[10 years ago]

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Waking up from her most peaceful sleep yet, Charlotte rubs her eyes.

Two knocks were heard from the door before it opened, revealing Charlotte's older brother.

"Time to eat breakfast." Her brother said smiling towards the beauty of his little sister. Her long blonde wavy hair, slightly messy, and her matching brown eyes, with a frail body, for a 5 year old, she was quite tall.

"I'll be there! Just gotta get ready!" Charlotte said smiling brightly. The girl with a cheerful personality, always smiling, always happy. That's who Charlotte is - no. That's who Charlotte was.

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Charlotte all freshen up and lively came to the kitchen. She smiled upon seeing her mother, placing the plates for the two of them.

Charlotte looked around the house, from the kitchen, to the living room, and even the backyard, just to look for her brother but he was nowhere to be found.

She ran back to the kitchen asking her mom for her brother's whereabouts. "He ate early today and left to go play at his friends house, so don't worry about him." "Oh, okay!"

Charlotte happily went to sit down in the table and starts eating with her mom.

Putting another spoonful of omelette in her mouth, Charlotte smiles, the food was delicious, the weather was perfect, and it was saturday. No class, no nothing.

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Getting up, Charlotte drops the plate she was holding causing it to shatter, when she heard loud, disturbing screams from outside. Fear, agony, and despair.

"Charlotte come here!" Her mom picked her up, and ran towards the basement. Charlotte could feel her mom's trembling limbs, but she had said nothing. These kind of feelings were new to a five year old girl like Charlotte.

"Mom, what's happening?" Charlotte said in the verge of crying. "Sweetie listen to me. Whatever happens, do NOT come out. Alright? Stay here, I'm gonna go get your brother, so wait for us here. Alright?" Charlotte nods having no other choice.

Or so she was taught. But no, she was too worried about her family's well being.

She waited for a bit and followed her mother, staying at a certain distance hiding behind anything that could cover her so that her mom wouldn't see or notice her.

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Charlotte peaked through the door, dropping down to the floor as soon as she did.

A creature so vile, getting creeped out she had started running towards the basement where her mom had hidden her.

Sitting down Charlotte covered her mouth making sure she doesn't make a single noise, as tears roll down her cheeks.

What she saw traumatized her.

She witnessed her families death. An unknown creature killed her mother and her brother, she regretted not doing anything as she saw their heart being pulled out and their heads being cut off.

Charlotte did her best to stop crying but her tears won't cooperate. She quietly sobbed and sobbed until...she heard a loud loud thud.

Charlotte flinched, she closes her eyes as her heart rate rises, the footsteps were getting louder and louder.

She was afraid and frustrated. Why can't she do anything? Why can't she think? Why? Just why? She can't even move, she's been paralyzed, metaphorically.

"I told you there's no one here." Charlotte heard a man's voice. It was....a human? Slowly, she stood up and peaked at the two voices talking- no, arguing with each other.

"Let's just look around once more." The man who first entered, answered. Charlotte's eyes were basically glistening, she thought she had hope.

They're here to save me!

She thought. Though there were many possible risks, Charlotte couldn't care less. She'd not want to waste the hope she had built-up.

She slides the box that was covering her earlier, giving her a clearer view of the "people" earlier.

Oh

The glistened eyes that Charlotte had was now gone. They weren't humans. The creatures red eyes glowed in the dark, and as they saw her, they transformed into something else.

Charlotte couldn't move. She knew she was done for.

The creature's rushes in on her, grinning, happy to have seen another meal.

Charlotte stared at the creatures blankly. She couldn't care anymore, it was the end for her and she knew that.

She closes her eyes.

At the age of five, she had awoken to the cruel reality of this world. At the age of five, she had lost those she loved the most. At the age of five, she had already accepted death.

-Chapter 1 [END]

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Charlotte Heavenhart was about to meet death, five years into her life.

She breaths in and out as she closes her eyes.

The creature licked it's mouth as it sprints towards Charlotte, ready to feast in on her whilst the other creature did nothing but looked at Charlotte, with eyes almost pitying her.

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The room was quiet. Only the breathings of those in there were heard.

Charlotte opened her eyes, slowly looking down as soon as she did.

She looks at her hands, and smiled. It was the creepiest smile she had ever given to her self.

Hah, I'm alive!

