My Airport Mistake

Run XI

A cool breeze blew over. By now it was late in the evening. The sky was high and a crescent moon appeared every now and again. Being in the middle of nowhere, there sure was a lot of traffic outside. Several portals lined up. There were lines of folks waiting to enter in one way and enter the other. Leaving the building and entering the building. Where May exited out from, it was away from the crowd. No one would notice that she was there if they just glanced her way.

'Where are the roads? I don't see any,' May thought to herself as she stealthy hid in the shadows of the trees. She blended in quite well with the cloak.

She slipped away from the guards who were circling around the folks exiting the building. At one point, one of the guard's ears twitched in her direction. She stood very still until his attention was distracted when someone made a fuss. Any hooded ones got their hoods pulled off. Some weren't happy about it.

As quietly as she could, she continued to venture further into the dark woods. She couldn't see where she was going but the flash of light from the faded moon was enough to show some routes to take. Not even three minutes into the woods, May tripped over something and fell half way down. She clung onto a nearby tree and froze. An alarm rang from the building. May quickly turned her head over. About seven small doors opened between the doors she exited from and where the main exit doors were. Several small rabbit looking creatures came out of the doors. They wore a strap over their backs. Some of the things they carried looked like guns, big nets, ropes, and swords. Others had on a special mask, ones you see when they enter a fire building or spraying pesticides but cooler. The first to exit sniffed the ear before moving its ears in her direction. The guards from the crowd started marching towards the rabbits. She dared not move but a red light suddenly flashed above her indicating which alarm was broken. Her heart jumped out of her body. She was caught! Motions were given out that May couldn't make out as she started to run as soon as she saw the ears point in her direction.

She didn't care how loud of a racket she was making, blindly running away from the building. The rabbits would be able to hear her regardless of how quiet she was. It didn't take the rabbits very long to catch up to her. She could hear the small shuffles of footsteps. Heavier ones weren't too far behind either. May stumbled on roots and shrubs. As if running away wasn't hard enough, a glimmer of white caught the corner of her eyes. She dodged to her side and the tree next to her was wrapped by a net. More glimmers shot past her. Some were nets while others were bolas. At one point a sword flew at her. Luckily the woods were heavy with trees and shrubs to block most of the attacks. She got caught with one of the bolas but quickly got out of it by taking off her cloak. The bola got one of her legs and a tree. She quickly took her shoe off and grabbed the other end of shoes as she tried to put it back on. She left the cloak behind. It was much too tangled.

One of the rabbit creatures popped out of nowhere and almost tackled her. She had quick reflexes. She swung her shoe and sent the rabbit flying in the opposite direction. More of the rabbits attacked her. She continued to dodge them and run but that lasted only another fifteen or so feet.

Before she knew it, she suddenly fell down through a hole. May was slapped with many roots and dirt. Her glasses caught on a root and dangled there. She tried to grab it but couldn't. Luckily all the shaking and rolling down caused the glasses to lose balance and it fell off from the root. She only hoped it would land wherever she was. As she put her glasses issue behind her, she tried her best to protect herself from the roots, but scratches appeared everywhere on her body already. Her butt and back were warm from sliding down the rough dirt.

A glimmer of light appeared at the end of the hole. She popped out and flew straight down into a pool of water. The combination of cold water and losing air made her struggle to swim up. Her sense of direction was all messed up. After flailing about for a few moments, her energy was swept away as if a current pushed her down hard. She allowed the water to push her to wherever it was taking her. Just as she was able to pass out, a cool breeze touched her head. She knew immediately she was at the surface and pushed her head up for air.