Chapter 3-Escaping Danger

Haru screams as she watches the black bird fly up and attack them. Haru put her arms up to protect herself and braced herself for the attack, only to hear a horrible scream. Haru lower her arms to see what happen, to find Patches had a grip on the bird's wing. It screamed again and pecks at its attacker. Patches let go, it fell on the bed. It got itself up on its leg, and tried to attack but this time without flying. Haru realized that Patches broken its wing badly, for it tripped over its wing ever time it tried to attack. Patches took a hold of the bird's leg and throw the bird off the bed.

Haru ran up to Patches to check for injuries, a side from the few scratches and missing fur from where the thing pecked at her. She petted Patches, who purred.

"Now we need to get out of here" Haru said to Patches, whose attention was not on Haru but on it. Haru walked over to the edge, beening careful not to fall, looked over the edge to find it trying to climb up the side of the bed. "But how?"

Haru sat down far away from the thing as possible and thought about how to get out of the house. 'We can't go out the way it came in' she thought to herself. Haru thought of something, her mom always leaves the kitchen window open just a crack. "That's it"

"But how are we going to get out of the room?" She said aloud. Suddenly the bedroom door opened just a crack. "Ok….that was creepy!"

Haru knew that the house is empty, except for Patches, herself and that thing on the floor. She shook her head; she has no time to think about it. "The problem now is how am I going to get down from the bed to the kitchen window?"

"Meow"

Haru, who was deep in thought, jumped and turn to become eye to eye with Patches.

"Patches! You scared me!" Haru sighed with relief. Patches turned sideways and laid down. Patches than looked at Haru.

"Meow"

"What is it? Girl?" Haru asked not knowing what her cat was telling her.

Patches meows again and than looked from Haru to her back. Haru caught on quickly as to what she was saying, Get on. Haru walked over and swag her left leg over Patches' back, gabbed on her collar, and holding it tightly said "Let's go".

Patches stood up and jumped off the bed. After a graceful landing, she bolted towards the door. She manages to get the door open enough to go through and ran down the stairs, nearly tripping twice. Haru had to hold the collar so hard that her hands hurt but no way on earth is she going tell Patches to slow down with a thing around. Patches had made it to the kitchen when Haru heard a bone chilling sound, the thudding of it coming down the stairs. Haru knew that thing was evil and was frighten of it.

Patches sensing Haru's fear, she quickly jumped on one of the kitchen table's chairs, form there to the table and from the table to the counter. Haru heard something run it to the kitchen table, Haru looked back to see a large, black dog pushing the table to the.

'Oh no it's trying to come up' Haru thought. She turned back around. "We need to move and NOW!"

Patches worked to get the window open enough to go. Haru heard a loud thud; she turned and saw that it had jumped on the table. It slowly came closer and closer, Haru could feel its breath, it made her shiver. Haru saw it open its mouth, Haru know what's going to happen next. She turned, held Patches collar tightly and closed her eyes waiting on it to bite.

Haru felt herself falling and felt a soft landing. Haru opened her eyes to find that Patches and she were outside the house. Haru looked up at the window to find it staring at them, she shivered again.

"Patches! Quickly, we need to go to the Crossroads!" Haru said aloud. Patches looks at Haru with question. "Don't worry I know the way. Now let's go!" Haru pointed in the direction they needed to go.

Patches runs in the direction Haru pointed out.

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Baron paces back and forth in the Bureau. He would stop and look at the doors and than sighs and go back to pacing.

Baron sat down in a chair and began to think on what's going on. "Muta has not come with someone, yet. Nor can I go out looking without Toto's help" Baron said to himself. "I hope who ever is in trouble finds help soon" then to thought add 'because I got a bad feeling that if they don't, they would….' He shook his head. "Don't think that way"

Baron leaned back in the chair and sighs. "All I could do now is wait."

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Three for Ya! Chapter 3 up and Chapter 4 coming up from behind. Again sorry for any misspellings.