[center][h1][color=steelblue]Bonny Mako[/color][/h1]

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The ground trembled as Bonny launched herself up through the forest canopy again, surveying the landscape for anything that looked key-ish. It was almost like playing with a pogo-stick, except everything beneath the pogo-stick tended to [i]die[/i]. 

Something brushed over her head as she neared the apex of her arc, and she lunged like a breach, catching a small black bird in her teeth. She spat it out. 

"Bleh. Birdie," she said in disgust. "Could be good fer cookin' tho."

So she threw the chewed-on bird carcass in her pack with the cannonballs. That's when she spotted something off in the distance. A clearing, full of strange, vaguely key-related-in-a-metaphorical-sense objects (or so she hoped). 

"Oi, Bosun Vlad!" she yelled as she slowly began to fall. "Methinks I found our-"

An oppressive sense of fear shot through her veins, freezing her blood solid like ice. She immediately knew why. It was down there. [i]Watching[/i] her. This humanoid shadow that burned like a person-shaped lump of charcoal. That was the best description she had for it. It was ridiculous but she felt sure of it. It knew they were there. It was watching them. 

She squinted, trying to get a better look at it. 

It turned its head. 

She stopped breathing entirely as she felt that ice in her blood as cold as the figure was hot clench its frozen tendrils around her heart. Panic rose in her throat and she started to sweat, her lip trembling as the figure slowly became taller as the ground drew closer. Finally she couldn't take it anymore. She closed her eyes. 

And then it was gone. Vanished into thin air, like ashes blowing away in the wind. 

"Wha..."

A little too late, Bonny realized she was still approaching her LZ far too fast, and quickly clicked the trigger on the Revenge, blasting dirt and grass directly up into her face and mouth. She coughed, sitting in a crater as wide as she was tall. 

She got up and dusted herself off, looking into the distance with this vague sense of dread. 

[i]What... was that?[/i]

She shook her head. [i]Stop thinking about it. You'll be fine. You can just tell someone about it later, okay?[/i]

"Ye be alright there, Vlad?" she asked the tall boy trailing behind her. "I came in a little hot."

She hesitated for a moment. "... I think I found our keys."