Chapter Two – I knew the monsters were real!

Kat

Elizabeth is gone. She just sank through the floor. Under other circumstances, I would have thought that that was awesome. But all I thought was, Oh, great! Now, I'm alone with that thing. But I knew that I could be bitter about it all I want, that wasn't going to help me get away from this thing. The said 'thing' was still staring at ground in which Elizabeth had just sunk through. Think, Kat! Think! I racked my brains for any sort of escape route. The monster was blocking the entrance to this nature dome. I'd have to go around it to escape, and that would have about a 2% chance of success, I'm just saying.

The best thing now would be to stay hidden in the shadows until I come up with a better idea. So I sank back into the shadows and bushes, trying my best not to make a noise. I was leaning so far back that I ought to have fallen. But I stop myself by swing my arms wildly around, which was a bad idea since it caught that monster's attention. I seriously started to panic. The monster had turned around and it was starting to make its way towards me, slow heavy footsteps. Like it wanted to take its time, it was waiting for something. I held my breath and edged to my right.

It followed me to my right. I edged to my left. It went left. I edged to my left again. So did it. I stepped back. It stepped forward. I took a deep breath, I had an idea. I raised my right arm. It raised its left arm. I swear I smiled so wide in that moment. I hopped on my left leg, it slowly lifted its right, then it jumped. A vibration shuddered through the ground when it landed. This was it, the deciding point.

I took a long, deep breath in and took two strides forward. So did it. We were a metre away now. I stood perfectly still, the monster mirrored me. It's not going to hurt me. I reassured myself.

"Hello?" I waved my hand in front of its face. It stood still. Fear inherited my body, what if my theory was wrong? But then, the monster made a friendly gurgling sound. I laughed out of relief. My laughing only got bigger and bigger. The monster joined in with the laughing, except that its laughing sounded more like a mixture of barking and gurgling.

"Why, you're not mean and dangerous at all!" I managed to exclaim through my laughing. "And I think that you should be my friend! You see, I used to have a friend just like you, but he was a bit smaller."

The monster looked curious about that.

"What is your name new friend? I don't want to call you 'monster'" I asked, my face hot with laughter. It made a large, formal gurgling sound.

"How about I call you Gurgle?" It nodded. But then Gurgle roared at something, a loud and furious roar. I was so confused, what was he mad at? But then someone raced over to me and grabbed my arm.

"Are you alright? Did the minotaur hurt you?" The person asked, it was a boy's voice.

"Of course not!" I retorted, confused as to why this boy thought that Gurgle would hurt me. Gurgle roared when he saw the boy standing next to me. Gurgle started to charge at the boy, but he was far too quick.

In a second, my new monster friend was dead. I started crying, but I couldn't cry for long until that strange, murderer of a boy grabbed my arm and pulled me out of the dome. How mean that boy was to kill Gurgle. Gurgle did nothing wrong. Once we were out of the dome, he turned to me.

"It's okay, I killed that beast, he won't hurt you anymore. Come, on, why are you crying?" He spoke in a gentle, soothing voice. Which made me burst with rage.

"Why am I crying? Why AM I CRYING?! I'll tell you why I'm crying!" I shouted at him, blinking through my tears of rage. "You just killed a kind, innocent monster who was my friend!"

I turned on my heel and walked straight off. He followed after me a confused and worried look on his face.

"Well I-I -" He stumbled on his words, then let out a heaving sigh. "Look, I didn't know that it was your friend. I've been trained to kill any monster near any demi-god. And in this situation, It was a monster and you are a demi-god, so I had to kill it. I'm sorry."

Okay, this situation just got a lot weirder.

"I- Wha- Demi-god?" It was now my turn to stumble on words.