Domino Effect
The first thing she noticed before she opened her eyes was the sudden heat soaking her body like a second, thicker skin. Sweat already needled pointed her brow and curves of her neck till the moisture netted within her sleeveless red t- shirt. Bugs flew pass her ears like her ear space were warzones they participated in with full honor. The buzzing alerted her to swat in every direction for sweet remedy, snapping her senses to full alert.

The sun brightness brung the sun even more justice as the heat alone had proved to do on its own. Woven through knitted branches, the light managed to beam through an opening right above her, making the details of her new surroundings harder to take into vision. She rolled over onto her knees, twigs and pine tossed together with grass blades and leaves scrapping at the skin of her hands, and from the scratching along her neck, tangled through her hair. Finally, the brightness dimmed to the forest greens and deep browns of the trees that towered from every direction around her. Sunlight peaked through the tree tops enough to illuminate the floor below, but the lush of growth failing to prevent the heat.

Cassie slowly sat up, the weight of her backpack making its presents known. Her vision swam, everything blurring into shapes and bright colors, before things pieced back together, a fixed puzzle. She whipped away the tree dubris from her bare skin and untangled the pieces from within her hair.

Thank goodness, Ashley talked me into getting that hair cut a few weeks ago. Cassie thought, taking into full appreciation, her shorter and layered hairdo that brushed just below her neck. The new style burned away all past images of her once long and thicken do she sported long before she became a ranger. Her treats and complaints she had screamed before in protest as Ashley had lured her into a suprise trip to the hair saloon seemed pointless now. Cassie knew Ashley would just love to point that fact out.

That was when Cassie made one very crucial acknowledgement.

Ashley had not said anything.

No one had...Because, no one was even around!

" Guys?" Cassie whipped her head froom side to side, hoping her vision was deceiving her. " Hello! Someone answer me! Where is everyone one?"

It was when no replies came that Cassie looked around her to find that she was completely alone in the encircle of trees and the echoing sounds of the wild. She jumped up and down on the bend of her feet, her bag bouncing against her back as she stretched her neck in hopes of spotting anyone, but there was only miles of forest in every direction she looked.

" Hello!" Cassie screamed, the heat limiting her energy, she helplessly spent. She listened intently for a second and heard nothing. "Aww, man..." She groaned.

Cassie hiked up her pack, grasping the strapps along either side of her shoulders, the weight zapping a quarter of her energy, instantly, despite the design of bag being leveled, so it wouldn't weigh her down. Finding no reason to stay in one place, Cassie picked a direction and started walking.

Elsewhere
Aisha felt like she had been walking for hours. The trees didn't help, making each step she took as if she were retracing a path she already walked. The heat made her dizzy enough on its own, her body felt as if it were held within one big oven. She wondered for a long time how they had managed to all get seperated, but found it hard to think and concentrated on nothing other than, her feet carrying her.

" Thank god, I'm wearing shorts." She mumbled, failing helplessly in her mind to try and look at the bright side of things. Already, her jean shorts and yellow tank stuck to her skin, damped with sweat. She had managed to place her braided hair into a pony-tail, the ends causing her shoulders to itch.

Aisha walked along the hard ground, branches breaking into splinters and the dry leaves crunching beneath her tennis shoes. Outside the fact, she was separated from the group and was lost, Aisha couldn't help, but admire the lush green tropical rain forest around her. The entire ground was blooming green with vines and roots, grounded tress that reached several stories to touched the sky. The tree tops shielded her from the suns full blown heat rays flooding through the tree limbs, its horridness touching the ground with a life of it own.

The yellow ranger stopped walking, whipping sweat away from her eyes as her mouth dried to her tongue. She swung her backpack off, the bag boxy and hard case shape a decent weight in her arms to suggest that was indeed something she might need inside. Her fingers ran over the outside of the silver case and located a button near the top, she pushed it and the bag broke the rectangle shape to allow access into her kitbag.

