The Tiger By The River

The Other World

I wake up to the sounds of birds in the morning, and the sweet pleasant smell of fog covering the landscape like a million ghost dancing around the river. I strech and fully wake up before I go outside. I start to gather food by finding some berries on the ground that have already fallen off the tree. Then I hear a slight bark in the distance. I rub off that thought by thinking that is was my own imagination. Then I hear something ni the woods snapping twigs rapidly. A huge dog jumps out of the bush from behind me. I start running as fast as I can, it feels like my legs are carrying one million pounds of weight. I push myself a little more with a grunt of effort, but the dog eventually is catching up to me. I bolt fast to the left and then trip on a rock and role down a hill and collapse onto a huge fallen tree. The dog is at me barking wildly at me, but surprisingly not hurting me. Then another figure comes out of the corner of my eye, and hits me on the head with a stick. I fall to the ground feeling my face which is covered in blood. I feel so exhausted from the morning and the running that I eventually just fall asleep

When I wake up I can see a girl sitting next to me looking at me with wonder in her eyes. When she realizes that I have woken up she jurks with a suprise.

"Who are you", the girl asks with a stern look on her face.

"I should be asking you the same question"

"Do you want to get hurt?" the girl asks.

" My name is Patrick what about you?"

" I shall not tell you my name"

I sit up so I can see where I am. I am at the same spot where I fell after rolling down the hill. I feel a littlte ache in my ribs from the fall.

"Come with me" the girl says.

I start to follow her through the woods with the dog following close behind us. When we reach the girls campsite she tells me to come into her fort. The fort was a farley big fort for what it was made out of. Twigs, tree bark, leaves and there were some seats inside made from stupms of trees. I sit down on one of the stumps and the girl quickly tells me asks me."Have you ever seen a blue tiger in the woods before?"

Startled by the question I stare at her with bloodshot eyes and stay silent. Just staring at her for a couple minutes. Then I answer, "how do you know about him, no one else has talked about him exept you before?" "Hey Patrick my name is Sarah and I need to tell you something very important" "This place is not real, the world that we live in right now is not real" "Thats why no one else has seen or told you about the tiger because if you are not a real person then you wont see the tiger" "So right now you and me are the only real people that I know of, all the other people are fake" "Your Mother, Father, Sister"

"That just can't be true" Patrick says.

I have so many thoughts racing through my head that my brain could power a motercycle. I am thinking so hard that I am giving myself a headache. We sit silent for a few minutes.

"Patrick" the girl says. "We have to find a way out of here"

" The only way I have seen something disappear was when the blue tiger ran into the river and vanished"

"I have tried that way too Patrick but for some reason I think we can't access the portal" "Some how we have to be with th man whiel he teleports through the portal"

"Lets wait till tonight when the man comes and get into the portal then"

"I will keep watch" the girl says.

That night while the girl is keeping watch she wakes me up with a startled look on her face. "He is here"

When I wake up and walk outside the cave I see a huge streek of a blue line coming from in the river. Me and the girl run over to the river as quickly and quietly as possible.

Once me and the girl get to the riverwe hide behind soem bushes and wait for the man to appear.

"There he is" I wisper to the girl.

The Man starts bolting for the river after he has turned into his tiger form.

"Now!" the girl says.

The girl jumps out from behind the bushes with me following behinde her. The man is almost at the portel when me and the girl just about reaches him. The girl jumps and is side by side with the tiger, I do the same. When we run into the river the water moves out of our way to make a strait path to the portal. The tiger look to the right of him and is startled of whathe sees. I can see him pushing past his limits. Me and the girl start to fall behind. Teh man jumps into the portal, and just before it closesme and the girl run and jump as fast as we can hoping that we will make it.

Stillness. It feels like I am in the middle of the ocean but the warmth of a hot tub. I can't see anything, but the feel of it is relaxing. We have entered the portal.