I actually planned on updating this on February 1st, but my internet connection got lost all of a sudden so I had to wait. Anyways, the long wait has ended, here's the next chapter. Oh, and P.S: Queen are the best British band of all time. They beat the Beatles by 400 votes.

Chapter 10: The Death of Freddericks

It was 7:30 AM in the morning… I was still exceedingly tired. But I guess it's just because I thought too much last night… all I needed to do was to wash my face, exercise a bit, go to campus, and come back home later… my typical daily routine.

I got off the bed and dressed up… But before I did I checked my cell phone. It said "1 New Message". I checked and looked at the message… and I was quite surprised to see what it said.

TO: DASH PARKER

FROM: COMMISSIONER ROWDY BETTERS

Dash, we have an important meeting… come here exactly at 4PM sharp.

ANOTHER meeting? Did I have another mission to go for? Just give me a break… But at least campus would end today at 2 PM instead… Tuesdays and Wednesday classes ended at 5 PM so I was a little lucky that it wasn't any of those days I guess.

I quickly went downstairs. I had a big day to go through… So I had to leave early.

The dining room was quiet, empty, and dark. It was quite odd though… at this time mom would've been frying eggs and by the time I was here the toast should have come from the toaster. And if it was raining the lights would be on for sure…

I saw note on the table… "Dash, we have to leave early. Remember to wash the dishes before you go out. –Love, mom-"

What? Leaving me to fix breakfast myself?? Just how ridiculous can this get??? I feel like I don't belong in my family…

But I guess complaining wouldn't help. I opened the fridge and was about to take an egg. When I got it out though and lightly placed it on the table to get the bread on the toaster, but I suddenly head the egg move a bit. When I turned around, it wasn't moving or anything but it was shaking a little. I waited for it to stay still but it still kept doing that…

When I held the egg to stop it the egg cracked all of a sudden. Instead of anything yellow, everything was red instead. Oh man, another mess I had to clean up.

When I looked back, the toaster suddenly got out something. I approached it to see what it was.

It was… an eye.

Why or how the hell would an eye come out of a toaster??? And more importantly whose eye was it? For sure it wasn't dad's, mom's or any of my sis'… they left quite long ago, or just when I woke up.

This whole thing almost seemed like a set up. Why the hell would my family leave me in the house so early, and then an eye pop out in the toaster when I put BREAD??

I didn't know what to do… but the eye looked quite disturbing.

In fact when I got close to pick it up to throw it in the garbage can, the eye ball exploded, splattering blood everywhere. I backed away quickly and breathed deeply…

By the time I locked the door my heart was beating fast. Something horrible was going to happen while at campus for sure. So far the day hasn't gotten any better and in fact thousand times worse than the first time experiencing serious amount of supernatural activities. And chances of these things of stopping now when there is a curse on a notebook is extremely slim to none.

Just then I heard a scream at my neighbor's house. Check that, really loud. If it wasn't loud enough I doubt I would've heard something INSIDE.

When I quickly rushed in and tried to open the door, the door broke into two pieces all of a sudden. One piece got me on my finger. It was starting to bleed but what happened to my neighbor – Mrs. Freddericks, was more important. She and my mom were close friends, and losing her meant a lot to my mom.

On the floor there was a trail of blood. Besides the trail there were foot prints and shoe prints. Maybe someone had blood on the bottom of his or her shoes…

When I followed the trail it lead to the master bedroom. When I looked around I was shocked to see who was lying on the floor dead.

"M-Mrs. Freddericks!!!" I shouted out loud. I got close to her and kneeled. She had cuts and bruises all over her.

But what was even stranger was that the blood trail continued all the way to the bathroom… I stood up and continued.

The trail ended in the bathroom. The sink and the bathtub was filled with blood. I drained the blood on the sink and just as I was about to drain the bathtub, I heard a voice…

"Brother… so we meet once more…"

I turned around and saw Fettel. He walked through the doors somehow and started walking towards me.

"I'm glad you arrived here…" He muttered as he drooled blood from his mouth.

"What the hell do you want…? There's nothing…" I blurted as I backed away, and couldn't finish my sentence as he got closer.

"Do you believe in your mind… or hers?" He questioned as he seemed to disappear, but not before saying, "I'll leave the two of you alone."

As soon as he disappeared a hand arose from the bathtub. From there Alma appeared, though this time she was a naked woman. She looked rather as if she wanted something from me, in a way that she would kill me to get something she wanted. As I backed away from her even more I ended up being cornered to a wall.

She ran to me at lightening speed and began choking me. I managed to get out of the grip by trying to elbow her. Though she remained what seemed like unhurt, she just let go. When she did she disappeared as well.

I breathed deeply… but… I… felt sick. I rushed quickly to the toilet and vomited.

After flushing my own vomit down I continued breathing heavily. I felt a little sick, but it wasn't that horrible. At least not enough to make me have to stay home from campus or go to the hospital. I cleaned my mouth and left the bathroom.

I came back to examine Mrs. Freddericks' corpse. One of her eyes were plucked out, one of her fingers were cut off, her left arm was twisted, and worst of all her foot's skin was missing… just the bones were what remained.

Suddenly I checked my cell phone. It was already 8PM!! I had to hurry… I quickly left the house ran like mad to the bus stop.
Man, today wasn't easy. All this thing even made me forget to study for a test today. Hopefully I didn't fail. But then again F.E.A.R. had another mission for me… but before I go there I had to leave my stuff at home. No use in bringing notebooks to a F.E.A.R. mission.