She rummaged through it enough to keep everything neat to where she could replace it back without any trouble. Aisha was surprised to find as much stuff in it than she suspected. A laser blaster stood out first, small and slick, but nonetheless deadly upon fire. A plastic container held nutrition bars and various fruits to eat, along with eating utensils that appeared to be a knife, spoon and fork. Below that container, a gray bundle of fabric that she unwrapped to show a thin hooded sweater for weather completely opposite from the rage of heat that attacked her. She dug deeper, another item prominence along the bottom, a blanket and a small pillow.

Either there were no tents small enough to nessle in a napsack or her bag wasn't the one carrying one. Not that it mattered to her right at that moment. The day looked a long ways away from sundown, so she would worry about shelter then, right now all she cared for was finding her some water. She emptied the overnighter, but found no source of water to quench her thirst.

"Perfect!" Aisha muttered, refilling her napsack with the contains she emptied from it. She closed the top and studied the pack more thoroughly, the outside was hard shelled compared to the inside, which was padded soft like the same padded fabric from the straps and the side that rested against her back. She looked more closely at the shell part of the bag, designed as if it held compartments groved with the same deep lines that told her where the button was to open her baggage.

Aisha pressed a cylinder shape compartment along the side that slight bulged out, the side of the the cylinder slid open to reveal a small handheld flashlight and an extra set of batteries. Aisha reclosed it and tried the next one. The second compartment was more boxed shape, no bigger than her hand, it popped open outward, allowing her to widen it to see what laid inside. A box of matches, needle and tread, first aid, and a utility knife that held various tools on either side.

"Don't tell me they supplied us with everything, but water." She said as she shook her head with disbelief. Aisha tried the last compartment, a small circle, she pressed it and was surprised to see that the circle popped out to reveal a small cylinder no bigger than the palm of her hand. She pulled it out and studied the small shape, expecting something to fall out of it, but only saw a full shaped cylinder with both sides capped off.

"What the hell?" She mumbled as she examined the circle more closely. Along the sides of the shape, fine lines encircled close to the top for the signature sign that there was an openning. Aisha unscrewed the cap, hopeful and critical of her findings all at once.

Within the small cylinder as she had feared was the water.

Aisha cursed under her breath as she preceeded to glup down the little portion of cold liquid in what would be a matter of milliseconds, only to find that the cylinder never stopped flowing with fresh water. The yellow ranger gazed at the container, bewildered and awestruck. She looked within the cup to find it as full as it was before she took a drink from it. Aisha didn't know how that was possible, but didn't bother to complain either. She swallowed down her fill and replaced the container back into its space on her bag, before hostling it onto her back again.

Aisha started walking again, when...

RRRAWRRR!

Aisha haulted as the sound tore through the silence in the air. From above, the beatings of wings caught air as little animals scattered out of sight. The source of the bellow that shook the creatures awake was unrecognizable, something disturbed and angered...and nearby. That was a telltale sign that it was definitely time to leave. Aisha threw a strap off one shoulder to hit the button on her pack and grab for her blaster.

RRRAAWRRR!

The call was closer than before.

GRRAAWRRR!

Very close, Aisha thought, her heart starting to pound against her chest. Move, 'Sha! Everything in her screamed. She heard something snap behind her only a few feet away and instantly bolted. Whatever it was, she didn't want to be the one around to see what it was.

Elsewhere
"Taylor!" Came a loud voice.

The yellow wild force ranger spun around instantly crouched into a fighting stance, scared out of her wits, before she gained her fighting senses.

Taylor had no idea where she was and where everyone else had ended up, waking up and believing for a second that maybe she had dreamed the entire scenario in her sleep. Only it wasn't a dream, things never came, so easyly for a ranger. That she should have already known.

Taylor exhalded a breath of pure relief, her muscles untensing as she saw a familiar face walk into view.

" Are you out of your mind!" Taylor raged, throwing up her hands. " Do you always come up behind people like that? Do you have any idea what I could have done to you!"

"Whoa! Calm down, I didn't mean to frighten you." Kelsey said, smiling as she stepped closer to her. " I'm just so happy to have found someone else in this place."

"You didn't scare me, just surprised me that's all." Taylor lowered her voice as she eased off, her own spirits settling in the company of the yellow ranger, where fear and loneliness had started to take the best of her.

