"Life is either a great adventure or nothing."
Helen Keller
Chapter Two
How it began
Day Five, continuation
Had I been smarter I would have noticed and ran away, had I been more observant I would have noticed the signs but I wasn't.
I was just like any other teenage girl, wanting to be like the heroines in movies, wanting to be special and end up getting the handsome (and in most cases) rich guy.
I was just like the others, wishing to have that one special chance thrown at you making you special, unique and happy.
As I rolled another apple I didn't notice that I sealed my fate, I honestly didn't.
It was like making small talk with the scary guy next to you in the bus, only those guys never have limbs on fire .. or have tails .. or scales.
As I bit into my own apple the creature rose to it's full height and walked towards me, tail flame burning bright as he stared at me before plopping down in front of me and then it actually started digging in my bag and grabbed another apple in its claws and once more devoured the delicious red fruit. I hastily stood up when reality hit me and to my fear the creature stood up as well and walked after me.
"Daan !" I yelled "Some help here ?"
Daan didn't respond, he was too busy praising his purple rat thingie so I yelled to the second easiest-to-spot person, Jordan.
"Jordan !" I yelled to the little red-haired girl who in reality was two years older than me "Help please .. It's following me !"
Jordan calmly walked to me before staring at the dragon-like creature with scary blue eyes that burned with .. something .. and ...
Nothing happened, the creature withstood Jordan's glare of death itself and grabbed my backpack in its claws before throwing it to yellow bag came down with a thud in front of my shoes. I relucantly picked it up and swung it over my shoulders, when Daan saw me doing this he grabbed Peter and nearly ran towards me "Do you want to go already ?" he asked, his voice curious. I nodded and after fifteen minutes the rest of us were ready to go too, I spotted some others pushing smaller creatures under their coats, others even put them in their own backpacks (Apparently I wasn't the only one taking it with me) and we left.
It was after 5 minutes that I noticed someone walking further away from the group, I turned around to get a better view and saw it wasn't even on of us, it was the dragon-like creature following us. It was carefully evading trees and bushes, parts of houses and cars as it followed us, well .. me that is. Its gaze was still fixated on me as it walked and once every few steps its tail would brush against a tree or something setting it on fire. The sarcastic and rebellious teen inside of me (or that's what my father says) wanted to make some sarcastic remark of never needing a stove anymore or instant campfires but I held it in, not wanting to sound disrespectfull or whatever.
Totally not, and if I am I'm so not going to blame it on being a teenager you know, raging hormones 'n stuff (or whatever they say in those "Your teen(s) and you" or "Get them to behave" books for desperate parents)
Promise .. okay maybe not.
I swallowed another sarcastic remark about the creature's flaming tail when I noticed that I wasn't exactly .. afraid of it anymore, sure when you locked me with it in some random shed I'd probably wet my pants but now, walking with my friends I didn't fear it .. that much.
I sighed and continued listening to Jordan telling me about her, yes she actually said it was hers, Winnie.
Winnie was an jello-like blue something with purple antenna's sticking from its head, the most weird part were it's out of proportion eyes, they were big, round and brown .. and cute.
It just didn't fit with the creature's not-cute body, maybe it was a mix of cute and not-cute giving it cute eyes, who knows.
The moment the walls were visible I looked back and saw the dragon-like creature stopping and glaring at the wall before walking away, he clearly didn't like either the wall or what was behind it, I didn't blame him, even I wouldn't walk to where people wouldn't hesistate to put a bullet between my eyes and then use me as a experiment and .. well .. lots of other stuff.
Once I returned home I watched the news, apparently the president of the United States wanted to bomb some of the 'hot-spots', my dad would say 'Nuke the place into next year' without even looking up from his paper, it was a move that surprised almost the whole world but it only made the president look more human, approachable even, because it meant that he too wanted to have this threat eliminated, I just shrugged.
It wasn't my problem, that was what almost the whole world thought at that moment, but for me and those roughly counted 3 million others it was a lie, it would be our problem very soon.
I went to my grandparent's house after watching the news 2 times, nothing changed, and chatted with them for a while. My grandfather was old, they always are, but mine is really old because he even fought in World War 2 against the Germans, with that in his past the first sentence he said to me was "Dearie, it's those Germans again ! It's all their fault !" after which my grandmother hushed him and said that this was no one's fault and that he couldn't blame the Germans, even after his past, because it was unfair towards them.
Whe then chatted for a while, just like before this mess, and after 2 cups of tea and a few cookies I left again, I saw people standing in rows in front of our shops and some were preaching the end of the world, I ignored them with a sigh and walked a little quicker.
When I came home it was already time for dinner and I just took a few bites before watching the news again and going to bed.
That night I dreamt of nuclear weapons, dragon-like creatures and big brown eyes.
Day Six, 6th of January 2009
I woke up tot he sound of Daan's voice as he yelled at me to wake up, I groaned and turned around when he pushed me out of my bed. I fell to the ground with a dull thud and rubbed my back which was now sore.
