Chapter 7

"Alyssa, what do you mean they're in your house? Alyssa? Allysa!" the phone line went dead. I knew what I had to do, I bolted downstairs and ran out the door, as mean as it seems, I saw a little kid on a bike, and I knew I could never run there in time, yea you could say I am a horrible person, but it was a matter of life and death… literally. I yelled thank you to the kid and said I would give his bike back, but that probably wasn't true, I had bigger problems to worry about at that time.

I biked as fast as I could ignoring the pain in my legs and the butterflies in my stomach, I needed to get there, before they got out of the house and left, I surely would never find Alyssa if they got out.

Alyssa's house was surrounded by a forest, there could be someone in there just waiting for me, but that thought never crossed my mind as I ran up the stairs to find the door smashed down and the handle broken off, there was a scream upstairs and I knew I had to get there fast. Seemingly out of nowhere a hooded man jumped at me with I knife, acting on instinct I dodges his first swipe and grabbed the nearest thing to use as a weapon, thought it seems crude, the lava lamp worked just fine the next time he lunged at me, I hit the knife out of its hand and slammed the lamp as hard as I could on its head. I didn't even stop to think about what I had done when I ran upstairs, lava lamp in hand.

I ran into what looked like Alyssa's room and found her in a heap on the floor, I couldn't see what was wrong with her, but I knew it was serious, but there was no one there besides her, no hooded creature, just her on the floor.

She looked up and met my eyes with a look of horror, "Look out!" she yelled.

I turned around as fast as I could, but it was too late, another hooded creature had come at me with a knife, and this time, I wasn't able to dodge it, it sliced into my left forearm, leaving a deep gash Alyssa and I screamed at the same time, I yelled in pain, she yelled in shock, I looked up at the creature with rage, and whacked him in the stomach with the lamp, still firmly in the grip of my right hand, he bent over in pain and I kneed him in the face, obviously breaking its nose. It yelped in pain, then ran out the door, now unconcerned with the creature, I turned around to go see Alyssa, she was purely white, but it didn't seems as if she was hurt at all. I didn't even finish the words "Are you okay?" before she collapsed in my arms, shaking.

I am unaware of how much time went by, but soon after two police cars, a fire truck and an ambulance arrived on the scene. The paramedics took me to the hospital, and I requested that Alyssa should come with me, not trusting her alone in this frightened state. We left the police on the scene to track down any of the intruders and look for more clues; I later found out that they find neither, no clues and no intruders.

But my thoughts weren't concerned on that at that moment, they were concerned on Alyssa, and what the hell just happened in that once pleasant house. Alyssa's mom is out of town this week, her dad died when she was very little and her mom was often out places, places that she never really told Alyssa, but I'm sure Alyssa mom would be informed of what happened sooner or later.

Alyssa broke the silence in the ambulance, "I really liked that lava lamp..."

I laughed, which felt really good, "I'm sure I can find you another one."

When we arrived at the hospital, my mom was already there, with here worried look, which she seemed to be using a lot lately, "What on Earth happened?"

I told her everything in the doctor's office, not entirely sure if she believed me or not, but she asked and I was only telling her the truth, I told her about the cult, and how the people who were kidnapped were to be burned to death on June sixth, which was just a few weeks away. I told her about how they needed seven people in order for their ritual to be complete and how Alyssa and I were the last free people born on that day in the city. The entire time she listened intently and nodded along with what I was saying. Alyssa sat in the chair beside her, adding in a few things that she had found out herself, but mostly just listening with my mom.

My mom just said that she would need to think more on this and that she would leave us alone to talk about what just happened and try to better understand it. That's something that I love about my mom, though worried easily, she is most of the time pretty calm and together.

Before I could say anything to Alyssa she got up and kissed me. She pulled away and said, "Thank you, thank you so, so much."

I really hoped that I said something like, "Oh, it was nothing," or "No problem," or at least along the lines of that, but once again it was something stupid, I said, "Ummmm y-y-your welcome."

She smiled at me and said, "Without you I'm sure I would have surely been taken, and for that I am really thankful."

"Well I wasn't just going to let that happen, I mean, I stole a kids bike to get to you." I replied.

She laughed, "Well that just proves that you're a good person… just not to little children obviously."

That time I laughed and was about to say something when she interrupted me and said, "But there's something I need to tell you that one of them said earlier…"