CHAPTER THREE

The woods man and his dog almost cut my head off!

The driver nodded and drove as fast as the speed limit which was odd because he didn't ask for money or directions to where she was asking.

I caught my breath and started thinking what's this camp and why are we going there? I opened my mouth and the only thing that came out was ''Who are you guys and what where those things?''

Carlos said exhausted, '' I'm Carlos Windflaw and this is Sky Jones'' pointing to the girl, he continued ''We are here to take you to a camp where you will be safe from monsters that want to kill you and probably rip you to pieces''.

I was a bit shocked when he said ''monsters'' as if they were real creatures to come and hunt me down. I just had so many questions and I didn't know where to start from. We were getting further and further away from the city, I only saw trees and the long road ahead.

When Carlos was about to say something, a large noise like a car alarm was getting closer and closer, we saw a car flying over the moon roof and it landed in front of the taxi, causing the taxi to flip over and hit a tree with the passengers inside.

Carlos panicked and asked, ''Are you guys ok?'', I said,'' Yeah'' feeling a bit of nausea, Sky said alarmed, '' We need to get out of here the Cyclops and the Manticore are getting closer and closer!

''The what?'' I asked alarmed. Sky said, '' No time to explain let's get out of the car and run to the camp.'' she continued even louder ''Come on!''.

We all got out of the now totally wrecked car including the driver and started running into the woods; but the Manticore took us by surprise, it landed right in front of us, putting all of us to a stop.

The Manticore growled as it was walking in circles around us, it was getting ready to pounce in any moment. When it jumped to kill us, Sky lifted her sword and slashed the creature in half turning it to dust. But we only forgot of one thing, where was the Cyclops?

A huge tree was swung like a baseball bat and we were all thrown into the air, Carlos was thrown 6 feet in the air and fell unconscious, Sky flew 5 feet and hit a tree barely making it walking she stood up, but falling probably because of the hit, she must have broken her ankle and the driver was unconscious from the hit too.

I flew 5 feet and hit a branch and fell down close to Sky, but the hit only bruised my stomach and tore half of my shirt, some blood was dripping but it was a small cut. The Cyclops seemed to have gotten tired of the tree and took out his axe. I ran to Sky which she was on the ground with her ankle hurt, she was trying to hold her sword. I did the only thing I could have done.

I took the sword and tried to get the Cyclops attention, easy. I was wrong again.

''No Danny don't, you have to get to camp'' Sky said in pain.

But I was his target now and not them, I ran away enough to buy time to let Carlos wake up. He was moaning and he was saying something of a truck hitting him and making my parents sew the driver. I was already 50 meters away when I stopped to face the Cyclops and his axe.

When the Cyclops swung his axe horizontally at me, I rolled to the left avoiding the hit and got up, then I slashed the sword at the Cyclops hands that were holding the axe on the ground stuck on a big rock. His hands fell and turned to dust but he was still standing, I jumped up to him with the sword on my hand, but first I bounced on the rock and landed on the Cyclops stomach making him lose balance and fall back. With all my strength left in me I stuck the sword in the Cyclops heart and he turned to dust screaming.

I was so tired I couldn't even see where Carlos, Sky, and the taxi driver where. I fell down kneeling almost dropping to the ground when I fell on a small puddle of water. For a second I could feel a lot better, I was regaining my energy and my strength to keep on going. I got up and started looking around to see if I could see them and I did see them, I ran to help them.

When I got to Sky she started saying ''Danny, where's the Cyclops?'' but again she was in a lot of pain and still on the ground. I got her up and told her ''I killed the Cyclops'' Sky looked a bit amazed and she managed a small smile, I walked up to Carlos who still was half conscious and started helping him to get up. Carlos stood up balancing himself trying not to fall back and I was helping Sky walk with one leg.

When I focused on the driver, he had lots of eyes in his face, and he got up like that was just a truck that didn't kill him and only passed over him. Well the good thing was that we were close to something since I saw torches and some sort of monument in the way.

I asked, still holding Sky, ''Is that the place you guys were taking me?''

''Yeah, let's get in before any more monsters come'', Said Carlos.