Chapter 7.5 Fear and Bravery

The
first
thing
that came into Claire's
mind was:
Who or what are those...
things. Scary looking people-things.

She seriously thought
she was dreaming
for a second, or
maybe she still is.

Her mommy and her teacher always
say that she has got an imaginative mind.

But what she just saw
'was like, unlike anything I have ever seen, or dreamed of,'
she thought to herself.

Just wait till her mommy hear about her story when she gets back.

'okay, maybe I won't tell her the whole story...'

They were on their way home,

just like any other day after the certain event involving certain angel in her room, which, as she mentally sighed again, no one believed her because Mr. Bear was her only eyewitness and according to the Mr. policeman "Stuffed animal don't count."

So they , the adults, asked Thomas, her classmate and also her neighbor, to accompany her everyday to and after school, and he gladly accepted.

'That goofball, he like do anything anyone tell he to do,' Claire thought half-mad, half happily.

And then they saw three cute little bunnies; bunnies with red eyes, bunnies with red eyes kept getting redder and redder, bunnies with burning red eyes and they were indeed burning.

As the fire spread out from their eyes to the rest of their body, black things growed from the burnt areas. And those black-things soon became armored nightmare-looking creatures with bones sticking out from everywhere, they all have the same look in their eyes, the same design of black wings, but each had a different weapon in their hands.

Claire secretly wished her brother was there when it happened, then he would be able to tell her what kind of weapons they were. She didn't have a bit of clue on weapons and she didn't like them at all, and the only boy there--had already passed out awhile ago.

"Great, just what I need," Claire said sarcastically.

She told Mr. Bear, who had been sitting in her backpack quietly-- like a stuffed animal, that he doesn't need to act "normal" anymore, no one is here now and he should do something.
And he did.

What he did was...well, more than she had expected, and a little scary. But she was glad that she has a friend like him.

They stood and stared at each other for some time, and then she finally asked:
"where did the ice go?"