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Chapter two: "Alice"
Maria looked back at where she had come from in the darkness of the past deserted road scared her a little.
"What happened?" She asked wiping the blood from where the monster scratched her before.
The little girl walked through the maze of cars watching out for the fires. Being very cautious she watched for any sign of movement. She noticed something thin peek out of a car she wasn't sure if it was a fat rattail, a snake, or a finger. She gasped in fear not wanting to check it out. She gave a quick muffled scream then climbed up on the front of the car. Maria could feel her heart beating faster in her tiny chest. She glanced through the windshield and saw a dead man over his steering wheel. She whimpered Maria slid off the car as quickly and quietly as she could.
It was very quiet the only sounds were those of any small fires that had still been crackling.
"It's too quiet, something really bad must have happened." She said to herself.
Maria gasped as a rat crossed her path underneath the car she was on previously. She gulped as she continued to pass through the maze climbing over cars and walking between them, she jumped at any sign of movement. She glanced up for a few seconds and saw the large buildings some of the windows were broken. She shuddered. She climbed up onto another car and noticed a woman. She was wearing a white lab coat and some kind of white dress. She had reddish-blond hair and was holding a gun.
Maria saw the gun and stopped like a deer in headlights. She jumped down of the car and looked at her with only her eyes. Maria felt the woman look at her as if Maria was someone she knew. The woman lowered the gun away from the frightened child.
"Please don't hurt me!" Maria begged.
"What's your name?" The woman asked. Maria noticed her as the woman from her dream.
The girl slowly stood up from her crouching position.
"Aunt Ana told me not to talk to strangers." Maria said strongly pointing at the woman.
"Maybe I can help you." The woman said to her.
"No I won't tell you who I am!" Maria said crossing her arms.
Maria looked at the gun in the woman's hand that had been pointing away from her. She examined it for a little bit she had seen the gun before.
"My parents are in the military. If I scream loud enough they will hear me and come get me. They use those things too. Mommy told me about them and showed me pictures. She said I was too little to see a real one. She told me not to touch them before her and daddy left." The dark haired seven-year-old said pointing at the gun.
"Your parents were right to tell you not to touch them." The woman said.
Maria felt as if something was behind her but didn't bother to look she was watching the woman with the gun.
"Maria Watch out!" The woman yelled.
Maria gasped and ducked behind the car as the woman shot one of the monsters behind her. Then she shot another. When Maria felt the woman was done for the moment she stood up in a very frightened way. She felt something touch her ankle. The little girl screamed and jolted over the car behind the woman, who shot more of the monsters.
Maria looked all over her body for any nametags or ways the lady could have known her name. She found none the only name tag was in permanent marker on her Elmo backpack, her initials. "M. I. O."
Once the woman had finished shooting she went up to Maria who was leaning, and shocked against the wall. She squatted down to the child's view.
"How'd you know my name?" Maria asked.
"I knew your parents." The woman said as she stroked the child's cheek.
"How can I be sure you knew my mommy and daddy?" Maria asked back in her stubborn way.
"Are your parents names Rain Ocampo and JD Salinas?" The woman asked.