Chapter 6: Coma
She was walking through the jungle when she stumbled and then was jerked up at a rapid pace. She screamed but no one heard her, no one except Ethan Rom. Shannon struggled in the net that had captured her. Ethan came over the hill cackling. Shannon screamed a piercing shriek when she saw him. She kicked, screamed, pushed, pulled,but she just couldn't free herself from Ethan's net. He came up to her and began to speak.
"Shut up! Let me go! Why do you want me?" She yelled in his face.
"Because you have something I want," Ethan said menacingly.
"I don't have anything that you want or need! Let me go you psycho!" Shannon squirmed trying still to free herself.
"Oh, you mean your not pregnant, well then I'll just let the polar bears get you," Ethan cackled evilly.
"No wait! I am pregnant. I think, please don't hurt me!" Shannon cried. Her eyes filled with tears as it began to rain.
"I can't promise you anything!" Ethan said. He untied the net and Shannon fell, five feet, to the ground below the tree she was hanging from. She jumped up and started to run. She was quick but Ethan was quicker. He tackled her, blindfolded her, picked her up and carried her away.
After a while they stopped. Ethan tied her to a tree and left her.
"Don't leave me here!" Shannon cried.
"Leave you where?" came an unfamiliar voice. A crowd of people laughed at her. "Good work Ethan," said the voice.
"Who are you?" Shannon demanded.
"If I tell you you'll end up like Claire, no memory," the voices laughed again. "Go to sleep princess you'll only be here another life time so we can have the children we need!"
"Bastard! Free me immediately!" Shannon tried to stay firm. Then she felt a hand streak her hair. "Get off me you sewer rat!"
"I'm just removing you blindfold princess," said the voice. The bandanna was pulled off her head and she saw about twenty men crowded around her. The man who had been talking had blonde hair and brown eyes. He was a little taller than her she guessed. "After she has this baby I get her first."
"No way dude, she's mine!" said a man with long brunette hair. He had green eyes and a few missing teeth. Shannon examined everyone she saw.
"Okay break it up, back to work," yelled the blonde haired man. Everyone began to get back to work sharpening knives. "Now if you want to live to have this baby you'll tell me where the rest of them are."
"I can't tell you anything! I don't know which way to point you! Because I don't know where I am!" Shannon spat in the young man's face. He wiped the spit off his face. He backed away and then kicked her as hard as he could. She winced and screamed. She cried as he left her to sharpen a butcher knife.
She looked all around the campsite, trying to remember every bit. She looked up, down , to the left and right, and then she saw it. But what was it. It was a girl, of her same age. The girl had short brown hair and shining green eyes. The girl then spotted her. Shannon looked at her for an hour, and the girl looked back.
"So I see you've discovered Alex," Shannon looked up and saw the blonde haired man.
"How long have you had her here?" Shannon asked replacing her attention on Alex.
"Twenty years, ever since she was a baby. We've been using her to give us children, but she can't have anymore, so tomorrow we're getting rid of her," he answered.
"Is that what you plan for me?" Shannon didn't remove her eyes from Alex.
"No, that's what we plan for your baby, since she wont have any of our genes, we won't need her," the man smiled at her. "Get used to being around me princess." He grabbed her head and kissed her violently.
"UuhhMm! Get off me!" She kicked him repeatedly. He punched her and she shut up.
"Don't try to resist me, you'll have to learn to be careful or you'll lose the baby," the man smiled and walked off. Shannon mouthed the word 'sorry' to Alex. Alex began to tear. A man walk over to Alex. He kissed and caressed her body. She did nothing.
Shannon didn't sleep at all that night. She couldn't. Who knows what they would do to her if she slept. Besides she had two men sitting by her guarding her. She knew she had to get away "If I don't I'll die here, and I have to save her." Around one o'clock in the morning the men guarding Shannon fell asleep. She carefully took one of their knives with her foot. She managed to get the knife behind her back, where her hands were tied to the tree. She began to wiggle the knife. The rope was thick, but she cut it. She got up slowly and tried to walk but when she lifted her foot, she fell down. Her legs hurt from where the blonde man had kicked her. She crawled over the jungle floor to where Alex slept. Shannon put her mouth over Alex's mouth and she woke suddenly.
"Shh," Shannon whispered. "If we don't leave, they're going to kill you tomorrow." Shannon cut Alex free and then the girl walked to a rotting log. "What are you doing, come on," Shannon whispered. Alex lifted two hand guns out of the log. "Oh."
The two darted through the trees until they came to the beach. They heard yelling from the jungle. "We were spotted! Let's go," Shannon grabbed Alex's arm. They ran for a mile with the others not far behind them. Alex pointed her gun behind her and began to shoot. They heard some men fall and yell. They had been running for and hour and had gone ten miles, but Shannon was getting tired. She felt like she was floating. Then all of a sudden they saw firelight.
"That's my camp!" Shannon yelled. When they were close enough to see what was in front of them, Shannon realized they were back at the others' camp. "No!" she yelled. She saw the blonde haired man stick his foot out. He tripped he and as if in slow motion, she flew across the sand. Everyone around watched as her head slammed into a rock.
