Till the end

Chapter 4 The Beasts

The night was cool and quite, every movement in the darkness made me jump. As I stare into the abyss I start to notice a pain in my gut, I realise that we haven't eaten since breakfast, many hours ago. As I warm up next to the fire I search the bag of food for some meat to cook, I stumble across a box of sausages, I grab a decent stick and place three sausages on the end and hold them over the fire. The sausages take forever to cook but the wait was worth it. I eat one and a half sausages and save the rest for Val.

The fire begins to die down so I collect some more wood to add to the fire. I gather our bags and place them inside our tent, I pull out another blanket for my self and allow myself a few hours sleep.

I wake to the sound of many feet destroying the ground, my sister stirs, I begin to place everything in our bags, I hate this but I wake Valkyrie up. The footsteps appear to only be a few metres away, luckily the fire has died and our tent is black so we should be inconspicuous. we wait until they are out of range and we pack the tent back into its bag. We spread the charred wood to eliminate all evidence of our presence. We collect our belongings and head in the opposite direction that the predators went, what a mistake that was.

We hastily make our way to the other side of the park and without even noticing walk right into one of their basses. When we finally realise what we have done we are surrounded with guns armed and pointed at our head.

The beasts say something that I can not understand and then a hexagonal shape on it's chest flashes and translate the word said by the beast to surrender or die. We raise our hands and are shoved into some form of vehicle.

We are shackled to the wall of the vehicle with to other adults, both unconscious. A guard walks into the room with a gas mask on, with some form of contraption with a gas in it. I begin to shake, what is that gas going to do to us? How long have those people been out? Where are we being taken? Will we live to the end of the day? All I know is that our equipment is over in the corner and that we won't be able to escape from this transport.