Danger, And Its Human

“One, Two, Three, Four, Five, ready or not here I come,” I yelled over the thunder. It was past midnight when my friends and I decided to play, we was the trouble makers in the Kids Of The Future Orphanage. Mrs. Alvabee didn’t know how to control us; we knew what we wanted and went for it. Right now we didn’t want to sleep, we wanted to play, and what made this night so interesting was the storm coming in fast and furious. The orphanage was in the middle of the woods, keeping us from the outside world since they believed would make us worse then what we truly were. They placed all the troubled kids here, what they didn’t know was that most of the kids that came here have the same story, different but much alike. We had monsters for parents, when they died or taking out of the picture we discovered freedom and we loved that freedom.  We were happy, finally happy.  I on the other hand had good parents but they decided to give me up the day they died. They left me and I grew angry at them, so being six and being taken away to a strange place, away from grandparents who were too old to take me in, I become this, obnoxious kid who grownups couldn’t stand. There was no secret to why I was angry, I constantly reminded Mrs. Alvabee, she wanted to be my friend but I wouldn’t let her. I took my rage out on her; I felt all that had happen was somehow her fault, even though deep inside I knew it wasn’t. “Here she comes,” Areca giggled to Jenny. I followed the voice when lighting hit the ground and I moved back. I heard the others screaming. James, who was two years older me, ran to me and yanked me away from the burning grass. He hugged me tightly while we looked up. It was clear that the strange lighting wasn’t going to stop. “It’s time to go in!” he yelled over the enormously earsplitting thunder. The other kids cuddled together as they ran towards us. We slowly walked to the house with James leading. He was the smartest, and even though I was six I had an immense fondness for him. I grabbed his hand as we walked the path that lead to the house. We entered the opening, lights were on at the house, that meant they knew we was out and waiting for us to return. At that moment James pushed me out of the way and we all fall back. I quickly looked up to see James astonish face, when I looked at his direction there was something gooey on the ground. “What is that, James?” Marie asked in her babyish voice. “I don’t know,” he whispered. I couldn’t take my eyes off it. It was like I was in some kind of trance. Out of nowhere I wanted to touch it, to feel it. I crawled to it, eyes still glued to it. “Claire don’t touch it!” James mumbled trying to get close to me. I realized that the storm was fading away as if it never happened. “Claire, don’t touch it!” Jenny yelled. “Stop, Claire!” the twins cried, they were a year younger, the youngest in the orphanage. “NO!” James yelled as soon as my fingers touched it. I pulled back as it started to move in my direction. It stopped so I touched it again. It got bigger and bigger, so I stood. It looked as if it was trying to take on a human form. I walked around it amazed at this new discovery. “What is it?” James asked alarmed. “It must be an alien since it came from the sky,” Nicolas stated. “An alien?” Jenny asked in disbelief. “That’s not real,” she continued. I on the other hand couldn’t stop looking at it. I touched it this time I didn’t pull back when it moved. It grabbed onto my arm, it went higher up. I tried to shake it off but it wouldn’t come off. I was terrified now, my heart was racing. I wanted to scream but it was like something wouldn’t let me, as if I had lost my voice. The thing kept going up and up, till my body was cover in goo. I felt it go into my nose and my ears as it disappeared. As soon as it was gone I fell to the ground, I couldn’t control my body but I felt and heard everything around me. I was shaking as I heard the others scream. Soon I saw Mrs. Alvabee and few others run outside. “She’s having a seizure, go get nurse Nancy, hurry!” Mrs. Alvabee yelled. “I saw it Miss. that I did, it was the goo, it went in her!” the caretaker stated. “Goo?” she asked. “Came from the sky,” he stated pointing upwards. She looked at the kids and back to me. “Don’t worry, we are here, you’re not alone, it’s going to be okay,” she stated. I felt relief wash over me but I heard something else. ‘My name is Avéhalajak,’ the voice stated. The tremors started to slow down as his memories entered my head as if I was watching television. There was a mountain, a very tall and dangerous looking mountain it was dark and cold. They lived there until something cat-like animal landed on their mountain. Killing them, devouring them, eating them like they hadn’t eaten for days. He had no choice but to flee and he landed here to be free of those menacing creatures. He wanted to be safe, and he didn’t want to hurt people or anything he was good. The purest thing I would ever meet, he didn’t know lies, or wrongs, and he is righteous. My vision cleared as I looked at the tearful eyed Mrs. Alvabee. ‘She loves you,’ the thing stated. “No she doesn’t,” I cried. “What’s that darling?” she asked, gasping as if by me talking made her happy.     