The Horrors to Come

"Why can't you wake up, Carrie?" he asked, feeling that whatever was making her sleep wasn't good at all. Something was happening and it all started with a ring, his wife's ring. It happened before when I was six, shortly after the cleaning of the Overlook. Christine and I saw lights coming from the building. "What's going on?" asked Frank concerned as he saw her limp body in her father's arms. Xipe looked at Frank with a sneer, "This is none of your business!"

Yes, dad it is his business, he's been the one taking care of me for most of my life so he has the right to know! Xipe was hurt by her words but, it was true. Frank was the reason why she was still alive and besides the Overlook a firm awakening of how precious his daughter was. With a sigh of defeat he informed the enemy, "She says something like this happened before."

"It did….when?" he asked. He wouldn't have known it at the time. I was asleep when it happened. Anyway the building I'm talking about was an abortion clinic. "She's talking about the lights coming out of an abortion clinic." I remember telling Christine to go get Frank and I went inside alone. That's how I found them. Xipe didn't have to ask who them was. So that was how Reagan found her brood, he thought. "She remembers telling Christine to go find you and that's were she found them."

"Oh God," at first Xipe didn't know were the voice of despair came from only to find out it came from Frank. Xipe stared at him in amazement on how pale Cotton's face was, he had seen terror on his face countless times without any flesh and this never bothered him. Seeing the expression on Frank's face with fear filled him with dread. "Frank….do you know something about Carrie?" It took Frank a moment to speak. When Frank finally found his voice it sounded weak.

"I've never thought of it until now. I've always tried to forget it and I hoped that this wouldn't happen again." Xipe laid his daughter back into the bed gently and came over to Frank, determined to know what it was. "What are you talking about that you hoped won't happen again?" It took Frank several painful seconds to answer. The answer he got was astonishing. "She was part of The Event."

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While Xipe and Frank were upstairs with Carrie with the horrible news of 'The Event' downstairs with William and Noel the horrors were beginning to take place. It all happened while they were watching The Little Mermaid when she heard a voice calling her. Noel…..Noel, She looked over her shoulder to find no one was there. Noel shook it off as just her over active imagination until the voice called her again. "Did you hear that?" she asked, hoping it was all in her head. William looked at her funny, I didn't hear anything.

By William's answer she was some-what relaxed. Noel knew William was 'special' that if he heard anything he would tell her. Even though William said he didn't hear anything she was still scared. The voice calling her was mean but, something wasn't right about it. Noel scooted even closer to Will holding him tight like a teddy bear. Will looked down at the girl puzzled by her tenderness but, then relaxed hugging her back. Usually when a kid got this close to him he'd change into his true form and they would run from the terror they were holding.

Will began stroking her hair, he liked how soft it felt. He looked down at Noel. You're going to be a very beautiful girl when you get older, he thought being careful Noel didn't hear him think it. For a brief second he closed his eyes then the next he was no longer in the living room with Noel hugging him tightly. He was in an unknown place where it was extremely cold, covered in ice. Strangely there was life in this cold igloo. In the middle was a tree with pink petal falling from its branches. Beside the tree was a pond frozen solid until one of the petals fell on the ice were it melted quickly as a hand reached out to grab the wandering petal.

The hand was perfect and pale, that hand belonged to an angel. The hand followed by an arm, shoulder then eventually the head along with the rest of the body. The body was unspeakably beautiful, it was a female with blond hair and hazel years that glistened almost like gold. What made her body even more beautiful was her bare perfection. "Hello, William," she said, her voice like a song. Her face, her voice, and her naked beauty immediately he wanted to pin her down and ravish her. In the Labyrinth it was hard to find a companion to be with and finding a sexual partner was one of them. With a face like his it would be like sleeping with a faceless nightmare.

She was coming closer to him making Will step back. Something wasn't right. "Why are you backing away from me? Don't you know who I am?"

Who are you? He asked, feeling afraid and aroused at the same time. Funny, the hideous Chatterer fears a beautiful Goddess. His back was against the wall with no where to run. The mystery woman put her hand on his leather sewn chest then another. "You should know me," she said seductively as she wrapped her arms around his neck. He was about to hold her with his hand about to wander to cup her ass his hands went let go of her body when she said, "I'm Noel."

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The voice called her again, stronger this time. "Will," she said trying to shake him awake. Noel almost screamed as a hand was put on her shoulder only to calm when she saw it was Linda. "Don't you want to play, Noel?" she asked sweetly. Only the sweetness had a sour aftertaste. "I…I didn't mean…." Noel didn't have time to explain as Linda took hold of her hand and lead her away from her protector and future lover. "I want to show you something," said Linda as she lead Noel into the darkness of 'Linda's' world.

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Christine was with Fern and Danny playing a violent video game. Fern was teasing Danny how Fern was actually an old man. "If you count my years when I was Tom Riddle I would actually be in my 80's or older, so I'm actually allowed to play Resident Evil," he bragged. Danny argued back, "Well, I'm half a Cenobite so I need to get use to seeing this type of scary stuff when I get older." Christine was about to say something about Resident Evil being nothing like the Labyrinth until she felt something sinister upstairs in the living room.

"Do you feel that?" she whispered, looking up at the ceiling. The boys stopped playing their game to look up at the ceiling. Yes, they also could feel it. With Danny he see the black smoke seeping in through the ceiling and could feel the hateful cold with it. Fern stood up looking at the ceiling with concern. He was use to being around evil presences, his father had that air that made others go made with fear if they saw him in person. An evil presence didn't actually it wanted to do harm, most of the time it just wanted to pass by. The presence upstairs had an agenda and it wanted to harm.

"We need to go upstairs," said Fern as he put the game on pause and went upstairs with the other two at his heels. By the time they were out of the basement they heard Noel scream for a second then went silent really quickly.

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Angelique dropped her mug as Noel screamed once more only this time it lasted for a second then it was quiet. She went to were Noel suddenly screamed only to find her laying on the ground outside motionless. "Noel!" Angelique screamed as she ran to the motionless body. Noel was breathing but, no matter how hard she tried she couldn't wake up. "Noel!" she screamed, shaking her frantically. "Noel please wake up!"