The Creature He Is

CHAPTER 18

Songs:

Florence And The Machine - No Light, No Light

Starset - Bringing It Down Version 2.0

Shinedown - CREATURES

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Craig and his friends arrive at the building in the woods some time later and look it over. They look for any signs of hooded individuals around the area, but don't spot any in sight so they decide to take their chances and head closer to it to get a better gauge on the situation. When still no one seems to be around, they head inside.

When entering upon the building they find the inside to be vacant with no soul in sight. And the only conclusion that they can come to is that they must all still be out searching for Kenny somewhere in the woods. Or up to some other activities that were known to them.

They make their way through the building, only to find that the place really did seem to be vacant currently. They eventually make it down to the basement and into the big room that they had been in only two days ago. Craig's half surprised there's no bodies left over from what happened before in it, but there were still traces of blood from its last preoccupation on the floor.

"Alright, let's see what we can find," Craig says, and the others nod before they go about searching the room.

Being able to see the place more clearly now, the building really did seem to be pretty old, and Craig wonders if those old pictures he saw before could have been taken from somewhere in this very building. At some point while searching, Clyde approaches him and Craig isn't sure on how to react at first.

"Hey," he greets.

"Hey," Craig replies.

There's a pause.

"You uh, you sure you want to go through with this?" Clyde asks.

"Yeah, I'm sure," Craig replies.

"Are you really sure? What if... what if something goes wrong and—"

"I'm sure," Craig tells him, "I've made up my mind Clyde. You don't need to. Worry about me, I'll be fine. Kenny won't harm me."

"How do you know that?"

"I just know," Craig says and looks at him.

There's another pause.

"...Alright," Clyde eventually says with a nod.

"I think I found something!" Tweek yells from the other side of the room.

"What is it?" Craig asks, as he and Clyde walk over to him.

When they both near him, Tweek reveals a long thick chain.

"You think this will work?" he asks.

Clyde and Craig glance to one another before Craig nods.

"Yeah, that should be good enough, let's set it up," Craig tells them and they get to work on their next step.

Once done, they hear a loud tap of some sort and look to where it came from, only to find Kevin now joined with them in the room.

"Oh great, you guys are done," he says walking towards them, "in that case I'll—"

"Craig!" a voice exclaims, cutting him off. And Craig spots Karen now rushing towards him. Before he can even react, the smaller girl is wrapping her arms around him. "It's been a while since I last saw you! I'm glad you're okay!" she looks up at him. "Kevin told me what happened. I hope my brothers haven't been giving you too much trouble."