Hey everyone. This story was brought to you by The Insane Prompt Challenge, Pop Figure Collection, and Around the World on Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. For The Insane Prompt Challenge I wrote for prompt number 400. AU: Apocalypse. For Pop Figure Collection I wrote for Matt Murdock's prompts of Suit - (AU) Apocalypse, and Shiny Shoes - (word) Shiny. For Around the World I wrote for Hookah "Shisha" with the phrase prompt of up in smoke. This is also a crossover, my very first, of Harry Potter/Umbrella Academy. I hope you all enjoy My Life (At the End of the World).
As Lily Luna blinked her eyes open the dangerous smell of a raging fire came to her nose. The smell was all around her and she wondered why her mother or father weren't frantically trying to wake her up. Get her to safety. Staring up at the overcast grey sky she realized what she had thought was snow wasn't actually snow. It was ash falling to the ground. And she wasn't safely at home in her own bed she was lying on a sidewalk outside of what looked to have once been a school building of some kind.
"Where the bloody hell am I?" she questioned as she took in the damage around her. This place didn't even look like Muggle London. She wasn't even sure where this was. "What's going on here?"
Walking down the crumbling streets she tried to see if there was any indication of where she was. It was then that she saw the newspaper bin that had toppled onto it's side. Someone must have already opened it because it looked it there was paper less. Walking closer she looked at the date on the paper hazel eyes widening in fear.
"Is this the end of the world?" she questioned herself not expecting an answer she was shocked when she got one.
"I think so," a boy with dark hair and dark eyes in a school boy uniform says as he steps forward pulling a wagon full of stuff behind him. "You might not want to stay in one place at a time. Not that there's anyone here to actually bother you or anything."
Lily cocked her head to the side as she studied him. The boy. The only other human around there for miles. It seemed to her like he'd been there for quite some time. And she realized she was right on the button when he started whispering to a mannequin that was sitting in the wagon on a duffle bag.
"Dolores says we ought to help you out," the boy says as he looks her over trying to access whether this girl that just appeared out of nowhere was a threat or not. "I don't know if we should. I mean if we do that's one more mouth to try to feed."
"That's a horrible way to look at it," Lily countered. "I'd think that helping someone would provide you with more company than some mannequin that can't properly be considered company at all."
The boy bristled at this statement. "I will have you know that Dolores is a wonderful conversationalist." He looked over to the mannequin as though it was actually talking to him. "Fine. You always do tend to get your way." He turned back to Lily Luna. "We, meaning Dolores, have decided that we're going to help you. Get your stuff and follow us."
Lily sighed as she passed the once shiny newspaper bin showing the date that the world she once knew ended and this horror story began. "I'm Lily," she called after the boy as he walked ahead of her, "in case you were wondering."
"I'm Number Five," he tells her trying not to sound angry at her insistence that this was just a normal every day chance meeting. "If you don't mind I"m trying to get back to my family and figure out to stop the world from going up in smoke." He pointed towards the landscape around him.
A smile formed on Lily's face as she raced to catch up to him. "Can I help?" she asked feeling in the pocket of her pajamas for the Time Turner she'd stolen earlier that day.
The boy, Number Five just rolled his eyes and began to walk off yet again. Lily smirked to herself as she jogged to keep up with him. She'd break past whatever wall he was putting up and get him to allow her to help. She had to at least try.
I hope you all enjoyed the first chapter of My Life (At the End of the World).