"Well, this place is… nice, I guess," I say, looking around, "anyone else living here?" I decide to start a conversation, starting out with some "normal" questions.
"No, no-one else, just… me," she responds, "but the building is destined for demolition, so it’s no surprise that no-one else is here, really, if you think about it."
"Oh, okay, so we’re by ourselves," I say more than I ask, "then…. you’re an orphan?"
"Yes, along with a whole bunch of others like me." She says, as if she’s hinting to something, something that I know more about than she realises.
"Oh, right; why are you living here? You seem like you’re capable of taking and doing what you want, when you want, and it seems like you can take more damage than the "average" person."
"I like to be alone, so yeah, I live here."
"Well, now that I give it some thought, I know of a place you can go, and since this, um, "building" is destined to be taken down, you can come with me, if you want."
She looks at me as if I’m crazy, but then her expression slowly changes to one of consideration, as if she’s actually thinking of accepting my “offer”. “Hmmm, okay, yeah, I’m up for it, if you actually are.”
"Oh, alright, yeah, you just need to gather your things, whatever they may be, and meet me outside, unless you need my help." I finish the statement flatly, since I’m hoping she declines.
"No, no, I’ll be fine." She replies, much to my joy.
"Alrighty then, I guess I’ll be outside then."
"Okay, I’ll be out soon."
I walk outside, scanning the streets, making sure we weren’t followed or tracked. When it seems clear, I climb down, then double-check, because I get the feeling we are being followed, but I don’t see anyone, at least I’m pretty sure I don’t.
After a little while, maybe ten, fifteen minutes, “BJ”, as she called herself, climbs down, and that’s when I decide to tell her my “name”, “I’m… John Joseph Jacobs, the third, but most people just call me Joseph, but I don’t mind what you call me really, I just hope you’ll call me “friend, for now.”
"Oh, right, I guess I’ll just go with the flow, and call you… Joe, hehe." She says, smiling.
"Coolio, guess we’ll be going then."
"Yeah, sure…" She says, looking back at the old hotel.
Three days have passed since we left the city, and now we’re nearing the halfway mark, an old, broken down, unused gas station that still has plumbing, and some non-perishable supplies that I grab occasionally.
"We can stop here for some water, and food, if you’re hungry." I offer the food only because I’m used to not eating for long periods of time.
"Right, thanks." She breaths, a little exhausted.
I scan the area around us, making sure that we aren’t being followed by any Mogs, because no human would travel out here just to beat up some kids. The only problem is, since this place isn’t used frequently anymore, the grass has grown very tall and white, so it makes it hard to see anything that might be hiding in the grass. At least that’s what I would be saying if I was human, but I’m not, so I definitely notice the dark, tall, brooding figures standing in the field. Mogs. They’ve found me, and I wasn’t really expecting them because I’ve been in hiding, so I don’t have any of my weapons with me. When I realise that I may have to fight alone, BJ comes bursting out the doors, with a baseball bat, that I guess she found inside, and when she walks out those doors, she looks pissed, as if something happened inside that annoyed her. But then she continues past me, straight into the field of grass, and right up to one of the Mogs, and smacks him, square in the head.
SMACK!! (SMAck, SMack, Smack, Smack («<echo.)) The sound is so loud, I would’ve mistaken it for a gunshot, had I not seen it happen in front of me. But after the echo dies down, all hell breaks loose, with Mog canon fire zooming at me, and BJ, from all sorts of directions. I duck down immediately, trying to avoid getting shot, and then crawl forwards as fast as I can, trying to make my way to BJ. When I get to her, she’s seething with rage, looking around frantically, probably for her next victim. In that instant, I realise that she’s a Loric, just like me, but I’m not sure what her number is, but guessing that Four was killed around nine months ago, and considering the number of Mogs that seem to be here, I’m assuming that she’s number Five.
"Hey! Are you number Five?!?" I yell over the hell that is the gunfire.
"Yes, you dunce!" She yells angrily, "and I’m going to make these fucking bastards pay for what they did to my home!"
"OUR home!" I say, thinking what our next move should be.
"Our?" She questions, "then, you’re Loric?"
"Yes!" I confirm, "now we just need to plan our next move…"
BJ then starts charging forward, putting plans clear from her mind, and just acting on instinct. I decide to follow her lead, quite literally, and turn into my most instinctive form, a boar like creature, almost the size of a small bus, with armour plates covering it’s skin, shining in the bright sun, prepared for battle.
………. Once the last shot is fired, I relax my entire body, turning back into my usual self and lying(?) down, waiting for Five to turn up. After a couple of minutes, she lies(?) down next to me with a sigh of relief. “Well, guess we’re both Loric then.”
"Yeah, guess so," I reply, "I’m Eight, just to let you know."
(Mod - And now we wait for the next part. Hope you guys are enjoying this, me and Five’s/BJ’s Mod (whichever one you want to use) have been discussing most of this over PM’s, except for this part, this one was mostly my own choice of events, and I hope BJ and her Mod like what I’ve done. Please let me know what you guys think of it, even if it’s “mean” criticism, I don’t care, I want to know what you guys think. Please give me tips and what not on this, I’m thinking of becoming an author later on in life, and this is where it starts, so I need as much feedback as I can get from people so I can improve my story writing skills. And FYI, Anon has been turned off for my ask, so I’ll know what you guys send me, and who sent it, and even if it’s mean criticism, it doesn’t matter, I’ll just read it if I want to or not.)
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