Chapter three: A Chase and a Fall
The trees shook again, this time harder, another growl resonated through the air, paralyzing the girls in terror. Suddenly a long black arm, scaly black with razor sharp talons reached, out of the trees, getting slowly and steadily closer. The talons flashed in the morning sun, momentarily blinding the girls, and at the same time snapping them out their daze.
Sam screamed, Ava yelped and all four girls spun and began running for their lives. A screech of rage followed, and the ground shook as the thing began pursuing them. The girls ran like they never knew they could. Leaping over obstacles, dodging trees and branches. Speeding everywhere, anywhere.
But as fast as they ran, the thing was catching up.. And fast. The girls began to tire, their breaths coming in short ragged gasps. Ava didn't know how much longer they could take it, she was about to collapse.
Her legs felt like lead, no matter how quickly her heart was beating, or how hard her mind screamed "RUN! RUN YOU IDIOT!" she noticed half heartedly, that the trees had grown closer together, their branches weaving so thickly together, that even in the bright morning sunshine, she could now hardly see in front of her.
Sam, beside her was breathing hard, and everyone's pace was slackening. Just as Ava thought she could run no longer, it was now so dark she couldn't see a thing, her leg caught something, and she fell tumbling over what felt like a wall, she fell, expecting the hard thump, maybe a few broken bones before the huge monster cam to finish her off…
But none came. She reached out her arms, blindly vainly trying to locate on of her friends, she opened her mouth to scream, but no sound came. It was as if she were caught in a nightmare. Suddenly the dark exploded into a fusion of color, ever color imaginable and those even unthinkable. And not the cheap Crayola stuff, the kind of colors you only see in glimpses, like when your spraying water with the hose, the kind of color that takes your breath away. Her body hit something, the impact felt like a million needles, she rushed deeper and deeper into cold….so cold….then…everything went utterly and completely black.
A.N. I know a shorty, but really I just had to end it there. besides i think i may have a fever... anyway Please R&R!