Chapter four:
The Griffin glares at the three and spreads its wings as it opens its mouth letting out a screech. It charges at the three but they quickly separate dodging its attack by dashing off to the sides.
Matt narrowly avoids getting hit by the Griffins claws.
"FORGET ABOUT THE COMPOTITION! HEAD FOR THE EXIT AND WE'LL REGROUP OUTSIDE THE FOREST! IF WE DON'T IT MIGHT KILL US!" Near shouts with seriousness in his voice taking note that the Griffin is very much real with all the evidence it is pointing to that it is alive.
Mello is about to retort but is cut off when he has to dodge another attack.
Matt is about to bolt not exactly caring which way he was headed as long as it's away from the Griffin. "Fine by me!" He turns and dashes off in terror into the forest.
Near watches Matt leave out of the corner of his eye and watches the Griffin's movements moving according to its movements. "Mello let's go!" He calls to the other. "We need to get out of here unless you feel like being killed by a Griffin!"
"This has to be a fake!" Mello snaps but his words are contradicted when the Griffin misses its swipe at him slashing a tree instead with marks that look like the claw marks they had seen just before the Griffin appeared. He backs away towards the forest. "Damn it! If only we had some sort of weapon." He growls. "Then we could have had done more than just run away. I feel so pathetic running."
"Well if you don't run you die in such a way that is not noble or a way to be proud of at all!" Near tells him moving over to Mello making sure to keep the Griffin in his sights as it's still attacking them. He grabs Mello's arm and starts running away with Mello practically stumbling behind him.
"Near what the hell!" Mello snaps at the other.
"There was no way I was going to leave you to possibly get killed by the Griffin." Near tells him as they continue to try to leave the Griffin behind them.
Mello blinks not expecting that Near of all people would look out for not only his own life but the life of another especially his rival.
"Do you see it behind us?" Near asks after a moment of silence between them.
Mello looks back even using his camera as it's still recording like the other two's cameras are and the light is still on. "No nothing." He reports.
"We need to find Matt and get out of here. He ran off in a different direction then the way we came!" He tells Mello.
"That idiot." Mello growls and pulls his arm out of Near's grasp running on his own now. "He'd had better have turned to head to the way out of the forest."
Though both of them know that Matt had ran off in terror so it's not likely he would be thinking enough to turn to find the exit.
The lion like roar they heard earlier is heard again making them slow to a walk to try to find the source of the roar to try to avoid it.
There's rustling making both turn to where it's coming from which is the direction they had been running in.
Both of them are backing away ready to start running again if it's somehow the Griffin.
The beast that comes out into view isn't a Griffin though.
"A Manticore too!?" Mello growls as the beast approaches them.
"This way!" Near calls dashing to the left with Mello following.
They continue running and Near glances back finding that the Manticore is following them with a mighty roar and is also very real like the Griffin.
He turns to face where they are going as they continue to run, their cameras still capturing the whole thing that it is being pointed at.
Mello who is a little ahead of him suddenly skids to a stop almost making Near run into him.
"Mello the Manticore…" Near doesn't say anymore as he sees the Griffin approaching them coming from the direction they had been running in.
The Griffin has blood on one of its eagle claws that are its front feet along with a little blood on its beak; the blood is obviously not its own. It lets out a screech.
Mello glances behind them but finds the Manticore coming straight at them. He is suddenly pulled to the right by Near only for them to be stopped when the Griffin slams it's front claws, that don't have blood on them, right in front of the two males stopping them.
The Griffin screeches again and the Manticore roars.
Near tugs Mello in the direction of the left hoping to escape but the Manticore jumps in their way stopping them once again.
The two are trapped by a Griffin and a Manticore.