The Arising: Our Community

Chapter 6

SAM

I walked down the markets with Brooklyn checking out the stores. There were a variety of them. Clothing shops, food shops, weaponries, coffee shops and many others. Everyday since I got to The New Order it's always been packed at the markets.

"Have you seen your father recently?" Brooklyn asked.

"No. I only saw him when I got here. I haven't really talked with him" I said.

"Well, Maybe you should. What you told me about him, what he did before all of this. Maybe he's changed. I mean he's up in his office most of the time working to keep this place safer. At least say hi" Brooklyn said.

I looked away from Brooklyn and looked at some of the markets.

"I will. Later though. Not now" I said.

"Alright" Brooklyn said.

We continued to walk down the markets when I stopped. I looked up and read the name of the store. It was called Hunter. I stared at the store sign for a while. When Brooklyn walked up to me and put her hand on my shoulder while looking up at the sign as well.

"You really love her don't you" Brooklyn said.

I went silent. My brain had a complete flashback. All of a sudden I was thinking of meeting Hunter for the first time to sitting up on the watch tower with Megan every night looking at the stars. I slowly looked down and turned around to walk down the markets. Brooklyn followed close behind me.

"I do love her. A lot. I can't see a world without her in it. She's been there for me since the start. I miss her so much" I said trying to forget about it.

"I wish I could say I know how it feels, but I don't know how it feels. I've never had a boyfriend ever. I probably had a few when I was in year one or two, who didn't. I don't really remember that far back anymore" Brooklyn said.

"Help! Mummy! Help Mummy!" A little girl yelled in the distance.

I quickly sprinted towards the little girls yells for help. I saw a man wearing a black cloak over his entire body. He had his hoodie on and I couldn't see his face. The man was dragging the girl away. I quickly ran over and the girl looked at me.

"Help please!" The little girl yelled out again.

I ran towards the man and knocked him over onto the ground, dropping the little girl. The man quickly stood up and made a run for it. I forgot about him and walked up to the girl.

"Are you ok?" I asked.

She didn't answer. She was crying into her arm covering her face. I brushed her hair out of her face and wiped of the dirt on her knees and got down on my knees to get closer to her height.

"Sweetie wheres your mum?" I asked.

"Mummy!" The girl screamed out.

"It's ok. I'm not going to hurt you" I said.

Brooklyn walked over to us and got down on her knees as well. She had something in her hands. It was a doll. She handed it to the little girl and the she took it straight away. She hugged it hard and didn't let go of it.

"My name is Sam, this is Brooklyn. What's your name?" I asked.

"Claire... Claire Worth" the little girl said.

"Do you know where your mum or dad is?" I asked.

"Dad. He was banished from this place. He said he will come back for mum and I but he didn't" Claire said.

"Well. Do you know where your mum is?" I asked.

"No. I've never been out to this part of The New Order before. I'm lost" Claire said.

"Where does your mum work?" I asked.

"She teachers people math" Claire said.

"Ok. Well let's just go ask Zabi about who works as a math teacher and maybe he will lead us to your mum" I said.

Brooklyn and I both stood up and I helped Claire up onto her feet. She looked up at me and I put my hand out. She grabbed my hand and we all walked towards my fathers office. We walked in and I saw my father at his table.

"Hey dad" I said.

"Oh hey son. I was actually about to come and find you" My dad said.

"I need your help" I said.

"What with?" My dad asked.

"This little one here has lost her mum. Her mum is a math teacher do you know where we could find her" I asked.

"Yeah let me look" My dad said searching through a book.

"Caravan number twelve" He said.

"Ok thank you" I said taking Claire's hand again.

"Wait can we have a chat?" My dad asked.

"I'll come back later, I need to get Claire to her mum first" I said.

Brooklyn, Claire and I all walked out of the office and headed down to the caravans. We found caravan number twenty two and worked our way down. We got up to caravan number twelve and knocked on the door. No one answered. I turned the handle and the door opened. The caravan wasn't locked. As we walked into the caravan I saw all sorts of things laying on the floor. It looks like it was either robbed or someone had a fight throwing stuff around. We all searched around the caravan for any evidence.

"Wheres mummy?" Claire said.

I got down on my knees to face Claire.

"Hey, I promised I would find your mother. We will find her. No matter what" I said.

Claire smiled. I stood up and walked outside with Brooklyn. She was sitting on a chair outside.

"She's not here" Brooklyn said.

"Yeah, and it looks like something happened to her maybe" I said.

"What are we going to do now?" Brooklyn asked.

"Stay positive in front of Claire and we will search for clues about what happened here" I said.

We both looked out into the distance. Brooklyn stood up and ran over to marks on the ground. She looked at them closely.

"This looks like the same marks from when Claire was almost kidnaped. The marks continue out that way" Brooklyn said.

I stood up and looked at the marks.

"Let's follow them" I said.