Chapter 16

"I'm coming with you" Patch said as he followed me out of his jeep, which was parked outside of our school.

"fine, I'll go in this way you go in the east way" I said, running up the stairs to the front door of the school and Patch disappeared into the darkness around the corner of the building.

I expected everywhere to be so dark I couldn't see but I could see as perfect as day. I walked carefully through the deserted hallways of the cold building.

I entered the library and heard a series of painful moans and groans. I grabbed a metal meter stick from the corner of the room.

"Vee?" I called cautiously, as I continued to walk carefully. "huh?" I gasped looking down at the wet puddle I stepped in on the ground. The closer I look the clearer it becomes. It was blood. I followed the bloody trail and saw Elliot laying on the ruined, blood stained carpet. He was the source of the groans, from the look of him someone really didn't hold back. His arm and leg was twisted in the wrong directions and left, his face was bloody and beaten near to the extent of not recognizable and his hair was matted, red and sticky on his limp head.

"Elliot, what happened?" I asked pulling him up so he can sit up, this earned me screams and growls.

"Jules... Vee... Ezine" he tried to say and then started choking on his own blood.

"so Jules is behind this, Elliot listen to me" I said grabbing hold of the boy's sticky head and lifted it so he could look at me. "I'm going to save Vee and send her for help, can you hold on till then?" I continued, hoping I was getting trough to him.

"yes" he whispered, a tear fell from his eye.

Ezine? Elliot must have meant Vee was taken to the Ezine room.

I started running for the ezine room. I darted through corridors, keeping myself at a pace.

Just around this corner I thought as I collided with a dark figure.

"I was beginning to thing you weren't going to show" said an amused voice as a hand grabbed my arm in a bone crushing grip and dragged me along the floor to the wood work workshop.

"Jules, or should I say Chauncey?" I said equally amused. My dark side was beginning to come out.

"you think your so smart" he said, going to hit me. I blocked him, or rather my body did what it thought would protect me.

"what do you want to cause all this?" I asked, shoving his hand away.

"I want to hurt Patch, I deserve revenge."

"why?" I backed away toward the wireless power tools.

"he made me what I am, he controls me for two weeks during cheshvan, I've know Patch for a long time and he has never had a weakness until now."

"oh and what's that?" almost there!

"you" he said and began to lunge for me. Just in time I picked up two power drills and drilled as much as I could into his shoulder and his leg, paralysing him enough for me to escape.

"Vee!" I yelled as I saw my best friend tied to a chair in the ezine room.

She snapped her head up at the sound of my voice and began saying something but it came out as muffled moans behind the duck tape.

"ow!" she shrieked as I pulled off the tape. "I'm so sorry! I didn't know his plans" Vee cried as I untied her.

"the front door to the school is unlocked, go and find help, Elliot is dying in the library, he needs an ambulance and fast" I explained, hugging her after she was stood and ready.

"what about you!" she asked nervously as we began sneaking out of the ezine room.

"I'm the one he wants, I'll distract him while you go get help" I said and before she could start complaining, Jules appeared out of no where and tackled me to the ground, blood pouring in large doses onto the floor. "go!" I screamed at Vee, she nodded and ran towards the exit.

"Nora!" Patch yelled as the lights turned on and Patch came running to join in the fight. It all went into a blur, Patch was equally as fast and strong as Jules, even if Jules was injured he wasn't showing or letting any pain halt his plan.

Suddenly Patch was pinned to the floor by a stake like stick, Jules pushed it down into him more and blood came out of Patch's mouth.

"Nora watch your loved one be tortured before I start on you" Jules laughed a deep, rough laugh.

"stop it!" I growled, as the lights began flickering on and off.

Shadows started rushing from all directions and seized Jules, holding up into the sky.

"what's going on!" He sounded extremely confused for the first time.

"no more, your the one whose going to die!" I said un emotionally, my voice sounding not even my own.

"nor...a?" Patch groaned, forcing himself to lift himself to see what's happening.

The shadows kept him securely held as more shadows entered his body through his mouth. Lumps kept forming in every direction of his body, his screams filling the whole corridor.

Suddenly Jules' soul came floating out of his body and into the air. It floated higher and higher and disappeared through the ceiling.

"now you may rest in peace in heaven, with your deceased wife and children" I said, withdrawing the shadows back to where they came from and my body suddenly losing all it's strength. I collapsed, unable to move, unable to open my eyes.

"Nora!" Patch called. I couldn't reply.

He reached and grabbed the stake in his stomach and pulled it out as if was a plaster being ripped off the bare skin.

"Nora answer me!" he pleaded as he lifted me off the dirty ground.

"argh" I moaned quietly in his arms.

Now I felt safe... for now.

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