FedEx

That was my nickname. Well, the one my older brother gave me any way the rest of my older siblings gave me other various names all meaning the same thing. You don't belong here and you should leave. I'm the youngest of five with the ages ranging from 19 to 14 me being 14. My parents named me Lionel, though I prefer to be called Lio. My dad, Robbie Keane, you might know him as the LA Galaxy soccer player,well he told me my mom had died giving birth to me. I don't necessarily believe that. I think that she's still out there just waiting for the right moment to show herself.I had always planned on running away, so when it actually came the proper time to do so, I was ready. I was arguing with my older brother, John. We were arguing about who should get the remote which was clearly me and he knew it.

"Move FedEx. I called it so go back to the post office they mailed you from."

" No it was my turn next and I not moving' until I watch what I want to watch." I shouted back

" To bad." John retorted

I had decided that was the last straw so I pushed him in to the wall not realizing that there was a window behind him. After realizing what I had done and hearing the glass break I yelled out

" He deserved it!"

before grabbing my already made bag of food and clothing I had packed gradually over the course of a month. I ran up to my room, in our three-story house, grabbed the bag, and shimmied down the tree next to my window without even taking a look back. I could hear my dad calling after me as I ran down Hollywood BLVD. I started to wonder what I would do when my rations ran out. Probably just go back to my hose and live life like normal. I abruptly stopped after finding a wallet on the floor in front of me. I picked up the wallet and looked through it finding nothing but two credit cards. I immediately wondered whose wallet it was, then I thought since I was going to be living on the streets for a while, I should learn how to live like a hood rat as there are so many here. I reached a cardboard box about the size of a couch and said

" What the heck why not."

Right as I was about to get in the box I noticed a girl who exclaimed that she had saw it first and then she dove in the box. Since it was a girl I let her have it. Before I went to bed I decided that I would wake up earlier than her and follow her to where ever it was she was going. So I slept in the box that was a little smaller but it was sufficient. The next morning I slept a bit later than I had expected. But before I could crawl out of the box, the girl I had seen last night, was over me and was shaking me violently screaming

"They're coming. Come on. We have to go. Get up. Get up. Faster faster. Come on we have to go before they're here."

" Who are you talking about? And get off of me!"

"The monsters. They've been following me for weeks and coming right now, so lets go now!"

"Well, you know that sounds like a personal problem but I'll help you."

"Thank you."

"So which way should we run?"

"I've been trying to get to New York because it seems like the safest place to go right now."

This was the only time I'd had such strong feelings for one girl. I took a step back from her and regarded her. She was a little shorter than me, she had kaleidoscope eyes, brown hair with red tips, a petite figure, and a light complexion.

"Well then lets get going!" I yelled

We raced down the street and then turned at the next intersection. We both stopped.

"Did we lose it?"

"No we'll have to run a few more blocks before we lost it and even then it'll catch us we'll have to eventually fight it."

"Oh."

With that we started running again. We ran for seemingly hours but it was only a couple of minutes. We turned around and found that we were face to face with a the monster that was chasing us.

"It's a Chimera, a three-headed monster with one head of lion, one of a snake, and another of a goat, lion claws in front and goat legs behind, and a long snake tail." the girl told me

"That's what was chasing you."

"Yeah!"

"I'm sorry this is kinda random but what's your name"

"Nikki. Why?"

"Just felt I should know you before we die together."

"Well then whats yours?"

"Lionel."

"Cool name, but who said we would die?" she said

After saying that she reached behind her back. I hadn't noticed it until now but her backpack had morphed into a quiver and she had a bow in hand. I then tried doing the same thing to no avail. Then acting on instinct I grabbed the wallet I had picked up yesterday, and took out one of the credit cards and made a motion similar to that of me swiping a credit through a credit card swiper. Instantly the credit card changed into a Crusader Monk Viking sword. I looked toward Nikki and said

"Lets do it!"

With that she shot three arrows at each of the monsters heads. Though she only hit the goat head, I still thought it was a good shot. I ran up to it and poked my sword into the lion heads eye. I kept it's attention off of Nikki so that she could get a clear shot at it's head. I heard a *thunk* and the Chimera burst into a cloud of dust, leaving behind a snake that looked like a whip. I was moving my head to point in different directions as I was looking for Nikki. When I found her, she was crumpled up on the floor.

"What happened?" I asked her

"The Chimera's snake head bit me before it dissolved."

"So so do you have poison in you or something?"

"Yea. I guess something like that." she replied

I started searching through my bag for something that might help. Finding nothing, I then realized that when I was packing to run away I hadn't thought to bring any medicine of any sort. I thought to my self what if she dies because of me. No! She's not gonna die. Not here. Not now. I'll find a way. Wait why am I having thoughts like this. technically it's her problem. She can deal with it. Why have I been so obsessed with. I only met her yesterday. I don't even know her well enough to have feelings like this for her.

"I'll be right back."

"You know that's what the last person that helped me said before they died."

"Well I'm not going to die and I'm gonna save. I'll be back before you know it."

She pulled me close to her and whispered in my ear

"Be safe and please come back alive."

She then drew me closer and gave me a kiss. Full on the lips. I thought I saw stars. For this was the first time a girl had ever kissed me. Well except for my mom and my older sister. I mean, I guess I'm good looking enough. I have jet black hair, average build, cold black eyes, broken nose, ear piercings, 5 ft 7 in, with a light complexion. As ii ran of I determined that I would save Nikki and not perish in the process