The Five

The Accident

Fire. 

It burnt, spiraling all around me, licking at my skin. 

I felt like I needed to scream, like I should be screaming.

No sound ever projected from my mouth.

In fact, I felt no pain. Which was how I knew I was dreaming.

And yet, I could not break from this horrific state of unconsciousness.

I watched numbly through a wall of fire as my parents burnt to death in their bed, never waking up before it was too late.

I watched as my sister died right in front of me from an asthma attack.

I watched my brother struggling to reach me and get crushed by a smoldering support beam that had fallen from the ceiling.

I could do nothing but watch, knowing that I would be the only one who would survive this torture. 

This was my reality now. I was all alone. The Continents of Earth had been pushed together into a single mountain shape due to continental drift speeding up. I was one of the few survivors. I had to live with the result. 

Every day was like a nightmare for me, waking up, eating, hunting, surviving... when so many others were not as fortunate as I. 

Why didn't I just end this pain? One blow of my knife and I would no longer have to feel a thing. I could be reunited with my dearest family and friends up in the sky. I could feel happy again! 

Because I was a coward and even I couldn't escape that fact. 

So instead I forced myself to live through these nightmares and wake up in the morning screaming my head off. I would get out of bed, eat my breakfast, dust the cracked picture frames of my family and of my dead friends, Lilly, Oaka, and Rick. I would go out hunting and scavenging in the nearby town. I would return home and go to bed. I would have a nightmare and everything started over again in a never ending cycle. 

This was my life now and I was just going to have to accept it. 

I had made a vow long ago so that I would never have to feel this amount of pain for another person again.

I would never let anyone get so close to me. 

And that was final.

But sometimes people don't have a choice in that matter, not even if they vow it to themselves.

Little did I know what amazing and terrifying things the future had in store for me...

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Hey everyone,

I'm so glad that at least one person decided to read this book and get this far. 

This is a fan-fiction spin off of Mademoiselle Singe's Mysteries of the Mountain.

I got permission from Mademoiselle Singe and she told me a few things about what's going to happen in her books in the future to help me with 'The Five' is plot. 

I'm trying to write this in a similar style to Mademoiselle Singe although I think my paragraphs are a little off but I don't mind as long as I get the story out, don't you think?

So thanks for deciding to read this and enjoy the rest of the story!

~ Madame Mystery 2 ~

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