Layers.
This is the Zerstörung Layer.
Layer 7: Zerstörung
by
Hatoralo or Ralte
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There was something worse.
Lana dug with her own hands with absolute intensity. She felt they were close and came closer with every scoop. She thought that she was smelling Charles familiar smell, one she took for granted but not anymore. She was aware it would be the last time for a long while that she was able to took that smell in after this was over but it would allow Charles to go to heaven and with some work put into it Lana would go there one day as well. Hopefully Lola too.
"Are you scared?"
Lana, scared, jumped back. Lucy's ability to jumpscare people was right now more unwelcome than ever. Lucy at least looked like always and not like a demon from hell.
"You scared me, but that is normal, Luce."
"Are you scared of anything else, Lana?"
Lana nodded. "Yes, I am scared of hell."
"I am scared too," admitted Lucy. "But not of hell itself but what it could look like. No, I fear what I don't know if I could be in hell already. Or if you are in hell already. Or if I am in hell already."
"I…" Lana gulped. "I think we are already in hell or at least very near to hell. I can feel it. It feels so terrible but I also feel Charles. He is nearby Lucy, Charles is very close." Lana was shivering. "Will he recognize us? Will he know that we are Lana and Lucy? Will he still remember his life on earth, his home in Royal Woods? Will he remember that he was alive? Will he know anything?"
Lucy looked down the hole they were digging. It was deep by now, very, very deep. She was unable to see the bottom anymore, only darkness, a darkness that made it impossible to see anything else, a darkness that was not only deep but like an abyss. She expected it to stare back eventually, that two eyes would suddenly appear in this abyss.
Yet there was nothing. No speck of anything, no shapes of objects, no hints of live, no hints of dead, no ideas of existence, no ideas of death, no Devil, no God.
Nothing aside from the Darkness who seemingly tried to climb out of that hole.
The Darkness was moving. The Darkness was moving up. It moved up the walls. It was a desperate movement, a Movement of fear, a Movement of Terror and a Movement of flight.
Lucy stepped back. The abyss was not looking back it was fleeing! From what, wondered Lucy. But a second later she decided what she didn't want to know.
She never wanted to know.
"Luce?"
Lucy whirled around, ready to defend herself. She froze instead from what she was seeing.
Lori heard the crash. She heard another crash. The next crash was louder. The next crash was a lot louder. Lori didn't know what was crashing there. Another crash, louder. Louder and louder. Louder even than she was used too. Louder than any of her Siblings. Louder than any other noise she ever heard. And it only got louder.
"What is going on?"
The oldest Loud sibling was in her room and was cleaning her golf clubs. She didn't expect anything out of the ordinary today, especially nothing THAT loud. She had the desire to check on this commotion but was also scared of the idea. She knew none of her siblings was able to be loud on such a level and she wondered and feared figuring out what or who could be able to be that noisy.
"I better look if the family is well."
Lori went up from her bed and made her way to the door. Another crash was heard by her. Lori stopped for a short Moment. She was unable to say what these sounds exactly sounded like. It was familiar but not exactly like any crashing she knew. It was a crashing that sounded like a elephant was crashing into a train but the elephant made no noises, no scream, no hooting, no tearing flesh, no bending steel, no kinetic sounds, no sounds of breaking bones, no sound of sudden stop and no long silence afterwards.
Lori was scared but she needed to know what or who was making this noise. They wouldn't stop on their own anyway.
"Okay, I check on Luna and Luan first, they are closest to mine and Leni's room."
Lori took a deep breath and opened the door. An indescribable noise came towards her a second later, a noise she never heard before and never wanted too now that she heard it. It was the sound of utter destruction and it was this she saw on the other side what made her regret her choice.
"Wha…. What? Oh my god!"
Destruction.
Nothing was in one piece anymore.
Nothing was intact.
Nothing worked anymore.
Everything was in some way or another damaged beyond repair.
Lori knew that this house could be a mess but this was not just a mess anymore, it was utter annihilation out there. It was so bad she forgot the noise.
"Guys?"
Lori stepped outside of her room, careful not to step on anything in fear she could break through it and fall to her demise. She was in utter shock about the status of her home. Turning back to the room she was sharing with Leni she shouted in horror.
"Wha- WHAAAAAAAAAAAAT?!"
The room was destroyed. Somehow, the room was suddenly beyond repair since the few seconds of Lori leaving it. Instead, there was now a broken room full of rubble and debris, everything Lori owned in that room was either missing or destroyed. The same was the case for Leni's belongings. All destroyed and under rubble.
"L… Le- Leni will not like that."
Lori knew these words weren't the most fitting but she had no other words right now. She was otherwise speechless, how could she describe this, this scene that was before her eyes was still impossible in her mind.
"I need to find the others," decided Lori eventually. "Immediately. GUYS?"
Lori shouted into the destruction, shouted for her family, shouted for all the people she loved, shouted for all she knew, shouted in hope, shouted in desperation, shouted for anyone and shouted in fear.
"LENI! LANA! LINCOLN! LUNA! LILY! LISA! LUCY! LOLA! LYNN! LUAN! MOM! DAD! WALT! CLIFF! CHARLES! GEO! LANA'S PETS! ARE YOU THERE?! ANSWER ME!"
But nobody answered her.
"Don't freak out until you find corpses," said Lori to herself. "Don't freak out, the house might be destroyed but the Loud family is still alive. Don't freak out, every object we have is replaceable."
Lori made a step forward and started the search for her family. She walked down the stairs, very carefully as not to risk the floor giving in under her. The steps creaked like mad and sounded like they would burst apart any second now.
"I will find you guys."
Arriving on the floor she went to the main door and opened it.
Nothing but destruction on the other side, it was like the apocalypse had begun.
Lori made nervously a step outside and the ground under her exploded, tearing her apart before she was able to realize it. The explosion made the same noise that made her leave her room in the first place.
Lucy had enough.
"I saw how Lori was vaporized."
"Me too," admitted Lana. "These visions only get worse and worse."
"We are almost there," told Lucy Lana. "Let us power through. Nothing of this is real, our family is safe."
Lana looked over to the house. It looked normal like always but it also had a sinister aura around but a subtle one. Something foreign and unknown.
"For Charles!" shouted Lana and dug harder than before.
Lucy observed Lana for a Moment before continuing to dig herself, ignoring every piece of a corpse or skeleton she dug up.
"For Charles."
Layer 7: Zerstörung has ended. 1 more layer awaits our two heroines.
Du wirst für immer schlafen.