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Darkness surrounded me. The air was filled with a musky thick smell, which caused me to take deep breaths. I was feeling dizzy and disoriented from getting hit in the head, and being knocked out. Which it took me a few seconds to realize that I couldn't move my legs or arms. It seemed that all my strength had dissapeared as I tried pulling my legs and arms free, and nothing happened. Nearby, water droplets fell into puddles, echoing all around me. Where-- Where am I?
"Your in a cave." Said a deep voice, which echoed around me.
"Who-who are you?" I was staring into darkness, which caused me to panic, so my breathing began to deepen and became shorter, quicker breaths.
"Jeez, calm down. I promise, I'm not gunna hurt you. The names Aidan."
"What do you want? Please... let me go." I cried.
"You don't need to know that right now, so just relax." I heard his footsteps walk farther away from me, which helped me calm down. I need to get out of here.
"You won't be able to, so I wouldn't even try if I was you." He warned.
"Great, so you can read minds too, let me guess, a werewolf also?" I questioned. Aidan laughed, "I am more powerful than a worthless werewolf." He said, sounding cocky.
"Then what are you, almighty, powerful one?" I said mockingly.
"I don't wish you tell you, I wish to show you. But lucky for you, I can't show you right now."
I didn't bother to respond to that, all that mattered to me was to get the heck out of here. Once agian, I started to pull my hands from the rope that was keeping me from my freedom, but the rope wouldn't budge, and I began to tug on my legs hoping they might budge, but no luck. I'm doomed.
"Sorry for having no light, Alaric will be back with some matches soon."
"Who's Alaric?" I asked.
"He's my leader." I couldn't help but laugh. Leader. Ha. Ha. That's funny.
"Shut up before I take that promise of not hurting you, back." I stopped laughing and put a frown on my face, even though he couldn't see it.
"What time is it?" I dared to ask. I didn't know if I have been knocked out for a day or two, or just an hour.
"You have only been knocked out for a couple of hours. It's around 2:00 am." I sighed, which I was unhappy that I haven't been able to get a full night of sleep. I desperately wanted to get out of this stupid cave, and to get home, so I began tugging on the ropes again. Nothing.
Crap. This sucks. I'm stuck in a smelly cave, with an 'It' that has really bad-- Oops.
His foot steps crept towards me one by one with a really fast pace, then it went silent. I waited for something to happen. It became so quiet, all I could hear were the water droplets and my own heart beat, until Aidan whispered in my ear, "I have a really bad what?", which made me flich.
I began to panic, and my breathing became quicker and shorter breaths.
"I have a really bad what? Answer me." He hissed into my ear.
"You--You ha-have a really bad--...life. You know having to live in a cave in all... am I right?" I asked, while shivering.
"I don't live in a cave." His voice was not in my ear, which ment he was standing straight up now.
Aidan began to walk away, his footsteps echoing in the cave as he snapped, furiously, "And I'm not an 'It'. So don't call me that agian." I gulped. How about I don't think ever again?
"That would be a great idea." He agreed.
I didn't hear his foot steps any more, which told me he was standing, or sitting, or crawling on the walls or whatever. But by the amount of foot steps he took, it ment that he was far away. I began to scoot my chair over to the right of me, not really knowing what was over there, since I couldn't see. I couldn't really move fast, considering I had my hands and feet hooked to the chair, and I also didn't want to make any sound.
"Aidan, I'm back." I stopped where I was. Alaric.
"Oh, so I am guessing you have told our visitor my name already?" He asked.
"Yeah, I have. Did you get matches?"
"Yes, I did. Now our visitor will be able to see. How has she been?" I rolled my eyes. Okaayy... talk like I'm not here.
Someone chuckled, I wasn't sure who it was.
"She has been a pain in the neck." Aidan said. They both laughed, which I didn't seem to get the joke.
I grunted.
"What is troubling you my child?" Alaric asked, in a sweet voice.
"Well hmm, the tooth fairy didn't give me any money, and--and... Maybe its because I have been kiddnapped?!?!?" I was practically yelling. I was frustrated. They haven't really told me anything except thier names. Also, I get cranky when I don't get enough sleep...
"Well, if you want answers. We will give you answers." Alaric said.
"Please." I pleaded.
A match flicked on which only lit a small proportion of the cave, but also a man. The man holding the match wasn't someone who was young, but a man no older than 70. He had snowy white hair flowing down onto his shoulders, and also wore a long black cloak that reached the ground.
"Hello Victoria, I'm Alaric." He smiled. I think he wanted it to be a friendly smile, but to me, it was an evil, creepy one.
I gulped. "H-hi." I studdered.
He began walking closer to me, so my heart began to beat faster. His steps were smooth and quiet. Not like Aidans, where I could hear him from a distance. He turned slightly away from me revealing a small table with a lantern, which was inches away from me. He lit the lantern which seemed to cause a part of the cave to light up, but it still didn't reveal Aidan. Alaric walked to the left side of me and lit another match which revealed another lantern, which he lit also. Over in the far corner stood Aidan, which he looked to be about my age or older, wearing all black with his hood over his head.
Aww... is someone shy? I thought.
Aidan bounced off the wall where he was standing and quickly moved over to me, not revealing his face at all. He stopped in front of me, inches away. I wasn't frightened any more at this point, I was just sleepy.
He stood there not doing anything, which worried me a little. He knew I was wanting to see his face, so he slowly reached up to grab his hood and knocked it down.
