Awakening

Please, Stop!

 -Stephano's POV-

“No!” Barrel and I screamed, but our shoats were in vain. The monsters that were holding us were far too strong. We were powerless to do anything. Two monsters advanced towards Emara.

Emara scooted away as fast as she could manage. Everything was stained with red...

“Fight, Emara! You have to fight!” I called to her, for what else could she do!? I thrashed against the monster's hold, but again I failed at escape.

The monsters drew closer, “Fight!”

Emara turned toward me. Her eyes filled with fear.

“Fight!”

Something happened then. Her eyes changed from a light blue to a deep gray. All fear had left her, and a look of pure numbness graced her features before being replaced by rage. Holding her wounds, Emara slowly began to rise.

The monsters toppled around her and sank to the ground as they writhed as if in pain. I did not understand what had happened as I watched the monsters fall away and cower on the ground, until I noticed my brother, possessed by The Creator, doing the same.

“You...” Emara spoke, or more like growled.

I felt it then. As if for no reason at all, I myself was on ground gasping for air. I felt so awful, like every bad feeling I had ever felt was weighing down on me all at once. I wanted to scream, fight, vomit, and sob all at the same time, but all I could manage lay there as tears leaked from my eyes. I felt so numb, but so awful...

I wanted to die.

“This is all because of you...” Emara growled in an even lower tone.

The Creator could not speak, but as I caught his eyes, I saw something there that startled me. He was pleading. Pleading for this to simply stop or to die, I do not know, but I would assume the latter.

“It's just in your head, Stephano...” Barrel whispered to me. I looked toward him. Barrel was pushing himself up to his knees. He moved towards a door that I assumed lead to the rest of our group. I wanted to help, to scream to Emara and tell her to stop, but I couldn't. I couldn't do anything.

“You've hurt so many! You've tormented them, and for what!?” Emara demanded. She forced out her hand toward The Creator, and the horror intensified. Barrel vomited. My sword had been knocked from my reach, and I'm not sure what I would have done if I could have reached it.

“I LOATH YOU! YOU ARE A HORRIBLE CREATURE THAT DESERVES NO MERCY!” She screamed.

It's all in my head. That's what Barrel said. I closed my eyes and tried to focus on happy things. I had to. It was the only way to keep myself sane.

“Emara!” I choked out, “S-stop!”

“Stop!? Do you not want him to suffer!? To get revenge for Larena's death!?” She exclaimed accusingly.

“I didn't say that- Gah!” I screamed out. This torment began to feel like physical pain. This was Hell.

“Please, oh God, it hurts!” I sobbed. I could not hold back anymore. I was broken, “Please, Stop!”

“Think about the ones we lost! Think about my brother!” She exclaimed.

That was when I knew she lost it. I was reminded of the time when I asked her of her family. She made it seem as if she only had a younger brother, but something in the way she said it made me think otherwise. I resorted to asking Loren about it. She confessed that she knew little of her older brother, only that he had died, and Emara some how felt responsible. Since then, I learned that Loren too had lost an older sibling. I thought this was one of the things that made the two so close.

“H-he did not kill your brother!” I tried to tell her.

“Lies!” She screamed. She was beyond the point of reason. I couldn't take it anymore. A numbness had began to seep through me, but not because of Emara, but simply because my body could not handle it anymore. I was sure I was dying. I sobbed and held my head. I could do no more. I couldn't even speak.

“SNAP OUT OF IT!” Barrel suddenly screamed, “Look at what you're doing to you friends!”

Emara glanced over and she gasped. Then everything was gone. The horror was finally over. Emara dropped to the ground. She choked out a few hysteric sobs before coughing up a lot of blood and passing out. It looked like The Creator already had. I was not far off.

“It's... over...” I whispered before the world went dark.  

... Hi... 

Yeah, it's been a while. I take full responsibility. 0-0

Anyway, I'm not going to promise regual updates because everytime I do, I can never hold to it. *sigh*

But anyway, I'm back again...