Friends Unite

Chapter 17- The Chase

The guards were blocking the entrance.

"Quick!" squealed Fiona. "This way!" 

She grabbed the trunk of a tree and scrambled up it. Her friends followed her, but the guards caught up and one of them started to cut down the tree with his sword. Fiona looked at her friends, then grabbed a branch from a tree right next to the one they were on and swung herself onto it.

For over an hour they swung from tree to tree, the guards following them and cutting down each tree with their swords. One by one, great trees fell to the ground, and by the time they were out of the forest, a wide path had been cut through it.

As they reached the last tree, and the guards reached them with their swords, Fiona jumped down and began to run. One by one, her friends took the risk, jumping of the tree and following Fiona away from the forest. Siluetta was too frightened to scream as she jumped from the tree. She knew all too well that she could be injured or even die...

As soon as they touched the ground, the seven friends began to run, run as fast as they could away from the forest and the armies from the Land of Darkness coming after them. Into the night they ran, and soon Siluetta's legs ached, but she made herself keep running. They couldn't afford to be captured by the Land of Darkness.