Flower Boy - Nico Di Angelo

02

Alarm bells began to ring in my head. How did this lady know who I am? I've never seen her before and she's not a friend of my fathers or even mothers. I think I would remember an appearance such as hers. How could I? She's creepy, and she's got a donkey leg!

She begins to advance on me and I couldn't help but take off running in the other direction, away from the woman and the only way out. I know that was a dumb decision on my part, but I did it anyway, I just wanted to get away from her. My legs pump faster and faster until I get to the spot I use to be at and hide behind a tree, hoping this crazy lady wouldn't find me.

"Oh, Indigo! Come out, come out where ever you are." I hear her say in a singsong voice. She begins to slash around in the flowers, destroying them. I couldn't help but feel a pang in my chest. She was hurting innocent plants in an attempt to get at me.

Doing the stupidest thing I could think of, I step out of my hiding place and right into the open where this lady could easily see me. I couldn't believe what I was doing. Do I want to die?

"I knew you'd come out..." She hisses, "Children of Demeter have always had a soft spot for plants."

"What-." I begin to say, but my words are cut short when she begins to advance on my position. I try to move backwards, but she slashes at my chest, ripping through my shirt, breaking the skin. Falling back onto the grass, I hit the ground and start to move backward. I ignored the sting in my chest and did my best at an attempt to escape.

I find myself in the with flowers that are currently screaming their heads off. Their ear-piercing screams made it hard to focus. I think this lady has some sort of poison or something on her claws because I don't feel very well. My vision begins to blur together, and the last thing I see is two little angry men thingies, the thing that attacked my mom, popping out of the ground and charging to towards the weird-looking woman.

My body gives in, and I fall back on to the soft surface the flowers provided. Everything washes away, and I wasn't worried about the lady who could kill me. The only thing that popped in my head now was sleeping. My eyes wanted to close, desperately. Everything went out focus, and then it all just stopped. The flowers stopped screaming and my eyes slammed shut.

"Don't worry, my dear. You will be safe."

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Waking up was something I didn't think I was going to get to do. I was for sure the donkey lady was going to murder me and string me up and let Darren find me in the morning. The bright sun shone through my eyelids, causing me to sit up and blink a few times when I first opened them. When my eyes adjust to the light, I take in my surroundings.

It looks like I'm in some makeshift infirmary cabin. My shirts completely gone, and I have bandages over my wounds. Realization hits. Last night actually happened...that lady was there. God, this is all crazy. I should be locked up in a mental ward.

Getting up off the cot I'm laying on, I slowly pull back the curtain and find the rest of the cabin empty. I wanted answers. I wanted to know how I got here and where exactly here was. The door to the cabin swings open; I jump at the loud noise, "Dude, your gonna give yourself a heart attack-."

Finding the owner of the voice was easy; it belonged to a boy with golden hair. He had on an orange t-shirt under a Hawaiian button-up, a pair of khaki shorts, and a pair of flip flops. The guy standing slightly behind him was extremely pale while the gold boy was tan, he had black hair that went to his shoulder, an aviator jacket over a black t-shirt with a skull on it, dark jeans, black covers, but the main thing that stuck out was the black sword that hung at his side off his belt.