After Neverland

Survive In The Forest

After crossing the cliff, Emma, Ray and the others bolt past thousands upon thousands of trees.
"First, we need to find a place to camp for the night.."
Ray thought. His mind racing about what to do now.
His eyes drift to Emma, who's running beside him. As Ray was staring at Emma, he didn't pay attention to what was ahead of him.
THUD!
He feels blood trickle down his lip, "I must've ran into a tree..."
He looks up to meet Emma's emerald eyes, "Ray! You need to look at where you're going!"
"Yeah yeah. I'm sorry." He holds his sleeve to his nose, "We need to keep going."
Emma sighs, "Then get up!" She holds a hand to Ray. He smiles and takes her hand and pulls her to the ground.
"Ah!" Emma shrieks, "R-Ray!?"
Don laughs, "That's what you get for being too nice, Emma!"
"Don!" Gilda scolds, "Don't say that! She was the one who helped us escape!"
"Yeesh Gilda." Don replies.
Emma laughs and sits up, "Ray's right, we should get moving but it's late. We should get moving first thing tomorrow morning."
Everyone looks at each other and nods.
Emma gets the sleeping bags out and tucks in all the little ones, "Goodnight."
"Goodnight Emma!" They reply.
Her mind briefly goes to Phil, "I wonder how he's doing."
"Yo Emma."
She looks over. Ray.
"You seem worried."
"Well...it's Phil. He's still there with Mom. There's no saying what she'll do. I mean he is still merchandise...she might just kill him out of sheer anger." Emma says, looking down and fiddling with her thumbs.
Ray puts his hand on her shoulder, "Don't worry about it, she won't be able to hurt him. She'd get in serious trouble."
Emma looks up, "D-Do you miss Norman..?"
Ray looks shocked for a moment but then calms down, "I miss him more and more everyday. He was the one who made the plan so I am forever in debt....we all are."
Emma smiles, "Thank you. For everything. We should get to bed..."
Ray nods, "Yeah."
———————-Next Morning———————
Ray is woken up but Emma violently shaking him and yelling, "THE DEMONS ARE COMING!"
He shoots up and rushes to get the little ones.
Emma is already cleaning up the sleeping bags and putting them in their bags. Once she finished that and Ray got most of the little kids ready, they nodded at each other and sprinted away.
They quickly found a heavily forested spot and hid there. Emma looked at all the kids and put a finger on her lips.
Don, Gilda, Ray and Emma all heard the demon ever so close. Long, heavy strides getting closer by the second. Then the demon came into view. Anna's breath hitches. It's tall body rivaling some of the tallest trees. His eyes scan the area and pauses when it gets to Emma's area.
"I've smelt this scent before. One of the higher quality merchandise from Plant 3."
Another demon shows up beside the first, "It is a very nice scent. It smells like Oranges and Mint."
Ray looks at Emma from the other side, knowing it's her the demons are talking about. Then an idea pops into his head, his hand reaches toward a rock and he throws it in the direction where nobody was hiding.
The demons look over to the spot and laugh, "Idiots."
Their long slimy tongues reach out and slide into the bushes. A long shriek is heard and one of the demons tongues pull out Anna.
Emma covers her mouth to hold in her scream. Ray and Don do the same but Gilda whimpers.
"Yummy, not the one I was looking for but this is almost as good."
Anna starts squirming in the demons grip, "LET ME GOOOOO!!"
"Not a chance Plant 3 escapee."
"AH!!!"
There is a loud thud and a ripping noise. Emma opens her eyes, Anna's dead corpses looking straight into her eyes. Fear etched onto her lifeless eyes. Red flowers sprouted out of the middle of her rib cage. Emma's eyes pouring tears. Her vision became blurry and then it all went dark.

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