Hunting: The Jungytopple (book 1 of the Hunting series)

Chapter Five

 

What The?

Jungytopple! That's right a Jungytopple. I didn't know what to do, it was like all my years of hardcore training had just. Disappeared. It big eyes stared and I stared back. Forgetting that that meant challenge to a Jungytopple.

It turned and swung away, then all of my training suddenly flooded in. He/She was going to go behind me and and then attack. My feet started running without me thinking, the wind whistle and howled. My sweatshirt started to slip from waist.

I tripped on my sweatshirt and landed with a thump on the hard dirt. As quick as I could I jumped up gathering up my stuff and straight back to running. My sweatshirt and flask was in my left hand and my army knife was ready to be used.

My heart was pumping in my chest like a mad cat going back and forth, back and forth. My breathing was small because I had no air in my lungs, my legs were sore and my feet were so hot that they felt like melting.

Like a brown hand swinging from a tree, a branch hit my aching legs. I couldn't hold the pain anymore so I tripped on a branch sticking out of the ground and hit my left arm on another branch. I put my right below me and tried to push myself up but my arms turned to jell-o.

Instead I rolled myself over only to see three eyes looking at me. I gave up, I'm not moving if it wants me it can come get me. He/She let go of the vine it was holding on to and free fell to land over my stomach.

Its face was only 6 cm from mine, it was growling and bearing sharp teeth. His/Her breath smelt like rotten milk and bear meat. His/Her legs were quite short and square.

Just then I heard a sound, the Jungytopple picked his/her ears up to listen.

"Ekkkekk" It sounded like Angela's voice making a Jungytopple call. The sound got closer and then Angela burst out of a nearby bush making the sound.

"Joey!" She yelled

Joey the Jungytopple?Angela?

"Ok. WHAT?!" I yelled

Joey looked at Angela then me, Angela then me. He looked at me one more time and growled. Joey lifted his paw opened his pointed claws then let his arm drop.

The claws dove into my skin like a pro diver, cutting my flesh. I closed my eyes and cried out in pain but then I was running, but I wasn't the Jungytopple had locked me to the ground. Yet I was running through the autumn trees with my sister (Elly) at my side.

A memory. Though it felt real with mum homemade bread smell filling the autumn air as it brushed past me and my little sister, it was still just a memory. Then it was faded into pain, reality came back and was tearing through me shoulder blade skin.

Another memory came, one fill of sadness. One where my sister is in a tree but can't get down. One where I yell hold on but she slips losing her grip, hitting her head on the way down. She's out. One where mum and me lose a sister and a daughter. We' re seated in a big sparkly room that reminds me of Elly's always happy smile. A long polished wooden box comes past me.

Everyone in the room is sobbing when they leave to for home. I stay seated until everyone's gone then I walk up to the box sobbing harder.

Then it went black, I couldn't seen anything except blackness. When a blurry light peeked through my eyelids I opened my eyes more. Everything was blurry but I could feel strong arms wrapped around me with firm paws, I was held against a matted fur chest.

My vision was still blurry but I could see better now, I was held by the Jungytopple! But he was different, he had a red rope tied around his neck. At the other end of the rope was a small girl with blonde hair, she was holding the rope in her right hand and all my stuff in her right.

She turned to look at me and realized I was awake and stopped. I then realized that the girl is Angela, I tried to speak but I didn't have enough strength. As soon as we all settled down Angela walked up to me with a, leaf? huh?

She placed the leaf over my mouth, I could smell a strong strawberry secant coming from the leaf, then it was all black again.

Hopefully I fixed it