Chapter 5 - Survive

Aria: "Call me that again! Call me it again motherfucker!"

He walked towards her and pushed his chest against hers. He toward over her almost blocking all the light off her.

Aria: "Get the Hell away from me you asshole!"

She tries shoving him away, but he was too heavy for her to move. Their parents came in yelling and telling them both to stop.

Arias Brother: "Hell no! She's being a disrespectful insignificant bug again!"

Their mom moved in between them and yelled at the both of them. She took the opportunity to get away from her mom and her brother. Despite the mom's efforts he pushed her out of the way and continued towards her. She kicked him in the balls, and he fell to the ground.

Aria: "I said stay away from me Motherfucker!"

She rushed towards her front door, but he grabbed her ankle, and she fell to the ground. He grabbed her by the throat and began to strangle her. She flailed her arms about scratching at his face, but his grip only grew tighter. She finally grabbed a pencil and stabbed it into his shoulder. He got off her and grabbed at his now bleeding shoulder.

Arias Mom: "Goddammit Aria why would you do that to him!"

She had tears in her eyes and grabbed the doorknob.

Aria: "Are you KIDDING ME! He was just strangling me! I'm tired of this shit. You take HIS side all the time. I'm DONE."

She walked out the front door and slammed it shut. She walked into town from a trail in the woods. She saw a cabin on the way, and she thought it'd be nice to live in one someday. She finally made it into town. She liked the way the lights lit up the night. It soothed her. While she wasn't looking, she bumped into a guy.

Aria: "S-Sorry I didn't mean to I promise."

The guy gave her a reserved buy annoyed look and told her to watch where she was going next time. While walking away she thought to herself about the guy. 'He was huge, not like my brother, he actually had muscle'. She made it to her late-night coffee spot and sat there for about ten or fifteen minutes before heading back home. As she came back out of that forest trail, she noticed the lights were flickering on and off before permanently shutting off. She began to her screams from inside, so she rushed to a window to see a large figure grabbing her brothers' arms. The flesh tore as he ripped both off. Her brother was screaming in pain before being silenced by the creature with a slice to his neck. It sent his head flying into the window she was looking from. She screamed causing the creature to notice her. It charged the window breaking through it grabbing at her. She ducked just in time but ran towards the forest as soon as she could. Following the same trail, she did to get to town she came across the cabin again. She ran up yelling for help but saw everything a wreck and the window smashed open. She saw a grave that was freshly made too.

Aria: "What happened here… Did more of those things attack this place?"

She heard more screeching, so she ran off again. With it so dark she lost the trail and began turning blindly through the woods. She came across a large house with a hedge around the backyard. She went through it yelling for more help. All she found was another ruined house. The thing came charging at her through the hedge, so she ran inside. She found a large display room with a message on the ground written in blood.

Aria: "It's not safe here, heading east. EAST I'll find help east…. Which way is east?"

She searches for a way to figure it out. She eventually found an antique compass in the rubble. She heard the thing approaching quicker and quicker.

Aria: "THAT WAY! I need to find something like a window."

After finding one down the hall, she hopped out it landing on her ankle wrong. She got up and started limping down the street. She eventually made it back into town. She found the gym she passed by before and got her thinking about the guy from earlier. 'He looked really strong. Maybe he could help me!' She limped by it as the thing followed her again. This time she had nowhere outside to run so she looked for a house and saw one with an opened door. She ran into it seeing it was a wreck. She limped into a bedroom filled with those things' corpses. They looked like they were burnt to a crisp but, what was sadder was the couple lying dead in the bed. She wanted to but, had no time to mourn them as the thing was charging through the rooms. She went through a destroyed hole in the wall which led to a small apartment complex. She ran until she found one with an opened door and went inside. What she found was the guy from before stomping in the head of one of those things. She was astonished that he actually killed one. 'Did he kill the others in that building too?' the man suddenly collapses, and she runs to check and see if he was still alive.

Aria: "Hey! Oh, thank goodness, he lost a lot of blood but he's alive."

She pulls him up and leans him on her shoulder. She walks him outside down the stairs and out onto the street. She was relieved until she heard the screech of the creature.

Aria: "No... NO! How did you find me again! GO AWAY!"

It began charging at her screeching and yelling. As it got closer, she saw something zip passed her and hit the creature. Then two more. They were arrows.

Lorcan: "Dammit it's still charging!"

She heard a man's voice behind her then a woman jumped over her and drew a sword form her side.

Lyra: "I got this!"

The woman charged at it and slashed its legged off. It fell to the ground but kept going after Aria.

Lyra: "Damn I missed. I need to get more used to this."

Aria saw a man step in front of her. He raised his hand at the creature who was relentlessly crawling after her and fire shot from his hand lighting it on fire. He then clenched a fist focusing the fire into it and as the monster jumped at him, he punched a hole straight through its stomach and setting it ablaze. He turned around and offered Aria a hand.

Elias: "Don't worry I'm not going to burn you. Are you alright? My names Elias"