Elias by Anysia Eaton (books to read to increase intelligence txt) 📕

the stegosaurus. The stegosaurus spun around and went to hit me with his tail. I held my sword out in front of me and it sliced straight through the tail cutting it off. The Stegosaurus shouted in pain and opened his mouth dropping the lad. I grabbed him and dragged him away. We all went to the tree Cedric was sat down in front from being wacked against it by the tail. We then moved behind the bushes when we heard a roar from a young T-Rex. Slowly it came to the trees. It was only very young, it looked only 8 years old making him the height of about one door, making him still very small for a T-Rex. He went face to face with the tail-less Stegosaurus and of course he didn’t take long to take the Stegosaurus down for the count. He took a large bite out of the Stegosaurus. As we watched waiting for him to go I spotted an obvious scar on his leg. Straight away I realised who it was. It was Elias.
“Elias?” I whispered to myself.
As the sun started to rise the T-Rex dragged the caucus of the stegosaurus away. Cedric had a pain in his chest where the stegosaurus had wacked him with his tail. I sat down next to him leaning on a tree.
“Are you ok?” I asked.
“I’m fine, but I think you should be focusing your nursing skills on Bruce” replied Cedric.
“Felix is sorting him out” I said.
“You were great back there” commented Cedric holding his stomach.
“Hey, a stegosaurus is defiantly not the most dangerous creature I’ve ever came face to face with” I laughed.
“Ah yes, there was that baby T-Rex wasn’t there? Elias, was it?” asked Cedric.
“Yeh. You know that T-Rex that took the stegosaurus?” I asked him back.
“Yeh, what about him?” asked Cedric.
“I think that was Elias, he had a scar on his leg just like Elias.” I replied.
“Oh. Well if it was you can finally put your mind at rest on whether he is ok” mentioned Cedric.
“What are you on about?” I asked him.
“Come on. You are always talking about him, what means you are continuously thinking about him, and I can tell that you are worried about him” replied Cedric.
“Well... If he is alright I’m sure he’s forgotten all about me” I mentioned.
“How could anything forget something so beautiful” commented Cedric smiling at me. I plainly smiled at him back.
After an hour we made our way back to the academy. We made it there, one minute past twelve. The trainer and Elliot were stood there with graduate certificates. As we walked up to them, both of them smiled. Elliot came up to me and gave me a hug.
“Thank god you are alright” said Elliot.
“She was the bravest of us all. I probably wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for her” commented the lad that had been bitten by the stegosaurus.
The trainer gave us our graduation certificates and a brown envelope each what had inside our placements. All of us opened them. Mine was the neighbouring town of where I grew up what meant I could always visit mother. Cedric was also placed on that village. We were the only ones that had been sent to the same place. Of course we had to leave at six to go to our new placements, so we made sure all of our kits was up to scratch, said goodbye to the other graduates and then got ready for the journey. Elliot came and got me, he took me to the training room.
“You stay safe, promise me” said Elliot as he hugged me.
“I will if you will” I replied.
“I will be staying here so then when Sir kicks the bucket I will be the trainer” answered Elliot.
“Well I expect at least one visit a year if your busy schedule will allow it” I laughed.
“I will make sure it happens” replied Elliot giving me a hug.
Six o’clock, all of us graduates are by our pterodactyls, kitting them. Elliot and the trainer where stood behind us watching. We all got on our pterodactyls. I waved to Elliot and then all the pterodactyls jumped up and flew over the academy. As we flew over the gates we saw the next set of learners approaching. This time there were two females but the majority was males. I followed Cedric all the way to the village. When we finally arrived there was a T-Rex there. We saw that no defenders were helping so me and Cedric got involved. We circled him and then flew off with him running after us. We carefully zoomed through tree after tree.
After ten minutes I shouted to Cedric, “I think we’ve took him far enough”
“I agree” shouted Cedric back.
We went vertically up and out of the trees into the clouds. We then turned back to the town. When we arrived there again we landing in front of the gate. The gate opened and we walked in to the whole village clapping and cheering. Our pterodactyls flu off as the villagers surrounded us.
They showed us to where we would be living. We were sharing a house. It had a kitchen, a main room and then at the back four ground bedrooms, one for Cedric, one for me, and then two other for the other defenders, that are on duty at the moment. We have been assigned to the west tower.
