V: The Hills
Somewhere out in the countryside, a rancher and his best friend are outside feeding their animals. "Look Jin," said his best friend, "This girl I'm dating, I feel is the one for me! Why don't you believe that?"
"Because of your track record with the ladies," said Jin has finished feeding the goats, "I know you are a good guy Dex, but you keep saying that about every girl you ever dated!"
Both of them kept auguring about that subject as they walked back into their house. As the goats ate their food, something made its way towards them.
"Look you'll see!" said Dex to Jin, "You'll believe it soon enough." Then they heard a lot of commotion from the goat pen and charged out to see what was going on.
"What the hell is that?" said Jin pointing at a creature. The creatures wasn't too huge, the size of a dog. It was hairless, had light green skin, and its eyes were pitch black.
It was sucking the blood out of one of the sheep. After it was done, it saw the two men and fled from their sights. "What the hell was that thing?" said Dex looking around.
"What ever it was," said Jin, "I bet it'll come back here."
"Sakura," said Kero to her, "You dad is calling you. Wake up!" Sakura had been up all last night trying to finish off the Basilisk that lived in the sewer. After it was killed, she made her away home at 12:00 a.m., changed into her PJs, and past out on her bed from exhaustion. Now it was 10 am and her father as been calling for her at least 3 minutes.
"Sakura!" called her father, "Come down stairs now! I have a surprise for you!"
"Just a few more minutes," mumbled Sakura in her sleep, "Just a few more minutes." Then she started to snore annoying Kero.
"I'll get her!" called Tory to his dad and then said to Sakura, "Ok squirt, I'm coming in now!" Kero heard him and dove out of his sight.
Tory walked into Sakura's room and saw her sleeping. "Time to wake up monster," he said to her, but she didn't wake up and kept on snoring. He then raised the bed enough to make her roll out of bed and onto the floor.
"HEY!" shouted Sakura at him, "That wasn't nice!"
"Dad wants us downstairs today squirt," he said to her, "He has some big news he would like to tell us."
"Oh," she said. She pushed him out of her room, changed quickly, and headed downstairs. Her father waited for her with her brother in the living room.
"I have some exciting news!" said her dad after she sat down, "You know, it has been awhile since we done anything as a family. I got some time off and I planned a trip for us this whole week for Spring Break!"
"Wow!" said Sakura excited, "Where are we going? To the beach? Another country?"
"No," he said to her, "Out into the countryside! We can go out there to get way from it all! All the hassles of the city life behind us and no one around for miles and miles."
"When are we leaving?" said Tory to his dad.
"Today!" he said to them.
"Today?" said Tory and Sakura together at once.
"Yes!" he said, "This way we have the whole week for fun out on the countryside and more time to be as a family. You better get backing!"
"What about my friends?" sad Sakura, "Madison, JD, Chelsea, Dot, and the others?"
"Who's JD and Dot?" said her dad.
"They are those two teens Sakura and Madison showed around town last week," said Tory.
"You can invite Madison if she wants to come," said her dad, "But not JD and Dot, I need to meet them first before I invite to come along on anything."
"Too bad we couldn't come," said JD to Sakura. Sakura had called Madison if she wanted to come on her trip and she agreed. Then Sakura called JD and Dot to tell them that she is going to be gone all spring break.
"Yeah," said Sakura, "But I hope to see you two when I'm back. Bye." She then hung up on him and went downstairs with her suitcase where Madison was waiting with her suitcase.
"So were they ok with it?" said Madison to Sakura, "They didn't mine being left behind all that stuff?"
"JD said he was fine with it," said Sakura, "But I'm not sure about Dot since I never got a chance to talk with her at all."
"I'm sure she won't mind," said Madison.
Soon, everyone was on the road and on their way into the countryside. They had been driving for at least an hour when they stopped at house. "Here we are!" said Mr. Avalon once he and everyone else got out of the car, "This is where we'll be having our vacation."
