Starry Scales

Escaped Chapter 1

                   Hi I'm Randy Nicole Rose,I am running from an evil man,a very very bad man.They call him the "Starry Scale". I was taken away on my 13th birthday,during the time when what you might call earth today was not yet earth.

                    My feet were bruised and bloody as I hit the jagged rocks. Pain shot to my inner thigh as I tried to jump over falling logs. They were shooting everything down in front of my path to slow me down,but what they didn't know was that I had a plan. They have kept me hostage for over 3 days and I have finally escaped . The dense forest around me has given me cover from the drones above my head. The only thing I have to worry about now is the flying lasers coming from behind me and the fallen debris ahead. As I dodged through sticky branches and thorny bushes I managed to find an opening beneath a small fallen log. I slid into the opening with minutes to spare when a shot skimming the tip of my right toe. The skin sizzled and bubbled over in a matter of seconds. I had dodged the shot barely. My toe throbbed in protest as I wiggled myself deeper into the small opening trying to become completely unseen. Ahead of me all I seen was darkness,but seeing the darkness just pushed me harder to keep going. I was not going to give up now. I have made it this far. 

                 I dug my nails into the dirt and crawled through the hole for what felt like hours on end. My toe was swollen and the dirt clung to my shirt like a second skin. I could see a light ahead of me far off in the distance. I pushed as much air into my lungs as I could manage and drug myself harder. I managed to get closer and closer with each push ,I had finally started to feel exhaustion take me over. If I stopped now they would surely find me and take me back. Who know what they would do to me then.

          As I stumbled out of the small opening I noticed that blue grass was growing up the sides of the whole I had just emerged from. As I examined it closely I noticed that it wasn't normal for blue glass to grow in this region of the forest and immediately backed away from it. This had to have been put here for it to be growing at such an immense rate. My senses heightened at the thought of someone being near by ,risking the chances of my complete escape. I crouched down at the sound of a twig snapping behind me. I sprang to me feet in the direction of the hole i had just came out of to stand face to face with a tall man.