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Chapter 11: The Tears

9:00 P.M. . . . 10 hours until dawn

Darwin awakens seeing a heavy gush of wind blowing at him. He can barely hear himself think. The winds were roaring. The rubble of fire was put out. Jenna was no where to be found. Darwin called out but could barely hear himself yell. He looked on the ground and found a weapon. A pistol, with a six bullet cylinder. He started walking, he crossed his arms shivering, aiming his weapon going to the freak snow fall. He can see anything, nor hear. This will be bad. He stepped on a totem. It was brown, which meant a loss totem. He picked it up and looked at it.

Brown Totem 1 of 4 . . .

Balto gets thrown through the window. The Wendigo's let out a loud screech.

Present . . .

Darwin dropped the Totem and kept going. He needs to get to Nome before it's too late.

Meanwhile with Balto . . .

Most of the citizen feel like what Chilam was saying is true. They decided to stay at the old factory for the night, they weren't sure how long they were going to stay there. But only Chilam knows.

Balto was taking care of Suka while stressing out on where Jenna was. Kodi offered to take some of his friend's out to find her. He refused, he didn't want to lose Kodi out there to. He just wanted to tie everything he loves on a pole and keep it there so he will breath for once.

Suka laid in a corner, he was speechless. He stood up for a while. He began to leave the factory when no one was looking. Balto came back to the spot Suka was at. He saw that he was missing, he looked at the doors and saw him. He ran to him. Suka ran as well.

They were both running outside. Balto was really fast, he was able to catch up and stop him. However, Suka turned and entered in Jenna's shed. Where he felt more comfortable there. Balto cracked the door and saw him there. Sitting next to Jenna's bed, he didn't lay in it, nor touched it. But he just stared at it and hung his head with shame. Balto slowly walked up.

"It's my fault." Suka said. Balto said nothing. "She's gone because of me. And not just her, others like Rosie. I'm not good with any of you."

"Don't say thing's like that." Balto said. "They went missing because of one thing. Even if you weren't here, this probably would have still happened."

"You don't understand."

"I do. You're just upset and . . ."

"I'M CURSED!" Suka yelled. Balto remained silence. Suka looked away in silence to calm himself down. "I'm cursed."

"What do you mean?" Balto said coming in closer. "Please start from the beginning."

"Okay." Suka took a deep breath. "When I was still with my family, we entered these caverns that lead to an ancient stone tablet that showed the curse of the Wendigo. My family and other travelers didn't think it was a real thing. The Wendigo's were gone for a long time. I kept thinking it was true, but than they kept telling me that I was too Naive to believe such a thing. But than when we entered, a shine of bright light flashed before our eyes. We woke up the next day and we were all out of the cavern, one of the followers was missing. But we seemed to let out some type of beast, because when we encountered a village, a beast was killing everyone in his path. Than I heard about an incident in black-wood mountain, than here."

"You think this is happening? Because of you?" Balto asked.

"I believe it. My pack was killed, and I guess my family was as well. When you talked about it with Jenna I believed every word." Suka looked at him. "This is my fault. And don't bother telling me wrong."

"So, you're cursed? Okay, well . . . maybe there's a way we can get rid of it. There's always a way. Where did you find this tablet, maybe there's more to it."

"All I know is that every hour that passes by, stuff changes." Suka said. "I know because of my travels. Whatever these changes are could lead to the end of the world. I read the tablet that said about the hour changes and that the end is nigh. But there could be a way to stop all of this. It's close by, down at the white mountain, east."

"Okay, maybe we can go there tonight." Balto said getting up. "Come on, I'll get Boris and my son to help us search."

As Suka got up, his ear twitch hearing feet on the roof. Balto sensed it and stopped.

Meanwhile, Chilam heard the same thing and told everyone that was talking to be quiet.

"SHHH! Everyone SHH!" Chilam whispered. Everyone heard foot steps on the roofs. Chilam slowly grabbed her shotgun just in case. She tip toad to the door. She looked through a crack in the door and saw nothing. She grew suspicion in her body.

Meanwhile . . .

Darwin walked through the wind hoping to find his way back home. He couldn't see a thing, he couldn't even hear himself think. The storm was so bad. He can't even imagine what Jenna could be doing right now, he doesn't know at all if she even made it. Or if the Wendigo took her away. He has protection, but it doesn't seem like it will matter at the moment.

He saw something from a far away distance. It looked like Nome. And it was, he smiled with joy, but still shivered. He was feeling weak, but he can still walk, despite him feeling so numb to the bone. But in a strange moment, the storm stopped roaring with rage, the wind disapeared, it snowed calmly. It was super quiet. Darwin was afraid to speak. It was strange how the storm stopped just like that. He kept walking.

Darwin was nervous, so were the people back at home. Balto's ears pricked up. Suka stayed real close to him. Chilam and the wolves were together. They heard nothing after that, except a man calling out for help at the front of the factory door.

