Manhunt

Tom (Day 1)

I opened my eyes to sunny blue skies. I don't know where I am. I looked around. There were other kids. A lot of kids. I can't remember anything. All I remember is my name. Tom. We were sitting in a field. I looked at the other kids. Some were older than me, there was a baby too. "Où suis-je," a girl said. Is that French, I thought. Then a man came out of nowhere. There was no explosion, no 'POOF!'. He just appeared. Some girl screamed. "तुम कौन हो," some other guy said. Whats with the foreign languages, I can't understand a word anyone is saying, I thought. The man had dark black hair, pale face, brown eyes, and a skinny body wearing a tuxedo. "Ok. Listen up" said the 'magically appeared' guy.

"Finally some English" I whispered to myself.

"Hello. My name is Lennon. Welcome to the H.U.M.A.N.I.T.Y. Experiment Field. For the next week, you will be playing one giant round of manhunt. Right now, there are about one-thousand kids, all of which have different ages. Also, we have at least five kids from each country in the world, for example, there will be five kids here who come from France. There will be a lot of foreign languages you will hear. If you don't already know how to play, I'll simply explain. There is one person who will be 'it'. If this person touches a person who is not 'it', the person who got touched will be 'it' with the original 'it' person. The goal for the 'it' is to get everybody here to be it. The goal for the people who are not 'it' is to not get touched by the 'it' people. And to make it interesting, if the 'it' does not get everybody, they die and the 'not-it' will stay alive. If everyone's it, I'll think about what would happen. Also, if a person becomes 'it' their eyes turn red. I'm gonna repeat this speech in over a 100 languages so I would recommend you get a rest for later" Lennon announced. There's no way this guy is gonna speak over 100 languages.

30 minutes later

Alright, he started speaking Mandarin. I think I'm gonna start resting.

1 hour later

"Alright everybody, wake up," Lennon said. He whistled really loud. That got everybody's attention. "The winning candidate for being 'it' was decided to be an average runner and average tactician. Micheal Moretti is going to be 'it'." A boy, not very tall, stood up confused. His eyes were a light blue. "Take a good look, you will have to remember him" Lennon announced. Lennon snapped his fingers. Micheal's eyes turned fiery red. "Now. You will have a ten-minute head start to run. Now! Start running!" he shouted. I got up confused. I blindly started running. I didn't matter where I was going. As long as I'm not 'it'. I looked back, I think the rest of the kids got the idea and started running. I saw a forest ahead. It looked like a kilometer away. I looked back, people were catching up. I started running faster. "Move it slowpoke" a guy grunted behind me. He pushed me over. I fell on the grass. I smelled the fresh aroma of the field grass. I got up and started running. The guy turned around and looked at me. He had a dumb, smug face. I ran past him. I breathed heavily, I'm already tired. I started to jog my way.

5 minutes later

Micheal Moretti has been released. I think he caught at least five people. I looked in front of me. There it was, the forest. Micheal Moretti was far from here, so I started to walk. The forest was very beautiful. Tall trees blocking most of the sunlight, monarch butterflies, ponds with frogs. There seemed to be no one here. I sat on a tree, exhausted. I'll take another nap.

1 hour later

I awoke with a guy in front of me. He didn't have red eyes, so I guess he isn't 'it'. "안녕, 너 죽었 니?" he said to me.

"Ummm...I speak English" I replied. He stared into my eyes. Why is he looking at my eyes? Wait, am I 'it'. I got up, I started running to the nearest pond. I looked into my reflection on the water. I still have my hazel eyes. "너 왜 뛰 고있어?" he said confused.

"너 뭐하고있어?" said another voice. It sounded like a girl. I turned around. There was a girl talking to the guy I met. She didn't have red eyes either. I guess they were talking about me, as they pointed at me several times when they were talking. " You talk English?" the girl asked me.

"Yeah...I do." I replied. Then she started talking to the guy again.

"We talk Korean" she told me. "My name is Jae Eun," she said. She pointed at the guy. "He is Sung Min," she told me.

"My name is Tom," I said. I looked at up at the sky, which I could barely see in the forest. But I could tell it was getting dark.

"Oh...Follow me" she said. She starting jogging off excited. I jogged after her. She stopped at a short and thick tree and started climbing it. Sung Min was caught up to us.

"너 왜 달리기 야? 누군가 죽었나요?" he mocked.

"닥쳐" she snapped back. I climbed up the tree.

"Woah," I said in amazement. It was like a giant birds nest. Jae Eun sat down on it.

"I and Sung min found this tree," she said. I lied down. It was surprisingly stable. Sung Min yawned.

"나는 자러 갈거야," Sung min said sleepily.

"He's gonna sleep" she translated. " I think I'll sleep too." she told me. They both closed their eyes. I stuck my head out of the tree. I gazed at all of the tall trees. It was an amazing sight. I yawned. My eyes felt heavy. I went to sleep.