MONSTERS WITHIN

Chapter 15

Aunt Johnna pulled up to the school, and waited for peter, a couple of minutes pass by, no peter in sight, "...oh he probably walked back home..." She started the car back up, and drove off to the house. When she finally got there, she walked up to the door and walked in, "peter? ..I'm home!! ...peter?" "Strange" she thought "peter would come downstairs or acknowledge that i'm back.." she walked around the house, and everything was in place, from top to bottom. She started getting paranoid and started to yell Peter's name, "..peter?! ..peter where are you?!!" She immediately grabbed her phone and dialed 911, "911 what's your emergency?" Said the operator from the other side, "hi! Uhhhh....uhh oh my goodness....s-sorry! I'm sorry I'm....my nephew..he..I can't find him anywhere! He..he's not like this!! He wouldn't ever run away! I know him!" Johnna explained, "okay keep calm ma'am, we'll send someone right away.." the operator said before hanging up, "th-thank you!!-....oh my god oh my god oh my god....FUCK!!! C'mon petey!!" Johnna said loudly, she sat down on a chair and put her head in her hands, and cried. A couple of minutes later a officer pulled up, johnna opened the door and saw lieutenant Fredrick at the door, "ma'am...you called about a missing child?" Fredrick said as he walked in, "yes...he's not like this!!" Johnna immediately said, "I see....y'know he could've played hooky?" Fredrick said lighting a cigarette, "what?! I immediately said he's not like this!!" Johnna said with a firm expression, "hm...any problems with high school?" He asked, johnna looked down, "...well...he did have a nasty cut on the side of his face...said he tripped and fell down...." Fredrick chuckled, "just like they always say...they say they tripped but parents like you don't know the real story..." Johnna immediately got angry, but kept it cool, "...siiighh...wait parents? Oh! Oh I'm not his mother! I'm his aunt..." She explained, "oh? ...what happened to the others?" Johnna sat down, on the dining room chair, and fredrick sat down across from her. "...m-my sister....she...she was amazing... Beautiful eyes...Kind..sweet...she was everything...she was diagnosed with Cancer...and my nephew peter...he was 2 years old...he never got the chance to say goodbye...her husband..CJ his name was...he was kind aswell...basically the same thing as her..they were perfect....until.....the incident...." She explained with every detail, Fredrick raised an eyebrow, "..incident? ...what happened?" He asked, "...I honestly don't know...peter never told me..but....all I know is that his arm was ripped off...and a hole was punched in his chest.." as she said that, fredrick's eyes widened a bit, "..arm was ripped off? ...like the murders that happened recently?" Johnna's ears perked up, "..murders? ... what happened?" She asked with a worried tone, "first an old couple, campers, a school janitor, a old woman, and....today....three students....there were young..." Johnna covered her mouth in shock, "..Jesus Christ....s-so...m-my nephew..." She then got up and grabbed her boots, fredrick followed, "...what are you doing?" He asked, "I'm...gonna help you find my sister's son!" Fredrick stifled a laugh, "heheh...of course your not stop playing around.." he said rolling his eyes, "nope!! Not playin' around! C'mon Freddy!" She said walking out the door, "....siiighh...great...now i gotta keep an eye on 'knockout' over here..." Fredrick grabbed his com, "uhhh...yeah we need a couple of officers doing a 'round a bout the neighborhood? A.....a pretty cute lady asked me to look for her nephew...and she's helping me....yeah I know, one hell ova day amiright? Heheheh... alright see ya soon..." Fredrick walked out of the house and shut the door, and saw johnna sitting on the hood of his vehicle, promptly named "Betty", "woah woah!! Get offa Betty like that..." Johnna laughed a bit, "Betty? Heh...nice name for an old thing like this" she said as she got into the passenger seat next to fredrick, "hey...never..disrespect the power of what Betty could handle...she could go 90 miles per hour..." He said while patting the steering wheel, then took a nice swig of whiskey, "ppft...90 miles per hour...that's how much your father went that night..." Fredrick spat out his whiskey out on the windshield, "OH GODDAMN IT!! ....PFFT! hahahah!!" From anger, to immediate laughter, "okay..okay that was pretty nice not gonna lie...heheh.." johnna chuckled a bit, "y'know? ...your not a bad guy Freddy...alright...let's go find my kid.." she said as fredrick started Betty up, they drove off as the sun finally setted on a new day.

