A/N: i dont really like this chapter just because how i worded it so i may remake it.

Story of a Lifetime:

Chapter 4: Lurid P.O.V.

Now where were we… oh ya that's right me and this other guy I met/captured were around the fire while we heard something from the bushes. While the guy sat there I walked forward with my whip out. "Hello!" I yelled seeing if anyone would answer. "I don't think that if anyone is in there, they probably wouldn't answer like you did to me." The man said looking over at me. "Shut up," I said to him while moving in closer. The guy merely rolled his eyes and looked away from me and continued to sit there.

I took a few more steps forward to have a dark looking creature jump out of the bushes causing me to jump. "Great, just great," I said as Joseph looked back over to me and yelled… well other things in his frightened state when he saw the creature. The creature stared at me with red glowing eyes and it had sharp vicious claws that looked like it could tear through almost anything.

I readied my whip while the creature backed up slightly more in the shadow. Its body seemed to as if flicker in the fires light that we were around. I cautiously backed up so I would be more in the fires vicinity. But it was no help because the creature jumped straight toward me.

As it was coming through the air, half coming in and out of my vision by its body flickering by the fires light I slashed my whip straight at the spot where I last saw it. Luckily I hit it causing it to fly in the opposite direction. The guy looked at me and yelled, "What the hell was that thing," demanding an answer while jerking his restraints. "Uh… that was a shadow stalker they're quite hostile and only live in blackheart woods," I said to him.

"And," he said to me while shaking his head by saying obviously. "And what!" I yelled to him. "Well I figured you could have more information then there hostile. I say I know that now since it attacked you," he said to me with a duh expression on his face.

I stared at him even though it was true and said, "Shut up." He again rolled his eyes and said, "can you get these ropes off of me I would like to live." Cautiously while looking around for anymore shadow stalkers I said to him, "I rather have you dead then me so I won't take your restraints off." "Oh come on, your going to be that way," he said while again jerking his restraints.

As he was trying to get free another creepy shadow stalker thing came out from the bushes ready to pounce like the other one. I again readied my whip but as I was doing that two more came out. "You got to be kidding me!" I yelled to no one particular. "What," the guy said as looking over to where the two creatures were. "Shit, more. Get me out of this." He jerked his restraints some more.

The creatures moved in closer also flickering from the fires' light. One of them jumped at the man tied up but he luckily noticed that and rolled away just in time. I slashed my whip at it causing it to run off while moving closer to the other two and then flung my whip at them again causing one of them to jump out of the way and the other to slightly parry my move.

The man continued to jerk his restraints as he was lying on the ground now on his side. "God," he yelled. "Why did you tie these things so tight?"

I didn't answer him. Instead another one of the creatures that I slashed at jumped toward me. I did a classic matrix move causing it to fly above me. I then spun around with my whip through the air to slash it right on the back causing it to fall to the ground and crawl to the shadows.

But I was to focused on that one creature. As I watched it move its way into the darkness the other shadow stalker now behind me jumped onto my back causing me to fall to the ground. The creature clawed me causing me to have a large gash on my back. "Ah!" I grabbed its arm or at least I think it was and threw it over to the ground.

I felt blood running down my back (Not so fun). My vision was going blurry. I now collapsed to the ground realizing I was now about seven yards away from the fire. I could see the man with his hands and feet now untied looking over to me with his hand up as some creatures were jumping at him bouncing off of some kind of invisible shield that circled around him like a sphere with him inside and it would produce a ring of fire around the location on which the creature would hit it…

I was out and the next thing I knew I was sitting up against a log, it being light out, and the man sitting across from me with the fire pit in the middle with now just a few embers and ashes from what's left of the sticks and logs. "What happened," I said as I placed a hand on my forehead realizing I had a large cloth around my back stained red from what I could see from looking at my chest. I looked over to the man again and saw that his t-shirt was torn under his coat.

It must've been his he used to wrap around me. "You got cut real bad from one of those creatures," he said. "After I some how got out of my restraints," he raised his hands up while holding some ropes that looked burned.

"Oh uh… how'd you get out," I said while he looked at the ropes. "Truly I have no idea, all I know was that you got cut and I saw you fall down. They then all ran off full speed into the shadows." "Then I guess thanks for the help," I said while leaned over showing him the cuts and his shirt. "May I ask your name?" I asked while he placed the ropes down and looked over to me again. "You're not going to kill me, are you?"

I rolled my eyes and then said, "No, not after you helped me recover." "Well ok then, my name is Joseph Miller. And what may your name," he said while waiting for my reply. "Oh, my name is Lurid," I said flinching from me telling him.

"Just Lurid, ok then Lurid how exactly do we get out of this forest? 'Cause I've been here for a while and have experienced a little to much for me at this moment, so I would like to get out of here." I shook my head, "well if I'm correct the best path would be over there." I pointed to a nearby patch of trees behind him. He got up and lent me a hand. While he was pulling me up he said, "Well then… I'll be asking you a lot of questions on the way out of here." "Same here," I said while looking at him trying to stay confident.

We grabbed our stuff which we had around the fire and we started moving to our destination.

A/N: well there you have it basically the first real deal action. may change this later. please comment and review since thats what gives me my inspiration.