My Only Hope
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Chapter 1
Carter Mortimor
Carter Mortimor hated monsters. From the day she was born monsters always found her, and she had disliked them from day one. Especially, when she only had a wooden stick and a lighter to keep her on her feet, and you know the clothes on her back, too. The stick and lighter? Not exactly your weapon of choice.
"Come on you furry giant!" she taunted "Can you only run in one direction?" Carter running at her fastest speeds has been juking and sneaking her way past this beast since Manhattan to Long Island. The monster had these weird furry legs, and then the upper half of it was like a giant bull, and boy was he mad. Carter tried stabbing the beast in his furry left leg with her stick, hoping to disable it somehow. Maybe the beast would fall down, and die? But it was just Carter's luck, when the stick broke into pieces, and there wasn't even the slightest pain inflicted on the monster. In fact, it had only angered him. "Waste of a perfectly good stick…" Carter muttered.
Carter even tried lighting the beast's fur on fire, but to no avail. "This monster is just impossible to beat!" Carter cried exhausted. All her battle strategies were failing. Poor Carter.
She was dead,
and she knew it.
Carter felt time slowing around her. Large, dark gusts of wind was blowing around her, her dark raven hair flying in multiple directions. Ever so slowly she brought her arms up in surrender taking in her last moments. Carter actually felt pretty powerful. If this was the way she had to die, then Carter was not scared, she wouldn't regret anything. Carter just embraced death as if it were welcoming her. She liked it.
The beast rammed its horns into Carter's side. She felt no pain. She was accepting the fates. Carter flew and hit the hillside hard on her back. Broken ribs, maybe? Several shiny bullets then whizzed past her ear hitting the beast square in the chest. Carter was barely recognizing the actions around her. She felt like she was hallucinating, dreaming up another world where she might be safe. The monster exploded into millions of yellow particles as if on cue. "So this is where the hallucinations come in." thought Carter. The remains fell around Carter like little yellow snowflakes and then disappeared on the spot. Carter thought the monsters death itself was actually quite beautiful. Magical, is it?
Carter didn't have to long to dwell on that phenomenon. It seemed like death itself was grabbing her and pulling her down. She was sinking into the Earth, and fought it with every last bit of strength she had left. Carter then felt a nudge. Then, a tap. "Did someone just scream hello?" Carter thought. An arm then snatched her from death's grasp, and gracefully pulled her up on their shoulders.
Was she safe? Carter could barely open her eyes to make out who her mysterious savior was. A curly dark haired figure was asking her so many questions, one after another. She couldn't answer. Her mouth wouldn't talk back for her. Taking in the movement of his lips was all she needed to know that somebody was there. Somebody real. Somebody could help. And that gave Carter hope. Then everything went black.