Chapter 6- Beast from Air(Eric)
The next morning Sam and I had fire duty again, but I guess we fell asleep on the job because it was almost out when I woke up. I poked Sam awake and together we got the fire going again. It was very cold that morning so we warmed ourselves by the fire and waited for sunrise.
Before we had a chance to get warm, I heard a terrifying noise come from the patch of trees directly in front of Sam and me. It was a sound like an enormous roar or a giant piece of fabric being ripped in two. I knew that in those trees was the beast that everyone on the island feared so much. I didn't even have to turn to Sam to know that he was as terrified as me. We clung to each other probably for a whole minute until we could get enough strength between us the bolt down the mountain to tell Ralph what we saw.
We quickly ran the short distance down to the beach, momentary forgetting about the fire and ran into Ralph's shelter and shook him awake. I was so frightened and out of breath that it took me and Sam to get the whole story out. Ralph told us to call an assembly, so we blew the conch and got everyone to come outside. After telling them the same story we told Ralph, we described the beast and maybe exaggerated a little, but they will never know the difference once they see the beast too. The news of the beast turned everyone either terrified of hostile for the moment. Jack immediately began to organize his plan for hunting down the beast and took everyone along with him, except Piggy. We all climbed up the rock in search of the beast, Jack in the lead. Jack was taking advantage of his opportunity to be the leader, and seemed to be enjoying it. As it got lighter, the boys no longer felt as scared and started to head over towards the mountain.