While riding on the bus I thought of something… how was it that my family just got out of the house… all at the same time, and not telling me about it? Worst of all why was there an eye on that toaster…

Wait, that eye… Mrs. Freddericks had an eye missing when I saw her dead body. But what was her eye doing in my house? And how did it get into my toaster?

I hurried back home after the bus stopped. I had to figure this out quickly… Quickly taking the keys out of my pocket and rushing home, I opened the front door and looked closely back at the kitchen. Strange thing was my family still wasn't home yet. Even more strange all the blood on the table was no longer there. It almost seemed like nothing happened.

"Mom…? Dad…? Wendy? M…"

"DASH!!"

I turned around and saw Mr. Freddericks outside. I opened the door and quickly rushed outside, even if I knew what he might have been here for.

"M…my wife… where's your mother?" He asked, looking quite shocked.

"I… I don't know." I replied.

"Well come and take a look…!!"

Mr. Freddericks ran ahead while I followed him but slowly as I knew what happened.

He led me to the master bedroom…

I was shocked to see what was there though. The room definitely wasn't the same. This time the lights kept flickering on and off, and Mrs. Freddericks' corpse actually was still squirting blood. It almost seemed like she died just now. When I came here the first time, presumably when Mr. Freddericks was at work, her blood wasn't squirting out... and this corpse meant she died not too long ago. But where was the dead body I saw earlier...?

"Mr. Freddericks, was Mrs. Freddericks like this when you came back or did she die after you returned… but you just didn't see it?" I asked while looking at the corpse.

No answer.

"M…Mr. Freddericks?"

I walked out of the room. I kept calling for Mr. Freddericks but there was still no answer. But when I came to the kitchen there he was, and he was looking at something else…

"D…Dash… Look at this…"

He was pointing at the table…

I couldn't believe what it was. It was Mrs. Freddericks' body… but her corpse was in the master bedroom!! What was it doing here now??? The whole place was like a mad house now…

The lights went off in the kitchen. But it wasn't TOO dark… at least I could see my hands a little bit.

"Sir…? What's… going o-"

I couldn't finish my question as I suddenly saw another Mrs. Freddericks, floating, but she looked like she was being hung. Just then another Mrs. Freddericks was there, missing a part of her head. Another Mrs. Freddericks appeared, but this time she had a huge cut on her neck yet she was standing up… with her face lying completely on her right shoulder. They all seemed to be approaching Mr. Freddericks… but after they were about an inch close to him they all disappeared…

"What… were those things?" I questioned myself loud, but the lights were back on all of a sudden.

"I didn't see anythi-"

Mr. Freddericks suddenly flinched a bit, and was sent to the wall all of a sudden… he clutched his stomach. Then something just kept pushing him to the wall… but there wasn't anything from what I saw.

Wait a minute… I only saw those "Mrs. Freddericks" when the lights were off… so that meant…

I turned the lights off. This time they weren't Mrs. Freddericks, but instead they were like dolls… they had no faces… but their arms and legs were nearly humanoid…

They were all punching Mr. Freddericks, but one of them grabbed a knife and stabbed it through neck, and killed him.

The darkness was only a nightmare… that had to be it. I turned the lights back on… and there he was… Mr. Freddericks was killed…!!

"You should know better by now…" I heard Fettel's voice again, but he was nowhere to be seen. Even more strange, those strange things that killed Mr. Freddericks disappeared all of a sudden. I even turned lights on and off to see if they were there or not, but they were nowhere to be seen.

Not knowing what to do, I quickly left the house… I reached for the doorknob…

However, getting near it somehow got Mr. Freddericks' corpse fly out of the window nearby the door, smashing it. The body laid on the ground, and the grass was filled with blood. When I got out the body had exploded and blood spread everywhere around the lawn. Nothing of Mr. Freddericks remained.

When I got back home I checked the clock. It was 4:00 PM. I had thirty minutes until F.E.A.R. meeting. But then Mr. Freddericks… and Mrs. Freddericks… what about them? If someone found out what should I do? Even worse by the time I went out mom and dad would've found out!!

But I had to hurry… but first things first. I hurried back home and got to my room, got a piece of paper and wrote a note…

Mom, dad

I have to sleepover today at Katie's because she needs help on something. Sorry.

I left that at the dinner table… hoping nothing weird would happen while I'm gone.

But the same question was still in mind though; where are my family? They left me so early in the morning… without noticing. Even much stranger they didn't call me even by my cell phone while I was away. It was really weird…

Oh great, what did I have to do now? Last time Alma helped me get there… to F.E.A.R. HQ. At least THAT was something she did good for me… something that didn't make my life a living hell. But then again she said something about me going to die if I went there.

But more or less, she just had to appear when I needed her. It gets pretty annoying.

I had to ask directions for this one, but unfortunately not a single person I asked so far knew the way there. So here I was, just asking random people for directions in an army based headquarters. This really wasn't helping at all…

I was frustrated. VERY frustrated I might add.

"Dash? What are ya doin' here?" A familiar voice questioned.

It was Commissioner Betters.

"Commander Betters!" I called back and walked towards him.

"You forgot your make up or something?" He teased, and added "come on let's go."

At least that was great. Somehow I met Commissioner Betters walking somewhere I just randomly went to. I had to be thankful for that…

He led me to his car and we drove our way back to the HQ… At least I got this over with. But the F.E.A.R. mission would be a completely different story... now I had to shoot more bad guys, with possibility of me getting killed in the process.

To be continued...

That means the next firefight is in the NEXT chapter. For sure, yes. Anyways, I got over with the incident with that friend... Thanks for your patience.