This is kinda based off of ' I Need A Hero ' by Stripes93 s/7557369/1/I-need-a-hero
Thats its first chapter. I liked the idea of a chaotic world that needed heroes and, this was the result.
Oh the Ocs in this story are the main characters in the other story in progress. I liked their characters, so here they are although Rachel is a bit more mature in this one because of its plot. This story has nothing to do with the other so uhhh, no big connection other than characters.
Lets start!
This world...To which we all call home...was in chaos.
It wasn't our contries fault. It was the people in them. They all had hearts of evil. And the rest of us are paying for it. I hadn't seen my family in weeks. I missed my brother. I was cold. And hungry. But my complaining won't do me any good. Because theres no one who can care. And I was in a lot of pain.
But I couldn't show any of it. I had to be strong. I had to be, or the bad people of the world would hurt us. My friend Nicole and I. On our own, fighting for our lives.
My name is Rachel. I'm fourteen. I'm a kid. But I couldn't be now.
It all started two weeks ago. The rest of the world was a bit shaky. But the small town I had grown up in was doing just fine. The skys were blue, there was food, my big brother would play catch with me, Nicole and I would draw and read, I would go to karate, take practice swings for the upcoming baseball season, study for honors in school. Live happily, like all people should.
Then the tension spread, and all hell broke loose. My big brother was drafted to fight. So was my father, my mother also left to work in the armies weaponary division, because of her knowledge she was very respected.
Nicole and I had been running from some bandits for a few days. We had a few close calls, and we thought they were going to give up soon. We had set up camp in an abondoned convienence store, just for a few hours to catch our breath and grab some supplies. We plugged our phones in an outlet behind the counter, the building somehow still had power. Getting 100% battery. We grabbed as many water bottles as Nicoles school bag could hold without having to remove the items we had deemed important enough to her to bring.
A sketch book, a spare set of clothes, bandages, some bags of chips, a loaf of bread, her phone charger, her clarinet, and a folder of sheet music.
In my bag, which was just a small messenger bag, was my little rabbit doll, a small first aid kit, some dinner rolls, a box of matches, a swiss army knife, my small laptop and its power cord, spair change of clothes, a blanket, my copy of Hamlet by Shakespear, and a small plastic container holding a slice of cake Nicole and I had been munching on for a few days, with two sets of spoons and forks inside with it.
That was our personel bags. We both had a backpack full of things from the store.
I even grabbed some bottles of soda and some cookies for a treat later.
I looked over to Nicole was was currently stuffing more bags of bread into her survival bag. Her strawberry blond hair falling in front of her freckled pale face. I frowned at my younger friend. She's a year younger than me if you were wondering.
We both must have looked like we went through a meat grinder. Her Blue t-shirt was stained with dirt, as were her jeans. Her sneakers caked with mud. Her sweatshirt was ripped
I could only imagine I didn't look much better. My black t- shirt was torn around the edges. My thin hoodie had a hole in the left sleeve, my cargo pants covered in mud, my old Ugg boots scuffed up more than they had ever been before.
My long brown hair was knotted all over, I was incredibly pale as well.
I walked over to Nicole and took one of my few remaining hair ties off my wrist.
" So you can put it back up.." I told her. She almost always had it in a ponytail, but our latest bandit incident resulted in the breaking of the band.
I sighed. " So all set to head out?" I asked her. She nodded as she placed a few more boxes of bandages in a bag. She picked up her slingshot, and I held my baseball bat in a ready postition.
Yup. All we had to defend ourselves was a slingshot and a baseball bat. We had more supplies than most people did these days, and we were small thin, scrawny looking, weak little girls.
If that doesn't scream out ' COME AND KILL US OR MUG US THIS SECOND' I really don't know what does.
I gave my companion a grin to try and lighten the mood.
" Ready to kick ass and chew the bubble gum we don't have?"
She frowned and looked down.
" Rach...I don't know if we'll get to far..We d-" I cut her off.
" Dude! I have ran with scissors and lived to tell the tale! I think I can handle getting us both to a new place without anything bad happening!"
" What are you-"
" RESPECT THE SCISSOR SURVIVOR!" I yelled. I clamped my hand over my mouth. I hadn't meant to be that loud. " Shit!" I hissed.
I grabbed Nicoles wrist and we made a mad dash down the street. I glanced behind me.
" Oh great!" I thought bitterly. A bout an eighth of a mile away were some gangs scavenging around. And they had cars...
" OH FUCK!" I cried out. They must have spotted us, they were now speeding in our direction. "...crap...! Crap...! Crap.! Crap! CRAP! CRAPCRAPCRAP!" I yelled in frustration. Nicole was stumbling a bit behind me. Shes just as fast, she just can't run for as long as me.
" Get off the road!" Nicole told me. We took a sharp right off the road and we dove behind an uprooted tree. There was a trench where it once stood, we were currently hiding behind it.
" Maybe...Maybe they saw the store and...they stopped there..." I choked out. Well the world must not hate me too much because from our hiding place, the truck the bandits were in were currently stopped at the store.
