Midori and The Watcher
Unexpected meeting
Earthquakes and the likes were going on outside, thousands and thousands of people were screaming. It was a terrifying sound to hear. The young girl Midori had been passing the time with hiding under a blanket. Her parents had left about a week ago for a honeymoon trip. It was typical for them to do such thing. Midori had been grown pretty used to it, she could survive without the two. But some help sometimes was appreciated. Like for example, Right now perhaps?
She was trembling under the sheets like a chihuahua, what was she suppose to do in case of doomsday being released upon the city. Hiding under a table was step one but step two on how to survive the apocalyptic world was never in the manual. She tried doing some fun things to get her mind off of it but nothing seemed to be helping. Calling for help wasn't gonna work either since the line was dead. Outside? Going to the police? Oh hell no! She didn't trust these people outside one bit. Well then there was one last option and unfortunately that was sitting it out.
Luckily for her the scariest part had already passed, these were just small aftershocks from the main event. She had no clue to what had caused all this ruckus outside but she did not even care in the least. As long as it was gonna be over soon. Midori kept staring out of the window from under her blanket feeling like something was there.
After a while slowly but surely Midori had taken the courage to get out of her shelter and act normal as far as she could again. She had to call her dad, he was sure to help her at any given moment. She had gotten out a hoody and a magical enchanted sun hat custom made for her. The sunhat didn't cover her horns at all but it it hide them with the help of magic. And the hoody was just to hide her wings. Short after her preparations Midori went out to make her own adventure to the closest 24 hour shop. Bodies of dead people, broken down suv's crashed helicopters it was all there. Something was seriously wrong in this city. Yet she did not find any answer to what had happened.
It didn't take long before she arrived, most people had already gone and the place looked pretty abandoned too. She immediately went to the phone pole on the outside and hastily turned the number. Line was dead, must have gotten a pretty big part of the city. Nothing to be done about it. She had to come up with a plan to make it on her own. Well it wasn't like she survived a few days on her own before. She could manage untill her parents were back. She was not for nothing half demon! Midori went inside the store to see if anyone was still there but to her surprise nothing showed up.
She decided to raid the store a little so she had enough supplies to last for a week at least. Some water candy veggies meat and the likes. Mostly food. Midori placed it all into one shopping bag and went out again. But to her surprise a long tall creature blocked her way. In surprise she stammered backwards onto her butt dropping the bag with supplies she had just gathered. She made a small squealing noise while she fell and was found staring in fear up at the creature.
Staring down at the capsized child with five dim scars and a single piercing blue eye, the entity abhorred by Midori tilted its head slightly whilst it hung, puppetlike, in the air. Clearly savoring every ounce of fear and confusion on the halfling's part, the maimed watcher appeared to draw every atom of the pair's surroundings with excruciating patience. Finally, on the mirror's edge where Midori's discomfort and anticipation might give way to boredom -for familiarity bred contempt- the Watcher unleashed a potent and luxuriant drawl.
"Weeeeeell, what a disappointment. When I heeard that I was bein' sent to find a half-demon, I...expected somethin' exciting. But heeeere ya aaare, a scared little schoolgirl with her cheeks on the pavement." He released an airy sigh of longing for something,
anything, to spare him from this boredom. He managed to shrug, though, the chains on his wrists clinking softly like coins.
"Whaaaatever. Council called; you're due fooor an appointment. They must see...somethin'...in ya. Nonsense if ya ask me. Whaddya say, missie? Ready for a li'l fieeeeld trip?"
Midori stook her hand in front of herself and pressed her eyes closed looking like a scaredy sheep the state she was in right now. She wanted to yell so it would go away but her voice didn't sound. She was scared for it to attack her but after having waited for quite some time she noticed it wasn't hostile in the least. It was trying to talk to her, might even try to help her if she was lucky enough not to have met a big liar. Midori slowly dropped her guard and opened up to the entity. She still sat on the ground as it talked to her, clearly mocking her.
"I-it's not like I chose to be this way"
She cried out with her soft tender voice, the courage on her face could clearly be seen as she spoke (not). Midori stood up from her fall again and brushed the dust of her clothes. Her knees were slightly trembling so she kind of hoped the entity wouldn't notice her fear, or otherwise it might even try to make more fun of her.
"W-what council...? What would they need from me... I d-don't know, I still gotta do the dishes and the laundry and and..."
She was interrupted from talking by a very loud explosion in the distance at the end of the street. Midori immediately squatted down placing her hands onto her sunhat with her eyes closed shut again. She was startled by the explosion but was quick to react again and reach out towards the explosion. Midori was definitely tearing up at the sight of the flames. What was she suppose to do without house...
"I-I think that was near m-my house. Daddy is gonna murder m-me... O-okay I'll come with you to calm down a little... Maybe it is better than this god forsaken place... Hopefully."
The Watcher shrugged halfheartedly at the young girl's complaint. If it could be certain of anything in life, it would have to be the insignificance of one's choices in the greater scheme of things. Then again, if everything went the way everyone wanted it to, everything would be dull and nothing would have meaning.
"Mhm...," it murmured.
Though a witness of many a combustion in its time, the Watcher turned its one remaining eye to watch as a structure down the street went up in a glorious pillar of flame.
"I wondeeeer...how that happened." Despite this pondering, it couldn't truly be asked to care about some habitation on earth, and awaited a reply from Midori, ignoring her distress until it became apparent that the annihilated house belonged to her. How convenient! Now nothing remained to her except to accept, not that she would have been permitted to decline.
"Awwww. What a bummer. To lose one's home...well, moving on. You'll have a place to stay sooooon enough...if you be a good girl and do as you're told." If not for the lack of a mouth, the Watcher's smirk would have been all too obvious. Reaching out with a slender, spindly hand, it grasped Midori's shoulder and the two disappeared into darkness.
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