We hit the water with a sickening splash.
Cold, icy navy surrounded us, making up look down and down look up, a dark tomb of blue. A warm hand tightened its grip around my wrist, jerking it above my head. I followed the jerking motion, my head breaking the surface of the pool, my lungs filling with the crisp air of the outside.
I floundered slightly, my hands slapping the walls of the pool and gripping onto it. I hoisted myself out of the pool and onto the cool cement.
Kennedy was out in a flash, clambering to her feet and fastening the bag against her arm.
"Elisabeth!!" she shrieked.
My blurry eyes slowly found what she was looking at. Emerging towards us at alarming speed were ten dozen skeletons, all chattering and wailing loudly at us.
A louder screaming sound filled the air. We turned our heads to the source. Perched atop the highest tower of the academy was a shadowy and smoky figure that spread its wings and screamed so loudly my ears hummed with agony.
"RUN!!" I yelled, and we sprang over the fence and into the courtyard.
It was like something out of a horror movie: millions of skeletons waving spears and screaming, charging us, lightning beginning to flash against the heavy clouds, and the demonic creature wailing into the night sky, its great wings beginning to flap.
One of the skeletons charged at us with a burst of inhumane speed, jumping with its bony claws its gaping maw outstretched. I instinctively tightened my grip around my scythe and swung.
My scythe sunk into the right side of its skull and protruded from the left side of the skull. The skeleton clicked its jaws once before combusting and showering me and my scythe in a cloud of gold dust.
Kennedy coughed as a third of the powder entered her screaming mouth. "AH-BLEH!"
We ran through the courtyard.
"To the kitchen!" I offered.
"NO!" Kennedy screamed back.
"Oh right," I managed, running cramps squeezing my shoulders.
Her head snapped left and right as we ran. One of her daggers was in her hands, and she'd plunge it into anything that came near her.
"Look--!" I gasped. "An--exit!"
"Anything!" she agreed, panting.
And that's when the creature behind us let an even louder shriek, and took flight into the lightning laced sky. It screamed once as it sailed with alarming speed towards us.
"ELISABETH!" Kennedy managed to wail.
I couldn't respond, the cramps taking over my chest.
We finally came to the outside fence and threw ourselves as high as we could towards the fence. We grabbed the barbed railing with such ferocity that it brought blood to our fingers.
We ignored it as we climbed to the top and jumped below, landing in painful crumples in the street. We grunted in unison, our newly repaired knees bruising over.
We scrambled up, our aching bodies protesting our every movement, and continued running, the cramps in chest spreading their pain through my body.
"Run for the trees! It won't be able to find us there it's flying!" I shouted my voice cracking with pain and fear.
Kennedy nodded and made a beeline for the treeline.
We took a few steps forward, only to hear an unearthly roar, a huge shadow soaring towards us. We doubled our speed, cramps and aches forgotten.
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The Host of Hyperion
ФэнтезиElisabeth Askeland and Kennedy Jane Wyrene were two normal girls attending a reform school in Pennsylvania. Or so they thought that's what would happen. When a titan decides that its his time to be taken note of, its up to these two girls to stop hi...