Charlotte laughs hysterically, she was creeped out by it, but she was happy.

"Are you done?" Charlotte flinched as she heard a man talk. "God, you were almost it's third victim, I told him we need to savor you livestocks, but he just won't listen. Tsk."

Charlotte immediately steps back, realizing her situation.

As she steps back, scared, she falls tripping on something. She took a look at what she tripped on and saw the other creatures head, rolling.

She looks forward and saw it's body, laying around on the floor.

No no no. I- what?

She felt scared, Charlotte started crying again.

Was I saved just to be eaten?

"Why are you so scared?" The creature said walking towarda her, stopping as soon as Charlotte back away.

"Am I that much of a monster?" The creature said as it crouched. Charlotte was way beyond afraid.

"I'm sorry....I'm really really sorry..." The creature started crying. The trembling Charlotte became confused.

Huh?

She reaches her hand out to the creature. "Mister? Are you...okay..?" She didn't know why she was asking him that. She didn't know why she wanted to comfort it.

Ah...I shouldn't

She backs her hand off, she wanted to comfort it but she was scared.

What if it's a trick? What if it eats her right after she lets her guard down?

The creature looked at Charlotte, she couldn't see it very well but she was already getting goose bumps.

She could feel this creatures glare. She could sense its hatred towards her. But why? She had never met this creature before so why? Why does it hate her so?

"Die." The creature mumbled. Charlotte couldn't understand what it was saying.

"What..?" She asked.

"DIE!!!" The creature shouted as its claws and teeths sharpened. It looked at Charlotte just as how the other creature did.

Charlotte trembles whimpering.

"Ehhh???" She heard another voice. It was a woman's voice this time. "You were here all this time?"

The creature turned to look at the female walking towards them.

"Eh? What stunned by my beauty?" The woman turns into a dramatic form, looks at the creature then smirks at him.

Charlotte looked at the woman, she could clearly see her as she was standing beside the door, light coming in directly at her.

A human..!

She smiled widely. The woman looked at Charlotte's gleaming face.

"Having a kid for a snack? What are you? A pedophile?" The woman laughed at the creature as she took out her gun and shooting the creature right towards its heart five times giving it no mercy.

The creature dropped onto the ground dead.

"You okay kid?" The woman asks walking towards Charlotte.

"Y-yeah..thank you." Charlotte answered. "You don't seem okay, you sure you ain't acting tough?" Charlotte shook her head. "Good, 'cause that's a weaklings job." The woman lended Charlotte a hand. "My name's Sarah Palin. Yours?" "Charlotte."

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                               Two Days Later

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"Hey kid, eat up." Sarah hands over a bowl of porridge to Charlotte.

"Hey Sarah.." Charlotte called out making Sarah turn around

"What is it?" Sarah asks as she sits down beside Charlotte.

"What.." Charlotte pauses for a while and then spoke again. "What were those things?" She looked at Sarah who had a sorry expression.

"Sorry Charlotte, I don't know either..." Sarah said apologizing and Charlotte nodded.

"Want anything?" Charlotte shook her head. "Okay, well call me if you need something. I'll get it for you." Sarah said closing the door, leaving.

Charlotte placed the bowl down onto the coffee table as she stared at the world outside the window.

It was festive. Sarah had brought her to the island she lived in. Unlike the city Charlotte once lived in, this was more high-tech, they had a more advance technology, Charlotte was amazed.

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"Charlotte come outside, we have somewhere to go to." Sarah said as Charlotte walked outside towards her.

"Charlotte, get yourself together." She stopped and crouched down as she faces Charlotte. "I know, it's really sad losing your family like that but, it has been two days, you need to learn how to let people go." Charlotte couldn't believe Sarah said that.

"That's easy for you to say, isn't it?" She started crying. "YOU ARE SO INCONSIDERATE.My mom...she's gone and she's never coming back and I don't even know where my dad is...and my brother.." She sobbed.

"Well that's not gonna save you Charlotte, crying over it, mourning, you're just gonna get yourself killed." Sarah said holding her shoulders. "You need to stay strong, out there, outside this island, is a world full of horrors, your world completely changed." She paused, looking at Charlotte's eyes. "And if you want it to go back to the way it was before, then disregard your feelings, because that won't save you."