We got up and we walked in the direction we were earlier just off to the side in a trench.
" So...Where to now?" Nicole asked me. I knew exactly where to go. A few miles out of town there was another city. There was a whole load of crap going on there too. But it was definently safer than what we were trying to do.
" We're headed to - I heard over the stores radio that the officials are trying to start some kind of community...theres a lot of crime...but its a hell of a lot better than this..." I gestured to the ruined area around me...I think at one point it was a playground.
" Can we stay here for the night?" She asked me. I nodded. I was just as tired as she was. I climbed up into a small tree house like structure, I pulled Nicole into it after me. I gave her the blanket and she almost instantly fell asleep.
I thought I blinked but judging by the darkness in the sky I had been out for a few hours. I was rudely awoken by two men.
" EY! YOU!" They called to me. " GIVE US SOME SUPPLIES AND WE MIGHT NOT KILL YA!" The smaller one pointed a shotgun up to me.
Nicole was still asleep, they didn't know she was up here too... I opened my bag and grabbed a whole loaf of bread. I climbed down, I raised my hands in the air. I set the bread on the ground ten feet in front of the men and I began backing away.
" Where do ya think your goin' sweetheart?!" The tall one pointed a pistol at me. And I froze. " That can't be all you got..." They took a step forward.
" I- I swear! That's all I have!" I lied.
" Rach?" Nicole called out to me. She climbed down the ladder sleepily and unaware of the men.
" Oh? Ya got a friend huh?" They cooed. " So you definently gotta have more stuff for the both of ya!" They glanced at each other then at Nicole. The hand gun man aimed at her. And Pulled the trigger.
I shoved Nicole behind me and the bullet lodged itself in my shoulder. I shrieked in agony.
" Rachel!" Nicole screamed to me as I stumbled, trying to stay standing and keep her behind me.
" G-Get...Back!" I cried to her.
I saw two more guys approaching from behind the other men. They looked a whole lot younger than the dudes with the gun though.
" Oh great more of them..." I thought.
" Now we' gonna ask you one more time! Give us the stuff!" They commanded.
These guys had pissed me off. " Hey...How about you use proper grammer when you threaten someone!" I retorted.
This in turn pissed them off. And this time they pointed the shotgun at me.
" Nicole...? Sorry bro..." I apologized " They're gonna...well ya know shoot us...Sorry..." They were going to pull the trigger when the younger guys decked them from behind. They looked like twins, blond hair, blue eyes, glasses. One had a long twisty strand of hair he had on a red sweatshirt And I LIVE FREAKING BEAR UNDER HIS ARM HOLY SHIT! The other had a pistol, and was wearing an aviator jacket, he had a random strand of hair sticking out of his head too, except his wasn't curly.
" Don't you know to pick on someone your own size dude?" The aviator coat asked angirly. The men scoffed at the two and told them to get lost if they knew what was good for them. This definently upset the twins.
" Kuma. Get them." Curly Strand commanded. The bear dove at the men as they got up and tried to scramble away. They escaped but they had left behind the weapons which the twins picked up. They took a step towards us. I protectively blocked Nicole.
" Don't worry. We're here to help!" Aviator coat told me. I knew they had just saved us but I couldn't trust them. They had a freaking bear!
" Wh-who are you!?" I asked shakily. I put a hand over my bullet wound to stop the blood loss.
" My name is Alfred, this is my brother Mathew. We're gonna give you two some help okay dude?" Alfred told me.
I dropped to my knees. " Damn it...this hurts..." I thought. Nicole dropped to my side, Alfred and Mathew knelt down next to me.
Mathew studied my injury. " It only grazed you, but if we don't clean it..." He trailed off.
" What are you two doing out here?" Alfred asked me. " You shouldn't be in a place so open!"
I frowned. " Options are a bit limited ya know? No wheres really safe..." I answered as Nicole tried to bandage my wound with Mathews help.
" We know that feeling dude...We've been trying to meet up with our friends for a while now. We've all been trying to help people along the way. CUZ WE'RE HEROS! Right Mattie?"
"...There are no heros..." I murmered.
Theres obviously no possible way to break Alfreds spirits, he kept rambling on about how he and his friends were gonna fix all of the problems people were having.
" Do you two wanna tag along?" He asked me.
" Saftey in numbers...They seem nice too..." I thought. I looked towards Nicole. She looked at me hopefully, she wanted to go with them. I nodded in approval.
" We'll go with you guys! But...Can you help us find our friends too?" Our friends Alexis and Victoria were still out there somewhere, we had talked to them before their phones went dead, they were okay, but I was still worried.
" Of course dude!" Alfred yelled. Mathew smiled at Nicole and I.
" I hope I've made the right choice..." I thought.
I will continue this story in well...Whenever so yeah, don't expect to much.
NEXT TIME: We meet Alexis and Victoria and see what's up with them.
Again I want to say, all the main characters are the same from the other story in progress, but this is a whole different story! Completely unrelated to eachother.
Reviews to make me write sooner...
~ :D Rachy