Victoria Ann Eldred. Anastasia Jeannine Eldred. I wish to welcome you both to a living hell, that is also miracle… I welcome you to the world of TITANS. I encourage you both, to try and stay alive to your best abilities.
My eyes snapped opened and looked around at the unfamiliar place. I stood up to get a better view of where I was from the rubble I was laying in. a house with the walls falling, the roof gone, and fire here and there. Seeing a crooked doorway with its door missing, I walked to the exit, stepping over the dead bodies lying here and there. Ignoring the blood splattered in the doorway and on the ground outside I stepped outside. Something finally seemed to click in my mind as I heard the screams and cries of people, and overly loud footsteps going this way and that way. I looked at the houses coated in blood and followed the trails of blood to look at the streets covered in blood and pieces of bodies, torn clothes, and even a few shoes here and there. This was a massacre. I heard a small child's scream to my right and quickly turned my head to see a giant hand attached to a giant arm picking up a little girl no older than 7.
Giant hand and arm?
I watched as the creature the hand and arm belonged to, step out from the street it was in. its footsteps loud and heavy shaking the earth slightly with its steps. It lifted the screaming girl to it mouth and tossed her inside. Not even stopping to chew before swallowing her whole. I heard a scream from the inside of the house I woke up in.
That scream. It's oddly familiar… it's almost as if I've heard that scream before.
I went into the house and saw my own face staring back at me. Green eyes wide and horrified at all the bodies in this house, at all the blood coating the floor and walls. Her auburn shifted slightly at the tips, which rested just below her breasts, as she tilted her head curious as to why I was there.
"Did you do this?" Victoria asked me, voice slightly wavering as the idea popped into her head.
I rolled my eyes and asked, "If I did this then wouldn't I be covered in blood? And how would I manage to get the roof off?"
Victoria sighed in relief at the realization that I didn't do this before widening again at the loud thunderous footsteps that shook the earth. She looked at me in pure terror begging to know what to do. I raised my index finger to my right hand in a silent message of, "stay quiet" and waved her to come stand beside me. She hurried over trying to step on as little blood as possible. I grabbed Victoria's face and made her look me in the eye as I whispered our plan.
"Soon we are going to go outside and get out of here. Don't focus on anything but me, okay? Don't look at anything but me. Don't look at the blood, the bodies, the destroyed houses, even the monsters. Just give me your full attention even if I'm not looking at you. Don't panic, and don't scream. Are you ready?"
Victoria nodded her head that was still grasped in between my hands. I let her face go and grabbed her right hand in my left. I looked out the crooked doorway to see feet and legs. I slowly and calmly walked out of the doorway and between its feet. We walked slowly and calmly making no extreme movements or sounds as we walked away from the titan who was trying to find us inside the house. We walked down a different alley. I listened for the screams and went the way opposite of where I thought they were. Soon enough we ended up in front of a large wall that had a huge hole in it. And did I forget to mention that monsters of many sizes were entering through the whole. I turned around from the wall and walked away from it. Occasionally glancing at Victoria to make sure she was focused on me. I kept walking, taking shortcuts and alley ways to avoid the monsters till we came to another wall with a large hole in it, and many monsters entering as well as people who are running from said monsters.
It's one whole in a wall, or the other.
With that in mind I kept walking forward towards where the people were trying to go. I'd stop constantly to press Victoria and myself against a wall in the shadows, trying not to be caught. But when we were stopped in the shadows not even 50 feet from where the whole is, I saw something that made my blood go cold. A monster raised its head and sniffed the air. Soon it looked at the shadows we were hiding in, glaring, trying to see our location.
These monsters have great sense of smell. They'll find us.
The titan walked over to our shadows still looking for us in the dark area. I moved slowly, making no sudden jerky movements that would get us caught, and glided to the alley way where once out of sight I clamped my hand over my mouth. I closed my eyes and waited for a few moments, 45 seconds maybe, till I heard what I wanted to hear. The monster walking away. I exhaled a long breath in relief and looked around for something, anything, that could hide our human sent. Then I saw a puddle of what I needed most.
Mud.
I let go of Victoria's hand to go look at the mud and make sure no blood or human sent was mixed into it. There wasn't even a footprint.
"Victoria. I need you to roll around in the mud. Get completely covered, soak your hair, and get it between your toes. Don't leave a single strand of hair uncovered. Do you understand?" I asked her.
Victoria gave me a weird look and asked, "Why?"
I felt the corner of my lips twitch into a smirk as I explained, "they can smell us. So if we don't smell like humans, and don't make quick sudden movements, they won't attack us."
Victoria's eyes shined with understanding as she went and rolled in the mud, scrubbing it into her hair and behind her ears. I made sure to put extra behind her ears since that is where a human's scent is the strongest. Then once she was done I covered myself in the mud, hoping her scent didn't rub off onto this mud. I pushed the negative thoughts away from me and started walking again. No monsters sniffed the air, or even looked at us. They just walked past us sometimes. We made it through the hole in the wall to see many dead body parts, but no screams. The monsters were moving on from the massacre they had created. Victoria didn't focus on anything but me which made my job much easier. And once we made it to a house in the woods filled with hunting supplies. Victoria and I started our new lives in the world of Kill or be Killed. We made a wall of cedar trees around the house in multiple rings to make sure the monsters wouldn't smell out home. And even hammered many boards to the outer ring of trees to keep wandering monsters from entering. We had our own little safe spot to live, even a small bit of area to grow vegetables. Everything else we needed like meat, fruit, and herbs we would go to the outside of our safe zone to get. We learned to jump from tree to tree, how to sew our own clothes and make some from the animal hides, we even figured out how to kill the monsters. We would survive in this hell.
No monster will ruin our peace.
... to bad I didn't say anything about humans.
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