Sarah stood up. "If you don't wanna come with me, then don't. Stay here then. I'll pick you up when you're ready." Sarah said leaving Charlotte behind.

Charlotte watched Sarah leave on her motor bike. Charlotte stomped her foot in frustration, and then running.

She had no idea where she was going, but she couldn't honestly care. She just wants to run.

She kept on running and running until she got tired. Slowing down, she drops onto the ground.

She pabted and panted as her sweats dry off.

"You're gonna catch a cold at this point you know." Charlotte's eyes widen as she hears a very familiar sentence.

"If you catch a cold you won't be able to eat ice cream!"

Suddenly she sees a blur vision of a boy

(in her mind, like u know imaginary.)

"Who-" She coughs. "Common kid, stand up. This isn't a place for wimps like you." Charlotte stood up as she looks at the man in the eyes.

"I'm no wimp." She said glaring. "Woah, aren't you a tough fella." The man smirked at her. "Who's your mom? You got her number or something?" Charlotte shook her head. "Ah..." The man looked at her in silence. "Wait, you're not from this island right?" The man asks flicking his fingers.

"Yeah." Charlotte answered. "Then why aren't you there yet?" The man asks again. "There where?" Charlotte answered, this time with a confused look on her face.

"Hm you know what, it'll be better if I show you." The man offered his hand to Charlotte as he spoke. "The names Justin Curtis." He said expecting Charlotte to answer back. "Yeah..cool." She did, but she did not give him her name.

"Hm..hop in." Justin pointed towards his bike. He got in before Charlotte, and they drove off.

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Where is this?

Charlotte thought as she got off the bike.

The place was full of people, children to be exact. There were adults but just a few.

"Can you wait here for a while?" Justin asked Charlotte as she just nods turning her head looking around.

Justin left her for a while and came back right away, with someone.

"Oh, so you came anyway." A woman with her arms crossed stood infront of Charlotte. She looked up just to see the woman, it was Sarah.

"So this is that kid you were talking about?" Justin came and stood beside her.

"Yeah, quite a wimp but, she's good potential." Sarah looked at Charlotte and then Justin.

"Hey kid." Justin calls Charlotte. "Do you wanna avenge your mom?"

"A..venge?" Charlotte looked at Justin.

She trembles in fear after suddenly remembering what happened to her mom.

She dropped onto the ground.

"Mom..." Her tears started falling.

"Tsk. Great job bozo." Sarah said leaving them as Justin watched her leave.

"I do." Charlotte said wiping her tears off. "I wanna slaughter them. Whatever those are, I wanna wipe them off from existence." Justin was a bit scared from seeing Charlotte's facial expression. But he was glad.

"Then do that." He handed his hand out. "Let's go?" Charlotte took his hand and stood up.

"Let's go."

Chapter 2 [END]

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                               Third Person p.o.v

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[Present]

Become a predator or get preyed.

Survive.

Survive.

And survive.

Do that, then win. Win for mankind.

Taking out both of her swords, Charlotte rushes to slice her opponents head off. Success.

"Charlotte! To your left!" One of her close comrades, Emilia Stanford, shouted from a not so far distance.

Charlotte was surprised by the sudden attack.

A class 10? Seriously?

Was what she thought. The creature was small and weak. It was nothing compared to Charlotte or any of the slayers.

She looks at it's head, her eyes widening at the sight.

No

When she had stepped a foot forward ready to swing her blades, she stops at her own tracks.

Brother?

The older sibling that she had not seen for 10 years, appeared right before her eyes.

No. That's not him.

She knew that. And yet, why? Why does her tears still fall? Because she hadn't seen him for long? No. Maybe?

"Charlotte!!" Jin Casper shouted as he rushes in to save her. He spins 360° for style and slices off the creature's head, killing it.

Both Charlotte and the creature dropped onto the ground.

"What are you doing!?" Jin shouts scolding her, holding her shoulders, shaking her. "Snap out of it! That was a class 10 and yet you were almost killed! Charlotte Heavenhart come back to your senses, nobody will have the time to save you if get yourself in trouble again!!" He shouts still not getting through her.

Jin stood up and kicked Charlotte in the face, hard enough to make her mouth bleed.

