Elias by Anysia Eaton (best free ebook reader for android .TXT) 📖

Another life, another brave defender murdered by the dreaded mouth of the T-Rex that lurked in the forests. His equipment is brought through my town of Mortiz. Each town has a highly charged fence surrounding it, defending it from the T-Rex. At each corner there is a watch tower, where the highest trained defenders watch out for the killer T-Rex. One sight of one and they spring into action. I watched a T-Rex approach once, it was one of the most fascinating things I have ever seen. I was six and I was stood looking out of the fence with my older brother. The T-Rex came roaring out of the forest towards the town, my brother tried to make me run, but I wanted to remain where I was, so he eventually decided stayed with me. The T-Rex stopped just before the fence starred me in the eyes like he could see right through me. Of course the defenders were alerted and in action. They called for their faithful Pterodactyls and of course they came within seconds. Three came circling the T-Rex and once they had his attention they flew off into the forest with the T-Rex following. It was over as sudden as it began but I’d always remember the way that T-Rex looked me straight in the eyes.
When my brother reached sixteen he had to go and join the defender’s academy, where he would learn how to be a defender, me and my family hadn’t seen him since, all we had was the letters he wrote us every two months. When he left I was still quite young, I was ten years old. Of course, I was an average child, a curious mind that got me in a lot of trouble. It is a rule for us children to stay inside of the fence and I have always wondered what is beyond the fences and animals lurking in the forest.
When I was thirteen an injured animal came out of the forest in a hurry. It was only a baby T-Rex. A baby T-Rex wasn’t a threat to a human. From its size I would guess it was only three years old. It crawled under the fence. I went over and dragged it into my house. I named it Elias after my brother and over the next few days I nurtured it until it woke up. When it woke, it was plainly curious to what I was. It still had a bad leg that I had rapped up to stop it from getting infected, so it wasn’t yet able to get up. Every day I brought it some meat from the market, it ate a whole block of meat in seconds. I gave him two a day. Slowly it saw me as a friend and not something to be afraid of. Every day I check on its wound and slowly it was healing. I kept it in my room and kept it secret from my mother. But of course I couldn’t keep it a secret from her forever and she soon walked in on me looking after it. She flipped out and shouted “Get that thing out of my house”
“Mother, it’s injured, it would die if I didn’t look after it” I begged.
“I don’t care, Elspeth, get it out of my house” shouted my mother.
“Mother, please, when it can look after itself I’ll let it go but until then it’ll need my help” I continued to beg.
This continued for a good twenty minutes until she finally gave in and said, “Fine, but when it can look after itself it’s going back where it came from, the other side of that fence”
Of course, after a few more weeks it had healed but I never told mother that. Every week I had to get it more meat then the week before. It grew and grew until it was half my size.
“Elias, you’re getting extremely big” I said to him one night as I was cuddled in my blanket in my room. He was lay next to me with his head on my lap. He made a little soft noise.
“But I’ll love you no matter how big you get.” I said sweetly.
Two years later it was about three quarters of my height. It was night and I was stood in my room looking out my window out the side with the fence. It came next to me and lay its two front legs on the bottom of the window and looked out as well.
“You will be out there one day and you will forget all about me. You will be the king of the forest and no one will be able to beat you. You will be back here again and again just like others have and you may possibly be the death of other human beings on their Pterodactyls.” I said sweetly.
Elias just made a little noise.
I went and sat down in my corner that had my blanket in it. I put my blanket on me. It came over and sat next to me. “When do you want to start your adventure out there?”
Elias remained silent.
“You will have to leave one day because soon you will be bigger than all the rooms of this house stacked on top of each other. So just let me know somehow, when you think you are ready to go.”
