Chapter 21: On the Run
I was doing a great job at holding my own against the never-ending swarm of monsters that came out at night. It didn't matter whether the world decided to throw zombies, skeletons, creepers or endermen at me, because I was just too strong for them.
Another lumbering green-skinned zombie limped close to me. I quickly ran over to it with Miss Butter in my hand and slashed it across the chest, sending the clumsy monster flying back first onto the grass with a low groan and making it close it's eyes as it vanished from existence, leaving behind puffs of smoke with that unmistakeable POOF! I loved to hear so much.
"Yeah!" I cheered as the smelly vomit-coloured creature disappeared. "Come on world, is that all you've got?! Give me a real fight!" And by some coincidence, as if the world itself was listening to my request, the earth started to shake violently as loud, booming footsteps came closer and closer to me. The powerful tremors that whatever was behind me was making knocked me off my feet and onto the blanket of grass.
When the brutal earthquakes stopped, an upside-down face came into my view as it just stayed there, laughing as if to mock me. I got back up on my feet and examined the giant being that was looming above me from bottom to top. This colossal character was wearing brown shoes, long black pants, a brown belt, green shirt, black jacket, and he was just crouching down on his knees, staring at me with his devious lime green eyes and evil grin.
"Aiden?!" I gasped as I found myself frozen in place. How did he get so big?! Did Ivor make growing potions too at some point?! The nefarious titan-sized person I wished to forget grabbed me in his hand, clenching the body part into a fist and bringing me up to his face.
"Aaaaaah! Let go of me! Can't breath! Crushing lungs!" The amount of pressure that Aiden was putting on me made me feel like he was squeezing me to death! I couldn't escape from his tight grasp even if I tried...
"Long time no see, Petra..." The smug rascal greeted me, refusing to wipe that malicious smile off his face. I couldn't say anything, for Aiden's intimidating size and petrifying gaze made me too scared to even speak back to him. "Don't know how to greet an old face? Well... Down the hatch for you then!" The huge bully then opened his big, cavernous mouth and started bringing me close to it. Was he going to eat me?!
"AIDEN, NO!" I screamed as he threw me into his damp, stinky mouth and onto his wet tongue. His gob then quickly shut itself, and Aiden swallowed me down in one gulp. I shrieked at the top of my lungs as I began my descent down Aiden's dark, protracted throat and into the green liquid that was his stomach acid.
I hit the sickening, burning fluids with a SPLASH! and...
"Aaaaah!" As quick as a flash, I opened my eyes and hit my head against whatever I was sleeping on as my body moved itself in fear of the nightmare that I just had. It felt too hard to be my soft, plushy pillow, so guessing from how painful the slam felt, I assumed it was some kind of table. "Ow!" I planted my hand where I hit the back of my head, rubbing the spot where I hurt myself. As I continued to rub my head and ease the pain, I realised I was being greeted back to reality by Aiden, who was making a deceitful face whilst staring at me, along with Gill and Maya who were on both sides of him.
"Who...? What...? Where... How...?" I gasped as I scanned the faces I thought I left behind in the past where they belonged.
"Good morning, Petra..." Aiden purred in a low, venomous voice, which caused my back to gradually become cold. Resuming my desire to scan my surroundings, I saw that I was sitting on a long, cold wooden spruce table, and the room that we were all in was made of oak wood for the lengthy walls and jungle wood for the protracted floor. The pillow that I was resting my head on last night had vanished, along with my bed entirely. The only thing that remained of my mostly pleasant slumber was my red blanket. Aiden kneeled down and brought his giant face closer to me. "Did you... sleep well?" He asked me with a voice of poison.
