Demons // 5sos

chapter 22

Allison and Calum were practicing a but further from the house. Ashton decided to join them and watch the transitioning girl practice.

"When someone or something makes you angry you have to focus on staying calm. If that doesn't work you have to find an anchor," Calum explained.

"What's yours?" She asked.

"That's actually quite ironic. My anchor is my anger," The demon answered.

Allison cocked her head to the side and looked at him with a questionable look, "how?"

"Let's just say, I lost someone whom I loved very much," Calum said as he looked directly at Ashton.

He was aware of the fact that Ashton knew about Allison's dream of his past. He just wanted to play dumb and see if he would betray him again.

"What about you?" Allison asked Ashton.

"I don't have one," he calmly replied as he leaned against a tree, "I never been so angry to the point where I lost control,"

She nodded her head and turned her attention back to Calum.

"I know you hope to have the same calmness as Ashton, but we already saw that you don't have that in you. Your out of control moment proved that. This means that we're going to have to find an anchor for you," he continued his explanation. "It will take time and we'll start with it tomorrow but for now you first have to learn all the basics and what we're going to do during the upcoming lessons,"

Allison was a bit disappointed because she really wanted to start practicing all these newfound powers, but she also understood how important this was.

"We'll meet in the garden shed from tomorrow on," Calum said, " You're probably thinking 'why?'. So let's go look so you can see for yourself."

The three were walking in silence towards the shed. Calum in front with Ashton and Allison trailing behind.

They reached the the old brown shack and went inside. At first it looked normal but when Calum started whispering a few words everything started to blur.

It transformed into a plaid white room with on your right a big mixing console with a door next to it.

"Why do I have a feeling that this isn't an ordinary mixing console like you see in a recording studio?" Allison spoke her thoughts out loud.

"Because it isn't. You see, we adapt a lot of our stuff to human looking things," Calum explained, "if you go through that door, you'll end up in a plain with room. We will be able to see on a screen in here. These buttons are meant to let you see different things."

"Like what?"

"That depends. We never know what will appear. Inside that room are sensors and electrodes that can sense everything that goes through your brain. For instance, I'm going to ask you tomorrow to think about something that makes you angry and that person or situation will appear," he answered.

"So it's like some sort of simulation room?" Allison clarified.

"Exactly," Calum agreed before looking at his watch. "Ashton asked me to quit a bit earlier so I'm going to end the session here,"

"Thank you Calum, you can go now," the elder demon dismissed him.

He nodded his head, sheared a look with Allison and left.

He went inside and sat down on a barstool in the kitchen where Luke was still situated.

The blonde looked him curiously up and down "I thought the session would end in an hour?"