Of course, I never worked out how to understand what he was ever motioning for except from when he wanted food. But of course after another year he was the same size of me and that is when everything kicked off. Of course Elias was starting to get moody and one time he wacked me with his tail by accident and left a nice slit in my leg. We couldn’t do anything with it but wrap it up in the hope it will heal itself. We wrapped it in a scrap piece of cloth and that is when my mother decided enough was enough. Without any warning two of the local defenders came charging into my room followed by my mother. I knew what they were here for. They were here for Elias. I backed him up to the opposite side of the room and stood in front of him in a guarding like fashion.
“Get out of the way” Shouted one of them.
“You cannot take him” I shouted back.
My mother grabbed me by the arm and pulled me to the side, she grabbed hold of me as tightly as she could. I screamed and shouted “Elias” as the two defenders tied his arms together, then his legs and his mouth. He looked at me with fear in his eyes. I continually tried to get free but every time my mother came out the stronger one.
“This is for your own good, Elspeth. He is a monster, you may not think he is now but you cannot truthfully say he will not be one when he’s towering above this town” shouted my mother as they dragged him out of the house.
“No” I cried as I glimpsed my last sight of him. The last glimpse I got was of the neat little scar on his leg where the remnants of the injury that brought him to me.
The next morning I went and sat by the fence hoping to see him. One of the defenders had spotted me on his way back home from the night shift at the north watching tower. He was one of the two that had took Elias out of the house.
“He will be alright. After all he is a T-Rex” said the defender.
I didn’t even turn round to look at him, I stayed quiet and continued to look out to the forest. He sighed to himself and came and sat down next to me.
“Where is he?” I asked him.
“We personally took him far enough into the forest that he will not harm any human being any time soon” replied the man.
“He would never harm a human anyway” I snapped at him.
“Maybe not now, but after all he is a T-Rex, I can assure you, after a few month out there, if he lasts that long, he will be as savage as the rest of them.” He replied.
I remained silent knowing he was right. No matter how much I wanted to not believe it I couldn’t as it was a bare fact. As I remained silent he continued, “What I want to know is how you came across him in the first place?”
“I found him two years ago, he had hurt his leg and crawled under the fence not far from my house. I had always been fascinated by T-Rex’s since one looked me in the eye through the fence when I was about eight. I took it back to my house and looked after it, it started to trust me and I started to love him, but of course I knew he would have to go back into the forest but I hoping it would be a bit longer yet” I explained.
“A little longer and he would be able to overpower two of us” replied the man.
“But still...” I continued. “He was like my best friend. He was always there for me, just like a best friend should be”
“I cannot possibly hurt the way you are right now but take it this way, the longer he would have spent with you the harder last night would have been” commented the man trying to sympathise.
“I know” I said quietly.
We sat there in silence for a few moments until he said, “I still have not asked you for your name”
“Elspeth, my name is Elspeth” I replied.
“You are very brave, you know, to help a T-Rex, even a baby one. What makes me wonder, you obviously can’t be that young, yet you look no older than sixteen” commented the man.
“I am fifteen, I found him when I was thirteen” I mentioned.
“You’re the same age as my son. He’s just like you, curious into the T-Rex life, but he is coming to terms with the fact in a year’s time he’ll be going to the...” started the man when I interrupted “Defenders academy”
“Yes, how do you know?” asked the man.
“My brother went there five years ago. I haven’t heard from him for at least a year” I replied.
“Oh. I am sorry” said the man.
“It’s ok.” I replied.
A year later, houses had been built in between my house and the fence. One was actually touching the fence. I had given up hope of ever seeing Elias again so I focused on what I could do with my life. In my town, women were only good for extending the family line and looking after the children. I had a life of plain housekeeping and childbirth ahead of me, but I wanted a different life. When the defender collector people came around the village, I approached them and said, “I want to join”
“You are a woman” replied the one of the defenders.
“You are in” replied the other straight after.
The first one looked at him.
“We are one short” continued the other.
“Fine. Get some stuff together we leave soon” gave in the first.
I rushed home and got some stuff together. As you can expect my mother was in floods of tears, not wanting me to go, but I wanted a different life then what she had.
“Mother, I would much rather prefer die to a T-Rex and have a different life, than die natural death having been a child