"Right..." Kelsey said, eyeing her strangely in a way that said she thought differently. " Anyway, I'm guessing you had as much as luck as I've had finding any of the others."

"Other than finding you, no luck at all, but I'll take this as a good start." Tayler took the opportunity to take a seat along a fallen tree limb that looked strong enough to hold more than her weight.

Kelsey took a seat next to her.

" I saw you through that break of trees over there. I knew it was you almost right away. I figured, slacks and dress shirts wasnt a common attire for the natives around here." Kelsey chimed in light humor. Taylor rolled her eyes after delivering her a pointed glare that Kelsey happily ignored. " So this is the planet Platos everyone is so worked up about, eh?"

" I guess so," Taylor took off her pack to welcome the needed relief off her back and shoulders. "All I know is, I want to hurry up and get this over and done with, so we can rescue Eric." Taylor added a second later, "And Cole and everyone else."

" Eric, huh? Didn't he work with the Time Force rangers?" Kelsey reminisced on the history of power rangers. " The red quantum ranger?"

" Yeah," Taylor shifted slightly under Kelsey's studying gaze.

" Oh, I get it now."

"Get what?" Taylor retorted, hunching over to rummage through her pack. "There's nothing to get."

"Except that attittude you've had since we were assigned this mission." Kelsey snapped back with an amused undertone.

"Kelsey, lets get something straight, I do not like Eric, if that's what you're trying to hint at and second of all, not like its any of your business...Wait! No. Actually, it is none your business." Taylor grumbled as she began withdrawing item after item from her pack and onto the ground on automatic. "And where the hell is the water in these things!"

Kelsey reached over and popped the circle on Taylor's pack, handing her the small cylinder, motioning her to unscrew the cap. Taylor gazed from the small portion of water to Kelsey and back.

Silence fell over the two for a moment.

"So," Kelsey said slowly as she reached for her own cup of water. " You have it in for Eric that bad, huh?"

Taylor glared at Kelsey incredulously as the yellow ranger drunk from her water, nonchalant.

Somewhere In Space...
They stood in silence, under a blinding cast of light, where from their toes and beyond was oceans of darkness that screamed like the gates of hell before it opened to flood you with embers more scorching than the suns. The heaviness of their breathing echoed off the solid walls that surrounded them from whatever distance they stood, but their hearts pounded deadly in their ears.

They waited for what seemed like eternity, dragged away from their freezing cell in bone crushing grips that could easily tear at their bones in their famished and emasculated states. For days, they were starved, given only the chills of water that was splashed hatedly at their faces like ice picks to revive them, like the pain of energy currents that stopped and restarted their hearts more than once. Their were tears spilt and blood dispensed from their bodies onto the hands and blades of their enemies. Freedom came only in their dreams, dangling infront of their closed lids in the few blissful seconds they achieved rest or gained unconsciousness to graze their hearts by the tips of its fingers.

They were hustled of ledge after ledge, tortured and tormented beyond belief, but never had they been brought together to share their unescapable fates. They were left tied against pillars with cold, biting chains around their torso, ankles, and wrists. The silence drove them to insanity, making them wonder, if they were going deaf, until a single snap echoed and a light fell upon the floor in a single beam before them.

" I have a present for you, Tommy." Came a deep thoarty voice. A soft growl hissed as he laughed in appreciation of Tommy's weaken heart expressing through his eyes and body language. Tommy lifted his head, his eyes in thin slits, weighed with sweat and insomnia. " I have a present for all of you in fact, in the deepest regards of my queen."

"G- go to hell, Jaze." Tommy forced through his dry and peeling lips.

" You'll be there first." Jaze replied, cooly.

The general stepped into the light like a creeping mist over a lake, the shadows hanging on to him as if he were an angel of death. His piercing eyes burned in the dark like torches. Behind him two of his white cladded soldiers, half carried and half dragged, a hidden form that shaped into a familiar presence. The rangers gasped in horror as they brought the woman fully into the light. Looking at her from the edge of the light, they saw tears had trailed down her cheeks, slipping from the red buffiness of her eyes and sliding down to the ripeness of her pouty lips. Her long hair laid damp over her shoulders as if cold water had been poured over her. Her deep breaths echoed softly throughout the room as she struggled to gather air within her lungs. Her clothes were ripped and torn, revealing patches of bare skin along her body.

