Chapter 1: Nightmare
"What is this place?" Was the first thought that came to mind after Emmet opened his eyes and looked around. The place, the strange place he woke up was dark, cold and empty, the only thing he saw was darkness.
The darkness that was filling his heart with terror, making it race faster. He already saw this place before, but he wasn't so sure where or when, as if memory of it just disappeared.
As if someone made him forget about it. At this thought Emmet jumped on legs and moved forward, towards the darkness. It was pure, nothing was visible from the other side of it. It was endless.
He tried to touch it, but it kept moving away. The more he tried, the same result he was getting, the darkness was refusing him to touch it, as if he had too much light inside to be able to touch it.
"I need to get out of here" The thought suddenly appeared in his mind. He wasn't sure why he needed it so badly, but he felt like something bad is going to happen if he won't.
Emmet stepped back from the darkness, it no longer seemed calm, it started to move at him. Slowly, carefully, but he could see it getting closer, as if now it wanted to touch him.
But he can't let that happen, he needed to make sure it won't. Because if it will manage to touch him, this would be his end and he knew it and he needed to-
Before he was able to finish this thought, the cold and heavy air suddenly filled with loud, maniacal laughter. Laughter that made him stop and start shaking in fear.
This laughter was something familiar, very familiar and scary, something that he already heard before, but couldn't remember. Something wasn't allowing him to remember….
"Finally decided to visit?" That voice, his voice echoed through the darkness, filled Emmet's soul with fear and panic. He can't be back, he just can't! They changed his fate, his future, right?
Yet, something wasn't feeling right. He forgot something important. He forgot the only thing that would tell him, explain to him, why it was happening.
"Emmet, Emmet, Emmet, I thought you'd be happy-" Whispered his voice right in Emmet's ear, making him jump. Emmet quickly turned around and was frozen with pure animalistic horror. "To see me…. Again…." Rex smiled widely.
He was standing before him, smiling with his bit insane smile, was looking at him as if he wanted to kill him and maybe he wanted to kill him. To kill him and-
And Emmet remembered, he remembered everything that happened before, whole year of agony, of pain and terror. The year full of loud screams and blood. The year his two friends died. The year he almost lost everyone he loved.
Emmet wanted to back away from him, to scream, to run and hide, but he couldn't. He was completely frozen, trapped in his own body, in his own head. In his own mind.
Rex lowered his head and looked right in Emmet's eyes, he was way bigger than the last time they saw each other in the same place, or was it just because Emmet was terrified? He wasn't sure.
The only thing that was circling in his head was thought that he needed to run away, to break free and take control before Rex. He needed to make sure he won't finish what he started once he'd be free. If he'd be free.
"What's wrong Emmet?" Rex slowly moved towards frozen Emmet, his clawed hand caught Emmet's chin right before he could finally move away. "Afraid of ME?" Rex's face broke in half and revealed his giant, filled with sharp teeth, mouth.
Emmet's eyes widened in pure terror once he saw his mouth, his tongue that was almost licking his face, testing the taste of his skin.
It was his nightmare, his worst nightmare that turned into reality, he thought that it won't happen again, never again, but it happened.
He was here again, he was looking at Rex. The one he wanted to help, to let him live the life he deserved.
The life he lost, but it didn't worked as Emmet wanted, instead Rex wanted to kill them both. He never asked to be alive again and Emmet, it was all Emmet's fault.
Only now he saw that he was the one responsible for everything that happened. He was the one responsible for their death. He was responsible for the chaos Rex caused. It all was his fault…. Only his….
"You have no idea HOW tired I've been whole this time since then. You remember Emmet? You remember what you did?" Rex lifted Emmet high above his head, "Do you remember why we even here?"
Emmet only whined in pain, Rex was slowly squeezing his throat, deepening his sharp claws in his flesh, cutting his skin, "How tired I've been for always listening to your happy shouting, how tired I'm of your stupid friends that managed to survive and accept you"
"They accepted everything that happened, but they don't know the full truth, do they? You didn't tell him what happened that day, did you?" He smiled again, showing his sharp teeth that were ready to tear Emmet's throat any moment. He could kill him, just make one move, but he wanted to play with him, before kill.
It would be a shame if Emmet wouldn't feel all the pain he made Rex feel, all this misery and agony he went through sitting here. Sitting in his head all alone and thinking and thinking about everything that happened over and over again.
"But this won't last for long…." Rex looked at Emmet. His face was full of terror, he already understood what's going to happen next, "Because this ends NOW!" Rex roared in his face and threw Emmet towards the ground.
The hit was so hard that Emmet let out loud scream and, jumping on trembling legs, tried to run away, but Rex was way faster than him. With extreme almost impossible speed he moved to Emmet and jumped on him.
He furiously punched him in face, then again, again and again, he was punching him as hard as he could. Emmet was trying to avoid his fists, but his attacks were too fast for him to do that.
After just few seconds his nose was already broken and face baldy hurt. Giant wounds were covering it all, blood was streaming down on the dark ground that was laughing at him.
Everything around him was laughing at him, at his weakness and terror. This place wasn't his head, it wasn't his mind, it was REX'S. He was not in his head.
