I stepped around the creaky wooden floors. Tabitha plopped next to me and purred with worry. I asserted to her that it was okay. If anyone was inside, they were doing a good job of being inaudible. I winced with every step. Stupid monster demon skeleton thing.
It appeared in front of me so quickly, I thought it might've been an apparition. My facial expression probably showed how confused I was. When I blinked, it flickered from a small dog into a 10 foot tall skeleton warrior. Whatever it was, it thought I was not worth its intrigue. Everyone around me obviously did not notice the proximity of a monster. I didn't understand how his thundering footsteps were inaudible to everyone else. It carelessly slashed trees and cars. It roared with rage that wouldn't exactly be called ethical.
Suddenly, a girl with caramel brown hair whipped past me. She held a sword about as long as 3/4 of my leg. I almost laughed facetiously, thinking how could this tiny girl defeat whatever the thing was? Then I realized that meant she could see it too. I ran to ask her but I felt myself being raised off the ground.
I found myself in the hands of the skeleton. I was next to his face, thinking of an epitaph on my gravestone before it pulverized me when the girl called out.
"Hey!" she yelled. "Doofus! Don't take him, he's just a mortal; nothing special!" Not exactly a compliment. The monster breathed into my face. I almost cried. My stomach became volatile.
"Jeez," I muttered. "Take some breath mints, why don't you?" The girl's face changed from being of disdain to aghast.
"You can see him?" she said with wonder that I didn't find quite appropriate. Her expression was unreadable.
"What do you mean? Of course I can see this monster," I said, kicking his hand. He roared again and I coughed with disgust. My eyes watered. "Sadly, I can also smell him. I've smelled ample monster breath for eternity."
The girl stood with her jaw open but then waved her hand, pushing the matter aside. "Never mind that," she said loudly. She pointed at the monster. Obviously, it wasn't under my jurisdiction to save myself. "You! Drop him right now! He's not the one you want! In fact, you don't want anything! Just get up and leave!" Her words were filled with so much intent, I wanted to just drop everything.
Sadly, the monster found her words persuasive as well. I fell to the ground and my body was shocked with pain. The skeleton almost cowered and ran away. I was going to say something but my world blacked out. The last thing I saw was the girl feeding me something I hoped wasn't poison.