Tommy felt as if his heart had failed to the point he could finally not be revived. He couldn't breathe, his soul imploded in a spiral of emotions that overtook him through the past years he had fought to free himself of till this day. Tears couldn't express themselves profoundly anymore, they were beyond reaching the new definition of agony that Tommy had set to a new level that paralyzed him. No torture was worse than what he was feeling now, torment bleed everywhere from him. There was just no existing words crafted to explain what Tommy was feeling.

He tighten his eyes, his pupils forcing his vision to hold onto the sight of her. His tears rivered down his face in unstoppable currents through the rough stubble of a beard that was beginning to grow. The woman looked up with harden slit eyes that softened at the sight of him. Their eyes pieced and fused their souls in the distance.

"Tommy, its..." Jason whispered softly to him. He didn't want to believe what he was seeing, he couldn't believe that the sight was real. Not after so many years. "Its..."

Jason spoke, but Tommy zoned him out, mesmerized by the former pink ranger's eyes, holding onto the way she looked at him. The image would forever embed his mind.

" T- Tommy...!" She choked upon the letters of his name.

"Kimberly!" Tommy jumped out against the tightness of his chains, a new strength coursing through his blood and awakening his soul. Jason jumped aginst his own harnesses just the same. Neither one of them could burst free.

"Oh god, no! Kim!" Tommy screamed till his throat numbed in its stricken dryness, but he didn't feel it, all he felt was the thriving passion to burst free from his restraints.

" I knew you would be most pleased, Tommy." Jaze laughed, grabbing Kim by the base of her hair, yanking it back, so the light rushed down on her face. She cried in pain, Tommy's own heart screaming along with her. " It took us no time to find her and we can find your other friends, too."

" Let her go!" Tommy growled, the veins in his arms and neck stretched as he did everything in his power to get to Kim. " Let her go or I swear...! I swear to god, Jaze, I'll kill you! Do you hear me!"

"Silence!" Jaze roared, tossing Kimberly aside and stomping towards him. Jaze stood directly infront of Tommy, their eyes fusing together in a heated collision like two speeding trains bolting toward one another. Both glared deep within the other, two warriors eloped in silent battle that flared beyond anything ever fought.

The long stealthy blade of Jaze's sword was mute as he pulled it from the black and silver designed sheath at his waist. The blade gleamed a burning silver as he held it threateningly infront of Tommy's face.

" You have no idea how long I've been waiting for this moment, Tommy. To kill you, pierce through your skin with my sword and set your soul free to even where the heavens can't mend it. And to have you beg for mercy and stain my blade, before even your blood courses down it." Jaze's eyes danced like crimson flames. " It shall be honorable nonetheless, the greatest ranger of all time defeated by the greatest of all generals for the universes glorious dark queen!"

" Honorable? You have me tied." Tommy said, seething in a low and steady voice. " Let me go, and I'll show what a great ranger can really do."

"Tommy, no! Argh!" Kimberly screamed in pain as the two hitchmen violently yanked her to her feet. Kim tried to yank her arms from their steel grasp, but the more she fought the tighter they held on to her. She grunted, clamping her teeth together to surpress the pain that welled up within her.

" Let her go, Jaze and take me!" Tommy felt his emotions split, ripping wide in the pure white flames of rage he felt for the warrior before him and the woman who in an instant held all of him within her.

Jaze barked out a laugh.

" As they say, Tommy, ladies first." He lowered his sword and raised his free hand at Kimberly. His powers vined up his arm to his fingers forming an energy orb in his palm.

The red rangers shouted in protest, but with glorious speed, the orb left Jaze's gloved hand and flowed right into Kimberly's chest. Kimberly's mouth opened to scream, but the cry never left her lips as the energy ran through her, so hotly her body shivered and withered dry of life.

