Chapter 4:

"What do we do?" Iolaus asked as the 3 began running from the mini army.

"Just keep running." Hercules instructed.

"It won't work. We'll eventually tire and then we won't even have the energy to fight!" Fern argued.

"Lets try the woods." iolaus suggested.

"NO! That's what my father did! Look where that got him!" Fern argued yet again.

"Have you got a better idea?" hercules demanded.

"Fine. We'll run." Fern concluded.


As they ran, memories from the past began appearing in Fern's head. The events of 12 years ago.

' "This way!" her father called as they ran from the troops and led Fern and Ferlan into the woods. They ran further and further into the woods, but suddenly, soldiers began appearing from behind bushes and trees. They tried to go backwards, but they were surrounded. He pulled out his sword, and his 2 children took out their bow and dagger. The men charged, but dodged around the children. They attacked their father and after only a few blows, he fell. A horrified scream rang through the air which could be heard for miles round as the eyes of a little 4 year old girl fell on the dead body of her father. The soldiers returned into the woods as the brother and sister clung to each other sobbing. '

Fern stopped as the memory finished and turned round to face the on coming threat. Her eyes burnt with an anger that had built up for 12 years.

"I'm not letting you do it again." she said and stood there with her bow raised and pointed ahead.


After running for an extra 20 metres, Iolaus and Hercules noticed Fern was no longer running with them. They turned back to see 1 and a half out of the 3 lines infront of the beasts left running at them, as the other 1 and a half were on the floor dead or dying from multiple arrow wounds. But to their dismay, there were still 3 giant creatures and 4 and a half lines of men left. The lines of men stopped decreasing as arrows began flying through the air at the 3 headed creatures. The smallest one began to stumble and finally fell, but not quite dead.

"She's handling this pretty well." Iolaus announced slightly amused, but that amusement quickly turned to horror as the larrgest became enraged and charged past the remaining half line of soldiers and stuck a clawed toe through Fern. It put it's foot down, with Fern still on one of it's toes, and trapped her arms down with it's other toes. She yelled out in pain as the beast began to move it's toe round in her stomach.

"Fern!" Iolaus cried and ran to aid her, closely followed by Hercules.


Meanwhile, Fern yelled out again as the monster began putting more wait on it's foot. The creature looked down at her as if enjoying her pain. Suddenly, it cried out aswell and quickly withdrew it's foot from Fern. She grinned weakly up at the giant creature and she slowly lifted the dagger she had used to injure it to show the wailing creature, before passing out.


Hercules and Iolaus stopped momentarily confused as they saw the creature pull back it's claw from Fern's body, and Iolaus grinned as he saw the dagger raised in Fern's hand obviously to taunt it, but began running again as he saw her arm go limp.

'Hang in there, Fern.'