Well here is chapter 2! I hope you enjoy it. And a huge thanks to Phantom's Ange for reviewing!
Last time: Danny glanced in his rear-view mirror before he pushed his foot further down onto the accelerator until the pedal hit the floor. Not that the car was travelling at any great speed, the engine wasn't exactly fantastic, not to mention they were in desperate need for more petrol. They would have to stop for more sooner, or later.
Chapter 2
Danny cursed loudly as the car finally rolled to a slow stop. It had happened. They had run out of fuel and were now stranded. Great. Kat continued to stare blankly out of her side window, looking but not really seeing. She had been like that the whole journey.
"Ok Kat, now what?" Danny asked turning towards her but she only shook her head in response "why ask me?" she asked after a delayed pause "I don't know what to do anymore than you do." her voice was quiet, barely audible and her tone was that of hopelessness. "Well, you are normally the one to come up with all the ideas, one about now would be real good." Danny answered her as he tried to re-start the engine already knowing that it wouldn't work but trying none the less.
Kat didn't answer, she just couldn't get the image of that… thing… looking at her. She was being selfish, she knew it, after all Danny had just lost his girlfriend to the creature, even if they had only been together about a week… but it hadn't looked at him in that strange way, while it sniffed for her scent on the air as if trying to detect something, she just hoped that it wouldn't be able to find her because of that. She could suddenly clearly remember the time when as a child she had been with friends and they had hidden in a field waiting for one of the other girls dog to come find them. The dog had followed the scent of his master and found the others, Kat included through her. Kat really hopped that this was not the case here. It would be bad enough if the creature found her, but if it found Danny too… she couldn't let anything happen to Danny, even if it meant sacrificing herself, she knew that she would do anything to protect him. If that creature were to catch him by finding her…
She shuddered and Danny touched her gently on the shoulder, looking at her through worried eyes. "so… you thought of a way out of this yet?" Danny asked as if her few minutes she had spent panicking was more than enough time to come great escape idea that would keep both of them alive and completely intact. Kat just shook her head.
"No,"
Well… I do have an idea actually.
"damn, you sure you can't think of anything? Cos I don't have any ideas either, and we kind of need to think of something quickly before… that thing catches up to us." Danny asked trying again to start the car again, and failing yet again.
He will never in a million years agree to this. I can see this going badly… Kat thought as she opened her mouth to speak, "well… I did have one idea…" she trailed off slightly, was there really any point in trying to convince him? She very much doubted he would agree with her.
"Really?" Danny asked, suddenly very interested, "what is it?" he turned to face her fully, abandoning his attempts to re-start the car and gave her his full and undivided attention. "Well… to you, did it seem as if… did you think… did you feel that that… thing wasn't interested in you?" she asked still knowing that he would never agree. "What do you mean?" Danny asked her, clearly confused. Obviously he hadn't noticed what she had. "Well, did it seem like it was less interested in you and more interested in, well, me?" she asked turning away. She knew she was right there, it had walked towards her and been seemingly unaware that Danny was even there.
"I don't like where this is going," Danny hissed, finally cottoning on. "Well maybe it would be better if… if it were to come back, well… you went to get help… while I… distracted it? You know like bait? So you had more of a chance of finding someone who could help us?"
"NO!" Danny roared at her. "you are not volunteering yourself as bait! We'll both go together and get help, then we'll both get out of this mess."
Kat sighed and turned away, she knew that would be his answer. There was no way on earth he would agree to that plan, he was just too protective, since their parents had died, he had sort of taken over. It was great at times, but times like this it wasn't so great… he just wouldn't allow her to take any risks, no matter how minor, not that she considered using herself as bait a minor risk, but he just couldn't seem to trust that she could look after herself sometimes…
"tell you what, I'll get out and push the car, you stay here, where its safe, and see if we can start it again. If we could cover just a few miles we might find some help, or a gas station, who knows?" Danny suggested and immediately climbed out of the car before Kat could even think to answer. we'll go with your plan then shall we? she thought bitterly to herself as she crawled into the drivers seat and tried to start the engine as Danny walked round to the back of the car and started to push.
Kat looked outside through the windscreen at the dark sky, she really didn't like the whole 'being out of fuel' thing, she just couldn't help but feel like they were a pair of sitting ducks and that something was about to pounce on them. Despite Danny's optimism they really hadn't covered that much of a distance between where they had first seen the creature and where they were now, it could, undoubtedly catch up to them if it really put its mind to it. Especially if they didn't get moving soon.
