Void Switch

Chapter 4: The Abandoned Building

[7:30 alarm goes off]

[distant Voice]

Its his aunt calling out for him to wake up. Rising out of bed quickly, he puts on a white t-shirt, with grey sweats and white sneakers, over the shirt a blue hooded light jacket. He runs to his door and grabs his headphones and heads down stairs. She hands him a letter from the Police department. He reads it quickly and nods his head.

"At least those involved get to take off from school for two weeks." he says

"Add that to the two months you were in the hospital." says the aunt

"Hey I am fine now, I am bruise free. By day two I was already healed up"

" Yeah sure" says the john chuckling

"You were finally healed when they knocked you out with a high dose of morphine haha. Shit had you on your ass for weeks."

"Shut up" Erich says laughing along lightly punching him on the shoulder.

"But remind me to see the detective later okay. I am going for a walk for a bit. Might as well put this last week off from school to good use."

"Alright baby, please be safe or I will fuck up this whole city to search for you" his aunt says exaggeratedly.

Erich laughing at his aunt, walks through the front door. He places his headset over his ears. Its slick blue tone that fades to a purple around the ear covers, LEDs waving rainbows vertically along the sides of the headset. Smooth electro tunes excite his brain. He closes his eyes and breaths in the warm air. Memories of an old abandoned building flashes in his mind. Opening his eyes, he looks to the distance and starts his journey. He walks in a neighborhood. A two headed wolf barks, a dealer makes a sale, cars zoom past on the oncoming and ongoing roads. A group of humans and evolved smoke in a circle. They look at the boy as he stops; to look up at the 10 story building.

"Hello old building, I see you have guests and more vines than normal it gives a nice touch." Erich says to himself.

He walks through a window that was already broken. Carefully he climbs inside. Roaches scurry from within the coach across the room. Erich flares his nose to the horrid smell of the room.

"Wow! Yeah you still smell the same, horrible."

Erich continues through the dark room, he stumbles over some of the clutter. A dark hand touches his shoulder. He turns around with shivers trailing down his spine.

"Can you not please, this place is already creepy, and I am already scared of the dark as it is"

"But you also found it slightly funny" the celestial gene replys

The boy chuckles to himself, admitting it was. He continues through the room. They walk through an open door into an endless dark hallway. They approach an open space with many pillars attached from the floor to the ceiling. Erich then thinks to himself. He points and hovers over the many pillars. He points at one on the far right, front row. Walking up to the elongated rectangular pillar, he places his hand on the middle of it. The part, falls in on itself, taking the shape of his right hand. A door outlines around the hand about five fett wide and six feet tall. He walks in looking around the inside. He pushes one of the dusty buttons covered in cobwebs. The Elevator makes a whirry sound. The elevator then drops slightly. He adjusts himself quickly.

"HA that wasn't so bad. I nearly thought this thing was going t..........."

The Elevator completely drops.

"CRRRRRAAAAAAA" His voice fading to nothingness

A loud crash is heard but as if it is really far away. The compartment holding him in it, is on its side. Debris is everywhere. The door opens and Erich is on his butt grabbing his knee in pain. He gets up, grabs his headphones, and limps out of the compartment. He looks into the dimly lit room by the compartment. He grabs his phone and notices he still has signal. He turns on his flash and finds a power switch. He turns it on and the rooms ceiling illuminates the entire room. The room is semi clean, little debris here and there, the ceiling with a few panels bent open. He smiles big and looks at the celestial gene.