Chapter 4
I take off Helen's saddle to wipe the sweat off from her back as she takes large gulps of water from a stream that we settle camp by. We were in thick woodland in Texas (which was really hard to find) because Jazz never liked to set camp in the wide open. 'Survival 101' she'd always say to me.
Robert was right beside Helen.
"So I was thinking on the way south, we could stop at the Gulf of Mexico, just to see. I heard from a Mexican that it's really beautiful this time of year." Said jazz's voice from behind Helen. I'm only 5''4' so I couldn't quite see over Helen.
"Yeah last time I saw the ocean was almost a year ago, so yeah let's do that." I smiled.
"Alright then, next stop, the gulf of Mexico!" she said has she pulled her hatchet out of her pocket of Robert's saddle.
"I'm going to go and cut up some fire wood, you stay here and set up camp." Said Jazz as she walked towards the bush.
When she disappeared into the thick woodland, I thought I could start up the fire. I went to get some twigs and bark to start with. When I had decided that I had enough kindling to start the fire, I started to walk back to the camp site, only to find more bush and no tent or horses.
Oops. I thought as I saw that I was lost. I didn't want to walk anywhere because I just might drift farther away. I was never the greatest tracker, well, I wasn't one at all. I called out for Jazz to find out that she couldn't hear me or she wasn't back yet. Crap!
I was looking around to see if I could remember the way I came from when I heard a roar of gunfire and canons. When I looked to see where the explosion came from, there was a break in the trees and what look like to be a meadow. I was very wrong.
It was a very large field and a battle was taking its place there. This is the first time saw the Confederate and the Union Armies in actual battle, I've only heard never seen. There was a stone wall and a long ditch behind it. There saw many Confederate soldiers behind the stone wall shooting at the Union army. And some of the soldiers were dead in the ditch.
I was about to run for it when bullets came flying at the soldiers and me. All the sudden I was smash back into the forest and crashed into the ground and hit my head on a rock, hard. I was in such of a daze I couldn't see what hit me, and I couldn't hear well either. Then I got tossed again and fell on a rock on the edge of the bush. Once I fell off the rock, I felt the incredible sting of something entering my skin on my outer thigh; it must have been a bullet. I screamed out in pain. A man from the battle that looked like a Major saw that I was shot and hurt, I was very surprised when he came over to help me and to see if I was still alive. He had an expression that I didn't know what to make of when he saw my wound. After seeing his face my outer thigh started to burn where I got hit, I thought that the bullet that hit me was still hot inside my skin. It was getting hotter and hotter until it was getting uncomfortable; I looked at my thigh to see if it just hit the surface so I could take the bullet out of my skin. When I looked at my thigh I saw that it wasn't a bullet wound. There were teeth marks embedded deep into my skin where the incredible burn was coming from and began to spread throughout my leg.
I went to look at the man to see if he was as confused and scared as I was, but when I went to look at him he was gone. I looked around to see where he had run off to. I found him back at the stone wall about ten feet away from where I was lying wounded, reaching for an Infield rifle. When he put two bullets in the rifle he gave me a look as if I was a monster and he had to destroy me. He came towards me with the rifle in his hands. Just as I realized why the man was coming to towards me with a rifle. Gun shots were made and hit the man. The man fell and died shortly after.
The burning from my leg was spreading up towards my chest slowly, the bite becoming scorching hot. Trying not to cry out, I new that if I stayed here I would likely be found. As much as I could I pulled myself towards the backwoods to find camp and wash out my wound. When I couldn't possibly go any farther I clasped, the burning got worse and was blinding. I was lying there on the ground waiting for it to go away, when I felt the pulse behind the burn raging now into my chest and realized that my heart had been consumed in flames, the fire blazed hotter and I screamed. I looked around to see if there was anybody near I could ask to kill me now. But I crawled too far into the backwoods. I called for Jasmin, screaming her name. Hopefully she will find me and she would kill me before I have to live any longer in this pain. The endless fire burned on.
After all the screaming, Jasmin found me withered in pain on the ground. I couldn't understand what Jasmin was asking me and I could hardly see her because it was torture to focused on anything else but this impossible pain, but I could tell it was her voice.
"What's happening!" she screamed as she Neal's besides me, I couldn't answer but tell her I wanted to die. Let me die, let me die, please.
All I could hear is Jasmin crying out for help and me pleading for sweet, sweet death to take me. Then Jasmin's hands were gone from under my head and let my head fall to the ground. I looked at Jasmin to see that she wasn't beside me crying for help anymore. She was tossed three feet away from me with a man leaning over her kissing her neck. When he was done he stood up and looked at me. I asked him to kill me,
"Now why could I want to kill something I'm creating?" He was very pale and very beautiful; he had beautiful silk black hair and crimson red eyes. I didn't understand what he talking about.
"What did you do to Jasmin?" I growled.
He leaned down towards my face,
"I'm making you a little friend." he taunted as he brushed his fingers to my face. His fingers were ice cold to my face. And in an instant he vanished. I looked at Jasmin and saw her lying there. She wasn't dead because she was breathing very loudly, but it looked like she couldn't move.
"J-" I tried to call her to see if she was okay but suddenly, impossibly, my pain doubled. The lower half of my body was suddenly on fire. I scream out Jasmin's named as the fire knitted together and my body was consumed in endless flames.
end of chapter 4
