a death grip in his right hand and his left shoulder had a pair of puncture wounds and the veins around the wound were purple, the skin around it pale as a sheet.
"Melody," John whispered loudly, looking around.
His eyes had adjusted partially, allowing him to see that the cave was large and coated on the inside with webs. However, there was no sign of the spiders. Another scream rang out and John's head swung around in that direction. There was a tunnel. It was difficult to see due to the webbing acting like a sort of camouflage, and because it was too dark to see much of anything, but John still managed to get on his feet, staggering toward the tunnel, his clearly poisoned bite wound mixed with his fear threatening to knock him out again. After a few minutes, he stepped into a slightly better lit chamber, this one with glowing crystals on the ceiling behind the webbing. The light was just enough for John to see Melody bound to a boulder in the center of the room by webs with spiders crawling toward her. Her screams had been because of two bites she had on her legs that would make it impossible to run. John wasn't sure where the spiders that had bitten her had gone though.
John looked from Melody to the spiders again, slowly backing away. His vision blurred, chest constricting. His shoulder throbbed, fear flaring as it did. Then, he looked to Melody again. She was staring at him, terrified and crying.
"Run!" Melody shouted after a moment. "Get out of here!"
John turned, sprinting away from the room full of spiders but slowed to a stop after barely ten steps. He couldn't leave her. Even as afraid as he was he still knew it was wrong. He turned, running back to the room, seeing the spiders were much closer than he remembered. He sprinted forward, smacking the first spider he came to with his wooden sword. The spider turned out to be surprisingly light and sailed through the air, the wooden sword miraculously not snapping like a twig. The rest of the spiders took notice of him now, though. He swung at another but it jumped back, landing on a second. The second attacked it, killing it, causing it to lash out and hit another, which attacked the survivor, tackling it into several more, starting a swarming mass of chaos as the spiders turned on each other. John used the distraction to run to Melody, pulling the webbing off of her and picking her up, letting her support her weight on his left side since he needed his right to protect them.
They began to leave just as a spider crawled out of the tunnel and leapt at them. John screamed in terror, accidentally dropping Melody and raising the wooden sword, allowing the spider to impale itself as it tackled John. It exploded into a cloud of smoke and John looked around wildly. The other spiders were watching him now. He stood, picking up Melody in a piggyback and sprinted out of the chamber and down the tunnel, the spiders swarming after them. As they ran, more continued to pour out side passages that they passed. Finally, light appeared in the distance, just around the corner.
"An exit!" Melody exclaimed pointing.
Just as she did, a spider tackled them, taking Melody to the ground and biting her left shoulder, barely missing her heart. John smashed it off with his sword and picked Melody up again and they continued to run. Just as they neared the exit, John tripped over something and released Melody. She rolled out of the cave and down the hill on the far side but John smashed into a wooden beam beside the exit.
"Wood?" John blinked. "A mine! So if these go-"
He stopped talking as he ducked and a sword slammed into the beam. He turned toward its owner, seeing a skeleton, which ripped the sword free. John swung at the skeleton but it blocked the sword, which smashed against the iron one the skeleton was holding. John swallowed hard then looked to the side and screamed, ducking as a spider crashed into the support, breaking it free, the exit beginning to collapse. A rock hit the skeleton, breaking its skull and making it explode into smoke, as the spider had earlier. John stepped in front of the other support holding the entrance open just as a spider leapt from beside him, its legs wrapping around both him and the support, ripping it free and tackling both out of the entrance, which collapsed behind them. When they hit the hill, the spider released its catch and fell. John hit a boulder, falling behind the spider and the beam. They bounced and rolled down the hill until the bottom where the beam crashed down on the spider, killing it and reducing it to a cloud of smoke as well. Then, John landed on top of the beam, groaning and slowly pushing himself up, arms shaking. Melody was lying a short distance away but just as he saw her, he doubled over, vomiting.
After a few minutes, he finished and pushed himself up, limping over to her and gently shaking her. She woke up and sat up then gasped in pain, grabbing her legs, succeeding in making it worse. John sat down hard, relieved she was alive, and exhausted from the adrenaline from both fear and fighting monsters.
"Thank you for coming back for me but, why?" Melody asked. "Why didn't you just save yourself when you had the chance?"
"It wouldn't have been right," John said.
Melody smiled before covering her nose and giving him a weird look.
"What?" he asked.
"Um...John...did you...um...pee yourself?" Melody asked.
He blinked in surprise before looking down, face turning crimson as he pressed his legs together, crossing his arms over the wet spot.
"S-Sorry," John apologized. "I didn't mean to."
"It's alright," Melody smiled. "You were scared. No one could blame you."
He smiled a little just before he heard hooves moving toward them. For the first time, he looked around, realizing they were just outside the entrance to the canyon closest to their homes. There were twenty horses approaching with each rider holding a sword. the riders slowed to a stop in front of them and John recognized his father at the front of the group. He dismounted and sprinted forward, pulling John into a hug, tears running down his face.
"Thank God you're alright," he cried. "We were so scared something had happened when you didn't return. then when the cattle and your horse showed up without you...I got as many people as I could to come and find you."
"I'm sorry," John mumbled. "We were late getting out of the Canyon."
His father pulled back, eyeing Melody for a half second before noticing her wounds and then turning to John, inspecting him, finally noticing John's own bite.
"Dear God," he breathed. "These two need to get to the doctor, now!"
He picked John up, passing him to the nearest rider who set him in the saddle in front of himself before riding off, a second following close after with Melody. Both men pushed their horses much harder than John was ever dared push his own. He seriously doubted the horses would live. But suddenly, his head felt light and he was having trouble focusing on anything. Then, things began to darken and he finally slipped into unconsciousness.
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