Chapter 3
I'm Kidnapped… Again
Jem dodged the monster's attack, but it soon rounded on him again and slashed its slimy green claws across his chest. He let out a startled yelp as the talons raked over his torso, tearing his shirt to shreds revealing his ripped skin below. Christopher sprang into action slicing his lance over the beast's shoulder making it howl in pain. He dove behind a rock as the beast charged at him.
"Wait here." Damon ordered. He didn't have to tell me twice, but I was sure worried about Jem.
Damon leaped forward and dragged Jem behind a boulder where he signaled for me to join him. All this time Christopher was keeping the monster busy, slashing it with his lance, and taunting it by saying several phrases the most popular being "who's your daddy?".
I rushed over to Damon and Jem. "Is it bad?" I asked in a panicked voice.
Damon said nothing, which of course made it worse for yours truly.
"He'll be alright, but we need to keep that thing at bay." I jumped at Dustin's voice from behind me. He was watching vigilantly at the top of the rock, his gun aimed in case Christopher needed help. Where the heck did he come from? I wondered astounded that he had evaded my detection atop such an obvious post.
"Enough!" the monster roared.
"It can talk?" I exclaimed.
"What? Of course it can talk." Dustin said like I was an idiot, "Did you expect it to sing and dance?"
I was about ready to tell Dustin off when I heard the monster howl and the clattering of metal against rock. Peeking from behind the rock I saw that Christopher's lance had been thrown into a stone, and he now stood unarmed in front of the beast.
For a minute Christopher looked from the monster to his lance.
"Oh no you didn't," He said to the beast. The beast roared in anger and took a swipe at Christopher, but its entire hand was blown off by one of Dustin's relentless bullets.
"No eating the dork." Dustin remarked, "He'll give you terrible indigestion."
"I'll make you fat too," Christopher taunted, "Not that you have much of a figure now."
Even though I was probably in mortal danger with no one to protect me but goofballs I smiled at their taunts.
The beast looked right at me. "You're the one," it said. Beasty sprang at me with incredible speed and for a second I thought for sure I was done for, but instead it threw me on its back and sprinted into the forest.
I was screaming all through this time and praying that the guys would come find me.
"Scream all you want girl," the monster purred, "They won't catch us now."
I let my screams die down slightly. I suffered in silence as I was carried to some unknown destination, again.
"Soon, yes, soon," The beast whispered in a voice that was gut-wrenchingly inhuman, "Master will be pleased, so pleased that I will get that which is mine."
"What are you talking about?"
"I get Master's praise and reward," It said happily, ignoring my question, "and all for you. Yes, just for you."
I heard a gunshot fired somewhere off to my right. The monster groaned and staggered as more shots were fired along with male voices yelling. Beasty leaked out teal puss onto my blue jeans, and I was flung off its back and into Damon's arms.
Dustin stopped firing when the beast fell to the ground. He was helping Jem walk, who was leaning heavily on Dustin for support.
"NO! NO!" The monster screamed, "What about that which is mine? Selfish boys, evil boys, why must ye hurt me so?"
Christopher walked up to the monster, leaned down by its head, and whispered in a voice that would make any sane man run for Mommy, "Because you hurt Jem, that is something we cannot forgive."
The wretched creature actually laughed, "Demon boy is better off dead! He deserves to die, and no one will miss him when he's gone!" The beast laughed manically until Christopher drew his lance and delivered the fatal blow. The silence that followed was even more terrifying then the experience. It was as if the whole world stood still because of the monster's death.
Damon leaned his head to whisper in my ear, "Still thinking about running away?"