cliffhanger chapter last week again-its fun to be me 'once in a great while'-as some of my kin folk might phrase it. i have more in common with my Grandfather's side of the family that aren't from 'around these here parts' where i grew up thankfully. This is rated M for a reason those with sensitive stomachs beware of the last 1/3 of this chapter.
Terror Falls-part 7
As they run they can hear the sheriff yelling as all the cars stop.
"Fan out and search-them kids couldna got far! Do whatever ya want to the boy long as ya keep him alive-but the bitch is mine!"
Aqualad thinks he hears thunder in the distance but he is quick to realize that it is really the sound of gunfire. He grabs Raven's arm pushing her ahead of him as they run.
If Raven hadn't stumbled over a tree root and fallen a bullet would have struck her in the back.
As he picks Raven up-pulling her back to her feet-Aqualad is hit in the leg. He drags Raven down into a dark gully for cover.
Raven looks at Aqualad's leg speaking softly. "I'm sorry-"
"-don't I should have listened to you and dropped the keys in the first mailbox we came too once we got out of town."
She pulls up his pant leg to look at the wound. "If only I hadn't taken those damn drugs-I could get us out of here."
"Don't do this to yourself. You've couldn't have known we would walk into the real life version of a horror movie."
"You know we're screwed don't you."
"We're the superheroes."
"Who have been fucking each other senseless every chance we get. The ones that do that in those movies never make it to the end."
"I say we write our own ending."
"You still have your powers-you're our only hope."
"Do you have any idea how far the nearest source of water is?"
"Straight down-didn't you see all the wells at the houses we passed?" She looks up at the sound of footsteps drawing closer. Raven takes off her hoodie and ties it around Aqualad's leg. She then kisses him briefly. "Work on it-I'll keep them distracted." Before he can stop her Raven climbs out of the gully and starts running again.
Aqualad doesn't dare call after Raven and draw attention to her. He lays down flat on the ground keeping quiet as several people jump over it.
-7-
Raven glances back at the sound of more gunfire. She turns to her right hoping to lead them away from Aqualad. She soon clutches her side as a painful stitch develops there. She tries to keep running but soon staggers out onto a dirt road. She looks up as she is grabbed almost immediately by two identical looking men.
"Knew you would end up here you little bitch." He opens the door to the waiting police car. "Get her in the car boys."
She struggles to get free but its no use as the men drag her toward the car and fling her inside. Raven cries out as she bumps her head on the closed door of the other side. Before she can sit up the open door is closed behind her.
"Help find the boy-he aint gonna be fer away. I'm taking this little bitch to the special lock up."
Raven listens as the two men snigger as they walk off reloading their rifles.
The sheriff looks back at Raven in the rear view mirror as he gets into the car. "You like sick little sex games bitch? Just wait'll you see what I got planned fer ya. While we find the boy."
She feels nauseous and everything seems to spin around as she tries to sit up in the back of the police car. As the car hits a rock and bounces she bumps her head again loosing consciousness.
-7-
Aqualad stands up looking out of the gully as everyone moves off deeper in the direction that Raven ran. He shouldn't have let her run off like that. He limps out of the gully wondering just what she expects him to do. He ducks behind a tree as two identical looking men run deeper into the forest-he watches them go. Raven was right they don't have super speed like Kid Flash or Mas Y Menos but they are moving at an unnatural speed for a human. Once they are out of sight he limps as fast as he can in the direction they came from.
*7*
Raven comes to semi-awareness as she is pulled out of the back of the police car.
The sheriff holds onto the girls hair with his good hand forcing her into the woods out back of the police station. "This is what we do with naughty little bitches like you until sacrifice time."
That word is like a slap in the face to Raven-waking her up. As she looks down the area is littered with bones and she knows they don't belong to any animal when she sees the skulls. There is something dark and sinister about this place. She doesn't need her powers to sense that some other worldly evil lurks here.
"Hundreds of years ago something crashed out in the woods. Near as we can figure it was meant to be a prison floatin up yonder space-but it found its way onto a planet. Preacher said what came out of it were evil-then it ate him when he started invokin the Lord's name. Opened its mouth wide and swallowed him whole it did then spit out the bones. Made a deal with the rest of us. We ferret out you sexually active young folk for it to feed on when it gets hungry we get to live forever." He lets go of Raven's hair and quickly strikes her across the face before she can try to run.
Raven moans as she falls to the ground-to dazed and dizzy from the blow to try getting away.
He forces Raven down-with her stomach on a fallen tree trunk. Before she can move in her dazed state he picks up a length of chain he places behind her knees held in place by the handcuffs he secures tightly over her wrists with her arms draped in front of her over the tree-binding her in place.
Raven whimpers from the tightness of the cuffs on her already bruised wrists as he also cuffs her ankles to a tree root. Its all happened so fast she scarcely realizes she's been chained to the tree until its over. She cries out as he grabs her hair forcing her head back-making her look up at him.
"Any other time you wouldntof been able to hurt me but the beast grows hungry and whatever influence it has on us is weaker when it is. Naughty little bitches almost always find some way to get free-they never get far before it comes mind you-but I'm gonna make sure you stay right here and pay for that." He pulls at the bandage with his teeth unwinding it from his hand-shoving the swollen oozing mass right into the girls face. "See what you did to me bitch!? I'm gonna be one handed forever thanks to you. Coulda saved myself a hell of alot of pain letting it go afore now-but I wanted to make sure you seen this."
