Is There Ever a Way Out?

Chapter 5

The creature emerged from the water, staring me down. What was up with this creature? He just stared, making some minor flicks with his tail. Then there were several loud shouts from the forming American base, and there were artillery blasts as they shot their fAnCy artillery towards him. He turned around to be met with several shots to the torso with one to the face.

This enraged him, and with a loud roar he dove into the water and created a large wave, which I got caught on. It was a bit of a bumpy ride, but the wave splashed me to the island where I was told to go by the weird janitor guy. I then remembered that this is my birth island. How did I just realize that?

I had flashbacks of the small lizard that almost made me tear. That was when things were simple and easy, not whatever is happening now. I then remembered when the lizard took me to the temple. The temple! It must have something related to all of this. I went in the direction of the town. I wonder if everyone is still there.

I got to the town, but I was shocked at the state of it. There was smokee everywhere, and every now and then little yellow electric shocks would happen around pr by the smoke sources. It seemed like this was an attack via voltage or something like that, because the town was unaffected by any of the recent events.

There were corpses spread across the streets and buildings. They were all in one piece, just had serious electric burns. I could recognize some of them, like the once young fruit stand owner. I was about to go into the forest when I came across this one rickety old wooden building. It was the fisherman's place. Last time I was here he was elderly. I went into the building and looked around. Almost nothing had changed since I was last here, and when I was last here nothing had changed since I was a small child.

I left the building a bit later. I went through the forest. I had a flashback of when I followed the lizard. This time I was watching myself. Everything was tinted warm. I followed them along the path. They reached the temple, then I snapped out of it. I apparently had walked the same distance as my flashback self did.

Some fighter jets flew over the island as the explosions and such were heard in the background. I stared at the temple for a little bit. It was in a bit of a different state than when I was last here. I went up the stairs on the side of it. Still stall and hard as last time. How lovely. When I reached the top, it wasn't a flat surface, but there was an opening that led into it. Since there was no ladder or anything, I tied together some vines and threw one end into the hole and tied the other to a sturdy rock.

I went down the vine, and let go once I could feel the ground. It was grass and dirt, and when I looked to the left there was some sun shining through into a large opening. There were pillars, and against one of the sides opposite of the pillar there was a statue of a fox. I was unsure of the breed, since foxes aren't native to the islands. There were then several loud stomp-like noises coming from a cave opening behind some of the pillars.

Apparently the creature from the sound had managed to escape the attack from the Americans,who were being a little excessive in my opinion. He managed to fit in the opening, however some of the pillars were knocked over. He leaned against the side with an exhausted exhale. He looked around the place, and then we made direct eye contact.

We just stared at each other. There were then several explosions in the background as fighter jets soared over the temple, and our eye contact broke. He tensed and got up a little bit, ready to counter whatever these people were doing. Whoever these guys were, they were very much committed to killing, or almost killing, this guy.

I can understand their motivation if they tie in what happened a little more than ten years ago, but to do it in this way was just unneeded. The being got up as several explosions just outside of the temple were heard along with the sound of shouting men and ships. I couldn't understand what most of them were saying, but I could tell they were not here for any kind of peaceful approach.

I could hear them at mass going up the same stairs I did. Crap, they were right above me! I noticed a path that went into the side of the place, and might lead me down. I ran into it. It was pitch black, but I was able to feel my way around. The tunnel led me to the opening with the creature. I went behind some cover as I watched a large group of armed men enter the clearing, aiming at the creature. He was cornered as several more groups entered and aimed at him. I would've shot at them if we took away about 150 of them, but since they came over-prepared I can't do much other than watch.

The being stared at them, tense for any offensive moments, and the armed men were standing there, waiting for the commanding shout. I was glancing at both of them, also tense. I became so distracted and tense that I didn't notice someone coming up behind me. Before I could react I was being held in a head lock with a funny smelling rag to my face. I attempted to get out of this, but my struggle was in vain as I slipped into an unconscious state.