A/N:I know this Chapter is more telling of whats happening but the next one (the fight with Billy) I think it picks up a bit more and it is probably one of my more favorite chapters that I've written. Also more Steve and Tyler bonding time or teasing. Whatever you want to call it.

When we reached the lab Nancy and Johnathan were there in hopes to see if Johnathan's brother Will was there along with Nancy's brother Mike. I heard there were some rumors that Nancy ran off with Johnathan and dumped Steve. Those rumors looked to be true and I kinda felt sorry for the guy.

We waited as Johnathan and then Dustin tried to open the gate. With success it opened when Dustin pushed it and Johnathan and Nancy went up in John's car to the entrance. As their family were in the lab where those Demogorons were.

I was pacing nervously as I didn't know what was going to happen next. There was still some regret seeing what Steve and Dustin were up to but this was one of the most exciting things since I've moved here. Maybe once this was over I would have more friends and a better way for me to get out of the house as much as I could.

A hand pulled my arm as one car sped off and a police truck stopped.
"Get in." The guy driving spoke. I followed after the kids as Steve was the look out to make sure none of those things were coming after them. I sat in the back looking at the lab as the guy drove off.
"Who are you two?" The guy driving asked, clearly speaking about Max and I.

"Tyler and Max Mayfield." I looked at him, "We moved here from California." I added,

"Chief Jim Hopper." He introduced, "Do I even want to know how you two got involved?" He asked,

"No." Max shook her head. I watched him nod as he continued to drive.

We all gathered at the Byers's household. I looked around the house to see various drawings hung around the house that looked to be a river of some sort. I had no idea why it was hung up but it had to do with whatever was going on with Will and those demogorgons. If I hadn't known about what was going on, I would have thought Ms. Byers was crazy.

Will was unconscious on the couch because of a drug since he was a spy for the shadow monster (to my understanding). Johnathan was talking to Will and Nancy was standing behind him with her hand on his shoulder. I looked over to Steve as he watched before walking away. Jim was on the phone trying to get reinforcement.

I was standing against a kitchen counter drinking water as Steve came and stood next to me.

"They didn't believe you, did they?" Dustin asked as Jim hung up the phone,
"We'll see." He looked to Dustin,
"We'll see?" Mike questioned, "We can't just sit here while those things are loose." Mike was frustrated that we were just sitting here and not doing anything about it,
"We stay here and wait for help." Jim looked to Mike before walking away.

I sighed as it was now the waiting game. We mostly sat/stood in silence waiting for the phone to ring. Mike then got up and grabbed a blue square,
"Did you know that Bob was the original founder of Hawkins AV?" Mike asked. I hadn't known Bob's connection to what was happening but to my understanding he died while trying to make it out of the lab.

"Really?" Lucas asked

"He petitioned the school to start it and he had a fund-raiser for equipment. Mr. Clarke learned everything from awesome, right? can't let him die in vain." Mike put the blue block on the table,
"What do you want to do, Mike? The Chief's right on this. We can't stop those Demo-dogs on our own." Dustin made a point,
"Demo-dogs?" Max asked,

"Demogoron. Dogs. Demo-dogs. It's a compound. Like a play on words." Dustin explained the name he gave the four legged demogorons.
"Okay." Max spoke as I knew she didn't need that entire explanation.

"I mean, when it was just Dart, maybe But there's an army now." Dustin stated

" Precisely." Lucas agreed

"His army." Mike spoke, I looked to him as he looked to be thinking

"What do you mean? His army." Steve asked

"Maybe if we stop him, we can stop his army." Mike got up and we all followed as he picked up a drawing of the shadow monster. The boys then started to talk out everything and explain to Steve what a hive mind was. Then it came to using the name The Mind Flayer. I honestly had no idea what that was but I was sure that someone was going to explain it.

Dustin then started to tell us what the Mind Flayer was and it was a monster in Dungeons and Dragons. It came from an unknown destination and didn't even know it's true home. Then came the plan of disguising the Byers's shed so Will wouldn't know where he was as he was still connected to the Mind Flayer. We were doing this in hopes that we could learn it's weakness.

We stapled and taped various materials around the shed and to the chairs, as everything had to be unrecognizable. Then it was time, John, Ms. Byers, Jim and Mike were the only ones in the shed as they were the closest to Will. The rest of us waited in the house hoping that they would get something out of will.

I was in the living room with Steve and he was practicing his swings,
"Who knew Hawkins could be this exciting." I said trying to break the silence.
"Yeah." Steve nodded, "I bet you wish you were back in California." He added as he continued to swing,
"A little bit." I shrugged, "I miss the beaches and my dad, mostly." I sighed, "Though fighting demo-dogs with Hawkins High's King does sound pretty exciting." I shrugged. I watched Steve turn and smiled at me. Then lights in the house started to flicker and that caught everyone's attention. We all went into the kitchen and looked out the window. There was no way of knowing what was going on but the flickering stopped and we were all quiet.

A few moments passed before everyone came into the kitchen. Jim grabbed a pen and an opened envelope,
"What happened?" Dustin asked as we all crowded around Jim,

"I think he's talking. Just not with words." He spoke as he was drawing dots and dashes,
"What is that?" Steve asked,
"Morse code." The majority replied at once as Jim was writing out what it said. The morse code message spelled here and that meant that Will was still in there.

"Will's still in there. He's talking to us." Jim said before Johnathan ran off to get his stereo and tape.

The plan now was to have Ms. Byers, Mike and Johnathan talk to Will about some of their favorite memories and Jim use a walkie talkie to give us what Will was tapping in morse code. Dustin was writing down the lines and dashes while Lucas was looking up what letter each sequence was. Nancy was writing down what Will was trying to say to us.

The morse code spelled out Close Gate and whatever that meant, had to be the way to get Will back. Then the phone rang,

"Shit. shit." Dustin ran to pick up the phone and then hang it up. It rang again and as Dustin picked up the phone Nancy ripped it out of the wall and threw it in the hallway.
"Did you think he heard that?" Max asked,
"It's just a phone, we could be anywhere. Right?" Steve spoke as he was even unsure of what he said.

Then there was the howl in the distance that belonged to the demo-dogs,
"Fuck." I swore as I slowly made my way behind everyone as they went to go look out the living room window. I went to go grab my shovel as Lucas, Dustin and Max were looking out the window.

"Hey! Hey! Get away from the windows." Jim spoke as he had two guns in his hand, "Can you use this?" Jim asked Johnathan who looked like he had no idea how,
"I can." Nancy spoke as she stepped forward and Jim threw her the gun. Nancy, Steve, Jim and I all formed a protective line in front of the kids as we had weapons to fight the damn things even though I was a little nervous to actually fight one. I had to protect Max at all costs. Lucas had gotten his slingshot ready and Mike grabbed something to hit the things with.

The screams and growls got closer, there was movement by the dining room window so we all turned ready to strike. Then we moved forward to face the front window as the growls were coming from the front of the house. As we were waiting there were screeches and what sounded like a whimper almost, like something was attacking the demo-dogs. All of a sudden one of the demo-dogs came flying through the window limp.
"Holy shit." Dustin broke the silence,
"Is it dead?" Max asked. Jim touched the head with it's foot and it didn't react so that meant something had killed it, but what?

There were sounds coming from the front door and I watched as the locks were being unlocked by themselves. I held my breath as I had never seen something like this before. The door opened and on the other side was a girl with slicked back hair and black makeup around her eyes. I watched as everyone lowered their weapons. They must have known this girl and Mike had stepped forward.

I watched as the two of them looked at each other and I only had one guess to who this mystery girl was. El.