Jaze's eyes didn't bother to unglue from Tommy's face, needing to soak up every ounce of agony that tidal waved through him like an unstoppable tsunami.

Tommy cried wordlessly and pure passionately with emotion. His chains started to cut at his torso more deeper than before, retearing the scabs that had begun to heal and cutting the unbroken skin that was available as he used every bit of his being to get to her. The veins in his neck popped, eyes bulged and muscles tightened against the chains that only creeked in protest.

The orb sank into Kim's flesh, her eyes sapping dull and lifeless as her body dropped to a heap on the cold floor. Red streams found pathways out her ears, lips and eyes. Tommy screamed in agony, tears just pouring out of him as he sobbed.

" No...oh god...oh, please god, no! Kim...Don't take Kim...God!" Nausea turned his stomach.

Jason froze stiff as he looked at his fallen friend that he couldn't protect. That at first, he couldn't find and now he couldn't save, embrace, and anything and everything else with that the last seven years had robbed of them both. His tears blurred his vision, Kim's petite figure becoming a mash of fused color. He blinked his eyes only to once again see with a clear vision, the lifeless form of the only person he ever called his sister.

And on top of that, he knew he had lost a brother the same instant he lost Kim. Jason looked over to his brother and best friend, wanting to do anything to prevent the deaths within this day and the future. In Tommy, he saw himself, and the love of a woman, he valued more than anything life had to offer. He saw what Trini's death would take from him.

If anything were to ever happen to her...Suddenly, his heart and conscious attacked him. Everything in him just hurt; he hurt for his friends, for himself, the thought that it could have been Trini instead of Kim, and the guilt of being thankful that it wasnt Trini.

Everything just hurt...and Jaze bathed in it as if pain was blissful.

Jaze grinned as he watched Tommy cry out for the former ranger in pain. As the original red ranger stared out helplessly to his former partner and murmured her name in weakness. The other red rangers could only look on in silence, powerless at what to do, crazed at the thought of seeing one of their own love ones dead, and understanding that torment had finally exceeded inflicting pain on them, but on to their loved ones as well.

The message was recieved.

A grand success!

The last thing Jaze wanted to do was to hide his delight at their idiocy. Even more than that, the last thing he really didnt want to do was keep them alive.

They're all fools, unworthy, Jaze mused, darkly. Nothing worth even pitying. These were the great power rangers? Hardly a challenge and completely imcompetent. How shameful!

So he laughed.

Laughed with glee at the raging of the most legendary of all rangers threats and feeble broken heart. He would give anything to have the real pink ranger here just to kill her again. To kill every ranger that ever set face amongst the universe that should fear him and his queen. That should be within their ruling and fall subject to their power.

And it would happen in the end.

The plan was unfolding, perfectly.

Tommy cried bloody murder, a blissed fury that was cold against whatever sat in place of Jaze's heart. His words meant nothing. He would kill them one by one, when all was over, they would all die by his blade and he would succeed in what others could never do. All this when the proper time presented itself. For now, he would take the upmost pleasure in redeeming his yearnings with what he was ordered to do next, if that could bring him any ounce of justice.

Jaze approached the red ranger, his blade raised at his waist, his hand grasped onto the hilt tightly. Within the last couple of feet between them, his sword lashed forward with keen accurarcy through Tommy's chest. The words became dead on his lips, the last few breaths escaping in straggled gaspes of breath. Jaze carefully embodied his powers through his wicked blade within the flesh of the body on the other end. The others screamed, but their voices were like annoying buzzes flying pass his ears.

They merely were here to witness.

Tommy leaned forward heavily on his restrains, his body still held erect in the chains tightness. The wicked blade pulled out as easily as it went in, dripping at the edge with prized blood. He flashed the sharpness of his teeth to the one called Jason, the human bellowing out till his throat became raw and he cried more beyond that.

Just as quick and easy, he sliced the holding from Tommy's body and had his servants collect his remains. They dragged him away, out of sight from the rest of the rangers, and soon after dragged away the one they called Kimberly.

"Take them back to the cell." He ordered the remaining of his hitchmen.