"Wh... Where am I?! Why are you here?! I thought I rid you from my mind for good, Aiden!" I replied back with panic and hysteria in my voice, throwing my blanket away from my body. Aiden's only response that could even qualify as an answer to my questions was his short fit of diabolical laughter. "Wait a minute..." I pondered, turning around and looking away from Aiden's evil sneering head. "I think I know what's happening! This is just a bad dream within a bad dream! If I close my eyes and count to three, I'll be back in my house in no time!" I covered my chocolate brown eyes with my hands, eliminating my vision as I also closed my eyelids as tight as I could. "One, two, three!" I chanted, making the break with my hands and opening my eyes again, only to have Aiden, Gill and Maya still staring at me. The scenery around me still hadn't changed either, which meant that...
"Petra, how much of a dumbass are you? This is not a dream!" Aiden laughed as he held his sides.
"So basically... You've... kidnapped me or whatever?" I gulped as my body started to shake uncontrollably.
"Mmmm... Pretty much, Pets." Aiden replied with a shrug. I almost cringed when Aiden called me "Pets". I really, REALLY hated it when he called me that...
"But, Aiden... Why? Why would you do this?" I asked my wicked hulking kidnapper. "I was just having a calm, relaxing, beautiful sleep, so why did you have to suddenly kidnap me and take me here? Wherever this place is anyway..."
"Don't you get it, you hotheaded bimbo? I just wanted to serve you right for kicking my heart in the ass all those years ago." Aiden answered.
"So since Ivor accidentally made you the size of a lump of coal, we thought it would be fun to snatch you from your yucky circle of friends and make you our little pint-sized slave for the rest of your life." Maya added in with Aiden.
Well... When Aiden said I kicked his heart in the ass, he certainly wasn't lying...
I was only hanging out with Lukas and the Ocelots until Aiden proposed to be my boyfriend. I thought he wasn't exactly ready for a responsibility that big, but since I made a promise to myself not to upset anyone I was good friends with, I accepted the offer for his sake.
I had a pretty decent time with the guy while our relationship lasted. We went for hikes around the forest, I taught him how to defend himself against monsters, and I even crafted a diamond block for him. I can still remember every detail of that time he almost teared up when I gave it to him.
A week later, that's when Aiden started poking fun at Jesse and his friends, another group of companions I was glad to have the privilege of being in. The guy acted very rudely towards them, calling them "The Order of the Losers", starting fights, and taunting them about how they'd never win an EnderCon building competition in their lives, particularly with Reuben by their side. Needless to say, I didn't like how Aiden rubbed his blustering behaviour off on the rest of the Ocelots except Lukas one bit so... I dumped him.
"Fellow Blaze Rods, get me a chair." Aiden demanded to his comrades as he took off his black jacket and positioned his bottom where he wanted the chair to be. Maya obliged to Aiden's command, got him a wooden chair that was over in the right corner of the wall, and the threatening bully sat down on it when his equally devious girl put the stool in the place he wanted. He then proceeded to plant his legs on the table I was standing on with loud thumping noises and violent tremors which made me lose my balance.
"I don't know what you mean when you say I kicked your heart in the ass... Can you go into a bit more detail, please?" I asked Aiden rhetorically, getting back up. I actually did know what he meant when he said that, but considering me and him were now sworn enemies, I just wanted to fuck with him for the sake of it.
"Oh come on, you stupid airhead!" Aiden exclaimed as he began to take off his brown shoes, revealing his dark blackened socks to compliment his long black trousers. "Do you have no idea of what metaphors mean or what they even are?! You dumped me like I was your wooden pickaxe! I gave you a week of my life for nothing when I could've spent it playing with my real friends and not some backstabbing tomboyish tramp who dresses like a pirate all her life!"
"That was like seven years ago! I thought you got over it!" I retorted, taking offence to how Aiden described me as he threw one of his pitch black socks behind him, hitting Gill in the face just to unveil his giant hulking foot to my small form. "And besides, I thought you would've learned something from the five years you and your pals spent in prison for vandalising Sky City!"
"I don't care..." Aiden muttered back at me as he proceeded to take off his other sock and show off his complete pair of huge, stinky feet. "The fact that you threw away our perfectly good relationship still hasn't changed, especially since you started favouring the Order of the Losers instead of us, and now... it's time for you to pay the consequences..."
