Ancient Flight

The Rope is Fraying!

 

The horse thrashed around along the side of the barn, the hitching post that he was hooked to had broken and fallen in front of him. Every time he would swing his head or back up the whole thing would follow him, would start to panic.

            “Gina how are we going to get to him?” The young girl’s wide fearful blue eyes looked into her friend’s dark brown.

            “I am not sure Liz.”

Both of them jumped back and stood in horror as the horse and the pole it was tied to, start another battle. The horse had already started to sweat for the exertions, and every single time the battle happened both girls teased and tried to think with upset minds.

            “That’s it! Liz I am going in,” Gina gulped and headed toward the horse. She couldn’t stand it any longer. She loved that horse to much to watch him hurt himself without her trying.

            “Gina!!”

            Liz watched as her friend started to talk to her horse, her words were very shaky at first, but there was calmness in there that seemed a little soothing. Just as her friend got up to him, he began to fight again. Liz sucked in another breath worried now about both of them. Both could be injured or killed. The horse’s head seem to just miss Gina, as she stepped to the side or jumped back. It looked like some macabre kind of dance that seemed out of reality in slow motion.

            Liz could see that Gina was doing the best she could, she had pulled her pocketknife from her pocket, but that worried her friend more. There was more danger with something like that. Liz’s heart raced faster with each step Gina took toward her goal. When the horse lurched backward yet again, and bumped into the arena fence, she watched as her friend was almost taken out by the pole it’s self as it flipped side ways into the arena posts. Gina started to fall but caught her self in time to take a quick few steps back. Liz’s heart was in her stomach, she wasn’t sure if she could watch this anymore. She covered her eyes, but then uncovered them again. She didn’t want to see yet at the same time she did.

            Gina began to walk toward the horse and pole facing them at the front. Maybe this angle would be safer. That is when Liz heard Gina announce, “the rope is fraying!” There was delight and happiness is the words. Although there was still the challenge of getting this little drama over and done with, each step brought Gina closer and closer to her goal. The knife felt like an extension of her hand, as she reached out to touch it to the rope in front of her. Just as both of the girls thought that she would get the chance to cut the rope, the horse would fight once again.

Liz was getting dangerously close to the animal’s hindquarters now. But only Gina could see that. This sent Gina’s heart racing. “Just one swipe,” she kept mumbling to her self over and over again. Each moment that pasted was getting closer and closer to both of them possibly needing medical attention. Both girls worried about each other, had forgotten to keep an eye on the their own safety.

Fate had not though, just as Gina went to yell at Liz to move, the rope that had trapped the poor frightened equine, snapped. Releasing all the prisoners from a horrible destiny.

Flamingos!

Exotic bird:)

My fortune

Beautiful wings.

The Car

“This the place that those kids saw that thing.” The young woman said excitedly as she began glancing around the area in question.

            The man and woman had parked in-between too streetlights at the end of a street which was still being developed. There was construction fence and heavy equipment around the left side of the street, while the other side had homes that were landscaped and ready to move in. “Are you going to be able to wait Jess?” The man looked to the woman that was almost breaking her neck to look around the area in the car.

            “Yes Paul, I will could sit here all night,” she smiled. Pulling from a plastic bag two five-hour energy shooters and a large bag of Doritos.

            Paul chuckled, “You look like you are loaded for bear.”

            “I am ready for anything.” Jess smiled.

           

            About three hours into the little stake out, Jess was eating her Doritos while Paul was using some scanner to check out the area. Jess glanced around the area again, nothing was there, and she was beginning to think that those kids had sent them on a wild goose chase. Did they have the technology to make the photo they showed a fake one? That was the question that rolled around her brain, until the corner of her eye caught movement.

            “Paul! Something moved right there!” Jess pointed in the direction of the construction yard.

            “Nothing was on the monitor,” Paul glanced one more time to make sure. Then he looked out the window and at first only saw an empty yard. Then he noticed, a shadow flickering from spot to spot. Again he looked at his monitor, nothing what kind of supernatural could not show up on this radar. He had to find out. Grabbing a couple tools he looked at Jess, “Alright you stay here and watch the monitor, I am going to go in and check it out.”

            “I am not sure about this,” Jess shuttered. What else could she say; he had already grabbed some gear and was crossing the street to check it out. She rolled down the window, and placed the monitor in her lap. Jess kept an eye on both the monitor and Paul. She could see Paul weaving his way through the work site, but could not see what she had seen earlier. Suddenly without warning she watched as her friend was taken with a scream from him. She looked at the monitor to see that his heat signature was fading. She screamed. Throwing the monitor into the back seat, she went to slide over to the driver seat. But, she heard an unearthly growl, looking up at the window she seen, and huge teeth in an open maw, and glowing golden eyes.  Screaming again the thing reached her leg and pulling without caution there was a snap loud enough it echoed in the street. Then, nothing but silence, just a car sitting in the along the side of the street between streetlights.