Author's note- IMPORTANT! This story does not belong to me nor my friend. My friend Anna wrote this and she wasn't able to upload it to fanfiction cause of stuff happening so she asked me. I'm too tired to update you on my life, here's chapter 14 enjoy. Please NO flames, read and review!

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Ch. 14 Goodbye childhood…

Alma stood up so fast, she knocked her chair over. Then she smiled, and broke into nervous laughter. "Ha ha, very funny mom! …Now put the knife down." She started slowly backing away.

"You still think I'm not serious dear?" She said with the kindest smile. So kind, it almost looked as if she didn't even know she was holding a knife! Almost.

Alma's jaw dropped in disbelief. "J-Jason! Get Rosie, and lock yourself in your room!" She cried without looking away from her mother.

"Huh? Alma, what's going on?!" He yelled, the sound of his controller dropping to the floor as he stood up, which was followed immediately by Rosie's crying.

"No yell! No Alma, no yell!"

"Do not listen to her Jason, she's lost it!" Their mom said, also not looking away from her target, her own daughter.

Jason ran into the kitchen to see what was going on, but as soon as he saw his mom with the raised knife, and the threatening posture, he scooped up Rosie from the couch, and dashed upstairs. The sound of a door slamming followed his exit.

"Oh, I'm the mad one, huh? Says the lady holding the knife!" Alma said with a crack in her voice. She turned and ran for the stairs too, with the sound of her mother's footsteps right behind her. She was right on her heels.

As soon as she cleared the top step, she turned and ran down the hallway, and took out the dagger she didn't lose while fighting in the Underland. She had been hiding it with the belt loops of her shorts.

But her mother was distracted. She pounded on the locked door of her son's bedroom. "Jason?! Jason, be a good boy, and open the door for mommy, so she can end your sister's whining!" she said, jerking the door handle, while Rosie was letting off a high pitched wail. But no sound came from Jason, who was probably stunned into silence with shock and fear.

While her mother continued to try and break down the door, Alma ducked into the bathroom, and shoved the drawer over the hole out of the way so hard, it fell over, and all of its contents spilled out.

Alma collapsed near the hole and started yelling. "Howard! Corona! Ares! Somebody HEEELP!" she screamed as loud as she could. Would anyone come?

She heard her mother still pounding on the door down the hall, and her sister, who was tired from wailing, was now sobbing hopelessly. "I said, OPEN UP!" their mom shouted in frustration.

"GO AWAY!" Jason finally yelled at her.

Alma clenched her teeth in anger, and ran out into the hallway. She threw her remaining dagger, and it imbedded itself in the door, right next to her mom's head. "Hey! Leave them alone, you old hag!" she yelled at her. It was scary having her mom try and kill her, but NO ONE messes with her brother and sister, and gets away with it.

"How… How dare you!" Her mom yelled incredulously as she turned around. "How dare you aim such violence and awful words at your own mother!" she shouted, taking steps towards Alma again.

"I'll do whatever the hell I want, especially when my 'own mother' is TRYING TO KILL ME!" She shot back, outraged. Then she ran into the bathroom again. To hell if she was going to die, she was going to jump through the hole, and drag her own witch of a mother down after her.

But her mom was fast. As soon as Alma knelt next to the hole, she kneed her in the side, and pushed her to the other side of the room. Alma gave a yelp, and collapsed on the floor.

Her mother raised the knife to bring it down on her back, but then saw the hole out of the corner of her eye, and her mouth fell open. "What… is that? Did you do that to my house?!"

"That's been there, dumbass..." Alma said weakly as she sat up.

"INSOLENT CHILD!" She screamed, pissed that Alma called her that. She raised the knife again, with a scowl on her face, and Alma turned away, thinking hope was lost.

But that's when hope came through.

Alma saw the shadow of a wing on the bathroom floor, and when she looked up, she saw that Ares had flown into the bathroom through the hole to the Underland, and wasted no time in going after her mother, as he grabbed her arms with his claws.

Her mother gave a shriek of alarm, and drove her knife into his leg, right above the claw. Ares winced, but when she raised her arm to strike again, his wing knocked the knife out of her hand, and it fell to the floor.

Ares was trying to drag Alma's mother down into the hole, which was difficult since she was holding onto the edge of the bathroom sink, refusing to let go.

Alma reached over and grabbed the knife off the floor, and drove it into her mother's hand. She let out another shriek.

As Alma pulled the knife out, Ares pulled her mother over the hole, and dropped her into the abyss.

Her screams were drowned in the darkness, just as Alma's had been.