Disclaimer: .........Do I have to say it?
Hi! Sorry it took me so long to update. Kind of evil of me, I know. Hopefully I will have a lot of free time. Oh, ya...my b-day is coming! Claps for Keelin!!! Ok...Dude, I don't mind you using my story as a chat room... but I have to ask...what's with you & Rhia? Oh..ps...how old are you?
Ok.... Ch. 15...
Alex stopped dead at the sound of Rhia's voice. He whipped around, not wanting to see what happened, but looking anyway. "No," he breathed when he saw her, "NO!!"
He ran back and knelt down beside her. "Rhia, Rhia. Talk to me, Rhia...say something." She looked into his clear eyes with her cloudy ones and opened her mouth. But no sound came.
She started to cry, Alex holding her in his arms, unable to do anything to help her. He started to cry too, knowing what was happening but not wanting to face it. He looked at her, with tears spilling onto her face, and started to rock her gently back and forth.
Rhia stared back, and sighed. To his horror, this brought frothy blood to her lips. She looked at him as her eyes dulled, and gave him a small grin. Alex squeezed her tight, willing her not to let go, but nothing could stop it now.
With a final glance at Alex, Rhia let go and fell into death.
Alex threw his gaze up to the heavens and howled. The sound was so mournful, so full of pain, hate, and loss, that it stopped the goblins and all the other creatures in the forest.
"I'll kill them!" he bellowed, "I'll kill them all!" Charlie had seen it unravel, and tears were spilling onto his fur as well. Brolo closed his eyes, covered his ears and said, "Nononononononono! Rhia NOT gone! Nononono!"
"Alex!" Charlie yelled, trying to get through Alex's rage, "Alex, I know how we can save her!" This stopped his fit right away. "We have to keep moving." He said.
Alex nodded, scooping Rhia off the ground as one would a newborn baby. He started running with her in his arms, her limp form secure in his grasp. The goblins continued the hunt, sure that they would catch their prey now.
Charlie was unsure if his plan would work, but it was Rhia's only hope, and their only chance of survival. He felt the burden of this weigh down on his shoulders as he loped onward.