Forgotten One

Discovery Arc: The Monster Act!

Sarah had to use her whole body to push through the thick rotten blossoms, her muscles were screaming at her to rest- she had never done much weight training... how she wished she had joined Joanna on her more intense exercises.

The young woman spat and coughed; it was getting everywhere! The rotten petals beneath stuck to her clothes and the loose pink ones on top went into her long hair, making it damp, and her mouth, leaving a foul taste behind. And of course, it was still raining down from above, covering her head and shoulder.

Sarah pauses and went near a building that had a shelter over the main entrance and caught her breath were shaking her head, causing the new pile to fall, joining the few that had fallen into the shelter. Dark glass surrounding the whole front of the building's lobby allowing to see herself clearly in it.

Glancing up she sees a mother holding her child close to her, battling against the blossoms.

Sarah sighs heavily, she had two men and three women come up to her asking if she needed help, claiming that a child should not have to push through this alone and either saying they were would or call her mother.

The light bearer had grown up a lot over the past months and she knows that some sixteen-year-olds were this short too because she had someone in her class. Sarah turns to the glass of the building and stares at the purple-eyed girl staring back at her in the dark reflection.

Sarah thought she appeared to be the height of a thirteen-year-old, she had lost most of her baby fat leaving behind the first signs of a womanly figure... of course, her clothes did not help highlight this and people saw a short young girl and thought she was still younger...

Sarah raises her chin and stares at the mountain of blossoms; she knew she had to keep going... but the subway that returned to the hotel was a four-mile walk.

'Maybe I can summon a monster?' Sarah thinks to herself as she starts to move once more, while a woman had been demanding for her to give over her mother's phone number, she had seen a person riding a horse-like dragon, which marched through the blossoms like it was nothing, 'I bet more and more people will realize that soon... but to use monsters for like that, is it allow outside of battles? There are been a ban on monsters in cities and town and using them for everyday use since.... since.... 2390 years ago!'

Sarah pauses to catch her breath once more, feeling more wore out than the last time she took a break. She pushes her way to another building and leant against the brick wall.

As she breaths in deeply she tried not to suck in the blossoms surrounding her.

'But who? My elf? Calixtus would cut people down... My golem? No Rocky is too slow.' Sarah thinks as she pulls up her screen, it showed her image and the number of monster summoning coins on her person alongside it, 'My blob... Sunny would not be any help. My skeletons? Nope. Drus Dryad? No... My Giant Troll... well, I think it could help but it might cause a panic and I don't want to turn this into a horror story...'

Sarah starts moving, then pauses when she notices that the falling blossoms had slowed down- a mighty cheer was heard making her jump, she was not the only one to see that the blossoms were settling.