Ch. 3 A New Member
Zak tried to clear his head and speak to girl so she would calm down. He got down on one knee and helped her up.
"Hey listen I'm sorry about this, but I only wanted to talk." Zak said while helping her up.
The girl looked at Zak in the eye and felt better knowing that he did not want to harm her. Zak on the other hand had different thoughts about her. For one thing he did think she was pretty cute, and really pretty. Even though she was the same age as Zak.
"So what's your name?" Zak asked
"My name is Alex." Alex said
"So you don't by any chance live here do you?" Zak said while trying not to sound stupid.
"Not really. I don't have a home; usually I just travel from place to place. At least… that's how it's been ever since my parents died." Alex said in response
"Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. How long have you've been traveling?" Zak asked
"You know now that I think about it, I think I kind of lost track of how long."
Alex said with a small laugh.
When Zak saw Alex smile, he thought she was looked the prettiest when she smiled. Then Zak had an idea of introducing her to the rest of his family. He just introduced Fisk and Zon, and Alex seemed to like them a lot. Zak also told her that maybe she should come back to the airship with him. Her wounds looked really bad, but he was surprised to see she had the strength to even stand up. She agreed to go with Zak and have her wounds looked at. Not only that, but he had many suspicions about this girl.
They all walked back to the air ship to wait for Zak's parents. They all waited out side and Alex stood next to Zak. Suddenly a new feeling came over her and one that she had never felt before, but for some reason it only happened when she was around Zak. She was distracted from this feeling when Zak tried to make a conversation again.
"You know I think your goanna like my parents. Were actually scientists" Zak said.
"You are? Well, what do your parents study?" Alex asked
"We study cryptids, you know things that people believe are fake." Zak said
"Hey, your parents won't mind having me around will they?"
"Its ok I'm sure they won't mind, we've encountered things like this before."
"Encounter things like what before?"
"You know taking in a new member to the family. This isn't the first time we've done it."
While Zak and Alex were talking Fisk kept a sharp eye out for Doc and Drew. Then he started to see two figures in the distance. Fiskerton became filled with joy and alerted Zak. Zak turned to see what Fisk saw. Then he became filled with joy as well, because those two figures were his parents. However for some reason Zak didn't see Komodo anywhere and was concerned. Then he heard growl that sounded like Komodo. He turned to see that he was sitting next Alex and rather close actually. Alex began to rub the back of Komodo's head; he gave out a soft growl because he liked it. Soon Zak's parents rushed up to him and Fisk. They were both out of breathe from running. Both were ready to collapse on the ground.
"We couldn't... find… Anyone that…. Knew about…. The creature." Drew said gasping for air.
Doc was about to speak, but out of the corner of his eye he saw the young girl with Komodo right next to her.
"Who is that?" Doc said
"This is Alex. Me and Fisk were searching the city for survivors like you said. Then we came across her." Zak said in response.
Zak told Doc and Drew who she was and how she has no home. He then told them on how they met in this part of the city. Only the more he told them about how they met the more Doc and Drew became suspicious about the girl. When Drew saw that Komodo had become attached to the girl so quickly, that was when things got really wired.
"That's kind of strange." Drew said out loud
"What's strange? That she's the only girl in this part of the city for miles?" Zak asked.
"No, I meant on how Komodo got so close to her so quickly." Drew said with a suspicious look on her face.
Doc had the same face as Drew when he saw that Komodo was resting his head and arms in Alex's lap. They started to think that it probably wasn't a good idea to bring her along, but they didn't want to tell Zak that. Then things really got strange when Zon became attached to Alex as well! Usually she was really close to Zak and no one else.
So for them this was just weird.
