Chapter 6, Darkness falls
I was falling, then running, then flying. I was doing everything except from stopping. I didn’t pause for a break. I’m flicking through the past, I see everything but… it’s not mine. Everyone I know has their past here but… I’m the only one without one. Who am I really, what am I. I see everyone, I see their pain, their triumph. I don’t see… me. Flicking through the past is like skimming a book, it’s a faster way of finding things that reading the whole thing. But when you skim, you don’t always find what you’re looking for.
“Where the fuck am I, what the fuck’s going on, I… I don’t fucking understand”. I see a light in the distance. Everyone always says don’t go to the light, but if I want to know everything… I’ve got to go through. As I get closer and closer, the light starts taking shape. The shape of… a woman. The shape of… mother. I started to run, I kept running until I could make out all details of my mother. “Mum… is that really you..?” She opened her arms, ready for a hug. I ran up to her, hugging her back. To find it was just an illusion. “What’s happening to me!”. I was crying, yelling, screaming. Calling out everyone’s names… but no one came for me. I fell to my knees. I toppled to the ground. It felt like a heavy slab of all my past failures was pinning me down, crushing my body into dust.
I looked up, there were… bubbles. I was… sinking. I woke up finally, I could barely breath. I could barely move. I tried to sit up but fell back down. It felt as if i’d been crammed into a box. I pushed up as hard as I could. It opened… and tonnes of water came gushing in, like a deep wound. When the box had filled, I swam. I swam and swam until my head broke the surface of the water. I screamed for help, a faint light shimmered in the distance. I wasn’t demon anymore, so I couldn’t just fly towards it. The light got brighter, or was it just me. I was getting more and more drowsy, but I stayed up on the surface.
The light was followed by a boat, a small wooden one. I saw Ani, EJ and… Masky. “Help, help me, please!” They all turned in my direction, they had surprised expresions on their faces. I was pulled onto the boat and given a blanket. I drooped my ears down, even with friends beside me, I didn’t feel safe. “Zalgo’s still out there, he wouldn’t give up that easily, I want to go after him” Everyone looked at me as if I had just signed my death warranty. I guess I kinda did, saying I want to go after father is suicide, but someone has to. “Kathrin, I don’t think you realise,” Masky looked serious, but he sounded quite scared “, Zalgo’s back in hell, he’s left the world in the dark and he’s baying for blood.” I don’t care. I’m not scared of the dark and I’m not scared of death. Yeah, I sayed it. “Death can kiss my ass, it’s my fault the worlds in darkness and I need to fix that.” I looked up, everyone had a look on thier faces, it’s that kinda look that means, let’s do this.
We got back to the slender mansion, it was… empty. “Yeah… everyone else is missing, or out looking for the others.” That’s . just . fucking . perfect. We need to somehow kill an evil demon, who is the brother of Satan, with four proxies. Welp, we’re gonna die, unles… “I can try summon Evilyn, as a separate person, I just need to pop out for a sec.” I went out, killed a human, took their heart and went back. When I got back, there were more people. I saw Jeff, Jane and Hoodie, thank god they’re alive. “I need a mirror, and a black sheet of fabric to cover it.” Jeff wheeled in a mirror and Jane got some sorrt of black fabric “When old dresses don’t fit, they can never go to waste.” Once again, I slice open my arm and draw a pentagram around the heart. It glowwed a dark blue instead. The cloth was pulled into the mirror, and out stepped Evilyn. Her wavey red hair tumbled down in thick locks. Desperately trying to hide herself behind the cloth, her pale body, unclothed. I pulled of my jumper and threw it to her. Since she was a few centimetres shorter than me, it fit her like a dress. “Umm… Why’s it wet, you haven’t done anything stupid have you?” I went red, then started laughing.
Evilyn looked at me as if I was insane. I spoke up, “if you count picking a fight against father and almost drowning normal, then no, if you think it’s stupid, then yes.”