Obscure

Chapter One

On one of his fingers he twirled around a ring of keys as he waited for a good friend of his to exit the dorm room they had lived in. His black hair cut nicely on his head and he stood in the doorway waiting patiently. On him at the moment was a black T-shirt with a random sarcastic phrase and some blue jeans to go along with it to make him match. The jeans had a hole purposely made where the right knee was. Around his neck hung a pentacle on a silver chain.

From inside the apartment was a girl around his age too. They were going to visit some other friends at their dorm room because they heard that there was something interesting going around the school.

This girl was a little shorter than the male. She had black hair that had been straightened and looked a little sleek to give it a blue look. She was wearing a hot pink shirt mostly covered by a black jacket she had on since it was cold outside to her. She had on some tight jeans since they were going to a party later and she wanted to look her best.

From inside the room the man at the door heard the girl. "Alright Jacob, you don't have to wait any longer."

The male put on a small smile. "Who said I was getting bored Krystal."

These two were Jacob and Krystal and had been friends ever since High School. They both also practiced the same religion meaning they were both in Wicca. They both held the principal of their religion high but at the same time they believed in the reality of things.

As the two headed out in the hall they noticed it was unusually empty especially at this time of day. People were usually running through the halls chasing each other for stolen items and what not but for some reason no one was there; nobody but Jacob and Krystal. They looked around the place to see if there were any signs of people.

"Hmm that's weird, usually people are outside in the halls right about now," Jacob said taking a couple of steps forward.

"Good job noticing the emptiness," Krystal said with small giggle.

"Haha," Jacob said with sarcasm before walking forward a little more. "It's just so weird that this place is as empty as it is."

Krystal began to think to herself and looked around. "Maybe we can find something about the party, probably people heard about it and then everyone went to it."

"I doubt it," Jacob said as he looked around also. "Mary told me to keep the information secluded because they didn't want too many people going around the school and getting the place too packed."

Krystal just shrugged it off and when she looked at the door to the stairwell she noticed something was growing on the door. It was a purple flower with a black spore in the middle that seemed to call out to her. "Is that… a flower? It's not from around here," she said aloud.

"What flower?" Jacob asked coming up from behind making Krystal practically jump out of her clothes.

"That one!" Krystal slapped Jacob's head on the back and then pointed to it. "It looks like one I studied in biology from the Africa area. Can't remember what the text book said about it though."

As Krystal was thinking Jacob went to the flower and started to inspect it. As he did some of the spores shot out as if it were a defensive reaction. When Jacob was about to say something he breathed in the spores and suddenly passed out.

"Jacob!" Krystal ran over toward him and the same happened to her. The flower shot the spore into her face and she too passed out onto the floor.

Jacob woke up on the floor outside in a forested area that was very foggy. He looked around and by his feet was a red baseball bat. Picking it up Jacob looked around for anyone who might've lost the baseball bat and sadly he couldn't find anyone that would have.

"Hello?" he called out into the darkness of the wooded area. He didn't get a reply at first but then he heard some groaning not too far away.

When Jacob found the source of the groaning he saw Krystal getting off the ground while holding a hockey stick in her hands. It had seemed that someone moved them from where they were in the dorms to some forest area. Those flowers must've been used to drug them also so they wouldn't wake up.

"Hey, are you alright?" Jacob asked from behind holding the baseball bat.

Krystal looked at him and blinked her eyes twice before responding. "Yeah… what the hell happened?"

"I don't know…" Jacob said looking around the woods. "Let's get going though… we should figure out where we are."

They followed the only made trail since they didn't want to get lost in the woods and found it led to some area with a large flower in the centered at the base of a tree. Standing on the petals of the giant flower was a girl a bit younger than them looking down at the ground and swaying a bit. She had a red coat on along with a red skirt. Below the coat was a blue and white plaid shirt. Brown hair covered her face and she looked downward in the direction of the two.

For a second they stood and looked at her, and then Jacob looked at the girl closer. "Is that my sister?" he asked Krystal.

Krystal looked closely with him at the girl and nodded. "It looks a lot like her but what the hell is she doing out here in a place like this?"

"Sophia!" Jacob called out to the girl ignoring Krystal's question. The girl didn't reply at all.

When Jacob began to run toward Sophia she back away and started to go inside the flower. "Belong to my beauty won't you?" the little girls voice rang out as the two now ran after her. When they arrived the petals had curled up and along with them the entrance to the way the girl had gone.

"Shoot, she's gone," Krystal said as the two arrived.

Jacob stopped and looked around the flower and at the petals very closely. "There has to be a way inside," Jacob said.

"Well I'm no good at things like this so you're on your own," Krystal said looking around the wooded area. "But if you do need my help let me know."

There were six petals he could see, red, brown, yellow, pink, green, and yellow. Jacob started think to himself and then looked at the petals again before poking the red one. It floated down to the ground with ease and he smiled to himself.

"She wanted us to look at beauty and to create beauty you need three main colors so you can make any of them," Jacob said before tapping the blue and yellow petals watching them fall with ease like the red. The others now fell with them revealing the entrance to the area within. But once the looked into they saw half of someones body crawling toward them. It was missing the bottom half but they could tell it was their friend Strife.

"Where is my other half!? I need my other half!?" Strife called out before dispersing into millions of little black spores.

"Wha-wha-wha-what the hell was that!?" Jacob asked hiding behind Krystal holding the baseball bat firm.

"I don-" Krystal started before a large body hit her from within the floor making her fall over. When her looked at it the head was crushed inward but she knew it was another of their friends named Yairi.

Jacob kicked the body off and looked back at the entrance to see some weird thing emerge from within. It had a human body but the mouth was made to look like a giant flower with three huge petals opening up with sharp teeth ready to eat.

"This isn't right…" Krystal said before a white light flashed before their eyes.

With that Jacob woke up in the mens bathroom and looked around to where he was. "What the hell… happened?" Jacob asked aloud looking around the dorms male bathroom.