She ran as fast as she could, trying to catch up to the others and convince them to leave the pyramid. Xóchitl's footsteps echoed in the damp tunnels of the underground pyramid. She finally saw the light of their flash lights, and the lights turned towards her as she neared them. She slowed down and stopped right in front of them, and panted, trying to catch her breath. "What?" Yohan asked. "What is it?!" As she straightened up and opened her mouth to tell them, she noticed that she was standing on the edge of a doorway, and the others were inside a room. She could see skeletons piled inside the room, and a dark, large figure rising up behind them.
She opened her mouth to scream, and the rock door suddenly closed in her face, sending her stumbling backward. She ran to the door and started pounding on it, when she heard screams coming from the room, and the sounds of bones cracking and clothes ripping. She backed away about five yards for safety, and then the sounds stopped. She listened for a minute, and then took a step forward.
The tomb echoed as something heavy slammed against the door, and what sounded like a mix between a lion, an elephant, and a panther roared in the room. The monster hit the door again, this time sending dust, dirt, and sand bursting momentarily from the walls, and a crack appeared in the door. Xóchitl turned and ran as fast as she could, adrenaline pumping through her veins. The pounding on the door increased in frequency, almost as if the monster heard her running away.
She dove out of the pyramid and quickly pushed the stone entrance door shut. She turned to run up to the surface when a loud CRACK erupted from the heart of the tomb, and she heard a large, heavy THUMP just a second after. She immediately took off and ran up the incline, cracking dozens of spears and pots under her feet.
She leaped out of the depression in the ground just as another loud THUMP pounded against the main entrance, and Xóchitl started running to the copter. "TURN IT ON!" she yelled. "ENCENDELERO AHORA IDIOTAS!" they all scrambled into the copter and the pilot turned it on. The blades of the helicopter started moving, and leaves and sand started swirling around them. There was another loud CRACK as the entrance door gave way, and they heard massive amounts of cracking as the monster made its way up the incline. The helicopter lifted into the air, and started rising higher and higher. They were about 400 feet in the air when the monster came out into the sun and she finally saw it.
It was like an African Black Panther, but it was almost four times larger than any black panther that could exist in the wild, and it had an odd tail, a scorpion tail. It stood up on its' hind legs and watched them fly off. It was easily Eight feet tall on its' hind legs, and its' eye looked alarmingly intelligent. It watched them fly off, and then it turned and bounded into the jungle.
Xóchitl immediately (well, after getting over that mini-heart attack she just had) pulled out her cell phone and went into her contacts and called up one of her girlfriends she knew was an academy student.
A girl named Anna.