"Frank?" An old guy said. Frank went missing days ago. But something didn't feel right. The man tried to open the door. Chilam tried to stop him, but as soon as he opens the door. Sharp fingers jab at his stomach. Chilam backed away seeing the beast hoist the old man up. Chilam did what she could only do. Shoot her gun. She fired at the Wendigo.

BOOM!

Chilam darted at the door, but everyone was running out of the factory in terror from the Wendigo. People were scared. Darwin could see people panicking from all the way out of Nome. Sam ran to Chilam.

"Stick with me." Chilam said. Sam ran with Chilam. Rosy and her mother followed, mike as well. Every citizen ran back to there homes. The Wendigo seemed to be more focused on them than on Chilam. Maybe they know more about her.

Kody ran out the factory to look for his father Balto. He called out. Balto rushed out with Suka, they stopped Kody from running again and shoved him in a corner where they could speak.

"Are you ok?" Balto asked. Kody hugged him.

"Yeah, I'm glad you're ok." Kody replied. A Wendigo was sneaking up on them, but at the nick of time, a wolf came out and locked jaws by it's neck.

"Run." The wolf said, it was one of Chilam's wolves. It was the Alpha male Kesuk. "Go find my pack. They're outside of Nome!"

Balto, Kody and Suka ran out of town. They ran as far as they could. But Balto stopped. He couldn't leave Rosy, it's not what Jenna would've wanted. Balto can't leave an image of her out of her head. He spotted the pack outside of Nome. It looked like a cage, but it led to a basement, or a Bunker. A place they keep all the power surges and tools and supplies.

"Kody! Take Suka down there, I'm going to get Rosy!" Balto said running.

"Wait dad! Don't . . ."

"Let him go!" Suka said. "He'll be fine! We need to get to the others!"

As they left Balto howled outside, Rosy saw him and told her mother.

"Mom! Balto's out there!" Rosy said.

"Hon listen. We can't open the door. Chilam said to wait here while she goes and rescues others."

"But . . ."

"HHHEEELLLPPP!" A voice came from the back of the kitchen. It was the voice that sounded like Rosy's father. "Rosy, let me in! Jenna found me! Let me in!"

"Dad?" Rosy said.

Her mother ran to the back. Balto heard from the front door, but scratched the doors to stop them.

"Balto come in." Rosy opened it and hugged him. "Are you ok boy. Guess what, dad's back. So is Jenna." Balto grabbed her by the coat. "What's wrong."

"Rosy RUN!" Her mother yelled from the kitchen. Rosy was scared.

"Mom?" Nothing but silence and the screams from outside. But than . . .

SSSSSSSSKKKKKKKKKKKRRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAA!

The Wendigo popped out of the kitchen. Balto pulled her by the coat and ran outside of the house. Rosy and Balto ran to where chilam's pack was at. Rosy and him ran down there. She wasn't as fast due to her injury. The wound on her leg is still hurting. Balto stopped and decided to lay her on his back and carry her the rest of the way. Rosy held on, and Balto ran like the wind. So did the Wendigo, and he was able to catch up to them just as they made it to the entrance. Rosy fell and Balto was tripped by the monster. The Wendigo was on top of them, drooling and gripping it's prey. Rosy hugged Balto in fear. balto didn't know what to do. He accepted his fate, so did Rosy. They both tighten their eye lids, and looked away. The Wendigo was about to take his first bite until.

BOOOOM!

A gun shot knocked the beast out. Balto and Rosy got up to see who it was. Darwin arrived and as the Wendigo regained consciousness, Darwin put the barrel between the eyes and pulled the trigger again.

BOOOM!

It passed out.

Balto pulled Darwin to enter the entrance. Balto entered and so did Darwin and Rosy. They locked the gate, but it didn't lock, the wendigo pushed it. Strong as they were. The wolves and Kody and Suka pushed the gate to keep him out. The Wendigo screeched again.

Darwin looked around and saw a pocket knife on the ground. He thought of the totem sequence he experienced hours ago and he picked it up. Flipped the blade and jabbed it right in the beasts eye socket. It screeched, and Darwin and Rosy shut the gate. They locked it and were finally safe. Darwin flipped the pocket knife back and shut it. They all took a breather.

Meanwhile . . .

Chilam, Sam and Mike ran back to Rosy's house. They didn't see Rosy or her mother in there, but they saw Wendigo's everywhere. They decided to run back to the factory, only to hear The Mayor screaming in his office. Chilam rolled her eyes and decide to go and save him.

However as she entered the door. All she found, was him under his desk with scissors in his hands. Chilam crouched down and said.

"Yeah, it was all a joke. Good call." She said sarcastically. "Get up."

The Mayor followed Chilam and Sam and Mike. They ran outside of Nome. Nome was invested with lots of Wendigo's. Some made it to there houses. Others didn't. Something wrong was happening and they have no clue what it is. Something tells them that this is the end. Or only the beginning.

To be continued. . . .

Note: Please forgive me for such a long time off. I have my bio updated just so you understand why. I'll have another chapter of another story done later. Maybe it'll be done tonight, or tomorrow. I haven't decided yet. I hope you enjoyed and Leave a review of what you think. I'll see you next time.