Nightmare's Reign
Chapter 1
Alex Russo was lying on the floor of the Waverly Sub Station when she woke up. She sat up, her vision blurry, and grabbed her throbbing head. She had no idea how she ended up on the floor of her family's restaurant. She fell asleep in her own bed the night before. Now she was on the floor of the sub station, a very dirty floor. Her vision started to clear and what she saw horrified her. The sub station's walls had massive holes in them along with scorch marks. The wood in them rotting away. All the windows were broken and the doors to the street were knocked down. All over the floor there were pieces of the ceiling that had fallen down. The spiral staircase that led to her home was leaning drastically and could fall any minute. She stood up and walked towards the kitchen. The bar was gone, but the bar stools still stood in there place, the metal on them rusting. She went into the kitchen and it looked like someone dropped a bomb in there. The entire kitchen was ruined. She saw the freezer door was torn off its hinges and resting near the wall. She went into her family's wizard lair and inside there was not much better. The lair was trashed and the transport was destroyed, broken glass everywhere. She walked to the center of the room where the two couches and chair once were. She picked up the chair, which was rusted like the barstools, and she sat on it. She sat there in shock, no idea what happened.
What seemed like an eternity, Alex stood up again and walked to the wall where the Doctor had licked the wall on the first day they met him. The Doctor! Alex ran out of the lair to the area where the Doctor had placed his TARDIS. She didn't see it. There was no of the Doctor and no sign of her family. There was no sign of anyone actually. Alex glanced to where the subway car was, but there was nothing. She walked over there and saw that the car was torn off of the wall. She put her head down. What was happening? What happened? Why was she the only one here? She put her hand on the wall and felt something strange. She looked up and saw that her hand was one four deep gashes in the wall. They were claw marks. Four huge claw marks. How come she didn't see them when she got here? Probably because everything else was torn apart and there was no one here except for her. Where were they?
Alex walked away from the wall and decided there was nothing here. She stepped out onto Waverly Place. The street wasn't much better. There was debris everywhere and the building were barely standing. Her family's place was one of the lucky ones. She walked down Waverly Place towards one of the main city roads and she was horrified as the picture grew even more terrible. There was dried blood splattered across several building and on the street. The blood was old as if it had been there for a several years. She walked more and saw a newspaper. She picked it up and the date was June 18, 2012. That was nearly years in the future. The headline and picture had worn away, she could barely see the date. The paper looked old. What was going on!? She wanted answers, but all she got was more questions and more terrors.
She put the paper down on the ground and looked down. She jumped and fell to the ground. She got up and ran until she hit a building wall, causing ash and dust to fall on her. She cough and got the dust out of her face. She was staring at four skeletons. One of them was twisted in a way that no body should be twisted. The others were missing bones and looked like they had been eaten. She didn't want to move, but she knew she had to get answers so she forced herself to go on. There was no one in the city. It was completely dead.
She walked out in the closet street that runs throughout the whole city. Cars were crashed into buildings, thrown upside down, others were scorched and looked like they were blown up, more were crashed into each other. For the first time, Alex saw the sky. It was covered by dark clouds, only once in a great while the sun would break through. Nothing was the same. Nothing was like it was when Alex had gone to sleep at least two years ago. Alex continued to walk down the street. The last time she saw the city there were thousands, no millions of people on the street, but now there is no one. There is no a single person in sight. The city was deserted or dead. Alex saw several more skeletons. She jumped out of her skin several times as debris fell from the building onto the street below. She had to dodge a couple chunks of debris before they crashed on her head.
She walked for what to her felt like forever. There was nothing alive. No people, no animals, nothing. She felt her knees go weak. She was hungry and thirsty. She was starting to break down. She walked and found a convenience store to her right. She walked inside and saw that most of the food was rotten or even petrified. She saw a few packages of beef jerky that was still good. She took some and tore open the bag. She didn't care that it was stealing or was it even stealing, there was no one here. She was just so hungry and didn't think about it any more.
Before she took a bite, she realized that there was nothing here to drink. Even if she could get rid of her hungry, she would just get even more thirsty. She put the bag of beef jerk down and curled into a ball. She was so scared. What had happened to the city? She started to cry and couldn't stop.
"What happened? Where is everyone? Doctor, I need you. Where are you?" she said between sobs.