I’m back here again? Sigh, this is the third time this day.
I walk around the place which got even darker and extended infinitely as far as the eye can see. I had no aim to go anywhere, just my feet were taking me wherever they wanted to take me. Something is weird about this place though.
"Ethan? Ethan," I shouted the name of the first. "Weird, he is not here."
Looks like he will not appear today. I didn’t really expect this to happen. Before he would always appear whenever I would call him out on command but this time, nothing really happened. Well, I have some time on my own to think and recompose myself.
"This is quite the situation I am being put in now," I muttered to myself and feeling a bit tired, summoned a chair and sat down. I stared into literal nothingness while thinking about all the recent events that are happening in my life. Father, Dominic finally showed himself and I have to say, he is a real threat we are facing. Unlike any other that we have encountered before. Dominic felt leagues above any other vampire we fought against. It is truly terrifying that he went as far as to do something to Natsumi-san. Of course, she didn’t get hurt but even for someone who had seen her fight a few times. This was something I was really shocked about. I never expected Natsumi-san to have any trouble while fighting a vampire.
And the vision he showed me, of Yuna. How did he even know about her? This shouldn’t be something that should be possible. Even so, that dream that he showed me, that felt too real to be a dream. I felt everything back then. Those emotions, those feelings. The touch I felt on my skin. It all felt too real to be a dream.
Honestly, I am conflicted.
One part of me wants Yuna to be still alive so that I can see her again. My own sister. But that also means that she is possibly a vampire. That’s something I cannot come to terms with. That’s why she should be dead as I remember her to be. Nothing should change that. Ever.
Let the dead rest in peace for the love of god.
I held my head as I felt it ache and the place around me started to shape-shift. What looked like infinite darkness, had a wall that moved closer to me. The more time passed, the closer that wall got to me. I got off my chair and stood up completely unfazed by the thing right before me. I extended my hand as if my body knew what was going on and the wall got dangerously close.
I looked behind me and the same thing was approaching me. Do they want to crush me? Is that it?
Swoosh.
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Bam.
The walls passed right through me and collided with each other and started moving the other way. I just stared at the two walls and sat down on my chair and then I got back to my sense.
"Wait, what was that?" I said to myself staring at the walls and then looking at myself. Wait, even me. I can’t see myself. What is going on? "Huh? Where am I?"
I looked around the place again and saw my body turn pitch black too completely camouflaging me in the entire place. "The walls…seriously what on earth is going on?"
Being a bit concerned, I sat down and this time, moved the chair in place not knowing where I was going again. It just felt right at the moment to not stay in the same place as I was. I wanted to go away. I wanted to go far, as far as I can go.
This is my mindscape but for once, I was not having complete control of what was going on in this place. Those walls, my body going pitch black and for once, me not having control over my thoughts.
"Since I am here, I want to try out something," I said and closed my eyes and then opened them.
The place transformed, into something different, something way more familiar to a place in my memories. The memories I had buried deep in my mind.
"You are not supposed to be here," said the man who grabbed me by the collar and pulled me in the air. I looked and saw bright red eyes. I didn’t know that before but what looked like a monster to me was a vampire who had me in his clutches.
"Wh- "
Whack
Thud
Before I could say anything, the vampire hit my neck knocking me unconscious and I fell to the ground. The last thing I saw was the other boys who were also held in the air, one in each hand. They all were struggling amongst themselves and I could see the eyes of the predators behind them ready to kill and eat them.
Right now, everything was playing out like a movie on a screen and I stood on the other side just looking at it from the view of an observer being part of the audience. I couldn’t do anything to stop them.
When I was finally brought back to my consciousness, I found myself being tied up in an abandoned warehouse, as were the other boys too. We all struggled in our places trying to get out of there. We were scared, for our lives. Everyone in the group was thinking one thing, it was the worst idea ever to venture out here.
"Guys, guys!" I shouted getting the attention of everyone. "How did we get here?"
"I don’t know, someone grabbed me and knocked me. The last thing I saw was you on the ground not moving at all. I thought you were dead," said the boy with the map.
"Idiot, why did you have to run into this place?!" shouted a boy at the boy with the map.
"Yes, you should’ve listened to us and not gone in here," the other said.
"It’s your fault that we all are here in the first place."
"We should have never listened to you."
"It’s all your f- "
Our little blaming game was cut short by the voice of the door being slammed open and five figures entered the room altogether. They all were grown men in their thirties who glared right at us. Chills went down each of our spines as we saw them.
"Why are you doing this?" I asked them with gathering as much courage as I can.
Hearing my question, they let out a little chuckle, and then…they started laughing maniacally.
"AHAHAHAHAHA!"
Their voices were sending chills down our spines as they traveled through our ears to our brains which were processing them. We didn’t know what was even going on at this point nor did we want to. All we wanted to do was to get out of there. To get out of the clutches of these people.
"Oh, don’t be scared now," one of them said walking towards us. "All we want to do right now is talk to you."
Slowly and steadily, they were getting closer to all of us tied up on the ground who just looked at them in fear. We had no idea what was going on and why this was happening and all we wanted to do was just get out of there.
"Let us go!" one of the boys shouted and the man stopped for a second and smiled like a demon.
"You’re right actually," the man said and then looked at his buddies before looking back at us. "We should let you go. Actually, we should let all seven of you go."
"Let’s go!"
"Yes!"
"We are free!"
Everyone started shouting and celebrating not understanding the entire sentence at the moment. But soon, I realized something was off.
"Seven? Aren’t there eight of us?" I said and the cheering stopped. The look of cheer turned into the look of fear on their face and they started shivering in fear.
"Hahaha, now aren’t you a smart kid," the man said while ruffling my hair. His hand was so strong that it rattled my brain the gesture and strained my neck due to the sheer force that was applied to my head. "Yes, one of you has to stay back here with us and we will let all the other seven go and enjoy their freedom. What happens to those seven won’t have anything to do with us."
His proposal though sounding like pure bliss was also horrifying. Having seven of us escape meant that one of us had to be left behind and we had no idea what they would do with the boy who would be left behind. Our eyes widened with the realization and we looked at each other.
It was cruel honestly; kids shouldn’t be asked to make such decisions but here we were in this situation. We had to choose and choose quickly.
"This is where everything went downhill for my life," I muttered.
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