Chapter 7: The forgotten
We had been walking for hours but it seemed as if we had been walking for days. I couldn't believe how fast hunger and thirst caught up to you while you were on the move.
I sighed loudly, "Mia it's nearly dark can't we rest."
"Stop whining you baby we're nearly there."
"Mia, Georgia is miles away from where we are and I wouldn't call this close or more so halfway."
"No duh Sherlock, were not taking a one way trip to Atlanta on foot."
"Then where are we..."
"...Shush, keep down." Mia pulled me down and crouched behind a bush. "Look over there," She whispered.
I looked up slightly and seen a lit cabin across the way. "Do you think..."
"...It doesn't matter, they should have food and water maybe even a tent."
"Mia how did you know this was here?"
Mia looked at me, "I didn't." She went around the bush and towards the house.
"Wait up!" I whispered. I rushed after her. She was posted up in front of the cabin taken cover next to the steps, "What if there's someone in there?"
"Obviously there's people inside moran, and it doesn't matter we have the advantage." I seen Mia's eyes turn completely white, "We're the ones with the powers." She smiled at me.
"Wait your trying to rob these people!"
"Keep it down!" Mia loudly whispered back, "Its not like they can't hear us or anything."
"Mia we can't do this, it isn't right." I whispered.
"Says the person who killed dozens of guards in cold blood, besides it's the only way to survive the night before we starve or dehydrate." She looked at me, "Look Eren I don't like it either but this is how people like us survive."
"People like us?" I asked confused by what she meant.
"People with powers, people that are different from what society wants us to be. To them we aren't supposed to exist in this world, they don't understand us and they want us dead. Remember people fear..."
"...What they can't control, I know I know." I took a breath, "Fine but don't attack unless they attack first."
Mia snuck up the steps, "Just stick behind me and back me up." I crouched behind her. She took a deep breath before busting down the door with a burst of energy. She stood up and rushed inside. "All clear." Mia walked inside, I followed after her.
Mia had stopped and looked into the living room. "What the hell..." I walked next to her and seen a man and a woman on the floor covered in blood.
"Mommy hang in there..." I turned my head to the voice coming upstairs.
Mia walked over to the stairs, "Eren you go up i'll stay here just in case anyone comes in." I nodded, took one more glance at the bodies and walked up the steps.
As I walked through the hall there were bloody trails leading to a room near the end. I followed it cautiously and when I looked inside of the room I had seen a small girl, about 6 or 7 years old holding a woman, she looked pale and she was bleeding from her chest.
The girl turned and looked at me with puffy red eyes and tears falling down her cheek, "Are you bad?" She asked sniffling. I shook my head, she sniffed, "Then can you help my mommy?"
I walked over to the bed, "Sure, what happened to her?"
"A bad man shot her, mommy fought back but this girl came and I had to use the bad man's gun to kill her..."
"You..." it was hard to believe such a little girl was able to handle herself with a gun, "You must be very brave."
"Not really just lucky I guess..." Lucky was right, her mom basically cheated death the bullet had only just grazed her essential organs. I wasn't much of a doctor and didn't know what else to do besides trying to extract the bullet and hoping for the best.
I took a deep breath, grabbed a knife off the dresser and stared at the bloody wound. "Can you wash this off?" The girl nodded and walked towards the bathroom.
"T-th-thank...you." I looked down at the woman who weakly looked up at me, "You're...a real...hero..." She mumbled weakly, "P-protect...her..."
The little girl came back with the sterilized knife and handed it to me. Her mom had passed out again, and she looked at me to save her mom from death. "I'm Sarah." She said smiling as she wiped the tears from her eyes.
I smiled back, but weakly due to the situation. "Eren." I said.
Suddenly, right before I put the knife into the wound, there was a noise from downstairs followed by a yell. Me and Sarah ran down stairs, the knife still in my hand. Once Sarah got down the steps she yelled, "DADDY!"
I saw Mia standing there in shock, with tears coming down her face as she saw Sarah run to her dad lying on the floor,"I'm so sorry...I didn't mean to..."
The man had black short hair and the same light complexion as Sarah, he has a giant blood stain on his white shirt and he looked unresponsive, however he still held his shotgun tightly in his left hand.
Suddenly he let out a loud coughing, I helped Sarah turn him to his side and he coughed up some blood. He looked at me and the Sarah, "Sweet...heart..."
"I'm here daddy, i'm here." She held his hand.
"Run...t-ther..." he coughed of some more blood before falling to his back, "Coming..." The life he had was completely drained from his eyes now and his hand fell out of Sarah's.
