I'm Home?

Where am I?

Claire Pov.

Finally. Free from pain. Free from torture. Free from sadness.

Free from life.....

Or so I thought.

Everywhere I looked, there was darkness. But it didn't feel threatening. In fact, it felt the opposite. Darkness was calm, comforting. Like a cup of hot chocolate with cinnamon in the freezing winter night.

I was comfy.
I was warm.
I was peaceful.

But then a shimmering rainbow light comes out of nowhere, along with a whisper of voice. The whisper sounds as if it's trying to say something. It sounds like it's frantically trying to say something. When I finally figure out what the voice was trying to say.

It went something like this: "...Don't give up yet... Time has finally come...for you to come... home.... "

And then the whisper died out. I was so distracted trying to make out what the voice was saying that I didn't notice that the shimmering rainbow light had gradually turned into a white beam, and from it several beams appeared, until the whole place was illuminated by the now blinding white light.

When the light died out, I saw that I was in the middle of a forest on the banks of a river.

I looked at myself and saw that I was wearing a simple white tee with some print that I couldn't for the life of me figure out it said and a blue ripped jeans. I also had a charms bracelet on and saw that I was wearing a beautiful sea blue-gemmed shell locket.

I went to the river to see myself. What I saw shocked me. I was younger and looked nothing like I did before. My hair looked raven-black and I was fair skinned with pink under tone.

I was never fair and was more of a yellow under toned tanned caucasian.

But what shook me really was my eyes. They were a beautiful Sea-blue.

And they looked stormy, like they had some internal turmoil going on. And they glinted , like when water does when light falls on it.

Overall, absolutely gorgeous.

But my own eyes should have been a dull dark brown...

I was brought out of my musings when I heard a loud, menacing growl. I looked behind me to see....

A minotaur.

Time Skip to 2 weeks later...

I'd been running from those monsters for two weeks now. I didn't have any food and was starving. How I was still alive, I didn't know. All I knew was that water helped me.

So I always stayed near the water.

But I was getting tired. Fast.

I knew I had to find someone who could help me, otherwise I will not be able to hold on much longer.

The only thing that kept me going was that whisper I'd heard in the darkness, urging me not to give up. It might have been my own voice, but I so tired that I couldn't differentiate anymore.

But today, I think luck might be on my side. Who knows.

I'd ran into a boy. The boy looked as if he worked in a garage. The boy caught a hold of me and prevented us from falling.

"Hey beautiful, where are you going in such a hurry that you didn't see me or the cliff? " Mr. Mechanic asked.

It was then that I noticed that we were on the edge of a cliff. We would've went tumbling down the cliff, that I didn't notice until after, if not for Mr. Mechanic.

" Thank you for saving both of us, but I don't have much time. I need to go, and you need to get away from me." I said. 'The pack of hounds might not come after you then, ' I thought to my self.

"What was that you said just now? " He asked.

Ooops.... did I say that out loud?

"Yes you did. "

God dammit.....

I'd gotten so distracted that I forgot about the massive hounds altogether, until they were right in front of us.

"Get back, please. I don't want you to get hurt." I said to him.

I brought out my Minotaur horn dagger that I made after killing that stupid beef head on the third day of him chasing me. I got into my fighting stance, which was me just making myself relax, ready to fight when Mr. Mechanic said, " Don't worry about me. I can hold my own. "

As he said that he put me BEHIND him and brought out a bronze? hammer. It was then I noticed the tool-belt around his waist.

He then proceeded to LIGHT HIMSELF ON FIRE.

"WHAT THE..... "

He didn't give me a chance to finish and started throwing fireballs and hitting the hounds with his hammer at the same time.

He killed all the 10 members of that pack in what seemed like a minute.

I. was. amazed.

Now that I knew I was safe, I sat on the ground for a much needed rest.

When he was finished, he came towards me.

"That was fun." He said and proceeded to extend his hand to me, which was still on fire.

"Uhh... " was my intelligent reply.

Then FINALLY he noticed and doused the flames.

He offered his hand to me once again and I took it this time.

"How did you killed those monsters so quickly?!" I asked him while frantically checking him all over, "And how in the name of heavens are you not hurt?! Or burnt?!"

" Because I'm awesome!" he exclaimed.

" Who are you? What are you ?! " I asked him, confused.

930 words.