Hello, I have finally completed my research so we can get on with the story. I hope that you enjoy this chapter and please leave a review telling me what you think. Without further ado.
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A week later found Madylyn at the airport, saying goodbye to her family and preparing for her flight out to visit her grandmother. That picture in the book was too familiar for it to not be the woman behind this, and hopefully with her grandmother's help she would be able to know exactly what 'this' is and how to reverse it. She sat waiting at the gate, paging through her notebook and contemplating what she already knew. Those monsters had to have some sort of significance or they wouldn't be the ones she summoned, but what exactly were they? She pulled out the book with the woman's picture and flipped through the pages more, trying to see if she could find the creatures. No such luck was given by the time that her flight began boarding.
She sighed as she scanned her ticket and took her seat. She put in her headphones and looked out the window as the first song came up and as her playlist continued her mind drifted away from the issues at hand and back to her experiences with the Guardians. After everything that's happened since she woke up, she knew it wasn't just a dream, but she couldn't understand why the movie would disappear from her world. It was one mystery she just couldn't figure out. As she thought on this her eyes drifted closed and she fell into sleep.
Sinister laughter filled her ears as her eyes slowly opened and looked around at the burning forest around her, black and falling trees surrounding the soot covered clearing she lay in. She lifted her upper body onto her arms and groaned as pain shot through her muscles. Her eyes carefully scanned the area around her, trying to find the source of the sinister laughing. He eyes saw nothing but bright flames flickering through the dark haze of the smoke rising from everything around her. She stared when she landed on the red eyes staring back at her straight ahead. Her stomach dropped and her breathe caught in her throat. "Who are you?" She choked out, wincing at the pain that shot through her throat at the words.
The eyes just stared back at her, red specks seemingly floating in mid air, no other features of the being showing through the shadow. Suddenly a twisted smile showed below the eyes, sharp teeth glinting in the light as the smile grew to inhumane size and twisted up towards the eyes."You'll fail." Lyn looked at the eyes in angered confusion, "When the time comes, you won't do what needs to be done." A voice echoes throughout the burning woods, the mouth not moving though.
"I'll do whatever I have to, as long as it throws you back into whatever pit you crawled out of." Lyn responded through clenched teeth as she tried to stand, getting her soar body to her knees and her arms out supporting her as she panted at the excruciating pain shooting through her entire form. Her hair fell in front of her face and blocked her view of the eyes and smile.
Suddenly she felt a cold hand digging into her chin and pulling her face up to look into the cold eyes of swirling red, almost as if she was staring into the eyes of the devil himself. "You'll die?" the woman asked in a soft questioning tone with a tilted head. "Why would you die, when you can join me and live like you've never lived before?" She asked with a smile, her voice dripping with promises Lyn had heard before.
"Like if Jack had joined Pitch?" Lyn spat back and the smile fell from the woman's face as her hand dropped Lyn's chin back to stare at the ground. She saw out of the corner of her eye as the flames rose high with the woman's anger, flicking and swirling towards the sky. Smoke filling the forest even more that the woman began once more disappearing from sight, her body swaying with the mirage of the smoke.
"You're not strong enough; you don't even know what you're the spirit of." She said, her voice rising in volume and pitch, Lyn looked up defiantly to the woman, "You will never defeat me as you are, and this is the fate of both your worlds!" She disappeared in a burst of flame and screams began to rise in sound all around Lyn.
Her hands rose to cover her ears and with tears streaking down her face as she frantically looked around and saw bodies and flames engulfing everything, the fire spreading and the screams getting louder with each passing second. She began to sob as her eyes landed on the lifeless body of her grandmother, slowly being engulfed in flames. She heard shouting behind her and as she turned she saw her brother. "Tyler!" She tried to shout but no sound came out. She watched in horror as he fell to his knees and the flames gathered high around him until they engulfed him and she could no longer see or hear him. She turned at another sounding of screams and saw her parents sobbing over a body and her heart dropped at the thought it was Mary, but as she crawled closer she saw it was her lifeless body. Slowly she reached her hand out and placed it on her bodies shoulder, expecting to be pulled into it. But nothing happened. She looked down at her body and saw the lifeless eyes. She began to sob harder before she looked down at her hand and saw that it was slowly vanishing. Slowly it crept up her arm and she felt herself fading away from both forms. Suddenly she felt pounding in her head that caused her body to convulse and she felt a hand wrap around her shoulder and shake her. She opened her mouth to scream but before any sound could come out her vision shot to black.
Madylyn's eyes shot open and she looked to her side to the smiling stewardess who had her hand on her shoulder. "Ma'am, we have landed, we will need you to make your way to the exit." She said sweetly.
Madylyn forced a smile onto her face and nodded, "Of course. Thank you." She said and the stewardess nodded and walked away. Lyn took a moment to calm her heart before unbuckling her seatbelt and standing to get her bag out of the overhead containers. She slowly and steadily walked towards the front of the plane, smiling to the stewardess's standing at the exit. She made her way through the airport to the baggage claim and pulled out her phone to see a missed call from her grandmother, clicking on her grandmother's name she listened as the other end rang.
