Portnashker

Chapter 7

It was 7:30 a.m. and Otis, my brothers and Avala would need to go into the woods. After Otis said that he took care of the group of men, we started to go deeper in the woods. We followed the map that Otis had. Otis also told us to go into the woods in the morning so that there weren't so many Shadows from the light so that the Shadow creatures couldn't grab us. As we ventured further, the dread got worse but we all remembered not to panic. The woods also became really quiet. Otis was in front of us and told us to stop. I raised my crossbow after seeing a shadow passover. We heard a whistle then from the shadow came a dark figure then three other figures. They looked human but only had white eyes and no other facial features, being also extremely tall. With no signal the creatures ran between the shadows after us. We stood our ground and grabbed our weapons. Otis started shooting while my brothers and Avala grabbed their machetes and bats. Two of the Figures were in front of us while the other two were nowhere to be seen. Otis shot one of the figures who was bleeding white. Behind me Jax, Mark and Avala were fighting the other two stabbing the two figures making them bleed white also. While fighting I looked back and saw Mark had his leg in the shadow. Before I could yell the shadow monster through Mark in the air then landed hard on his back. Otis shot the monster before he could grab him again. The shadow monsters fled into the woods while we ran over to make sure Mark was okay. With only some scratches he was okay. We helped him up and continued forward. After a while of us walking we saw the edge of the forest. We prepared ourselves for the worst. As we got to the edge of the forest I looked out to see a valley surrounded by forest but in the middle was a shack with statues all around. We made our way down and as we got closer the statues were hands of bones. I fell back remembering my dream. Avala asked if I was okay and I told them I had a dream of this and that nightmare was here. "Morgan?" Jax said. I walked over to Jax standing in front of the shack where it looked like black liquid was coming from inside the shack. This black Liquid didn't look black but the liquid was dark red. "Blood." I said. Otis walked in front of us and pushed open the door of the shack. All around the inside of the shack was filled with a thick red liquid but there was no Source where it came from. Otis put one foot on the liquid but found out the liquid was far deeper than the floor and that it acted like quicksand. He quickly moved back then the red liquid moved and the hands that reached from the ground started to turn to blood. There was a loud whistle that came from all around the valley. We ran to the woods to leave the valley but when we ran the shadows of even more figures came and were chasing us. The shadows chased us far closer to town. We got to town and the shadows were far gone by the time we looked back.

We drove home and explained what needed to happen. I explained that the red liquid must have been the blood from the shadow figures. " Then the shadow creatures must have been people from the town." Avala said. " The people that nightmare took control of." I replied. " Nightmare is trying to get into our world to most likely cause chaos." Mark said. " He already has." Otis said. " The blood is from his victims and his victims or his shadow puppets that he used to get the blood from the mindscape to become real and the blood is his physical form. That's why every dream you had with him in the blood was him getting his body ready to come here." I looked around at everyone and saw the fear in them. I knew they didn't want to believe it but there was no other way. We all looked at each other preparing for the physical and mental War we would be fighting.