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The Woods

June 30, 2014
By that-kid BRONZE, Delta, Pennsylvania
that-kid BRONZE, Delta, Pennsylvania
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He woke in the woods when he first opened his eyes everything was blury and spinning. He was shocked at site of nothing but
trees; after he could stand he noticed the torn and bloody clothes he was wearing. That brought him to his next question what was he doing there, the last thing in his memory was him and his family at home. When the front door was broke down then it all goes blank. Finally he feels well enough to move he starts walking north.

   After an hour of silence he hears a scream in the distance he walks toward it but
comes to a river crossing first. He waits to hear any more noise nothing so he
decides to take a break after some water he needs to keep moving. He walks
parallel with the river untill a small bridge comes into view he crosses decicing
to go in search of that scream. Only a few minutes from the creek he runs into
a barbed wire fence. He debates it but that scream is stuck in his head and
climbs over.

   After a short walk he finds a ring with fence around it after a closer look he spots
blood in the middle, it also looked like there had been a struggle by the looks
of the dirt. Finally he sees two pairs of shoes hanging on the fence then
it hits him his sons he makes a mad dash into the ring. After he gets in the
ring the metal door swings shut and he hears a lock now he may face the same
thing his sons did. He sits until it gets dark then the chain drops he’s up in
seconds but with the dark he swings wildly striking nothing but air. Finally he
hits something but at the same moment he’s grabbed from behind.

   The next thing he knows is he is on the ground with one free hand he does one wild
swing and connects knocking the man back. He charges straight ahead and
connects with two more he finds his way to the woods. He vaults the barbed wire
fence and hides in an embankment not moving until he is confident they won’t
find him he sleeps with one eye open.                        

Once it’s light out he moves in a circle around the outer fence he is worn down from
the two days in the woods and the fight from last night. He knows they have his
kids but he still fears for his wife he stops to try and think about what
happened the other day. Then it hits him after the door is kicked in he
remembers a man behind him with a needle. Then nothing it angers him with these
little bits coming back but not the whole thing. He finally moves over the
fence he finds himself looking at the same ring that caught him last time “not
again” he tells himself.

He takes a wide gerth around the ring watching every dark shadow. He makes it to a
small dirt path hugging the shadows he comes up on a trashed car dropped off a
small cliff. Then a flash back occurs he sees his son’s grabed and gagged in
the house and his wife knocked unconcious. Then it ends he is still yet to
understand the car he has no time to ponder it. He takes the path to a wide
dirt area he sees his youngest son in the middle he debates weather its safe to
move to him even with him bruised and bleeding.He sees his oldest son tied up against
a tree hurt even worse.

  He makes his move heading to his youngest first. He feels his leg hit a wire and his son is yanked up fifteen feet into a
tree his oldest still on the ground and no movment he moves on. He gets to him
and unties him only to hear mov… and he is hit from behind he wabbles but stays
upright. As soon as he stands he has to duck dodging another blow he knows he can’t
keep this up much longer.

   He lands two punches to one man knocking him down before he knows it he is surrounded the man with the needle upfront he
moves he is on the ground his son tackling the man only to mutter go between
bloody coughs he realizes the needle hit his son the men joining in on beating
his son he hears his son yell run and more blood comes out. He runs only
minutes after escaping he breaks down in a flood of tears it was a strange
sense of sadness, anger, and pride in his son.   He wasent sure what to do next but those men
were going to die for touching his family. He decided he was going back he
sneaks down the trail seeing the car again he goes down. Another flashback with
his family tied down the needle slides into his arm and all goes black. When he
wakes he is in that car behind a black suv he kicked the driver in the head
careening the car off the road crashing. He drifts in and out of conciousness
he sees men helping the driver and passenger out and throwing him out after
that he woke up.

   He grabs a shard of glass from the car and walks to the dirt ring. Then he noticed
a door in the hillside he walks over, but he hears footsteps behind him he
smiles and says wonderful. He turns and swings the glass at the man slashing
across his chest the man turns to run. But he wanted blood for blood and he
will get it. He charges the man jaming the glass deep into the mans back blood pouring
from the wound the man lays on the ground until he is still.
   
All at once two more men came out ouf the woods and rushed him but adrenaline filled
his head ducking both men. He slashed one on the back of his leg he droped to
his knees when a cry of pain escaped his lips. The other man came back with a
punch to the head everything flew around into a circle. It only takes a minute
until he is subdued to the ground. He is viscously beaten to the ground.
   
He is dragged to the front of the door the man with the needle opens the door and
smiles and says come in. They pulled him in and told him to look up there he
saw his family sitting against a wall the man with the needle told him you can
have your family, if you tell us about the breifcase. He gave the man a funny
look and said what are you talking about then he are passed outfrom exauhstion.
But his mind failed to stop and he remembered what happened right as the door
broke down he ran to the other room and hid a case in a safe and that’s when
they grabbed him and stuck him.                                                                                                                    

           It all came together there plan had went wrong when he woke and crashed the car the men didn't know they needed him and thrown him out. He woke up and was back in the room they said “either your family or the case your choice”. 



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