Entropy

Part 8

What feels like 5 minutes pass and we finally get to the creek. It- they set me down by one of the big rocks. I reach out and I touch its snout. They pause and turn their heads in confusion. I slowly pet their snout making sure not to make any fast movements, they seem to appreciate me petting them.

"Do you have a name?"

They make a noise very similar to a door squeaking, My face lights up in surprise. (oh my god that was adorable! I was not expecting it but ahhhh! It's so adorable.) A branch breaking could be heard in the distance, they stood up and looked around. Then they run right on all fours. I watch it rush off disappearing behind a bunch of trees. A sharp stinging pain runs through my leg like it's on fire. I inhale quickly then exhale slowly. ( Shit, now what do I do? I am not sure what direction I originally came from, I am not going towards where I just was so I have west, north, and south. Eh I will figure that out later when I can walk again. I honestly hope the kids are ok, if they aren't I swear I am going to kill someone with my bare hands. Ooh that butterfly is a pretty shade of red. It is a Heliconius Melpomene, it lives in Central and South America. I wish to Capture it and put it in my collection but alas I can't I dont have any of my tubes or boxes with me right now)

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"Milly! Where are you!" James yells his voice coming from behind  the big rock that I am leaning against.

"Milly! Where are you!?" Miranda yells almost immediately after James, desperation is weaved in her voice.

"I am over here." I reply

"Where?" miranda inquiries

"Um, behind the big rocks"

A couple seconds pass then Miranda, James, and William appear from the other side of the rocks. Miranda looks around then looks down at me and She kneels down next to me.

"Are you ok? Is that blood? Are you bleeding!?!" my sister starts freaking out about the blood that is on me.

"What? Oh no this isn't my blood"

"Then whose is it?" she questions

(what do I say to that? Oh yeah some bleeding deer beast helped me out. She wont believe me at all) I look at James and William who look on with concern. I then look back at miranda.

"An animal was bleeding so I tried to help it, it ran off though"

"Ok-"

"Wait! where are the kids?" I cut off Miranda

"They are playing in the creek." William says

"Oh, it's good that they found you guys."

"Yeah, just one quick question John was rambling on about some sort of monster I don't believe them obviously but just wanted your two cents on the problem"

"If I tell you the truth, do you promise to believe every word I say."

"The truth?" James Inquired

"Yes, did you guys not feel the earth shaking?"

"What are you talking about?" William asks looking at me confused

"As much as I hate agreeing with the emo, I have no idea what you're talking about." James Sassed

"Says the puppy" William Snarled back.

They look at each other with annoyance and anger. It looks like James is about to say something but before he can Ruby can be heard screaming. I quickly stand up and run to where I can see the kids and the others follow suit. My leg is still slightly in pain, I sigh as I realize that John had tackled Ruby to the ground by the creek. I walk over to where they are. By the time I get there they are already up and splashing in the water again. I get ready to say something but I get splashed with water, Both of the kids giggle as they see my annoyed face. I turn around to walk back to the others and I see Both Miranda and William chuckle a bit. James just smirks. I take a step towards them (oooh, an ant colony.) Some of them are carrying pieces of a leaf and others are carrying pieces of dirt, many aren't carrying anything. I look over to where the others are, they are talking about something or another. I looked down at my Star Wars shirt. The side of it was smeared in red blood. hell the whole side of my body is smeared in blood. (I should clean myself off before I do Anything else.) I slowly walk over to the other side of the creek and I use the water to start cleaning myself off. Most of it was washed away when the kids Splashed me with water. I get my hand wet with the warm water and I start rubbing the blood off of my arm. It is not doing much but smearing around more, but there is some that is actually dripping down my arm. I feel a light tap on my shoulder. I look over and up to see James holding out a piece of cloth, the same one I gave him earlier. I took the cloth and looked at it for a moment. There was no blood on it, it was a clean piece of blue cloth.

"I cleaned it earlier when we split up, I found a small body of water." he said noticing my confusion

"Thank you." I dip The cloth into the water and I start to clean the blood off my arm. James crouched down next to me.

"So what did you mean by the truth?" he questioned

"huh? oh I was going to say some sort of deer beast helped me when my leg stopped working. It was bleeding, I think there was another monster that was fighting."

"monsters? Are you sure you didn't hit your head? There is no such thing as monsters."

"I am not lying, the ground was shaking and there were two monsters fighting."

he looks at me with a look of annoyance and anger tilting his head well looking at me. I was taken back by this.

"monsters don't exist, you are being delusional."