Maverick's Beginning (teaser)

just a teaser not real story

"I heard talks about some huge monster-like creatures popping up in the North. I dunno if it's true but I can't get a hold of my cousin who lives that way" I overheard Pa talking on the phone with someone. I quietly snuck into the bathroom to see who was on the line, it was his best friend Willkson. They never talk over the phone, always in person, especially if you consider that he just lives down the street. I flushed the toilet as if I just used it and made my way back into the dining room table where all my homework is thrown about. I grabbed a pencil and started to doodle a bit while listening to their conversation.

"Yeah, yeah I know it's been rough with the power flashes that's been happening. We pay for it so it should be quality! Also I've seen that the store in town hasn't gotten any fresh fruits in awhile. I was really hoping to make a nice fruit salad for the barbeque on Sunday. ''

I stopped listening when I started to focus on adding some really cool details on my doodle. I must have zoned out too much because when I looked up Pa was standing over the table with that evil look in his eyes. "I thought I was raising a man not a girl!"

I stopped in my tracks and buried my drawings under the clutter of homework "But I already have an A in every class but one!" I could feel my hands starting to get clammy.

"Oh but until they all are A's you will not stop studying because you will go off to a big college and find a real nice girl, get a real nice job and then I'll be the amazing father who got you there!"

Yeah sure I'll just be able to find a girl who would want me. "You always said that I wasn't good enough to get a girl though" I shouldn't have said that.

"Boy, don't you talk back to me like that, you know I can kick your ass onto the streets!"

He slammed his fists down onto the table with a thundering boom making my tea spill all over homework and my drawings. I ran off into my room fighting the tears.

"Yeah you better run boy! Also you're cleaning this up!" all my hard work is just ruined. I'll have to copy it all over to new paper.

The window rattled every few seconds as if it were mini earthquakes, it kept getting stronger and stronger as time progressed. I sulked my way to the front of the house where I found Willkson talking with Pa in a rash tone.

"Oh hey Rick, we need to go now!"

Willkson's voice is raspy as if he ran a marathon, his blood shot eyes stared into mine. I ran around the house and gathered up some belongings before joining them out on the front porch. The sky was a menacingly reddish pink color even though it wasn't sunset. Small creatures flew through the air latching onto trees and all forms of plant matter. They were covered in spikes and dirt with beetle-like wings and small human limbs, they made an unnatural buzzing sound as they flew around. I realized that they are feasting on our plants except that there are so many of them that they are just annihilating all of the plush summer green grass and trees. I didn't think it could get any more horrific until I saw one of them patrolling down our street.

He was about 13 feet high and was covered in thick gray fur with eight spider-like eyes, the fur around his mouth was soaked in blood and dripped down his torso. There were large clumps of matted fur stuck out of the relatively smooth fur. He stopped to stare at us for what seemed like eternity before slowly walking over to the house. Every step felt like an earthquake and I was just frozen in fear.

He was just a couple of feet away. I could just reach out and touch him if I wanted to when he used his talon-like hands to pick up my Pa and in one swift motion he ate him with an oddly satisfying crunch. Fresh blood trickled down his light gray fur as he stared at me "Hello?" I called out to the monster hoping for a reply but instead it looked confused and spoke to me in a forein tongue that sounded like deep pitched grumbles. Then it just turned around and walked off sparing me and Willkson. I turned to see Willkson to find that he was on the floor just grasping at his chest. His breath was very shallow. I gathered up some more supplies and left him to die on the porch since I never liked him anyways. I know that I'm a real man and I'll prove it to Willkson and my dad and to all those horrible people who ever doubted me.

Weeks passed and all the plants were soon gone and it was nothing but a wasteland of thousands of tiny spike covered fairies but they too began to die since they didn't have a food source. Some of them became cannibals while others became like mosquitoes but most of them died leaving tons of pokey shells behind that were picked up in the winds. I found that I was better off by myself than with a group mainly because groups attracted the monsters when I did not attract them. They too also began to die off since they ran out of humans to munch on. I of course didn't have any source of food either so I just wandered around until I found a monster corpse that wasn't super rotten and I would set up camp and slowly ate off of it until it was too bad to use. However I didn't know how dangerous that was until I became sick.

Since I stayed away from the general population I didn't know about this virus that was spreading around called Noxx. There was no cure so I was just wandering around waiting for my death. It was very rare that you survived Noxx due to its tendencies to form pus pockets on the body and even internally and most common places are where there is a lot of friction. That includes airways so most people just slowly suffocate. Oh and if they burst they could get infected and getting your hands on meds is incredibly difficult. Noxx comes from eating the flesh of an infected animal which I mistakenly did and I thought I was done for until I met a bad ass girl named Morana.

She was just wandering around when she saw me close to death. Apparently she was a mortician or something like that because she was going through a field of death and putting them to rest, crazy I know! She stayed with me and made sure that I survived. I guess she saw something in me. Unfortunately, I had a mutated version of Noxx because she ended up getting sick from me. I stayed with her day and night until she died then I laid her to rest on a pyre to keep others from getting infected. I also gained immunity to the virus so I was able to go around the monsters without getting sick. I took on a different persona and changed my name to Maverick. I vowed my life to save the innocents of the wasteland much like how I was saved.

I learned that I was able to speak their tongue. I was able to learn about them. I realized that maybe they aren't really monsters after all. 

AN - tell me what you though and ways I can improve I have really big plans for this and let me know if you want me to show off some other potential characters.