Okay! I hope you all liked the first chapter! Cuz, this chapter, everything's going to get worse. Everything's gunna go bad on them! I know, it's evil, but my plot needs to come out! - Hope you enjoy.
The blonde marveled at the forest. It was so huge! The most he had ever seen of trees and greenery were the cherry trees and the grass in the park! But this was incredible! He looked over at Yugi, who seemed to be amazed that this forest was being grown right inside their rundown town of Domino, in this small dome. (A/N: It's actually really big, but they say small cuz they're used to big 'ole skyscrapers. In approximate, I'd say the dome is about as big as... hmm... five baseball diamonds and as tall as... Kaibacorp... which I really don't know how tall that is, I'm just taking a guess XD)
Joey pointed into the bushes.
"There, look there!" He exclaimed. Yugi, Tea, and Tristen looked over. A snake slithered through, a small one, actually, with black skin and yellow stripes.
"Most of the snakes you will see on this trip will be harmless," a scientist in front of them stated. The four looked up.
"Why?" Joey asked. The scientist shrugged.
"The snakes know to not build a nest so close to the trail, for fear the humans will come through again and wreck it. One year a young boy came on this trip and destroyed a bunch of nests. The snakes never caught him, but I'm sure they're bent on revenge..." the scientist trailed off.
Tea cringed again.
"Guys, I think we still have time to turn around..." Tea whispered under her breath. Joey laughed.
"Tea, don't worry, we'll be fine. You just heard, the only snakes we'll see will be harmless- which kind of sucks, considering I wanted to see some cool ones, but oh well," Joey said, looking back at Tea. Tea's blue eyes had overcome with fear. Joey could only roll his eyes, and turn forward.
"Here we come to the nest of a python, it's sealed off, but it's still possible for him to get you," the guy driving the cart said. The four teens looked over, searching for the python with their eyes. Nothing. Joey moaned.
"C'mon! This is pathetic! We could be having fun at the arcade by now! How about something more exciting?!" They kept going past the small cut-off area of trees and bushes.
"Just wait, it will get better," the man at the front replied. Joey moaned again, holding his chin in his hands. Tea and Tristen behind Joey rolled their eyes.
After about a half an hour of traveling into the greenery, people pointing out garter snakes here or there, and other non-dangerous snakes, Joey let out another moan.
"This is pathetic! There's nothing inter-"
Suddenly, a giant python jumped out of the bushes next to them, at the driver. The cart swerved, and crashed into a tree ahead of them. Tea screamed, and jumped up out of the cart, along with Tristen.
The guy who was driving the cart seemed to be struggling with something, until he suddenly went limp. A python came slithering out and away from the driver. By this time, everyone else had got out of the cart, Yugi and Joey stood in front of Tea and Tristen. The python turned toward them, and reared up, bearing it's fangs. Blood covered them, and dripped to the ground below. Tea screamed again, turning and running as far away as possible. Tristen, noticing her disappearance, shouted after her.
"TEA!!!" He shouted, "GET BACK HERE!! THERE ARE SNAKES OVER THERE, TOO!!!"
The python ahead of them advanced closer, hissing loudly.
"On the count of three, we run for it," Joey whispered calmly. The other two boys nodded.
"One..." the snake lunged forward, "THREE!!" The three boys ran off after Tea, the python just missing Joey's leg. Behind them, they could hear shouts and screams from the other passengers on the small cart.
Joey ran ahead of the other two, being the first to catch up with Tea, who was shivering in fear, and looking over her shoulder, in case another snake came out at her. Once Joey got up to her, he let out a sigh.
"Tea, are you okay?" Tea nodded in fear, and looked at Joey, her crystal blue eyes showing just how fearful she was.
"Tea, it's alright, we'll be fine. We just don't want to advance into the forest too far. If we stay on the road and go back, we can get out that way," Joey said. Tristen looked at Joey with a bit of surprise on his face.
"Nice thinking Joey," he complimented. Yugi nodded in agreement.
"Yeah... but what if the door back there is locked to make sure that none of the snakes get out?" he asked. The other three teens looked at each other, slight fear overcoming them for a second (except for Tea who was already in fear) but then quickly being washed away.
"Then we'll go the other way. We just need to make sure we stick–" Joey was cut off by a loud hissing right by his shoulder. He went stiff.
"J-Joey... there's– there's a..." Yugi said, pointing back behind him. Joey closed his eyes slowly.
"Guys, on the count of three, I want you all to run, okay?" Joey whispered. There was another hiss by his ear.
"B-but... but Joey..." Tea whispered.
"Run..."
"One... two... THREE!"
The three teens took off running, while Joey stayed unmoving in his spot. The hissing grew louder, more angrier, it seemed. Then suddenly, it stopped.
Then, there was a splitting pain in his shoulder. He reached his hand up to it, and he could feel a warm liquid running down his shoulder. He lifted his hand and looked at it, expecting to see red, but it was more see-through. He blinked, and looked at his shoulder– there was nothing there. He looked up from his shoulder, to see that the snake was drooling all over his arm. He got a disgusted look on his face, before running off to find the others, realizing the snake wouldn't follow him.
