The Cult Of Seven Devils

Chapter 6: She's watching us from within them.

[ 8:50 pm June 20, 1989 ]

It was starting to become darker as we got deeper into the dense forest and I felt eyes watching me from within the trees it was like...someone was there...but...they weren't. Walking is still hard but I'm trying my best to stay strong and push on...for Dahlia.

The group continues on the search for Dahlia through the forest in hopes of finding her. You would've thought you would hear crickets or other night sounds but no the forest was silent and the only noise was the sound of their shoes breaking sticks and stepping on leaves. Everyone was quiet to not draw attention to themselves but in the distance, there was a sound. Everyone stopped when they heard it. It was the sound of sirens but they seemed far away, far enough for them to continue. "Don't you hear that? Why are you moving?" Quinn asked Ali. "It's not even close to us because the sound of the sirens is far away, they seem distant," Ali replied.  "Hm, alright," Quinn says with a worried look. "Besides, based on the map there is a river ahead called...Swan River? Maybe we can search there for something?" Itsuki says. "I doubt there will be anything there but sure let's continue before something does come," Ali says rubbing his neck worried. They continued ahead but the forest was so empty and dead beside the old shoes and other items they passed by along the faded trail. After minutes of walking the next danger lay ahead but they didn't seem to notice until they heard the music play. The sound of old 30s/40s music played next to an old abandoned playground. Ali turned his attention to the place where the music was coming from and his face turned pale when he saw a dark black cartoon-like cat with blood-red teeth, a gaping smile, and two white gloves it looked like a corrupted cartoon character as it extended his neck from behind the old slide while grinding its teeth. Ali stared at it as if it was controlling him. Everyone else was wondering why Ali was looking that way and what does he see. "Ali is everything alright-" Quinn says before looking over towards the playground and seeing this eldritch creature. "Wh- what do we do..." Ali says shaking in fear. "RUN!" Itsuki screams inraging the creature in the process, it lets out a huge growl and proceeds to run after them. The music became distorted scaring everyone as they ran. The thought of dying ran through everyone's mind with the hope of getting away but that seemed slim as this thing was fast and wasn't giving up. The river was up ahead with an old broken wooden bridge leading to the other side while fast rapids ran upstream. "The river is ahead!" Ali yelled. Everyone continued to run as the sound of the distorted 30s music got closer to them. Itsuki looked back to see this weird creature but he wished he never did...the cat...wasn't a cat anymore. It had 6 bloodshot eyes that stretched across its face with sharp human-like teeth grinding against each other as it got closer stretching out its arms, they moved like a cartoon character. He looked back. "It's gaining on us!" he screamed.

They finally reached the old bridge but it was missing parts to it as more fell into the raging waters below. They looked back to see the thing grinning as it got closer. Ali was shocked and had a plan but one of them might die and he didn't want to risk it all though. "Ok, so we're gonna have to do this quick. The bridge is unstable and if we make one wrong move we'll fall into the river so we're gonna have to go one at a time," he says. "ARE YOU CRAZY?! WE'RE GONNA DIE EITHER WAY!" Itsuki screams. There wasn't much time left, the thing was getting closer and closer and closer... Ali was stressed and just decided to run for it. "WE DON'T HAVE TIME TO DISCUSS!" he says running onto the bridge. "ALI!" Quinn screams. Ali makes a few steps onto the bridge and it becomes unstable and starts to shake causing multiple parts of the bridge to fall into the raging waters below.  Ali carefully took steps across the bridge but on the other end, terror was happening as a scream was heard. It was Itsuki as the monster tried to grab him from behind causing him to fall to the ground. Sakka jumped in front of the fallen Itsuki pulling out his gun. "Get the fuck back you piece of shit!" The cat stepped forward with its smile becoming wider. Sakka tried to shoot but he had forgotten he ran out of bullets while shooting at the siren creature. Sakka looked at the gun and then slowly looked up at the creature which was a few inches away from him. It grabbed the gun crushing it in the process. Sakka backed up and the demon cat walked forward laughing and deep evil maniacal laugh.

From the other side was a yell from Ali. "Guys!" he screamed. "I made it, hurry!" The cat let out a deep scream while blood ran down its mouth. They all found that an opportunity to run across not even thinking about how unstable the bridge is. "Don't run across at once!" Ali yelled. "We have no choice! Do you want us to die?!" Sakka shouts. Ali looks down. "Goddammit..." he says thinking about if the bridge falls, suddenly a mysterious person walks passed Ali frightening him and causing him to jolt back. The person walked towards the bridge and stood at the end. Ali pulled out his gun and yelled "Who the hell are you!" The person was wearing a hoodie and it looked to be a female. They turned around towards Ali with a sharp glance with only one eye being visible from the moonlight. Ali looked flustered and slowly pointed the gun down. The person then turned back towards the bridge and pulled out a knife. Itsuki saw the knife as they ran across the old bridge with the monster trailing behind. "Who- who the fuck is that?! And what are they doing!" He yelled. Suddenly their voice could be heard. "Hurry run across!" the person said which sounded like a sweet female voice. They all reached the end and ran off the bridge while the cat was still running across. The lady took the knife and cut the ropes off the bridge causing the bridge to fall into the river and the cat with it got swept away with the debris down the rapids. The lady stood up while everyone was looking at her. "You're safe now..." she says with her back turned. "Yea but...who are you?" Quinn asks. She turns around and takes off her hoodie revealing her face. "My name...is Sophie."