Luke drifted back to asleep on the sofa, tired by the nights events. Steve watched over him carefully from the doorway to the Wheelers Kitchen. He Looked down to the .22 that he held in his hand, this little thing wasn't going to be enough, by far.
Currently Dustin explained to both Mike and El what happened and why they were there in the middle of the night, Mike's face paled when he heard that the Demogorgan was back or just another one of the species had come through a gate.
"How can it be back, El closed the gate years ago" Mike asked, Dustin shrugged his shoulders a little dramatically.
"No idea, dude" Dustin said "One minute I was about to beat Steve on Mario kart and the next we saw the lights flicker and there it was just there out of the blue"
The dream Mike had just a few hours previous came to mind, his blood ran cold as he wondered whether or not the dream was connected to the demogorgan mysteriously reappearing
"I don't know whether or no this is coincidence but I had a really messed up dream around an hour ago" El looked at him, eyes narrowed slightly as he proceeded to explain the dream and how the Nazi's had opened up a portal to the Upside-down with a Machine and how a demogorgan climbed through and nearly slaughtered everyone before the machine was damaged and destroyed.
"Wait so the Nazi's opened possibly the first portal to that place?" Steve said from the doorway
Mike Nodded "it sure seems that way"
El who had been very silent during the whole exchange finally spoke up and it was not what Mike wanted to hear.
"Did it have the words Die Glocke on it" El asked quietly
Mike's eyes widened slightly and he nodded
"I once heard Papa talk about Die Glocke" El said shifting her weight from one foot to the other. She had seen pictures of the ruined machine as Brenner explained to her that the monster she saw could be related to the legend of Die Glocke of course she didn't fully understand that at the time.
"Okaaaay so that means the Nazi's actually managed to open a portal and the Machine was like an anchor to our world, once the machine was destroyed so was the portal" Dustin theorised, most of the time his theories would more or less turn out to be right.
Mike looked to El and then back to Dustin "but there was no anchor for the portal in the lab" Mike said confused, Dustin shook his head in response.
"Nope not true, I think El must have been the anchor as she opened it, which means she was the only one to able to close it" Dustin explained, El nodded her understanding.
"So that means there is something tying the Gate to this world, another Anchor" Mike said
"Pretty much, we just need to figure out what and then we can destroy it" Dustin said.
Mike looked across the room to the window, the night was clear, crisp and cloudless buts not what sent a chill down his spine, faintly in the reflection he could see the Entity stood next to Dustin looking like his fourteen year old self as it usually did, Mike tore his eyes away from the window, why did the damn thing have to torment him every second, reminding of the price that would eventually come due.
El noticed the conflict etched upon his delicate features, she lightly squeezed his arm "Hey you ok?" she gently asked, her doe like eyes peered into his.
He turned to look at her, a far away expression in his eyes.
"Yeah El, I'm just tired" he weakly smiled at her and gently pressed his lips to hers. They soon heard a gagging noise behind them, they pulled apart to see Dustin doing so, he grinned at them.
"What?" he asked them innocently "Someone Had to" they all slightly laughed, Mike's died down as he looked to the window. It was always there.
"I think we should all get some sleep" El said after the laughter died down.
"Im gonna stay up and keep watch, someone has to, after all it is still out there" Steve said.
Everyone hummed their agreement, Dustin took the spare armchair in the living room and the two Wheelers went back upstairs to bed. Steve took a chair from the kitchen and placed it in front of the living room window, sat and waited.
The Entity watched the wheelers fall asleep from the doorway, invisible to the naked eye, only Mike could see it and that was in reflections, it shifted back into a black smoke and it flew through the window and out into the world.
Upon one of the water towers two men lay, one with a Sniper Rifle, the other with a pair of binoculars as they watched the Demogorgan prowl its way back to the labs, unfortunately it carried one of Dustin's neighbours in it's flower like mouth.
"Command we have confirmed visual on Species X-11"
"Visual Acknowledged, Hawk-7, Standby " his ear piece said to him.
"Roger that, Command" Hawk-7 said.
"Status of P-11?"
Hawk-7 and 8 had been in Hawkins for a few months now, Energy readings from Hawkins were steadily increasing including high doses of background alpha radiation and so the department of energy had sent out two scouts to investigate, of course other than that they had several side-tasks to abide by.
"P-11 is Alive and Well, Subject 1 and 2 are also alive and well"
"Acknowledged, continue surveillance and maintain distance, do not engage with Species X-11"
"Order Confirmed" Hawk-7 said, he felt uneasy, of course he heard the tales of Eleven and of the power she possessed as well as Species X-11, their orders was to not Engage Project 11, for which he thanked God for everyday, he didn't want to end up with a broken neck. Command informed them that subjugation of Project-11 was no longer a priority to them. One of the reasons why Eleven and Mike Wheeler had not seen hide nor hair of the Department of Energy for six years.
Plus now they would need her and Subjugation was not the way to get it.
Hawk-7 shivered slightly before bringing the binoculars to his eyes and pointed to the Wheeler house.
(A/N) sorry this chapter wasn't as long as the others guys, had a busy day today but I hope you enjoyed and as always review! Until next time guys, peace!