"Wait, who's coming?" I asked trying to shake his body back to life, the knife dropped from my hand; it wasn't til now that I hated the image and idea of death, to watch a life live and then abruptly end. The innocent weren't meant to die nor forgotten.
I heard a gasp from the stairs and I seen Sarah's mom leaning on the railing, holding her mouth at the sight of seen her husband dead on the floor. "Mom?"
I seen her eyes look up, "Look out!" The door slammed closed with a swing of her hand and all of the locks turned and locked itself. I heard a gunshot come from outside, and hit the door just as the door closed.
"There back." Sarah said, she got up and pulled me away from the door. "They'll get in there's only a matter of time, we got to run."
I looked back at the mom, I should of known she was like us why else would she had been hunted down to this extent. "Is there a secret exit?"
"Yes in the basement." I heard a loud thump, like a body falling down the stairs. I looked back and seen Sarah's mom laid out on the steps with a hole threw her head. I rushed over and seen a man in a suit on the top of the stairs with a pistol aimed at me. With his other hand he fixed his collar, "What a shame she had to die don't you think, she was worth so much more alive." He moved his fingers through his dirty blonde hair and looked down at me, "And who's this?"
"You monster..." I felt anger building up inside of me like a balloon on the verge of popping, I couldn't stand how lightly he took of that little girls mom's death as if it was nothing more then a bug he stepped on.
"Someone's a bit emotional, wait could it be you are a evolved as well?" He smiled, "I wonder what crimes you have committed, oh how wealthy I'll become with your head in my collection."
Sarah ran next to me, "Mom!" She ran to her dead body and held it tightly, tears fell from her eyes.
"You destroyed this family, what did we ever do to you people but try to live!"
He tilted his head as if he didn't understand, "Live?" He laughed, "You are a plague on mankind, a deformity in the human making process, your a mistake!"
"NO I'M NOT!" Tentacles made of fire appeared from my lower back and flew towards him in my pit of rage. He backflipped over it with ease and shot at me, I was able to deflect it just before it could touch my face.
"You must be destroyed so humanity can live on, and I'm the very vaccine to do the job." I rushed towards him and we began to exchange blows with blows, somehow he survived each of my fire punches with ease and was definitely way more skilled at hand to hand then I was. He kicked me square in my stomach and I fell down the stairs.
Sarah ran to my side, "Eren, are you okay?" I coughed up some blood and nodded. I couldn't move, it was like my whole body refused to function.
Where are you Mia?
Sarah got up and stared at the man who gave her a smug look, "STOP IT!!" Her voice screeched throughout the whole house like a siren from those Greek mythology stories my grandma used to read me but somehow I wasn't effected. The house shook and objects began to float of the ground.
I heard something fall and watched was the man's pistol slid down the steps and then there was screaming. I willed myself to look up and see Sarah floating in the air, her eyes were all white and there were objects floating around her like she was a magnet. I turned to up the steps where I seen the man impaled with a piece of wood.
"Sarah its over!" I called out, "He's dead, everything's going to be fine." She didn't stop, the lights went out and everything kept being torn apart all throughout the house.
I seen Mia walk over to me holding her side and looked up at Sarah, "She's being consumed by her own powers, she's lost control and there's no turning back. She'll keep doing this til she destroys everything in her path or runs out of steam, either way there's no saving her we'll have to go."
"What do you mean there's no saving her she's a little girl!"
"She won't stop until she runs out of energy, energy that keeps her functioning, breathing, etcetera. She won't live no matter what we do."
"You don't know that!"
"Yes Eren I do." She looked at me, "I've seen it." I looked back at Sarah, She lost everything her family, her life, even if they had survived her life would of never had a normal life. They turned our powers into a curse rather then a blessing, to them we were no longer people, we were monsters.
The house was literally falling apart, there wasn't even a roof anymore. Mia had grabbed my hand and we ran out the house just in time before a giant wave of energy sent us flying out the place. I looked at the house as it fell apart, I watched a little girl lose her life. I began to tear up, I couldn't believe it...why couldn't I save them...why is the world so cruel.
Me and Mia didn't talk much after that, we just kept walking. We were too depressed to think about food, water, rest. All we could think about is how many more lives had been hunted down because they were different, and when will we be next. Honestly I didn't even know if Georgia was even safe anymore and by the look on Mia's face I knew the thought went through her head too. Maybe Emily wasn't even there anymore, maybe they had her or worse.
Humanity had forgotten that we were living breathing being, and now they only seen us as prey. I'm sorry Sarah...i'm sorry this world is so cruel...
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