50 Reasons Why I'm Not Gay

-Varian-

Varian's POV:

"I said, WHERE ARE MY FRIENDS?", I demanded angrily, bringing out another vial and holding it threateningly, "ANSWER ME!!"

My heart beat uncontrollably as I tried to cling onto what Hugo had said, to not falling back into that trapped void of hate and hopelessness as I stared down the guy who had been cryptic and strange.

Was this rage going to get me trapped in whatever that awful place was? Get me crazy again to acting completely unlike myself? To be willing to hurt my friends... the people I cared about verbally and physically?

Pain seized my heart as I thought about what I had said and done to them... the hurt flashing in their eyes...

I clenched the glowing vials in my hands as I took a step toward him... Somehow, deep inside me, I knew it wouldn't lose control with this rage.

This anger, this rage was justified. It was from love and care.
Not from jealousy or self doubts.
This was for my friends... my friends who I cared about more then anything and would protect to any lengths.

This man... he had somehow done something to me. He had made me a horrible person who had walked away from them and now he was trying to kill us all.

I couldn't let that stand. Go unpunished.

I couldn't let him kill my friends.

AND I WOULDN'T LET HIM HURT US ANYMORE.

I relished the anger running through my veins, this time it's heat filling me with light instead of the deep void that had overtaken me before.

"WHERE ARE THEY?!", I demanded once more as he boldly walked towards us, ignoring my question as his face looked at me passively.

I gritted my teeth as I heard Hugo brace his feet into the ground, his hand tightening around the handle of his dagger, "Tch... who does this bastard think he is?", Hugo muttered.

Both of us glanced at each other for just a moment as he came closer, both of us giving off a silent signal.

The man then stopped as he saw us look at each other, but resumed his walk towards us, only about ten feet away as if it didn't bother him.

We both then rushed him, the man watching us calmly as I threw my vials at his face and chest as Hugo then tried to drive the dagger into him.

I watched in curious horror as he dodged my vials, the fog swallowing him right as Hugo attempted his move.

I then felt the cloudy heavy mist move and swirl around, the slight chill as suspicion washed over me with dread.

Hugo then spun, his jaw clenched as he sprinted towards me and screamed, tackling something behind me.

I jerked around in surprise, my face white as I watched the man fall under his weight and the dagger plunged into his chest, yellow blood spraying out before it sucked in the shiny sharp blade.

The man turned to look at Hugo, his eyes now visible and filled with red lines, wide and tormenting.

"AGHHHH!!!", Hugo screamed his voice raw with terror, backing away his own face drained of color as the man shot up, his facial features still hidden and obscure. "WHAT THE FUCKING HELL ARE YOU?!"

He stumbled away, bumping into me before trying to regain himself, his breathing fast and hard.

Fear filled me and was only increased as I watched Hugo freak out about the guy.

I could stare in horror at the stranger's chest, the thick viscous liquid flowing out of the slowly closing wound as he stood up seemingly unaffected.

I could barely hear anything except my own panicked breathing and the loud beating of my heart, my rage forgotten as I could only watch the creature walk towards us again.

This... this thing wasn't right...

I couldn't think. Couldn't speak.

I backed up shakily as he approached me, his face only a few inches apart from mine, yet somehow still void of any defining features.

Hugo suddenly pulled me behind him, his arm trembling as he stared up into its eyes, the only thing visible in the man's face.
"S-stay away.", he breathed, "And don't you fuckin' dare make him go crazy again.", he pointed his second and last dagger into its face, "Fuck off."

I realized I was trembling now, looking between him and inhuman man.

I couldn't let him put himself in danger like that... I had to be able to be brave. Like Hugo was doing now.
To save us.
Save Nuru and Yong...

My desire to help, to save my friends... pushed me enough to move as I looked at the creature's face.

I then quickly grabbed the staff from the pack over Hugo's shoulder, my hand guiding me to it as I released the mechanism to make it expand to full length.

Stepping in front of Hugo I wielded it, holding it out like a weapon, ready to bash the thing's head in or something.
Anything to survive and protect the ones I cared about-
But the glowing circles set in the headpiece seemed to be burning the man before I could even do anything, the light throwing the creature's face into sharp relief.

"Please...!", the man screamed out, falling to his knees as the light glowed brighter. "I can't move on without showing you where your friends are! Please!! The more people who die here the worse it'll get! You have to stop him, I'm not the one who's doing this!"

Hugo was staring at me in shock before he snapped out of it as he heard the man's pleas, "Yeah like right, you wanting to give us answers now and saying this isn't your fault, you had your damned chance motherfucker.", he spat, "Goggles keep frying him or whatever the hell you're doing."

I ignored him, pointing the staff closer to him, "What do you mean by that? Who's doing what and what are they trying to do?", I demanded anger pouring through me, "Where are my friends?!"

"The curse isn't my fault!! And the few other souls who try to warn you like I did, are trying to prevent you from falling into his trap!!", he screamed, "We're victims of the curse! We were all murdered one by one! And then when it became apparent we weren't safe, the souls of the ones who were killed helped lure people into suicide!", he cried out, his face dissolving.

"So you're a ghost?", Hugo asked accusingly, "A ghost trying to lure us into death?"

"No... no.. I'm n-not! A soul that's trying to kill you that is.
I am a ghost, yes... but I'm not the souls of the ones who are being used somehow to bring people to suicide."

I brought the staff away from him suddenly, my brain reeling as he collapsed, his arms bracing himself, "Is that why... why I was going to try... or wanting to kill myself?", I swallowed, "I thought about it...."

"Y-Yes... that's why.", he trembled, "I was trying to wake you up with a sacred fountain we have here... its waters free the mind from the curse and the stolen souls can't reach you; that's why I was asking you to come with me."

"Who's luring them... where do the victims go to do it?", I asked immediately hearing enough, "And if you can where's that fountain?"

Oh Great Demanitus... if what he all said was true...

Nuru and Yong might not be alive for us to find if we waited any longer...