The love of Curupira ( Valley of Portal - Book 1 )

Your enemies, My enemies - Chapter XII

The Valley of the Portal 

Chapter XII 

Your enemies, My enemies

After spent all afternoon at library, Clara and Joshua considered that the information they have gotten were enough. It was almost at night and they had to return to the Valley. The friends took a taxi until the Colonial House where they left the books and started to walk towards the community. 

They were discussing about the Bradador and walked slowly in their human form. Joshua felt the first raindrops. He came from Canada and didn't use to so high temperatures of Amazon, so the rain was always welcome. They were very close to Tree of Life and a heavy rain fell on the forest. Joshua played at the puddle and shouted happy. Clara felt his happiness. Lightening and thunders lighted up the sky. It was funny but they really needed to go home.  

The couple of friends continued along the trial and less than five meters to reach out the portal Clara was swallowed by a mud puddle. She screamed involuntarily and her friend came to help her.  

Initially they thought that it was possible be a kind of hole covered by mud, but when he tried to take her out of it and felt that she kept being swallowed slowly, he realized that something was wrong.  

Letting his animal body dominated because it was stronger, Joshua grabbed Clara who had half of body swallowed by mud puddle and because that it was motionless.  

The ground seemed to be giving way and the lince slipped all the time what made him lose the stability. He looked around trying to find something that could help him to stand up. He released her hands and put all his efforts to knock a trunk to use as a bridge until Clara.  

Joshua balanced on the trunk and pulled Clara up. She held him strongly and tried to push her body to the top. By degrees he succeeded and gasping noisily she rested on his chest. Both of them too much tired. The heavy rain never stopped to fall and suddenly they noticed that the trunk was sinking as well and in few minutes they would be swallowed by the ground. 

"Come on Clara, run...we have to reach out the portal."  

They stood up and pushing their feline bodies on the trunk they jumped and landed at the firm ground. The friends started to run before all the ground turned into a huge quicksand paddle. When they were just two steps to touch the Tree of Life, Joshua was grabbed behind by strong and anger hands. 

Clara looked back and saw her friend fighting against a myth called Crispim, head of pot. She ran to help him but was hit in the middle of her stomach by something she didn't see what it is. As fast as she could be, Clara got up and so she was face to face with Alamoa who stared at her dangerously. Her cheetah body jumped on mermaid and the two girls tangled in a violent corporal fight.  

The steel blond hair cut Clara's skin and the blood flowed through her body. Each girl had so peculiar skills, but the animist was the best one and faster as well. Clara knocked down the mermaid and held her by the neck with no difficult. 

"Your onyx is placed in your belly, at exactly line where it starts your scales. Just one wrong motion and I'll take it out your body before you can blink."  

Alamoa was very impressed about her capacity to find the vital stone. The mermaid has already heard about her power of excellence, but she didn't realize how good and fast she could be. Obviously that the legend was cornered and Clara could have won easily if the ground hadn't given way and destabilized her. Immediately she was involved by the sharp hair and stayed completely motionless.  

Clara looked at Alamoa surprised and before she got to react it was mummified staying just with her head out. Alamoa was dismissive when she said.