The Years After (IT Chapter Two fanfic)(Sequel to Summer of '89)

13.

The friends climbed their way down the rocky pathway into the underground. They had to squeeze their way through a small crack in the rocks and they went to a big rocky area. In the middle came out spikes. They walked to the center and passed by the spikes to get in the circle of them.

They stood in a circle amongst themselves as Mike placed the cubed artifact in the center of all of them.

"It can only be defeated by its true form" Mike told everyone.

"W-What's its true form?" Bill asked him.

"I hope it's a puppy, pomeranian" Richie said. 

"Darkness has to be defeated by light" Mike said. He opened the top of the artifact and lit a fire in it. They all pulled out their objects they collected.

"This is the boat I built with G-Georgie" Bill said as he threw the paper boat into the fire.

"My inhaler" Eddie said. He took one last breath from it and threw it in.

"Something I wish I held on to" Beverly said as she put in a poem on a postcard.

"A page from my yearbook, and only one person signed it. I kept it my whole life" Ben said pulling a paper out of his wallet.

"A picture of my family, one that wasn't great but, at least now I'm with my real family" Charlie said looking at everyone. They gave small smiles to her as she threw the picture into the fire.

"Token from the arcade" Richie threw a coin in.

"You have any idea how long that's gonna burn?" Eddie said.

"Yeah man, so will your inhaler all those fumes and shit" Richie said.

Mike held up a rock that had red on it, "From the rock fight"

"That's not gonna burn either" Eddie said as he threw it in the fire.

"Oh wait. We can't forget about Stan" Eddie said. He took out a shower cap from his pocket and threw it in the fire along with everyone else's objects.

"Grab hands" Mike told them. They each grabbed the hand of the person next to them. Charlie grabbed Richies and Mikes.

"This is the final step. Lights turn off and dead lights come overhead" he said.

Then, three big bright lights started coming ahead of them and started heading to them. The deadlights.

"Don't look at them, don't look at them!" Mike ordered everyone. Charlie looked over at him and closed her eyes. So did everyone else.

"Turn light into dark. Turn light into dark, say it!" Mike said.

"Turn light into dark"

"Turn light into dark"

Everyone said. They felt the lights getting closer to them and the wind whooshed into their faces from the huge sparks of the lights. Mike then started chanting in some language as they kept saying, 'turn light into dark'.

The lights were very loud from hitting each other and the lighting hitting amongst them were zapping loudly. They were so bright, they even saw a bright blue through their eyelids.

"Turn light into dark!" Charlie yelled. She was being moved around by the wind as she gripped the guys hands. They felt the lights stop zapping. Mike let go of Charlie's hand and he put the lid back on top of the cube.

"Is it working did we do it?" Charlie said.

She still had her eyes closed but when Mike didn't answer, she opened her eyes. Her eyes adjusted to the darkness as she saw Mike holding the top on the artifact. But something was stopping him from closing it. A red bubble was coming out from the box. It was the red balloon that was haunting everyone.