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The next sensation I felt was falling on my butt. After a few moments of blinking my eyes to try and get rid of the spots the bright lights had given my vision, I was able to look around and see where I was. The walls of the cave were long gone, as was the snow for that matter. Almost inconceivably, I found myself staring out at a perfect summer meadow. The place looked like it had been plucked right from a painting. The grass was a vibrant green and the wildflowers scattered about where made up of bright yellows and deep blues. Was I in Hawaii or something? Last I remembered it was the dead of winter with snow covering everything, but this place looked like a summer paradise.
"What the heck have I gotten into?"
My body stood up slowly, offering my tired eyes a better view of this new place. I scanned the surrounding area and spotted what looked like a rabbit hiding a few feet away in the bushes. As silly as it seemed, I was glad to see another form of life. That at least meant I was still on Earth.
I tore my gaze from the rabbit and looked down to the platform under my feet. The large platform appeared to be a large stone that had intricate designs carved delicately on it. I floated a few feet above it and looked down at the strange designs. From the sky you could see the pattern the carvings made; All of the designs worked together in a twirling like motion to create one gigantic swirl in the middle of the platform.
My curiosity was curbed as I heard a noise in the bushes behind me that was far too loud for a small rabbit. I turned around to face the source of the noise, and saw what looked like a very tall and extremely muscular man standing in the clearing no more than three feet away from me. As my hands started to move up to push the hood of my jacket back, so I could get a better view of this monster sized creature, he pulled out a large gun. I figured it would be best to see exactly what it was this guy thought he was going to do before I attacked him. As long as he didn't know the bullet would do practically no damage to me, I had the upper hand.
"So, you've returned to the scene of the crime?" His voice was the deepest I had ever heard.
"Crime?"
"Don't play innocent with me," He took a step closer and kept his gun out, "Now give back the jewels, thief."
"Thief?" I blinked and stepped back from him as he kept coming closer with his eyes fixated on my necklace. How was it that I had been in this place for a total of three minutes and I was already a criminal?!
"Don't make this hard. Just come along quietly."
I furrowed my brow and gave him a sarcastic chuckle, "Look, I don't know what you think I did, but this is my necklace and you are wasting my time." I gave the angry guard a small wave then flew up into the air. Strangely, he didn't desperately fire off his gun into the air like most of my past opponents. The man just stood there staring up at me as I began to fly away.
"Well that is a kinda anti-climactic way to en-"
A sudden force rammed into my side and sent me flying across the clear sky. I was able to catch sight of the attacker since he did not move after ramming me. The young man had black eyes and dark brown hair, but the strangest thing of all was the pair of wings jutting out of his back. My mind momentarily flashed back to meeting Angel with Scott, which proved to be a bad use of brainpower as another hit came hurtling at me from the opposite side.
I flew between the two attackers with such speed that I swore they thought I was a ping-pong ball. But, after a few more hard hits I was able to get out of the trap and start flying away as fast as I could. The thought of leaving a fight was a bit chicken-ish, but in all truth I wasn't leaving anything. The two winged guards were right on my tail as I tried to get away. They didn't stop the pursuit as I started to weave through the trees. In fact, they must have known the forest better then I, because they caught up to me easily.
As I made it out of the thicker section of the forest and into another clearing, a more painful attack hit me and threw me into the grass covered ground. I wasn't sure who had hit me, but I felt pain from the hit so they must have been powerful. I spit out the dirt in my mouth then started to push my body up so I could get into a defensive pose. Even if I was outnumbered, and possibly out-powered too, I wasn't going to go down without a fight. Once my stance was established, I tried to get a read on where my attackers were, but once more a hard and painful hit sent me flying.
I felt my body smack the ground hard once more and knew instantly that I would feel it in the morning. Then again, I reminded myself, if I didn't push my ass up right now I wouldn't have a tomorrow morning. My mind tried desperately to force my sore body to move, but my limbs were just too exhausted from all the flying and fighting. Even as one of the pursuers reached down and pushed my hood back to show my face, I found I couldn't move.
The last thing I heard before the lights went out on me was the man with deep voice letting out a long groan, "Shit…"
