run!

We ran down the corridor. Smooth stone floors, brick walls, I can hear the flip flop of our shoes as we run as fast as we could down the hall. Wind whipping through my eyes and ears. I can hear my brothers breathing, it was irregular hyperventilating unnatural, . I look back and see him turn the corner right behind us. I stop and shoot at him, red fire cracks out of my wand as I sent out a desperate shot. He, strafes. “keep running!!”  he shoots green at me, I can feel the evil eradiating in the room as his shot gets closer. I deflect then I turn to see my brother stopped. He turned around at the sound of my deflection as it hit a wall exploding parts of it. Shrapnel hitting me and my brother on our head and shoulders. The fear in his eyes is far too great. He was pale. His brown skin was no white, almost transparent. “run dammit!” as I shove him forward to get his feet moving. I fire back my red without looking to buy us some time.

He flinched as a shot flew over his head and cracked more brick and dust on us.

Damn. How did this happen. We see the light at the end of the tunnel and the light. I cant see outside, only bright light searing our retinas. I turn back once more to see him gone into the darkness. Uh oh that’s not good.as I turn back I notice we are outside What ever, we kept running. We hear the hustling and bustling of the city. I cant see anything. as my eyes adjust to the light I reach for my brother and pull him to the alley right next to the building. “this way!” if we can make it to then end of the alley we should be safe. I ran ahead of him. We ran as fast as we could. Running into the darkness once again. It consumes us. I light up so see. The position of holding the light up slowed me down. As we ran it slowly began to light up, I couldn’t see the other side behind us. This street is empty, dead quiet. We only hear our breathing, and we see our breathes. It was cold.

“this way” a familiar female voice says. We turn and I am filled with relief. “lets go” I said as I grabbed my bothers arm pulling him towards a building. We go into a building and down the stairs. “wait here” she told me. I wait at the door. I turn back to see my brother to safety. He was at the bottom of the stairs. To brick walls and stairs are mesmerizing, like looking at a mirror through a mirror, never ending bottom to the darkness. My breathe is sucked out of me, like the vacuum of space after opening an airlock,  I cant believe what I am seeing. How was it possible. He was no where near us. We were gone and hidden from him. How? I see him at the bottom of the stairs, my brother unaware of whats going on.  I see the snare on his face as he aims at my brothers back. He looks up at me, wand still aiming and glowing green. Pauses, smirks,  opens his mouth but I cant hear his words. Im too late. I react, aim my wand but wait I don’t move. I gasp as I come to reality

 I see once again my brother and her trotting down the stairs. I sigh a relief. He’ll be safe for now. I follow them down the stairs. As I study my feet and the stairs as I go down, I realize I am at the bottom. I turn to the right, and down a corridor. There were rooms, with doors. The doors all were green and had a viewing window on them. Everything was in uniform, same color same everything. As if it was a background in a cartoon that doesn’t change.  It seemed never ending. A door closed. I run to it. It must have been 25 doors down. I open it. And I see him, wand in hand, the look of death. He was pale and uncovered. His hood was down his robe was black. His eyes were pure black, his skin was pale, very unnatural ,dead. He slowly raised his arm and  aimed right at me. His face turned into a sneer, then to a leer. I can see the frustration in his eyes and body language. He gives out a loud yell that I cant hear, his voice was muted but I can feel it. I smile at his frustrated face, “good luck finding him” I said as everything turned green, then black. 

Amazon meets the Mississippi 3/11

              It was a jungle. I had a flashlight. I was looking for something. I found a ravine, vass of green trees, and blue skies, and brown soil. My eyes were amazed at the beauty of it. Exactly like a photograph. I close my eyes to let the image singe it self into my mind taking a mental picture.  We hack through brush only to get to the cliff edge. We shimmy our way thought 2 feet earth. With our backs tightly against the cliff we shimmy down it. Climbing, slowly, carefully, strategically choosing our next step. We made it down to the bottom. As if in a blink of an eye. They people following me keep changing. As if haunted by my past , demons that I need to overcome. We come across a horrendous smell. I eyes begin to water and I begin to asphyxiate. The horrid stench causing me to gag. I was dying, literally dying, at this mysterious smell. I become disoriented as I continue though the brush. I hear a trickle. A river! A river? That’s not on the map I remember. My sense of smell is gone, my nostril hairs are killed by the stench. A mixture of fish, salt, maggots, flies, manure, and blood. I reach the water. A small stream about as thick as a piece of paper flows steadily though the rocks and soil. I follow it up stream around a corner. As I walk I step on rocks. The rocks slowly come loose and reveal more water. I was looking down at my feet at the rocks. I stop leaping to catch my breathe only to see a more steady stream of water. Calf high as wide as a 8 feet. It was sudden. Out of the blue. Where did this come from.?i turn another corner and I see it. The cause of the stench. I see huge boulders the size of a house al piled 2 stories high. As if a cliff collapsed and the edge of it a pool of water about the size of a car. The edge of that pool closer to me is a pile. A large pile. A pile of hundreds of dead, red koi fish. Or salmon. Some trickle down stream. Against the boulders inside the pool is a tiny stream of water sneaking its way past the boulders. How quaint. I jump from rock to rock to get a better look. I land on top of the pile of dead fish. I look to the tree line and there I saw you. Asking me if I found it. I don’t know. What am I looking for?

“wait a minute! “ I yell back.

I try to get a closer look at the stream poking through the boulders. As I look my foot slips inside the pool. I hear a gurgling sound. The same sound you hear when you unplug the tub and the last of the water is making its way down the drain. I can feel something building up, I feel the earth tremble, no I hear it. What ever I did, its going to be huge. I leap from where I am at to get closer to you and the tree line. *squish* my right foot lands on the pile of fish. I don’t slip. I leap off my right foot and extend my arm as you extend yours. But I am shoved in my back. Our fingers brush each other. I see the look of terror as I am shoved away by the water. Your eyes wide, skin pale, mouth aghast.

“no…” you whisper. I don’t hear it over the cacophony of the water. But I see your mouth as they say it.

You yell my name, and again its drowned out. I am body surfing the gush of water. The water has crested. This is my chance. I turn my body to the right and reach. For something. Anything I can grab onto. I see a yellow parking pole. I slap it. I was moving to fast and I couldn’t grip the pole. The water level quickly rises. Or it is going down stream into the ravine either way I can see it is going to drop. Theres a rock peeking out of the side of the ravine. I am traveling fast and hard. But still on the crest of the wave. I paddle to line up with the rock . it was flat and tall. Perfect way to stop. The wave keeps growing. Soon enough I will be at the top of the rock. I hope its flat. I time it right. I tuck my head down and position m body to roll. The wave was 1 foot above the rock. So I tumble in the water on top of the rock. I lay unconscious in the 1 foot of water that has no longer enough inertia to move me. I lay motionless. Exhausted. Terrified. Grateful. Sore. Hurting. Beat up. I turn to lay on my back. With my eyes closed I wheeze to catch my breathe. I can hear the water rushing to my left down into the ravine. I smile. I did it. I save them. Wait. Where are you? I yelled. But it turned into a cough, my lungs hurt from the breathing. I turn to my side and I see you on the other side of the river bed. Standing. In awe. In shock. In tears. I awake to a warmth. Still in the 1 foot deep water. A warmness takes over my body. I feel light. I cant move. Am I breathing? I cant hear. Cant see. Cant smell. Only feel. I see you. Well not see but ‘see’ my eyes hallucinating you as I pass. I don’t know whats going on. But its over now. Time to rest.