Made it to my car after about for what if felt like 10 minutes, which wasn't too long. I opened the trunk of my car, thank God it wasn't too damaged for it to not open. I saw my duffle bag full of guns and supplies and threw it over my shoulder.
It was time to get what I wanted back. My home and maybe find my parents. I don't want it to be all for nothing, and if I fail, I won't hesitate to keep trying.
I walked straight back into Lex City, ready for anything. The bottom of the city is dark and all there is is street lights. When you look up, you see many blue lights and some spaceships soaring the skies. If I'm being honest, the way that whoever's responsible for all of this made the town look cool, but I still prefer old Lex City than now Lex City.
This part of town, where I'm walking through, seems to be considered the "ghetto" of the whole city. The whole area is empty and everything looks abandoned and over used. There are old gates from old Lex City, roads are filled with cracks and same with sidewalks, and city lights are flickering trying to stay on.
But when I say it's dark down here I mean it is dark down here. It's pitch black all over and it's day time.
Soon I hear rustling noises that grab my attention. I spin around and grab my pistol from my belt, aiming at where the sound came from. I got closer to an alleyway. I peered around it and saw a man, but he had those same black tentacles, like the ones I saw when I was a teenager.
"Hey," I say as he's shaking.
He looks up at me with his human like features. He has a lot of human features actually, the only thing that isn't are those Slenderman tentacles on his back.
The man looked at me in shock, like he hasn't seen me in forever. He was holding a piece of paper that's rolled in a scroll. I snatch the paper from him and unroll it, opening it seeing the same wanted poster from before.
I crouched down next to him and held up the poster close to his face.
"What does this king of yours want from me?" I demand.
The man doesn't say anything. He looks too scared to say anything at all. Assuming he's afraid of me, I stand up and back away from him. I put my white dyed, blonde dreadlocks in a high ponytail, and point my brown eyes at him. Now that we have more of a distance from each other, the man collects himself and takes deep breaths.
He mumbles something that I cannot understand. I raise an eyebrow and tell him to repeat what he said.
"Zeve," the man says louder. "That's our king. He wants you because you're-"
We are interrupted by an odd sounding siren coming from a far. I gasp at the sudden noise and looked back at where the man was. He's gone.
Damnit!
I sigh out of my nostrils and rip the poster in two. Life, why did you have to give living things such emotion of fright? I seriously don't understand you sometimes.
Hearing the siren getting closer. I crouch behind a garbage dumpster, and hide there until the siren passes. But it didn't pass and it's getting closer. The siren is here in front of the alleyway I think, since I see flashes of green and purple. Odd color choice.
I hear doors of a car or a truck slam as I hear footsteps walk around. Whoever it is, they seem to be investigating the area. I keep close to the wall that the dumpster is leaned against, breathing heavily and trying not to make a sound.
"Check this out," I hear a male voice say. "Someone ripped Evanie's wanted poster in two pieces."
"Huh? Let me see that," A female voice demanded.
There was a bit of silence for a moment or two, and then the male voice asked, "Do you think Evanie came into the town?"
"Well, yeah," The female voice agreed. "The king said he sensed a human presence come into the city. Plus, Evanie is the only person that can see the city like we can."
Sensed?! Only person?!
Why am I the only being that can see the city? That doesn't make sense to me. Lex is so obvious to spot out now since it has that obvious electric blue color to it.
"We should take this back to King Zeve as evidence," The male voice suggested.
"Agreed," says the female voice and soon yawning after. "C'mon, let's go."
I hear a car door slam and hear the siren go off again. I plug my ears of the obnoxious noise. Hearing the car door slam and the siren going off, the sound slowly fades away in another direction. Assuming it's safe to come out, I peek my head behind on the corner of the dumpster, and the car was not there anymore. Was that their version of the police or a detective?
I sigh in relief of being able to not get captured on my first day here. I have a great feeling that this "Zeve" won't stop looking for me since he sensed my presence approach the city.
The sky is darkening and I'm assuming it's getting late. I was about to pull out my phone, but then realized that technology these days are advanced. The police in other states have been able to track criminals down by checking through computers and getting into people's phones. I don't know about these creatures, but I bet after 6 years, they probably found out a way to do the same thing.
I through my phone against the wall about three times, making sure it's for sure broken, and that it can't be able to turn on. Oh, and I won't just leave evidence out like this. I'm taking it with me and leaving it in the bottom of my bag.
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I'm wondering if some of the creatures here are friendly, and if they'll allow me to stay in their homes for a while. However, this is also their new home. What if whatever happened where they previously lived, also got invaded? Another terrifying thought, destroyed. That would be terrible if that actually happened. They could be not getting enough food back where they were originally from. All I wanted was to make these creatures pay, but now I realize that they also have a brain and a heart, obviously from what I saw an hour ago.
I'll try to ask one of those things later once it gets more dark. The sun is slowly setting, as I sit on the edge on one of the tall building's roof. I used to do this all the time, climbing up the fire escapes and watching the sunsets before I went to bed.
Looking down below of the city, there were more cars on the road than earlier. Are these creatures nocturnal? I heard the female voice yawn earlier but that could be your usual yawn. No, I think these creatures are nocturnal, that's my theory at least. Plus, the roads are filled with hovering cars, zooming back and forth making those white glowing lines. Do they even have a speed limit?
"Hello?"
I turn around to see what it looks like a little girl about the age of 7. Her tentacles are so small, it's kind of adorable. She gasped when she looked at me and almost ran back inside and down the stairs of the fire escape.
"Wait!" I called out.
She immediately stopped and slowly turned around facing me. She looked almost excited or happy, a mix of both. Her expression told me to go on, and so I did.
"What's your name?" I ask casually trying not to harm the girl.
"Xandra," She quietly said but loud enough for me to hear.
I smiled at Xandra and said, "I'm Evanie Clair."
"I know. The king wants you for his son, Laurence."
For the king's son? What? Is this one of those betrothal things, because I am not up for it. I've seen so many movies about it that I don't want to become apart of it. Now if those betrothals still existed, then I would rather get to know the person I'm marrying for about at least three months, maybe at least two weeks if time needs to be cut short.
But all I can think is just, why me!? Like, there are so many other beautiful and talented woman out there and I'm just a 21 year old trying to do something, for what I think, good. I mean seriously, me? No way in tarnation that I am chosen for something great.
"Evanie? You there?" I hear Xandra's voice say. I look up to see her with a worried emotion. I sigh and ask, "Why does the king want me?"
"You don't know?" Know what? What the heck am I supposed to know about why the king wants me so much?
"Wow, amnesia really did hit you, huh?"
Amnesia?