Chapter 3

Jake

Evil and horrible laughter's echoed in the air, they increased, steps… I don't know what kind of steps, not human steps anyway and I didn't like them.

Those horrible laughter's and steps and heartbeats and all the other evil sound around me came closer, they increased, they got higher. And at the same time the darkness got even more horrible, the darkness and the fog got too close, like it wanted to swallow me.

"Marco?" I whined out in the dark. I don't know why it did matter to me but I wanted to know that he was still with me. No answer. The darkness and the mist came closer, it felt like I would be able to touch it if I wanted.

"Marco are you still there?" I screamed out. Still no answer. Then suddenly I felt something grab my foot. I screamed again and tried to get away from it, the only thing that happened was that I fell. The grip didn't loose. I looked at it.

It was the darkness itself that had taken a grip on me. I placed both of my hands on it and tried to tear it away. Then more arms of darkness were there and tore my arms away from the foot I tried to release. This darkness tied me up in a painful way, the fact that I got more light around me after that didn't really seemed very comforting, I felt so weak… I wanted to be stronger… I tried to morph the tiger…

I had barely begun to change when the darkness begun to squeeze my body tighter. The pain forced me to demorph… something stronger… the rhinoceros…

The darkness forced me to demorph again. At that time I noticed that I had tears in my face.

"Marco can you hear me?" I sobbed in despair. He still didn't answer. Then I heard those horrible footsteps come closer. I looked up.

A being with small evil eyes, a human like head, wrinkled face, almost black and with a greenish mouth. It leaned forward like a little dinosaur. The Drode.

Then I suddenly realized where the new light really came from. I reluctantly turned me eyes in the direction were the light came from. There, above me on a on a throne that was miles high I saw a terrible creature without arms and with a head that only was an eye, nothing else but a blood red eye… and it was watching me… I sobbed again and turned away from Crayak.

"Hi Jake!" He said.

I didn't answer, I just tried to hide in all this darkness, but just as if it could read my thoughts it dispersed so he would be able to see me anyway, of course without that I could move more than before.

"Hi Jake!" He tried again, higher this time. I gave up, he wasn't going to allow me to pretend like I didn't know he was there.

"What are you doing?" I asked trying to sound brave, it failed.

"That's a good question really!" He said. "The truth is that, as I didn't had anything to do and that I have had a quite boring day I decided to kidnap you to have something amuse myself with until I can come up with something else to do.

"And what do you think the Eliminist will say about that?" I asked and surprised myself as I sounded much braver than I thought I could.

"I think he would have a lot of things to say… if he finds out!" Then he laughed at me. I felt very small when I heard that laughter. Several hours later when I finally dared to speak I asked him one more thing.

"What did you do with Marco?"

"I let him go of course, what did you expect? Ok, now I think it's time to have some fun, what do you think?"

I just shook my head when I heard it, actually I was trembling, I could just imagine what Crayak meant with, have some fun, I closed my eyes, I didn't really believe that he would kill me, that would end the fun for him, but still I didn't want to see what he did to me.