17
Lies
El
El was inclosed by darkness for what felt like forever, each step away from the ground floor it seemed the air was getting colder and colder, her breath fogging up in front of her as goosebumps rose on her arms, the metal railing growing so cold that by the time she reached the last step it felt like it was burning her hand.
She hopped off the last step and found herself in a room just a little smaller than the main floor above her, this one packed with stuff but everything had been pushed to the sides of the room leaving the middle open and free...as if it had been set open for a meeting.
El walked to the middle slowly looking around herself to see no one around her unlike what she had hoped for. The faint sound of the demodogs trying to get in was the only sound that seemed to be in this abandoned world besides her own footsteps and the beating of her heart, the dead world above her seeming so far away now.
El turned around herself looking up to see a broken skylight, some light slipped in when red lighting flashed but dirt covered it for the most part and was the reason why she hadn't seen it before. With a flick of her head, the last few glass panels shuttered, the glass raining down around her but never touching her, landing in a circle all around her instead. Red lightning flashing above her to light the room once more as suddenly the sound of footsteps echoed out from behind her.
"Now why did you do that?"
El turned towards the voice and found Billy standing there, but she could tell if wasn't the same Billy that had once lived or even the Billy who had been possessed this month. No. This was what Will called the shadow monster. Something they own knew one thing about. It wanted her dead.
"Where are the others?" El asked seeing it was only Billy standing in the empty room as another flash of red lightning lit them both showing the black veins that stood out more than they ever have before now, ringing his eyes, his neck, his hands. Black inky water dripping to the floor to pool there around him.
"Why are you asking about them? Isn't it me you want to.… " he laughed a little before he spoke again, "Save?"
"They're after my friends aren't they?" El asked even if she knew the answer, hated the answer.
"Yes. But you already knew that didn't you?" He said tipping his head to the side as he looked at her, maybe sizing her up, for what she didn't know, maybe didn't what to know.
"They're stronger than you think," El said simply, not letting the fear she felt for her friends show on her face, at least she hoped as much.
"Oh I know, but without you, they'll never win, your the only one that has any real power after all."
El said nothing as he stepped forward to stand in front of her and with a cold finger he tipped her chin up to face him, but she didn't dare flinch at his touch. "But you know it doesn't need to be this way. We can work together to stop him for good…...and maybe even save your dare, Hopper."
She felt her eyes go wide with horror as she heard that name. How did he know that name! How did this monster know about Hopper? How did it know any of this stuff, knew about her life and friends?
El stumbled backward as every bit of warmth left her body finally, her heart seeming to stop. "W-what did you just say?! How do you know any of this?! What are you?!" She shouted as panic started to grip her.
He smiled at her with blanken teeth. "That's a long story, but we don't have time after all your...Hopper, don't you want to see him again? Don't you him away from the hell he is in right now?"
El felt her eyes start to burn, tears starting to form, but she wouldn't let them fall as she spoke, "You're lying!"
"Am I?" he said and before she knew what was happening he placed a hand on the side her hand.
Suddenly she was hit with blinking light. After being in the dark for so long it took a moment before she could see, a ringing in her ears. But when she finally was able to blink away the dancing spots she found that she was standing in the snow. El felt her eyes go wide as she turned around herself, but it was like the whole world was made of snow, but far off in the distance there looked to be a building.
AN
As always thanks for reading, it means a lot to me. If you want to review and give me your thoughts and or any criticism on what I could do better please feel free, it always helps. again I'm putting a little more foreshadowing in the chapters for the next fanfic I'm doing thinking of doing which is my own take on season 4 that i will be starting as soon as this little story is over. I hope your all doing well as you can be right now. Stay safe everyone :D