FanFiction - Gone
Love and Fear...but Mainly Fear
The world was dark and the air cold. The wind blew in Caine's face as he ran, he ran in desperation. His head pounded with a sound. A voice. A voice he'd heard before.
The Darkness.
In the FAYZ the darkness was used as a power, but in the real world it was just scary.
He ran, breathing heavily as he tripped up and over tree roots, fell in puddles and slipped in mud. His clothes torn, and he had obtained a bloody cut on his arm and forehead.
"Come on. Help. Give me a clue to where you are." Caine whispered to himself in desperation. "Come on!"
He continued to search for the Darkness, in the darkness, with no such luck. Caine had been running for over half and hour, the central park was huge. He slumped down against a large tree. The bark was damp and cold but he soon drifted to sleep, leaving his troubles behind.
Sam, Diana, Astrid, Lucius and the twins were still in the bathroom. The adults were shocked out of their wits, and the kids have no idea what the hell is going on. Diana perches on the sink looking tired and depressed. Sam sighed.
"Dad. What does it mean 'Hungry in the Dark'? Does it mean Uncle's hungry?" Rosie asked, breaking the unnerving silence.
Sam shook his head silently no wanting to speak.
Rosie scrunched her eyebrows. "Then... what does it mean? You do know don't you Dad. What this means."
Sam nodded. "Yes. I do know what this means. And no, it's not what you think. It's something bad Rosie. Something very bad."
"But we can fix it. Right?" Lucius cut in, a bit a hope emerged in his voice.
Sam looked at the girls, still grim. "Maybe. We did it once before. But that took a lot of people and a lot of determination."
Lucius looked blank, it took awhile for this to sink in. "So... we can't fix it?" Lucius's voice was num with fear and his expression reflected his tone of voice.
Sam looked at his face; this little boy's Dad was in great danger. His brother was in great danger. Would it be wise to risk all their lives for him?
It didn't matter what he thought because Diana stepped in and spoke for him. "Oh course we can fix this darling." her voice was soft, smooth and caring "Sam will help. Won't you Sam?"
This question was so out of the blue, it caught Sam by surprise and he heard himself saying "Yeah. Sure we'll help. Where do we start?"
Astrid turned and gave him a 'why the hell did you just do that' stare. During the discovery of the message and the shock of it Sam had completely forgotten that Astrid was there, standing next to him. Sam gave her a weak 'I didn't mean to!' smile and Astrid rolled her eyes.
"Where was the Darkness last time? In a cave filled with radiation. Anything like that in New York?" Diana persisted.
Sam thought for a moment. Caves... caves. No caves in New York. How about radiation... no. None of that either. This was harder than he thought, and he thought it was going to be tough.
"What about Central Park. God knows what lies in there. There might be a giant hole or something." Lucius put in after a long silence and the distant clinking of Sam's brain racking away.
Sam nodded silently. This made sense and taking orders from a kid wasn't that bad. Was it? No. Not really. "Yeah. Let's start there. Come guys."
They all headed toward the door when Astrid pulled back on Sam's arm. "What!"
Astrid looked him deeply in the eyes. "Is it sensible to go search for the Darkness at 9:30pm in a dark park with three little kids who are extremely tired?"
She was right too. Rosie, Lucius and Jamie all looked as if they were more than half dead. Astrid herself looked tired too. At this moment Sam let out a large yawn and Astrid raised her an eyebrow as if to say 'I told you so'. He nodded in agreement.
"Alright guys, we going to start the search in the morning. That way we'll all have more energy and actually look as if we haven't just risen from our graves." Sam announced along with another yawn. And with that everyone slumped onto their own bed, apart from Sam and Astrid, and fell asleep.
In the morning they were supposed to be sight seeing, or shopping. But no, they were hunting through the park at dawn trying to find a family member and a whole lot of darkness.
So far all they'd seen was a whole load of trees... grass... more trees... and more grass. Okay, and a bit of mud too, actually, make that a lot of mud. It was extremely muddy and everyone had totally ruined his or her shoes.
"I spy with my little eye... something beginning with... G." said Jamie, who was still insisting they played eye spy, even though he was the only one still playing.
"Jamie. No one else is playing. Get over it!" said Rosie calmly, but deliberately, she then stormed off ahead of everyone else.
Sam glanced nervously at Astrid who was glancing back. It was amazing how they always did this. She was okay. They'd find Rosie again, she wasn't that far ahead. Lucius ran off after her a couple of seconds afterwards.
Diana shouted, "Be careful!" right in Sam's ear which made him jump out of his underwear and back into them again.
"You be careful. You nearly blew my eardrums off!" Sam argued.
"You do know that isn't possible." said Astrid reasonably.
Sam sighed. "Yes, I did know that actually." he retorted tartly.
"Good. Good. Just making sure." Astrid replied calmly.
Up ahead Rosie had slowed down to a walk and was leaning against a tree. It was cold and wet, obviously from last night's horrible weather. She could see her breath condensing in the air and she breathed harder pretending she was a dragon. Rosie would always have a lot of fun with her brother when they played dragons. Sam always told them stupid fantasy stories. They both loved the ones about dragons; they always used to burn straight through stuff.
They started calling Sam, Dad the dragon. He got annoyed by this, they weren't sure why. This situation of finding their Uncle was awkward. The three of them had no idea of what was going on because none of the adults would tell them. They all took guesses at what it could be, but they all seemed too far-fetched to be happening.
That's what they thought anyway.
Suddenly Rosie heard a twig snap behind her. She spun round with one hand gripping tightly onto the tree's bark. All she could see was a whole load of trees; the sun was starting to shine through the branches, which made a change. She smiled weakly; it was just her imagination playing up. Maybe she'll just wake up in bed and this was all just a dream.
Just then something happened, not the something she wanted to happen, but something did. A pair of hands slammed down on her shoulders and she could feel warm breath down her neck.
Rosie was literally shaking with fear and she moved her eyes to the side, trying to catch a glimpse of who was behind her. She got nothing. Rosie then decided to spin round to face them quickly and take what was coming. If they were going to kill her, they would have done so already.
Well, that's what she thought.
