Chapter 4: Forest
Who knows how long the small army of ravens sat in the trees.Waiting, hopeing not to be found by the psyco ex- baskeyball playing madman who was wandering around in the woods somewhere nearby. Aperently it was raven season in the hunting world and Marco had managed to pick off two of their ranks so far. Everyone stayed close, watching each other's backs and keeping a look out for anything that might be comming their way.
They'd heard a couple of random gun shots in the time they'd been hinding but there had been no more killings as of yet. It was late now but sunrise was a long way off. "Oh Ravens come out and play!" Marco yelled from almost right behind the group. There numbers weren't good now. They'd lost two of there men. Now it was down to Three guys and only four boys to protect them. Peyton clung to Lucas. she'd never been so scared in her entire life. Not even when she'd thought her dad was dead and she had been forced to try and idetify a body. Brooke and Anna where no better off and Neither was Haley. Haley of course had Nathan to cling to. Mouth was currently trying to keep Brooke calm while Lucas tryed to confort both Peyton and Anna at the sametime. The boys where scared to death as well but they had to be strong, there wasn't anything else they could do and if they wanted to get the hell out of that forest then they'd have to stay strong. If they didn't then there was no hope at all for survival.
"I see you." Marco said, spotting Nathan's head throught the trees. "I'm Not here to kill this time." Nathan was getting suspicious. Could they trust the word of someone who had just mudrered Felix and Tim. "I'll make you a deal. Give me Haley and I'll let the rest of you go free." There was no way in all the hells Nathan was about to give up his girlfriend to an insane freak.
"And if We refuse?" Nathan asked. Marco smirked and loaded one of his three of four handguns he had in his possetion.
"Then I'll Just keep picking you off one-by-one until Haley's all mine anyway." Marco replied. Nathan could tell that he was serious about this, but he's die before he'd give up Haley and he'd Die protecting her if he had to.
"Bring it on!" Lucas said, Speaking up before Nathan could ever find the words to voice what he was thinging.
"well if that's how you feel then how about we make this a little game." Marco crouched down in the bashes behind them. "After all the funs in the chase."
"what do you mean by game?" Mouth asked. A smug Smile grew across Marco's face.
"Cat and Mouse, you run I chase. I"ll give you 15 minutes to find somewhere new to hide... and then you're all fair game to kill." Nathan and the others considered this. It might give them the time they needed to get away from him. Peyton looked up at Lucas, her eyes full of ansyity and fear. Lucas looked to Nathan and nodded. Nathan got the message and nodded back. Everyone knew what was coming now.
"ok we'll play your game." Nathan Replied.
"good! Then you've got fifteen minutes to run." Marco said. The way he saw it none of them where going to survive the night. Nathan and Lucas's stood up first to make sure Marco wasn't just going to shoot them the second they came out. Marco backed off.
"C'mon." Lucas said to the others. "we don't have much time."
In a life or death situation, when adrenalie's pumping through you're blood you can do incredable things. You could tell that the raven's where in danger. The spped they where running was amazing. Throught the forest they went as fast as they could. They kept on running until they found a safe place to hide. There was a small cave hidden to the naked eye from the outside. The group climbed into it, huddling close together for safety. Sonn Lucas relized someone was missing. "where's Mouth?" He asked. Everyone looked around and noticed that he wasn't there. Everyone knew what was going to happen to Mouth as soon as Marco found him.
"Well there goes another one..." Brooke said sadly.
Soon they heard footsteps outside the cave. Everyone went silent,there was only one person that the footsteps could belong to. Lucas hugged Peyton protectivly. She was scared half to death and Lucas was the only thing that could make her feel better about what was happening. Lucas acted strong, he had to be strong for Peyton. But he was just as scared as everyone else in that cave. The only sign of his fear was his shaking hands. But it wasn't an obvious sign because it was freezing outside and most everyone was shivering. It had been a late winter and there was still some snow on the ground. Not much but just a light dusting of it, covering the ground.
Brooke was silently crying. She was scared and now Mouth the only person she had to turn to was gone too. She'd already lost Felix that night and now mouth. "oh little ravens come out come out where ever you are. " a digustingly familiar voice said from just outside the cave. "gggggggr where's that cave I know it's around here somewhere." He muttered. He looked inside the cave, finally finding it's entrance. "I found you." He said in a sing song voice. Haley picked up a rock that was in the cave and threw it at Marco, hitting him in the eye. He staggered backward.
"you little bitch." He yelled. She picked up a larger rock and threw it at his head, knocking him unconsios. It was time ti run. Run for a knew hiding place. One where they wouldn't be found this time. There was no way that they could reach to road, even if they did it wouldn't be safe. They where miles away from the next town. Marco lived in the middle of nowere so it was easy for him to get to them and trap the group in what seemed to be a place they could never escape. This was the forest that they could never escape from, high in the mountain and they where all going to die, they knew it. There was no stopping it. There only hope was if Marco ran out of ammo which wasn't likley to happen, especially anytime soon. With no hope in site exept for Haley's quick thinging the group jumpped out of the cave and ran fractically for a new place to hide and far away from Marco.
A/N: Hi people! Thanks sooooooo much for all the pretty reviews and please plase keep voteing! next chapter you'll find out what happened to mouth mwhahahaha! and If you haven't figured it out by now all the chapters are named after songs by system of a down... and I have absolutly no idea why XD
