Chapter 11

If Wishes Were... Pigs Flying

A/N: This is an action heavy scene which is why it's rather short. Since it's very descriptive and there's a lot of action happening, I have it be a shorter chapter only because the cut off for the cliff-hanger worked best here. Enjoy as always! Favorite and review! I'd love to get feedback! But no flames! I like honest critique but not rude writing! Treat me with respect and you'll get the same!

Red didn't know how she'd get around that thing. The window was too small. Her only exit was caught off by this woman. How had she not seen her sooner? Did she want her ring? Did she even live here? Was this the reason why this place was a ghost town? She felt a cold and clammy clawed hand reach out and grab her wrist. Red flinched. Fuck! She panicked. She kicked the woman in the gut with a swindle kick. The woman crumpled with a howl and her grip loosened. Red tore from the spot so fast that she left fire in her tracks she felt. Stumbling out of the house, she took off down the street.

"Come back!" The weird freak cried. Red was wondering why she was running into so many weirdos lately. Red panted, skidding in the dirt to look back at the house. There was a moment of silence, and then the door was smashed off it's hinges. Her eyes widened in horror. Before her, exiting the home, was a strange monstrous thing. It had three eyes. They all rolled. They locked onto Red. Red felt cold shivers run through her. Shit. She ran. She didn't know which way was what. She ran towards town. She was running out of energy. Just around this corner!

Red skidded. Her eyes widened in horror. She was right back where she'd already been! What the hell was going on? "Illusion? Magic?" She breathed hard. She already was low on energy. Help… Someone...She took off towards the sound of the ocean. She could smell it. She looked over her shoulder. The woman had grown two extra arms. No wonder this town was a dead zone. Fuck. She tore towards the sand. There was no helping it. She'd have to swim for that island she could see in the distance. She wasn't sure she could make it but she had to try. She found her leg grabbed though. She cried out as her eyes widened in horror. She fell into the sand, kicking at the freakish woman monster. "No!"

"Yes...I'm going to eat you." The woman looked very gleeful and very terrifying. Red's body shook with fear. She tried to kick but she was getting pinned in something that felt like cobwebs. Ugh. The woman's mouth opened, and web came out and wrapped around her legs. The woman's weight pushed Red to the ground on her back as she loomed over her. Her eyes blinking at Red.

Red felt frozen. For the first time she really felt afraid. She couldn't cry. She was in shock. Suddenly, a loud squeal alerted them both to a brown blur that barelled into the monster woman's side. It was the pig. It was sporting its wings, fangs, and it was the size of a labrador retriever. She blinked. When had pig-chan grown? In fact, what was Pig-chan doing? "You-What are you doing here?" She yelled at the pig.

The pig looked back at her. "I"ll kill you too," the woman hissed, shooting her web at the pig. The pig dodged it. It looked back at Red as it spread it's wings. It dove right at Red. Red's eyes widened as she found herself over the back of the pig who struggled to stay airborne under her weight. Although Red had lost a bit of wieght so it wasn't too bad.

"G-Go on! Get out of here! Save yourself!" She didn't want this pig getting hurt. But she was relieved. She had thought she was a goner. Whatever the hell this pig was, it didn't feel like an enemy. The pig oinked.

"Bweh!" it flapped into the air. Red wondered if she could direct it since it didn't have an aim. She saw the woman's web shoot at them.

"Look out!" She shouted as the pig squealed in surprise as the webbing caught the pig's left wing. Red yelled as she fell off the pig and into the ocean below. She splashed to the surface, having cut the webbing off herself using one of her knives. Floating in the water to the best of her ability she saw the pig and the woman further closer to shore. Her bag was weighing her down but she hugged it to herself, trying to stay afloat. The pig kept squealing as it yanked the woman with surprising force and it bit through the webbing getting free. The woman hissed from the shore. The pig lunged at the woman again with a loud pig squeal. Her eyes widened. The pig's jaws got larger like something out of a horror movie. Its eyes glowed a dark red and the pig bit the woman's head. But the woman wasn't done. The woman tried to thrash and the blood curdling scream made Red sink underwater with her eyes shut. What the fuck. What the fuck. The pig just… What the fuck.

