"Hurry little brother!" I cried. Taking a risk looking over my shoulder, I looked to see where Krel had gone. His steps had faded away a minute ago, but he couldn't possibly be that far behind me, could he?

Yes, yes he could.

My little brother, Krel, was not the most athletic, and he hates running, but one would think that the motive of your life on the line might be enough encouragement. Not Krel though.

"Give me a minute Aja." he panted.

"We don't have a minute, unless you want to turn into one of those things." I stated this to him very bluntly, as I pointed at our not-so-friendly followers.

"Preferably not today." Krel said as he continued to run.

The "things" that are following Krel and I, were humans once, but not anymore. Now they were flesh-eating beasts, controlled by an alien force that no one knew existed until about a week ago.

That is when they showed up and blow up half of America, to make space for themselves. Selfish right? No consideration, anyway, they have been capturing people and taking them to their ships.

Somehow they have been taking control of people, making them act like monsters, running around eating whatever and whoever they see. It's pretty gross if you ask me.

Krel and I have been lucky so far, between my sword fighting, and Krel's supreme intellect, we have been successful at avoiding the whole, 'not facing the evil aliens and losing our lives' thing.

I honestly would be dead by now if I didn't have my little brother, he was my best friend and only the family I have left.

We were an ironic duo back at school. I was always trying out for new sports teams, while Krel would be building a new robot or high tech computer program. Together though, we would create super ninja robots and fight them in a ring, it was lively! Now though, we use our skills to stay alive, a good example is our situation currently. This is my field of expertise, running for miles to escape man eating monsters. It is quite fun if you don't think about the life or death thing, in my opinion.

"Aja! Their gaining on us, a hiding place might be nice!" Krel stammered as he ran.

"If you can find something, I am open to suggestions!"

Krel scanned the area, not looking to impressed by the options. Then as he jumped over a bush, he lit up.

"There!" Krel pointed at a large tree that had fallen, it was completely hollowed out. We both jumped in and waited for the "things" to pass.

"Good call little brother." I whispered to him once the beats had passed.

"Another disaster avoided." he replied, looking out to see if the coast was clear.

Once we determined that it was safe, we started to walk to a road to make the rest of the days trek easier.

As it was sundown, we were hoping to find Clark's, the only building between our once was home and the main town. Clark's was a small truck stop, that we are hoping, might have some food left in it. Since we were run out of our home, we have not had much to eat. So the past few days have been hard, but Krel and I are strong.

Krel was really struggling though, just looking at his dark hair stuck to his tan skin with sweat, reminded me that he was probably dehydrated, considering he had complained of being really thirsty hours ago.

"It shouldn't be much further Krel." I said trying to comfort him. As his older sister I know him, and right now I can tell he is hurting. We found out about the alien attack when we were at the beach

with our mama and papa. We were walking the trails together, taking in all the beauty that spring can bring. When out of who-knows-where, a crazy tall, glowing blue person with four arms shot at

us from the top of a hill. It had shot some-kind of energy ray at us, just missing Krel's head.

The blue person had yelled at us to surrender, but mama and papa had stood strong and told me and Krel to run. They said to never look back, not to look for them, that they would find us. I trusted mama and papa would, so I had grabbed Krel and ran. Now, i was really wishing mama and papa were here.

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This is the intro/first part of my first, and new story; All That Matters!

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