She had been so intent on just getting across the street and into the building's shadow, she hadn't even thought there might already be people there. It was fairly quiet. Quiet enough she heard something faint from behind her. Keeping her face straight, she told herself it was nothing. Just a stray animal. That was all. It was nothi- She almost let out a scream as she felt a hand tap her on the shoulder. No animal could do that and she turned around to stare just what was behind her.<br/><br/>Her mouth dropped open even as her brain dimly registered the sirens. He was tall. That was a given since most people tower over her. He was tall and scary looking and she was probably going to die. Oh, leaving the library had been such a bad idea. A bad, stupid idea. Why had she done it? Why couldn't she had just stayed where it was safe? Where it was semi warm? Protected? Surrounded by the books she loved so much?<br/><br/>Oh yeah. She wanted adventure. That was why she had left. Well, she certainly got it as she turned around to stare wide eyed at all the police people there. She didn't like them. She had seen them do bad things. Things that made her cringe back against the stranger in fear as they gathered around the two of them. The stranger may look scary, but Alice would rather take her chance with him than with these guys. She didn't quite believe the head guy. Not matter what they would do, there were probably be bloodshed. Just look at what they brought as her eyes tracked to the beast. It was huge and she was pretty sure it was looking at them like it wanted to eat them for a snack. Not that she would make much of one, but doubted that mattered to the huge beast.<br/><br/>Then suddenly everything went to hell in a hand basket. The stranger at her back fired something into the crowd of police and they fired back. Even before the first grenade was launched, she was curling up into a defensive position and praying for a quick death. Let it hit one of her vital organs. Something that would let her bleed out quickly. Though as she coughed from the smoke, she slowly started to realize that none of the bullets had hit her. Miraculously enough.<br/><br/>As the smoke cleared and everything suddenly lightened, she looked up at the stranger. Her brain took a little bit, but it finally realized that this strange male had protected her. She wanted to hug him but figured now was the wrong time. Instead, she turned her head back just in time to see the beast started to go on a rampage. Ripping apart everything in sight that wasn't them before finally blasting off its own face. All she could do was stare in shock at the carnage before her.<br/><br/>The one thing you could say about all this was it was certainly an adventure.