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"Okay....hmm...how to start a fire...first! ..we need a flint of steel..and alot of kipling...and sticks..annnnndd..." Peter said as he spun a stick between the flint and steel, all of a sudden a fireball was shot at the pile of sticks, erupting in flames. "GAAAH!!!!" Peter screamed and jumped backwards, and ember was dying of laughter with a flameball in her hands, "sorry!! You were taking too long! Besides...I caught dinner!" She smiled as she held up four dead rabbits, "..eww.." tren said looking at the dead lifeless eyes, reminding him of his grandmother, he looked away before his mind could make a clear image of her decapitated jaw. "..well...better than nothing...." Ember put the rabbits over a log and pulled out a knife, she began to cut through the rabbits skin and pulling out there organs, and skinning them, tren watched as she pulled out the intestines, "..sooo....what are you here for?" Tren asked, "huh? ..oh...I'm here with my lameass and mean grandparents...fuckin douchbags y'know?" Tren stifled a smile, "..I can relate....well...my grandmother is now...dead..and I miss her....and I don't know why...siiigghh..." Tren said a bit sadly, "...hey...it's gonna be fine! She's gone now and I'm with you guys!! Away from my grandparents! Hahah!!" She said smiling at tren, she turned and looked at peter, "hey Peter! Would it be gnarly if these little shits were alive?! Hahahaha!!" She said with a evil smile on her face, "..heheh...yeah...yeah it would...." Peter sat looking at the fire, "...hey tren? ...where are we heading?" Tren looked up and stratched the back of his head, "honestly....I don't really know...let's just find somewhere safe..and wait until Charlie never find us again..." Peter had a doubtful expression on his face, "...well...I do know there's a town called Redcrest not too far from here..." Tren looked at peter with his eyes wide open a bit, "how so?" He tilted his head, "well...were going west right? ..that's where Redcrest is...if we keep moving we'll get there by morning...but if we leave in the morning..it would almost take two days..." Tren smiled at peter, then kissed his cheek, "your so smart...hehehe..." Peter blushed a bit and rubbed his cheek, "...th-thanks...my aunt probably noticed I'm gone by now...." Tren patted his back, "hey...it's okay...Hopefully she'll understand..." Peter put his hand on tren's, and rubbed it. "...yeah...of course she will..." Peter and Tren smiled, then they both looked at one another, and kissed. "Hehehe....hey you love birds!! Dinner's ready!" She said holding up three skinned and cooked rabbits, tren and peter kept on kissing, and tren held a finger up as signaling "wait a second", "...hehehe...aight! Well hurry up before it gets cold hahah!!" Tren put his hand on Peter's chest again, and pushed him down, "heheh...glad your here with me..." He said softly in Peter's ear, who is red as a tomato. "...heheh...y-yeah...heh.." peter said, tren laughed a bit and then kissed him again, not knowing that over in the treetops, Charlie is watching them make out, he's hunched over on a branch smiling at the two coyotes, "heheheh...awww..young love!! ..so adorable...such little time..heheh..." He said to himself, a squirrel then hopped on the branch next to him, and charlie smiled at it, "hello there!! ...are you a new friend?" Charlie asked, the squirrel stared at him some more, without warning charlie grabbed the squirrel with lightning speed and swallowed it. Whole, he spat out some of the meat, "...uggh...still can't beat human meat...HAHAH!! that rhymed!! Hahahahah!!" He said spying on the two coyotes, still kissing onto the night, on the cold hard forest floor, awaiting for the next day.