Four: The Beginning
Part One: The Four Corners
By chuckles1414
Chapter 1: Dream of Death
Sarah Johnston walked into her living room and grabbed her car keys. As she went to get her jacket, a strange being appeared behind her in a ripple. It had a white face with red markings and a very muscular body. Sarah turned around just in time to see the being attack her. As it lunged forward, she half-somersaulted to the side to avoid it. She got up, and from her head a bluish ring shot at the demon and sent it flying back into a wall.
"Give it up, Sarah," the evil being said. "I'll have him one way or another."
"Over my dead body," she replied.
"That can be arranged," he said, throwing a blue ball of electricity at her. It hit her stomach and sent her flying through a table. He stepped over to her and examined her lifeless body.
Charles Johnston woke up with his dusty brown hair drenched in sweat. His dream had been so vivid and seemed to be real. He was glad to find that it had just been a dream. He had always had dreams like this, ever since he was a young boy. His mother walked in soon after he woke up. He assumed he must have been talking or yelling in his sleep.
"Charles, what happened?" she asked, walking over and sitting on the side of his bed.
"Nothing," he said. "I just had a dream." She seemed to be worried by this and wanted to press the subject.
"What happened in your dream?"
"It's not important."
"It might not be," she said, "but why don't you tell me anyways."
"I saw you," he said. "Some sort of thing killed you." Her voice instantly changed to a panic.
"What killed me?" she asked. "When did it happen?" Charles had never seen his mother like this. She was usually a carefree person. But, she always seemed to be hiding something from him.
"Mom, what's wrong?" he asked.
"Tell me!" she yelled.
"I don't know who he was," Charles said back. "He was like a monster. His face was white and red. He was big and had black eyes. It happened at night."
"Oh no," his mother gasped. "Is there anything else you noticed about when it happened."
"No," he said, looking out the window. Then he noticed the moon. There was a full moon out. "It happened on a full moon."
"Come on!" Sarah yelled, more scared than her seventeen-year-old son had ever seen her. "We have to get out of here." She grabbed the phone on the nightstand and dialed a number.
"Who are you calling?" he asked.
"Your aunt," Sarah replied. She then turned her attention to the phone. "Sam! Charles had a vision! We're on our way over right now." Charles wondered what his mother meant by 'vision'. "No, we're on our way. You don't need to come over." She hung up the phone and started walking out the door. "Hurry up, Charles. We need to go." He didn't hesitate to follow. He heard Sarah walk down the stairs. He started to dress when he heard a crash downstairs.
"Mom!" He pulled on his shirt and ran down to see what had happened. Just like in his dream, a thing with a white and red face was smacked against a wall. It got up and yelled at her.
"Give it up, Sarah," the thing said. "I'll have him one way or another."
"Over my dead body," she said.
"That can be arranged," he said, forming the same blue sphere of energy and hurling it at her. She crashed through a table and fell to the ground. He walked over and looked at her. With a twisted smile on his face, he turned around and stared at Charles. Their eyes locked for a moment. Charles seemed to recognize the eyes, like he'd seen them somewhere before. Their gazes were interrupted by a rush of blue lights.
"Sabrina?" Charles yelled, as his cousin formed through the lights. She looked at him and looked back at the thing that had killed his mother. She held her hands up and out of them shot two beams that sent the killer flying.
"Come with me," Sabrina said, grabbing onto Charles.
"But my mother!" he yelled.
"It's too late for that now," she said with sympathy. "Come!" she yelled, as if he had a choice as he saw the blue lights surrounding him. The things around him seemed to disappear and form a new surrounding. He instantly recognized it as his Aunt Sam's house.
"Where's Sarah?" Sam asked.
"I was too late, mom," Sabrina answered. Tears formed in Sam's eyes for her older sister, but she quickly wiped them away.
"We have to hurry," she said. "He'll be here any minute." Charles was too overwhelmed with sorrow and fear to wonder what they were talking about. The door suddenly opened and Sam's oldest sister, Shannen walked in.
"I came as fast as I could," she said.
"Thank goodness," Sam said.
"Where's…" Shannen stopped in mid-sentence. "We have to hurry." Sam walked over to a cabinet and took out a small book. "How do we stop Axict?"
"Who's Axict?" Charles asked.
"No time to explain," Sam said. She flipped through the pages and stopped on a page that had a picture of the thing that killed his mom. "We'll need to make a vanquishing potion."
"There's no time for that," Shannen said. Suddenly, Axict appeared in the room.
"Ah, there you are," he said, looking at Charles.
"Sabrina," Sam said, "orb Charles out of here."
"But, mom…" Sabrina started.
"Now!" she yelled. "You know where to take him!" Sabrina grabbed onto Charles and just before they orbed away, he saw Axict throw one of his spheres at Sam, then another at Shannen.