15
Froze
Mike
"This is Dustin, do you copy?"
"Copy," Will answered as Nancy drove slowly through the fog, gray spaces moving around just out of sight. The world swallowed in a cloud the danger hiden within it all around them. They couldn't see anything besides five feet in front of them it but that didn't mean they couldn't feel it, something was watching them, from where they didn't know.
"You guys have any ideas for a plan?" Dustin asked.
Both cars were silent a moment because no one had any idea what this was, what was happening or what could even be done. They had already seen that it didn't matter if you hit them, even with a car it did nothing, they could disappear but yet they could hit you without even thinking about it. They were simply ghosts.
"Nice to know no one else knows what's going on as well," They heard Steve say, "By the way what happened to El?"
Mike shot a look at Will knowing there was a lot to unpack and a lot to fill him in on. Mike reached over for the walkie talkie and hit the button to speak but instead felt his eyes go wide as he looked out his window.
"Shit" He said instead before he turned in his seat to watch as a figure stepped out of the fog and in front of Steve's car but of course the car simply went through it. A moment later his attention was caught as Nancy gasped. Looking forward he watched as another person stepped in front of the car and Mike noticed that shadows were closing in from all sides.
Nancy hit the gas and they drove right through them, droplets of water exploring across the window.
"What are they doing?" Jonathan asked as more people started to step in front of the cars making it hard to see and drive but they found out what they were trying to do not a second later.
"Shit," Nancy said as she had to turn suddenly as the windshield wiper cleared away the water just in time for them to see that a tree had fallen in front of them.
"Hold on everyone!" Nancy said as she turned the wheel to the right and a moment later they jumped on to the sidewalk, the car rocking them all side to side like a rollercoaster off the rails barely missing the tree before going back on to the road. But just as suddenly a stop sign flue in front of them. This time she wasn't able to stop in time and the sign hit the car head-on.
The sound of metal hitting metal sounded all around them before Nancy drove over it and turned into another street. "We can't keep doing this," Nancy said finally. Everyone on edge waiting for something else to be thrown at them.
"Guys, do you copy?"
"Yes," Mike answered, "What is it?"
"I just noticed that we're going in circles."
"You're sure?" Mike asked, having believed the same thing but just didn't want it to be true because that met only one thing.
"We've passed the same pizza place three times now."
"What do you think they want?" Steve asked.
"El," Mike and Max said in unison.
"Where do we go?" Lucas asked, "We can't go home, we can't drive forever and if we stop somewhere their just attack us again."
"We need to get somewhere cold," Will said in almost a whisper.
Mike looked over at him and saw that he was thinking of something. "What did you say?"
"Whatever those things are, they're made from mist and mist is just water droplets suspended in the atmosphere and if it gets too cold…. "
"It freezes!" Dustin shouted over the walkie talkie excitedly, "Will you're a genius."
"Thanks," Will said quietly.
"Wait why is that genius?" Steve asked.
"Because you can hit ice and break it, dummy," Robin answered him.
"That's great to know, but where can we go that has a freezer or cooler big enough to cool a whole room?" Lucas asked.
Both cars went silent a moment before to their surprise Steve spoke up. "I think I may actually know a place we can go."
"Where?" Max asked.
"Harbour's Pizzeria, it's got a walk-in freezer bigger than Robins bedroom."
"How does he know it's bigger than Robin's bedroom?" Jonathan asked.
"Where is it?" Mike said.
"It's the next street over next to Lorie's flower shop."
Nancy hit the gas once more and within ten minutes both cars parked outside. Mike looked around the car and saw that gray shapes moving around the fog starting to surround them.
"How are we going to do this?" Nancy asked.
"We will probably just have to run for it," Lucas answered.
"He's not wrong," Will said, "there's no way we can fright them.
"On three?" Robin asked.
"On three," Nancy answered.
With that Dustin started the countdown.
"Three."
Will grabbed the door handle as Mike picked El back up from where he had been holding on to her the whole ride, not letting her go once. Ready to jump out.
"Two,"
Max grabbed Lucas's hand and held onto it as they got ready to open the door.
