Forbidden

Part 1-Chapter 4

I was dizzy, but I couldn't figure out why.  I heard moaning next to me and started to remember what had happened.  I jumped up and started to creep slowly toward the hunter.  I was about to pull the mask of his face as to expose his neck, for the death bite.  My hand was inches away from his face before I fell one hand wrap around my wrist and the other around my neck.  I was thrown onto the ground.  The wind was knocked out of me, so I couldn't move.  I watched him pull the wooden stake out of a jacket pocket.  The hunter started talking to me.  "I'm going to kill you, but it will be quick.  I don't think anyone should suffer, even monsters like you."  He knelt down next to my head.  As the stake started to drop towards my heart I rolled out of the way.  The hunter stood up and tapped his mask.  I felt mine and the sides were starting to crack.  I ran towards the hunter, picking up the dagger as I ran, but the hunter turned just enough so that instead of driving the knife into his heart, I drove the dagger into a tree.  I pulled it out and turned to him.  The hunter was running at me with a wooden stake, so I ran to him, dagger in hand.  We collided.  I was some how able to keep steady, but the hunter had stumbled backwards, fallen, and hit his head on a rock.  It would be a while before he woke up, but I didn't have much time.  I heard the other hunters coming closer and closer every second, looking for their comrade.  I needed this hunter dead.  I ran to his body, tore off the mask, and almost fell backwards.  The hunter was Nate.  He was older and more beat up than when we last saw each other, but it was Nate.  I couldn't leave him, not after all we had been through.  I jump up using my wings to keep steady on a patch of branches.  I looked across the tops of trees and saw it.  A cave,  small and dark, but it was a cave.  I jumped down and thrust Nate's body weight on my shoulder.  I knew didn't have the strength to fly him directly to the cave, but I could jump from one place to another.  I ran and jumped.  The other hunters must have seen me because their yelling seemed to get louder and louder the more I jumped.  When I reached the mouth of the cave I looked inside.  It was empty.  I walked in and deposited Nate in the corner.  It was too dangerous to make a fire, and we would only have a couple hours before the hunters figured out our location. I wrapped myself in my wings to try to keep warm and slowly drifted off into a restless sleep.

  

A.N.  Hello again, thanks for reading this far.  This is what Oria would look like with her mask on. Please leave comments and votes are appreciated.  Until the next chapter, Goodbye love you guys.