"And what is my punishment exactly...?" I inquired, really not wanting to know the answer deep down inside.
"You can start paying for what you did to me by licking every inch of my bare feet clean." Aiden stated, pointing at his sweaty left sole. At first, I thought he was having a laugh... I mean, truly he wasn't expecting me to really lick his feet clean, right?
"Ha ha... You must be kidding, aren't you?" I cracked, holding my nose as I stared at Aiden's colossal soles.
"No, you little nuisance. I am not kidding." Aiden barked back at me in a tone as sharp as daggers piercing through my chest. "I want you to lick... my feet... clean."
"But Aiden, they're not even that dirty!" I complained, looking up at my giant kidnapper's smug face. "It's not like you've been dragging your feet through a swamp of mud or anything! Hell, you're not even in a worthy position to be considered my master so why should I have to do it?!"
"If you don't do as I say, slave, I will let you take a trip inside my shoes and make sure that you'll be crushed like a bug." Aiden threatened me, screwing up his face.
"Okay, Aiden, fine. I will gladly do as you say..." I muttered sarcastically.
"Nuh na nah..." Aiden tutted, sinking the entire weight of his giant hand onto my body! I had to use my own hands, which were really small in comparison to his, to retaliate against Aiden's unspeakable titanic strength! "I don't do sarcasm, Petra... You better give me your most honest answer right now if you want to live any longer."
"Okay okay, I'll do it, just don't squash me please!" I shrieked as I was using up all my strength to prevent Aiden from crushing me with his bare hand.
"Good good." Aiden cooed, bringing his huge hand away from me at last. It was really nice and refreshing to get a breath of fresh air after nearly being crushed by my evil ex-boyfriend. "You may proceed, my tiny servant." He stated, sinking into the wooden chair and putting his gigantic feet out on the table even further.
"Oh boy, here we go..." I sighed to myself, walking reluctantly slow over to Aiden's right foot. I was not looking forward to seeing how revolting this big jerk's feet would taste... I planted my hands on his huge sole and ran my tongue across the meaty hunk of skin, leaving behind trails of my saliva as I licked his titanic foot clean.
"Eugh!" I found myself gagging, immediately taking my tongue off of Aiden's putrid foot. "Yuck!" I rubbed my hands against my possibly contaminated tongue to eliminate the horrid taste of Aiden's crusty feet. "Aiden, your feet taste like mouldy, sweaty, discarded cheese!"
"That's exactly what I wanted to hear from you, Pets." Aiden laughed manically at me. "Turns out you're not so tough when you're licking a giant's feet, huh? Remember, if you've missed even one spot by 8:45, you can say hello to your new role as my supper." My giant ex pat his belly as he said this. I gulped and started sweating and shivering when I heard him say that he was going to eat me for real. I certainly didn't want my bad dream to become a reality if I screwed up my assignment.
By the time I licked about half of Aiden's disgusting right foot clean, I already felt like stopping just to throw up... I just couldn't do it. Aiden's feet tasted like what would happen if Axel put squids, steak, rotten flesh and spider eyes into a blender! The overall taste was just too sweaty and meaty for me to handle!
"Eugh..." I groaned, holding my hands against my mouth. I really did feel like I was going to throw up on the spot. "I can't do it... It's too much... Please, Aiden... Give me a break or something..."
"A break?!" Aiden shouted, taking his feet off the table. "Petra, as my newfound tiny servant, you're not allowed to stop for anything! I don't care if you want to stop just to suck your thumb like a baby! No breaks allowed!"
"You know Aiden, she could actually use a break right now..." Gill added in.
"What?!" Aiden snapped back at Gill, who was resting against the wall. Aiden stomped over to him with an annoyed expression on his screwed-up face. "What did you say, Gill?!"
