The Hunt (An AntiSepticEye story)

Six

We pulled up into Jack's apartment. I followed Jack up into his room. I felt familiarized with everything as he brought me into his room. I could recognize the computers made to make his videos and the pads attached to the wall that come from his videos. It felt so weird being here, it felt as if I shouldn't be here.

"Don't be shy, you can make yourself at home..." Jack said to me.
"I feel like you're taking me hostage..." I assumed.
"Well you agreed with me to do this." Jack assured.
"Because you made me!" Jackie exclaimed.

Jack watched as the sun's rays peered through the window. He pointed it out to Jackie.

"As soon as the sky darkens, that's when the crazy stuff begins to happen." Jack explained. "We have less than a half hour to go."
"What exactly happens to you?" I asked.
"I just blank out, I don't know exactly what happens to me, which is why I brought you here, so you could tell me." Jack said.
"I don't know about this." I worried. "If you're not in control of yourself after the sun sets, then how do you know whatever or whoever is possessing you won't kill me?"
"I'm not sure..." Jack shrugged.
"I shouldn't have said yes to this..." I said. "Tomorrow I could be dead for all I know!"
"There's a chance you won't be..." Jack said. "You should consider those chances..."

Eventually, I did consider them. But that was within the last five minutes that I had. The sun was already being blocked by other buildings, the sky grew pink from the sunset, and then began to dim into darkness.

I looked over at Jack, who still looked like himself, until I saw his eyes. They turned a big, black color. There was no color in his eyes whatsoever. It was all black.

It wasn't Jack anymore.

He smiled evilly at me.

"Who the hell are you?" I asked.
"I'm Jack..." He hissed. "Just the evil side of him!"
"Why are you controlling him?" I asked.
"Because he's too weak to show his evil side to anybody! Which is why I control him during the night! When everybody is asleep, and I can just go out and snatch whoever happens to be in my way!" He snitched.

Suddenly, he grabbed me by my arm and threw me across the room, I ended up hitting my head against the wall and blacking out.

I could've sworn I was dead straight afterwards. But I ended up waking up, with nothing but darkness surrounding me. The darkness of night. The only light showing in Jack's room was his alarm clock.

It was 4AM. I had been out for nearly 8 hours.

A lot of things were going through my mind. Marley, my parents, my family, all of them must be so worried about me. But I wasn't worried about them so much as I was worried about Jack. How his "evil" self is lurking around town, trying to find somebody to kill and cause chaos once again throughout the entire town.

I immediately picked up my phone from my pocket and called Marley.

"Jackie?" She asked. "What's going on?"
"It's Jack!" I said. "It's not Jack!"
"What do you mean?" Marley asked, more seriously.
"After the sun set, his eyes turned a demonic black color, and he just picked me up and threw me across the room and I blacked out." I explained. "I can't find him anywhere."
"Demon black?" Marley asked. "Like the kind in Supernatural?"
"Yeah!" I exclaimed.
"What's he being possessed by?" Marley asked.
"Apparently his "evil" self!" I explained. "Since he's too weak to show his evil side to anybody!"
"What're you gonna do?" Marley asked.
"What can I do?" I asked. "Does my family think I'm missing or anything?"
"No, I just told them you're staying overnight here!" Marley asked. "My parents went out!"

I breathed a sigh of relief.

"Okay, here's the plan, during sunrise, when Jack returns, if he hasn't caused anything bad, I'll ask him to take me to your house and I'll stay with you until around 10AM, and then you take me home!" I explained.
"Okay..." Marley agreed. "Just be careful!"
"I will!" I said.

Marley and I then hung up.

I leaned over in pain as my head started hurting me again. I turned on a light and felt the back of my head. I saw blood covering part of my hand. I began to panic, hoping I didn't have to get stitches. I immediately searched his apartment for paper towels to put pressure on my head. I finally found some and put pressure on it.

I breathed a sigh of relief as it eventually stopped.

Around 6am, the sun began to rise in the town. I heard a knock come from the apartment door. I immediately looked through the peephole and answered it. Jack was back, alive and unscathed.

"Oh, thank god!" Jack said, suddenly and surprisingly hugging me. "I didn't kill you!"
"Did you kill anybody else though?" I asked.
"I don't know..." Jack said.
"Well we gotta look it up and find out!" I said.

We immediately turned on the news. Breaking news filled the screen. Apparently somebody else had been killed earlier this morning around 2am.

And it wasn't just anybody...

It was Marley's dad.