"Hello?" Came her grandma's sweet voice through the phone.
"Hey, grandma." Lyn said cheerfully as she made her way the pickup zones outside of baggage claim. "What's up? I saw a missed call from you but no voicemail." She hauled her suit case to the standing position and waited with it by her side as she looked around for her grandmother's car.
"Oh, I just wanted to tell, there has been a change of plans, I won't be able to pick you up, but I sent-"Lyn's attention turned from the voice in her ear to the honking of a horn. She saw a green SUV and leaning against the hood was a man with dark brown hair wearing a black leather jacket that she knew all too well.
"Tyler." She said, cutting her grandmother off. She waved happily to her older brother as she picked up her suitcase and made her way towards the man. "Thanks grandma, I'll see you soon. Love you, bye." She said happily and waited for her to respond in kind before hanging up the phone and immediately being dragged into a tight hug from her brother. She laughed as she returned the hug, "Long time no see." She said as he pulled away and grabbed her suit case to throw it in the back.
"Well, when grandma told me you were coming out I knew I had to see you, what excuse did she give for not being able to pick you up?" He asked as they both climbed into the car.
"She didn't give one." Lyn answered and they both laughed lightly at their grandma's antics.
"How you feeling?" Tyler asked, his tone moving to a more serious space as they started making their way out of the garage.
"Like I can breathe again." Lyn answered honestly, "Mom and dad have been suffocating me and I just had to get away. Get a chance to do my own thing, you know?" She asked looking at her brother who glanced at her with a raised eyebrow and she let out a short laugh, "Of course you know." She muttered. Her brother had only moved to their grandma's town because, while he practiced law like their mother, he worked in public defense and their mom did not like, she herself being a corporate attorney. It just proved to Lyn that unless she did exactly what her mother did the woman would never be happy.
"In mom's defense," Her brother started, drawing her out of her thoughts, "you were unresponsive for weeks; you know how protective she gets over us." He said and Lyn sighed before resting her head again the headrest and closing her eyes.
"Still nice to get away from it." She muttered and her brother grunted in response. They drove in silence for a while, Madylyn just looking out the window and enjoying being in someone presence and not being constantly nagged about how she's doing and how she needs to be careful. For the first time since she woke up in the hospital she finally felt like she could breathe, the worries of her family and friends thinking she was crazy was gone and she could relax. She slowly opened her eyes and looked ahead; the airport was about an hour's drive from her grandma's home so she wasn't surprised when her brother filled the silence of the car with music. As the melody of the song flitted through the car, trying to compete with the roar of the highway, Lyn had a small family on her face as she recognized the song. She laughed as the sound of Sting filled the car, "You're so old." She joked and her brother looked almost offended at the comment.
"Do not diss Sting." He said and Lyn laughed louder as he turned up the music to block out anything more she might say. "Just embrace the music!" He hollered over the speakers and Lyn rolled her eyes before turning to look out the window as the music played on.
She watched the fields roll by the window, the clouds in the sky turning and moving slowly across the miles of blue above them, the trees and ground had a thin layer of snow covering them and Lyn's thoughts once more drifted to why she was here. She had to figure out who that woman was, what she wanted, and what she had done to the world Madylyn so loved. As these questions went through her mind she thought on everything the woman had said to her and she couldn't understand anything, those monsters had told her that this had been tried before but didn't work and this time it didn't go as planned because she had remembered everything that had happened while she was in the hospital. Despite how much she wanted to believe that the events she lived through with Jack and the Guardians was just a drug induced dream, seeing the woman in those woods surrounded by those monsters was enough confirmation to know that it was all real. Everything going on was real, and she was left to fix it. If it was really her fault, she had no other option.
She looked ahead once more before gasping and yelling at her brother, "Stop!" She exclaimed, frantically unbuckling her seatbelt as her brother came to a halting stop on the side of the road. Keeping her eyes glued to the road ahead of them she threw the door open and hopped out the vehicle, ignoring her brother's shouts behind her. She ran up and stopped as she was able to make out the creatures no more than twenty feet ahead of her. Standing on the side of the road were two monster, they had the head and torso of a human but the body of a scorpion, their large pincers stretching above their heads as they slowly turned to look at her. Fear entered her body as she realized that she had made a mistake with approaching the thing. As they slowly began to advance she turned to run back to the car but slammed right into her brother.
"What is going on?" He asked as he pulled her away from his chest and looked in her eyes, "What are you doing? You could've gotten hit, are you crazy?" He accused his panic showing in his voice.
Lyn frantically turned back to look at the creatures but froze when she saw nothing, a small crack in the ground sitting where they once stood. She stared in confusion as her brother continued to question her, but his voice moved to the back of her mind as one thought echoed in her head. This woman was making an army.
I hope you liked it and I am working on the next chapter so hopefully it will be up soon, but I cant make any promises, I am going through a lot right now. Happy holidays, whatever you may celebrate I hope you take this season to enrich others lifes. Until next time my loverlies.
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