I gasped, and in return he gave me a confused look.
"Your the boy..." I couldn't finish my sentence. I was in shock.
"Your the boy in my dream!" His look turned from confusion to a worried look. Alaric appeared behind Aidan with the same expression.
"You killed.. Josh." I whispered. I couldn't talk, something was forcing me to whisper. The same boy that was in my dream, was standing here before me. A boy with the same black side swipe hair and snowy white skin. Aidan turned to look at Alaric, and they began walking away.
This is just another dream. I haven't woken up yet. I closed my eyes and pictured me in my bed, just laying there with Kyle sitting at my desk with a smirk on his face, and Daniel with his usual smile spreading from ear to ear. Also Kelly and Chris holding hands; Kelly with her head on his shoulder.
I miss them... Wake up Tori! Wake up!...Please.
"Ahem." I opened my eyes and saw Aidan standing in front of me, his arms crossed in front of his chest. My vision blurred, and tears started to fall down my cheek.
"Oh please don't cry." He flew his head back and wiped off his forehead; looking discusted. His hands flew up in the air. "I don't feel like dealing with this right now." He walked over to the other side of the cave and slid down the wall. He flipped his hood over his head; covering up his face. Alaric stood there staring back in forth from me, to Adian, then back at me.
I just couldn't stay awake anymore. Getting no sleep, and with everything that has happened is causing me to fall asleep at a wrong time, and the crying didn't help ethier. I didn't want to fall sleep with these strangers around, espicially with a murderer. But my eye lids betrayed me, and I fell into a deep sleep.
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As I woke, It was acutally brighter than before I fell asleep. I noticed that I was laying down instead of sitting in a chair. I lifted my body into a sitting postion, and my head began getting sharp pains that caused me to flinch. "Ugh." I looked around and noticed that no one else was in the cave.The same lanterns were lit, and some other lanterns were lit in places that I never knew existed, creating the whole cave to be visable.
Well, if theres nobody here... I sat on the edge of the bed which caused my feet to rest on the cold, hard, rocky floor. I stretched my rested arms and legs, and also let out a loud yawn. ...I guess I'll be able to explore. I slowly got up and again, began stretching my sore, stiff muscles. I looked around and noticed how the bed was next to the table that I sat next to last night. A small plate of food sat in the middle of the table, uncovered. Yuck. I walked over to it, picked it up and stupidly, I sniffed it. It smelt like it was a mixture of dead fish, and rotton milk which caused me to drop the plate of food back onto the table. I rubbed my nose, and sneezed, and hoped that the smell would dissappear. I wonder where they are.
I began to recap everything that happened last night...or morning, which a picture of Adian popped in my head. His features were exactly the same as I pictured him in my dream. He had strong features, tall, but not as tall as Daniel or Kyle, midnight black hair, which seemed to cause his skin to be a snowy white. Picturing him created a shiver to run up my spine. He's a murderer.
I wanted to get my mind off of him, so I slowly walked over to the other side of the cave, hopefully finding somewhere I could maybe escape. I can't believe they trusted me enough to leave me here alone.
"Do you seriously think we would leave you alone?" Aidan crept out of the shadows, from behind a rock that I never seemed to have noticed before. His hood was down which made his face in clear view of me to see. Another shiver ran down my spine causing goosebumps to form, which made the hair on my arm stand.
"Well, I don't know. You seem stupid enough." I dared to say. Let me just tell you this, when I'm in an uncomfortable situation, my sarcasim and idiocy seem to over power my "good, lady-like side".
"Tisk. Tisk. And I actually thought you were a nice young lady." He said while crossing his arms. I looked towards the ground; not wanting to look at his face.
He began walking closer, his loud steps echoing, causing my heart to beat faster.
"Your heart seems to beat faster than normal, every time I approach you." The tone in his voice sounded as if he was interested, and ammused. "Do I scare you?" He was now inches away from me, but I still focused my attention towards the ground, which I was now looking at his black boots since he walked closer. I could feel his unsual cold breath on me everytime he exhaled.
"N-no. Why wo-would I be afriad of you?" I muttered quietly. I looked up to face the murderer who killed Josh. His messy, black hair fell in his face, only covering up half of his left eye. But as I stared at the features of Aidan, I began to notice that he was different. His eyes weren't a normal color. They weren't brown, they weren't blue or green. They were sort of a pinkish color, with swirls of black. Sort of a dark, ruby red.
When my brain finally processed that Aidan wasn't really normal, I took a giant step back, but my eyes never left him. My breathing began to become quicker breaths, which seemed to make Aidan happy. A smirk began to form on his face as he took large steps towards me. I walked backwards more quickly, hoping that he would trip and hit his head maybe knocking him out. But I knew that wouldn't happen.
That's when my back hit the hard rock wall of the cave. Crap. The smirk that spread across his face turned into an evil grin, as he stopped about three inches away from me. The cold breath that he exhaled made me shiver, which caused him to laugh. He leaned in closer, whispering in my ear, "I guess that since we have light... I can show you who I really am." He backed away from my ear with the same smirk that he walked over to me with.
"Please just let me go home." I pleaded. "I'll do anything. Please."
"Oh, you'll go home." He said in acceptence, as he wickedly smiled. I screamed, in shock. His smile revealed two sharp teeth on the top row, one on each corner. "When I'm done with you." He said, low and dangerous.
Sorry for making it a cliff hanger, agian.I have been so so so busy. I'm trying really hard. So bear with me.
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