I ran.
It was a while since I actually did anything using all the strength i could muster.
These people were crazy! And I was even crazier for thinking these people were like me! How dare they say I can't leave! All they were were a bunch of underground freaks.
Okay that was mean. I sent a silent fraction of an apology as I ran down the corridor. The adrenaline pumped through me and it felt amazing as the white walls blurred on either side of me. Sadly, there was no place to take off which sucked since that would have been my main escape plan.
Plan - "Girl!!!" shouted a breathless voice behind me. I panicked, putting on an extra burst of speed; i refused to stay in a hole in the ground with absolutely nothing to keep me sane!!
"Don't!!! Please stop!" plead the distinctly male voice, maybe it was Blue Eyes? He was kind of cute...
NO!!
I gasped as i realised what absurd thought ran through my mind. As I ran I chanted "not cute" hoping it would stay.
Finally a change in setting! The white began to get dirtier until it was no longer all white tile and then suddenly the walls stopped and in front of me lay a tunnel of hollowed rock and at the end of a tunnel was always the light.
Only with a millisecond of hesitation, I kept running,
You know how everyone says don't go towards the light? Well I did and there was nothing to stop me. The light was so close now; it was just painful to see and not reach like lying just below the surface of water and painfully slowly approaching. The. Ultimate. Torture. The sad part was that if I took this long to get to the end, the average human would take hours, maybe even days! However, considering I was neither average nor fully human, and I was moving about as fast as a plane ready to take off, time taken was minimised.
Okay...almost there...right there....
I approximated 10 seconds until total freedom and that was just enough motivation to remove all tiredness begging me to stop.
And now...6...5...4...
ALEX
"Run after her" he said.
"You're the fastest" he said.
"It would be nothing catching up to her! She's a girl!" he said.
That son of a poop nugget Jay!!! I imagined he was snickering at me now. I let out a string of expletives that would give Hailey a heart attack...so I stopped stringing colourful words and focused on running.
Even as a cheetah I was slower than this girl by way too far. She was about to escape and i would be dead meat, cooked and stewed and fed to the lions!
Damn she was an amazing runner! I wondered what her specialty and powers were.
My mind kept wondering until I saw her hesitate for just one much needed second in which i caught up. Then the started running again and my heart plummeted.
I hadn't been paying attention to my surroundings until now. We were running through a tunnel of sorts, one I had never seen before with a light far at the end towards which she was running.
Again heart does a U-turn and re-plummets.
However, I was slowly gaining on her as she slowed upon approaching the end of the tunnel. I was still too far to leap and she was way to close to the end for my liking.
It was only when she sped up, about 10 seconds away from the end, there was a pulling sensation on my coat and something large flew over my head and crashed directly onto Eliza. She let out an "Oof" as all the air left her lungs in a breath and the dark mass made her disappear.
Even with my amazingly fast reactions, I forgot to stop because i was way too distracted being confused and in awe at the same time and we ended in a dog-pile.
The mass groaned and shifted as I returned to a human form and replacing my torn clothes with the set tied to my ankles. It was only when the lump cried, "Holy Crap that was awesome!!!" that i realised what...who the lump was. What I didnt understand was how the lump had gotten where the was now.
There was another pained groan from below the lump named Jay. Jay yelped and flew off Eliza grabbing her wrist and pulling her up at the same time.
Eliza screamed and yanked her hand from Jay's grasp. She jumped and aimed a flying kick to his stomach. I assumed he was too short to reach his head but that worked just fine.
I knew I should have helped Jay but she might as well let off some steam before we took her back you know?
Jay doubled over as the air wooshed out of him. She sent her fist flying towards his face. It hit with a 'crack!' and his eyes rolled back in his head as he fell to the rocky ground.
She was about to turn and run when apparently there was no where to run. She was backing up as she punched and kicked and now she was at the endge of the tunnel. I had no idea what lay beyond as i approached her to capture her before she escaped. I sprinted towards her when i heard an ear-splitting scream and Eliza fell backwards, her eyes pleading with mine.
I had reached in time to grab her shirt and pull her back up with my other arm around her waist. The terror and innocence in her face in that moment just spurred me on. Without thinking, I just pulled her back up.
She held onto me tightly, her small fists wrapped in my wrinkled shirt. I held her as she shook and my shirt began to feel wet where her face lay on my chest. I stayed holding her until she looked up at me and her golden eyes met mine.
As our eyes connected, I finally realised how close we were and that our faces were only centimetres apart. I noticed the my breath was hitched and I couldnt help but wonder if my breath was bad or if i was an awkward hugger. Ew. I when did I change genders.
Ignoring that thought, i focused on the tugging sensation withing my stomach and somehow I felt like I fell into her bottomless eyes. Being so close to her was amazing and I knew she felt it too from the look in her eyes.
What exactly it was we felt? I had absolutely no idea. Before I could ask though, her eyes rolled back in her head and she fell limp in my arms. Confused, I looked up to see Jay standing there one hand holding a bleeding nose, the other at Eliza's neck. He knocked her out!
I noticed his blazing eyes as he glared murderously at the limp form I now held in my arms. "Led's go ogay!" Jay growled. I couldnt help but chuckle.
"Id's nod fuddy!!!" he shouted, wincing.
I laughed again as we returned.
While walking, I thought about what had occured before Jay interrupted and what that could mean. I thought about Hailey and how she would react when i told her. And i thought about how Jay got here if according to my knowledge, that was impossible.
My mind was so filled with thoughts and it was overwhelming. All because of the innocent little person in my arms about whom I was having second thoughts on everything i was told about her.
Someone. Lied.
