Point and Time: The Book of Eight

Chapter 7: Ari: Yours For A While

Waking up in a house full of people you've never met but somehow, people you know are going to help you out in the long run is weird. You feel like a stranger at the same time you feel like best friends. Seth and Macie were really nice to me, probably because they saved my life so trauma bonding or whatever but Chase, Ever, and Ethan tried to be nice to me as often as possible yet they only really looked out for each other. Mark and Emily didn't seem to like any of us yet, hard to blame them. They didn't nearly die to three cheerleaders with four others, or go face to face with a firebreathing tank human with me. They just showed up and luckily no near-death experiences happened with them. I was pretty surprised to figure that out, but nobody really questioned it because it seemed odd that we nearly died while no one else saw the things trying to kill us, which made us a small minority versus the other percentage of the world.

I woke up around 11:00, I was up until 3:00 just thinking about everything that happened and what was going to happen. I was scared, no, I was terrified of what could happen. I nearly died once with just one encounter. How many more encounters or how many more near-death experiences really awaited? Not a lot of talking was happening this morning but when I shook off the drowsiness in my eyes I walked to the armory that we had to meet at by 12 if we wanted to prepare for the end of the world as Fig explained it. I wasn't ready for that but I didn't have an option as I saw it. When looking at this whole conundrum I saw two options, stay here, learn to fight, and have a chance against this Gornid fella. Option two was to leave, have no chance, and try to defend myself when those things showed up which I knew I would have no survival instinct since the last time I tried to fight one of those things it ended up in a cop dissolving and me being saved by two random other kids. 

When I walked into the armory I noticed it was the only room with a double swing door, one that locked and fortified once it was closed. The walls were a black stone that looked a lot like obsidian and had no windows. It felt like a room if you got abducted they'd keep you there. 

I saw racks of weapons but only eight weapons in specific. A shuriken that had leather handles and a rope attached to it so you could pull it back to yourself once it was thrown, and silver laced spikes. 

A sword with a leather handle that met a silver hilt that went up and spiked at the top, which was also made of silver which is what all of these weapons had been made of. 

Another weapon was a gauntlet that was lined with leather on the inside and had almost robotic-looking fingers that connected to a palm that slid over a normal hand. 

A scythe with a long leather wrap along the part that connected to a foot-long blade that angled slightly down with a diamond on the other end of the handle. 

An axe with the same leather handle as the scythe, but had a big silver axe head on one side of the top and a quarter-inch by a five-inch steel plate on the other side. 

A spear that also had a leather wrap and a diamond at the top of the handle, but the bottom half was only half the size of the top half of the diamond that was pointed at the top of the handle. 

A trident, and staff were the other two weapons, both had leather handles, the staff was about four feet and the middle two feet were laced with leather while the silver poked out on both sides a foot each, while the trident, from the pointed bottom, went up three-feet, and on top was another foot except the top of the trident had three pointed tips that connected in the middle. Two spikes went out from the handle and then pointed back up, while the middle one went straight up an extra four to five inches from the handle.

"Good morning Ari," Fig said walking in and sipping what I thought was coffee until I saw him throw a Teabag away in the garbage. 

"H-hey! Morning Fig, right?" I asked with my voice cracking and Fig giggling a little.