"One!"
With that everyone jumped out of the cars and made a break for the restaurant. "I'll break the door down, " Steve shouted at them and ran toward the door but to everyone surpise the door was open and unlocked. They watched as Steve slammed himself against the door only to fall flat on his right side inside store.
"Steve are you alright?" Nancy asked as everyone met at the door.
"Fine," Steve croaked, before he got up and moved further into the building. Mike ran in from the growing number of shapes and watched as his friends ran through the glass door but as he looked past them to the foggy world he saw figures moving in on them and felt his heart drop as a hand reached out of the mist towards Max.
"Max look out!" Mike shouted as the hand wrapped around her shoulder and juked her backwards.
Max let out a scream but thankfully grabbed the door frame the only thing that kept her from being pulled back into the fog.
"Shit!" Dustin said as he and Lacus grabbed her other arm and started to pull her back but the figures held onto her.
"Move!" Rubin shouted at them before she threw a pizza pan.
Dustin and Lucas jumped back as the pan flue pass them and just missed Max hitting into the figures holding on to her. For a moment they turned smokly before forming into a solid again, but it had been enough time for Max to pull herself free and Lucas grabbed her pulling her into his arms as Dustin slammed the door shut.
For a second they all stood there all breathing as the figures started to bang on the window and door, but this time the glass was thicker and they wouldn't be able to break it as early.
"Where do you learn to throw like that?" Steve said, finally looking at Robin.
"I was the captain of the softball team in high school," she answered simply.
"Guys!" Nancy said.
They turned to see that Nancy had gone around the counter and stood next to a man lying on the floor, unmoving.
"Is-is he dead?" Max asked.
Nancy kneeled next to him and gently took his wrist. For a moment no one spoke before Nancy let out a relieved breath. "He's alive but unconscious."
"Do you think that's what happened to everyone?" Dustin asked.
"I think so," Steve said from the back of the shop. Everyone went over to where he stood and found another three employees laying on the floor, they had been clearly working before they had simply passed out.
"Did the fog do this?" Jonathan asked.
"It must be," Robin said, "Me and Steve had been going to job interviews this morning and afternoon and after leaving one is when the fog started rolling in and everyone disappeared out of nowhere."
"But why is everyone inside and no one is on the sidewalk or in cars?" Nancy asked.
"Maybe that's the point," Mike said, "We know that the people made from the Mist are the same ones who the mind flayer was made out of. Maybe they want us to be awake by ourselves."
"But if they were after El wouldn't it be better to get to her if we were out of the way?" Max asked.
"What...what if their not after El?" Mike said, "What if they want us."
"Why would they want us? We can't do anything," Lacus said.
"Because we helped kill it. We stopped the monster and if it can't get to El why not go after us to hurt her instead," Mike said.
Everyone was quite a long second before Jonathan spoke up. "Where was that freezer again?"
"Over here, Robin said and showed them. They opened it and found it was a good size, the size of a bedroom like they had said, the silver walls caked with ice, the floor padded with black foram. "I'm going to go find the thermostat and see if I can turn it down and really get this place cold," Jonathan said before he turned and left Nancy following after him.
"What to help me look for weapons?" Robin asked Steve.
"What are you going to use against ghosts?" Steve asked but still followed after her anyway, "Come on Dustin you're coming too."
"How am I going to help?" Dustin said but followed after Steve all the same.
Max walked in first holding her arms to her chest trying to keep warm. Mike went in after her and gently laid El down before her sat next to her. Once again her nose started bleeding again and this time he simply wiped at it with his shirt sleeve.
"Me and Will are going to keep a watch on those things," Lucas said.
"Okay I'll join you later," Max said watching after them before turning to Mike.
"Do you think she's okay?" Max asked, sitting down across from him, "Where ever she is."
"It's the only thing I can hope for, it's the only thing that's keeping me from panicking at this point," Mike said, moving a piece of hair out of her face behind her ear. For a moment they were both quiet before a sudden shout caught their attention.
Max and Mike sheared a look before the world went dark.
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