Jaze turned his back on the collection of red rangers and walked away, the blood on his sword leaving small pools of crimson behind him in trails to his rising triumph over their pathetic little lives.

Elsewhere
Trini wiped her brow with her arm, the scorcing heat ripping at her skin. Only a few hours into the mission and they were already having trouble...Again!

She grasped the crystal that hung around her neck, the sun caused its body to shine more brilliantly and even in the extreme heat, it could not rob it from its cool temperature. She let it go from her fingers and allowed it to rest against her neck bone, beads of sweat running around it, cooling her with what little they could give.

Trini was still amazed by her surroundings. The trees around her stretched on forever it seemed, all bloomed to a lush of green and more breathtaking than trees she had ever seen on earth. She saw flowers buds bigger than her fists and some already bloosmed with petals that stretched out from the length of her elbow to the tip of her middle finger. The color peterns were painted in every color imaginable, all equally beautiful and exotic.

I wish Jason could see this, She thought, sadly.

A cold chill ran through her. The thought made her realize how much she truly missed the original red ranger. Up till now, she fought hard not think about him and to keep herself concentrated on the mission, on being leader of a team, but her heart overwhelmed her till she found herself needing to be with him more than anything else. Till he invaded her thoughts despite her urgency was to just get through the day without imagining the worse rather than the best she was striving for each day.

Trini smiled as she remembered the way his hand would run up and down her arms, before his arms enclosed themselves around her, and he gave her that look he knew sent her over the edge. The look that drove her deeper into him and held onto her. Trini's eyes drifted close for a brief second as she lost herself within the memory and she walked mindlessly through the trees into an opening in the tropical forest.

Plop!

Trini sheirked in surprise. She tried to move her legs...she couldn't. She was stuck! Trini opened her eyes to find herself knee deep in the ground.

Quicksand, Trini thought, incredulously. I close my eyes for a few seconds and I fall into quicksand! And not ordinary quicksand either.

Trini studied the ground more closely, the surfaced bubbled and spiraled around her knees then pulled her in a few more inches to her thigh without an ounce of movement to aggravate it. Quicksand responded to movement, Trini knew that and had gone dead still once she realized what it was that she stepped in, but the ground was sucking her in anyway.

And tightened.

It clenched her legs together and drug her from the edge of solid ground as if it had a life of its own. Vines reached across tree branches that hung nearby, but no branch nor vine was close enough for her to grasp and pull herself free. And if she moved, her upper body could topple into the clenches of the sand.

Trini was just stuck and sinking further into the liquids grip.

Elsewhere
RRRAAWRRR!

GRRAAWRRR!

Aisha pushed herself harder.

Faster.

The taunting sound of danger growing louder behind her. Something broke through the trees trying to catch her, hunt her for a nights fest. Her chest burned and pierced with pressure from trying to collect some fresh air to breathe, her legs screamed for her to stop, tensed and sore to the point she was sure they would crumble beneath her. Branches and bushes she passed scraped her bare legs and arms as she darted through them with no awareness of what lurked beyond them, the snaps and crunches of the broken pieces alerting all creatures nearby.

Aisha prayed for them to be quiet.

She was exhausted and the heat made her daze and stumble from an instant of dehydration in the intense heat. She couldnt feel anything but the thumping of her heart anymore and the sweat slicking her body and moisening her hand that grasped her blaster. The warning shots she took every so often behind her in the creatures direction didn't stop it from charging forward.

She could her the limps of thick tree limps bending away and snapping like twigs with no chance of resistance against the animal's body.

GRRAAWRRRLL!

Its roar was gettting louder by the second. Aisha was terrified that if she were to stop its breath would be breathing down her neck in no time, before it took a bite right out of her throat.

She was wrong.

Aisha took a bold second to glance over her shoulder and saw the beast hurling forward only a feet away from her heels. She didn't need to stop for it to catch up, it was doing that just fine with her running at full speed.

"Someone help me!" The trees she ducked through, threw themselves to the ground as the pursuer sprinted through them on four legs and feet that punched the ground hard, causing the ground to shake beneath her feet. Aisha glanced back again and this time was gifted with a clearer view of her attacker.