"Tea?! Tristen?! Yugi??!" He called into the forest. Once he got far enough away from the snake, he stopped and panted, looking around him. "Tea?? Yugi??" He asked. There was no reply. "Where are you guys?!" He called. There was still no reply. Joey looked ahead of himself, to where the door that they came into the place would be, then into the forest. He had to decide quickly. Did the other three go into the forest, or continue on to the door? Which way should he go? Well, if he just went into the forest, he'd surely get lost, but if he continued on to the door, he'd stay on the trail, and hopefully the guys had stayed on the trail anyway. So, he trudged on.
After about fifteen minutes of walking, he heard a chilling scream from in the forest. Oh yeah. He recognized it. Tea's scream
But what Joey wondered was: why in the world did Tea go into the forest?
A hissing behind him soon became his answer. He turned around, and saw a large group of deadly-looking snakes. They hissed loudly, and advanced towards the blonde. Joey now became afraid. He ran into the forest behind him, ignoring any sign of danger. Here and there snakes shot out at him, trying to get a bite of his flesh, but his hit them back. Soon, another scream was heard, almost right in front of him.
He dashed through, and pulled the bushes in front of him aside, seeing a small clearing of grass, and through it, garter snakes slithered along. Tea sat in the middle of the field, the snakes surrounding her. Joey somehow managed to laugh. He walked forward, making sure to not step on the snakes. Tea looked up at Joey, she was shaking with fear. Joey walked over to her and kneeled.
"Tea, if there's one thing I know, it's that garter snakes are completely harmless. Sure, they may bite, but they don't have any venom," Joey picked one up, and watched it slither up his arm and on top of his head. He laughed again.
Tea cringed again.
"Joey, get that thing off of your head," she pleaded. Joey did as he was told and set the snake down.
"Actually Tea, we might be safer if we were to sit here, and where are the others?" He asked. Tea frowned a little.
"You mean you didn't see them back there?" Tea asked, worry spreading over her eyes. Joey shook his head.
"All I saw was a mob of deadly snakes," he replied. Tea cringed once again.
"That's what chased us into the forest... the guys said I'd be okay here, and they went back to try and find you," Tea stated. Her voice was beginning to get shaky, and Joey could tell she was getting more and more afraid by the minute.
"Come on," he stood up and held out his hand. She took it and he pulled her up. "Let's go find something that we can take shelter in," Joey said. He walked into the forest, holding tightly onto Tea's hand.
After a while, they came to a more jungle-looking part in the dome. Joey was getting a little frightened, remembering that he heard somewhere that the most dangerous snakes lived in the rain forests and jungles. He kept up his bravery though, for the sake of Tea. Tea shook Joey's shoulder a little.
"What?" Joey whispered, looking back at her.
"Joey, I think it's dangerous here... I get a bad feeling about this spot," Tea whispered. Fear laced her voice. Joey nodded in reply.
"I feel the same... but we have to keep going," Joey replied bravely.
"Tea?! Joey?!" A voice rang out through the forest.
"Yugi!!" Tea and Joey shouted in unison. Before them, out of the bushes came bursting the spiky-haired duelist, a brunette behind him.
"Yugi!! You're alright!!" Tea exclaimed. She wrapped her arms around the teen.
"Er, yeah Tea, I'm okay," Yugi replied, suppressing a bit of laughter. Yugi started to lose oxygen. "Tea... can... you... let go...?" He asked, trying to take in breath. Tea released the boy.
Tristen nodded behind him.
"Guys, Yugi and I found a place we can take shelter for a while, okay?" Tea jumped up in joy.
"Are there any snakes?!" She exclaimed joyfully.
"Nope, none," Tristen replied. Tea finally, since about two or three hours ago, got a smile on her face. Tristen turned around and walked back into the forest, while the others followed.
Soon they came to a fairly large building. It was covered in moss, and different greenery. Tristen walked to the door and pulled it open, using a lot of force. It creaked, and the four teens looked inside.
The place was overgrown with small bushes, moss, vines, and all sorts of shrubbery. They walked in, and Tea cringed again, at the darkness. Tristen walked out.
"Hold on you guys, I'll give the place some light,"
The other three teens sat down and waited for a moment. Soon a window was letting in a small portion of light. Tristen came back and shut the door behind him. Tea looked around worriedly.
"That's it? That's all the light we have?" Tea asked. Tristen nodded.
"Unfortunately, the sun doesn't show much in the dome in the first place, we're lucky we get this much light," Tristen stated. Tea let out a sigh and crawled over to the window and sat under it.
'At least the place is safe,' they all thought in unison, but they didn't know the other had thought it. Tea closed her crystal blue eyes and soon drifted into a sleep, knowing her three friends would watch over her, because they were, well, her friends.
And two, she was a female.
The other three drifted in and out of conversation, things about how they were going to get out, and even a little bit of conversation over Tea. They soon quieted down, and each of them silently stared at the moss-covered floor, thinking about their situation.
Were they doomed?
OKAY! So, now they've found shelter! But will it last for long? Don't they have to eventually go out and find food, and a way out of Reptile Cove? Answers to that and more, in the next chapter!! Hope you love this so far!! -