on and off - mike wheeler

twenty five

"but if not, we always have lucas' fireworks."

-

july. 1985

"they said they were building something." y/n explained. "that it was all for me."

"building something.. are they talking about the flayed?" max asks.

"he must be." nancy intervenes.

"so, they're building an army, just like we thought." lucas says.

"yeah, but they're not building this army to spread." mike reminds them.

"they're building it to stop eleven and y/n." will realizes.

"last year, y/n closed the gate on him." mike explains. "i have a feeling that really pissed him off."

"like royally." lucas adds.

"and the mind flayer now knows that they're the only thing that can stop him." mike says. "but if they're out of the way."

"game over." lucas finishes mike's sentence.

"he also said, he was gonna kill all of you." y/n speaks up.

"yeah, well, that's nice." max sarcastically says.

then they hear a faint screeching noise.

nancy walks closer to the door in confusion.

"do you guys hear that?" nancy asks.

"it's just the fireworks." jonathan tells her.

"billy and melissa.." nancy begins, then turns to y/n. "when they told you this, it was here, in this room?"

y/n nodded her head yes.

will touches the back of his neck.

"he knows we're here." will says with wide eyes.

everybody opened the door, and checked outside and saw a huge demogorgon coming for them, and screeching.

-

they blocked out the door, the windows, everything.

y/n and el braced themselves, and nancy got her gun ready.

lucas had a slingshot, and jonathan had a hammer.

"hey, get away from the windows." nancy instructs all of them.

it starts to get really quiet, and the lamp started to squeak.

y/n grabbed mike's hand in fear, and he squeezed her hand in reassurance.