"I'm just saying, maybe you could be nice enough to give Petra a teensy, weensy little break?" Gill suggested, playing with his hands. "It's just a suggestio-"
"Silence!" Aiden yelled, interrupting Gill's speech and slapping him right on the cheek. "I don't want to listen to another one of your dumb, foolish and counterproductive ideas! How about you actually think before you friggin' speak, Gill?! If you actually did that for once, then you wouldn't be getting the short end of the stick all the time!" The aggressive leader of the Blaze Rods was panting with unspeakable amounts of burning rage. Gill placed his hand over the big red handprint that Aiden left behind on his cheek.
"Owwww..." Gill cried as a tear started to stream out of his eye and down the cheek that Aiden slapped. Don't get me wrong... For as much of a dick that Aiden is, I don't really think that he's a bad leader. But one of these days, the undoing of his position as first-in-command will be... yeah, him being a dick to his friends.
After Aiden let out a grunt that, to me, said "I hope you've learned something from this, you idiot", he came walking back to me, planting his bum on the wooden chair and putting his stinky feet back on the table I was standing on.
"Continue, my servant." Aiden instructed me, pointing at his smelly soles.
"No." I bluntly replied, crossing my arms and turning my back on my giant ex. "If you want your feet cleaned, then why don't you do it yourself, you lazy slimeball?"
"Petra Dakota Johnson, I will have you know that we were boyfriend and girlfriend for about a week..." Aiden hissed, closing his big face in on me. "And now that you're doomed to forever be my servant who will serve me big hand on big foot, you can't say No to any of my demands or be rude to me in any way, got it?"
"You can't say No to any of my demands..." I mouthed Aiden's avalanche of tripe as I played with my gloved hand to imitate his overly large mouth spouting said tripe.
"I'm warning you, young girl!" Aiden yelled at me, his cheeks starting to glow red with fury.
"Yeah! You heard me!" I responded, pushing my face against Aiden's big, fiery brow. "I'm not cleaning your putrid feet! You can go do it yourself because A: I simply don't want to do it for you, and B: That seems like the most logical and quickest solution, no questions asked!"
Aiden scowled at my response and bought his feet off the table to raise his right hand as high as he could to the sky. I simply stared up at his looming, colossal palm as it just stayed there, hovering in the air next to Aiden's frustrated face. Judging from the angle and trajectory of where he put it, there was no doubt that he wanted to crush me like an helpless ant.
"Well, I'll teach you to speak back to your master, you puny midget!" Aiden shouted, bringing his hand down on the table as quick as an whizzing arrow being fired by a skeleton.
"Aaaaah!" After letting out a cry of fear, I dived to my right to avoid getting squashed by Aiden's huge hand. With a thunderous BOOM!, I was sent flying across the table by the "shockwaves" that Aiden's impact produced.
"Whoa!" I exclaimed as I stopped myself and started wobbling on the edge of the table. "Please don't fall, please don't..." I shrieked to myself as the ridiculous 70-foot height of the drop below me made me lose my balance out of fear.
"Nooooooo!" I screamed as I finally lost my footing and began my descent off the table and onto the floor of wooden planks. I shielded my eyes as the timbered surface came closer and closer, until I got an idea. It seemed stupid and illogical, but it was worth a shot if I wanted to survive.
As quick as I could, I slipped myself out of my blue tunic and grabbed onto the armholes, causing it to puff up like a parachute and decrease my rate of descent by a noticeable majority. I was able to stick a harmless landing as my long black boots swiftly touched the ground and I put my tunic back on again. Without taking any time out of my hands to think, I ran as fast as I could towards the hole in the wall that was right in front of me.
"Oh no, you don't!" Aiden shrilled, trying to swat me with his enormous hands but missing by what felt like a mile. I panted as I dashed over to the black tunnel-like hole and avoided Aiden's rampaging blows. I slid into the dark space just before Aiden could crush me under his gigantic palm.
