Adventure With the Demons

Chapter 2

Night of December 6th(Monday), 2032

I rolled to the other side of my bed, pondering about the team. My blue pajamas and white blanket did nothing to help the cold, I also had this weird feeling throughout the day and it did nothing to help me sleep. And now I almost felt like something was watching me, or someone. I kept worrying about everyone, and if we were going to escape this horror movie, if we were ever going to go back to our own lives.

Sometimes I don't want to go back, I don't know why it just feels like I'm leaving something valuable in the present. Sometimes nights can be like this, sometimes my stress can be high. But something about this night made it worse, made it more real. After hours of tumbling around I finally drifted off to sleep.

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The ground beneath me was shaking, I was shaking, I heard an alarm ringing, violently shaking me awake. I tried to stop it with my hand but it wasn't there. I felt a sharp pain cross my face and I got jolted awake, the adrenaline waking me up, my feet landing on the ground and my body straight sitting on the side of my bed. Quinn was there standing next to me with his sword hanging on his poorly put on belt, and still in his pajamas.

"I'm sorry! I'm so sorry! But you wouldn't wake up and I didn't know what else to do!" I realized that the world was actually shaking and the look on Quinns face told me everything. A monster was close by having a meltdown, or it was attacking our base right now.

I pushed him toward the bedroom door.

"Go! I need to get something!"

"Ava I'm not leaving you!"

I opened my nightstand and pulled out a locket, then I ran to the end of my bed and pulled on my jacket and grabbed my boots. Quinn was still waiting for me, I grabbed his arm and we ran out to the weapon room. My bow and quiver wasn't there.

"I already got it into the safety bunker! Come on Ava!"

Quinn pulled open the hatch that goes into the safety bunker and shoved me inside. I slipped on one of the ladder steps and fell to the hard stone floor. Quinn apparently did too because he landed right on top of me. Footsteps rushed towards us and Quinn got off of me and helped me up. Adrian and Azberry gave me a bear hug and Mya hugged Quinn.

"We thought you were a goner" Adrian said.

"We were so scared, Ava, so scared" Azberry shook with fear.

I released them and looked down, "Well don't be scared, I'm here right? We're all safe."

Mya then rushed over and squeezed me so tight I could hardly breathe.

"I thought you guys weren't going to make it when Quinn went to go and get you Ava"

"Well we're here, and I still have my best friend."

I looked at the others, Oliver was holding Scarlett, Naomi actually had a worried face on and Zade was sitting on some bags with his head down. He was probably already planning our funerals.

"We were going to go get you but Naomi shoved us in the bunker and we all went down, Quinn wasn't there and we thought you guys didn't make it" Azberry told us.

"Well thanks to Quinn, because I probably wouldn't be here." I looked at him and he looked back and kinda smiled at me, like respect to a friend, but somehow it felt different than that, his green eyes shone with a sort of....

"Well it's all in a day's work", his words snapped me out of my thoughts. We all laughed, trying to relieve some of the heavy weight on our shoulders.

I tried to shake it off but I couldn't, I knew my anxiety and depression was getting worse ever since the apocalypse started. But I couldn't do anything about it now, my meds are long gone and I'm sure any other medicine in abandoned pharmacies will have expired already. It's been almost 2 years already, my anxiety and depression hasn't gotten out of hand yet? Has it? I squeezed my locket still in my left hand, fiddling with the chain.