Chapter Seven: You Die In Your Dreams You Die

Max's head snapped up.

That was an extremely weird dream, Max thought. Why in the world would I dream about Kyle and Tess?

He felt a pain in his cheek, he touché his cheek and took out a pencil that was stuck to his face.

Where am I? Oh that's right I'm at the Crash Down.

He had gone there to study with Liz. So where was Liz? He looked around and found Liz asleep on the counter in a book. He walked over and shook her awake.

"We're closed." Liz said in a dazed voice.

"Liz wake up." Max said in an annoying voice.

"Five more minutes." She groaned.

"Liz I'm serious get up." Max said beginning to get annoyed.

"What?" Liz said her head popping up like a pop tart.

"We fell asleep." Max said.

"That's what you woke me up for." Liz said.

"No I woke you up to tell you about the dream I had." Max said.

Something crashed in the back. They both looked at the door leading to the back room.

"Hello?" Liz yelled to the back.

No one replied except for another crash.

Max walked to the door with Liz closely behind him. He counted the seconds till opening the door with his fingers. He opened the door and they both sighed in relief. No one was there.

They heard another crash. This time it came from upstairs.

"Oh here we go again." Liz whimpered.

Where am I? Alex thought. This isn't Isabel's house. He looked over his shoulder and saw nothing but darkness. He looked front and saw a hallway. A very familiar hallway. Wait a minute. I'm at school. Duh I was studying and I fell asleep, so the first place I thought of was school. Alex nodded his head in agreement with himself. He walked down the hall and into his math class. He turned around to head out again then felt a sharp pain in his stomach. He looked up and saw what could only be the monster Maria had described. Then when he looked down he saw a knife in the creature's claws that was lodged in his stomach. It pulled it out and Alex grimaced in pain. Blood dropped out of the wound and on the floor. The creature smiled an evil smile. Then disappeared. Blood soaked through his cloths everywhere. And the pain took him over till he heard someone call his name.

"ALEX!" Isabel shook him as much as she could but he wouldn't wake up. She grabbed another blanket and covered his wound. There was blood everywhere and she had to stop it from bleeding.

"ALEX WAKE UP!" She heard the hysteria in her own voice. Finally slowly his eyes opened.

"Thank God." She said to herself.

Alex looked down and saw the blood. "Ow."

"I think the bleeding finally stopped." Isabel said.

Alex nodded and touched one of the blankets that had been soaked through.

"I'm gonna go call Max, will you be ok?" Isabel asked.

"Yeah, I'm good; just get me some water while you're up." Alex said.

Isabel nodded and got up.

Max climbed the last stair and gasped at he saw. He heard Liz's gasp too.

There were spiders everywhere. Not normal spiders either. No, they were at least two feet tall and had piercing red eyes.

"I hate spiders." Liz said in a hysterical voice.

Max's cell phone rang and all the spiders looked their way. So, Liz and Max did the only thing possible. Ran like hell.

They went outside of the Crash Down and the spiders followed them. At least until they reached the door. The spiders stopped and didn't go past the door.

Max's continuously rang so he picked it up as Liz stared at the door and how the spiders couldn't leave.

"Hello"

"Max you need to get back home now! Alex is hurt and you have to heal him."

"Is he ok?"

"He's fine but he'll be even better once you get here. Hurry!"

Isabel hung up before he could respond.

"Liz we have to go to my house." Max said.

Liz nodded just looking at the restaurant.

"Max!" Max turned around and saw Michael and Maria running towards him.

"What happened?" Max asked.

"Rats, big rats, very, very big rats." Maria said, with her eyes wide.

"Huge rats appeared in the kitchen and attacked us." Michael said.

"Almost as bad as us." Max said.

"Spiders, very big spiders." Liz said hugging Maria and pointing to the door.

"Why aren't they coming outside?" Michael asked.

Max shrugged.

"Oh and did we mention the rats weren't effected by our powers." Michael said.

"Oh boy." Max said. "Well we'll have to discuss this in the car."

"Car?" Maria squeaked.

"Yeah we have to get to my house. Alex is hurt." Max said.

"Let me see him." Max said as they came into the house.

Isabel moved over and let Max see Alex

The phone rang and Isabel ran into the kitchen.

Max removed the bandage and put his hand over the wound on Alex's stomach. Alex grunted and bit his bottom lip.

Liz offered him her hand and he took it and squeezed.

Max closed his eyes for a few minutes.

Maria looked at a fake watch and looked impatient.

"It's not working." Max said finally. He pouted his lips like a little kid who didn't get his candy.

"What do you mean?" Isabel said coming in from the kitchen.

Max groaned in annoyance (obviously he was frustrated). "I put hand on wound; I use powers and powers no worky. There's no other way to explain it." Max said.

"Just cover it up for now till we find out more." Liz said.

"Who was on the phone?" Michael asked.

"Kyle." Isabel said hesitantly.

"It's like 5 in the morning." Max said.

"Yeah well," Isabel bit her lip then spoke quickly "KylenadTessfoundadeadbodyintheirbackyardandthewordsMariawasspelledoutintheguysblood."

"WHAT!" Max yelled. "They found a body?"

"Yeah they're coming over when they're done with the cops." Isabel said.

"This is getting bad." Liz said.

"I already told you this. I heard a noise I went to go find Kyle and we went outside and the body was there." Tess said for the hundredth time.

"Are you sure? You didn't hear anything before or after?" The officer asked.

"Yes I forgot to mention I saw the killer and we played a nice game of bingo!" Tess said in frustration and threw her arms up in the air.

"This is no joking matter, now are you sure that's all."

Well besides the whole Maria spelled out in blood thing. Yeah I'm sure.

"Yes."

"Do you have anywhere else you can stay?" The officer asked.

"Yes we do." Kyle said from behind her. "I just called our friends and we are going there now."

"Well make sure to stay near in case we have any other questions for you two." The officer said.

"Sir, yes sir." Tess said under her breath and Kyle shoved her a bit.

"Ok both of you get some rest." The officer said.

"You're all going to need it." The officer said as he walked away from the two teenagers.

As he walked out of the house his body morphed. He went from the young and handsome police officer to the clown creature he loved so much.

All he needed was a couple more weeks and he would finally have the nourishment he so craved. And even better he would get it from the bitch that had almost killed him at least 50 years ago. He smiled and showed his yellow teeth that were covered in blood. And as soon as he got rid of the King, Queen, Princess, and General he would get what he so wanted. He lifted his three fingers and blasted a car window just out of his giddiness. All he needed was a little more time. He would get his revenge and set a future for his kind all in one try.

"Let the games begin."