"Hey Petra, you wench! Come out of there!" Aiden screamed, sticking his hand into the hole. I continued to run at the fastest speed my legs could manage to avoid getting grabbed by Aiden's rotten mitt. Once Aiden's hand went as far as it could into the hole, I stopped running and started to catch my breath, letting out sighs of relief as I watched Aiden's hand clamber around the hole for me and slip back out after a few attempts.
"Damn it! She's gone too deep into that hole!" I heard Aiden grumble as I saw his feet walk over to the right. "Guys, keep an eye out for Petra! A target as small as her could reappear anywhere! Gill, you stay in this room! Maya, you scan the living room! I'll search our bedrooms! Don't let that tiny redhead out of your sights no matter what you do!"
When I heard enough of Aiden's strategy, I continued to walk deeper into the hole, my boots thumping through the somewhat metallic surface of this seemingly endless tunnel.
"Ugh, why is it so friggin' dusty in here?!" I complained, shafting my gloved hand across my vision as I started to cough from the abnormal amount of dust that was plaguing this protracted passageway.
It seemed like this grubby, lengthy hole just didn't want to end because it felt like I was going all over the place. Up pseudo-staircases, into dead ends, grates that I couldn't squeeze through, and pretty much everywhere else other than forward.
"Just end already, you stupid hole..." I panted as my body started to give in from walking all over the place. I was starting to have second thoughts about hiding in here, and now, it felt like I was caught between a rock and a hard place. I couldn't go back because retracing my steps would be a long and overly complicated process, I was going into this hole completely blind so I was nowhere near psychic enough to figure out where the exit was... I just didn't know what to do at this point... I curled up into a ball and buried my face in my knees, sighing in defeat as I tried to clear my mind of every "solution" that was out of the question. I didn't even have Miss Butter with me too which was a massive problem. How was I supposed to defend myself like this? Well... Not that I was going to be able to defend myself against some gigantic bullies anyway...
"Well, what if she doesn't come back?" I heard a whiny feminine voice echo through the path in front of me.
"Maya...?" I assumed as I started to walk straight forward again.
"I told you, Maya, you're not allowed to leave this spot until one of us finds Petra!" I heard Aiden's voice bark back at Maya.
I turned left and saw that I was finally at the end of the hole at last. The things that were blocking my exit were Maya's long, protracted legs, her big feet and limbs covered up by her brown shoes and dark blue jeans respectively.
"But Aiden, it's been like fifteen minutes and she hasn't been anywhere to be seen!" Maya complained as I saw her shift her feet around. I should probably just book it when she's away from that hole and Aiden's gone...
"Do I have to inform you again, Maya?!" Aiden shouted. "Until one of us sees Petra crawling her way out of another hole, you cannot leave this spot! Understand?"
"Okay, fine Aiden, I understand! Just leave me alone!" Maya yelled back in response.
"Good girl." Aiden simply commented as I heard him walk away and close a door.
"What's the point?" Maya sighed, seeming to lay her back against the wall. "We're never gonna find her. This is just a waste of our time..." Maya started to take her back off the wall and limp away from the hole as her feet produced violent tremors and booming noises.
"Now's my chance!" I told myself as I ran out of the hole where Maya was standing. Looking to my right, I could see that there was a giant wooden door, which would hopefully lead outside of the Blaze Rods' house. With the intent of minimising as much noise as I could, I sneaked over to the door on my tippy toes, making sure not to firmly plant my boots on the floor. The last thing I wanted to do was to let the Blaze Rods catch me and make me go through the displeasure of licking Aiden's disgusting feet again.
The Blaze Rods' living room wasn't anything too special. Apart from the couch made out of stone slabs and a wooden desk next to Maya's current position, it was pretty barren. There wasn't even a picture of themselves on the wall or any chests for them to store their resources. It was probably one of the blandest living rooms I have ever seen in my life. Of course, I was one to talk since the living room in my mini-house back at the Order Hall was pretty generic too, but since that place wasn't going to be my primary shelter once I got back to normal size, I could really care less about it.
