Chapter 4—Dementia
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"Jake! Run!" Blaze chirped as she hopped up to me. I picked her up and Alpha as well before taking off as fast as I could.
"Dementia, get rid of the boy," I heard Blakk growl behind me. A second passed before Elina/Dementia caught up to me, knocking me to the side with a blast of air.
"Ellie!" I screamed when I hit a boulder. I staggered for a few seconds as I regained my balance, and in that time she ran up to my and lifted me by my neck, pinning me to the boulder and choking me at the same time. I grabbed her arm and tried to relax her grip on my throat, but I couldn't do anything so I tried freezing her arm. Her arm became encased in ice for a split second before it melted.
"Goodbye, child," Dementia growled, tightening her grip. Black spots danced before my eyes as Blaze hopped onto her arms.
"Don't let her control you, Elina," Blaze chirped, looking Dementia in the eye.
"Ellie…" I gasped with my remaining air. Her eyes flickered back to normal as she loosened her grip. I gasped and took in fresh air, using the moment to freeze her arms. "Elina, come back to us," Blaze, Alpha and I told her. "Don't let Dementia control you."
Her eyes flickered back to normal for a few more seconds. "Jake…run," she whispered. She released me, but Dementia took over and reached for me. Instead of running, though, I hugged her as tightly as I could.
"Don't let her win, Ellie," I whispered.
"What are you…" Dementia started, but she gasped. A bright light enveloped us, and when it faded Dementia was gone, replaced by the Elina we all know.
"Elina?" I gasped. She smiled, tears starting to form in her eyes.
"What? How could this happen…?" Blakk demanded as he ran at us, a twisted Armashelt in his blaster.
"You will leave this cavern, Doctor Blakk," Elina stated, loading her blaster with Helia, her Boon Doc. She fired her as Blakk fired the slug. They hit each other in a flash of light, and both slugs fell back to the ground in protoform, but the other slug was different.
Helia healed it.
"Yay! I'm healed!" the Armashelt cheered as he hopped over to us. Blakk growled and fired a messed-up Phosphoro that let out a dark flash, stunning us long enough for him to escape.
"What did he do to you?" I asked her as we walked back to the cave.
"Doctor Blakk…that vial of water he hit me with is known as Dark Water," she told me. "It…it twists my powers and brings out a darker side of me that I can't control. He also uses that water to turn slugs into ghoul slugs, which are stronger than normal slugs, but are evil. Promise me that if he ever does that to me again, you will run away and find help." I didn't reply, and she crouched down to my level. "Jacob, I need you to promise me that," she told me. "I don't want you getting hurt, especially by me."
"You wouldn't hurt me," I told her. "That would be Dementia. It wouldn't be your fault, it would be Blakk's for doing it to you."
She smiled. "When did you get so wise?" she asked me with a small laugh.
I shrugged. "Spending time with Rip Tide, I guess," I replied. He's one of the oldest slugs in the cavern. She smiled and hugged me. I hugged her back and we walked to the cave, where we got rid of the last of the vines and sat down.
Over the next year, we practiced with out powers even more and Elina decided to let me keep the blaster I found. For my eighth birthday, we even left the cavern and went to Convertamail Cavern, where we first encountered the Shane Gang.