"I was expecting a hotel or something," said Tory.
"No," said his dad, "A friend of mine owns this place. He is letting us use it for the week." The house was painted brown on the outside and the door was white. There were two floors.
"It's like a prairie out here," said Madison looking around, "Not a single tree around for miles and miles. Not much shade at all."
They walked inside and looked around. The walls were white like the door and the floors were hardwood. "All the rooms are upstairs so go pick one out you'll all like," said Mr. Avalon.
Madison rushed up pulling Sakura behind her. "Like find the best room before your brother does!"
She opened a door and rushed inside it. There were two beds; both of them had light blues sheets and white pillows. There was a desk in a corner and a dresser to the right of them. "This will work for us," said Sakura dropping her suitcase next to the door and throwing her backpack onto one of the beds.
"Hey!" shouted Kero coming out of the backpack, "Remember me? Your friend you put in your backpack?"
"Sakura?" said Tory coming into the room, "Who shouted?"
"Oh!" she said to him, "That was me! I dropped the suitcase on my foot. It hurt." He looked at her and then looked at Kero that was now acting like a stuffed toy. He looked at it for 5 seconds then left.
Madison closed the door and then said to Kero, "You'll have to be quieter if you want no one to know that you are here!"
"Sorry," he said rubbing his head, "But it hurt so much when Sakura tossed me. A bunch of her stuff fell on top of me."
""So what do we do now?" said Sakura to Madison as they moved their suitcase next to the bed each one choose, "I mean, there doesn't seem to be much to see out here."
"Hmm," said Madison now moving to look out the window, "Hey! I can see a ranch from here! Why don't we go check it out? It's better than staying in here and hoping to find something to do."
"I'll go tell my dad where we'll be heading," she said to Madison and then asked Kero, "Do you want to come with us?"
"Nah," he said pulling Sakura's Gameboy Advance out and popping in a game to play, "I'll just be playing this for a while. Have a good time."
Sakura walked down the hall to find her dad. He was in the last room down the hall put some of his clothes away. "Hey dad," she said to him, "Do you mind if Madison and me go to that ranch that's near by?"
"How about I come along just to see this place for myself?" he asked her.
"Sure," she said to him, "Madison and me will be waiting for you downstairs."
"There it is!" said Madison running towards it when they were a few feet away from it. A bunch of horses were being herded by two men into a barn as they came up.
"May I help you three?" said one of the men.
"My daughter and her friend wanted to come and see this place," said Sakura's dad, "My name is Aiden Avalon."
"Sorry," said the man to them, "We can't let you now. This weird creature has been showing up lately and attacking our animals. We wouldn't want any of you to get hurt in case it would show up."
"Is it a wolf or something?" said Madison to the man.
"To tell the truth to you nice people," said his friend walking up, "It isn't a wolf, we don't even now what it is. It comes out when we are not around and drinks the animals' blood sucking it dry. We lost 4 goats to this thing and recently a cow."
"If I were you," said the first man, "I say you should all stay away from here until we kill this thing. We don't want anyone to get hurt."
"A beast that sucks animals dry of it's blood," said Mr. Avalon, "I'm sure it is just a wolf or something attack you animals."
"This thing has light green skin, black eyes with no pupils, and is hairless," said the second man, "Does that sound like a wolf to you?"
"No," said Sakura.
"Right," said the first man, "Now I think it's time for you people to leave now. Get!" Mr. Avalon, Sakura, and Madison looked at the man and his friend and then left wondering what was causing the attacks.
"So do you think it's one of those monsters from the book?" said Madison to Sakura later that night. It was about 11:00 pm and everyone in the house besides Sakura and Madison were sleeping.
"What else could it be?" said Sakura worried, "But I thought they couldn't get far from where they were released."
"Maybe this one did or it made its way own it's own," said Madison, "I say we should look it up."
"But there isn't a computer here and neither one of us as brought a laptop or owns one," said Sakura, "So how are we supposed to know what we are dealing with out here?"