Red swam to the furthest edge of the shore. She came up on the sandy bank. She saw the pig devouring the monster's corpse out of the corner of her eye. She couldn't bare to keep looking so she turned away completely. What the hell is going on here? I didn't sign up for this. She felt her mouth go dry. The crunching of bones made her stomach churn. "STOP IT!" She yelled at the pig finally. The pig paused. It looked up, the severed arm in its bloody mouth. It almost looked like a puppy.

"Bweh?" Red held her head in her hands, falling to her knees on the sore, shivering ,wet and emotionally drained. The pig trotted over and the closer it got to her, the less scary it became until it was just a normal piglett but with blood on it. Red shoved it away.

"Go away!" She shook, hugging herself.

The pig looked concerned. Red didn't know what to think. The pig did save her though, right? There was no guarantee it wouldn't turn on her… The pig licked her hand. She jolted, but saw that the pig was just looking at her. It looked like it was trying to figure out what was wrong. She mechanically reached out the hand with the ring on it. She pet the pig on the head. "I'm...sorry. Thanks for saving me…" She wanted the pig to at least know that. The ring began to glow. Red's eyes widened. "What the-"

"Bweh...Bwe-orry. I didn't mean to. I didn't." The pig's small voice became human. Red froze. She took her hand away. She stared at the pig and then at the ring then back at the pig. "I wanted to protect you."

Red was stunned. "Can...you understand me?"

The pig blinked. Then it's face lit up. "You understand me?" It sounded gleeful and incredulous. It sounded like a girl as well. Red just looked to the ring on her finger. This happened after the ring glowed. What the hell did I just find? Her heart pounded. She gulped. She got to her feet, shivering.

"...Do you want to eat me?" Red figured she should know that now and decide waht to do after. The pig was quiet. It looked up at her.

"No. I want to follow you." It gave her big red brown orbs of hopefulness. Red looked to the corpse on the beach. The waves were already taking the blood to the sea. The blood looked strangely dark and brown. Her eyes widened. She sensed something was here. Grabbing the pig that squealed in surprise she ducked into the small alcove, peering around the edge towards the beach. A strange ship had just landed on the grassy hill right near the entrance of the beach.

"Be quiet for a sec, will you," Red whispered to the pig, holding a finger to her lips. The pig quieted. Red grabbed her sleeve and dipping it in sea water tried to help dry the blood off the pig's lips. The Pig squirmed.

"Ah. Ah. What are you doing?" The pig's squeakling was going to give them away. Red held it and clamped her hand over it's snout.

"Shush. If they find out you did this, they may think you're a threat." She explained as she finished getting the blood off for the most part. The pig wriggled. Red peeked back over the side. There was a blonde young man with a young woman with interesting pigtails. They were observing the corpse. The blonde was chatting but Red couldn't hear because she was further away. She was glad she'd found a small mini outdoor alcove further away from that side of the shore. Staying crouched with pig-chan in her arms, she watched as the young man pointed to some tracks in the sand. Red gecked. Shit! They'd lead right to them! Damnit! She looked to her left. Nothing but ocean. Fuck. She glanced up. She could climb the sand hill and try to force her way onto the grass hill above. She had to plan this right. No sudden-

"Ah, I found something over here, Tsukumo!" The male voice said, as a pair of dark green leggings appeared before Red's nose.

-Movements.

FUCK. Red hugged the pig who was wriggling in her arms as she looked up into the strangest pair of eyes she's ever seen. He's not human. He's also really fucking hot. What the hell. She tensed. "G-Go! Bite him Pig-chan!" She yelled throwing the pig. It smacked into his chin with a squeal muffled with his yelp. As both collapsed into the sand, Red wondered if he really was a threat as he fell back into the water and got soaked, sitting on his ass in the shore line. The pig scuttled back to Red and hid behind her. "Uh….oops."