The defenders from the south tower, that weren’t on duty came to talk to us, nothing of much importance, just a welcome to the village and some tips. They gave us the tip to get some sleep but I wasn’t at all tired and neither was Cedric. We had four hours till our shift started. Each pair of defender had twelve hours on watch, but they separated into two different six hour sifts. Our first shift was from midnight to six o’clock in the morning. The four hours going up to our shift we spent settling in. Of course, our shift soon came. We headed to the tower, where we met the defenders that we share our new house with. They were nicer than what I expected them to be. They headed home to get some rest and mine and Cedric’s first shift had begun. It was completely dark, you could only see the burning street fires in the town that light the roads every night. We had some chairs there so we sat talking for the whole night about the others that had trained with us. Soon the sun rose, we could just see over the tree tops our original village, that we both desperately missed. Soon it was the end of our shift and both of us were extremely tired from our long stay up. When we got back to the house we both went to bed. I woke two hours before the start of our next shift. Cedric was still asleep. I quickly got changed in to some black short shorts and black vest top. I headed out the door and out of the protection of the town. I headed into the forest to have a look around. I walked out for an hour and then turned back for an hours walk back. Half way back the ground started shaking. I knew that must mean a T-Rex was coming. It felt like it was coming from the left so I hid behind a tree on its right hand side. A small T-Rex came out of the trees. I stayed hidden, it came around the tree. I stayed up against the tree, it hadn’t noticed me. I spotted a scar on his leg. It was Elias.
“Elias” I whispered to myself.
The T-Rex turned to face me, I shut my mouth and stayed as still as possible. It walked closer and put his head extremely close. It looked down my body. It stopped at my scar. It turned around and slowly prodded off. I starred at it in disbelief. I rushed after it, I just had to hope I would be able to get back in time. A few minutes later I caught up with him. He had stopped and was just standing there. I walked close. He spotted me and turned to face me.
“Elias?” I asked.
He lowered his head to my height. I reached out to stroke him. He flinched.
“It’s ok. It’s me, Elspeth” I said calmly as I reached out again.
I stroked him and I smiled. He stood back up and I hugged him.
“I’ve missed you so much” I said to him as I continued to hug him.
I moved back as he did a head motion for me to get on to his back. Slowly I walked to his side and climbed up. When I was up he started running in the direction of the town. Moments before we reached the town I said, “Elias stop here, I will walk the rest”
He stopped and lay down so I could jump down. I walked to his face. He put his head at my height and I hugged his head and kissed him.
“I will see you later, Elias” I said as walked toward the town. I got in without anyone seeing me. I got in half an hour before the start of my shift. I walked into the house, Cedric was up. He came to me and asked me “Where have you been?”
“Out in the forest” I replied.
“Elspeth, you know why it’s dangerous to go into the forest” He said.
“I saw Elias” I replied.
“Elias?” he asked.
“You know the T-Rex” I replied.
“Yeh, I knew that. Listen Elspeth, I understand you love that thing but you could really get hurt out there. Promise me you won’t go out there again unless I come with you. Ok?” he asked.
“Ok.” I replied.
He hugged me and then kissed me.
“I love you” said Cedric as he kissed my neck.
“I love you too” I replied as he continued to kiss my neck.
“Do you want to take a casual stole over to our post?” he asked.
“Yeh” I replied.
We headed out and to our post.
A month later, absolutely no animals had come over to the town, well, not on our watch, but as we sat on our post one night, we saw a pterodactyl heading over. He was hurt, he was struggling to fly.
It fell to the floor, just outside of the fence.
“Stay here, I’ll go and see if it’s alright” I said as I rushed down the stairs.
When I reached the edge of the fence, I had to go around the corner, so I looked in case something is coming. I rushed to it. It was conscious but it was obvious it wasn’t moving anywhere with just me pushing it. Suddenly I heard the screech of a group of raptor heading towards the town.
“Come on. I can’t just leave you here. You have to try to get up” I said to the pterodactyl.
He tried getting up but failed.
“Come on. Try again” I said as I saw the raptors head out of the forest.
The raptors were coming closer when he tried again and leaped into the air. He got over the fence and then fell out of the sky again.
“Elspeth, watch out” shouted Cedric from the watch tower.
I had my sword attached to my belt. I reached it out and pulled it out just in time for the raptors to reach me. They circled me. I could see Cedric at the fence. The one behind me bit me in the shoulder and held on. I drove my sword over my shoulder and down through the raptor. It fell to floor