Denial. Denial. My heart pounded with every step I took. Just keep running. Right, left, right, left, jump. Branches snapped under the heavy footsteps behind me. “You cannot outrun me, boy!” The massive creature roared. “Fan out! Surround him! Kill him!” “Hey! Pick on someone your own size, Gargantuan!” A voice cried out. The footsteps ceased as I glanced over my shoulder. “You...will die,” he said, his voice echoing in the dark forest. Gargantuan (Was that his name?) was glaring at a girl about my age. I almost fell when I recognised her. “Katherine?” “Toby, run,” she said. “Run!” I did as she told me. “Get the boy!” A few of the malicious creatures came after me, fangs bared and horns poised to impale me. I continued caring, …show more content…
Katherine, as if sensing my weariness, rummaged through a chest at one corner of the room. She produced a loaf of bread and some fruit, along with a bottle of water. “Where did you get these?” I asked as I took a bite out of the bread she had given me generously. Even so, I felt like everything I ate and drank tasted more like clay than food. “Shipwrecks happen a lot,” she said with a slight shrug. “What about the whole Lunath thing?” I inquired. She closed her eyes and remained silent. For a moment, I was worried that she had fallen asleep but when she opened her eyes and exhaled deeply, I was taken aback. Instead of the ice blue eyes I usually saw on my sister, her eyes were as dark as obsidian. “Creatures born of hate and hellfire,” she said. “I, unfortunately, am one of them.” I stared at her quizzically. “Gargantuan and his lackeys are…Lunaths that take on a more monstrous personality,” she said. “I’ve noticed.” I nodded slowly. “Then…what are you?” “When I was younger, I was told that everything had its own opposite personality like Yin and Yang, good and evil, land and sea…” she trailed off. “Anyway, Lunaths have two breeds. One, we call the Baders which is my kind, the good one. The other, we refer to as Zealots, the bad guys.” “There are more of you?” I asked. “Once upon a time,” she said. “The Zealots have hunted us down to the point of extinction. I am the only one left.” I rubbed the back of my neck and leaned against the wall, trying
“It’s adorable! What is it?” She asked, noticing that he was dumping what looked old, but not rotting, mashed potatoes and chicken.
“Hey, I think I’ve found the last one,” she says one day, catching Logan’s attention instantly. They crowd around her computer, trying to catch a glimpse of the potentially newest member.
“Yeah, I’ve seen a number of their graves in the cemetery.” I admitted as I looked up at the crow that was now back circling in the sky above us. “I guess a lot of kids have died around here, huh? But, you can’t blame that on a girl who lived close to three hundred years ago. Places got hit by diseases all the time back then, dysentery, cholera, measles, mumps, small pox, bad water, stuff like that. Things back then weren’t like they are today.”
"I was talking to the moon last night. Luna... She, uh... She... I said she was looking pale and she said she and the sun, the sun, don't get along too well. The sun, Rowan! That killed me, I thought it was hilarious." He laughed quietly; Even his laugh was tragic.
I ran, my feet bloodied and aching, my ankle unsteady and shrieking in pain. I ignored it, gasping
“You want her to do what you want.” Luna said aggressively, but not enough for him to catch on. “You care about her I know, but you have to let her make her own decisions. Giving her no options isn’t the way to go. I know from experience that most people try to kill themselves because they feel like they have no other options. Do you really want to do that to her?”Luna was blunt, and that was a good thing in a time like this.
With my mind in fear, my body took over, bolting in the opposite direction of the beast. I was running so fast, the leaves felt like
I kept running I never looked back at what just happened. I can’t believe I did that. Other than regret, nothing went through my mind, but that I need to run and get to Brehamore in three days or I will miss my interview for my job. I just kept running, not paying attention to the sirens, the cars, and yelling behind me. To get to Brehamore now that I missed the bus, the only way is to catch the train that stops at the crossing right behind the woods.
"I know who you are, Miss Maxine," Luna said. "I had talked to your mother before, please take a seat." She turns her head to me, I was met with a scary pair of blue
Ed for a moment. “I got very nervous and scared, I mean really, really scared,” he said, “That’s understandable,” Mr. Ed said, “A monster of that size would scare everyone.”
"Luna? she's THE Luna?" Garnetta asked in disbelieve, widening her eyes and look back and forth to Nat and me. I smirk lightly, "Tell me that you are bluffing Nat... How can you be our Luna? You're skinny and weak!" she assessed me.
My heart beat started going faster. Oh man, what am I goi- We lurched forward. To late. Then we went up up up and………. down one inch.
“She isn’t always cranky like you. She understands what it’s like to be the god of all gods. That is something that you don’t understand yet. It takes time.” He replied, but seemed like he didn’t want to.
I stepped forward and looked at the creature. “But what exactly are you? You appear so much against nature, that we can’t figure out why you are attacking us.”
"Hello, who is this? " I asked, demanding to discover. Then an odd and annoyingly droll voice replied,