The hulking Maya sighed as she faced a wall to her left. She laid her face on the nearby desk, groaning out of what I guessed was pure frustration and boredom. Well, I can't exactly blame her. I'd be pretty bored and pissed off too if I was forced to keep an eye out for a tiny person who went hiding in a hole.
"Jesus Notch, Aiden..." Maya griped, taking her face off the desk. "I love having you as a friend but you can really be a pain in the ass someti-" The giant girl cut the end of her sentence short when she caught me sneaking towards the door. I simply froze in terror as Maya kneeled down and focused her ocean blue eyeballs on me.
"Oh crap..." I said to myself as my back turned cold and I started to shiver.
"Guys, I found her!" Maya hollered as she bought her hand up to the sky and sent it hurling down to the ground twice as fast as it came!
"DON'T KILL ME!" I shrieked as I barely avoided getting crushed into the floor by Maya's giant hand. A shockwave effect similar to the one that Aiden produced earlier sent me blazing across the ground, but luckily not further away from the door. I quickly clambered back up and ran for the small, thin rectangular hole under the door when I saw Maya raise her foot and position it under me!
"No use trying to run, little girl!" Maya taunted me, bringing her foot down. I screamed as I had no choice but to roll underneath the gap.
"BOOM!" Maya yelled as her big shoe hit the wooden floor with an earth-shaking stomp, in which the shockwave effect actually assisted me in boosting away from her this time.
Thanks to the impact of Maya stomping her shoe on the ground, I was sent whizzing under the gap and into a field of grass outside the Blaze Rods' house. I slowly got back up on my knees, brushing myself off as I let out sighs of relief. "Phew! One metre less and I would've been squashed like a pancake!"
I scanned my surroundings and the vast landscape that led to a blue sky to see if I could find anything that would help me make my escape. I heard rustling coming from my right so I decided to run over there and see what was making that noise. To my surprise, the rustling noises were being made by a brown rabbit. It wasn't that much taller than me compared to the Blaze Rods. The bunny was only about three times my size, which technically made it the smallest creature I've ever run into at this size, excluding the silverfish that me and Jesse met two days ago.
I walked over to the hare's furry leg and climbed up onto it's fuzzy back. The buck just stared at me, watching my small form mount him like I did with Lluna. Hopefully, it wouldn't mistake me for a carrot or anything.
"Come on boy, to Beacontown!" I informed the big rodent, whacking it's neck with both of my hands and holding onto it as soon as the rabbit started bouncing away from the Blaze Rods' house. Every jump the rabbit did made me feel like I was riding on one of those "scary" roller-coasters, which often relied on the tactic of scaring your passengers with big drops and ridiculous speeds to get some kind of reaction out of them. Even though I knew I would be okay by holding onto the hare's nape as hard as I could, I still couldn't help but get the feeling that I was going to fall off it at any moment. And I wasn't expecting this animal to actually know the way back to Beacontown from here... I was just merely making this plan up as I went along.
I heard the big wooden door get kicked open behind us, and I saw that Maya was there pointing at us, with Aiden and Gill by her sides! "There she is!" The naughty giantess exclaimed. "She's trying to ride away from us on that rabbit! Come on guys, let's go get her! Blaze Rods!"
"Blaze Rods!" Aiden and Gill chanted along with Maya as all three of them started to run after me and the bunny. They all proved themselves to be slightly faster than the rabbit I was riding on, which was actually a really big problem since they would most likely catch up to us at this rate! Not that I'd be better off trying to outrun the Blaze Rods on foot anyway...
"Come on Mr. Hopperson, they're gaining on us!" I shouted in one of the hare's long ears. "Faster!" I encouraged my animal of transportation by kicking it in the side. This caused the hare to speed up it's bounding and gradually leave the pursuing Blaze Rods in the dust.
"Whoa, how is she going so fast?!" I heard Gill blurt out behind us.
"That rabbit's one hell of a bouncer!" Aiden yelled as he panted. Hopefully, that guy and the others would run out of breath sooner or later. "Pick up the pace, you guys! Run faster!"
