After a short stop at Isaac's house the friends continue on their way to find a place to hang out.
"Thanks for letting me stop by my house to get cleaned up."
"No prob Isaac. We can't go walking around with you all beat up like that." Jack laughs as he continues walking toward the gate of the city park.
"I hope the park is fine with you all. It's my favorite place to be." Haden looked down a little embarrassed that the park was his favorite places.
"It's totally fine with me. It's so quiet and peaceful. It really calms so nerves." I stated while walking through the entrance and looking around.
This really was a beautiful place. Some flowering trees and even some fruit trees encased the park in shad with their magnificent trunks and tops. There was a tree shrouded trail that led to a large pond in the middle of the park. The pond glistened with the sun and the lily pads with their flowers strewn across the water served as the perfect decoration. The dock was an old sturdy one that once was glossy but now has faded over the years. It gives the pond a sort of mystic feeling. Farther on in the trail there is a playground set. It's old but still has many visitors to swing and climb on its metal frame. And continuing on the trail just leads you through more scenery and eventually back to the main gates.
"How about a walk through the trail?" Everybody turned to me.
"I'm game." Was Jack's reply.
"Sure." Was Haden's.
"That sounds great!" Was Mickey's.
We all began walking and stopped every once and a while to admire the beauty and peacefulness here. Our first stop was so Haden could go down to the dock and look into the water for a minute. He has loved the water ever sense he was just a small boy. Moving on from there we walked farther watching the trees sway back and forth with the wend and having small conversations about how school was, who could beat who at a certain video game, and whatever else popped into one of our minds. Eventually we reached the park where we all decided to stop and play on a few things. Yes, we were embracing our inner child in us. It felt good not to have to worry about much.
"Hey Isaac come get on the marry-go-round with me!" Jack ran to the marry-go-round holding onto one of the guard rails waiting for me to climb on so he could start pushing it.
'This is probably going to end up with me being sick but oh well!'
"I'm coming!" I run to the marry-go-round and jump on. I brace myself on a rail as it begins spinning and accelerating in speed. When Jack deemed it fast enough for him he attempted to jump on. Unfortunately he had let it get to fast and ended up with him face planting the ground. I was holding on as tightly as I could as I just watched the world spin around in circles.
"Jack stop it I think I might get sick!" Jack gets up to stop the ride so I could escape to a bush and empty the contents of my stomach.
"Well I think that is enough of the park. Let's keep going through the trail." Everybody takes Haden's advice to leave the park. So far I've gotten sick, Jack now has a forming bruise on his side from where he fail, Haden hit his head on the monkey bars now forming a knot, and Mickey's knee is scraped up from where a swing jump went wrong.
For a while we were all silent just enjoying each other's company while we walked. It was good to know you had friends you could experience this with. Eventually thought the silence go to much and Mickey ended up striking a conversation about this new game he got. It sounded cool. It's a game where you're some sort of warrior who has to defeat a horde of aliens who have come to take over the human race. I wouldn't mind playing it at least.
After a few more minutes of discussing the destruction of the alien species we moved on to the topic of who could run the farthest. Soon a race ensued to see who would make it to the park gates to see who would come out the victor.
The first to stop was Haden, he was never the athletic type anyway. A while after Mickey stopped from shortness in breathe, his speed is for short distances not long drawn out ones. Which left only Jack and Isaac to continue the race to the gates.
'Damn I'm tired' I look over to Jack who is just a few inches in front of me. 'I wonder if I can find a shortcut.'
Looking ahead I noticed I little footpath that leads into the dense woods. 'I might as well take it.' I slowed down so Jack can get far enough ahead to where I can slip away unnoticed. When the time came, I dashed onto the footpath. I kept running for what seemed like a mile and the scenery still had not changed. I was still in the dense forest where if I would have taken to actual path I would have been there by now. I slowed my run to a fast jog and then to a jog and so on till I was just walking through the path.
"I think a may need to turn around." Looking around me I noticed that the sun had started it's decent from the sky. "Yes I need to turn around"
Walking back down the path, I reached for my phone in my pocket so I could call Jack to let him know what had happened. I touch the screen and draw the pattern I need to unlock it and noticed that I have no signal at all. I hold the phone in the air hoping that through some magical power it would gain signal for me to call. When I finally accepted that I would not have signal I began my walk back down the trail so I could hopefully find one of my friends.
'This trail sure is taking longer to walk down than I remember' I looked ahead trying to spot the original pathway I strayed from to no avail. My legs are starting to become heavy with exhaustion as my eyes became harder and harder to hold open.
"I guess I could stop and rest for a while they'll probably find me anyway."
*************************************Back with his friends********************************************
Jack's POV
'Where the hell could Isaac be?' Looking around searching for a way Isaac could have gotten separated from him.
"Hey Jack! Have you found Isaac yet?" I looked over at Haden and Mickey as they caught up to me.
"No I haven't even found a trace of where he could have gone." 'Isaac you better not be messing around with me. We've been looking for you for four hours now!'
The sun has been down for a good hour now. I look around at Haden and Mickey sitting at the bottom of a large tree.
"Hey guys we should go. We all need our rest. I'm sure Isaac will show up tomorrow." 'He better anyway.' Walking toward the gate I look back just once more to see if I could find him. I saw nothing.
************************************Back with Isaac*************************************************
Darkness. That's all I see for miles and miles. I can't feel my body but somehow I know that I am moving. I can't speak but my mouth is moving. My voice refuses to work. My arms fill chained but there are no chains. Where am I? Why am I like this?
I see a small ball of light. It's coming closer and closer. It becomes larger and fear shoots through me like a thousand pin pricks in my skin. Cold chills roll down my spine in waves. Panic blossoms in my heart as I watched the white orb grew to enormous size and threatened to swallow me whole.
"Ah!" I jerked back as pain shoots from the back of my skull as it made contact with the tree trunk I was laying by.
"It's that same damn dream again." Standing from my position I look into the sky which now is colored with a bright blue color no longer holding a trace of stars in sight.
'It seems like they still haven't found me yet.' Deciding to continue my search for my friends a start walking in the direction I believed would lead me to that path that seamed nonexistent at this point.
Walking for about an hour I finally saw a gap in the tree line. I dash as my hopes rise to the spot and all hope dies as I just come among nothing but a clearing in the woods.
'That's funny. I've never noticed a clearing here before.' Walking to the middle I stand scanning over the area I now stand in. I can feel in my gut that something is off as I cannot find another trail to follow. A bush off to my side shakes calling my attention. I slowly walk over to it and part the many limbs it consisted of to find nothing there at all.
'Well that's odd.' I turn to walk back to where I was previously standing only to see some kind of lizard has taking my place. It was a small lizard. No larger than my palm it seemed. But what was so odd was that this lizard had four forearms. Walking closer to gain a better look the little lizard looks up at me.
"Come any closer human and I shall devour you!"
Startled I look around to see who had spoken but the only other being in this clearing was just that lizard.
'No way is that lizard talking to me!' Fear is all I felt as I watched the lizard grow tremendous in size and lunge for me.
Yay! We're finally progressing somewhere! :D Can you guess where he is now?
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~Lynn-vampire51