Audri, A young slender boy of 16 years sits in a chair playing with a bottle cap he found on the floor. He throws the cap into a puddle of water that has formed under the dripping ceiling. "Mom! I'm bored" Audri says. Samantha, a skinny messy haired woman, comes hobbling out and places a rusty dinged up pot on the floor under the leak.
"What do you expect me to do? I can't let you go outside, it's too dangerous. You heard about those kids who went missing. I'm not gonna lose you like I did your father."
Just then a loud banging is heard. "We know you're in there!!" Samantha grabs Audri and forces him towards the window in the bathroom. "Sweety, sit quietly in here. If things get out of hand then you have to run... run as fast as you can." Samantha kisses Audri on the head and closes the door behind her as she goes out.
Audri leans in to hear through the door. Muffled words are all that he can make out. Then yelling and crashing ring from beyond the door. Audri jumps back as something slams against the bathroom door. The knob jiggles... Audri is frozen with fear... "I... I can't die here... mom... what happened to my mom" Audri whispers to himself. The door smashes open and two men stand before Audri. A large muscular man soaked in blood and a young man in his 20's with a strange scar on his face shaped like an "N." Audri's eyes get big, he still can't move though everything in his being is telling him to run.
The bloody man reaches for Audri. Audri musters the strength to swing his arm. Audri struck the bloody man with an upper cut. The bloody man gets pissed.
"Gonna get beat by a kid? Not like you Sol?" The scarred man remarks.
"Fuck you, Nalin!"
Audri sees his chance to escape, so he dashes to the window but as he starts to climb Sol grabs his leg. Audri kicks Sol in the face and dashes out into the alley. Audri runs to the street and looks for anyone to help him. "Where is everyone?" Audri thinks.
"HELP!!! SOMEONE!!" Audri screams.
Audri hears Sol climbing through the window cursing like a sailor. Audri remember's his mother's last words to him "...you have to run... run as fast as you can." Audri takes off down the street, he's going so fast it seems like everything around him is slowing down. Audri goes so fast that his eyes can't process the path before him. He feels he earth under his feet get softer. Audri comes to a screeching halt drifting across waves. Audri finds himself skidding on water. Audri sinks as his pace slows and he frantically flails his arms and goes under.
Nalin walks out the front door of the shack-like house and smirks.
"I don't think we'll ever see him again."
Sol scoffs and dusts off his clothes, "That's a shame... 'cause I think he was the kid we're searching for."
Nalin squints to see if he can spot Audri in the distance. "Looks like this just got interesting..."
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