Pearl Beads

Chapter Nine: Cliff Jump

CHAPTER NINE 

Well aren’t I the luckiest person alive... A cliff, A F***ING CLIFF! I look down, it’s a big cliff... but then something catches my eye, I know this cliff! I smile to myself, HALELUJIA! I turn around to the sound of running footsteps, trying to hide my joy and instead make it look like terror. The man is standing there, his face has haunted my dreams for 10 years, and now here it is, in the flesh. And I’m scared. There are more footsteps as Jack and Mikie come into view, panting and out of breath, I look to Mike and shake my head slightly, he nods and stops Jack. A crowd has formed around us, watching but not helping, not that I mind, I have something special planned... “Well my dear, here we are again,” the man said in a deep gravelly voice, “here we are again,” I hissed, “But your trapped, and I’m going to get you,” I just smile, “ah, but your forgetting one very important thing mate, I’m Bella Mother-F***ing Bowman,” I smiled and stepped backwards, over the edge, over again.

I’m free-falling through the air, it feels like I’m flying, I heard screams and gasps from above, as well as the clash of swords. I hit the ice cold water unexpectedly, landing on my back I knocked all the air out of my lungs, my mouth opens instinctively and I inhale water, it burns my throat and hurts my eyes, I thrash around in the water I reach the surface, gasping for air, I quickly swim to the rocks and climbed up, retching. When I regained control and was able to breathe pretty much normally, I jumped from rock to rock until I reached the uneven cliff face, and started to climb. The sound of fighting got louder and louder as I got closer to the top, finally reaching it I hung on for dear life, waiting for the opportune moment.

I hear a cry of pain that sounds a lot like Mikie, I cautiously lift myself up to see him huddled on the ground covered in blood, and Jack duelling fiercely with the man. That does it. I jump up and scramble to my feet,  Just as jack trips over Mikie and the man stumbles, losing grip on his sword, and watching it as it flies over the edge of the cliff, I see my chance. “Well that is a wonderful trick, but once again, you stand between me and my way out, and now-“ I pause to draw my sword, “you have no weapon,” he draws the sword of a man standing to the side, watching the battle, we start to circle each other, I find all the hate and fear that I have bottled up over the years, and I lunge at him, smashing the bottle as I do. We fight fiercely, every now and again getting a cut or scrape from the other, or even ourselves, “You cried like a little girl last time,” the man tells me, smirking, well that is complete and utter bull$hit, “Only a little,” I reply, scraping my sword against his. He cries out in frustration as I block, yet another one of his stabs. “Where the hell did you learn to fight like that?” Jack asks in amazement, standing up and dusting himself off, I just smile and slash at the man’s face, drawing a cross on his cheek, there, now we match. “I know everything about you,” he tells me, grunting with pain, “You really need to find yourself a girl, mate,” Mikie groans, “is now really the best time?” he asks, realising what I was doing, “any time is the best time,” I reply with a smile. The man is obviously tiring, I fight him over to the cliff, holding my sword to his neck, he steps back and stumbles, hanging over the edge of the cliff, clinging to a tree root for dear life, “Now as long as your just hanging there, listen closely,” I say, bending down and staring him in the eye, my sword still at his neck, “I don’t like getting my sword dirty, so you are going to let go, and if you know what’s good for you, you will not come back up, Savvy?” he looks me in the eye, and lets go, falling into the water with a splash. "Did everybody see that? because I will NOT be doing it again,"

I stand up straight as the crowd starts to applaud, I bow a few times and smile sweetly, until a man in the crowd suddenly recognises me, “hey, your Annabeth, Annabeth Taylor,” he calls out, people start pointing and muttering, “what’s it to you?” I ask, turning my back, slowly the crowd disperses and I walk over to Mikie, “you k mate?” I ask, he jumps up and smiles at me, “it’s called acting, oh, and tomato sauce,” I put a blob of ‘blood’ on my finger and lick it off, yep, its tomato sauce, I smile and put my sword back in its sheath, “well, I don’t know about you guys, but I need a drink,” I say, Jack sighs, “I always need a drink,”

“well don’t you worry your pretty little head, I know a great place that happens to owe me free drinks,” Mikie announces with a grin, I smile back, “lead the way, dare I ask why they owe you free drinks?” he smiles and starts walking ahead of us, Jack and I following loyally behind, “you have a lot of explaining to do mister,” I tell Mikie, realising that he hasn’t even told me his story yet! “as do you,” he replies. I sigh, of course, the training.

Hey guys, OMG IM SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SORRY!!!! 9ive been super-mega-ultra busy! and ive had MEGA writers block! ...and ive just been super lazy, so here it is, im not totally happy with this chapter, but i thought i have to post something! sorry again! and plz comment :) luv u all

-Captain jack