Rise of the Revolution

Chaper 4

As she was transporting me I slipped in and out of conscious. I remembered swaying back and forth upside down. I realized that Sonoma was carrying me.

Sonoma turned and I saw a massive tree trunk coming at me fast. I tried to struggle but I couldn't move. I hit the oak head on and slipped into a peaceful darkness

I woke up a couple of hours later and found myself bound and gagged to a tree that was jutting over a cliff. I looked down and saw that I was right over a waterfall.

'How...?', I thought to myself, 'They must be using Sara's knowledge to get an advantage of me.'

Sara was the only one that new that I was afraid of heights and that I couldn't swim. I traced the river in my mind until I got the waterfall. The roaring water tumbled off the side of the cliff and thundered hundreds of feet down onto an odd array of jagged rocks at the bottom.

I turned my head around to find myself in front of an deadly collection of beasts. There were thirteen in all and they all had one thing in common. The murderous glint in their eyes. I knew, almost at once, that they were all windgos. One was a decomposing human with antlers a bear skull. It's yellowing teeth were caked in dry blood. Another was a massive humanoid creature covered in hair. It's matted greasy hair was covered in leaves, twigs and branches. Some would pass as regular indians except their bloody scars and rows of sharp teeth. Others would barely pass as alive or dead. They were covered in dirt and fit in perfectly into the environment around them. When I saw Sonoma she was standing in the back of the crowd staring intently at me. She was covered in blood red paint and twigs.

I hear a scream and turn to face an indian girl of about my age. She was in a gag looking at me with pleading eyes.

"I can't do anything to help you", I tried to say but my words were to muffled for her to be able to understand me.

The chief windigo walked over to me took off my gag and asked, "Do you know why you are here?"

His breath smelled like rotten flesh and his blind eye rolled around in it's socket. His other eye, bloodshot and bulging, burned into mine as if looking for away into my mind.

"No, I don't know why I'm here! This is just all a big mistake!", I screamed at him, "Tell me why I'm here!"

"Ah, well I guess I have to tell this to you before you're killed and eaten or some other deadly punishment", explained the cheif, "I am Coahoma and the windigos that stand before you are the thirteen of the Counsel. You are here because (a) you saw two of us (b) you tried to rescue one of our victims and (c) you tried to fight one of us. This means you will either be eaten, turned into a windigo or thrown of the cliff into the rocky depths of the falls."

"I don't want to become a monster like you", I shrieked to Coahoma.

"Like me? LIKE ME!? I WAS NOT ALWAYS A MONSTER! I USED TO BE A MAGNIFICANT HUNTER UNTIL I WAS TRANSFORMED INTO A WINDIGO JUST LIKE YOUR SISTER! BUT I EMBRACED IT LIKE IT WAS A CHANCE TO LET ME BE BETTER THAN ANYONE AND ANYTHING ELSE!" roared Coahoma.

"But...but...but what about my sister?" I asked Coahoma, "What are you going to do with her?"

"Oh, well I think she'll fit in quite well as a windigo." replied the chief.

"You can't do this to her!" I yelled, "She has rights!"

"Not anymore." he said softly, turning around and walking away.