I woke up, unaware that I had fallen asleep. I looked to my side and saw that my sister was gone. I bolted up only to hit my head against Tori's. "Owww. Why did you do that?" She asked, rubbing her forehead.
"S-sorry. I was just going to look for Taylor..." I answered, also rubbing my forehead. I stood up, a bit dizzy, and stumbled out of the tent. I was greeted by laughter. Nathan, Jason, and Taylor were sitting around the fire pit laughing at something. I walked over to them and smiled. "What're you talking about?" I looked each of them in the eye for at least a second, telling them that the question was directed at all of them.
Nathan spoke up, "Candy," When had she told them her nickname? "was telling us about how when you were little you would ask the villagers to keep the street lamp on outside of your house." I flushed red. Jason and Nathan both began laughing again. I had a good reason for that! I knew what would happen if I didn't keep the light on. The monsters would get me. The frowning ones or the ones that came back from the dead, decayed sometimes so much so that they had no skin left. They were walking bones. The giant spiders, all eight red eyes seemingly hypnotizing you into a stand still. Then there were the ones from another world. The ones with glowing purple eyes. As tall as nine feet. Their skin as pitch black as the midnight sky. They were far away one second, but the moment you blinked they were in front of you, mouths agape and a horrifying noise sounding from them. Screeching and yelping and crying and screaming! I couldn't stand to look at them. If you looked at them you were finished. As soon as you were there you were gone. They would take you to their world and do...who knows what.
I heard someone call my name. I shook my head and looked up at Candy. She was snapping in my face with a worried look spread across hers. I felt dizzy again and heard a growl. The sound had come from my stomach. My face once again turned to a shade of crimson as I looked away from the snickering trio. A loaf of bread was brought to my face. Candy let the bread fall into my hands and said, "Hey, Little llama," damn that nickname was back, "I loaf you." She giggled and I laughed through a mouth full of bread, choking a little bit.
When I was finished eating I was asked by Nathan, "What were you thinking about?" I looked at him. I wasn't sure I should tell them. They did know how you spawned the Wither I told myself. So I told them everything.
"So...You've been training all of these years to try and get your sister back?" Jason asked me. I nodded.
"Yes. I had told the villagers what had happened but they would always accuse me of lying. One day I finally said that she had fallen down the mountain and drowned in the river. They said things like, 'It wasn't so hard to tell the truth, was it?', 'You didn't try to help her?', and my personal favorite; 'You useless girl. You didn't even try to save your own twin!'. They shunned me. They avoided me and told me that I would never be as good as her. Smart, kind, funny, caring. I was shy and weak. Useless. That is what I was branded as. I couldn't do anything. So I began training. At first it was just running laps around the village. Then I told the blacksmith to make me a sword. I would have paid good money to get it. I worked hard to get the money I needed. I was still "useless" though, so I made one myself. I found iron and smelted the ore. I created this," I pulled my sword from it's sheath. It wasn't sparkling or perfect. It had chips in it here and there. It was stained with blood on the handle from fights and years of blisters and cuts. It was never dull though. I kept it nice and sharp. Just in case.
My twin looked at me along with Nathan, Jason, and Tori who had I had just noticed joined the group. I smiled and so did they. "Lets go for a swim!" I said to the two girls. I didn't trust these men yet completely, regardless of whether or not they saved my life.
"RACE YA!" Tori yelled and sprinted off. My sister and I soon took off after her. My run was cut short when I fell screaming to the ground. Something must have teared in my ankle. I lie in fetal position on the soft dirt, rubbing my ankle.
I sat up and tried to move my foot. I winced as the pain shot through my leg. "Damn. I always seem to be getting hurt." Taking a closer look I noticed a cut and a small piece of stone stuck to the dried blood surrounding it. Oh no. "We need to leave." I said firmly to everyone who seemed to have gathered around me. "Get our stuff, we need to get somewhere safe. Maybe an abandoned house? I don't know but something better than these tents." I attempted to stand but failed and was caught by Tori and Nathan. "Uh...Thanks. I think I can walk by myself though." I stood up straight. I put my foot forward and once I was also sent falling towards the ground again. Candy caught me this time and she and Jason both supported me.
"Tell me why do we have to leave exactly?" Jason asked me. I looked at him sternly.
I said, as if I was a teacher and he was a student that had misunderstood my instructions; "Jason, there is going to be hell soon if we do not leave now. You were laughing at me having to keep a light on as a child earlier. Well, I had a good reason for those lights that I would love to explain if we were not currently running out of time. So pick up anything valuable and Move. It." Jason looked as if he was going to say something in his defense but began to get his things together. Nathan, Tori, and Candy had all began picking up anything that they thought was valuable to them and put them in packs and bags. I was sat by a tree until someone were to help me up.
An odd noise sounded from behind the tree. a rattling of sorts. I grabbed my sword and unsheathed it. I turned around as best I could to come face to face to a beautifully sharp arrow. I looked up at the person- no- thing holding the weapon and saw that it had no face. No skin. It was a walking skeleton. It was a monster.