Wanted (on hold) ©

Red Flags Chapter 7

Sathe knelt along the singed road, "Damn dragons," he muttered "always messing shit up!" His hand brushing against the smoldering pavement, he picked up a silver coin and sniffed it. " Well, well what do we have here?" He closed his eyes picking out Leonardo's scent as well as Ember's.

"It's her!" A voice in his head peeped gleefully.

"Yea.. and she was with another guy." A different voice sulked. A tear ran down Sathe's face, his heart began to ache, wanting desperately, at the least to see Ember again. He had fallen for the girl, yet it pained him, knowing that she would be his undoing. If only they had hired someone else to kill her parents, then maybe his love for her could grow.

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"How much for this?" Kayla held up a large, black, hiking bag, "I couldn't find the price tag." She frowned slightly, hoping it wasn't to much. The cashier rang up the bag carelessly, objects clanked softly inside, he pretended not to notice.

"Eighty nine dollars plus tax ma'am" he looked her over and blushed slightly.

Kayla fished around her purse for some money, " I'm going on a hiking trip, up in the mountains" she looked up at him handing him the crinkled green bills. He looked average, tussled brown hair and brown eyes, slightly taller then her and a good build. She checked him out, flirting a little. "Would you like my number? You could call me whenever." She winked as she scribbled down some random number.

He blushed harder taking the number and handing her the bag with the stolen goods. "Uh yea sure, thank you for shopping at-" but before he could finish Kayla was already gone.

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Ember and the group wondered around, searching for a way out. Greg and Unforgiven were holding hands and chatting quietly to themselves, when a high crying, squeal erupted in front of the group. Hands moved swiftly to their ears trying to block out the piercing noise. Others failed to do so and they fell to the floor crying in agony. The squeal stopped and a light laughter could now be heard.

"You've come at a good time, I wassss getting hungry" a husky whisper said. "I have ssssseparated the weak from the mighty, the sssssslow from the fasssssst. Thossse ssssstanding may go and passss. The onesss on the floor are mine!" The whisper was getting raspier and closer. The Scarlet Beast, a horrid creature, has a torso of a leopard with seven heads like a Hydra, on each head ten horns with a crown, it's legs and feet were that of a bear and of course it's scarlet in color.

"YOU WON"T BE EATING ANYONE BEAST!" I screamed at the top of my lungs picking up a large rock and chucking it at one of the heads. A boys arms turned into swords as he charged at the hideous creature.

"You think you can defeat me?" it mused, laughing at us. "Alright then, you have doomed yourselves!" A large bear claw came swiping at us as one of its ugly heads tried to take a bite at me. I leaped backward, narrowly missing the horrid fate.
      Unforgiven charged at the torso tearing and slashing at it. A chunk of leopard torso thudded to the floor as the Scarlet Beast lifted its heads roaring in rage. Another boy, who breathes fire blew scorching flames across it.  "Really Greg?!" someone had shouted.
      Greg had begun to paint on the wall, soon the out line of hungry giant wolves appeared. Suddenly they leapt off the wall and started to bite at the Scarlet Beast's massive paws.  It howled in pain again as the wolves' huge teeth sunk into its flesh tearing off toes and other chunks of mangled flesh. "Yes really!" Soon the others had recovered from the screeching  pain and joined the fight. Each head tried to attack someone else, looping around its self, three horns jabbed into a neck that was above it. That head went limp and fell heavily on top of the one it was wounded by.
       I jumped on top of the dead head sliding down its neck, drawing the attention to me. A head drew closer, it's rancid breath suffocating. It's eyes trained on my body as I jumped onto a living ones neck. "Catch me if you can." The head hurled itself at me, it's large mouth full of sharp teeth clamped shut around me and the other ones neck. It swallowed. My body was covered in the wet, slobbery, mucous as I slid down its long throat, waiting for the perfect opportunity. Then plop. I had landed in the belly, I could hear the heart, beating its drums of war. The stomach smelt of death and sulfur, the acid burned my flesh. I felt my body turn and twist, stretching its self out, becoming bigger and tougher. My hands now had claws and my flesh no longer burned. I felt along the stomach and found where the beating was coming from. I dug my claws in ripping out of the stomach, bile spilling into its body, I then punctured the lungs causing the beast to suffocate. Then finally it's heart, I thrashed at it slicing it open, green blood spewing out like a toxic waste, it had died. Moving past it I clawed away out. "You can't catch me, I'm the gingerbread man!" I yelled.

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