The Journey

It had been a long day studying for final exams. I had been up in my room all day in silence when suddenly I hear, “NO, AHH GABBY!”

I ran downstairs as fast as I could but my mom was gone. “Mom!” I screamed but it was too late.

The next few days I stayed alone in my room sobbing and watching the window for any sight of anyone. Very few people walked by and I saw even less everyday. I remembered back to when my mom disappeared and realized there was someone else with her. It was a man that pulled a gun to her and pushed her through the door. I walked up and down the street and there was no one. He had taken everyone but why not me?...

I knew I had to find someone for my own safety and the greater good. He couldn’t have taken the whole world.

I began packing all my stuff for my journey. I had no idea where I would go to start off with but I could be traveling all around the world to try to find people. so I would have to fill my car with food. I didn’t know how many people he had taken so better off safe than sorry.

But then suddenly I told myself that I couldn’t leave here but I didn’t know why. I waited for 6 weeks and I was about to give up on my heart and just listen to my brain when I heard a Knock on the door.

YES, YES, YES! I screamed excitedly that my nerves were right and there was another person alive. As I answered the door I was getting kind of nervous for some reason. I opened it very slowly just in case it wasn’t who I wanted it to be. As the door opened, I saw him. Oh wait no,  it was just a kid. Why did that little kid have to get me so excited. Oh man, I thought.  As I heard the little kid speak though, He told me his name was Jack and asked if he could go on my journey with me. But how did he know that I was going on an adventure? How did he even Know who I was? “I had this weird vision,” he said in his cute baby voice.

“I don’t know why but it lead me here to this house. Do you know anything about the people disappearing?” The kid asked me.

I told him that I would take him to the people and that everything would be alright. It was really sad to see this little six year old looking all around for his family. I had to help little Jack.

So I gave Jack a suitcase and a couple bags to put all his stuff in. Then filled the car with tons of food that we could eat on our journey but only a little bit of fruits and spoilable things. I didn’t want everything to rot.

About 2 hours later, we left on our trip and for the first couple hours, there wasn’t a peep out of Jack. I was getting worried. Luckily he started to get used to me and started speaking right around midnight. I began thinking once Jack talked to me though. What if Jack wasn’t trustworthy. what if he came for information. But then I realized he was only six and probably couldn’t do much so I stopped worrying about it.

6 hours later we ended up in Canada but there was still no sight of anyone so we kept moving forward. I was so scared that we were going to run into someone that was only near us to take us. I was so happy because after 9 weeks we still hadn’t gotten caught. Sofar everything was going great.

Wow. We made it to the ocean but how were we going to get across. Obviously it was too far to swim and there were no ships in sight. So we waited there for three hours until finally a man came with a ship. I was so excited to see another person, I couldn’t keep it in.

So we got on the rusty old boat and headed across the water. Everything seemed to be going well. I did get confused though. I wondered why the captain of the boat didn’t do just as Jack. Why didn’t he come to me also? There was something shady about this man. But you never know I mean maybe he had a vision about us coming to him. I didn’t think much of it though and we continued on our trip.

Along this journey we did go through some struggles. After the first couple hours of  being on the ship, Jack started to get seasick. He was not doing well. I started to get really worried that he wasn’t going to make it. Jack had been such a nice kid before and he seemed so brave. I was sure Jack would be able to fight any sickness too. The poor kid was going downhill fast though. Jack was such a good sport and he was the only thing that kept me going this whole time. I didn’t know what I would do without him.

The next thing that happened on this trip was a food loss. We had all the food left in my car because the car was able to fit on the boat luckily but once that ran out we didn’t have anything. I could tell we were all a lot thinner than we were before we started this trip.

The last thing that happened on the ship was rocking and tipping. The ship was getting so rocky that I was getting afraid that it was going to tip. I was especially scared for little Jack.Things were definitely major. There were huge puddles on the ship and I had never learned to swim so what if the puddles got bigger. What would I do then because I wouldn’t be able to help Jack. I would be busy helping myself not drown.

I didn’t get myself to worried because it didn’t look like the puddles were getting bigger  any time soon. Also we figured out how to make fishing rods so we could fish for food. Now the only thing I would have to worry about was keeping Jack healthy.

The next thing I knew Jack was up and running around. Everything seemed to be fitting right into place.  It was about time for bed so I brought Jack to say goodnight to the captain. He hugged Jack and sent him right to bed like normal but under the desk I saw a gun. I got so scared, I left immediately. Why would he have a gun out right then.

As soon as I got in my cabin, I started to think. I couldn’t think of any reason why captain would want anything to do with me and Jack.
Then, suddenly it hit me. Was he the one that pulled a gun to my mother? Was he wanting to do the same to me and Jack? If so, what had he done to all those people? What would he be doing to me?

I layed in bed for the rest of the night eyes wide open for the rest of the night asking myself tons of questions. Was this the man?

There was only one possibility for me. What if he was just helping me so he could capture or kill me. I couldn’t just hope he would be nice I had to make him show me without making it obvious that I wanted something from him. So I started thinking about what I was going to do and within no time I had a plan. This would be great.

So I tiptoed over to the captain's room and peeked inside to make sure that he was still asleep and when I saw that he was I got started. I walked inside very quietly and started to examine the gun. I knew I recognized that gun. Think hard Gabby. I told myself. I knew it. It was part of the scene in my house. Different than any gun I’ve ever seen. What would I do now. I couldn’t scare Jack. We would have to get some information out of this guy.

I asked him all the questions I could think of and finally…

“ I wanted to have power. I wanted to be special,” he told me. “ There was no other way to do it than kill all the other people in this world.

“ But why not us?” I asked.

“ Well I had to keep someone and you two were the best I could find.” He told me and I realized that all he wanted was to be cool but this was no way to do it. He had killed my mom. That was all the family I had. He had ruined the whole world. He would be punished for this crime.

We lectured the captain and kept him trapped in the boat until he had learned his lesson. If he ever wanted to  return to the outside world he needed to know how dumb it was of him to do such a thing just to help himself.

Wait, there must be something going on here. How could he have done all that in just a couple of days. He must have had help.

“ Captain?”

“ Yes hun?”He answered back to me.

“ Umm… how did you kill all the people by yourself?”

“ Oh, Hmm… Well I didn’t.”

“What do you mean?”

“ You and Jack here helped me.”

I was speechless even in my own mind.

“ Well you see kids, I had you help me after your family's were gone and then I simply replaced your memories with what you know now. You were the dumbest kids I could find that actually did it for me. I had some other kids across the world helping me too but apparently you guys were smart enough to come looking for me. How did you even remember me though?”

“We didn’t, we ca…”

“No Jack. Don’t tell him anything. He’s a monster.”I yelled at Jack.

This part of our trip was filled with anger and screaming already. I couldn’t help it.

The captain then told us that there was a way to get the world back and that was his one single gun. It was practically magic. He told us what it did. We would have to go to the three locations in which he stored the people. Luckily they were stored in just 3 different locations. The gun would pull back the bullets and bring them back to life kind of like time travel but not.

I had no idea how he got this technology but I was glad he did.

So we got the whole earth’s bullets and waited for them to get up. When the world was back to normal I told my mom about the adventure I had had. She couldn’t believe it.