Firefly

Endangerment

"Ohhhh...Erinor! Ian!", I cried out when I spotted them walking through the hallway. They didn't turn towards me at my voice.

"I guess they didn't hear me", I saw them go out the door and decided to follow. I had nothing better to do.

They walked towards the forest conversing about something. I kept following them quietly. When they entered the forest, for a moment I contemplated about going in after them or not.

Why not? Erinor and Ian will be nearby, after all.

I followed behind them but ended up losing them. I tried searching for them but they were no where in sight.

"They were just here...where did they go?", I frowned while saying it out loud.

"We came from that direction soooo, I should just go back", I spoke out my thoughts.

I heard a noise from a nearby patch of trees.

"Ah! That must be them!", I happily ran towards the trees but stopped in my tracks when I saw what was making the noise.

It was a huge black creature with sharp claws. It growled as it's yellow eyes fell upon it's delicious prey. The prey was me by the way.

I turned on my heel and started running in the opposite direction.

Something caught the cloth at the bottom of my kimono. In my hurry I tugged hard at it, causing the bottom half of my kimono to tear away.

I kept running but the creature was gaining in on me. My foot got stuck in the extended roots of a nearby tree and I fell face-forward. This was enough for the creature to catch up to me.

The creature got on top of me and it's drool fell at the side of my head.

I was frozen in fear as I spoke, "someone...help", my voice came out low even though I had meant to scream.

Snap out of it! Don't panic!

I tried to reason with myself but I couldn't think of any way to escape. When the creature raised it's right claw to attack I rolled out from beneath it and successfully avoided the attack. I had planned to get up and run after that but the creature was too fast.

While I was getting up, it's claws passed through the side of my waist and I screamed. Atleast the wound hadn't been deep but it was still bleeding. I winced. After that the creature shoved it's arm in my guts. I landed against a nearby tree with a thud, coughing and hacking, trying to regain the breath that had been knocked out of me.

I closed my eyes as the creature swung it's claws at me again, as it was too late to move anymore.

Someone pulled me into a warm embrace and simultaneously I heard a loud groan. I opened my eyes to find Vincent hugging me. His back had been sliced through. There were deep cuts on it and blood was flowing out.

"V-vincent!", I cried out. He had shielded me and taken a full blow from the creature. He wasn't moving. He had apparently gone unconcious. I gently placed him on the ground on his stomach.

I spotted his sword near him and quickly pulled it out and, just as, the beast was attacking again. I stopped it's claws with the sword. I pushed at the sword, keeping it's claws at bay, away from Vincent.

I successfully pushed it's claws away and then plunged the sword through it's arm.

The creature hissed and backed away a little. I moved in front of Vincent gripping his sword tightly. My entire body was shaking with fear.