"The battlefield is cruel. You have comrades to fight alongside with, but not everyone will be willing to save you. That class 10 creature just now, did it look like one of your siblings? It was a boy, perhaps it looked like your brother?" Charlotte flinched hearing those two words. Jin took it as a yes. "Don't let it deceive you." Jin said coldly, turning his back on her.

"Survive. Survive.  And survive. Then win." Were the last words Jin said, before going back to the battle field.

Right..

Charlotte stood up with fiery eyes.

My brother's dead.

She ran towards one of her comrades and saved her from the creature who approached from behind.

These things killed him.

"Ah, thanks Charlotte." Her comrade said.

"Be careful next time Emily, I don't want your twin, Emilia, losing her shit just because her sister died." -Charlotte

"You too, we wouldn't want Jin losing his shit too right?" Emily said smirking.

"Wha..?" -Charlotte

"Charlotte! To your right, five class 8 approaching!" Emilia shouts "Emily, help her!"

"Right!" Emily shouted back as both her and Charlotte moves.

They took down four each without any casualties.

"Emily, you almost forgot to stab their hearts again. You know those things will stay alive unless you stab them right through their hearts." -Charlotte

"Hehehe sorry, I did stab it in time though so.." Emily smiled scratching the back of her neck.

"AI sharpen." Emily comanded her *AI bracelet and it sharpened her sword.

(*AI Bracelets are 5042's advanced technology that slayers use as their assistant during battle.)

"Everyone we're clear here and ready to move!" Jin shouted. "Yes sir!" Everyone saluted and got on their horses.

"That was another record!" -Emily

"Huh?" -Jin

"Well...for us atleast, we finished them much quicker than before since they were weaker than usual." -Emilia

Charlotte looked back at the lying corpses. Jin noticed her but payed no attention.

He really does look like my brother.

"Shouldn't we go back for now? We already cleared the area we were suppose to clear." Emily said yawning.

"Are you dumb or something Emily?" -Emilia

"We only killed twenty, and the reports said there were fifty." -Emilia

"Ah! Right. Sorry." Emily said not really meaning it.

"We could rest for now though." Miles Davis, their vice leader said.

Jin sighs, and agreed.

They all stopped for a while as they drank water and regained energy.

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                               Jin's Flashback

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"Mom.." Jin calls his mom pulling a part of her shirt, his mom looks at him.

"Hm?" -his mom

"Why do people love?" Jin innocently asks.

His mom was taken aback by his question so she asked him where he learned that. Jin was eight at the time.

"I heard two people say 'I love you' at the park, you and dad say that to me too and I say it back but, I don't really know what it means..." -Jin

"Well love is something you say to people who are important to you." -his mom

Jin looked at her confuse and she laughs. "When's the moment you've felt the happiest?" His mom asked.

Jin stared to space for a bit to think. "When dad comes home and then we're all together!" He said smiling

"Then, multiply that feeling by a million." -his mom

"Mul...tiply...? But I hate math..." Jin poutes, his mom smiles.

"Then, just feel what you wanna feel. You'll know what love is when time comes." His mom said patting his head.

"When will that be?" Jin asks. "Who knows?" His mom replied.

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"Mom!" Jin runs down strairs calling for his mom. "Mom look-" His eyes widen.

Dad...why...why are you hurting mom..? Don't you love her?

"You're useless!" His dad shouts as he slaps her hard enough to make her fall onto the ground.

Jin's p.o.v

I grew up in a family that treasured each other.

We were happy. I was happy.

Dad would come home from work, mom would cook meals, and send me to school on her way to work.

We'd go out to eat, we'd always spent time together whenever we could.

It has always been like that - but ever since that day, my world crumbled and my life changed.

Mom who always cooked meals for us, didn't even bother to anymore, she'd cook but just enough for herself.

Dad who always came home every weekend, never came back.

And the word love that I never fully understood, didn't make any sense anymore.

A year after that, a horrible tragedy happened.

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                              Emily's p.o.v

"Jin? Hello...?" Charlotte waved her hand infront of Jin who was staring into space.

"You okay? We need to get going before the sun sets remember?" -Charlotte

Jin was confused at first as if he was wondering of what was happening.

"What?" He stared at Charlotte who stared back at him. "Oh- right yeah. Let's go." Both Charlotte and Jin rides their horses and so did everyone.

"Everyone let's go!" Miles shouted as everyone rides off.

Chapter 3 [END]