Author's Note: -shouts exuberantly- I'M BA-A-ACK! Missed me?
Yeah, I know I have abandoned this story for a long loooong time, but I had to focus on other things, like the little note at the end of the last chapter said. But, I have started to get back into Fanfiction after a long absence and so here I am.
This chapter is short, I know, but I really can't add or change any of it.
And yeah, I know I've left another little cliffie. But that's what I do.
Enjoy
Disclaimer: See previous chapters
I came to with a groan. I could feel the prickle of something beneath me; something soft and painful. The smell of pine sap pierced the air; sweet and sharp.
Aw, dang, these would take ages to get out.
I now had regained enough consciousness to realise that I was flat on my back in the middle of a large, dark, creepy pine forest. I seemed to be injured in my right shoulder and my face was telling me that it had quit and was going to sue for damages. I could also very possibly be drooling out the left corner of my mouth.
I sat quickly, then regretted it as my head seemed to suddenly become very dizzy. I shook it a couple times and it seemed to settle down. I took stock of my situation
I was injured. I thought that that should be the top thing on my priorities list, seeing as it hurt so much.
Ari had managed to inflict above injury. How embarrassing.
I was not in the School. Strange. Freedom. That would take some getting used to.
I was hungry
After listing the above in my head, I got bored and stood up very slowly. Red blood leaked from the wound in my shoulder and I sighed resignedly. I would have to attend to priority number 1 before any of the others.
I had to come up with a plan. Given my highly superior intellect, I wouldn't take long to come up with a brilliant, foolproof, watertight plan.
I stood for a few minutes, hit myself on the head a couple of times, shook said part of body vigorously another couple of times, then strode off, swearing angrily at myself under my breath.
Wandering aimlessly through the woods it would have to be, then.
The entire clearing was quiet. Iggy's bombshell hung in the still air. Max cocked her head on one side and smiled eerily. Angel shook her head slowly and Nudge drew close to Fang, who stared at Iggy.
The Gasman, however, grinned suddenly; delightedly.
"Y'mean, you can actually see her?" he asked, incredulously "Wow. Hey!" He danced in to the aura of golden light that surrounded Max. " Can you see me too?"
Iggy's eyes opened wider and wider and wider. He staggered backward and sat heavily on the ground, breathing heavily, still staring at where The Gasman stood beside Max.
"Yeah," he said, weakly.
See, the thing about big, dark, scary woods is that you get lost like that. Most people think Yeah, ok, whatever. You just walk from one tree to the next in a straight line and you'll be fine. But really, it's not that simple. It's like those trees get into your head or something, and they crowd around you, cutting off any exit route until you wander round and round, in circles looking for yourself.
It's a pretty mystical experience, actually.
But I wasn't really concentrating on that right now. I had to get something that would stop me bleeding soon, or I would probably die. Which, you know, would be pretty disastrous.
Truth be told, I was a little freaked by the whole, experience. Firstly, just being free made the hairs rise up on my arms. It was like…oh, I don't know…like you'd feel when school is finished and your on the first week of your vacation, only you've been in school your entire life and never had a vacation before.
Something like that.
Also, I was worried by the amount of blood I was losing. Normally, I have his really fast healing rate and I don't really want my blood smeared all over the forest anyway. It's kinda…well…strange. I mean, it's not red. It's grey, mainly, with just a hint of black, red and gold mixed in, like a marbled pattern. Sorta pretty really, if you're sick like that.
So, as you can imagine, it was with a mixture of relief, apprehension and pure, gut hunger (I hadn't eaten in days) that I smelt the smoke.
It had a sort of barbecuey smell to it. Not that I had ever smelt one, you understand, but I had heard he whiteocats thinking about it.
Yeah, you heard that right.
I think I must've stumbled in at a bad time, because I could see a group of kids all standing pretty still. This, y'know, is odd, 'cause they don't have a tendency to stand still at all.
I then came around a tree and was able to see the group better. The eldest (a boy with dark hair and olive skin) seemed to be about fourteen. The youngest was an angelic-looking girl of six. They all looked oddly familiar, but due to this unsettling sucking sensation at the back of my mind as I moved closer to them, I really couldn't place them at all.
Then I took a good hard look at the girl sitting on the ground. Until then, a young-ish boy of great happiness had been shielding my view of her.
But the he moved.
Oh damn.
I recognised that light. And it was not good, let me tell you. Not good at all.
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Oh and has anyone read a book called Twilight, by Stephanie Meyer, or the sequel, New Moon? I slightly addicted to them and was just wondering if anyone else had read them.
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