It was a cold night in New York. Akira looked out of her window with one eye and said, “Please don’t come again, please, please.”
It was pitch black and there was no car in New York City. “AAAA!” screamed Akira.
It was coming for her. Akira gasped and ran to the master bedroom, shocked to find her parents not there.
“Mama?” screamed Akira from behind the doors.
“MIJA!” screamed Akira’s mother from behind the bathroom.
Akira ran to the washroom and saw her parents held tight to the cabinets.
“Mama, it’s coming!” screamed Akira.
“Be quiet. If it hears us, it will take us,” said the mom.
Akira sat next to her dad who rested his head on the toilet.
“Dad-” said Akira.
“Stop talking, Akira,” said the dad.
Akira nodded her head as she heard someone entering the bathroom. Akira had to cough. She just had to. She gazed at her mother and her mother shook her head.
“No lo hagas,” said mamá.
Akira let out a loud cough causing her parents to get nervous. They saw a colossal shadow walking towards them. It had one big ear and one leg. That was all Akira could see.
“Mama, are we going to die?” asked Akira as her heartbeat raced in panic.
Akira held tight her mother’s hand just before it came.
Akira’s heart screamed in terror. Akira stood up and pulled her parents towards the window.
“We have to jump, papa,” said Akira.
Akira took a deep breath and did not look back. She held her parents hand and jumped.
Beep, beep, beep. Akira could feel her heart panic. She opened one eye. It was pitch black. It reminded her of the time she got locked in the car at midnight after her birthday.
“Wake up, Akira. This is not the time,” said Akira to herself.
She looked left and right and her parents were gone!
“MAMA! PAPA! Where are you?!” screamed Akira as she collapsed on to her knees and shivered with the piercing coldness.
Akira was freezing. It was the middle of December and it was raining ice. She stood up barefoot and limped up the patio. She crawled into the table that was covered with a sheet to prevent it getting wet in the winters. She cuddled her body tightly and sobbed.
“Mama, Papa? Where are you?” asked Akira.
Just before she was about to close her eyes, she heard another scream from under the patio. She pulled the cover of the patio table and wrapped it around her body. She walked down the patio and peeked her eyes down. Her mom was screaming as the gigantic creature stood on top of her with his big claws raging back and forth.
Akira could not watch her mother die in front of her and not do anything about it. She jumped on top of the guy and stabbed him with her teeth. All his fleshy mushy brown blood spilled into her mouth. She fell in disgust right on top of her mother.
“Follow me, I bit him which will cause him to pass out for a few minutes. We have to be very fast though. Where is papa, mama?” asked Akira.
“I don’t know. I woke up under the patio, Akira,” explained Akira’s mom.
She both shuffled down the backyard as they found their father laminated in blood beside the lawn mower.
“PAPA!!!!!! MY PAPA!!” Akira screamed with despair. She pulled her father’s neck up and checked his blood flow.
“Mama, he is alive,” said Akira, smiling.
They both picked their father up and took him down to the motorcycle. That’s all they got.
The mom sat on the bike and held her husband’s head as Akira held his feet. They were all unbalanced, but they were gonna make it to the hospital. As the mother drove out of the driveway the enormous giant limped down to them attempting to grab them.
The family zoomed out to the road at full speed.
Just a couple of moments later, they arrived at the hospital. The paramedics laid the father on a stretcher and pushed him to the hospital room. The officers checked his heartbeat and examined him quickly.
The paramedic and Akira shared a look and the paramedic said, “My condolences to you and your family.”
