Man in the Mountains
Evangaline Hardgrave hated the mountains. She also hated hiking and she would rather be at home watching anime or something.
Usually that would be an odd thing to hear from the five foot three blonde beauty but that's how it was. Everyone thought that she was some kind of cheerleader or something. However the eighteen year old soon to be college student was actually an anime addict.
Evangaline loved her home inSouthern Arizona. It had a nice climate, usually. She just really hated these stupid family hiking trips. She was however the oldest so she was supposed to set the example.
"Eva can you get my water bottle?"
Eva sighed, her little brother, Eddie, could be such a pain sometimes. He was ten years old he could get it himself.
What she said however was, "Sure thing Ed."
She walked back to the car from the trailhead. They had parked on the side of a hill. She opened the back of their gray SUV, a grabbed a random water bottle out of the blue cooler.
"Whoops," the bottle slipped out of her hands, tumbling down the hill. She ran after it, which was probably a stupid thing to do.
When she finally caught up with it had been caught in a bush. She pushed the branches aside and untangled it from the brambles. As she turned to go back she saw a flash of white. She paused and about twenty feet below her she what looked like a human shaped lump.
Curiosity won over and she slip down the hill stopping beside it.
"Holy cow," she whispered.
It was a man in what looked like a white suit. His hands were clamped tightly around a sword. His somewhat short black hair was dirty, like his suit, and he was bleeding in numerous places.
Eva reached down and placed her fingers on his neck, searching for a pulse. He didn't look that much older than she was.
"He's alive," she whispered, relived.
She saw that he needed medical care but she knew she wouldn't be able to get him up the hill by herself. She took out her cell phone and put it in walkie talkie mode.
"Dad you there?"
"Eva! Where are you?"
"I'm fine," she answered the unspoken question, "I went down the hill when I dropped Ed's water bottle. I found a man."
"Amen!"
"No, not like that Dad! He's hurt and needs medical attention!"
'Stay there. Tell me where you are."
When her family finally joined them it was beginning to get dark.
"Did you find an I.D. or anything?"
"No," Eva showed them his wallet which had pretty much nothing but yen in it.
"How strange and he's in a suit," said her little sister, Emily.
"Check out his sword," said Ed happily.
"Lets take him back to the house and see what we can do," he mom suggested.
Her father nodded and picked the man up.
"He's lighter that I thought he would be," she heard her father say.
Ed handed the sword to Eva. She took it and followed her family back to the car.