25 Escape
"What are they?" I whispered.
"Raina you have to listen to me," Gabriel said.
I wasn't listening. Just staring at the….creatures before us.
He sighed. "They're a part of the BN all right?"
"Are they human?" I asked. A chill ran up my spine at the thought of them being some creature.
Gabriel opened his mouth but then suddenly heard a screech from one of them. He turned his head and their direction. "They've seen us!" he hissed.
He turned to me and I opened my mouth to say something but he silenced my lips with his finger.
"Raina, on the count of three, you have to run all right?" Gabriel said between his teeth.
I was completely frozen. I didn't speak or move.
There were about five creatures in front of us, only they weren't really…alive. I couldn't explain it. They brought out my fear.
"Don't look at them all right Raina? Just run towards the portal."
Portal? What portal? Then I saw it. It was a raw of light, slowly receding. I had a feeling the door was about to close.
"I…" I began to say.
"Raina! Now!" I still didn't move. Suddenly I felt a hand tug my arm towards the portal. We were heading right towards those creatures!
I was pushed forward and I took a few steps. I ran and I got about halfway around them, staying behind Gabriel the whole time. Suddenly, though, I tripped. A root caught underneath my foot and I collapsed against the cold earth of the night.
One of the creatures saw me. He came over, really fast. I tried to move but it seemed like I blinked once and he was there. I couldn't help but look up at the hollow of his form. Suddenly I couldn't find my voice to scream. It simply stared at me, intensity boring into my though I saw no eyes other than thin slits of light.
I suddenly felt entranced by it. It was still looking at me. It reached forward, an ice cold hand coming in contact with my flesh. Only I couldn't move. My mind was screaming, but I suddenly couldn't do a single thing! What was going on? How was I supposed to get away.
It was so beautiful suddenly. I was looking up into it's eyes adoringly and its other hand reached out to trace it under my chin in a gentle caress. It felt so soothing. So….soothing… I felt as if I could stay here for ever, with this beautiful creature.
"RAINA!!" I heard suddenly and I came back to attention. What was going on?
Suddenly I felt a throb of numbing pain. The coolness on my hand became so painful that I could hardly bear it. Then, suddenly, I felt….heat. Heat? Oh my god! What was happening?! My hand, I can't feel my hand! I screamed.
"No!" I screamed. I began pulling back but I couldn't. I couldn't move at all! "I don't want to do this. What are you doing to me.?!" I dug me feet into the dirt, pulling and screaming. I was definitely NOT going out like this. Not now, not ever.
I screamed and it suddenly realized that it'd lost my attention. It's eyes became a deep red. It cocked it's head like an owl and peered in closer at me. It screeched a loud blood curlding screech that made my whole body vibrate from. I was going limp. The cold was climbing! What was happening?!
I was just laying there, couldn't speak and hardly breathe. My eyes were fading. This was it…I was going to die wasn't I? I looked into the eyes of my killer one last time, if only to find some comfort in the entrancement that they'd put me under before.
Suddenly I felt someone pick me up. It was Calsiper. "Raina," he sighed. "Is this the only way we're ever going to get you anywhere?"
"I…" I said with not much strength. My head was going in circles and I turned my head towards the creature. It was howling after me and I reached out to it. No….it can't go. "Let me go…" I whimpered weakly.
"Shush," he said. I felt him put a hand over my mouth. It wasn't Gabriel, I knew that much. That made me freak out even more. I was trembling and trying to jolt myself out of his arms because I could hardly move. It still didn't work though. I was entirely helpless, my muffled screams hardly even heard by the person holding me.
"I'm sorry Raina," I heard a voice call over it all and suddenly. The last thing I saw was the creatures painful eyes looking at me and calling me back. I reached out once more but a ray of light hit my body, a sudden warmth to the contrast of my skin. Then everything went black….