Soon they had me in the clinic side of the house. I wanted to get out but Nurse Nancy kept me there. I was never one to listen but Avéhalajak was another keeping me in the bed. Nancy came in and looked at me, checked my pulse and walked away. I looked to see that she was talking to Mrs. Alvabee.  “She’s fine, she can go to her room but the doctors at the clinic who check her brain stated that she did not have a seizure, but they have found something odd so they want to test her, make sure she’s okay,” she stated. “No, she will be fine, I know she will be fine,” Mrs. Alvabee stated passionately. I couldn’t help but to smile, she did care. I closed my eyes as she walked into the room and sat on a chair, looking at me. I felt her touch my hair and started to cry, “Why are you crying Mrs. Alvabee?” I asked with my eyes still closed. “Nothing, sweetie, rest now… later on you can see your friends and go back to your room,” she whispered. I opened my eyes to see her eyes were red. “Are you crying for me?” I asked. “You’re a good kid, I know what you feel, I too lost my parents at a young age, and I was mad at the world,” she stated. I couldn’t help myself and hugged her. I felt different, I felt older and wiser. She was in shock, it was weird I could feel her emotions. ‘Yes, I can feel what others feel,’ Avéhalajak whispered. ‘Since we are now connected you too have all my gifts.’ I smiled and quickly fall asleep into her arms as I had always done with my mother.     Days later, Jenny was rushed to the hospital due to a mysterious fall. They believed she broke a few bones and wouldn’t come back until she healed. Avé didn’t trust the caregiver. He felt something in him that he only felt in the cat like creatures and it scared him. A numerous times he stopped talking to me in fear that he would find out that his suspicions where right and he feared being discovered by him. The eight of us got together to talk about Jenny’s mysterious fall, in the woods where we usually go to talk, since they hadn’t been left alone it was hard getting here and today they finally got that chance. James sat down with his thumb near his lips. “How could Jenny fall? She hates heights, there is no way she would be on the roof,” Nicolas barked. He was suspicious about the caregiver also. “I understand that Jenny is our friend and we should be worried but we also need to know what that goo was, and I think the only one to answer that is you,” James stated looking at me. “His name is Avéhalajak, he comes from a peaceful world, dangerous but peaceful… he’s smart and he’s scared,” I stated not afraid to tell my friends what happened. “So he is an alien?” Daniel asked, one of the twins. “Yes, but he is our friend,” I defended. “Where is he?” James asked. “In my body,” I stated. “He needed a place to stay; he’s scared of Mr. Crimson,” I stated. James looked at the others and nodded his head. “Could he be trusted, Claire?” he asked. “Oh, yes, he wants to show you but he feels that you feel afraid of him,” I mumbled. “Show me what?” he asked. “Everything,” I stated. He showed me so much and Avé wanted to show the rest of them, to show that he was no threat; he didn’t know violence until the catmonster came to his world and still he loved them even though they killed off his kind. James looked at her skeptical but still nodded to her. “Don’t worry, you won’t seize like me, he’s just going to give you a little of him so you can see through his eyes,” I stated. I reached for his hand same time he reached for mine. Avé went through my pores and entered his. James looked at her then to his own hands, tears filling his eyes. “We have to protect him, do the others so they can see,” he advice. One by one they welcomed Avé into their bodies, and just liked James they cried. Not out of sadness or pain but by love and overwhelming purity. They all loved Avé, like I loved him. At that moment he felt anger and I was afraid. I looked around but I saw nothing but Avé knew someone was there, watching, listening, and he was giving off dangerous vibes. “Since we are all here there is something I must tell you, I’ve been adopted and tomorrow morning I am leaving,” he stated sadly. I couldn’t believe, I wanted to cry. He looked at me and smiled, and then I realized he felt the same for me. We both felt a fondness towards each other that would never stop and I knew at the age of six I was in love.   