"Thank's Daan" I grumbled before grabbing some clothes from my chair and pushing him out of the door to get dressed properly. Once I was done I let him back in the room and once inside he closed the door and started talking, it was as if someone opened the flood gates.
"Well yesterday evening Jordan came to me with a great and awesome idea about the creatures, you know Peter and Winnie ? Well we could, like, go on an adventure and be like those hero's and all and show those scientist-people that they aren't pure evil !"
He took a breath before continuing.
"And then we could travel all around Europe and be like those X-Men or something saving people and these creatures can do awesome things so we don't need super powers and we could maybe make some circus and show their tricks and learn them to roll over or .. or jump thourgh a flaming car while wearing high heels !"
"Eh Daa-" I was cut off by his voice "And Mark and Joanne are going, Jordan and I too so you should come too and pack some stuff and then it's like one huge camping trip !"
"Daan I don't thi-" I was cut off again "And we could take all our money and canned food and sleeping bags and .. marshmellows ! Oh ! And also some cookies and scary stories !"
Then I did something even more stupid than the one time I stuck my head in the toilet and tried to drink from it after seeing a dog doing it, I said yes.
I shrugged.
"Yeah why not, I mean if I don't go I'm left all alone and bored .. this could be .. fun ?"
And then we started planning, we would leave tomorrow (yes it was early and alarm bells should have been going off) and get all of our money, lots of food, bottles of water and clothes and some walky-talkies and milary-paint just for fun.
And that's what we did, we nearly raided the stores that still held canned food, bought durable (or what we hoped was durable) clothes, some medicine stuff, and I took lots of apples with me.
Had I been a tad bit smarter I would have said no, went back to bed, and never got dragged into this crap.
Sadly enough I wasn't.
Day Seven, 7th of January 2009.
I left a note on my parent's desk saying I would be fine and that they didn't have to worry about me and all that stuff, before I went out to meet up at the wall with the rest of the "KTSAFTWAOWC/AF" group which meant "Kick Those Scientist's Ass For Think Wrong About Our Wonderful Creature/Alien Friends"- group.
Yes the nam was created by Joanna and Daan.
They are a deadly pair.
Once we were away from the walls I packed one of my apples and looked around, searching for a red-scaly-dragon-think-with-a-tail-that's-on-fire.
I found it sitting on what once might have been a roof looking at the apple in my hand.
I threw it at it, before walking towards it.
"Say buddy, I'm gonna leave this place for the big adventure .. and I kind off need you because all the others already have their own creature-thingie and I don't ... so if you go with me ? ... you'll get apples ?" I asked.
Its gaze fixated on me as it slowly stood before it nodded equally slow.
"Great !" I smiled.
"And I've got to name you .. " I was contemplating between two names before I found it.
"Alex, I'm going to name you Alex, and you'll be a he"
Alex looked at me, eyes uncaring, as he took the apple I had hidden in the pocket from my coat.
I quickly went back to Daan and the rest of our "KTSAFTWAOWC/AF" group with Alex following closely behind.
We left the safety of our homes just to get on some adventure, not having any survival skills and with weird creatures lurking in every corner.
Of course I didn't think of that when I left.
Disclaimer: Not mine.
Another chapter, I updated this one before Purple Glory because this is a little easier to write because it isn't my main priority, this is just a story I write when I feel like it while Purple Glory is my 'more serious' work if you can call it that (For the Purple Glory readers, it will be updated before this Thursday if that's unclear) Reviewers (Didn't expect any when posting this O.o) Neelyn8r: Omega The Omniscient: Reviews are always welcome and make me very happy ;)
Clearing things up:
1. Why go on an adventure when there are evil pokèmon outside ? Because they don't care about the consequences, have you ever watched a movie while wishing you could be the hero/heroine ? They have, and they take it in their own hands to be that.
2. They left, just like that ? What you wanted me to write another 4 chapters about the 'scary aliens being scary' and them not doing anything ?
3. Alex ? Yep, Alex.
Glad you liked it ! it's very different from writing Purple Glory but still very interesting to do it.
Hope you like this chapter as well, do you get the big brown eyes and blue jello-body pokèmon named Winnie ? ^^
* Screams wildly * Thank you so much for adding me to your favorite-author list, if I could I would get a plane to wherever you live just to thank you but sadly enough I don't have enough money to get a plane so you'll have to do it with this :D
It's either the smell of science or the smell of something totally different .. or grandma.
I like the concept too, which is why I'm writing this :) they are from a different universe where eleven-year-olds manage to save the world from an evil organisation every few years ^^
Well if I made her scared of them I couldn't just have her go on this whole adventure without being a major Sue, just like when Jacob had to find a way to go thourgh Eterna Forest, if it wasn't for Danny they would have been stuck there forever.
Alex (As he is now named) will go after a few more 'meaty treats' soon, very soon *Insert mad laughter*
Hope you liked this chapter too.