I have decided to place my story on here. It's not very good, and it's pretty much just a rough draft, and things are probably spelled wrong, but... yeah. I just thought I would.
To describe this, it's my ISC prologue for Misty.
Chapter One:
The Not So Narrow Escape
I looked behind me and laughed as I saw the men chasing me become smaller and smaller. I thought about how close they had been to catching me and thought, “Let’s NEVER do that again…”
I ran into the forest, and left a few signs saying I went one direction (a broken twig here, a scrap of cloth there), when in reality, I climbed up the nearest tree, and decided to travel through the rest of the forest up there.
I stopped and rested on a high branch so that I could watch my handy work. The three men chasing me ran in and stopped. The first one, who claimed his name was Thomas, said, “You, go that way. And you, search that way. We will find that girl…” The men he had pointed to, Jim and Bob, ran to the left and right. Thomas sat down and seemed to be napping while he waited.
“Sir! I think I found something!” Jim shouted as he ran to Thomas. Thomas got up at once and ran over to see what Jim had found. Tom squatted to examine the broken twigs, then got up and saw the cloth that had “got caught on the branch”.
“Men, she has gone this way. We must hurry if we are going to catch her!” with that, they all took off in that direction. And then, I proceeded to climb in the opposite direction, gaining as much distance between us as I could.
I looked at my watch, “4:36… I need to meet up with Aric in 24 minutes. I better hurry.” I stopped, sat on the branch and pulled my folded map out of my pocket. I unfolded it and it looked more like blue lines and a few red x’s then a map, but at least it’s something. I put my finger down where I was, and placed my other index finger where I was supposed to meet up with Aric. I frowned, that was a long ways aways. “well, I’m not going to get there any quicker sitting here.”
I stood back up on the branch and looked around. Sadly, there didn’t seem to be anymore branches to climb on. So I jumped down from the branch I was standing on, and started running through the forest.
Judging by the map, it was going to take me roughly 37 minutes to get there, so I was running as fast as I could.
After roughly 100 feet, I heard something and froze. I had no idea what it was, and was worried that I had made a huge circle and fell straight into the enemy’s arms. I looked around and saw nothing. I looked up hoping I could jump into one of the trees, but all the branches were too high. “Stupid 5’ 6”… why can’t I be taller?!” I walked every so quietly through the forest, hoping I wouldn’t be heard. I crouched down in the tall grass and prayed I wouldn’t be spotted. That’s when I heard voices.
“Sir… I think we lost her.” I heard Bob say.
I peeked through the grass and saw them. I saw Thomas’s face go bright red and he said, “Lost her? Lost her?! NEVER! We will keep searching this forest until we find her!!” He got right up in Bob’s face and yelled, “Do you understand me?!”
Bob could only slowly nod. I almost felt bad for him. He looked as if he was only 16 or 17. “He was probably forced into this by his parent’s… or the *ahem* ‘government’.”
I turned my head and saw Jim just standing there, almost afraid to move because of what he saw. But Thomas didn’t give them time to sit there, “I thought I said to move it!!” He shook his head and mumbled to himself, “why do I always get the dumb ones…”
I looked around trying to find a way out, but they blocked the way I needed to go. I tapped my head while I thought, “Tunnel… no, won’t work… Bridge… no that’s dumb… oh dear, I’ll never think of anything… wait, dear, deer, DEER! That’s it!”
I looked around and saw a deer grazing to my right. I looked down at my feet and saw some rocks. I picked up a rock and really, really hoped this worked. I threw two rocks over in the brush near the deer… and it didn’t move. I quickly picked up two more, and tossed those as well. That got the deer’s attention, as well as the attention of the three people searching for me.
“what was that?” Jim asked.
Thomas furrowed his brow and yelled at the two, “well? How about instead of just standing here… we go over and look!” All three started to run over there. And just like I had hoped, the deer heard them and started running.
“I can hear her running!” I heard Bob shout.
“we’ve got her!” I heard Jim say. I realized that if I didn’t start to move, they would get me. I started running in the direction I needed to go, hoping they wouldn’t investigate into the noise over this way.
I had almost reached the edge, when I heard them heading this way. Apparently, they had heard me. But thankfully, I heard the river ahead of me. I ran faster then I had ever run before (and my job calls for a lot of running, so that’s saying something). I jumped in the river, remembering that it was October… Needless to say, it was FREEZING! I thought my skin was going to freeze off, but I just kept swimming to the other side.
By the time I had gotten two-thirds of the way across, I heard the men come out. I heard bullets splash in the water around me, and it took all my strength to keep swimming and to NOT panic.
That’s when I heard Thomas say, “Stop shooting you imbeciles! Karapov wants her ALIVE. Not dead. Dead won’t do us any good. We will just have to find a way around the river. Jim, you go that way, and Bob, you go that way. When you find a way across, report back.” Jim and Bob ran off in their assigned directions, and I had reached the other side. I sat on the beach and took a well deserved rest.
“Misty, don’t think this is over! Karapov will catch you, and when he does, it won’t be pleasant!” I looked to see Thomas was yelling at me.
I replied, “You know, it’s not polite to shout at a woman.”
He laughed in mock laughter, “You think I’m joking? Hah! You are a greater fool than I thought.”
I tried not to laugh, “If you think that I think that you are joking, you would be very mistaken. I just know how to blow something off. But while we are sitting here, I have a few questions for you. Number one is this, why does Karapov want me?”
“You took something of his. Something he would like back very much.”
I looked surprised, “Me? Took something? why, you must be mistaken, for I have not taken a thing.” I wasn’t lying either… it was two things I took.
“Do not lie to me! Do you take me for a fool? We know you took that paper from Karapov’s office. We saw you take it!” He was furious with me now, I could tell. But I just tried to play innocent.
“well, I see. I suppose I DID take that paper… But what does this have to do with you? Why doesn’t Karapov just come get the formula himself?” I covered my mouth with my hand innocently, “Oh, does he send you to do all his dirty work?”
Thomas crossed his arms, “Karapov sends me because he trusts me.”
“I see, I see… well, if you are doing all of his dirty work, then how come you aren’t running his facility? If you do all the work it seems to me, that you should be the boss.”
He narrowed his eyes at me, “If you are trying to get me to turn on my boss, it won’t work.”
I shrugged, “Yeah, well, it was worth a shot. But if you’ll excuse me, I have a meeting to get to.” I stood to go, when Thomas pulled out his gun and aimed it at me.
I stopped, and tried not to seem alarmed. “Thomas… you’re not going to shoot me. You told the other’s Karapov wanted me alive.”
He smirked, “You are right, I did tell them that. But he didn’t say that you couldn’t be injured, say, shot in the leg as to where you cannot run.”
I didn’t say anything… I couldn’t think of anything to say!
“Now, if you would be so kind as to sit down, so that I do not have to shoot you, I would be most grateful. I would rather not waste bullets on the likes of you.”
I looked around. The forest was a good few yards behind me. I could take off running for it, but I would probably get shot before I reached it. I sat slowly down and glanced at my watch. 4:55. I was definitely going to be late for my meeting…
