INFERNO: The Fiery Inception

CHAPTER 19

I was getting up when I heard a loud growl and I knew it was too late to run for Alex. Fear gripped my heart

'You can do this Charlie, you trained for this'  I thought to myself trying to gain some confidence to face the creature that was after me.

I turned to see the foulest looking creature looking at me from the far end of the corridor, it started walking towards me, the walk slowly turning into a run. I grabbed the dagger from my shoes. Benjamin was with me, he might have warrior roots, but he is not a warrior, I can not expect him to help me fight this creature. Not seeing any other way, I charged at the creature. Its whole skin seemed to have burned away and what was left of it wasn't a pretty sight.

It's stench hit me as I neared it, making me want to throw up, burning the hair inside my nose and making my eyes water at the same time. It destroyed everything that was in its way. Smashing tables and benches that was kept outside for cleaning, splinters of wood flying around. When I was close enough I angled my dagger's blade so that it would stab the monster. I missed at my first try but I took an extra step so that I was behind it. Then it turned swinging it's arm which I dodged and stabbed it while getting up. When I stabbed it, it started changing its form until it was August.

'that's impossible' the logical side of me yelled at me but there was something to it that made me believe it was August. He was coughing up blood, blood dribbling down his chin as his face contorted in pain and for a moment my blood ran cold. He dropped to his knees clutching his stomach were i had stabbed him, I started trembling but got on my knees, sobbing to take out the dagger, I was fumbling with the hilt of the dagger but finally I took out the dagger from him

"What have you done?" he whispered, I continued sobbing, what have I done? I pressed his wound reduce the blood loss and turned to see a terrified Benjamin, who was rooted were he stood. He shook his head

"Charlie, get away from him" he shouted and I furrowed my eyebrows in confusion. What?

I turned back to see August smirking with a foreign evil glint in his eyes and before I could register what was happening and why he was looking at me like that, he pulled me by my hair and hit my head to the wall, my head throbbed and I grunted in pain, I held my head tighty from the pain, and I was pulled back, I tried to claw his hand away from my hair. And I howled at the sudden pain in my ribs, he had kicked me on my ribcage and I was sure a few ribs were broken.

Then he threw me to the floor as if I were a rag doll and weighed nothing. I hit my head again making the pain intensify. The next words he said hurt me more than anything,

"I despise you Charlie; I hate you for not letting me have what's mine" He said. He stopped talking and watched me as I stilled. Watching me as I got hurt by his words more than by what he had done. Smirking while I laid there with tears dripping down my face

"I should have been the heir, if you weren't born on the first place I would have the one everyone respects." my breath hitched.

"No" I whispered, the tears blurring my vision.

"You killed her Charlie, you killed aunt Marie" he was now closer he was taunting me, I knew it but couldn't deny him it was working, I wanted to curl up and die, I didn't ask to be the heir, I never wanted to take that away from him. He kicked me again and I screamed.

"You're going to kill everyone whose close to you, you will be their doom and before that happens I will help them. I will stop that from ever happening, I will end-" his words were left incomplete as someone tackled him from the side and stabbed his neck, killing him, blood pooled around him and the killer. My breathing became hollow and unshed tears pooled in my eyes. The killer turned and it was Benjamin he had picked the dagger which I had thrown after I had pulled it out of August. I couldn't talk; my voice wouldn't work the only thing I could hear was my own breaths.