The Return of the Giants

The Return of the Giants

by Kayla Seya

Mia wakes up to a boom. The ceiling above her head was destroyed. In a panic, she leaves her room to see the living room to also be destroyed, and that her upstairs neighbors’ stuff has crashed into her apartment. Her neighbor Claire sits, exhausted, on the items that fell from her apartment. Mia notices and helps Claire up. They look up and stare at the gigantic human staring back at them. The humans are unresponsive as Mia and Claire find the strength to leave the room and warn the other neighbors about what’s going on. But it was clear that many of those humans had taken over the neighborhood. They were walking the neighborhood mindlessly, like they owned it. Although they were not harming anyone intentionally they were stepping on cars in the street and causing a ruckus everywhere. No one had no idea where they were going. But it was plain obvious where they came from.

It didn’t make any sense. The only thing that did was that they came from the sky. No one had predicted that this would happen, but it just did, and now the humans of the world were going to have to endure it for the time being. It was clear the giants were going one way. Because when one giant sees another giant walking, they are immediately compelled to walk with them. It is like the gigantic humans join together when they see other giants walking together. So it was good for the people who were behind the walking giants, as they could come together to hide. The unknown force was walking in a group like a flock of birds. The regular humans down thought that they were free from those gigantic human terrors. But they were sadly mistaken. There was an irregular human who came up out of nowhere and screamed at the gigantic humans. Turned around and started running towards the people of the neighborhood. One of those giants picked up a civilian and put them inside its big slobbery mouth. It was clear that it was beyond for this human and it was going to be the end for a lot of them. The reason for doing it was unclear, and the person who caused this was nowhere to be found.

Civilians running around like crazy. No one knew where to go or where to hide. It was like being a cornered rat. Living a regular life,

expecting the day to be normal, and then, out of nowhere, you’re fleeing and fighting for your life. People scream in terror as the giant picks up another human. The residents scramble around to find a safe haven. But unfortunately, one of those people that gets picked up is Mia. Mia screams in fear as she is placed inside the giant’s mouth. Her life flashes before her very own eyes. Her mother, sister, and her boyfriend of 4 years. All of that gone for an unknown cause. Her screams meet her family. They run into her room and comfort her. It had only been a dream, she thinks. Sometimes dreams can feel a little too real, she thinks. She gets up out of her comfy bed stretches and yawns and gets ready for the day. She walks out of her room and enters her bathroom and prepares herself for a pretty regular day. When she takes a shower and puts on her nice clean clothes she looks outside and observes the beauty of the day. But as she is observing, she notices little specks falling, and they are seemingly getting bigger. It’s going to be a good day. Just not for the people who observed the small specks seemingly get bigger as they fell from the sky. What a lovely day, Mia thinks.