I shifted my attention from the Blaze Rods back to what was ahead of me and the rabbit. "But Aiden..." Maya chuffed. "I don't think we'll be able to catch up to her... My legs are starting to kill me..."
"Mine too..." Gill huffed.
"I don't care whether your legs or your arms are starting to give in, just catch that redhead!" Aiden snarled back at his comrades, which encouraged them to keep running, regardless of how tired they seemed.
"Run, rabbit, run!" I exclaimed to my giant hare, kicking it in the side again to make it accelerate. Instead, the animal just decided to rebel against me and send me flying right off it's back! What?! I don't get it! What did I do to upset it that much?! All I was trying to do was give it a little encouragement!
"Aaaaaah!" I screamed as I flung my arms and legs through the air like a ragdoll. I made a hard landing on the grass, tumbling through the long, green blades and falling into a rushing current of water with a splash! I swam back up as soon as I landed in the tide, gasping for air as I watched the rabbit hop over to the edge and stand there as if to mock me.
"You are truly despicable, you know that?" I rhetorically asked the smug bunny as I got swept away by the current. The Blaze Rods then walked over to the edge as well. Gill crouched down on his knees and pointed to my helpless, floating form sailing away in the water.
"There she is! She landed in that river!" Gill exclaimed. "Sleeves up, Blaze Rods!" Gill and the Blaze Rods then proceeded to roll up their jacket sleeves and follow me around the river, kneeling down and dipping their giant hands in the water when they got close to me. I forced several breast strokes left and right to avoid getting grabbed by the Blaze Rods' intimidating claws.
After a few seconds of evading their mitts, the sounds of rushing water got even louder. And I could definitely see why! The Blaze Rods and I were nearing the danger of the scurrying falls! I dipped in and out of the water and darted in random directions to dodge the Blaze Rods' hands, but I had no idea how to find a safe way out of this! I couldn't go back because the current was too strong and the Blaze Rods were trying to pluck me out of the river, so it seemed like I was just going to have to take a chance and plunge myself down the falls.
As the Blaze Rods splashed their hands in the water behind me, I quickly swam forward on my own command to add some more speed to my movement, most of it coming from the current's unwanted "boost".
"Well, I guess I'm better off down here than back in that rut of a house with them!" I told myself as I lunged forward one final time, descending down the falls before the Blaze Rods could catch me!
"Kaaaaaaaaaah!" I screamed, flailing and swatting at the air like a child jumping off a diving board for the first time. This drop certainly looks longer than I thought it would be! Hopefully I wouldn't die from the impact or whatever! I closed my eyes and held my nose as I plummeted into the big pool of water with a loud splash!
My muffles upon landing in the lake got lost in bubbles. Although the rushing sounds of the falls were still taking up a majority of my hearing, I could still hear the Blaze Rods chatting to one another from up the mountain-sized hill.
"Did you see that, Maya? Man..." I heard Gill comment on my fall.
"There's no way a girl as tiny as her could've survived a fall like that." Maya added in.
"Yeah. My small ex is probably sleeping with the fishes right now." Aiden barked with a blunt tone. "Come on guys, let's head home. We should've known that pain in the ass more better than we actually did."
My lungs felt like they were starting to burn and give in at any moment now, so I kicked up and came gasping out of the water, spluttering and coughing for air! I let out of my nose and opened my eyes to see that the Blaze Rods were no longer up on the hill where they tried to catch me. Maybe they've given up...
I turned away from the gushing falls and swam over to the soft, dry patch of grass that was near me. I gasped and sighed as I plopped myself onto the dirt, relived that I was able to survive something as dangerous as that. I stood up and took off my bandana, which like the rest of my clothes and my fiery hair, was all wet from all that swimming and splashing in the water. I wrung my soggy bandana with both hands and wrapped it back around my drenched auburn hair. "Hopefully, Beacontown won't be too far away from here..." I said, carrying my exhausted legs and body through the tall grass.