Bulletproof

Chapter 1

"We have to get out of here!" Mum shouted as I closed the apartment door behind me.

"What do you mean? Why?"

Walking into the kitchen I saw her packing the few possessions we had into a small suitcase.

"They've found us! The seekers, they're coming for us!"

I stopped in my tracks. I hadn't heard of the seekers for months, and that was when we had to move to New York.

"What!" I screamed, "how?!"

She looked up at me, her eyes filled with tears, and I could see how worried she was. Of course she was worried, how could she not be worried? She had lost my dad to these things, she didn't want to lose me too.

"I don't know! But we need to leave!"

I ran into my room, got my backpack, and started shoving some clothes in.

I walked back into the kitchen to see my mum rummaging through the cupboard.

"What are you looking for?" I asked.

She seemed to have found what she wanted and turned around.

"This." she answered. In her hand was some sort of knife.

"What's that?"

"It's called a blade, it used to be your fathers. I want you to have it"

She handed it to me with a smile, but not a normal smile, more like a sad smile. Like she knew something bad was going to happen.

"What's it for?" I asked.

"It's used to kill seekers. Normal weapons don't work."

I turned it over in my hand. I don't usually find things beautiful but this... this was. The knife was long, thin and very light. I turned it around in my hands and saw that the handle was carved with all different patterns.

I carefully placed it in my backpack, just as the door slammed open.