Another day another attack

I woke up the next morning to see a pair of trousers, brown leather boots, two leather arm guards, a red tunic, and a leather belt. I put the clothes on and went outside. I saw Callan sitting on the ground carving a stick with a knife. I sat down in front of him.

" Do you know how to fish", he asked me as soon as he saw me

" No, I never really tried", I answered.

He called over a girl who looked about my age. She had brown hair and brown eyes, she also looked a bit taller than me.

" I want you to take Aaron here to the lake", Callan said.

" Why", the girl asked.

" Because I said so now go, Alex," he answered.

" Fine", she said.

She shoved a net at me and started walking. I followed. The girl, who I think is Alex, looked like she didn't really want to be bothered. When we got to the lake she took the net from me.

"Look", she said, taking the net from me.

She showed me how to bait the fish by throwing a rock in and putting the net towards where they ran.

I caught about five fish and tried to start a conversation with Alex but she kept on interrupting me with the be quiet hand signal.

When it was about time to go something jumped down from above and landed right in front of me. It had a bloodthirsty smile on its face, Skin that had cracks in it and in between those cracks looked like lava, it had long horns, and pitch black eyes.

" LOOK OUT", Alex said as she pushed me out of the way.

Then a guy with blond hair popped out of nowhere and pulled out a sword.

" Don't worry", he said, stabbing the monster in the back making it fall on top of me.

" I got you sis", the guy said.

I got up almost stumbling trying to get the black goop off of me which I think was the monster's blood.

" EW IT'S ON ME IT'S ON ME GET IT OFF", I screamed.

" Calm down, just lick it", he said.

I stared at him for a long time.

" Did you just say 'lick it'?", I asked.

" What, that always helps", he said.

" Anyways, what was that thing?"I asked, still disgusted by what he just said.

" Oh, that was a Lava Skin. It's the most simple name I can find for It, because you know there's lava in it's skin", he answered, " But you'll for sure come across more worse stuff than that thing. They're easy to kill once you find out it's weak spot. Also, your name's Aaron right?", he asked.

" Yes," I answered.

" Callan says there's something special about you. I asked him how he knew and he said one year ago he saw an old man who told him to look out for a boy with black hair, blue eyes, and was about fourteen to fifteen years old. His name is also Aaron."

"It can be a different Aaron", I said walking away.

I know what your thinking OF COURSE IT'S YOU HE LITERALLY DESCRIBED YOUR FACIAL FEATURE, YOUR NAME, AND YOUR AGE. HOW CAN YOU JUST WALK AWAY LIKE THAT. Well here's the thing: I'm not special or anything, I'm just normal. But at the same time it's not like everyday you come across some type of creature or old man and after you meet that man you find a glowing stone in your bag and that night you have a crazy dream that seems so real you can feel the pain inside it. Ok, yeah it's definitely me, and the old man he said Callan met one year ago had to be Mr. Hanlon. It all makes sense. The stone, the old man and my dream. Only things I didn't understand were those stones in my dream.

I got back to the "safe zone" . I saw Logan sitting down against a tree. I sat near him on the opposite side of the tree.

"This is all crazy right?", he asked me.

"I suppose", I answered.

" Are we really going to do this?", he questioned

"Do what?".

"Like fight back. The Callan guy did say that this was the resistance", Logan answered.

" I guess so. This all seems a bit like too much. It hasn't even been that long since Paxton was attacked. Maybe like two or three week but-".

" Two or three weeks is enough time to pull off a group of people wanting to hit dagger back", Logan said.

" Well, I guess you're right", I admitted.

I wanted to tell Logan about the stone, my dream, and what that guy who saved me earlier had said about Callan and the old man. But I was just too worried about what his response would be. Would he be worried about me, Would he be creeped out, or would he think I was just making up stories and pretend to believe me? He's my friend so i have to tell him at some point but just not now. I'll say something when the time is right.

Me and Logan talked for a little while longer. I told him about my encounter with the monster who is known to be called a "Lava Skin". After I finished speaking to him I decided to go to sleep. I didn't have an actual dream this time; it was more like a flashback or a memory.

It was the time I met Logan. He was 12 and I was 10. I saw him sitting alone on the steps of a house so I decided to speak to him.

I don't remember much from that day. The memories are still a bit fuzzy so my dream was cut there.

Soon I woke up to the sound of yelling and the smell of smoke. I went outside of my tent to see people in armor and people or creatures with horns attacking the group alot of them look like Dagger (Mainly because they had horns just like him) I saw Callan be held down by one of the creatures. And then, That's when I saw my sister struggling in one of the monster's hands. I moved before I could think and that's when I felt something hit the back of head and then everything went black.