The Chronicles Of A Good Life

The sounds of the hydra's rampage was getting louder as were the screams of the horse. I ran through the swamp after the prints of the monster's feet.  They stopped where a gap in the tree line began. The gap was huge at least twenty feet.  This thing tore these trees apart like they were twigs. I proceeded on the hydra made path.

The ground started to shake . Small, but powerful tremors pulsing through the earth. As I ran on the shaking got more intense, and I heard trees snapping and leaves rustling . Further up the path I saw the tip of the hydra's tail, before it vanished behind same leaves. I stopped, then when left off the path ducking into the foliage . I figured I didn't want the thing to know I was there. Moving low through the underbrush, breathing heavily as I wrestle pass branches and vines.

"W-what's t-t-the matter?" A terror filled voice asked. "I-s it t-the m-medicine?"

I stopped moving and peeked through a bush to see the pale yellow horse backed against a cliff face, hunched down with her ears press down to head staring wide-eyed at the monster. The hydra was slowly stalking toward her, its three heads oozing sickly green slime out their mouths. Their red, crusty eyes bearing down on its soon to be prey.

Okay what do I do now? I followed them, and here they are now what. I searched around for something to use as a weapon but all I had were sticks and rocks. Then, an idea formed in my head.

"No-no absolutely not!" I whispered aloud." Dumb idea, stupid idea, why'd it even pop in my head?"

I looked back at the two, the hydra's heads' were priming to strike and the horse was shaking horribly. I'm gonna regret this. I picked up the biggest rock around me and chucked it at the beast. It was striking as the rock hit the first head in its open jaw.

" Hey ya ugly for a king ghidorah over here!"

The middle and last heads paused and turned to look at me, the head that got hit by rock inspected its jaw before turning in my direction. It looked the most pissed. The horse was looking at me to her eyes even wider than before. Her mouth was hanging open at the sight of me.

"RUN!" I called out, quickly following my own advice.

The hydra roared and gave chase after me. I didn't look back as I pass the trees, I hoping they would down the monster. However a series of snaps and rustling told me it was not deterred. I glanced behind in time to see a gaping mouth descending upon me. I  rolled to the left, the hydra bit down on the earth where I had just been. As I continued running I felt something trickle down me back. I brought my hand to my should and brought to my face there was blood, I must have cut my shoulder when I rolled.

My legging were hurting, my lungs were burning. I been running from this damn thing for a while. I thought it'd lose interest after a while it looks worse than I felt. Its eyes were still locked on me but they were beginning to glaze over. And, its head were  lowering as the chase went on. My body was covered in cuts and bruises from my earlier panicked run and those have doubled from running from this thing.

I was so busy thinking about the predicament I happen to find myself in that I didn't notice I run out the mass of and into a clearing. When I did I saw I was running straight for a cliff, I banked hard to the right running along the edge. The hydra not able tried to do the same, but its massive size it to side and fall over. I turned to leave when I was pull down.  I turn to one the hydra's heads with the tip of my new tail in its mouth.

the other two heads bit down on the ground to not fall, but they were be dragged with their body. I clawed at the ground digging my finger in the dirt trying not go over with the beast.

"Urgh..this..huh..is..what...I.get urr..for playing...hero!" I fell over. "Ahhhhhhhhh!"

We fell into ravine full of muddy, smelly, bubbling bog water. I landed with a splat, I was covered in the disgusting sludge.

While wiping it from my eyes I heard the hydra struggling to get up, and ran away from its direction as quickly as the muck would allow.

"AHH!!"

An unbearable pain was coming my right side, and I was lifted into the air. The middle head had me in its mouth. I pounded on its face to let me go, all I did was make it start shaking me around. Blood was flowing down from me down the hydra's teeth. I saw the other heads coming to finish me off.

I guess this was the end. I'm gonna die by the jaws of a monster that should not even exist saving some freak talking horse who probably was who piss this thing off.The blood loss was making me dizzy. Time started to slow down the hydra heads' were coming at me in slow motion.

I could do nothing, but think about my life. Memories filled my vision, like the time when I was four, and aunt Dora took me to a petting zoo, and she got rammed by a ram. That was funny, or the time Cameron saved me when some bullies tried to mug me. We came through the door holding each other up blood all over our faces aunt Dora almost had a heart attack. I wonder how their doing, I hope there both safe.

More memories played out in front of me, some good, some bad, some funny, and others sad. I could have done more with me life. I could have seen more, tried more things instead of complaining how boring life was and tried to make it interesting.

Why don't you?

Huh...who said that?

I did

Who are you?

You didn't answer my question

what?

Why can't you make your life more interesting?

Well...I'm about die. Torn apart by a monster.

Do you want to die?

That's a stupid question of course not.

Then fight for it

for what?

**your right to live you do want to live right?**

But, I-

**You have it in you, the will I mean I can tell**

....

**Do you want to live?**

...yes

**Come again?**

Yes I want to live

**Louder**

yes, I want t-

**Louder!**

YES! I DON"T WANT TO DIE! I WANT TO LIVE!

My eyes opened a new wave of energy came coursing through me. I was still in the hydra's jaw.

"THE FUCK WITH DYING!" I brought fingers together straight. "LET ME GOOROOOAARR!!"

I roared literally roared as I  jammed my finger in the middle head's left eye. It revealed me while it was shaking me about. I hit the cliff face, the fell back into the bog water. I got up shakily to my feet, I was pretty beat up. I had blood leaking out of holes on my lower right torso and thigh, scratches all over, and I'm positive the throw into the cliff dislocated a shoulder. But, I'm alive.

"Hehehe"

*GRROOWWLL*

The hydra was turn toward me. the middle head had its left eye shut but blood was still coming out of it. All three head were breathing heavily, each step they took their head bobbed. I braced myself against the cliff for one last round with the predator. I was not going down with a hell of a fight first.

It took a few lumbering steps its eyes never leaving me.  Until they closed and a foot in the air, the hydra fell forward towards me. Its heads hitting the cliff and slid down it as it fell. I couldn't moved in time so I just put my arms up praying it didn't land on me.

With a splash and a thud it was over. I was in between the first and middle head. What just happen? I climbed it minding my left shoulder. From its back I can see the heads planted on the cliff face. It was dead, its wasn't breathing. I walked off  it and limped to a dry patch on land, I collapsed the side of my face on the soft dirt . I laid there panting my body sore and in pain, then I laughed.

"I... I won I didn't expect that I would," I said as I fell unconscious. " Guess I'm a badass now."

My eyes slowly closed, before sleep completely took me I saw a dark figure coming close to me.

"Oh poor thing,"