Lost

December 8, 2018.

Late at night Alicia and Allan enter a cave. Allan passes out and when he wakes up he sees Alicia near him worried.

Already at dawn Allan and Alicia leave the cave and go into the middle of the forest.

Allan walks, but after a while he falls and speaks:

—Alice, I need you to get a stone and make a fire.

-I'm already doing it - says Alicia.

Allan picks up some dry grass and Alicia builds a fire.

—Alice, give me one of your daggers.

—Here it is - says Alicia and hands him the dagger.

Allan puts part of the blade on the fire and after a few minutes cauterizes his own wounds while holding on not to scream in pain.

—Allan, this "X" on your chest will stay there forever.

—I didn't expect to be able to kill Cleiton without some permanent injury - answers Allan.

—Could I walk? - asks Alicia.

—Not for long - answers Allan.

We'll have to walk to get out of here as soon as possible.

Alicia and Allan begin to walk. They walk for four hours straight until they tire and stop to rest.

After walking a little further, Allan finds a lake and drinks the water.

—The water is drinkable, Alice - says Allan.

Alicia drinks the water while Allan walks a little and sees a tree with urine. Allan hurries to Alicia.

—Alice, we have to get out of here fast! - says Allan worried.

—Why? - asks Alicia.

—We are in the territory of the big jaguars' pack! - replies Allan.

A loud roar is heard nearby.

—Damn, they must have smelled us by now. Climb the tree! - says Allan.

Alicia climbs it and just as Allan was about to climb it, a group of jaguars appears.

—Go up fast! - shouts Alicia from the top of the tree.

—There won't be time. They can also climb the tree - shouts Allan from below to Alicia.

The jaguars were the size of lions. The first one goes up, but Allan takes the sword and quickly swipes the jaguar's neck and blood splashes Allan's face. two jaguars go up. Allan shoves his sword into the eye of one of them up to the brain. and quickly takes out his sword and when the other jaguar jumps towards Allan, Allan cuts off almost the entire paw of the jaguar.

Allan then shoves the sword into the ribs of another jaguar.

Alicia from this tree and kills one of the jaguars by sticking her dagger in its head.

One of the jaguars manages to get on top of Allan but he manages to go backwards to watch out for an attack that he is going to make but this attack still hits with its claws between Alan's shoulder and all of his belly and manages to get a scar of three cuts on his belly until there between his shoulder and the end of his belly vertically.

the jaguar goes at Allan again but Allan sidesteps it and cuts off its head in one pass.

Almost every jaguar killed, a jaguar tries to get Allan from behind, only Alicia manages to get a dagger in the jaguar's chest before it hits him.

When Allan and Alicia take a few steps to get out of there a big jaguar appears and tries to catch Alicia from behind to kill her and when the jaguar was catching Alicia a hatchet thrown towards the jaguar kills her.

A boy goes to get the hatchet back, the boy is Moisés, he picks up the hatchet that hit the jaguar's neck and starts splashing blood.

—Finally I found you! - says Moisés.

—Do you know the way out of here and back to the bunker? - asks Alicia.

—I got lost looking for you - says Moisés.

—Then we're lost here! - says Allan.

—I know where there is a river, if we follow it it will lead to the city - says Moisés.

—If we go the wrong way we could end up in another town - says Alicia.

—If we stop in another town I will know the way back to Macapa.

—Then let's go - says Moisés.

After walking a long way along the river late at night they stop to continue the next day.

Moses builds a fire and Allan roasts the jaguar meat.

—Let's see if this meat is good - says Moisés.

—I don't think so, apparently not - says Allan.

—That's what I'm going to see - says Moisés.

The three of them taste the meat.

It's not bad, it tastes like beef. It just needed some seasoning - says Alicia.

—Hey Moisés, how are things in the bunker? - asks Allan.

—You and Alicia have been reported missing by them. Three people who were students in the fifth grade died in the battle. Julia is with them in your absence. Julia found a girl who had been held for years in the house we attacked in the battle, a girl about our age. Her name is Sofia. She joined us - Moisés says.

—So nothing bad has happened - says Moisés.

—Julia didn't tell them, but she told only me, that she saw a mirror there in the battle. She said the mirror showed Allan and Julia and everyone else in the bunker, but then it showed Allan and Julia, and the bodies of everyone else in the bunker dead, even me and Alicia. Julia said she saw things, but it's still bizarre - says Moisés.

After a while the three went to sleep.

The next day they started walking again and followed the river

In the break for lunch Moisés says:

—Allan, I forgot to tell you, Cleiton is in the hospital and so is Mary. Mary is going to Melonylde and Cleiton is going to stay without her help until she returns. Now he's scared to death of us without her help.

—This is the perfect opportunity to kill Cleiton -says Alicia.

—We have to get back to the city as soon as possible - says Allan.

—It's going to take us a while to get back. At best it will take us three days - says Julia.

—That's enough time we need - says Allan.

—We don't know which hospital he's in, and he'll probably recover before we find out. It will be much more difficult now. Before it was only about the gangs and the police and people who killed for money, but after the attack, the whole city wants us dead - Moisés speaks

—This is something we will work out - says Allan.

Continued in part 9