Chapter 26

Mikey felt his legs go numb in fear, his lip quivered, his spine tingled. He turned his head in absolute shock at the sight of the creature on the ceiling, then the monster walking closer to him and the crowd on zombies behind him. He looked up at the monster as he raised his hammer high up in the air. Then an idea sprung at Mikey. He tightened the grip on Don, and waited.

He scooted back closer to the crowd of zombies, then when the monster swung the hammer down. Mikey jumped closer to the monster, making the hammer miss him and hit the crowd of zombies. Mikey looked and saw that there were no more zombies. He kicked himself up and ran full speed down the hallway away from the monster and creature.

He then felt something wrap around his neck and pull him back, making him drop Don, his head jerked forward and he fell flat on his back. He grabbed the thing wrapped around his neck, it was slimy and wet. He looked up and saw it was the creature's tongue that had wrapped around his neck. He tried to pull it off but it had a tight grip on him. He lifted himself to his feet, grabbed the tongue and pulled it. Making the creature fall from the ceiling.

The creature recovered and maintained its grip on Mikey. Mikey pulled at it but it wasn't budging. He grunted in fear, turning around toward Don. He reached out his hand toward him. The tongue jerked and Mikey fell to the floor. He looked up and saw a sword collection on the wall near him. He extended his hands and reached for it. He shouted when it moved farther away from him. Then he heard the sound of a chainsaw go off, he twisted his head and saw he was being dragged closer to the monster.

"No!" He said, turned his head back around and reached for Don, "DON!" Mikey screamed

…..

"Is…Is he dead?" Don asked

Leo looked at the headless body of Coplan, he kicked the body softly. I felt stiff.

"I don't know" Leo responded

"Well how can we be sure?" Don asked, walking up next to him and looking at the body

"Well by now he would usually earthier disappear or appear right behind us"

Leo and Don thought about it, and then turned around, expecting to see Coplan standing there. But no one was there. They turned their heads back and saw he was still lying there, unmoved.

"I think he's dead" Don said

"Hmm.." Leo muttered, kneeling down next to him and turned his body around, "Well now we know how to kill him for good"

"Removing the head" Don said

"Yeah I guess" Leo said

Then Don felt something weird, he felt his head become drowsy. He held his head and groaned, Leo looked up at him. "What's wrong?" He asked

"I don't know…I just feel…"

Don felt his legs go numb and his vision go black.

…

Mikey kicked his feet, trying to regain his footing. He tried to pull the tongue to get the creature to back off, but his grip on Mikey's neck was too strong. The monster stepped toward Mikey and raised the chainsaw in the air.

"NO!" Mikey shouted, seeing the chainsaw drop toward him.

Suddenly, he saw something shiny enter his vision. A sword. It flew up as the monsters arms swung down, they both connected and the sword cut perfectly through the monsters hands. The monster threw his handless arms up in surprise, and the sword was thrust deep into the monsters neck.

Everything was happening to fast for Mikey to process, all he saw was the monster drop to the ground, then he saw the sword swing up at the tongue, cutting it perfectly and then slamming the blade down through the creatures head.

Mikey took deep breaths, slowly catching his bearing. He shook his head and noticed that he was disconnected from the tongue. He cringed and quickly unwrapped the tongue from his neck, scooting away from it.

He then looked up and saw someone's hand wrapped around the sword handle, blade still inside the creatures head. Traveling the hand, he quickly recognized the person holding the sword.

"Don!" Mikey shouted, he quickly jumped up, ran to him and wrapped his arms around him.

"Mikey? What happened?" Don asked sounding confused

"I don't know…We were standing there and then you just passed out randomly, then like all these zombies came chasing us. So I had to carry you in this hallway, that's when this weird looking creature comes this way and a monster with a hammersaw." Mikey explained

"Hmm…" Don said, still looking around confused, "Come on, we need to find that artifact and get the hell out of this city"

"You can say that again" Mikey said

Don walked down the hallway while Mikey followed, they came across a glass door that lead outside. Don turned the knob but it wouldn't budge. He rammed his elbow through the glass and felt it shatter. They both walked out and down the street.

Mikey looked up at him, "What happened to you?"

"I…I don't know. I was there, in like some kind of dream scape, but it was real. And Leo was there." Don said

"Leo?" Mikey almost shouted, "Was it really him?"

"Yeah, I could tell…but Coplan was there to, he captured us both. But we escaped, and he threw all these foot ninjas at us, but…" Don stopped mid-sentence

"But what?" Mikey asked

"Leo killed him" Don said softly

"What? He killed him? Are you sure?" Mikey asked quickly

"Yeah I'm sure. He wasn't moving." Don said

"Well how'd he do it?" Mikey asked

Don was silent for a second, "He cut off his head"

Mikey's face dropped, "Whoa! Leo did that?"

"Yeah…Yeah he did that" Don said softly

It was quiet from then on, they walked in silence, until Don noticed a building. "Wait" he said quickly

They both stopped and Don quickly looked around, "What is it?" Mikey asked

Don turned around, "There" Don pointed

Mikey looked and saw a familiar building, "What building is that?"

"It's the science building! It's the building they held the artifact in!" Don shouted, running toward it. Mikey followed and they both entered the building. They both looked around, and then Don saw the staircase.

"There" Don said, walking toward the stairs

"Aww why can't we take the elevator?" Mikey said, pointing to the elevators

Don stopped, remembering his last run in with the elevators. "Not a chance bro" Don said, going into the stairs. Mikey sighed and followed.

After running down four flights of stairs, they came across a door that had an electric lock.

"This has to be it" Don said

"How can you tell" Mikey asked

Don thought about his last time here, with the giant Coplan monster chasing him. "I just know" He said

He tore the electric lock off the wall, revealing the wires. Mikey put his hands on his hips and sighed, watching Don mess with the wires.

"You almost done?" Mikey asked

"Patience is a virtue little bro" Don said

Mikey frowned, and then heard the lock disengage.

"Got it" Don said

"Finally"

Don opened the door, revealing a large lab.

"Is this it?" Mikey asked as they both walked in

"Oh yeah…This is it" Don said, eyes focused on something

Mikey looked and saw the artifact in the middle of the lab.