Chapter Thirty-Five: Surrounded In Darkness

It was late night and the half moon shone down on a figure in distress that was in search of a little alcove. She walked along the beach were it met the rocky cliff that the building was on and she sought out a small and dark place like she used to when she needed some alone time in the night. She finally found a little overhang that had a log resting under it and she sat down in the seclusion of the darkness that surrounded her.

Her life was surrounded in darkness in many ways and she felt safe in the dark because it matched how she felt. She needed to feel safe and the only place she felt safe was in the depths of blackness and wrapped in the happy days of the past and not the painful ones of the present. She never felt like thinking of how the future could turn for the better because it was highly unlikely that she would ever be truly happy again.

As she made her way out to the beach she had failed to notice a menacing figure follow silently in the darkness. As she sat on the sand with her back against the log the figure went the long way to keep from her sight, she sat there and a feeling of being prey for a predator came upon her. She sat straighter and looked around for a sign of movement but she saw none.

She sat back a little more relaxed and tried to forget the feeling but it kept growing to her annoyance.

She finally yelled out just to scare away whatever it was. "Leave me alone because you don't want to mess with me!" and she sat back feeling a little better.

But the feeling didn't leave it just seemed to grow more as a figure she was unaware of crept closer and closer. But she didn't move she wouldn't let some pathetic animal scare her, after all she did have her lightsabers with her and she could easily slice it in half so she waited for the opportune moment.

She didn't have to wait for that moment for a long time and when she felt the presence of whatever it was she stood up cautiously and turned around. She heard a faint rustle and slowly reached for her saber and pulled it out but didn't ignite. She started into the foliage and if she looked lower than she had anticipated she would have seen her stalker, but she failed to see two yellow reptilian eyes watch her every movement with a deathly gaze.

"Come out you coward." she yelled getting a little worried.

She heard a chuckle that surrounded her filled with menace and the want to hunt. She gulped growing more worried and wished that she hadn't wandered so far from the building, but there was no going back now. She stood there clutching the saber, waiting for the sign of movement or a noise but she saw and heard nothing.

She felt completely helpless and that she was surrounded in what she called friend turn on her as if it were going to engulf its one ally. She slowly backed out from under the ledge never turning her back. She saw a figure very large in size shrouded in black move so fast that if she hadn't of been looking in that direction she would not have seen it.

She turned back to face the sea and sat down on the sand feeling safer now that she wasn't surrounded by a hiding place for whatever was stalking her to hide. She sank back into her thoughts but the feeling never left. She felt the urge to move quickly to the side and she always trusted her instincts so she quickly rolled to the side just in time to hear, feel and see a large object land were she was originally sitting.

She glared at the object knowing imediatly who and what it had been.

"What are you trying to do?... CRUSH ME!!!" she said as she got up to walk away even though she knew it would do her no good.

Before she could even blink the tall figure was blocking her way. And glared down at her, she glared back with the same deathly intensity as his. Neither of them moved. River put her left hand on her hip and looked at him clearly showing that she was not pleased at all.

"What now?" she sighed exasperated.

"I wasn't trying to crush you I was trying to entertain myself," he said defensively.

"And that's the way you do it by sneaking up on somebody and trying to make it look like you were going to crush them. You know that if you landed wrong and I hadn't moved I would be dead?" she said peeved.

"I had calculated all mishaps before hand so that wouldn't happen."

She looked at him and tried to walk past him but he stuck his arm out grabbed her and brought his arm in which caused her back to slam into his torso and his cape engulfed her. Now she was truly surrounded in darkness.

"So... what were you doing? AHHH!" she asked as she wriggled free from his grasp and fell out of the cape after losing her balance and hit the ground with a light thud.

"Following you."

"Great now I can't even think without being followed," she said getting up because she didn't like the feeling of being on the ground where he could conveniently step on her.

She held his gaze then made a series of movements and somersaulted by using the force to enhance her speed and cleared him, but before she had gotten up to run she was flung down back pressed on the ground her arms pinned down by his metal hands with his face in her view.

"I can see that I'm going to have to restrain you if I want to talk to you seemings that you appear not to be in the mood ."

She tried to turn her head but his faceplate was pressing down on her face so she couldn't move it, instead she did her best not to look him in the eyes, which was a futile attempt. And when neither of those worked she tried to get free but to no avail. She finally laid still staring into those eyes that she had once loved (pah!!!... big joke).

"Are you through?" he asked knowing that she was completly defenseless now.

She tried to speak but was unable to due to he was pressing so hard on her face she couldn't even move her lips. He lightened up a bit so she was able to.

"Does it look like I'm going anywhere?... No, which means I'm through." she said with a very sharp tone.

He didn't say anything or move and she was beginning to think it was just away for him to entertain himself; she closed her eyes and slipped back into thought. Now she felt submerged in darkness and didn't like the feeling, it felt like tons and tons of weight was being pressed against her 157 kilos to be exact.

"I thought you wanted to talk," she said showing her discomfort.

"Your too easy to convince." he chuckled.

"Then would you be so kind as to get your big metal body off me." she said more as an order than a request.

When he got up he released her with reluctance and helped her up. She could sense his reluctance and was confused something more she would have to think about later and hopefully not be interrupted. She brushed herself off looked at him and sighed, then she walked past him and he didn't stop her. She made her way back with no more cyborgs on top of her. And when she went to her room she took a shower and went to bed.