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all the things in italics are little authors notes
The escape
I ran as fast as I could toward the upper building. I had to find my brother. Somehow I knew he could help.
"Lauren! Where are you going?" Peter asked.
I'd completely forgotten about him. I stopped and turned to face him. "I'm going to find my brother," I said.
"Why?"
"Because I know he can help."
"Did you dream about this too?"
"No." I said. The dream had lasted until the sub had turned into a monster.
"How do you know then?"
"I just do."
"Okay." Peter said, hesitantly.
"Peter, you should get away from here. How far away is your house?"
"It's about three blocks."
"Go home. You'll be safe there." I could hear the screaming getting louder. "Hurry." I added.
"Okay." He ran out the glass doors, breathing heavily.
I peered through the doors, checking for any other monsters. Then I saw Aaron running toward the building. He flung the door open and ran toward me. "Are you okay?" he asked me.
"Yeah, I'm fine."
"Good.Good." Aaron stared off at the crowd of students trying to get out of the building. "Why does this always happen to me?"
"You?!" I said, angry. "A monster came to my English class. This has nothing to do with you!"
He didn't say anything else. He ran against the crowd towards my classroom. I lost him in the crowd for a few seconds. The next time I saw him he had a…sword. The bronze gleamed in the artificial light. Totally confused, I followed him.
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Once I caught up with him I asked, "What's happening?"
His answer annoyed me, "Everything."
"What?"
"Just stay here. You'll be safe. I'll be right back."
"But…" He left before I could get the rest of my sentence out.
What's going on? What is that thing? What's up with Aaron? And that sword...how did he get away with that at school? Why was this-
My thoughts were cut off as the monster crashed through the wall. Now that I got a good look at it I noticed that is was a...a manticore. (sorry if I misspelled it and sorry, I can't describe it. It would take away from the story.)
I regonized it from the drawing Aaron has did on a napkin when he was telling me about ancient Greek monsters. All this time...they were real. No way.
Thinking of Aaron made me frantic. I looked around for my brother. He was where I'd least expected him to be right in front of the monster...fighting it.
Aaron was dodging left ans right trying to sink the bronze blade into the manticore. He tried and tried again but the monster always blocked his attacks.
As I watched I realized the horrible truth: He wasn't going to make it. I decided to intervene.
I waved my arms and yelled at the top of my lungs,"Hey! over here you big beastie!"
Aaron turned and saw me yelling; his face contorted with anger and relief.
The beast bounded over him and came straight towards me. I ran as fast as I could toward the glass doors.
I barely made it outside before it crashed through the building and came to me.
"Lauren Riley Dare," it screeched, "You have immense power. Come to the Titans. They will answer-"
Before "the sub" could finish, Aaron's sword punctured straight into it no problem. A few seconds later, all that was left of the monstrosity was a pile of dust and even that blew away.
Aaron picked up his sword.sensing its job was done, the bronze blade shrunk in size until it was no bigger than his palm. Then it shimmered and changed into a plain black bracelet.
Aaron slipped this on his wrist and ran to me. I was frozen from what I'd just seen so the hug wasn't quite a hug until Aaron's warmth melted me.
"Thank you," he said as we pulled apart.
"For what?"
"For saving my life." Great I'd saved two lives in a row today. I was on a roll.
"Well," I said, "I didn't want to lose you, Aaron, I mean, even if we're not related, we still grew up together."
"True," he agreed. With one last survey to make sure everybody was going to be all right, he said,"Let's get out of here."
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