In the Land of Titans He Waits

Chapter 3. Caught

The second I jumped out of the window I felt a familiar sensation of falling although this time I was trying to live instead of die. My fall ended rather quickly this time as I luckily landed on a stack of near what seemed to be some horse stables. But I knew I had to hurry because the raven haired man for before had also jumped out of the window and he was just a few feet away from me. I quickly got up not even worrying about my appearance or the hay that still stuck to my clothes and rushed towards the stables.

I wasn't spectacular at horse riding, but I did take lessons before my parents passed away so I at least knew how to steer, stop and start. As I entered the stables I saw a majestic black stallion that looked a bit upset, I decided to pick him since I assumed his aggression might make it ride a bit faster. I didn't have time to saddle up so I just opened its stable and jumped on. I didn't even have to kick him all I had to hold on as he galloped away from its previous home.

I looked behind me once as I speed away from my captors, and all I could see was the outline of the building I was kept in, it seemed no one was chasing after me and if they were they were to far away to catch me. I let out a sigh of relief as I studied the area we were racing through, it was mostly empty with just grass and a couple trees but up ahead of us seemed to be a huge forest. I decided to try and stop the mare as we entered the forest because it seemed to be a good place to hide and figure out where I was. As we entered the forest I screamed WOAH at the top of my lungs and held on as tight as I could as the mare came to an abrupt top which would of thrown me off it I wasn't holding on.

As I got off of the stallion I noticed he was wearing a dark green halter which I could use to tie him to a tree so he wouldn't run off and leave me in the middle of nowhere. I ripped off one of the arms on my navy blue blazer and tied it to the halter, then I lead the stallion over to a small tree a bit outside of the forest and tied the other side of my sleeve to the tree. Next I headed inside of the forest.

As I entered the forest I noticed the trees where extremely tall, taller than I had ever seen before, it would take some work to climb up one, but I didn't want to be left defenseless on the ground. So I worked for about an hour to climb up one of the shorter thinner trees and made it about half way up before I decided to call it a night. I didn't really want to sleep in fear of being captured but my shocked and exhausted body forced me into a deep sleep.

The next morning I woke upon the rough bark that had felt so comfortable last night but I didn't dare move because I could hear footsteps and voices nearing me. Had those people really come this far so quickly in search of me? Or was it someone new? I decided to peak down where I saw a group of 6 people making their way through the huge forest, there were the three adults from last night along the blonde boy, brunette boy and raven haired girl walking a bit behind them. They were all leading a horse of their own with the brunette boy leading the stallion I had rode last night my sleeve still connected to the halter.

Should I climb down and make a run for it, or should I wait and see what they do? I knew I couldn't out run them since they had their own horses as well as "mine", maybe I should climb down and wait until they got close enough to hop back on the stallion. That seemed like the best option. I slowly made my way down the tree careful not to alert them until I was just about 6 or 7 feet from the ground. Then I patiently waited until they were around 10 or 12 feet away from me.

"Is that her?!", the brunette shouted pointing my way. "I believe so.", the raven haired man replied as he pulled out what looked like a huge box cutter. Are they going to kill me here and now? This was my last chance to escape them.

I jumped off the tree and booked it towards them carefully avoiding the raven haired man who seemed to be the only one with a weapon. I ran towards the stallion the brunette boy was still holding and leaped on, I kicked harder than I ever had in my life as the stallion broke free of the brunette's grasp. As I sped away I noticed them all hop onto their horses to purse me, except for the raven haired man who suddenly flew into the air latching onto a nearby tree. What the hell was that?! Can these people fly, I mean seriously where the fuck am I?!

The raven haired man was catching up and fast, even while I was at full speed he continued to match me as he flew through the trees. I knew I was beat by these superhumans, but I desperately wanted to live, probably for the first time in my life I felt the urge to survive. Then I felt something latch onto me as a sharp pain burst through my shoulder causing me to cry out in pain. I looked behind me a saw a grappling hook hanging onto my (s/c) skin. Blood was gushing out, which caused me to feel nauseous and distraught and before I knew it the raven haired man had descended upon me. He landed right behind me on the horse and grabbed my waist so tightly I thought I might suffocate. Then I felt the grabbling hook in my shoulder come undone bringing me a whole new wave of pain and blood.

Suddenly I was lifted in the air the mans arm still around my waist. We swung through the air until he finally stopped on one of the lower branches of a large tree. Although we had landed he didn't let go of me not even as I cried out from pain and continued to bleed a puddle of dark red liquid.

"Levi!", the goggled woman shouted from the ground. "Levi get down here, you know that's not how we do things.", the blonde man said from the ground with a stoic expression. The raven haired man who I assumed was called Levi launched his grappling hook to the bottom of the tree opposite of us and brought us down.

"Are you ok?", the blonde boy asked in a soft voice as he ran over to us. I didn't respond as I tried to muffle my cries. "We need to get her patched up right away.", the woman with goggles said her expression suddenly turning serious as she reached for what looked like a med kit which was strapped onto the saddle of her horse.

As she tried to come near me I scooted away with the last of my strength before falling unconscious.