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This is my first attempt on a story! Don´t judge me ;)
Thanks to Rivverr Fourrest!
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David
When the river caught fire David knew he was going crazy.
It was kind of funny that he realized it then, after all this time in the nut house. He had always refused accepting the fact that he might be wrong in the garret. But today pretty much outdid anything he had ever heard of.
As he glared at the river and into the dark night from his dorm´s window, he realized something even weirder. The water didn´t seem to just burn, it looked like the water and the fire were fighting more or less. They seemed to grab and tear each other apart.
"Okay", David thought. "So there finally is a reason why they put me in this madhouse..." The sight of the flames dancing was beautiful in some way, but it really freaked him out. Some people might have found this cool, but finding the prove that you finally are nuts wasn´t very fun to David.
He tried to calm down and suppress the panic rising in his chest, slowly counting down from ten to zero like the doctor had told him. He was concentrating convincing himself that he was just tired and that maybe, if he would sleep a bit and not be so tired, things would look totally different, when he suddenly got the feeling that he was being watched.
While looking around nervously he noticed his room mate Rick staring out the window to the distance. He somehow looked terrified by something David couldn´t see. He was sitting straight on his bed, muttering something. His short blond hair was covered with sweat, so David couldn´t tell how long he had been awake. Suddenly Rick gasped.
"Are you okay?", David asked.
"They are fighting!", Rick said in a trembling voice. "Fighting, Can´t you see? Someone has to stop them! STOP THEM!"
His whole body was shaking now. David hated it when this happened. His room mate sometimes had these `visions´, hallucinating and yelling around. It was nothing unusual if you live in a madhouse, but it scared the hell out of David every time.
He was about to go call for a Doctor to calm down Rick when a quick move in the garden just 20 feet away from the river caught his attention. He leaned out of the window. Could that be? For a second it had looked like people running away from the flames towards the house. No, that was impossible. No one could get out from inside the building at night because the front doors were locked, and no one ever came to that place from the outside. It must have been his eyes playing tricks on him. "Yep, totally gone crazy", he thought to himself.
He sighed and got up, mumbling a "I´ll be right back" to Rick and went out the dorm. To get a doctor for Rick, he had to go all the way downstairs to the lobby. He looked at his golden wristwatch. Two in the morning. He had to be silent not to wake up anybody.
As he sneaked down the corridor towards the stairs, he suddenly heard voices. Now, usually he would just go on since there were some sleep-walk-talkers in the madhouse, but he had a bad feeling about that one. He looked for a place to hide and decided to duck behind a big shield that said `2nd floor´ and listened quietly.
"...will be here soon.", a girl was just saying. "The Hephaestus kids can´t hold them off for much longer. We have a few minutes, that´s not enough time to save the people in this floor."
"Right. We need to act quick!", another girl whispered. "Let´s just kill them before they get a chance to help the enemy."
David´s heart skipped a beat. Kill them? That didn´t sound good. Not that he understood any of of the things they were saying, but being in the same house with people who wanted to kill you wasn´t his favourite wish.
While he was thinking about a way to warn the others. He sensed he was being watched again. He shuddered and looked around, but the feeling didn´t go away.
"You´re not serious, are you, Clarisse?" the first voice said again, now much closer. They would be walk past him and see him any moment if he wouldn´t move quick, but he didn´t see a possibility to get anywhere without getting into their line of sight.
"The gods won´t spare enemies anyway after we´ve won, so they´ll die anyway. If we don´t want them to cause trouble..." Maybe three more seconds and they would see David.
He had no idea what to do. He couldn´t run away since the corridor was a dead end and they were blocking the only direction he could run away to. His heart was hammering in his chest. Maybe if he could surprise them...
CRASH!
A deafening noise like thunder from outside shook the building. So much about not waking anyone up.
The two girls stopped and he could feel their breath so near to his ear he could have touched them. He was lucky the corridors´ lights were being repaired that week and it was pretty dark, otherise they would have seen him.
"That´s them!", The girl called Clarisse said. "Damn, I thought we would have had more time."
"Change of plans?" the other girl said.
"I guess. We don´t want to miss all the fun, right?" And with that they ran back and back and down the stairs.
When their footsteps were faded, David sank to his knees. Only now he noticed he had been holding his breath all the time. He closed his eyes for a second and took a deep breath. Then he got back to his feet and ran to his room, where he found Rick breathing heavily.
"David, I had a vision again." He said while gulping.
"Yeah, I know."
"Do you think I´m going crazy?" Rick looked at him miserably.
David honestly didn´t know what to answer, since he had just thought the same thing about himself. Wait, maybe he really was crazy. Maybe his mind was just making all those things up. It didn´t seem very likely that after the burning river two girls talking about gods would come and try to kill him. Suddenly he wished he was nuts.
CRASH!
There it was again. A lightning bolt came down from the dark sky. And David was pretty sure it hit the front door of the psychiatry.
No, this couldn´t be imagination. This was the damn reality.
That´s the first chapter.
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