Raven tries to pull her head away but its held still by him holding onto her hair it with his good hand.
He winds her hair around his wrist-grabbing her head with his fingers and holds her eyes open-forcing her to watch. As the skin of his hand rolls and broils and blackens-oozing thick nasty globs of pus and blood. He doesn't let her go until the whole thing has rotted away to dust. "I'm gonna take care of you personally at the gatherin tonight. Gonna cut you up so bad while your still alive you're gonna wish you were never born as it eats you alive. In the meantime lets see how much you really like these sick little sex games.
"Please don't rape me."
"Rape? Oh no-that's too good for the likes of you. Unluckily for you it likes to play with its supper. You're gonna be completely ravaged fore gathering time ever rolls round."
The sheriff walks away to join in the search for the boy.
Raven struggles to get free. If the tree root would pull free from the ground or break maybe she could work her way free. She couldn't go fast with her ankles cuffed but at least she would have a chance. She freezes when she hears the snapping of trees branches.
It comes down from the tress slowly. Finally here she is-how its longed for her from the moment it first laid eyes on her. If the people even think of trying to sacrifice her it will be the last thing they ever do.
She whimpers as something latches onto her clothes and rips them off her body.
Yes that's what it wants as it removes the silly wrappings these humans insist on wearing. It stands there taking in all the girls naked curves.
Raven whimpers as a sharp claw is dragged down her back. "Please don't..."
It moves closer sniffing her-taking in her scent. She is not entirely human and it is her other half that it desires.
She trembles as fur tickles her now bare skin as it leans over sniffing the bite marks on her neck.
It growls low angered by the others mark on her.
Raven cries out as whatever it is bites down on first one side of her neck then the other.
It doesn't bite deep enough to injure her-just to scar her-mark her as its forever.
She watches as big furry paws brace themselves on each side of her. "No...please-don't do this..."
It licks her wounded cheek as if to reassure her that everything is going to be okay.
Raven cries out-its tongue is like a razor blade.
-7-
Aqualad finds the dirt road and follows it to the overgrown entrance. If it was as clear as the rest it they could have put this place long behind them by now. He ducks into the brush beside the road as the sheriff's car comes bouncing through the overgrown entrance and onto the dirt road. He waits for the sheriff to pass and disappear down the road. Aqualad is about to step out when he hears Raven's piercing scream. It didn't come from in the woods he realizes-her scream came from the direction of town. No time to limp there-he turns instead for the direction of where they left the car.
-7-
Raven at first doesn't realize what the loud high pitched roaring in her ears is until she is out of breath and it ends. Only then does she register that she was screaming. She squirms fighting her bonds-trying to rid herself of the hot throbbing pulsating mass that has rammed into her. She tries to scream again as it grows larger inside her feeling like its going to tear her apart as she is thrust hard into the fallen tree-knocking the breath out of her. Raven gasps heavily struggling to draw breath into her lungs as the still unseen creature saws roughly back and forth-not pulling out but seeming to push in deeper and grow ever bigger with each thrust. At the same time its pushing deeper and deeper into her Raven also feels herself being forced hard against the tree. After what seems like an eternity Raven can finally draw short shallow breaths. The pressure is so great it feels to her like her rib cage is going to crack from the pressure. "Stop-killing-me!"
It pauses momentarily looking down at the girl. Realizing what its doing it releases its long claws and slices through the tree-pulling it away so that the girl is no longer crushed against it. It retracts it claws-moving its paws to grasp the girls breasts.
Raven whimpers as its claws even retracted dig into her breasts-holding her still as it continues to press into her-growing ever larger and hotter as it moves deeper. She screams again as feels a sharp piercing stab followed by a heated gush of searing hot thick gooey fluid shoot into her.
Its howls of pleasure mix with the girls cries of pain as they echo through the woods.
-7-
Aqualad hangs back watching the lone guard that must be stuck here waiting for them in case they gave the others the slip and doubled back playing with all the newfangled gadgets in the rental car. He doesn't have time for a fight-he has to get to Raven. With the guys attention elsewhere he sneaks up to the open door reaches in and shoves the guys head forward against the staring wheel knocking him out. Aqualad wastes no time pulling him out and easing into the car with his injured leg. He quickly turns around and speeds off toward town.
It isn't long after that the hunting party comes out of the woods. The sheriff looks around spotting the car gone. "Dammit I knew it the bitch was a distraction so the boy could sneak back here."
"Sheriff!"
He looks over as Joe who cut down the tree on the main road calls him and follows his gaze down.
Twitching on the ground is the man left to guard the vehicles. They all stand back in horror as his head bulges and rolls broiling chaotically beneath the surface as it swells up. They scatter as somehow the man makes it to his feet and staggers around blindly.
Joe turns to the sheriff. "For the love of...please put him out of his misery."
The sheriff pulls his gun from his holster and shoots the man in the head. Brains and bloody goo puss fly all over as the body takes several more steps before falling over.
No one says a word for sometime as the body rots away in much the same gruesome fashion before turning to dust.
"No mercy! No mercy whatsoever when we catch that boy. I don't care if all we have left to sacrifice is the bitch this time."
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