During dinner the next day I felt weird, I wasn’t the same since James left but this was different. Something was wrong, something was a mist and I couldn’t put my finger on it. Avé, felt uneasy too and so did the others. I took the spoon but I couldn’t eat my food, there was something in the food. Something that could not only hurt me but Avé too. the others looked at the food and I knew they saw it too. “What the matter, with the bunch of you,” Mrs. Fisher asked. Mrs. Fisher was the cook. She was super thin and boney with grey thin hair, and a little of a mustache. “Eat your food,” Mr. Crimson barked. “Yes, I didn’t slave over the stove for nothing… eat now!” she yelled. “You ungrateful brats!” she snapped. This was the first time Mrs. Fisher talked to us and I knew I didn’t like her. I always thought she was like Mr. Crimson but now I knew she was a monster. I was getting angry. “Where’s Mrs. Alvabee?” I asked. “She’s at the hospital with Jenny! Now eat!” she barked. Marie grabbed a spoonful and slowly ate it, she was always afraid of Mrs. Fisher. Areca and Odessa followed her but the rest of us didn’t. “Fine! You don’t want to eat then go to bed, ungrateful mongrels!” she barked. We got up and ran to our rooms and waited and waited. Finally they walked through the door, holding their stomach and quickly went to their beds. “You okay?” I asked. “I have a stomach ache,” Marcie complained. Her voice was rough. I looked at Areca and Odessa and they too looked as if they had aches. The next morning I couldn’t wake them up and I started screaming out their name but they never woke. The three of them was rushed to the hospital, but they never came back. No one told us what had happened to them and that was the last I ever saw of them. I couldn’t stop crying and Avé tried to cheer me up but I knew I would never be the same, how could they do that. How could they kill them, they were defenseless. They never harm anyone. Nicolas walked up to me and grabbed my hand. He took me to the rock near the river when something hit his head as he was about to talk. He fell into the river and I went to him, calling his name. “Nicolas!” I yelled over and over again, tears filling my eyes to see the blood gushing out of the side of his head with his eyes wide open. I knew he was dead, so I hugged him and started to cry. I couldn’t think until Avé reminded me about the twins. I let Nicolas go and watched him go down the stream, I watched until I couldn’t see him anymore. “I love you Nicolas,” I whispered. I got up and started to run towards the house. That when I saw him with the twins. He grabbed them roughly by the arms. Daniela was crying and breathing heavy, gasping for air. He let Daniela go as she fell to the ground, trying really hard to breath. “Give her, her inhaler!” Daniel barked punching his arm. Mr. Crimson looked at the light blue inhaler and tossed it into the bushes. Daniel maybe five but he was strong, a lot stronger then Daniela. She was sick; she had asthma, diabetes, arthritis on her back and legs. She was born that way, they say that the day she was born the doctors thought she wasn’t going to make it but she did. Everyone looked out for her, which was their job. “Where is the Alien!” he barked at Daniel. “I don’t know it disappeared!” he yelled. Mr. Crimson grabbed him by the throat and lifted him off the ground making Daniela cry out her brother’s name.  I grabbed a heavy sharp rock and ran to him, I hit him on his knees, he went down. Daniel fell on the ground as Mr. Crimson grabbed his bloodied leg. I looked at the twins smiled at them then turned back to Mr. Crimson and hit him so hard on his head that I felt vibration running up my arm, making my palm bleed. He fell to the ground and I ran to the bushed to find her inhaler, but I couldn’t find it. “Daniel, help me look for her inhaler!” I yelled. He never came to look so I looked back I saw him over Daniel as he broke his neck with the snapping echoing in my head. “NO!” I yelled. “Come on Daniela we need to run,” I cried. I quickly ran to Daniela help her up and dragged her towards the house, but he got into my way so I walked the opposite way. I knew I was going towards the cliff but I didn’t know what other way to go. I had Daniela on one hand and Mr. Crimson following us. I didn’t want to lose Daniela; she was the last of my friends. I finally reached the cliff. I looked around, and saw a bush I could easily hide Daniela. I lied her down in the bush with my finger over my lips to keep her quiet and walked closer to the cliff. I looked down thinking of a way to escape but found nothing. “Where is your alien friend?” he barked, spit coming out of his mouth. “Avé?” I asked. “That’s its name? That bloody alien, he doesn’t belong here, Claire, you’re helping a dangerous creature!” he yelled. “No, he isn’t the dangerous one, you are! He would never kill innocent children! You’re the dangerous creature! You’re a monster!” I yelled. I heard Daniela gasp, and when I looked at her I realized she had taken her last breathe and I started screaming her name, trying to reach her. “Silly, girl… I will kill you just like your little friends! The friends you couldn’t help!” he laughed and then he pushed me down the cliff. I fell looking up at him, grinning at me as if by me dying would make him happy, and it probably did. Avé pulled out of me and surrounded me of goo but not before I hit my head and blacked out.