Predators

Preface: The Beginning of the End

***Author's Note...
So... Can anyone give me a good song to listen to for the chase scene? I'm completely stumped here! Comment the name and give a few lyrics if you wanna..? Or you could just go on and read, up to you....

She ran as fast as she could even though she knew it wouldn't be fast enough. My baby, they can't take my baby... This was her mantra, this is what kept her feet moving. They already took my husband, I can't let them take my son. She willed herself to not let the tears fall, she didn't have time to cry. She couldn't let her vision blur, if she couldn't see how could she save her baby? Her only family member? Her lone reason to survive?

"Mommy, where are we going?" He questioned once more. He still didn't understand. "Why didn't daddy come with us?"

"Alex please, I promise I'll explain later, just listen to mommy right now." She kept out as much edge out of her voice as she could. But it was hard to pacify a confused three year old. But the last thing she needed was the boy that she carried to continue to ask questions. They only brought out tears and she didn't need that, what she needed was to concentrate.

She could hear the footsteps moving even faster. They're getting closer, she thought as she willed her feet to outrun them once again. Just a little further, I can make it, we can make it. This was her new mantra it seemed. She continually repeated this internal chant with the hopes of keeping her baby boy alive. She knew she probably wouldn't make it but as long as she was able to keep him alive, that was all she needed.

It then seemed Mother Nature turned against them as the rain that softly pelted the ground around the pair started to fall in sheets and the trees of the forest that surrounded them began to attack their faces with their swaying branches. She heard Alex begin to cry at the new found discomfort and unfamiliarity of the mysterious and probably scary forest. "I know, I know. Just a little further and I swear we'll be fine." She cooed, but her soft words fell on deaf ears as he continued to cry into her shoulder and tighten his hold on her neck. She felt herself frown at the sound of her baby crying but she found it deepening at the sound of the creatures' multiple roars behind them.

"M-mommy what's..?"

"Alex, please, don't worry. Just imagine we're at home okay? Just stay in my arms and I promise we'll be fine." She smiled a fake reassuring smile. She couldn't tell that Alex saw the sadness and tears in her eyes. He decided not to say anything but that didn't stop the shivers and tears form coming from his body.

Just a little further, just a little further... Please let us make it...

Then she saw it. The small creek was only a few yards away. They were going to make it! But it seemed the creatures that followed them saw this as well. She felt their presence grow before she heard the sound of their footsteps growing in volume. "No! Not when we're so close!" She exclaimed in literal pain. Her chest ached and her thighs began to burn as her adrenaline began to disintegrate. "Please," she pleaded as tears gathered in her eyes with even more fervor.

"Mommy run faster! I can hear the monsters!"

"That's just the wind, honey. Don't pay it any mind. Just keep your eyes closed and hold onto mommy." Alex nodded his small head against her shoulder as the rain entered into his bright blue eyes. But before he could close them, he saw a hoard of black figures with red eyes following them and they were getting closer. Monsters! He squeezed his eyes shut and felt his small heart begin to beat even faster as his shivers got even worse.

When she felt the water on her toes she literally wept for joy and allowed the tears to fall. This is it, if we cross the border they can't get to us. We'll be free. A smile made its way onto her face when she made it to the middle of the creek. It was a foreign feeling as she had not smiled in a long time but she welcomed it as much as the new found freedom of her and her baby Alex's life. But then she felt something grab at her ankle and the smile fell just as quickly as it showed up. She slipped and entered into the water but kept Alex slightly above it. He was a great swimmer for his age but at the moment, she did not want to be separated from him at all.