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Coulson's Journey-Personal Narrative

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“I tried to make the world a better place, not destroy it!” whispered Coulson. That was the last words he had said, the last thought he had before he left me. I had no idea what it meant at the time but I soon found out. People were dying, the human race was dying. Coulson’s words rattled round my brain as I looked up towards the sky. It was pitch black and the only source of light was my little camp fire. The divine smell of cooking meat wafted up my nose making my stomach rumble. I couldn’t remember the last time that I had had meat. I have been too busy looking to find a cure. My search has been on-going for two years. I had been surviving the world by myself, trying to fix Coulson’s mistake. Coulson had destroyed the world by mutating …show more content…

I looked in my mother’s mirror that I had kept. My once luscious light brown hair was now matted and turning blond from the sun, my blue eyes were bright and stood out on my tanned skin but around them I had bags from sleepless nights from nightmares. I placed the mirror along with the supplies I had gathered for the journey ahead into my backpack. At 9am I set of Southwards to meet Peter. For the first few hours I came across nothing out of the ordinary, the birds were flying in the sky and the fish were swimming and jumping in the river. About 1 mile away from where Peter and I had decided to meet, I looked up to the sky and saw that there were a swarm of crows above my head. Knowing that this were a sign of trouble I picked up my pace as I was in an open area with no cover. It was then that the crows decided to attack. They dived at me and began pecking me and grabbing me with their claws. I sprinted as fast as I could to get to the trees that were in front of me. Suddenly I heard this almighty bang, a gunshot. The crows let out harsh caws and flew away, reaching the trees I put my hand on my knees, panting. “You must be Elizabeth?” I let out a small scream and whipped my head to the left. There was a man with black hair and green eyes standing there, he put out his hand, “Peter” he commented. Getting over my mini-heart attack I took his hand and shook it, “Elizabeth” I replied. We decided to make camp in the forest and have some food, after our meal we both took out our backpacks to look over the information that we had gathered. It started raining, very heavily; there was this almighty rumble and a bright flash. I tried to stuff all my paper in my bag but was unsuccessful. “I’ve found it!” screamed Peter. Looking past him I saw a huge wave that was smashing down all the trees in its way. “We need to go!” I exclaimed. Peter dropped to his knees to pick up a piece of paper that I had dropped, “The cure, I’ve found

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