Extraordinary Minds: Road to Hell

Chapter 23: Deranged Thoughts

Falling asleep in his bed after a long day, Akira drifted off into his little world of dreams and unfortunately..

Something hit again. Another..Nightmare.

Weren't these over..or was there something more here?

Akira found himself waking up in a void of sorts. Emptiness, and silence. Until he heard a voice...

"You...You promised you'd keep us all safe."

"Huh. Seems you've gotten 2 more people killed. What a great little brother I have, huh?"

"Did you even think about what family I had back home?! Does none of that matter to you?! Not like you'd know family anyways, Orphan."

"And you always will be."

...Why was this happening. All of his dead friends so far, speaking to him and yet...Akira just kept repeating to himself vaguely.

"It's just your guilt..it's nothing more..just..just don't think about it."

As he thought this..Manifestations of Hiroshi and Junpei appeared again, the same way they did in his last nightmare but now..now this time. Seiichi was there, and was burned all over with pieces of his flesh peeling off..and a wide gash in his neck, with little spines sticking out, and a green goo around the gash.

While Ayaka...Ayaka looked horrific. Her eyes sunken in and slightly rolled back, and her skin a pale color after looking like all her blood was drained.

"You should've been the one to die instead of Junpei.."

"Why did you let me die? I did something good for you, and this..this is how you..you pay me back?"

"I'm sorry, I-" Akira struggled to find the right words, as he began trembling. "I..I'm sorry I wasn't able to-"

"Able to save us?" The 4 figures said together before..they suddenly became Akira. They began to speak one at a time

"Face it. We're idiotic."

"We're nothing.."

"What's the point of living anymore?"

"We let everyone down..Just like we always do."

Their chanting continued, as Akira could feel himself crumbling, grabbing his head in pain from the sheer intensity of stabbing pain repeatedly bombarding his brain.

"ITS NOT..TRUE...ITS NOT TRUE!"

The 4 Akira lookalikes..Their right eye began to glow. A Green. A green color.

"What..What is this?!"

Akira was stuttering with questions, as one of them spoke.

"No worries. After all, youll remember very soon.."

That's when it happened. A nerve struck within Akiras brain. A stinging growing pain that worsened and worsened, as he kept screaming. Trying to somehow shut out the feeling of the pain.

Until he awoke with a loud scream. Panting repeatedly, and trying to catch his breath. Snapping up, he looked around in panic and realized he was awake, taking a deep breath and laying back down.

It had taken Akira a moment to realize that he was burning up, and even sweating badly.

"Why am I so warm?" Akira asked himself. Before flashes of Seiichis corpse hit his brain, as Akira gasped and shook himself awake.

Before he heard a knock at his door.

"Ah! C-Coming!" Akira shouted, as he ran to the door best he could and opened it to see Barisuta was there.