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Victor could almost feel the excitement bubble up inside of him. The day was almost over! Then there would be only four more days till he got back to Emily!

Victor knew that was still a while away but he was glad that he was being a lot more optimistic. Rather then before when he was being so pessimistic. And he didn't even feel tired at all! He must be getting used to not sleeping for a while.

Victor looked down at Scraps who was now happily walking next to him. Elder Gudna had wanted to carry Scraps because the poor pup could barely see over the knee-high grass, but Scraps hadn't wanted to. He was getting tired of staying still. Scraps wanted to happily walk and skip next to Victor.

Scraps was always such a happy puppy. Victor liked that about him. He could always cheer Victor up.

Victor looked over to the maggot who was sleeping on Elder Gudna's shoulder. The maggot loved to sleep as much as he loved to talk. Maybe he even liked sleeping more. It was good to have a break from the maggots constant random stories.

Victors eyes glanced up to Elder Gudna, something was wrong though…he looked like he was concentrating on something. Like the thing he was concentrating on wasn't good.

Something wasn't right. If there was something wrong, wouldn't he tell him? But what could possible be wrong? Victor had a bad feeling about this.

"Is there something wrong?" Victor asked concerned.

Elder Gudna stopped walking. He thought for a moment with his head down before he looked up at him and said. "Someone's following us."

Victor looked around but didn't see anything, yet someone could easily be hiding in the grass or somewhere near the beach. Why would someone be following them. And who was following them?

"Who's following us?" he asked in a low voice. No one was in sight but who knows how close they could be? Victor didn't want whoever it was to hear them.

Elder Gudna seemed to think the same thing too because he also lowered his voice.

"I don't know who, but they don't seem nice."

"How long have they been following us?" Victor asked a bit panicked. What if it was those guys who had tried hurting him a couple of days earlier? Another fear came into his mind. What if there was more then one person following them? How many corpse had been in that group that almost hurt him. Five? Six? Seven? Victor couldn't remember.

"I don't know…" Elder Gudna answered. "They could have been following us this wholet ime but only brought to our attention now."

They heard a little snore and looked down at the maggot who was waking up from his long nap. He saw the concerned looks on their faces and asked. "What happened?"

"Someone's following us," Victor replied. " What do we do Elder Gudna?"

Elder Gudna sighed. "I don't know."

"Oh come on! Its easy!" the maggot exclaimed. " All we do is get a big stick and whack him with it!" he finished like it was the simplest thing in the world.

Victor sighed. Couldn't the maggot just be serious for once? What if this was really, really bad?

"Are you sure there's nothing you can do? Nothing we can do?" Victor pleaded. Victor didn't like this. Victor had a feeling that this was a very bad situation. Would this delay them from getting back to Emily? Victor hoped not. He just couldn't stay away from Emily any longer then four days. He just couldn't.

" I don't know how long they have been following us," Elder Gudna told them. "but they haven't threatened us so maybe they arnt as bad as we may think they are."

"I just wish we knew who they were…" Victor sighed.

"We may know in time but we should continue the journey like there not even here. We don't want them to know we know about them."

"I agree," Victor said.

They started walking again though they whispered about the problem at hand.

"Who do you think it could be Victor?" Elder Gudna asked him.

"I think its those corpses who tried hurting me. They seemed pretty serious about wanting to beat me up pretty bad."

Elder Gudna pondered about this new information for a while before he said. "Hmmmm…Could very well be them. I think your right."

Victor groaned.

"What?" Elder Gudna asked.

"Nothing….it's just that there may be four plus people who probably want me dead following us…" Victor said nervously.

"Well we don't know if its really them. It could be someone else." Elder Gudna said trying to make Victor less nervous. It didn't work much.

"It could be anyone," the maggot said now joining in on the conversation. "There's way more people in the Land of the Dead then there is in the Land of the Living."

So he can be serious? Victor thought. It was a good point, but why would some random person be following them? It had to be someone they knew or met, and they had to have a good purpose for following them. And if they didn't want them to know they were following them, then this must be bad.

Victor looked down at Scraps who was looking up at him. Scraps looked a bit scared. Victor did understand why he was scared. He was dead. No one could hurt him.

Victor then realized why Scraps was scared. Scraps wasn't scared for himself, he was scared for him, since he was living and he could be harmed or hurt.

Scraps was a great friend. It was sweet of him to worry so much about his safety, but he didn't need to. He would be fine. No one was going to hurt him..

At least Victor hoped that that was true.

Victor bent down and petted Scraps' skull to comfort him. Scraps nuzzled his skull closer into Victors hand. When Scraps did that that meant he was happy by the touch.

Victor smiled at his little puppy. Scraps always made Victor less nervous. Always made him happier.

"What do you think they want?" the maggot asked Elder Gudna.

"Who knows? They could want anything… it all depend on who it is. If Victors right and its those corpses-"

"If it was those corpses would they have just done what they wanted to do to Victor by now?" the maggot interrupted. "They don't seem like the wait and watch type. And plus there is more of them then us so they could easily have done what they needed with no problem at all."

Every one turned to look at the maggot. Now that made sense and it was probably right. Those corpses would have done something by now.

"That's a good point," Elder Gudna said. "A very good point…"

"Wait…" Victor said. "If it isn't them….then who is it? Who else could it possible be?"

No one had an answer to this.

Who could it be? They had assumed they had known who there mystery followers where but now there where totally clueless.

This whole thing just added more questions to Victors list. Victor wished he knew the answers to them.

He would find out his answers soon enough. The person would have to reveal themselves sometime or what would be the point of following them? But sometime could be anytime in the next four days. Victor wouldn't mind if they didn't show themselves at all.