Just as the thought crossed her mind a dark shadow passed overhead, even in the night darkness the shadow was still visible. What the hell was it now?
"Danny…?" she called glancing in the rear-view mirror and seeing him still pushing fruitlessly at the back of the car. "Not now Kat, try the engine again" he replied not even looking up at her. "No Danny… I really think you should get back in the car right now…" she called leaning forward slightly so she could look up at the dark sky. "yeah not right now Kat, I'm sure we've almost…" she heard a small sound behind her, it sounded like the flapping of birds wings, and Danny stopped mid sentence making Kat frown slightly. "almost what Danny? Danny?" she turned around in her seat to look behind her and gasped, covering her mouth with her hand.
Danny was standing directly behind the car, his spine stiff and strait. Directly behind him, knife in hand, was the strange man from earlier. The creature grinned when it realised she had seen him and sniffed the air by Danny's neck. Letting out a low growl it suddenly threw Danny to the side and walked around the side of the car to the drivers door.
Kat screamed and backed towards the front passenger seat as the drivers door was thrown open with inhuman strength and almost ripped off the entire car. She moved as far away as possible until she was pressed against the passengers door with her knees against her chest as the creature leaned his head into the car and sniffed the air. He slowly rolled his head around slightly as if trying to catch whatever scent he had found from all angles his eyes closed.
Suddenly his eyes snapped open and he stopped sniffing the air and grinned at her. Once again showing lots of sharp, needle-like teeth. He leaned forward further and reached forward grabbing her ankle making Kat scream and kick out at him as she fumbled behind her trying to find the handle of the door she was leaning on to escape that way. To no avail, he continued as if unaffected by her struggles to pull her out of the car by her foot. With one pull he yanked her out of the car and threw her to the dusty road where she skidded along the tarmac scratching the exposed skin on her arms and shoulders making them bleed slightly.
Kat rolled over into a sitting position as the creature began to walk slowly, leisurely almost, towards her, a menacing grin on his face. Suddenly Danny appeared at the edge of her vision and charged at the creature. He threw a punch at the thing but it easily caught his wrist in a clawed hand and Danny made a sound that showed he was in pain. Kat wanted to get up, wanted to run over and hit the creature, punish it for daring to hurt her brother, but just like before she found that she just couldn't make her body move. It was like being completely paralysed
Danny pulled back his other arm, fist clenched ready to strike the creature when it suddenly jerked its occupied hand downward and Danny screamed in pain. The creature let go and allowed Danny to collapse down to the ground clutching his wrist which by the look of it was very badly broken, maybe even a compound fracture Kat couldn't tell from where she was. Besides, she was slightly more concerned now that the creatures full attention was now back on her.
She scuffled backwards in a desperate attempt to get away from it as the creature approached her. Once it caught up to her it reached down and grabbed her upper arm yanking her to her feet it suddenly pulled her towards him and sniffed deeply into her neck. Kat could only stand there… shaking and paralysed by fear as the creature continued to sniff all over her. It was strange but in a way it almost seemed… confused? What was wrong? What on earth was it trying to find by smelling her?
Its head suddenly snapped up and its eyes locked onto hers and it pulled her into its chest, so close she could smell the unmistakable scent of blood on his clothes. It was now that her body finally found the will to move, but her struggling proved useless with her arms trapped between her and the creatures solid chest.
It shifted slightly and then Kat felt her feet leave the ground. She squirmed and struggled but there was no way this thing was going to be letting go of her. She managed to move about in his grip just enough to look at the ground and nearly fainted. The ground was located about thirty feet below them and moving away rather quickly. She looked up to see a pair of enormous, bat-like wings protruding from the creatures back. She could faintly hear Danny shouting from somewhere below them but didn't dare turn to look. She had never exactly been a fan of heights. Her small hands subconsciously gripped at the creatures coat so that she wouldn't fall while at the same time she could feel the shock getting to her.
Danny's shouts and screams faded into nothing as Kat's eyes became heavy, her vision hazy as everything around her fell into darkness…
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Well, what do you think? Again sorry I don't write chapters in one go, I do a little bit every now and again, but at least I did actually bother to check through some of it quickly before posing it. (I say some of it and quickly so there will still, undoubtedly be mistakes) Anyway, I've even started the next chapter yet but if you review I'll get it on here as soon as I can!
