I kicked a rock and walked a little more.

I kicked it again.

I walked up to it and kicked it once more.

I stopped.

"Do you have any idea if we're closer to an exit at all?"

"I'm goin' where my feet take me," Atrox replied.

I sprinted up to the rock and kicked a field goal with it in frustration. It was lost in the darkness in front.

Arrow parted his jaws in a loud yawn. "What time is it?" he asked us.

"No idea," I answered.

"Not a clue," Atrox shook his head and added.

We've been walking through a single wide tunnel for it seemed forever.

I found the rock that I kicked. I felt like I might need it later (but who needs a rock?) so I put it in my pocket.

I jammed my hands in my side pockets and sighed as I walked.

"This sucks," I thought aloud.

"At least we're all still alive," Ro tried to cheer me up, but it didn't work. "What's got ya down, buddy?"

"Girl trouble," I replied meekly, "I don't want to talk about it."

He jabbed my shoulder playfully. "So who's the lucky lady? I'll bet everyone would be jealous!"

"Zeke," a flicked my head to him with a serious expression, "I'm still hurting from it. I'm not going to talk about... beautiful Delilah..." I trailed off.

"Delilah? Our Delilah? That's great man! She is beautiful and she's perfect for you! She's smart and tough-"

"SHUT UP!" I screamed at him. I grabbed my flashlight from Atrox (who had taken it from me because his was dying) and ran ahead of both of them in rage.

I can't get Delilah out of my head! She's always in my head, raping my thoughts; like she knows that I love her, but I'm too chicken to say it.

I smacked into another wall.

I was slowly losing it.

I kicked the side of the cave with anger. I dropped my flashlight.

THEN, the light went off!

It's not dead; just a pebble must have hit the button.

I was in pitch black darkness, desperately searching for my light.

"REDBACK!" I heard Arrow call. "REDBACK! Where the hell are you?"

"I'm-"

They were far; I must have run too far from them. I was about to answer they're calls, but a dull gray hand grasped my mouth, its claws almost piercing the skin on my cheek. Another hand grabbed my arms and pinned them behind my back.

I heard a soft hostile growl from my right ear.

Dark black hair fell across my shoulder.

I'm fucked.

I tried to bite the hand, but it tasted horrible, like leather. Almost like I bit a mummy.

Ew...

I wanted to scream at the top of my lungs.

I'm gonna die.

"Redback!" The calls were growing louder and louder.

"Don't..."

Did the thing that grabbed me just talk?

Its hand moved out of the way just a bit, enough for me to twitch my head and call, "I'M OVER HERE!"

I heard the footsteps running closer to me.

"Help!" I screamed, "Something got me!"

I saw Arrow's flashlight shine on my face. I couldn't see anything now.

"Shit," he muttered.

The thing let go of me, hissing. I grabbed my flashlight from the ground a pointed it at whatever tried to kill me.

I stared at a cave demon.

I have to say, it was beautiful. But it was terrifying at the same time. Its faded gray skin looked like dead leather. Its eyes seemed like it was blind almost. The shining raven-colored hair that rolled to its waist was the thing that struck me.

AND IT WAS ABOUT AS TALL AS ZEKE.

The thing tweaked its head to us, covering itself from the light with one of its bat wings.

I'm scared out of my mind right now!

THE UNKNOWN PART OF THE UNDERGROUND IS HAUNTED BY BAT PEOPLE.

AND I DIDN'T EVEN GET A CLUE!

It hissed. It made an almost human face that would have screeched 'Run, if you know what's good for you'.

All of us turned and tried to run from the dead end. The demon flew in front of us and left us cornered.

"We're doomed," Zeke muttered, trying to scare it away with the shine of the flashlight.

"Not if I can help it!" Atrox shouted, running to punch the demon's lights out.

The half bat freak smiled and grabbed his fist and twisted it, Atrox painfully moaning.

"Sorry, but you guys aren't getting out alive!"

Did that thing just taunt us?

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU!" Arrow shrieked like a girl again.

"Oh sorry, you found me boys!" The demon turned into a beautiful girl, with long brown hair, a raccoon mask, ears, and tail.

OK, so it's not a paranormal phenomenon; it's just NightTiger, scaring the crap out of us.

NT finally let go of Atrox's fist, letting him slump to his knees in pain and surrender.

"I can smell the marijuana from your pockets all the way over here, ya know, huh."

"OMG!" I was too overjoyed that I wasn't going to be eaten by something unseen from this world and too insanely psyched that I met NIGHTTIGER that I totally forgot that I was being busted right now... I need to get back in character...

