Chapter 3
Adam awoke to the sound of footsteps in the forest. "South Figaro soldiers" he said to himself. Adam had been running for several hours and was at the point of exhaustion and had decided to take a rest, but he was in more danger now than he was before. In the forest, the soldiers could kill him and say that he got away. Trying to find a single person in the South Figaro forest was almost like looking for a needle in a haystack, it just so happened that the soldiers were very close to the needle. Adam knew that running would do no good, but he couldn't fight them. He had one option, to hide. He ran to the nearest climbable tree and got about 15 feet off the ground when they came in sight. He became more still than a statue.
"His footprints lead here." Said one of the soldiers
"Shit!" Adam said to himself. "They've been following me, I won't be able to get away." He was looking around for something that could help him when he saw a vine. A morbid thought had taken over his mind, just like the one when he saw the blade on his teacher's desk. He looked at a loose branch. He started twisting it slowly, hopefully trying to get it off without alerting the guards. The branch started loosening, and then started to separate. However it separated more than Adam had wanted it to, because it fell off too fast and fell to the ground. The guard looked up and saw him.
"There he is, shoot to kill!" Both guards unloaded the bullets in their rifles. Adam tried his best to stay behind the tree and avoid their shots. Soon enough they were empty and started reloading. Adam looked at the vine again and started to run, and in a jump that would make Tarzan envious, he grabbed it and swung to the next tree while holding on to the vine. The guards had reloaded but weren't shooting, instead they started climbing the tree.
"Goddamn it!" Adam looked at the guards. "I'm only gonna have one chance." Adam found his hands working the vine. Without even fully realizing it, the vine was wrapped into a noose. "Hold on, I'm gonna come down." Adam said.
"Okay, we won't shoot, just give us a minute so we can get down." One of the guards said. This gave Adam the window of opportunity he was looking for. He waited until one of the guard's head was in plain view, he saw his chance and took it. Adam dived off the tree, noose in hand and got it around one of the guards neck and yanked him off the tree. The vine didn't go all the way to the ground and the guard was left to hang and die. Adam saw the other guard jump down, but the dead guard's gun had fallen. Adam rolled forward, picked it up and the two were holding each other at gunpoint.
"Put down the gun Adam." The guard said.
"I'm not Adam."
"What?" *Bam* Adam used that distraction to pull the trigger and shoot the guard right through his face. With nothing left to do, Adam ran north in hopes of making it to the end of the forest before dawn, which he did. Adam was free.