Triple post, but I knew none of you guys would comment on Chapter 22 since I posted it again.
Sorry for the long wait guys. Here she blows.
Chapter 23
"Brace yourself!"
The flew through Sora's hair as he slowly uncovered his face, shocked. He was bounced up and down as the frightened horse galloped at full speed down the forested path.
Stunned, Sora lookedup at Roaricki, who had his eyes trained on the path ahead.
"You can ride a horse?" Sora said, still shocked from the fast pace of events.
Roaricki chuckled, but Sora could tell it wasn't a friendly or good-natured chuckle. "I can do a lot more than you know, kid," he responded, his eyes fixed on the forested path.
As Roaricki turned his attention to deflect a rain of bullets with Moonflow, Sora couldn't tell what emotion was behind that statement. his pondering was cut short when he looked back to see the four dozen Far Reachers galloping on their horses with thundering, intense speed towards them, closing in on them.
Blake was in the front, a desperate, enraged gleam in his eyes and look on his face.
Sora opened his mouth to say something about them, but Roaricki interrrupted.
"I know."
"Then why don't we go faster?" Sora said, trying to prove hsi point without having it cast out onto the path. It was a stupid thing to be thinking about at a time like this, but that bossy, superior, degrading, black-furred figure riding in front did that to you.
"We're going as fast as we can," Roaricki growled. "Don't you think I know that this little, scared stallion won't be able to outrun all those dozens of others!" he finished with a snarl, clearly ticked off.
Sora looked back. He was right. As frightened as this little horse was, its sudden adrenaline was not match for the power and speed of the four dozen other stallions rampaging behind them in a heavy rage.
"Well what do we do?" Sora countered, shouting over the nearing horses and their thundering hooves.
"Shut up!" Roaricki snarled. "I'm figuring it out!"
As Roaricki said this, the forested path suddenly broke away into a short-grassed, rocky cliffside path with a sharp, jagged, rocky wall to their left, and a hundred-thousand foot drop to their right.
Sora pinched his eyes shut as the scared horse veered to the right. But Roaricki immediately pulled left on the reigns, straightening out its path.
Sora could feel the dust on his neck that was being churned up by the oncoming Far Reachers. They needed something, anything, that would help them.
It wasn't the road getting bumpier so that it made Sora get continually bumped up and down on the horse's hard rear, making his own immensely sora and bruised.
And it
definately wasn't the huge gap in the road that Sora saw coming up in front of them.
His eyes went wide. The gap in the road was at least fifteen feet wide, a perilous drop in the middle of the road, complimented by waterfall shooting down the side of of the cliff face where the huge gap was. They were history.
Seeing Sora's face, Roaricki grinned somewhat mischievously.
"Perfect. Just what we need."
There was no sarcasm in his voice.
"What?!" Sora exclaimed, panicking.
Roaricki grinned even wider. "You heard me."
Sora could tell that Roaricki was enjoying his fright. And as they neared the huge gap, he could also tell that Roaricki wasn't joking.
"You're not thinking of..." Sora didn't need to finish his sentence. The look on Roaricki's face said it all.
Blake grinned at the head of the galloping Far Reachers when he saw the huge gap in the cliffside road.
"Aim your pistols dead on!" he yelled triumphantly. "We've got them, boys!"
His grin was crushed from his face and replaced by a look of shock and confusion when he saw that Roaricki and the kid weren't slowing down as the neared the edge of the large gap.
What the hell are they doing?!
As they neared the split in the road, Sora desperately tried to stop the eminent death awaiting for them, even though he knew it was useless.
"Wait! Please! Stop!"
Roaricki didn't reply except with the wild grin on his face, enjoying every second of Sora's panick. the arrived at the very edge of the waterfall gap.
"Brace yourself!" Roaricki shouted, and he yelled a weird and gibberish word to to the horse.
The horse got onto its two hindlegs, Sora shut his eyes, and then he was overtaken by a sudden, unpleasant feeling of weightlessness.
Surprised by the unpleasant feeling, Sora opened his eyes, only to be frightened hlafway off the horse as he saw the the huge gap right below them.
The horse had jumped, and they were soaring through they air towards the other side of the gap.
The Far Reachers had stopped and looked up in amazement as they soared through the air towards the other side of the road.
Sora suddenly felt a rush of joyous exhilieraton as they flew towards the other side. And for a split-second, Sora actually thought that they were going to make it... --
Wow, you have such a wide vocabulary...