"I think I know someone who can help," said Madison getting out her bed and pulling out her cell phone she brought along with her.
Back at the city, Dot and JD are sleeping their bed they are sharing. The phone next to them starts ringing and Dot mumbles in her sleep to JD, "Phone. Can you get it JD?"
JD slowly opens his eyes and yawns. He reaches for the phone on the table next to the bed, but he misses and falls out taking the covers with him. Dot wakes up and looks at her boyfriend on the floor with all the covers and says to him, "JD!"
"I'm mine," he mumbles getting the phone.
"No," said Dot, "That's not it. I'm cold and you are taking all the covers!"
He rolls his eyes and passes the covers to her. He then answered the phone and said, "Hello? Who the heck is calling at this time of night?"
"Hi JD!" said Madison to him.
"What do you want Madison?" he mumbles to her, "It is 11 pm at night and some of us are trying to sleep. What do you want?"
"We think there is another creature out here," she said to him, "Can you use your laptop to do some research on this creature?"
He yawned some more getting out his laptop and then asking, "Ok, describe this thing."
"Well," said Madison, "It about the size of a dog, light green skin, it is hairless, and it sucks the blood of barnyard animals."
"I actually know what this thing is!" said JD putting his laptop away now wide awake, "What you have out there is a Chupacabra."
"A chupa what?" said Madison.
"A Chupacabra is a creature is supposed to reside in Mexico," said JD, "There have been some recent sightings of this thing out there recently, but this one must have been the most dangerous if Clow Reed sealed it away."
"Tell me all you know," said Madison.
"Let's see here," he said thinking, "Well it is supposed to suck the blood of animals, but it prefers goats. If a person is scratched by one, they themselves become a Chupacabra only during the night. There isn't much else about them, but what makes this one so different from the rest of the ones in Mexico I wonder."
"We'll figure it out," said Madison, "Thanks for all your help and we'll see you when we get back. Good night."
"Night," he mumbled to her. He turned the phone off, got back into bed, and fell asleep.
Back at the ranch, Jin and Dex had their shotguns out waiting outside the barn for this thing to show back up. "Once a creature decides its hunting grounds it won't leave until there is nothing left," said Jin to Dex, "It'll show for sure."
"You sure?" said Dex looking at him, "How positive are you about creature and its hunting grounds?"
"I heard about this information on Discovery Channel," said Jin, "That channel as never lied before."
"Why don't we start looking around the barn incase it found a way inside besides this main door behind us," said Dex, "It' better than just standing around in one spot."
"Fine then," said Jin, "I'll left and you go right. We meet each other on the other side of this barn and report anything we see." Dex nodded and both of them headed off in their different directions.
Dex started to walk around the left side looking for any signs of this thing. He looked around and looked at the barn's left side. There was a huge hole on it. Dex looked in and saw the thing feasting on one of the sleeping animals. "Can't wait for Jin to come," mumbled Dex running back to the main door.
He opened it up and shouted at the creature, "Got you now!"
"Dex?" said Jin after hearing his friend shout, "You find something?" He then heard a gun shot go off and his friend screaming.
"I'm coming!" he shouted running to save his friend. He came up to the main door and saw the creature sucking Dex dry. The thing then saw Jin and jumped at him knocking him to the ground.
"Go back to hell!" shouted Jin at the creature now on his stomach. It dove its teeth at him, but he moved his gun between the creature's mouth and him. He then shoved it back with the gun's barrel.
It cried out when it was tossed to the ground and it ran off into the night. "Holy crap what was that thing?" said Jin getting back to his feet and looking for the thing.
He then ran over to his friend once he realized his friend was in trouble. "You ok?" said Jin to him. But it was too late, Dex was dead.
Sakura woke around 9:00 am and found Madison was already awake and fully dressed. "About time you woke up," said Madison with a smile, "You dad called up a bit ago, breakfast is ready."
