Chapter 2: The Arrival
Disclaimer: See chapter one.
Thanks to everyone who corrected my spelling. J I was close enough. Sorry I wanted to update sooner but I was really sick and had to go to the hospital for a few days.
The world was spinning. What had been the graveyard only moments before was no longer there. Nothing was there. Only a void. How can anyone describe nothing? There is no light. There are no life forms of any kind. There was no right. There was no wrong. Except Em who shouldn't be in this lack of anything. Black is meant to be the absence of colour but even black did not exist there. The void seemed eternal but only lasted mere seconds.
As the emptiness disappeared a canopy of trees took over the sight. Em closed her eyes tight and braced from the impact of the branch mercilessly hitting her body. The blows came all too soon, as the branches one by one hit against her as she fell to the ground. Em plummeted towards the woodland floor beneath her and fell motionlessly to bed of leaves and grass.
The forest area was silent. No bird sang. No small animal moved around the area on which the girl had fallen. No sound, no even the wind blowing through the trees, as though the whole forest was holding their breath in to see what would happen to this strange new arrival. Suddenly the silence was broking as Em took a gasp of breath in and all the pain of what had just happen hit her.
''Ow…'' She whimpered. She moved slowly to stand up feeling every one of her bones and muscles, plus a couple she did know she ever had, voice their protest at her chosen course of action. She reached down and brushed off the dirt on her baggy black jeans, and, after her inspection of her black jacket saw no hope for it, she tied her jacket around her waist to reveal her tight, black top with very long sleeves and a red pattern on it looking as though some one had cut the top with a knife and it was reveal the top under it. Em blinked a couple of times and then looked around her. ''Wow…''she gasped as she gaped at the glorious sight before her of a never-ending realm of massive trees. ''How the hell did I get here?'' she asked herself softly as she tried to finger out what happen until she was interrupt by a threatening sound from behind her. Em slowly looked up as she heard a vicious growl utter from some beast behind her. She steadily turned around and was shocking at the sight in front of her. A gigantic wolf was standing a grey wolf with darting blue eyes that matched her own with its slightly decayed teeth bared in a ferocious snarl. Em took in a large breath of air and backed up on her unsure feet as she blinked her eyes trying to make sure there really was a wolf standing in front of her slowly making its way towards her. It would be a small bit weird if when taking a walk in a wood you stumble upon a wild wolf, but it is even more unbelievably when you meet a wolf in Ireland. ''You can't be real.'' Em reasoned with herself ''There aren't any here. You aren't here. You can't be.'' In Ireland no wolf has existed in a long time and since there was no zoo anywhere near Em, this incident could not have happen, in Ireland…
The snarling wolf kept a steady pace moving forward to its intended victim, as Em kept moving backing heedless of whatever was behind her, abruptly there was nothing behind her except the sound of swiftly moving water but the wolf kept approaching Em. Em was trapped and now on the brink of falling into a rapidly moving stream she looked to either side of her seeking some way of escaping, while still keeping an eye on the vicious beast in front of her. Suddenly the wolf's ears pricked up and then fell back against its head as it started to back up while it growled at the trees above and started running from the brink of the stream. Em let out the breath she had been holding but as she did her tired bones gave way beneath her and she fell backwards towards the gushing river.
Her body hit the water with a painfully sounding splash. Rushing swiftly and with terrible force the river started pulling Em along with it's deadly current as soon as her body made contact with the water. Shattering her fiercely against jagged rocks. Em could feel she was being pulled under and attempted to fight against this unfairly matched foe…
Em could feel the very life of her being strangled out of her by the river as she was pulled to the bottom, fighting with all her will not to drown. She began to tire, her muscles aching from the strain of the fight. Her breath was gone and she could her the tempting call of the darkness beckoning to her. Em would not give in and struggled once more with the water to reach the surface but the fight was too much for her and the darkness was closing in. Em let out her breath in defeat as she felt the talons of darkness catch her. Suddenly in that moment when hope was lost a hand broke the water and grabbed hers. She could feel herself being dragged to the surfaces as she finally collapsed…
''I've got her.'' Exclaimed Legolas as he felt another hand grip his. The other elfs in the boat raced other to help Legolas retrieve the body of the girl who had fallen into the river. The girl was unconscious when the elfs placed her body on the makeshift bed on the deck, made of several blankets and cloaks. The small vessel was quickly stirred towards the banks of the river where more elfs waited worriedly; hoping that they had not been too late and the girls life was not lost.
Next chapter very soon. I'II work on it now.
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