The cabin, both Doreen and Tobias were sleeping. Tobias laid on his back while Doreen leaned her head against his chest.
Tobias muttered sleeplessly...usually he didn't have troubles with dreams, but somehow, this night was different.
Everywhere was dark. Tobias gazed around and tried his armor, but it didn't work.
"Shit...Doreen! Where are you?"
At first, the young hero didn't hear anything. But then, a distant voice answered.
"Tobias..."
"Doreen, is that you? I'm coming!", Tobias began to run. "Where are you?"
"Tobias, come...I need you!"
"Doreen, Doreen!", Tobias kept running. But he wasn't able to place where the voice was coming from. Soon, he had to stop.
"Do-", he began, but suddenly heard voices behind him. Turning around, he saw how Doreen stood in front of some faceless figure.
"Doreen...who is that? Are you okay?!"
Doreen didn't answer...and then to Tobias's horror, the figure lifted a knife...and sank the blade straight in Doreen's chest.
"NO!", Tobias yelled and began to run again. Doreen started spitting blood, and then fell on the ground.
"DOREEN!", Tobias ran to her and picked her up. "Are you okay? Say something!"
Doreen didn't answer, just laid motionlessly while blood fell from her chest. Tobias shook and called her...but nothing happened.
"No...YOU!", Tobias jumped up and gazed the figure. "I KILL YOU! BLIND SPOT IF THAT'S YOU I SWEAR-"
Grinning, the figure started to back away. Tobias jumped up and ran towards him.
"TAKE THIS YOU PIECE OF-!", Tobias was ready to punch...but then heard a slash and how pain took him over. Gazing his hands...he saw how the blood fell from his neck...as his slashed throat was bleeding. Landing to his knees, the last thing the boy saw was dead Doreen...
Tobias woke with a start and cold sweat streaking down his face as he bolted up right in bed, which woke Doreen out of her slumber as well.
"Tobias, you alright?" Doreen asked with a small yawn as she eyed her boyfriend. Tobias stared at her for a few seconds just to make sure everything was alright.
"Yea, I'm alright, sorry, just a bad dream." Tobias said as he laid back down, and Doreen did the same.
"What happened?" she asked in a concerned tone as she looked into his amber eyes with her brown ones.
"I'd rather not talk about it," he said as he just laid there and stared at the ceiling. Doreen quickly fell back asleep, leaving Tobias to just lay there and contemplate the dream he had just had. The dream felt so real, his throat getting slit, Doreen getting stabbed, it was almost to much for the man to bear. He promised himself in that moment before he fell back asleep that he would let nothing happen to Doreen, nothing ever...
"Welcome back to Anchorage." Tobias said as he and Doreen entered the city. It had taken several hours, but the two of them had managed to walk all the way from the cabin back to the busy Alaska city.
"It feels good to be back in civilization." Doreen said as she stuck her hands in her jean pockets for warmth. The two of them had switched back to civilian attire before leaving the city, that way the two of them could seem normal to all the citizens.
"Where are we going to go to find out information of the village?" Doreen asked her boyfriend with a confused look in her brown eyes.
"I read online there's a library near the city limits, perhaps that's a good site to start looking." Tobias answered his girlfriends question.
A few hours later the two of them could be found looking through books at the library, but they couldn't find anything about the village.
"You find anything?" Doreen asked Tobias as she closed a book and put if back on the shelf.
"Nothing at all, I'm going to ask the lady at the desk, perhaps she knows something." Tobias said as he closed the book he was reading and walked up to the customer service desk, where an Inuit woman was organizing some papers.
"Excuse me, Ma'am." Tobias began which got the elderly woman's attention, "I'm looking for a book about an Inuit village, but I can't find anything about it, would you know of any that could help?" he asked the elderly woman, which made her look up from her paperwork.
"You will find no answers in books, but you will find answers from me." she said softly as she looked the young adult in the eyes.
"Really, how so?" he asked her, his eyes filled with curiosity.
"I'm one of the few survivors of the village, I was there when the village was destroyed." she said in a saddened tone as she hung her head low.
"Please tell me what happened, it's invaluable I know." Tobias asked her.
"Nobody believes me, but I know the truth, it was Keelut," she said which earned a grim expression from Tobias, "He unleashed some kind of virus on the village, we didn't know about it until people started dying, the old and the weak where the first to go, our chief Aguta sent us who where not yet infected out of the village so we could survive. We made our way to Anchorage and did not return for weeks, when we did, everyone was gone, this virus wiped them out." she said as she began crying silently.
"I'm sorry." Tobias said simply, which caused a smile to break on her elderly face.
"I sense you are one to seek justice, please promise me the grim slaughter of my people will not go un-avenged." she asked the normally armored hero.
"You have my word, Keelut will face justice." Tobias said simply before turning around and returning to Doreen, who could be found looking into another book. However neither of them knew that Keelut had just arrived at the library and was ready for a fight.
