Dusk

Chapter 19

I wake up. I'm laying in a bed still on the ship. I get up and walk down the hallway up to the cockpit. When I get there, no one's there and yet the ship is still flying. This must be a dream. I turn around and I see my father standing there. "Hello son." He says in one tone. "Father." I reply "What do you want from me now?" I ask him. "Isn't it obvious?" I look at him confused and slightly worried. "You haven't caught on yet have you?" He's silent, but then he finally says "You'll see soon enough." "Then why did you bring me here?" "I thought you were smart enough to figure out my plan. Obviously not." He pulls out a gun and shoots me.

I wake up with a fading pain to where he shot me. What did he mean by 'I'll see soon enough.' I get up and walk into the cockpit. Kota and Jacob are sitting in the pilots seats. "Hey. Your awake finally, you lazy bum." Jacob says "Shut up. I'm guessing she knows who you are now, right?" "Yeah I filled her in about everything." "Ok good. I need to talk to you for a second...Alone." Jacob looks at me confused at first then gets up and walks with me to the back. I shut the cockpit door. "What's wrong?" "I've been having these dreams, but there not exactly dreams. My father communicates with me through them. He mainly just tells me how worthless I am in them though. Besides the point. He said that I was missing something. He was surprised I haven't caught on to it. Do you know what he was talking about?" "Hmm. I'm not sure. Maybe it's has to do with all of them trying to kill you. I wonder." "What?" "I wonder of they put something into all of your friends to make them hate you. Like when they put that device into your head that made you have nightmares except it's makes them think there in a dream, when there not." "Then we need to hurry before they wake up."

I rush over into the cockpit. "How much longer?" "Well by the coordinates you gave me. Not much longer. Maybe like ten minutes." "Make it five. If they wake up while there still in here. It won't be pretty." I walk out and into where they're at. Jacob walks back into the cockpit. I look over to the corner of the ship and I see my backpack. How'd it get here? I wonder if Jacob grabbed it. I walk over to it and get low to the ground and open it. I reach my hand in and I grab the gun I left there awhile back. I can't believe how long it's been since then. The person I was. I can't even remember. I pull the gun out and hold it for a second. Right then I feel a hand on my shoulder. "Oh hey Jacob. Are we close?" I turn to look to see who it is and it's Neon. "I don't know. How about we get a better look. He starts dragging me to the end of the ship. He's walking to the key pad to open the doors! I grab his arm and swing his entire body over me and to the floor of the ship. Making turbulence. I see Jacob come rushing in. "Jacob?" Neon says as he starts standing up. "Nick." "It's been awhile." "Talk about a couple years." He looks back at me and charges. "Whoa! Nick! Stop!" He grabs my neck and pins me to the wall. I try and stop him but his energy is back up. His eyes glowing brighter. A hint of red in them though. I can't breathe. Right before the room starts getting dark, Jacob throws Nick to the ground. "Now both of you stop!" "Me?" I say. "It takes two to fight." "He deserves to die. I have to Jacob. It's the only way." "Only way to do what?" "To survive." He comes rushing towards us. He pushes Jacob out of the way and heads straight for me. I move before his fist hits my head. It goes into the wall of the ship. I see Jacob looking for the tranquilizer guns. I need to distract him. Maybe I can knock him out. I run as fast as I can over to him and Jump and slam him to the ground. I start punching him with all I have. It doesn't feel right doing it though. He gets his hands free pushes me away. I slam into the wall. I see him get up and start walking over to me. I'm really dizzy for some reason, but I can't stop. He grabs my collar and picks me up and throws me to the doors. He walks over to the key pad and presses the access code. The alarm sounds and the doors starts to open. I look behind me and I can't see the ground. I get up and he starts running towards me. He grabs me before I can do anything. He slams me to the ground and drags me back to the edge. I hear a gun fire. I look behind him and Jacob found the tranquilizer gun. He keeps shooting him. With every shot he gets angrier but slower. He pushes my head to the edge of the ship and all I see is space between me and and the ground. His strength is somehow higher as he starts getting slower. "I'm sorry Parker." "Don't do this Neon. Please!" Right then he pushes me off the edge. I see him getting smaller as I fall faster. He finally falls to the ground and the doors start to shut. I try turning on the gravity boots but Neon damaged them. This is it.....