"You know?" Rex caught Emmet's head and hit ground with it, then looked at his face, at this moment it was nothing but a bloody mess "Even after all this time, whole year that I gave you to recover, you're still the same weakling as you were"
Rex laughed once again and was ready to make his final move, when Emmet, ignoring the pain, did something deadly for him. He managed to kick Rex in belly.
It wasn't strong enough to make him any physical damage, but it was strong enough to make him roar in pain and let go of Emmet.
Emmet quickly stood on trembling legs and ignoring Rex's roar of fury, managed to jump away from him and start to run away. He was trembling not with just terror, but pain too. He barely was seeing where he was running.
Blood was still streaming down his face, covering his eyes, not letting see anything clearly. But even so, he kept and kept running as fast as he could
He got near the darkness and entering it was now running through it, not seeing where to run, where to hide, the only thing he saw was darkness. The darkness and blood, that kept streaming down his face, leaving small bloody marks on the ground.
"YOU WON'T GET AWAY!" Rex's roar echoed through the darkness, it sounded as if he was both far from him and near him, but Emmet ignored it.
He kept stupidly running, he was running for what seemed like hours, but the darkness never ended, it had no end at all. It was useless, there was no exit out of here.
"I'M TIRED OF THIS SHIT!" Rex roared again, Emmet quickly turned around and saw two green dots, they were moving towards him and they were moving fast.
"Wake up, please, just wake up!" Emmet whispered, his eyes filled with hot tears, his whole body was screaming from pain and agony, he knew that if he kept running, he'll just pass out, but if he couldn't stop.
If he stops then he's going to die. He had no choice but to keep running, keep running as fast as he could. Emmet closed his eyes and furiously shook his head, "Don't think about it, you're going to get out of here, just don't think about it, don't think about it, don't thi-"
"GOTCHA!" Before Emmet opened his eyes, he was already lying on the ground from the powerful punch, Rex stood few meters from him, his face was half the way black and green eyes were shining with pure rage.
Emmet tried to back away, but Rex put his leg on his chest and started to press him to the ground, "You can't run away forever…." Emmet was slowly running out of oxygen, but Rex kept pressing and stopped only when Emmet almost passed out.
Rex moved away from Emmet, but kept staring into his eyes, his plan to just kill Emmet slowly started to change into something way more interesting and effective with every second he was looking at his miserable past self.
"I'm not going to just kill you" Rex whispered and let out chuckle darkly, "We're going to make things way more interesting…."
At the word interesting, Emmet wanted to move, but before he even managed to return back to senses, he was already standing before Rex, the wild insane smile appeared on his face and green glimpse in his eyes started to shine even brighter than before.
"Your time ran out Emmet" Rex quickly moved towards disorientated Emmet and once again caught him, but this time his clawed hand clinched around his already pretty damaged neck. Emmet let out quiet cry of pain.
How sweet it was to listen to his cries, to look at his fear, at his stupid tries to break free and return to his friends. Friends…. Soon enough they are going to meet with him again and that time, he would finish them….
"Your life is mine NOW" Rex roared loudly and squeezed Emmet's throat with all the strength he had. It was too much for Emmet to handle after all the pain he already went through.
Emmet finally lost consciousness and fell limb in Rex's hands, becoming nothing, but a puppet that lost its strings.
Rex's eyes sparked with psychotic happiness, he finally won! After SO long, he managed to win and now, he was the one to choose Emmet's fate.
Rex looked at Emmet's limp body, before throwing his head backwards and letting out laughter, fully insane laughter full of psychotic happiness and urge to kill.
"Emmet! Emmet are you okay!? Emmet answer me! Emmet please!" He slowly opened his eyes and letting out quiet whine, looked before him. The first thing he saw, was Lucy's worried face.
"Lucy? I-I'm okay" He whispered and tried to sit, but found it incredibly painful to do so, as if his body was as damaged in the outside, like on the inside. Lucy sighed quietly and helped him sit, making sure that he'd be able to keep sitting once she let go of him.
"Emmet, you were unconsciousness for whole day, we couldn't wake you up, are you sure that you're okay?" The worry in her voice made him shook, but he quickly forced himself to smile calmly and nod in respond.
"I'm sure Lucy, actually, I'm better than I'll ever be" He took her hand and looked right into her eyes, for one moment Lucy's face showed horror, but she quickly shook her head.
It was as if she saw something unusual in Emmet's eyes, but it must have been just her imagination, she was just too scared for Emmet that now was seeing what wasn't even there.
"If you say so…." Lucy whispered and slowly stood before him. She looked at him, then at door and again at him.
She seemed to be too uncomfortable to talk, maybe because of how long he was passed out, so she decided to use body language to tell him what to do.
His eyes narrowed in confusion, but he quickly nodded and stood next to her. His legs were still trembling, but with each step he was taking, it was slowly fading away.
And when they got close to door, he was standing still. His legs were no longer trembling, his whole body was fine. He was fine.
He looked at Lucy and nodded at door, as if telling her to go first, but once she opened the door, she just held it for him to pass forward, he nodded once again, still not saying a word and left the room.
Lucy followed him, but right before she, turning around, closed the door, Emmet's eyes shined with dark-green light and Rex smiled evilly.
His plan worked perfectly now, it was time for revenge….