Adam Prescott: A Short Story

“I’ve seen you practicing over the month, and you seem to have a-” he stopped there.

When Archer saw what was in front of him, he nearly passed out. The foul looking beast spit toxic at him from one head, and fire out another. The other five heads were concentrated on three others. “Retreat!” Sgt. Zavery yelled. At that moment, Archer ran as fast as he could, back to the city walls. Archer ran, so fast, he thought he was flying, Archer had flashback while he ran to the wall. He remembered graduating the academy, being at his sister's graduation. He remember reading that horrible note that Rylie left on her pillow the day after King Parker made the horrible law. “Don’t worry about me anymore, this is what I want to do.” Archer remembered. This was one thing that was burned forever into the mind of Archer. As he made it to the wall, he saw that no one else made it. They were either swallowed or burned alive. As Archer entered the city, he saw a man running up to him.

“We’ll be down in a minute,” Hal responded, he turned to Will, “Are you ready for today.” he asked.

“No, bud. But he should,” he said, and he sounded angrier this time. “Maybe you’re just in shock, huh? I mean, you really don’t know what happened?”

“I can’t believe you two turned the oxygen back on. Whatever, I’ll just put you two in the basement with everyone else and turn the oxygen off again, except this time, it will be a slow and painful death.”, the man elaborated mischievously.

I was right, I felt a sick grin occupy my face. “Something happened. I can’t really tell you.”

“Are we there yet?” I impatiently asked. “It’s already been seven minutes and this is starting to become sort of tedious.”

“Perhaps,” Aranloth said slowly. “I don’t rule that out, but I think this is something else. We shall see soon.”

“ ...Then he elbowed me in the face!” He laughs. “Hey sam, you okay? You're offly quiet. What's wrong?” He waits patiently for my answer.

“Ma’am I would like to discuss what happened,” He wearily stated, “Elena was brought in by ambulance, she was picked up at a friend’s house,”

“Doctor Welles, you are needed quickly in the emergency room.” Nurse Terri says, cutting me short. “One of the people in the waiting room had a major heart attack. We need you quickly! This may be a life or death situation!”

“Have you heard Mr. Stevenson’s ghost story?” Bill asked, without waiting for a comment, he

Feeling nothing from the remote, he is perplexed and says, “It doesn’t seem to be doing anything.”

"No, there has to be a reason why you 're doing this," I questioned not listening to what Scott was trying to explain.

“Im,” he pauses for a moment, thinking of what to say, then slowly turns back to where Ben Price strolled off to but was gone. “I'm good I suppose.” he finally says.