"NightTiger!" I ran up to her and shook her hand, "OMG Im like ur biggest fan!" I pulled out that rock (which was actually very flat and smooth) and a pen from one of my other pockets (I have way too many pockets), "PLEEZ sign this rock for me!"

She stared at me like I was a total idiot. "You want me to sign a rock for you?" She lifted an eyebrow at me and tilted her head down.

I finally realized that I was drooling. I wiped it off and threw the rock away. "Umm... Nevermind just take me to jail."

What the hell is wrong with me?

"Well," she replied, "Thanks for the cooperation, but this is just a warning for all of you boys:" I backed away, thinking she might hit me. Light was reflecting off of her beautiful hazel cat eyes. "If I catch you idiots ever selling crack to anybody else again, you'll wish you were never born."

"What the hell; I was expecting a hard beating or something." Atrox should NOT have said that.

"Oh you want one?" NT asked sweetly, "OK!"

Still lying on the ground, she kicked him in the stomach. Then in the head. Then she aimed for his crown jewels...

Need I say the reaction?

"I can get you two out," NightTiger pointed at us, acting not amused by the poor boy sprawled on the floor with imminent pain, "But we'll leave this dick here for his own good."

"What's the difference between us and Atrox?" Arrow asked, seemingly cooled down from his encounter with 'The Bat People'.

"What? Ugh!" She sounded surprised, "He stabbed my best friend! Big jerk." She kicked him again in the crotch.

We left Atrox lying there in pain while NT walked us through the cave.

"So you know Delilah Calico?" I asked, breaking the silence.

"Well yeah," she replied, "I have a secret identity, you know."

"Who are you? Really!" Arrow came up behind us.

She stopped and turned to his face, eyes narrowed. "And why would I tell you that?" she whispered, cat-like vocals echoing in my head.

Ro changed the subject. "Um, we can't just leave him there."

We started walking again. "He has a flashlight. And technically, I am a registered superhero, so I can leave him there if he's not certain to die."

"Will he make it out alive?"

"You ask too many questions, kid."

She looked back at me, smirking.

"You know..." I started, "Delilah has said that you're single, am I right?"

"Don't make me bitch-slap you."

OMG so mean! *cries*

"That was mean," I scolded.

"Why should I listen to you?" she teased, "I'm the superhero here; if it weren't for me, you'd get so lost in here!"

"So you've been in these caves before?"

"Nope, never."

I stopped and flailed my arms in the air. "THEN HOW THE HELL DO YOU KNOW WHERE THE EXIT IS?"

She smiled and shook her head. "I'm a hybrid, remember? I know where the hell we're goin'." She whiffed in her surroundings, ears facing forward and tail almost flying up to her head. She opened her eyes again and flicked me with her tail.

"Hmp!" I crossed my arms and started walking again.

"Ah, see? Here we are." She showed us the giant boulders. "You'd probably want to move to the side a little, boys."

She morphed into a rhino.

We shoved ourselves against a random wall, hoping not to get trampled.

She stomped on the ground and stampeded to the rocks blocking the way. BAM! CRASH! All gone.

In the dust that was left, she morphed back into human form.

"Uh-huh! Yeah!" NightTiger happy dance time: "People think it's intimidating when a girl is cool with her sexuality. I'm a 180 to the stereotype girls like staying home and being innocent!
Chorus!" she shouted. "I-"

She turned around to see us, staring.

"What? I'm a girl; like half of the rest of the world!"

I smiled. I know this voice...

But it can't be Delilah!

She would have told me if she was a shapeshifter, right?

"You sound kind of like Dare when she sings," I complimented.

"Thanks," she replied, "Hey and Dare's actually feeling pretty down since the party she told me about. She says she's sorry about... You know,"

"The scratch healed," I said. "And... I'll visit you sometimes, Dare." I smirked at her.

However, her expression didn't change. "I'm not Dare," she said.

"You're really not?" I asked.

"No, the only reason we started being friends was because we look a lot alike! Scary, huh?"

"Next time you see her, tell her I'm sorry... And I'll visit her sometime. I... I kinda know where her house is already," I confessed.

She raised an eyebrow at me and turned away. "She loves your smile," NightTiger whispered.

I blushed.

She whipped me softly with her tail.

It was soft...

"I guess I'll see you again?" I taunted.

"Actually, if you do see me, it'll be bad for you! Anyway, bye boys! Don't make trouble!"

She fell on her knees and turned into a griffin. She flew off.

"I'm out," Zeke said, wandering out of the woods.

"Um, I'm going to sleep," I replied, following him.