Chapter 60
Dec. 17th, 2005 02:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seymoure“Welcome To the Jungle”
He hated to admit it, but Vaskania was beginning to feel his age. He and Sanchez had been on the run for several hours, all the time only moments ahead of the beast.
Kane flew overhead on bat-wings, giving misdirection and screaming his hysterical joy at every misstep and hurt the pair had to deal with, however small or unimportant.
Half a football field’s length behind them was a giant gorilla made of solid stone. How it moved so easily, and yet remained stone was baffling.
“It’s magic” came the insane cry from above them.
They vaulted over a mammoth fallen tree trunk and then found a clearing before them.
They should have been cheered by ease of passage, except for the chilling sight on the other side of the obstacle. The tiny clearing on the other side was a patch of level land that emptied out onto a cliff.
In seconds they slammed on the breaks and stood overlooking a ravine that rivaled the great gorges of our world.
The crescent of flora behind them reverberated with the roar of the oncoming behemoth. The trees themselves shook from the sound.
They scavenged the land about the looking for anything that might become some sort of weapon, but were denied any useful objects.
“No place to run, no where to go,” Kane sang.
The gorilla emerged from the jungle, and stopped to look at his prey.
“There went my last strategy,” thought the Baron, “He is not going to be lured into lunging at us and fall over the cliff.”
He looked at Emilio and realized the man was thinking exactly the same thing he was.
The pair chuckled blackly at each other.
“I’m going down to the river bottom to watch you crash!” proclaimed the bat-winged evil thing that had brought all this on them.
With that he plunged past them and out of sight.
The beast now ran at them, but not full steam. He wouldn’t be tricked, it was going to have them.
Just as his hands reached out for the pair, the men heard Robin Williams’ voice saying, “Deux Ex Machina anyone?”
At that instant the two of them vanished from the jungle.
Kane looked up from the floor of the ravine, only to see the gorilla look blankly down at him.
He soared up and found that he couldn’t find the ones he had sworn to watch die.
The entire jungle, along with the ape, was instantly engulfed in flames.
“Now they’ve made me mad!” He growled.
© 2005 by C. Wayne Owens
