Chapter 4

I can hear the dogs howling from behind, I run holding Stevan's hand incase he falls behind. 'Where do we go? How do we loose them? Are they going to kill us? Why is this even happening?'

We run past the pecan tree then it hit me "Stevan do you remmember the underground place we found fews days ago?" I slightly turn my head around to see Stevan, his face showed confusion for a second then realization "I think its crossing the river right?" In the corner of my eye I see a big grey blurry figure howling while approaching us from a great distance apart.

"Ye- Gah!" In a blink of a eye Stevan and I fell face to the ground, 'wait what? it was far from us, how did it catch up?' I turn around to see it big as a bear and prepared to bite Stevan's head off. "Stevan!" Everything happened so fast that the world it self seemed to go in slow motion. The big grey animal's head from a closer view looked like a dog, it was now dead, I was on top of it and Stevan was dripping with blood?

I blink twice knoticing Stevan's bloody face of shock as he stared at me? I look towards my hands and there it was, I was actually holding it's head and had a semi long sharp blade on my hand ozzing with blood. 'I... killed it? how did I even do that?' I turn to look down and clearly see a pool of blood not Stevan's but the dog's blood.

"T-thanks?" Stevan stands up and waits for me to get down of the over sized dog, we silently run towards the river as we hear several howlings comming from where we where.

"I think more will come.. will we be able to escape from this?... are we going to die?" Stevan's voice waivers a bit his body looks tensed.

"You think we cant? dont be silly I am your big sister and my job is to procect you, we will be fine we just need to loose them, easy right?" I try to ease the situation for both, it is never good to feel presured to the breaking point or we will be trully caught, I can feel Stevan relaxing a bit and noods.

As we get closer to the river we get exited by the loudness of the howlings I can tell they have gotten closer but, Stevan and I are fast and we've know this place better than father that comes down to hunt here every day after work, 'We grew up here and even this place is at the peak looking like a mountain, the real reason why not much people come here is because the low level of oxygen. Similar to mountain climbing, people can faint or die if they dont have enough air, and since we grew up here we have a higher ground than those men, and if they where running after us its possibly they already passed out.' I grip the knife in my hand

Stevan starts to run faster towards the river then *Bam!* I worriedly run faster prepared for the worst, to find Stevan on top of a kid?... Wait isint that the kid Stevan fought with? well more like beat up 'what was his name again?'

"Owie" Stevan rubs his head then looks down to find the kid passed out.

"Should we leave him here? he could serve to slow them down but, the big dogs could eat him... well it was his fault in the first place for entering the forest " I accidentally mutter it out loud, Stevan stares amused " Umm can we take him with us?... I dont want anyone to get eaten just because he was at the wrong place at the wrong time" Stevan responded jokingly.

There was a moments of silence while Stevan looked at me before talking "Can you-" Stevan looks at me with hopefull eyes before I interupt "I am not going to carry him, if that is what you where going to ask, if we are going to hurry before they catch up we better take him with us now"

Stevan nods and starts to brutaly yank the kid's hair out "Hey Wake UP!" I flinch at the sight now feeling bad for him.

"Gyah?!" the kid jolts up with the sudden pain with a single tear rolling down his cheek and with a trembling hand he touches his head to feel a bald spot his eyes dialate in horror. "w-What?!"

"Hey what are you waiting for? run!" Stevan pulls the kid's hand and starts to run towards the river, the kid is perplexed while I follow from behind hearing them come closer, we need to move.... faster.