Embry's POV:
Smoke. Sweet smelling smoke.
That's the first thing I smelled as we made up a rather rugged hill….well I made it up. Alise was still struggling before collapsing next to me once she finally made it over the last ridge, our bags banging lightly against her sides. Good. Payback is a bitch.
"I'm so tired…"Alise mumbled as she rubbed her eyes with the back of her hand.
"We're almost there. I smell smoke."
"Tch, and you say I'm the dog." I heard her mumble under her breath.
Ignoring her, I scanned the area before seeing something so incredibly awesome, I was shocked. Below us, maybe another twenty or thirty minutes, was a large camp. There were cabins smack dab in the center of the large camp. By them was a large blue house and across from it was the Long Island Sound. There were other things there, but I couldn't make out what they were. There was a large pine tree blocking most of my view but I honestly couldn't care. We made it.
"Alise look! There it is!" I yelled as I pointed my forefinger in the direction where the camp was.
Alise looked up, her breathing had returned to normal as she let out a rather loud cry of relief. "OH SWEET BABY JESUS! THANK YOU SO MUCH!" Then she ran…after dropping my bag….damn.
"Alise wait!"
"No! You hurry up!" she called over her shoulder. Black hair fluttering haphazardly at the speed she was going at. Seriously I need one of those police clocker's, the girl is fast!
"Slow down Alise!" I couldn't help but laugh as I ran after her. She had disappeared past the tree and she turned. The smile she had on slipped off her face and she screamed.
"EMBRY! EMBRY BEHIND YOU!"
Behind me?
I turned, only to come face to face with something…something…unearthly.
"EMBRY RUN!"
I couldn't run, couldn't move even. The creature had the head and body of a lion but instead of a lion's tail, it had a coal colored scorpion one. On its back were bat like wings that were tattered and torn from the elements while the creatures beady red eyes bore into mine. Time seemed to slow down dramatically as I watched the thing charge at me. A sane person would run for their lives…I, apparently, am NOT sane. So like any insane person, I froze.
"EMBRY!"
The thing let out a roar that shook every bone in my poor, short body. All I could do was stare. I have to admit, the creature looked cool, but from the size of its pearly whites and sharp looking tail, deadly. I felt my face pale and my knees give out as the thing charged at me before jumping into the air, hurtling towards me. Instinctively I held my hands in front of me and then…
…I don't remember what happened next.
One minute a mutant lion-thingy is about to shred me to bits with its outstretched claws, and in the next minute there's a pile of charcoal colored ash at my feet. I felt my legs finally buckle and I landed hard on my ass.
Oh how the ground never looked so inviting as it did right then and there. I felt something against my palm and gripped onto it tightly before falling over onto my back.
Pain…pain was all I felt and the strange sense of fatigue.
I heard yelling and the feel of footsteps behind me, but I didn't care. I felt so drained so…burned out. I felt my eyelids double in weight as they closed. I just wanted to sleep.
"Hey! Hey kid? Stay awake, you gotta stay awake!" Waves. The voice sounded like crashing waves on a beach.
My eyes opened slowly, only to come face to face with rather intoxicating sea-blue orbs attached to a rather handsomely tanned boy with brown, almost black colored hair.
"Whu,"
"Hey, stay awake okay? Stay awake!"
I ignored the boy and closed my eyes, before finally drifting off to sleep.