So, this is Part 2 of my story 'And if we could change the story' (You'll need to read it first before starting this one.)
I entitled it 'Demons' Triangle' because I think it will fit more the upcoming events I imagined for Eli.
Hope you'll enjoy your reading. Comments and critics are always welcome of course.
Take care...
Chapter 1
The trio arrives at a prefabricated wooden little Cafe at the end of a side road from the interstate.
"Don't forget the extra onions, huh?" Dean says to Eli, giving her some dollar bills before she leaves the car.
"Dude… We're the ones who's gonna have to ride in this car with your extra onions…" Sam complains, making her snicker.
"Oh and see if they got any pie…" The elder yells. She bends back to look at him, sighing in exasperation. "Please, Sweetie…" He softly adds, making puppy eyes. She rolls hers to the sky and follows Sam inside the Dinner.
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Dean raises the volume of the car radio, tapping to the rhythm of the song on the steering wheel. All at once, it starts to make erratic noises. He leans forward, turning the frequency button, trying to get the channel back right again. But the radio now completely stops broadcasting. He looks behind him, thinking maybe something could come from the interstate, but nothing there. When he turns to face the Cafe again, he sees it strangely empty. Immediately sensing that something is wrong, he rushes out of his car to check the place.
With his gun armed and ready, he enters and he discovers a customer laying face down over a table, a pool of blood around him. "Sam?... Eli?..." He cautiously calls, moving slowly in the dinner. He finds two other bodies behind the counter, their throats slashed. He opens the back door that gives on a river and a wood. "Sam?... Eli?..." He calls again. His gaze on the door knob, he finds sulfur on it.
He rushes back to his car, still calling for them. His brother and Eli have completely vanished.
Sam is laying on his back on a rotten wooden pallet, Eli's head on his chest, both are unconscious.
He wakes up first and slowly starts to move. Feeling a weight on him, he looks down to see Eli. He delicately pushes her, making her softly mumbling. She finally opens her eyes, lifts her head and meets Sam's gaze.
"What happened?... Where are we?" She asks.
"I really don't know... Don't you remember anything?..." He helps her to get up.
"Huh... Huh..." Nodding her head in a 'no'. They look around them. "Looks like a ghost town…" She says.
He takes his phone out of his pocket. "No reception, Damned!" An old windmill groans a little further down the old road. "Let's check around." Sam proposes.
They're looking through every windows of the abandoned homes. They hear the sound of a door screeching on its hinges, coming from the hidden side of the last house. Sam grabs a wooden stick on its way to it, pushing slightly Eli behind him for cover. He stops at the end of the porch, ready to swing at anybody coming around the corner. He freezes just in time as he recognizes the guy in front of him. "Andy?"
"Sam?… What are you doing here?... What am I doing here?" The young man voices slightly terrified.
"You know that guy?" Eli asks.
"Where are we?"
"Andy, look… Calm down." Sam dropping his improvised weapon.
"I can't calm down… I've just woke up in frigging Frontierland!"
"What's the last thing you remember?" She questions.
"And who are you?" Andy still freaked out.
"Andy… Focus… What do you remember?" Sam insists.
"Honestly… My fourth bong load… It was weird… All of a sudden, there was this really intense smell, like…"
"Like sulfur?"
"How did you know that?"
"Dean…" Sam realizing that he was not with them.
"Your brother, is he here?"
"I don't know where he is… I don't know if he's even…" He cuts his sentence, looking at Eli.
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A high pitched woman's scream and some knocking on a barn's door is resounding nearby. "Help me, please… I'm locked in here!" They all run to it.
"Hello? Okay… We're gonna get you out, all right?" Sam trying to calm her down. "Just hold on a second…" He spots a stone on the ground and bangs it a couple of time against the padlock. "Ava?" He says surprised when he opens the door.
"Sam?... Oh my God!" She jumps in his arms.
"So, I guess you know her too, huh…" Eli comes.
"Yeah…"
"How did you? I mean… How…" Ava stutters.
"Have you been here this whole time?" Sam asks her.
"What whole time? I just woke up half an hour ago…"
"Ava... You've been gone for five months… My brother and I have been looking for you everywhere…"
"Okay… That's impossible. I saw you two days ago…"
"You didn't… I'm sorry…"
"But, that makes no sense… It's… Oh my God! My fiancé, Brady… If I've been missing for that long, he must be totally freaked out… Did you talk to him?... Was he making research with you too?..." She babbles at the speed of a machine gun from the fear.
"Well…" Sam seems embarrassed, not knowing how to give her the news of Brady's death.
Ava suddenly spots the two other persons standing there. "Hey… I'm Andy… Also freaking out…" He slyly smiles.
"Eli…" She just raises a hand to say 'hi'.
"Okay… What's happening?" The young woman turning back to Sam.
"I don't really know yet… But, I know one thing… I know what the four of us have in common…"
"Hello? Is anybody there?" Another man's voice coming from another side of town.
"Maybe more than four then…" Sam starting to walk towards the newcomers. "Hey… Are you guys all right?" He voices seeing a tall black guy in an army gear and a young woman all dressed in black.
"I thing so…" The man talking first.
"I'm Sam… This is Eli, Ava and Andy..." Presenting the whole group.
"I'm Jake…"
"Lily…"
"Are there any more of you?" Sam asks.
"No… Not that we know of… You're the first we found…" Jake replies.
"How did we even get here? A minute ago, I was in San Diego…" Lily looking around her, arms crossed over her chest.
"Well, if it can make you feel any better, I went to sleep last night in Afghanistan…" Jake retorts.
"Let me take a wild guess… You too are both 23? We all are… And we all have abilities…" Sam comments.
"What?" The black guy asks.
"Started a little over a year ago… When you found you could do things… Things you didn't think were possible… I have vision… I see things before they happen…" He continues to explain.
"Yeah, me too… But more like dreams..." Ava says.
"I'm mind-traveling…" Eli says.
"And I can put thoughts into people's heads, make them do stuff... Oh, but don't worry, I don't think it works on you guys..." Andy approaches the two newcomers. "And get this... I've been practicing. Training my brain, like meditation, right? … Now, it's not just thoughts I can beam out, but images too. Like anything I want. It's like, Bam! People, they see it. This one guy I know, total dick... I use it on him... Gay porn, all hours of the day... You should have seen the look on his face..." Andy bursting into laughter, looking at the others, he finds them all just staring at him aback. "Okay..." He mouths.
"So, you go 'Simon says give me your wallet' and they do... Super!... You have visions. That's great!... And you mind-traveling. What a blast!... I'd kill for something like that..." Lily bursts out.
"Lily, listen... It's okay..." Sam trying to comfort her.
"NO, IT'S NOT!... I touch people and their hart stops!... I can barely leave my house... My life's not exactly improved since I have this... Curse... So, screw you!... I just wanna go home..."
"And what... You think that's not what we want too?..." The soldier barks.
"Don't you talk to me like that..."
"Or what?..."
"Hey!... Look, whether we like it or not, we're all here... And so we all have to deal with this..." Sam intervenes.
"But who brought us here?" Andy shyly asks.
"It's not a who... It's more of a what..." Sam turning towards Eli for a quick look.
"Okay... So, what brought us here?" Ava looking intrigued.
"A... Demon..." Eli whispers.
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