Chapter 15
They made it about halfway through the forest before Mari stopped dead. Will bumped into her.
"What is it?" He asked.
"Shh! Don't you hear it?" She whispered. They crew listened.
"I don't hear nothing." Raggetti said.
"Exactly, sharp ears love." Jack said. Then they heard a rumbling noise, like that of a gigantic cat purring or a gigantic angry cat.
"Run!" Jack said and not a moment too soon, no sooner had they started running than an enormous black jaguar, the size of two or three houses, crashed through the trees.
The crew ran like the devil himself was on their heels, and technically it was. But Mari's leg was still injured and she was slower than the rest. Then she tripped and fell, rolling down a steep hill she found herself back on the beach, the jaguar growling and towering over her.
"HEY KITTY CAT! Why don't you try me instead?" Tim shouted chucking about half a dozen rocks at the jaguars head. The jaguar turned, snarling, to face him.
"TIM! What are you thinking?" Mari shouted. At the next thing he did she knew he was completely insane. He ran towards the beast and somehow scaled it and was now on its head. He grabbed its ears and pulled back. The beast reared on its hind legs roaring and shrieking like a banshee. The cat then began thrashing around, trying to rid itself of Tim, after over twenty fruitless minutes it finally succeeded, sending Tim flying over twenty feet through the air and crashing into some rocks. Things broke on that impact, and they weren't rocks. Mari ran as fast as she could to his side.
"Tim why did you do that? Are you insane?" Mari asked, she knew the answer though, but she didn't really want to hear it.
"I couldn't let the woman I love be eaten by that pussycat." Tim said, he was covered in blood and in obvious pain. "I guess this is it for me, can you promise me something Mari?"
"Don't talk like that!" Mari snapped. "You're not dead yet."
"I'm not going to recover from these wounds Mari, just promise me something, please."
"What is it?" Mari asked.
"That you'll find a man that you love and one that will take care of you. And that you always stay free and untamed." Tim said smiling. Mari swallowed and held Tim's hand.
"Aye, I can promise you that Tim."
"Thanks." Tim said he took a deep shuddering breath. Mari smiled as his eyes met hers.
"I'm glad I got to see you smile again." And that was the last thing Tim ever said again.
"Be at peace my friend. I will avenge your death."
Mari stood up, stiff as a board.
"HEY FURBALL! Are you hungry? Come and get me!" Mari shouted, the cat took her invitation. And charged towards her. She ran to met it, ignoring all pain I her ankle, she grabbed a hold of one of it's whiskers as it lowered its head to try to bite her. She climbed up onto its head and pulled out her pistol.
"This is for Tim. Say goodnight beastie." And she pulled the trigger, the bullet shot through the skull and hit the brain. The beast was dead instantly and collapsed on the beach just as the crew ran out of the woods, carrying several chests.
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