But why did Victor care about who these people were? Did it really matter that they where following them? No, I didn't matter. All that mattered was him getting back to Emily. That's all that mattered and that's all that Victor cared about at the time. He should not be afraid of these people who may or may not be bad news. For the rest of the trip, he wasn't going to think about this person (or people) following them, unless they revealed to them who they were and why they were following them.

Victor knew that they were going to do that sometime but for now, they weren't bothering them ( except for the fact that they were following them..) so they shouldn't worry.

"It doesn't matter who they are or what they want or what they want to do. All that matters is that we get to Emily as soon as possible," Victor said firmly.

"Yes. That seems like the best idea and it is our main priority." Elder Gudna said agreeing probably knowing just to agree with Victor when he got like this. When it came to Emily, you don't question Victor.

After that was said, everyone remained quiet as they walked. The maggot had gone back to sleep on Elder Gudna's shoulder and Scraps was less perky then he was before. Scraps was probably just still nervous.

Victor looked up at the sky. It was beautiful. Well the whole place was beautiful. With the still black water and the knee-high grass. But the sky was the most unique. It was constantly changing. They sky usually only had either a few small clouds or none. The clouds were never white though. They were always usually always gray. They changed from many different types of grays though. Sometimes they were light gray, but sometimes they where dark gray.

The clods could also be black. Pitch black. Like the water. It was very unique. Victor hadn't seen anything like it before,

The clods weren't the only thing that changed colors. The sky did too. The sky always looked like it was nighttime. Sometimes the sky was jet black and covered with millions of stars, or sometimes it was a purple color. A bit like a light violet, filled with dark black clouds.

The sky was either black, any shade of dark purple, dark or light grey, or a dark blue. No matter what color it was, it was always breath taking.

This is something Emily would love…

Victor smiled at the thought of Emily being here with him. He felt gloomy again. He missed her so much…

Victor sighed. Why couldn't he be the excited, optimistic person he was a while ago? Now he was depressed. The whole 'someone's following us' situation must have ruined his mood.

Victor was also now a bit tired. It had been almost two days since he had passed out from lack of sleep. But he wasn't too tired. Just a little bit. Not enough to bug him.

Victor guessed that he would pass out one more time from exhaustion one more time before they got back to Emily. Victor didn't really want to, but it wasn't his choice. He couldn't prevent himself from passing out.

Victor knew it was going to be a lot sooner then it had last time. He had had only seven hours of sleep this whole trip. There was no way he was going to be able to stay awake for about six days like he had last time. It just wouldn't be possible.

To bad there wasn't some stay awake spell. Or maybe there was…Victor mentally kicked himself for not thinking to ask about it when Elder Gudna had given him the spell so he would have to eat for a month, but Victor hadn't thought staying awake for two weeks was going to be that hard…buy was he wrong!

But that was all in the past. He must focus on doing his absolute best to get back to his beautiful bride Emily.

And he would do his absolute best.

Victor thoughts were interrupted when he heard a gasp.

Victor looked up. It didn't sound like Elder Gudna so it must have been the maggot.

Everyone stopped walking and looked at the little green creature who was looking towards the beach.

"What is it?" Victor asked the maggot in a hushed tone.

"I saw someone!" he whispered back.

"Who?" Elder Gudna said.

"I don't know! You expect me to know everything?"

Victor and Elder Gudna shushed him in chorus.

"Where did you see him?" Victor questioned.

"Down somewhere on the beach. It must be the person following us because as soon as I turned my head towards where he was, he instantly hid.

"What should we do?" Victor asked them.

"There still is the whacking him with a big stick idea…" the maggot mumbled.

"Where not doing that," Elder Gudna said. "I think we should go down there and see who it is. I know they probably arnt good people, so Victor I suggest you stay here. There could be more then one person so me, Scraps, and maggot should go."

"Good idea," Victor agreed.

Victor didn't like the idea of being left alone while there was some person following them but it was better then going down to the beach where they were.

"We'll be back soon. I guess you could just keep walking. The farther away you are from them the better. "

"Ok"

Scraps whined and looked sadly up at Victor. Victor bent down and gathered Scraps into his arms in a hug.

"It's ok Scraps," Victor said. "We won't be separated long."

Scraps barked and looked up at him seeming to be ok now.

Victor picked up Scraps off his lap and set him back on the ground. Victor stood up and watched as Scraps, Elder Gudna, and the maggot, started heading down to the beach to see who the person following the was.

Elder Gudna's POV.

Elder Gudna, the maggot, and Scraps started making there way down the hill towards the beach.

"Now," Elder Gudna said in the lowest possible voice he could manage. "We need to be extremely quiet. He mustn't make a sound. We don't want them knowing were coming down to the beach where they are or they will run off."

Scraps and the maggot nodded their heads in agreement and they started there way down towards the beach again.

When they arrived at the beach, no one was there, but there was a trail of footprints barely noticeable on the red-black sand.

They followed the trail and it turned out it wasn't a long one. In no time they were at the end of the trail but Elder Gudna didn't see anyone. The footprints just stopped suddenly. Like someone had disappeared.

"That's weird…," Elder Gudna mumbled to himself.

"Where do you think they went?" the maggot asked him.

"I have no idea…it's like they just disappeared."

"Oh no!" the maggot cried.

"What?"

"Scraps is gone!"

Elder Gudna turned around and didn't see Scraps anywhere.

The suddenly, something grabbed him, tied his hands and feet together very quickly, threw him and the maggot in a large bad, and started walking towards his destination.

Elder Gudna, Scraps, and the maggot, had been kidnapped.

beware, he next chapter is gonna hold EXTREAM AWESOMENESS! like 6000 words. hehehehe I CANT WAIT TO WRITE IT!