Ch. 14

I cautiously rested my head against his shoulder, noticing that his eyes habitually caught every movement in the forest, including mine. He sort of tensed as I relaxed, but grew accustomed to it after a few strides.

Then I said, quite stupidly, "You're beautiful, you know that?"

He stopped walking, his eyes moving over my face as if to say, "Do you feel alright, Julia?"

I just stared at his face, or, more or less, his mask, and said contentedly, "Hmm.", in response.

Then, suddenly, he froze, though when he stopped, the sudden lack of movement didn't jostle me. His head was turned to our right, and a sudden image of a horse with its ears pricked up all the way came to my mind.

Unexpectedly, he turned to a new course and walked slightly faster through the woods. After a bit, I heard the very faint sound of a river running somewhere close by.

Why would Jason go willingly towards the water? He's afraid of it., I thought.

But after he hid us behind a tree, and let me peek out from behind it after I questioned him as to why we were here, I knew why.

I recognized that red-and-green sweater.

Hmm. No wonder Jason's senses caught his presence so easily. He's right there, with no protection at all., I thought to myself. The inflictor of my wound was scooping up water in his hands and using it to douse his face with.

It won't do you any good., I thought to myself. Your wounds won't go away. Believe me, I know from experience.

Then Jason gently and silently put me down, and, looking at my silent scream of pain with shining, golden eyes, he took the bow off of his back and took an arrow too. He cocked the arrow, put it up to his eye, and, with a trained, knowing stance, he let the arrow fly.

"AGH!...What the-!", the man screeched as he fell face first into the river.

He wrenched his face from the water, turned around, and saw Jason. He snarled, and lifted his gloved hand, ready to fight.

"What the — did you do that for?", he screeched angrily.

Jason just stood his ground, his eyes flickering to me, still hidden behind the tree, and back to him.

Freddy didn't miss that glance. He sniffed the air, and his eyes sparkled.

"How sweet, fresh meat.", he chuckled, and I snarled in response, though it was futile, since (thankfully), he couldn't see me as of yet.

Jason stepped forwards, and tensed, glaring at him.

"Ah. No time to play defensive now, huh, boy?", the other chuckled. "You can't protect her, for, in reality, you're just a little kid in a hockey mask. Let me prove it." He turned his back, and disappeared to the other side of the river, which was just a little distance across. He turned back and said, "Come and get me now, Jason…Oh, that's right! You can't! 'Cause you're afraid of water! HA!"

I growled, and whispered, "How dare you tease Jason."

Jason looked at me, and looking back at his mocker, he charged at him.

And he stopped on a dime as soon he got to the edge of the river.

Freddy snorted and said, "Told you.", disappearing and reappearing on the side of the river we were on in an instant.

In a completely dull, somewhat sarcastic voice, I said, "Go Jason. Thank you for saving me…Not."

"Now, to fully demonstrate what I meant when I told you earlier that I could fix your face, allow me.", he snickered, about to attack.

"Let me say one thing.", I said, with full confidence in my voice.

"And what's that, little girl?", he asked conversationally.

"The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Horror has a face . . . and you must make a friend of horror… WELCOME TO MY WORLD, —!", I cursed at him with an animated expression on my face.

He got this confused look on his face, right before Jason drove his machete through him from the back.

Freddy then looked back at Jason, and then said, "Dude. What the hell? I'm thinking here."

"With the one brain cell you have left.", I laughed.

"Why, you little-!", he screeched at me, lunging, but Jason caught him by his collar and dragged him back away from me.

"HA! A-HA HA HA HA!", I screeched as Jason held up a struggling Freddy, who was trying to run in midair.

"I…will…kill…you…!", he screeched, hissing and clawing at me.

I snorted in response.

Then he slashed at Jason's face, but luckily Jason leaned over backwards very slightly so his mask was missed, but unfortunately he had to let Freddy go in order to do that.

Freddy lunged for me, but was caught by the collar by Jason and thrown into a tree with an audible cry of pain. Jason ran and caught me, and sprinted through the trees, leaving the enemy behind.

But we were still close enough to him to be able to hear him laugh, not deterred by our little fight at all, when it came to killing-me-terms. "You can run, but you can't hide forever! You still have to sleep, little girl!", he taunted. I worried about that, because it was true.