sixteen . . . the battle of starcourt mall

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CARDIGAN       |       SEASON III ; ACT II
. ‧₊˚⋅☀️ chapter 16 ━━━━━━ the battle of starcourt mall
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EL LET OUT A PIERCING SCREAM OF PAIN.

"What is that?" Erica exclaimed. Something was moving inside the wound El had on her leg.

"There's something in there." Mike stated.

"No!" El cried.

Ara swore under her breath, freaking out.

"Keep her talking. Keep her awake, okay?" Jonathan ordered. He then ran off to do who knows what.

"You know it's not really that bad." Robin started to ramble. "The goalie on my soccer team, Beth Wildfire, this other girl slid into her leg, and —like— the whole bone came out off her knee— six inches or something, it was insane."

"Robin." Steve interjected bluntly.

"Yeah?"

"Yours not helping."

"I'm sorry."

Jonathan had came back with a heated knife in hand.

"Okay. Alright, El? This is gonna hurt like hell, okay." He stated.

"Okay." She sobbed.

"I need you to stay real still. Here," he said, give a wooden spoon, "you're gonna want to bite down on this, okay?"

He then held the knife and started to cut through her skin.

Ara closed her eyes shut, and tried focusing on anything other than the fact Jonathan was cutting into El's leg. She heard El's shrieks which caused her to close her eyes tighter.

Jonathan now inserted his hand in the cut. If you weren't disgusted before you sure were now.

"Jonathan!" Nancy exclaimed.

"Stop talking!"

"No! Stop it!" El screamed. "I can do it."

She slowly sat up. She positioned her hand over the wound.

She started yelling as the thing came closer to getting out. The glass behind them then broke and she threw the slimy claw away.

It crawled away a bit before getting stomped on by Hopper.

Along with him there was Joyce and this unknown man.

Both groups stared at each other.

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"The Mind Flayer," Mike said, "it built this monster in Hawkins, to stop El, to kill her and pav a way into our world."

"And it almost did." Nancy added. "That was just one tiny piece of it."

"How big is this thing?" Hopper asked.

"Maybe around thirty feet." Ara stated.

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