Fight for your life
Shadows creep,
Forever deep,
You will sleep,
Eternity
-The caves of the Annon
(Cathrine's POV)
I woke, nothing to eat, alone. I soon had enough strength to sit up, deciding I needed to check what wounds I had. I first felt my legs, one was just scratched up. I then checked the other, and with a twisting stomach knew that the angle was not healthy. With some of the torn cloth that was once my clothes, I managed to make a bandage for my head and my other injuries, though I did not touch my leg. I wished Fenard were here, at least then I'd have somebody to talk to.With a troubled mind, I drifted off again.
When I regained conciousness for the third time, I thought about how to get out. I still couldn't see, whether that was because it was pitch black or because I had gone blind I wasn't sure. I could always walk along the walls, but that was as much suicide as stumbling around was. There was the escape of dying, but that didn't sound too pleasant right now.
Just as I was about to give up hope, a soft light seemed to eminate from deep within the caverns, bring sight back with it. Looking around for the source, I finally looked down to see my necklace slightly glowing. I was amazed at first, but then decided to accept the gift and get out of that miserable cavern. Although it seemed long and dangerous, I needed to make it out if I was to live.
~
Flailing around in the insufficiant light, I traversed the darkened cave, feeling along the rough walls as not to plummet to my death in one of the many pits that littered the cave. Strangly, there were no pokemon, not even zubats in this place of deathly quiet. I marched on, hoping that just maybe I could get out.
After traveling for God knows how long, the air finally started to get a little fresher. In hopes of finding an exit, I quickly clambered up one of the ledges that were petruding from the ragged walls of the cavern. There I found a hole, just barely large enough for me to fit through, which led into a maze of tunnels. Crawling along the tunnels, my hands and knees bloodied, I finally reached the source of the air. A hole about as wide as a rattata, obviously the home to the rodent. I quickly started to shove the foot or so of earth out of my way to make the hole larger, my blood mixing with the mud created by the recent storm.
The ground heaved as I pushed the last bit of dirt seperating me from freedom from underneath, finally breaking. With a deep intake of breath, my head rose through the hole, dirty and sweatsoaked though it was. Dragging myself out of the exit, I collapsed to the ground, tired yet victorious.
~
When I awoke, I found that I needed nourishment more than ever. Scanning the surrounding forest, for I was in a forest, I now realized, not having the strength to look at my surroundings when I had first climbed through the hole, only finding a few berries upon a bush nearby. As soon as I found the strength to, I crawled over to them, devouring them, not caring whether they were poisonous or not.
The sun was just starting to touch the eastern sky as I set out to find more food and hopefully, shelter. Climbing through imnumberable shrubs and bushes, I was soon in worse shape than I started, apart from having some symbolance of food to quelch my hunger. Dragging myself along the forest floor, the chances of my survival got steadily worse, until the sun had set, and the darkness of night claimed the forest.
It was in this hour that things really got worse. Because it was a New Moon, the only light to see by was that of the stars, and even that was not enough to keep the forest from plunging into suppressing darkness. Out of nowhere, a dark shape dropped out of the trees, and as soon as I looked up, it swung something at me, and tired as I was, had no energy to dodge or even to fight the blackness that came when it connected solidly with my head, sending my world into thousands of pieces.
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Author's notes: BWA HA HA HA HAA! A cliffhanger, payback for all of the cliffhangers I have read lately. What will happen? The only way you can find out is if you read the next chapter!
Shadows creep,
Forever deep,
You will sleep,
Eternity
-The caves of the Annon
(Cathrine's POV)
I woke, nothing to eat, alone. I soon had enough strength to sit up, deciding I needed to check what wounds I had. I first felt my legs, one was just scratched up. I then checked the other, and with a twisting stomach knew that the angle was not healthy. With some of the torn cloth that was once my clothes, I managed to make a bandage for my head and my other injuries, though I did not touch my leg. I wished Fenard were here, at least then I'd have somebody to talk to.With a troubled mind, I drifted off again.
When I regained conciousness for the third time, I thought about how to get out. I still couldn't see, whether that was because it was pitch black or because I had gone blind I wasn't sure. I could always walk along the walls, but that was as much suicide as stumbling around was. There was the escape of dying, but that didn't sound too pleasant right now.
Just as I was about to give up hope, a soft light seemed to eminate from deep within the caverns, bring sight back with it. Looking around for the source, I finally looked down to see my necklace slightly glowing. I was amazed at first, but then decided to accept the gift and get out of that miserable cavern. Although it seemed long and dangerous, I needed to make it out if I was to live.
~
Flailing around in the insufficiant light, I traversed the darkened cave, feeling along the rough walls as not to plummet to my death in one of the many pits that littered the cave. Strangly, there were no pokemon, not even zubats in this place of deathly quiet. I marched on, hoping that just maybe I could get out.
After traveling for God knows how long, the air finally started to get a little fresher. In hopes of finding an exit, I quickly clambered up one of the ledges that were petruding from the ragged walls of the cavern. There I found a hole, just barely large enough for me to fit through, which led into a maze of tunnels. Crawling along the tunnels, my hands and knees bloodied, I finally reached the source of the air. A hole about as wide as a rattata, obviously the home to the rodent. I quickly started to shove the foot or so of earth out of my way to make the hole larger, my blood mixing with the mud created by the recent storm.
The ground heaved as I pushed the last bit of dirt seperating me from freedom from underneath, finally breaking. With a deep intake of breath, my head rose through the hole, dirty and sweatsoaked though it was. Dragging myself out of the exit, I collapsed to the ground, tired yet victorious.
~
When I awoke, I found that I needed nourishment more than ever. Scanning the surrounding forest, for I was in a forest, I now realized, not having the strength to look at my surroundings when I had first climbed through the hole, only finding a few berries upon a bush nearby. As soon as I found the strength to, I crawled over to them, devouring them, not caring whether they were poisonous or not.
The sun was just starting to touch the eastern sky as I set out to find more food and hopefully, shelter. Climbing through imnumberable shrubs and bushes, I was soon in worse shape than I started, apart from having some symbolance of food to quelch my hunger. Dragging myself along the forest floor, the chances of my survival got steadily worse, until the sun had set, and the darkness of night claimed the forest.
It was in this hour that things really got worse. Because it was a New Moon, the only light to see by was that of the stars, and even that was not enough to keep the forest from plunging into suppressing darkness. Out of nowhere, a dark shape dropped out of the trees, and as soon as I looked up, it swung something at me, and tired as I was, had no energy to dodge or even to fight the blackness that came when it connected solidly with my head, sending my world into thousands of pieces.
~
Author's notes: BWA HA HA HA HAA! A cliffhanger, payback for all of the cliffhangers I have read lately. What will happen? The only way you can find out is if you read the next chapter!