5

Inside the bright room a girl was sleeping on a couch, her surrounding was a mess, her sleep got disturbed by the sudden falling of plates on the floor

"what? Who" Alex opened her eyes as she heard the sudden sound, she looked here and there but found nothing

"this place is so creepy…" Alex curled herself into a ball and prepared herself for another round of sleep when she was suddenly realized something'

"where is the kid?" she face went white and her heart lost its steady heart beat and form inside she started blaming herself for not taking care of a kid, as she was busy scolding herself another sound came from the front room, Alex got up suddenly and walked over to the room, the door was open and the inside of the room showed a horrific scene, the plates were broken on the ground , a cup was missing its handle, somebody had munched on the candles as well, and in the corner of the kitchen like room sat the kid with his back towards Alex. just as she saw the back of the kid did she breath a sign of relief..

"there you are…I thought I lost you" Alexia walked over to the kid who got scared of the sudden intrusion of Alex and looked at her with his round button eyes

"are you hungry?...." the sigh of hunger could clearly be seen on his face. Alex walked over to the cupboard in the kitchen and tried to find something to eat.

There was nothing in the kitchen to eat, and the kid was looking at Alexia with hope filled eyes and whenever she opened a jar he was hoping that something would come out of there bu tsadly she found nothing..

"I guess we are out of food buddy" she said while opening the last jar and luckily there were some nuts inside it, Alex handed over the jar to the kid, after staring at Alexia for a few seconds he took the jar and ate the content of the jar, Alex in the mean while looked around he house to find some money to buy food, she walked up the stairs and saw nothing but two shabby rooms, one of them was in a bit better condition, she walked into the room and opened the cupboard, there were only a few clothes. Alex looked around the room to find something that she could sell but there was nothing valuable near by

BAAM..BAAM,BAAM….

Alex heard loud bangs on the door downstairs while she was looking for something valuable, the urgency of the knock made her run down stairs , just down the stair she found the kid, his eyes filled with fear and his face paper white

"what happened buddy? Did you get scared?" Alex asked the child and ignored the banging door for a while, the little kid said nothing, he only looked at the door which was about to break, Alex thought of his fear as a trauma of the past so she asked him to hide up stairs and cover his ears, after the kid was fully hidden, she walked towards the door luckily there was a wooden plank just by the door which she picked up before opening the door..

BAAM..BA…

"stop that" Alex got angry at who so ever was banging the door

Outside the door were a bunch of fat people, banging the life out of the poor door

"hahahahah missy…what took you so long" a yellow teethed guy smiled like a flirt at Alex

"was I supposed to open it for you?..... state your business" Alex said with a plain face

"why so serious missy? Lets talk while sitting inside" the fat man took a step forward on which Alex banged the wooden plank on his head

"stay away from my house…"

"hey , how dare you hit our leader, we will skin you alive" another man from behind came forward as the other helped the bleeding yellow teeth man

"I will kill you if you set a foot inside my property"

"pfft!! Hahahahah, missy, you speak in a weird manner"

"I beat the hell out of people in a weird manner too, wanna try it" Alexia raised the plank in the air

"Now you are making it difficult for us, we are just looking for a kid, and our resources have told us that he is here…"

"well I am telling you he is not here.." Alexia was not gonna let the take the kid under any circumstances

"so you want us to do it the hard way then? ....Brothers take the lady down" the yellow teeth man roared

Alex heart skipped a beat because of fright, she was a good fighter but that didn't mean she was able to take down twelve fat men all by herself, she stomped her foot on the ground as if thinking of how foolish it was for her to provoke such people but something unimaginable happened, all the men stated slipping on the ground and they fell face flat on the pavement, they struggled to get up but that was in vain, the ones that were still on their feet were unable to take even a single step.

"boss what is this, I can't get up….me too.." some of the men on the ground spoke to the yellow teeth guy who stood by the door with his mouth wide open, even Alex was shocked for what had happened to the men and why were they sticking to the ground like a gum

Now even the yellow teeth guy was losing his balance and so was Alex but luckily she held on to the door with one hand and banged the man's head with the wooden plank again until e passed out, his partners were looking at there boss who was unconscious at that time and then gazed at the lady who stood by the door with a wooden plank, there eyes had anger and rage but they couldn't do anything as they were glued to the ground.

Alexia saw the scene with dumbfounded face and then quickly closed the door again, she ran upstairs where she hid the kid, she saw him trembling with fear so she uncontrollably hugged him and patted his back

"everything will be alright, nothing will happen to you as long as I am here…" Alexia continued on patting his back until she felt the room was getting colder and colder and the kid started trembling more and more, and this time it was not because of fear but it was because if the cold, even Alex herself trembled a little, she turned around and saw the room turning white due to frost, the weather outside the house just now was sunny so why this happening.... Alex picked up the kid and ran down the stairs, even the stairs were slippery, but she managed to walk on them and get down safely, just as she was about to open the front door she realized that there were a bunch of balloons sticking to the ground there, so she wanted to avoid them, then she went into the kitchen because that was the only place with a lot of sunlight and placed him there, she wrapped him in a blanket and made him sit in the direct sun..

"you will be fine here…now don't move around I will take care of the people outside the door.." after patting his head one last time she ran out of the kitchen but sadly she slipped

'Ouch...what did I slip over?...." sitting on the cold floor Alex saw blood flowing out of her one knee which had directly hit the cold floor

"what is wrong with this place why is everybody slipping over nothing" Alex tried to get up by using ground as a support, and she felt cold running thorough her hands

'what is this, its so hot outside and my hands are getting ice cold just by touching the ground? Is this place even sane?' alexia looked at her bleeding knee and held it with a hand to stop it from bleeding, she got up and noticed the ground freezing up even more, Alexia twitched her eyebrows as if trying to figure out what was going on here, and just then she saw frost forming in the place she had just stepped..

"Whaattt???"