The monster's hands had claws. They started digging into me where the thing was dragging me back. It had put something over my mouth that was stronger than duct tape and wouldn't let my mouth move at all. It had then tied my hands, my feet, and then both together. I couldn't see anything because there wasn't even moonlight shining in through the trees in this area. I kept hearing strange sounds from every direction. Each time I jerked only worsened my bruises and gave me rope burns. Suddenly, the thing let out a shrill howl that sent chills rushing through me. In response came what seemed like eight different howls that sounded similar. Then it began to run.
The monsters that were still managing to stand howled up into the sky in a twisted tone. I slashed the throat of the one closest to me and it dropped cold. I couldn't stop smiling. Jaqz was about to get sliced by one coming from behind so I jumped in and cut its head off while stabbing it in the stomach. So far we had managed to kill all but six of the twenty-three that were here when we first arrived. Alasia was helping Lilix fight off three and Zol and Synet were both fighting off one each. There was one more about a mile away. I turned towards Jaqz and said, "Betcha I'll get to it first." He took off running towards the last one and I started to change. It seems to take so long in my mind, but it only happens in a matter of seconds. I feel my arms and legs stretch or reform slightly and a tail come to life below my back. The striped fur then begins to grow in a fast-forwarded speed all over me. My body jerks to the form of the creature I had in mind and my facial features begin to change. My teeth grow longer and sharper as my nose begins to shift and my eyes change their shape and sometimes color. I start to run as fast as my new tiger body will let me. I hear Jaqz scream "No fair," as I pass him in just a short matter of time. I rush at the monster that is standing on its back two legs and leap high into the air. I instantly turn myself back and grab my swords back out before I slide on the back of the monster's head. I drag the blades deep into the skin as I go down. When I jerk them out at what would be just above its ankles, it starts to fall backwards. I jump in front of it and laugh at Jaqz as he comes up. I see that everyone else has killed the ones they were fighting and I let out what I thought was a cheer. But then it changed when I saw Synet come running towards me. He is about ten feet away when I hear him yell the word 'stairs'. I immediately drop down to my hands and knees and feel his feet land on my back. I then quickly raise up as he is jumping off of me and onto the monster I thought was dead. I see his axe clear off the beast's head and it falls life-less against the ground beside us as he lands on his feet. Zol walks up smiling and says," Oooh, the almighty Kero had to have some help did she." I hit him right where it hurts and would have done more had Alasia not stopped me.
"We can't be injuring each other right now," she said glaring at me the whole time, like usual," Lilix thinks that this was part of a trap and that one of them has gotten the girl."
Lilix then jumped in front of everyone and said," I heard a howl from what seemed like a place around three miles from the girl's house."
"Good," Alasia said," Alright Syn, take us there." The six kids then disappeared from the spot next to the beheaded monster and appeared just a bit behind the one holding Charlotte.
Suddenly, the thing stopped running and started to sniff the air. It seemed to tense up and then opened its mouth. I barely heard this quick, low pitched scream before it threw me into the air. I tried as hard as I could to scream myself, but nothing got out through the substance over my mouth. I landed on the top of a tree and fell down it to around the middle. I looked down and saw the thing running a few feet ahead of me. I then heard the break of branches somewhere behind me on the ground. I started to panic thinking that an even worse creature was going to show up and eat me alive. But it wasn't another creature. It was the kids that I had seen in my yard, but now they had weapons. And they seemed to be covered in blood. I started to panic and I heard one of the girls tell someone to look around. And then I really got freaked. One of the younger looking boys jumped straight up in the air and started floating up like a balloon. He kept going around and moving in different directions like it was something normal.
"I found her," I yelled out. When Alasia said she was in a tree, I knew I'd be the first one to find her. Zol might be able to fly, but nobody has better vision than me. Especially when they had to deal with the darkness as well. She was about three-fourths of the way up in a tree about a mile and a half away from us. She was almost completely surrounded by leaves except for her eyes and feet. She looked scared and uncomfortable.
"Where is she," Synet asked from behind me.
"She's in a tree. 'Bout a mile, give a little, that way," I told him while pointing in the girl's direction.
"Alright," Alasia said from beside me now," Tell Zol to go and get her. And tell him not to scare her."
"Okay," I said and started to tell him while he was miles above us. I made my voice transform into something that would put off as a bat echo. I knew he heard because he had started floating off into her direction. I then told him exactly how he could get to her so that he wouldn't scare her with trying to find her on his own.
I started trying to squeeze myself into a ball or something smaller than what I was at that moment. The floating kid was now moving towards me. Maybe it's a ghost, I started to think. But then I remembered that some ghosts weren't as friendly as Casper. I tried getting out of the ropes that bound me, but the creature had done a real good job and I couldn't move a thing. I closed my eyes thinking that, for some reason, that might actually save me from whatever the kid was going to do. And for a little bit I think it did. But all I know is that when I opened my eyes to see if it had disappeared, the kid was right in front of me. I couldn't move or say anything so I just stayed staring while he pulled something out of his pocket. It was a little vial of what looked like water and he began to sprinkle it above the ropes and dabbed a bit on the stuff across my mouth. "I knew this would come in handy," I heard him mumble. Then, the things just fell off and I was free to move. For a moment we just stared at each other, seeing what would happen next. Then, he sat down next to me on the branch and said," Hi, I'm Zol," then he gave me a weird smile and continued with "But you can call me your Superman." Next thing I knew I was up in the air high up above the trees and the first thing I did was scream. Right into Zol's ear. And that's when he dropped me and I began to free fall.