CHPAPTER 2
I flew at an utterly insane speed. Like, blow-your-cheeks-back-away-from-your-skull-till-your-face-is-numb kind of fast. I would've laughed if I wasn't been flying for my life at the moment. I glanced behind me. Nothing. Maybe I was just paranoid . . . I mean, one of these things had never chased me, so why should I be so worried that I was now . . . OMG!
It-he was behind me, flying almost as fast as I was. Crap. Crapcrapcrap . . . how do I lose it? Then, as if God had heard me and answered, I looked behind me and saw forest. A huge, dense, green, thick wooded forest. Now, you may be thinking, 'A forest? What's so great about a forest?' Well, I'll tell you why. A forest is the perfect place to lose someone – or something.
I dove downwards, tucking my wings closer to my sides. I plunged through the canopy of trees, almost scraping the ground but throwing in a heavy down stroke at the last second. I sailed up, dodging the limbs jutting out of the thick trunks of the many trees. I watched the patterns of light dance on the ground, shining through the leaves. Then, I hung a very dangerous right hairpin turn and swung around a thick grouping of trees. The thing wasn't so lucky. It attempted the same turn, but slammed into a towering maple head-on cracking the trunk in HALF! The tree fell over on top of the enemy. Ow. I sure hope that's the end of it, 'cause I sure as heck was not going back to check. My heart was racing, adrenaline pumping through my veins – I had to land. So, that's what I did. My feet gently hit the forest floor, and I checked around the premises. No one. Nothing was following me. I breathed a sigh of relief. Now, I had to go over some important questions in my head like: What was that thing? What did I do? And, most importantly – Why did they want me?