Chapter 2: What Do You Want With ME?!

My heart skipped a beat from the adrenalin of the kill. 'This is one of the easiest kills I've ever done' I thought to myself. I gathered my bow and arrows, put out the fire, and walked to the meadow to claim my prize. 'The feeling of being watched is starting to overcome me even stronger. Who the hell is watching me?' I turned around and fired an arrow in the spot I thought the person was. After I fired the bow, I realized that if someone was watching me, they were about to get hit with an arrow. I held my breath, listening for what the arrow hits. I heard it hit a tree, a sense of relieve came over me. 'That was a close one.' I put the bow and arrows up, turn around to get the buck, and realize he's gone. I ran to the spot where he was and saw that there was a buck there at one point, because I saw the blood from where he was laying. 'Where did he go? A dead animal can't just get and walk away.' I examined the area and realized something that baffled me. Whatever took the buck didn't drag it. The blood stayed in one area so whatever took it, took it straight up. I stood there, scratching my head and trying to figure out what took the buck. I looked at the evidence. Whatever took it didn't drag it, and it did it in less than a minute. I bent down to examine it closer. As I did, I felt something sharp run across my back. I hit the ground, and felt my back. It was bleeding from where the flying object hit me. I look at the part of the woods where the object came from and saw some one exiting the area walking up to where I was laying. The person was wearing a cloak that covered his entire body, and covered his face. So all I could get out of what I could see is that he's most likely male, and is about 6 foot. He got closer. I tried to get up and realized that I couldn't move. That object must have had some kind of poison in it.

"Don't bother getting up on my account, John." He said in a deep voice.

He walked up to me, pulled out a staff, and started poking me with it. If my body wasn't numb, this would really hurt.

"Hm well I see I have a lot of work cut out for me. You're all bone and no muscle. But I'll fix that with my training plan I have for you." He said, "Jr. come out here and help me carry young John to his new home."

A tall built man came of the forest. He too was covered in a cloak. He bent down to pick up one side of me then looked at the other person.

"Did you think I meant that I would help carry him?" He asked chuckling.

Jr picked me up and started across the meadow. We were about half way when who I guess is the leader, stopped us took out a bow and strange looking arrows. He put an arrow on the bow and pointed it to the sky.

"Don't just stand there. Get him out of here!" The leader yelled at Jr. and focused on the sky.

Jr picked me up and threw me onto his back so I wasn't dragging the ground. Then to my surprise he started to run faster then anyone I have ever seen run. We are almost back into the forest. 'I don't know if that's a good or bad thing. But you know what they say an enemy of my enemy is my friend. So whatever that dude is afraid of might be able to help me. 'I have to get this guy to drop me. If I could just move my feet and kick the guy, I may have a chance at escaping.' I gave it all I had. My leg not only moved but kicked the guy in the head. He fell to his feet as I fell backwards. Here is the outskirts of the meadow. I must have kicked Jr. pretty hard because he's just laying there on the ground. 'This is my chance. If I can get in the brush, I can hide till they all leave.' I tried to get up and realized that my legs worked but the other half of my body is still paralyzed. Before I had a chance to try again, I heard this huge roar that shook everything in the forest. If I was on my feet, I would have been back down again. I managed to turn around so I was looking up at the sky instead of the ground. 'Great so now what?' I asked myself, just laying here. My question was answered shortly after the thought. I look up to see something that makes kids scared, scratch that, it makes anyone scared. A blue dragon was soaring through the sky fighting off the big guy. I now know that I have to get the hell out of here or 1) I'm going to become dragon meat; or 2) I'm going to have to fight off that one guy, and nether one of those sounded good to me. I try to get up but my upper body is still paralyzed. I realized that I have all my power back into my legs so I start to scoot myself across the clearing. 'Almost there. A few more scoots.' I can almost touch the trees. I heard a huge roar that drew my attention to the sky. I saw the dragon roaring in pain. 'He must have hit him.' The dragon ended up flying off, that was good but also bad. That meant that the leader of the hood party was after me again. I put my back to it and rocketed to the trees. 'Almost there.'

"Where do you think you're going?!" I heard the leader ask me.

'Darn I was almost there.' I felt my self being dragged by my feet. 'So this is it. I'm going to become his slave. Not without a fight!' He only has a grip on one of my legs so I took the other one and slammed it against his arm. I heard him grunt but he never let go.

"You're going to learn not to do stuff like that soon, boy, or your life will be shortly lived." He said to me, as he swung me on his back.

'So this is the end of John.' We entered the forest again and headed up the mountain. 'Why are we going up the mountain? Doesn't he want to leave so he doesn't have to battle the dragon again? Where the hell are we going?' We traveled until right before sundown. He pricked me with more of the paralyzing poison, and went out to find some fire wood. So there I was, sitting against my will, waiting for some crazy to come back and start the fire. Come to think, I didn't know his name. 'Why did he just leave Jr out in the middle of the meadow?' As I am sitting there, I can hear a dragon roaring in the distant. 'Apparently he doesn't like to be beat. I just hope I'm not there when they settle the score.' The leader returned after a while, started the fire, made some food for himself, then went to sleep. 'Gee thanks for feeding me, I don't know what I would do without you. Well I guess I might as well get some sleep since I can't move.' That night I had another weird dream.

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There I was, sitting on an edge of a cliff, dangling my feet. The ledge was about five thousand feet from the ground. For some reason, I wasn't afraid of falling to my death. I looked behind me and saw that I was at the mouth of a cave that seemed like it was endless because I couldn't see the whole inside. I heard someone call my name from the dark part of the cave. It was a female voice. I got up started walking towards the voice and then I woke up with the leader poking me.

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"Get up. We have a long journey ahead of us." He said, walking to put out the fire.

At first I thought to myself 'how the hell am I supposed to walk if I'm poisoned?' Then I noticed that I could move. I stretched my arm for the first time in 24 hours, and sat by what was left of the fire.

"What do you think your doing?!" the leader yelled at me, "We have to get over the mountan before sundown, so move your butt!"

So with that, we embarked on a journey over the mountain.

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