Insane in the membrane-Stranger things

Chapter 50

When they reached the top of the stairs and thought they were out of it all, a vine quickly enclosed itself around Robin's ankle, dragging her down and pinning her to the wall with a set of other vines. ''Steve, Jess, Nancy,'' she shouted, the vines wrapped around her wrists tightly and one enclosed around her neck. Jess and Nancy didn't hesitate, Nancy smacked at the vines with the end of her gun as Jess pulled a pocket knife out of her pocket and tried to slash through the vines but it was no use. Steve came in to help, whacking his axe at the vines but again they didn't budge and that's when everything ended. Jess, Nancy and Steve were dragged down and pinned to the wall.

Jess started to gasp for air as the vine enclosed tightly around her throat, the harder the vine enclosed around her neck the more pain she felt and she could feel herself slowly nodding in and out of consciousness, she tried to reach her hand out to clasp a hold of Steve's hand but his gasping for air was just the same as hers and their hands barely touched, their fingers brushed up against each other's and the vines were enclosed harder around the remaining three teen's throats. Jess's vision started to blur as her life flashed before her eyes, this would be how she was going to die, there's no turning back now. Jess struggled to keep her eyes open, she tried her very best though as they fluttered open and closed, she was about to die, she could feel it, the pain being unbearable, Jess tried one last time to reach her hand out to Steve's as he tried to do the same, but once again their fingers brushed up against each other's and just as Jess thought that she would die, the vines removed themselves from Jess's neck and she dropped to the floor, the other three teen's falling with her. All four of them clutching their throats in pain, coughing and spluttering, Steve crawled over to his girlfriend and gently pulled her up, cupping her face in his hands examining for any injuries but the only injury he can make out is the massive red mark lined across her throat. Jess engulfed her boyfriend into a hug, relieved that they had both made it once again, he planted a small kiss into her hair before following Nancy and Robin into the attic of the Creel House.

There strung up with vines connecting into his back was Vecna, he seemed to be in a trance like state, focused on what he was doing. Jess took a deep breath in and out as she grabbed one of the Molotov cocktails, grasped a lighter from Steve's pocket and lit it up, she raised it up into the air before throwing it at Vecna, she just about aimed it correctly and he doubled over in pain. Jess and her friends shielded their eyes away from the bright orange flames coating Vecna's now limp slimy body, it wasn't enough to drop him down from his vines though so Steve lit one up and threw it at the body of Vecna, and they shielded their eyes once again. Once again he doubled over in pain, finally falling from his vines attached to his back, the quartet braced themselves for what could happen next as Vecna slowly pulled himself up to face them, he looked pissed and not all that pleased that he had lost against four teenagers. The flames coated his body and Robin lit up the last remaining Molotov cocktail, she put the lighter up to it, as she did so Vecna seemed to be stringing closer and Robin threw the Molotov cocktail and once again the slimy body of Vecna doubled over. Jess stood close to Steve as he had his fingers wrapped around a giant axe, Nancy however had her gun aimed at Vecna, she thundered over to him, her boots clumping on the floorboards as she pulled down the trigger. Jess clapped, as she jumped up into the air like a little child, Vecna doubled backwards this time and Nancy shot again and again, Vecna doubling over back and forth towards the boarded up window. Vecna was pissed, he let out a weird loud high pitched scream as Nancy aimed her gun once again and took the last shot and this time Vecna fell backwards through the window. The quartet rushed out of the Creel House hoping that Vecna was dead but he seemed to have disappeared as there was only ashes and a large hole in his shape on the ground. ''Shit, where did that son of a bitch go?'' Jess rolled her eyes.

Suddenly the chimes kicked in and Jess realised, she clapped a hand to her mouth, she pulled at Steve's sleeve. ''Max,'' she whispered.

The quartet rushed back to Eddie's trailer only to see that was no Eddie, just a crying and sniffling Dustin sitting on Eddie's couch, he had to just leave his friend's dead body and when he saw his older sister he practically ran into her and sobbed into her chest, she engulfed him and stroked his fluffy brown curls. ''Dusty, where's Eddie?'' Jess asked, grabbing onto her brother's shoulders.

Dustin's tears bawled out of his eyes as he sniffled once again, he tried his best not to cry in front of his sister but it just came out. ''He...he's gone, Jess...he's gone and it's all my fault...I shouldn't have let him go out there alone...he wanted to be a hero...he died one....he was my best friend and now he's gone...he's gone...Jess,'' Dustin sobbed.

Jess pulled her brother into a massive hug once again, she squeezed him tightly as she stroked his curls, comforting him.