14 Two Sided

Felix had been building up a sweat, cutting through the brush for forty-five minutes since Sully and Will had left him. He stumbled a little bit when the surrounding area around him opened up, showing a barren landscape with gray rocks everywhere and steep, treacherous cliffs that plunged out of the ground and into the now overcast sky.

Felix cautiously walked on the gravel and giant slabs rock as he looked up at the looming, bare cliffs. He couldn't help but feel that he was being watched with disapproving eyes. As he walked further inside the trench, the sky seemed to get gloomier with each step, and all the more foreboding. Gravel seemed to trickle down, but when Felix looked up he saw nothing, but the cliffs. He then encountered a sudden drop that disappeared into darkness. He looked up and saw a ledge that crossed over to the other side. Setting down his backpack, he sifted through it until he found a mountain ax and a grappling hook attached to some rope. Felix swung the backpack back over his shoulder and expertly started to scale the wall, using the ax whenever there wasn't a handhold. In no time Felix was standing on top of the ledge and slowly sliding his way across. He was three-quarters of the way there when the rock beneath him cracked and broke away, taking Felix with it.

Adrenaline raced through his veins as Felix fell. The ledge to the other side was now above him and his surroundings fading into darkness. Felix quickly threw his grappling hook and held on tight until the rope caught and became taut. Felix pulled himself up hand over hand. He flopped over the edge, rolled over on his back, and let out a huge sigh. Felix lied there catching his breath, when he got up after a couple of minutes he sighed in relief, "So far so good."

As Felix continued down his path, lightning struck and rain started to gradually fall from the sky, "Juuuuuust great."

Felix looked for cover when the rain became piercing and the wind picked up. Felix saw a cave in the wall about thirty feet above the ground, he didn't like the chance of slipping and falling, but then again he didn't like the idea of debris falling on him. He decided to take a chance and scale the wall. He first tried to use his grappling hook, but when it didn't hook on anything, Felix pulled out both of his mountain axes and carefully climbed the wall. He was halfway up the wall when one of his hands slipped, dangling from one hand Felix quickly grabbed one of the mountain axes at his side and plunged it into the stormy, gray rock. He made it the rest of the way without any more complications and sat inside the rocky cavern. Felix flipped his flashlight on, the stalactites and stalagmites were casting shadows on one another, it looked like Felix was in the mouth of a beast.

Water dripped and echoed somewhere in the darkness behind him as he looked out and listened to the thunder that shook the walls. Felix calmly sat there waiting out the rain when footsteps running on the wet ground echoed softly behind him. Felix turned around and listened to the strange sounds that stopped every second or two. Someone, or something, was sneaking up on him.

Felix waved the flashlight around but still couldn't catch movement as the steps got closer and closer. Felix's heart raced faster and faster and skipped a beat when the footsteps stopped. He waved his flashlight around and when he still didn't find anything, he cautiously started to step further in the cave, pointing his flashlight this way and that.

Suddenly a figure burst from the shadows. Felix barely dodged it, but still ended up tripping and falling onto the ground. He quickly rolled over onto his back to get up but was stopped short when he saw greenish-yellow eyes as big as saucers staring down at him.

Startled, Felix pulled out his gun and shot at the creature, but by the time he pulled the trigger, the figure had disappeared.

In a reedy voice coming from all directions, it warned, "You shouldn't have come here."