The Bryne Runaways (Updated)

Chapter 42

I am afraid but also curious to be out here. I don't know what we're expected to find but it gives me mixed thoughts. Everything so far is clear, just a bunch of trees, some chirping birds, and the smell of wet leaves. The sun finally is up after all that happened. Morning came a little too late for us. We needed it hours ago when this all occurred but didn't quite reach it.

This part of the forest is much quieter than I thought. It had a lot of nice sceneries to look at. For once I think I saw peace again just by looking and smelling all this nature. It felt good. I think grandma is right! I am obsessed with nature. I admire it a lot. It's so calming. The green everywhere comforts my body. It's accepting of my presence to be around here.

I pour the clean fresh water into the canteen and I look down at the little streaming water. It's small and cute. It felt good. Once I filled up mine and Uncle Ben's canteens I go back to our little hut which is not a shed but a old colorless abandoned car that has comfortable seats in the back. Uncle Ben is there with the map. I walk back to him and hand him his filled up canteen and he drinks the fresh liquid. I take a seat on the hood of the car and see Uncle Ben work with the map. 

"How are you feeling?" He asks putting a hand on my head.

"I'm doing okay" I say to him and he shows me his wounds that I need to be clean up before they get infected.

"What happened?" I take out the first aid kit in my pack. I place it on the truck and open the lid, revealing my working utensils. Uncle Ben comes over and takes of his jacket and lifting his shirt as he looks at the map.

"The guardians can really kill" I clean the wound he has on his shoulders and bandage all his other smaller cuts. I finish and I put away the kit and I begin to go through my things Uncle Ben packed for me and I am not disappointed at all, he actually knows how to pack.

He packed me three pairs of socks, a beanie, shirts, a hoodie, some underwear, toothpaste and toothbrush, tide stick to go, deck of cards, matches, notebook that have Dr. Meredith's papers in them, one book, packaged food, comb, and a pocket knife!

I take the pocket knife in my hand, admiring the work of it. I focus on it closely and Uncle Ben looks at me with it.

"Norman put that away, I don't like seeing you with any weapons. Only use it for emergencies" Uncle Ben says closing his canteen he just drank from. I put the knife away in my pack and I open my crackers that only come with two.

"As for food, Buddy be conservative, only eat when you are hungry. We don't know how long is our trip" Uncle Ben says and I put away my crackers into my pack too. I just laid on the trunk and admired the sky. It's so peaceful, it is until I heard a noise up in the trees that Uncle Ben didn't hear. I look up in the trees but nothing seemed to occur. Everything is all in my head.

"We gotta move before sundown" Uncle Ben puts away his map and grabs his axe from on top of the hood. I hop off the hood and walk right behind Uncle Ben. I'm curious to know where we were going. I wanted to ask Uncle Ben but I'd put too much pressure on him if I asked him. So I just told myself he knew where he's going and that I'm going to be perfectly be safe and sound.

I walk over a log and I can hear up in the trees something. Something unrecognizable. I know I'm not hearing things in my mind anymore. I'm crazy with this. I can hear it. In my pocket I clutch my pocket knife just in case something happens, I'll be ready. I look over Uncle Ben who isn't hearing anything but keeps his eyes on where he's going.

After countless minutes of just walking through the forest I begin to get bored. Nothing was really going on. It takes me back to camp when I didn't have any friends and I would just sit in my cabin doing nothing just waiting for Uncle Ben to come home. But thinking way too much about camp is a bad thing. It takes me back again to what occurred that night.

I snap outta my thoughts when the wind gets thicker and faster. Dirt begins to blow around and the leaves flow everywhere. I begin to hear something levitate above us revealing a flying aircraft. Uncle Ben takes cover of me and I think it could be a bomber but by its design it isn't such thing, it doesn't look like it which still give me bad thoughts. It flies above us and indeed it is heading to the camp. We take cover and wait till it passes and it finally does. I don't dare think of what might happen over there at camp right now. It'll only destroy me.

The feeling of a great dark hole in my chest grows and one thing sticks to my mind. Death to all.

May Their Souls Be Liberated.

Nightfall is coming and there's still some light left so we took advantage of it and got as close as we possibly could. When nightfall came we rushed into things because who knows what could happen in the dark. I currently sit on the ground close to the blazing fire, warming myself up from this cold harsh weather. Uncle Ben had to kill a nearby animal and it became our dinner. I couldn't bare watch it get skinned but I had to eat so I did, I ate a leg and the other was wrapped up for tomorrow's daylight. I'm actually planning ahead, this is new.

One bad thing about being in the dark is, when you put up a fire anyone can see you and attack at random, it's why I'm spooked, so that's why Uncle Ben chose the least obvious spot for a feast.

We put out the fire and continue to walk a little bit farther till the sun goes all the way down and then we'll set up sleeping grounds for the day. I'm actually looking forward to sleep. It's what I needed.

Throughout the rest of the day I freaked out because the noise up in the trees is what I keep on hearing. It isn't a normal sound to hear in the woods late at night. It would just keep on bothering me so much. It's what haunts me.

"My legs are tired" I say to Uncle Ben who isn't tired at all. I'm not surprised that he isn't with all the training he does that make him restless.

"A little bit more" He says and I hear the bush behind me move. I turn around but to see nothing but a quiet dark forest behind. I know I'm not crazy about this. This time I'm not the only one who heard it. Uncle Ben heard it and hurried me to keep on moving. We were going through the forest so quickly that I question all this but I question mostly about a light in the distance,

I can see a small cabin.