Strekoza: sorry for not good description, never been to jungle before…
Chapter Six
In Africa an expedition was taking place. They were searching for the original expedition's crew. In five days they found the camp and no one from the crew itself.
On the eighth day they found the body of the crew's doctor with loss of blood and lots of different scratches on her skin, the overall conclusion was the death from the attack of the wild animals, but where was all the rest of the crew.
A half animal was scatting the trees above. Its head was covered in blood, the clothes half ripped.
A few men were below. Its head looked from one to another - measuring the healthiness of them.
The expedition moved on, seeing some tracks - thinking they belonged to the lost crew.
Creature's eyes followed the men below him, it began to lag behind.
By night they put a camp down, with four tents. The leader was shouting at his helper for loosing track over the other half of the group. They were supposed to be divided into two and communicate with each other through shouting, each hour. They were supposed to be not far, meters away - as to convey more territory. In that moment captains voice could of brought the whole camp together. It was already more than two hours since they last had any contact from the other half. It was useless to go on searching for them thanks to the darkness, but the first thing after the sunrise they decided to find them.
Everyone fell asleep as two guards kept a watch for any sign of communication or an animal.
"Dear me, and why tell me did I chose to go onto this expedition."
"Well why did you?" the other man was with a ragged beard, to which his hand came up quite a lot.
"My dear good sir," the other guard was much younger and quite handsome, "I always wanted to visit an exotic place with quite a reputation and well, there comes a nice, peaceful expedition for finding some lost crew. And guess where? In Africa."
"Great, and I always though that only for money people nowadays joined them." the older man's hand went through his beard.
"That's what you're here for?"
"No, no, no. I am undercover - brought here to watch out for Jenny's life, her dad's very worried."
"The new navigator?"
"Oui, her father nearly had a heart attack when he found out she signed up for her uncle's campaign."
"Sweet. My dad, if he was alive, would certainly signed me up himself, to make my character stronger or something. He actually went quite a lot to Africa."
"Really?" the man was playing with his beard.
"He took me and my sister once on a trip to Africa - he got killed," the boy was quite upset.
"And your sister?"
"She died two years later."
There was noise behind them, they turned. The half animal, half human stepped to them. It's face full with range, anger and hunger. It was ready to jump on the beard man, when one single shot stopped it in mid air - forever.
"And I though you'll never come," said the beard man.
Three men came from the side the creature appeared from. The younger of the two guards noticed one of these three was from the second half of their crew, with which they've lost contact.
The beard guy, as if reading his mind asked: "why didn't you contact the leader?"
"Why? If there would have been contact, that would have been the wreck of our plan."
"Yeah, but that wasn't the plan."
"What can I say, we got interrupted," the speaker of the three, the one who at least looked familiar came closer; he kicked the creatures dead body, "these things, no idea what they are, but I have a bad feeling about them."
The boy was thinking that something didn't match up. Was it that something to do with loss of contact. And he felt that the creature's anger was somehow right.
They planned …
Strekoza: a bit of a mess this chapter was…