Ch. 17
Billy POV, 3 years ago.
"Fuck that old piece of shit! (His dad) And FUCK me! I'm such a PUSSY! I never dare to fight back!" Billy shouted, before pulling ecstasy out of his pocket and taking a borderline dangerously high dose. "Ohhhhhh yeeeaaaahhh!" Billy exclaimed, "That's the SHIT!" He heard a warped kind of sucking sound and turned around but saw nothing. "What the FUCK? NO! Fuck this shit, I'm out." He yelled, before grabbing his keys and speeding away in his car. He drove for miles before stopping at an abandoned factory. He heard a noise and turned, again seeing nothing. He got in the car and started the engine, before trying to speed off. As he pulled out of the lot, a frog splattered on his windshield, causing him to swerve into a lamppost, totaling his engine. He got out of the car, and desperately tried to get the car started again, becoming more and more frantic as the sounds closed in. "Fuck! Nononnononononononononononononononononon. Please no. Please no. Someone help me! I don't want it to take me! Someone HEEEEELLLLLLPPPP!" He screamed, before feeling himself being pulled off his feet and dragged into the factory.
Two hours later,
Billy pulled himself up, ran to his car, and drove to a phone booth. The 911 operator answered, "911, what's your emergency?". Billy hung up the phone without saying a thing because even he wasn't sure what the fuck his emergency was. He then saw everything turn wrong. The sky was red, the air was misty, and it was DARK. SO VERY DARK. He noticed a group of people standing shrouded in mist. He headed toward them, and one figure broke away from the group and headed toward him. As Billy got closer, he shouted, " What do you WANT!?" As he got even closer, the mist around the figure melted away, revealing a copy of himself. A copy that seemed WRONG somehow. The copy leaned in and whispered, "I want you to build," it said, continuing, "what you see." He then awoke in his lifeguard chair, with no memory of how he got there. (I know in canon that he was just having flashbacks, but in this story, I'm taking some artistic liberty. I've seen worse done to other franchises. Sometimes even in the canon storyline or a remake.) He winced as the bright sun hit him in the eyes. He then stumbled to the showers. "What the fuck?" He whispers as his arm appeared to glow red for a second. He hears footsteps behind him and strikes, knocking out his fellow lifeguard, Heather. "Oh fuck!" Billy said, realizing that he was in some deep shit. "I'll just take her to my hideaway. I'll just tell her she fell, and I was afraid of getting into trouble with the cops because I was high, so I took her to the hideaway because my dad was home. Then I'll just take her home," he thought frantically. "No harm done." (Oh how wrong he was, how very wrong)
End Ch. 17
AN (IMPORTANT): Heather will just see the Mind Flayer. She will be enraptured with it. She will not be Flayed (which means something else in this story), although Billy has been Flayed (purely because he drank some household chemicals and took Benadryl (which is a deliriant) to kill himself before that ecstasy which changed the effects of it).