"Ahhhhhhhh!" She screamed at the top of her lungs.

Its body was shaped as a furless grizzly bear with clear green slim slicked over its body and twice the size of an average grizzly. Its mouth was lipless and exposed needle thin sharp teeth that caused its jawline to bulge out. Its body was pure muscle that pumped with each gaint leap he took that reminded her of a leopard speeding forward. Its two eyes popped out of its head in a sickening way with red pupils ill with yellow corneas that bathed around it like tears.

Aisha stumbled forward, her foot catching hold against a jagged rock that sent her hurling forward onto her hands and knees and tearing away the sensitive skin. Her blaster flew out of her sweaty hand and sailed beneath a bush a good distance away from her. She grimaced as a shooting pain coursed through her leg and ripped skin, but couldnt worry about that now, she had to keep running. But by the time she got back up to her feet, the beast had closed in the remaining distance between them.

The creature blasted forward, striking her down to the ground like an eighteen wheeled truck with faulty breaks. Her backpack snapped off her shoulders as if it were tied onto her back by cheap thread. The wind was knocked out of her lungs and her back screamed bloody mary as the beast's massive clawed paw cut three seven inch cuts along her back. The former ranger screamed in tears as she felt her skin tearing open with the blades of claws. The pain was enough to send her into a coma and seeing the trees around her popping in flashs of white from the pains intensity. She reached behind her back to feel wetness touch her fingers, dazed, terror-stricken, and trembling beyond her control as she pulled her fingers back to find blood.

Her blood.

Aisha tried to scramble backwards away from the monster, but she knew the slightest movement would get her killed faster. Tears clouded her eyes as the monster hovered over her, its mouth drooling in hunger and dripping globs of thick saliva onto the ground around her head. It raised a massive paw with its claws outstretched, Aisha's body tensed, preparing for the shock of another impact. She couldn't breath, its breath sufficated her making it extremely hard to inhale and exhale, more or less take in its revolting odor.

She waited for the darkness to come as the hulking forepaw decended downward.

Her eyes tightened shut.

"RWOAR!" The beast bellowed up towards the sky.

Voices called for her to get away as the monster roared wildly as if in agony and pounded the ground around her in inaccuracy of its laid out target. Aisha could feel the air shift and soften to her lungs as the breath of the beast was removed from over her. Slowly, she opened her eyes to see the net of treetops above her and next her in a lifeless heap, the native beast. Bloody holes seered with steam from the shoots heat and freed yellow plasma through the mess of mucus coated skin of the creature's tank built body. It jaw dangled open, releasing a long, snaked tongue with large lumps swelled on its surface across the needles of its forearm length teeth.

A voice muffled against her ears as her heart erupted louder than anything else around her. She felt something touch her shoulder and she jumped in shock as pain fused through her nerves from the split skin making open contact with the hard, tree dubris ground beneath her. More hands tried to grasp for her, but her vision hazed and danced with black shadows and tears that burned her eyes.

She fought harder, the pain blinding her senses as the eyes that gazed down at her blended into a spiral of darkness and she began to find it hard to move her mouth. Gravity pushed her limbs flat and still on the surface of the floor and the pummeling of her heart against her chest hit her hard till she became entranced by its rapidness.

Her head bobbed to the side as a wave of daziness over took her and saliva leaked out the corners of her mouth riding off the heaviness of her tongue, before the darkness struck her with full force.

Pulling her into nothing.

TBC

Authors Note: I found a loop hole to get my writings done, so I spent all day yesterday and my time before work today to upload this chapter. Sorry about my rants and rives in the last chapter, just a bad day, but even then I should have realized that there are people who suffer much worst than I do, so I could have dealt with my 'pains' easily. Anyway, I'll go back and make edit corrects on chapter 13 when the day grants me the time to do so. Until then, thank you for the 19 reviews on chapter 12 ( The highest review tally for a chapter within this story!), the 13 reviews of chapter 13 and all the rest since the beginning. You guys are truly the best!

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