I will find you

by section8bypass1

Humphrey saved Kate from the mudslide and now he's been swept away.But when Humphrey awakens he discovers something is very wrong. It seems to be connected to something stalking and killing deep in the shadows of the legendary forest of tears. Will Kate come looking for him and if she does will Humphry be able to warn her in time? This is my second published fanfic so please review

4. Chapter 4 Is there room for hope

Chapter 4 Is there room for hope

Kate's POV

I cracked my eyes open and slowly shook off my exhaustion and the night came rushing back to me. I felt myself tearing up again and yelled, "NO, I will not give up." I stiffly stood up and tried to take a step but fell crashing to the ground. I groaned in agony at how I had lost my best friend and the one that I now realized I loved.

I stood up again and my legs shook but I took another tenitive step forward towards where I had last seen Humphrey. Slowly I began to walk faster but dread at what I would find slowed me down. A terrifying image of Humphrey lying in the mud eyes glazed in death flashed in my mind. I shook it away but I knew I couldn't survive without him. I ran towards the canyon calling, "Humphrey, where are you?"

I saw that the flash flood had stopped and the bottom of the cliff was now just mud and dirt. I took a deep breath and jumped down the cliff face. I scrambled for purchase and used the same route that I had used to abandon Humphrey to get to the bottom of the gorge. I stifled a sob and landed in the mud hard on my side.

I got up groaning and mumbling curses at myself. I looked around the muddied canyon and saw that there was a massive log that was propped up against the cliff face. I was about to turn my head away when I saw blood on the front end of the log. I ran over and sniffed it and my blood turned to ice.

I put my paws over my eyes and whimpered, "Its Humphreys blood." Tears threatened to overtake me and I was afraid of what I would find on the other side of the log, but nonetheless I trudged over to it and saw there was far less blood then I thought. I put a paw on it and it came away barely bloodied or wet. I sighed in relief that maybe Humphrey hadn't been killed by the log or even knocked out.

I sniffed around the mud and said aloud, "Maybe he was just swept away." I nodded to myself and thought, "I'll just follow the river until I find him." I set off with that one goal in mind and repeated it as love burned fiercely in my heart urging me to hurry before he strayed too far from me.

I broke into a run yelling, "I'm coming Humphrey!" As an afterthought I added bitterly, "If you're still alive."

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(Told you the chapters will be short and I have classes starting again so the story will be coming slower but nonetheless it will come! Enjoy the next chapter my friends.)