Hey guys welcome back, I am dedicating this one to a football teammate. I watched him get tackled and he dislocated his hip when it happened, he was in a lot of pain so I hope he gets better and doesn't have to sit the rest of the season out. This one is for you Corey, hope you get better. -TNB
Again the scream sounded… That time it made me jump out of bed and start running down the hall. Her room was about ten yards down the hall and it was closest to the stairs, the door was closed. An eerie red glow emanated from the crack below it as I slammed into it desperately grabbing for the handle. At first I thought it was locked but that was quickly proven wrong when I realized "The door doesn't even have a lock!" so I just decided then and there her life was worth more than the door, and with all that rage I had pent up inside I drew my foot back and SMASHED the door in. The door didn't give, oh no the frame gave and sailed clear into the room, I noticed this all as I ran into the room.
The first thing I noticed was the blood red fog that hovered over her, the second, she had a brighter red glow coming out of her eyes and mouth. I quickly grabbed her and slung her small form over my shoulder and sprinted out of the room with her bouncing on my back. As soon as we left the fog seemed to coalesce into a red shadow and slowly followed. I bounded down the stairs groans emitting from the small form on my shoulder, and as soon as we got to the bottom floor I hustled over to the couch and laid Izzi down on the couch. She slowly woke up "Wha… What happened?" she groaned out, I turned from watching the stairs "Do you remember the red fog?" that made her wake up "Yeah, it seeped up out of the floorboards and covered me, it whispered things like 'Are you the one' and 'what are your powers?' before everything went red." She shivered at the memory. "It's alright," I whispered hugging her "I got you now." The sentimental moment was broken by the fog flowing down the stairs in its new shadow form.
"GO!" I yelled wanting to keep distance between us and the shadowy form. She promptly took off ripping open the basement door and storming down the stairs. I went into a stare down with the shadowy form, it now had lost most of its red color but made up for it in its glowing red eyes. "What do you want?" I shouted at it still glaring at the stupid thing "Power…" it hissed in a scratchy voice before coming at me with new drive. I ducked behind the couch before rolling to the right and following Iz down the stairs.
I didn't make it very far before the red thing came back, now in its fog form, and gathered around me engulfing me in what seemed like the deepest black. Within I heard "You are the one… creature" in a hiss before I saw images… they seemed to flash by each one more terrible that the last, war crimes, death, destruction. I felt what was left of my sanity slowly begin to slip as I began to scream… "Jay!" I heard Izzi call from what seemed like a million miles away. It's her I thought… she is the one I will fight for, memories began to pop up, bringing her home form the hospital showing her off to my friends, the moments we shared, the lessons I taught her. "NO! not gonna die tonight, We're gonna stand and fight forever"oddly fitting for the moment a line from a song pops into my head and I focus on it, using it for strength. Ready to throw off the red beast I collected my thoughts into a spike and drove them into the red demon.
With a screech the darkness receded but not before I smashed into the thing's mind glimpsing some of the knowledge there and the sea of chaos, strangely enough there was a small island in the middle of it, I was violently shoved out. I shot up with a gasp, almost hitting my head on Izzi who was worriedly hovering over me, "What happened!?" I said looking for the fog or shadow, "It dispelled after hovering over you for a second, it engulfed you before your eyes lit up red, then you began to shudder and yell then you fell down the stairs. After that I yelled your name and your eyes started to glow a bright green before going out and you went limp." I shuddered after taking in all of this information, "Where did it go?" she just shook her head in response not knowing. I groaned and stood up "You think Mom and Dad would have heard us by now." I say with a sigh.
As soon as I say this a certain bright red fog pops out of a vent revealing where it had been hiding. "Oh come on!" and turned to continue running, seeing as how the weights area was the farthest from the slow moving cloud. I grab Izzi and take off toward the sweat stained area. When we get there we turn and look at the slow-moving cloud chasing us. I turn to Izzi and say "Get ready, use what you can find to avoid it." When it arrives we both start dodging and jumping to avoid it, we don't have much success or failure until I notice something else, the window facing the outside is glowing through its blinds… Unsure as to what that means I grab the string and pull it up on my next dodge by the fog.
I gasp surprised yet again on this friggin crazy night, because behind the blinds is a blue and pastel pink swirling portal. I turn to check on me attacker, Izzi is holding up well enough using the equipment to her advantage, I turn back to the portal still there and I faintly hear "You will have to make your choice." Great now I am stuck between a rock and a hard place, I weigh my options still dodging the tendrils of fog. Stay and face this thing with no way of stopping it or jump through the fancy portal unsure of what lies beyond. I turn and check on Iz again, she isn't doing as well and it looks like she is getting tired it is time to choose.
That is when everything went wrong. It started when Izzi tripped over the rack of weights, with a yelp she flopped down on the matted floor. Then I ran to her and pulled her to her feet now realizing the fog was almost on top of both of us I looked down at the tired little girl that had pulled from her bed at an ungodly hour of the night only to be attacked by a demonic fog and then being forced to run from that very same fog. With that I made my decision "Jump through the window!" I yelled at her and she did disappearing into the swirling vortex right before I followed her into the very same thing. There was a blinding flash of light… I heard "Good choice." And everything went black.
Hey what up, thanks for reading this chapter I haven't seen any comments on the last chapter as far as what the song title is, so I will up the deal if you guess the song from the last one and the song from this one you will get to add a character and will have some influence on a scene of your choice. Make your character something new I would like to add another race to my story so you have the pick of the characters and you can add anything except a Minotaur. Alright let's get into the post chapter talk! Thanks for reading and sorry that this one was a little shorter as I wanted to finish with them going through the portal so I did. Next chapter will be in two weeks and will see them in a new universe. Also if you like my story please give some feedback on how I am doing as I am unused to a silent audience, and I have a separate account for some of my darker stories it is named The Dark Bro, it deals with my M rated stories and they have some more dark themes such as death, sex and injury. But if it isn't your style I understand so I will see you in two weeks -TNB
Hey post story note, ERODE you know I can't ressist the puppy eyes... *sigh* fine I'll keep em comin' *wink*