"Oh no!" said Sakura looking at the clock, "I slept in again!" She pushed Madison out of the room, closed the door, and got dressed quickly. She then ran out and down the stairs to the kitchen.
"I'm here!" said Sakura once she was inside. She looked around, no one was in there.
"Hey!" said Sakura to Madison when she got down into the room, "Where is everyone? I thought you said my dad had breakfast ready?"
"Actually," said Madison with a smile, "You dad and brother went into town to get some food. I had to tell you that otherwise you probably wouldn't have woken up."
"Hey!" said Sakura.
"But now that you are awake," said Madison to her, "We can go back to that ranch and see if we can find this thing near it."
"But those guys said won't along us to come back there," said Sakura.
"Fine," said Madison folding her arms, "Then we'll come back tonight when you brother and dad are sleeping to check it out. By then, those guys in charge should be sleeping as well."
Later that night around 10:30, Sakura and Madison made their way towards the ranch. Both of them had flashlights with them and Sakura had her wand turned into a sword already and Madison had her camera as well. Once they reached the field near by the ranch, Sakura said, "Ok, where do we begin searching now?"
"Hey you two!" shouted Jin running up to them with a shotgun in his hand, "I told you two to stay away from here! Wait a minute, what are you two doing up at this hour?"
"Umm," said Madison thinking up an excuse, "We want to see that creature you and your friend saw!"
Jin shook his head with displeasure and said to them, "I want you both out of here! This thing is very dangerous; it killed my friend last night. I don't want the same thing to happen to you two."
"Oh," said Sakura, "Sorry for your friend."
"Yeah yeah," he mumbled, "You two should get out of here before…" All of a sudden, there was a growl. Everyone looked around and saw 2 red eyes staring at them.
It jumped at Jin knocking him to the ground and the gun out his hand. Both girls took off in directions running to take cover. The Chupacabra then saw both girls and charged after Sakura.
"I need to face it and fight it," thought Sakura sacredly and then she turned around and said, "I can do this!" The beast jumped at her, but she slashed her sword at it cutting it across the chest.
The thing fell to the ground and Sakura sighed. Then it jumped back up and rammed her to the ground. She hit the ground hard losing her sword. The beast moved over her and then prepared to sink its teeth into her.
Then a shot rang out blasting the beast off her and to the ground. Sakura looked saw Jin had shot it. He smiled and then past out onto the ground. "Sakura!" shouted Madison running up to her and then hugging her, "I thought you were done for sure!"
"Not me!" smiled Sakura gleefully. They turned the body of the Chupacabra, it started to glow and it turned back into a card. Then it slowly disappeared becoming no more.
"What a vacation so far!" said Madison picking up Sakura's sword/wand and handing it back to her, "I'm glad I got it all on tape! This will bring back great memories right?"
"I never want to see that tape!" said Sakura to her getting up and walking back to the house, "I want to forget this night ever happened! I never want to picture that thing again or remember its breath. It smelled worse then a dog!"
Author Notice: Another beast dead and another point up for Sakura! Eli will appear in the next chapter if you are all wondering.
Well, the heat wave in my town is now gone. But it is now being replaced with thunderstorms that'll keep you up until one in the morning. I had a sleepless night yesterday and this morning.
Well my friends another month has past by us, this means it's time for story of the month! The Top 5 Stories of the Month of July are:
1. Forgotten By. KH-Akyra
2. Emerald: The Legend of Hoenn By: Katie Legends
3. ReiShine By: Digital Skitty
4. The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass By: bobsnormal
5. Twilight By: Rave Drifter
This month, I would like to here about any good Cardcaptor Sakura and Calvin & Hobbes I should check out.
Next chapter, I'm having trouble deciding which creature to use next. One that you all probably feared when you were all younger or a genie. I'm still deciding so the next chapter will be a surprise!
Next to Come: VI: Welcome Back
Date: 8/2/06
Reviewers: Katie Legends
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