By Your Side? Always | ALWAYS #1

Chapter 27: Pull Your Shit Together, War Is Here.

ROUGE ROYAL POV

Tears threaten with coming out from fear of seeing Zalgo there, with the smoke covering almost everything I can see, the smoke is suffocating, doesn't allow me to breath well, also blocks my view, I can only identify Zalgo by his red streaks on his body, Troye gets closer to me and I can feel his hands shaking against my wrist, Toby seems to be shaking but because of his nervous tics, my hands clench into fists trying to make them stop sweating but somehow I can't, I'm either scared or nervous, I have no idea what I'm going to say or do but I have a demon in front of my eyes, probably expecting to take me or kill all my friends. Beyond my friends and Zalgo I can see shadows around Zalgo and I know that he's not alone. 'Demons' is the first word that comes into my head and Zalgo doesn't look very happy may I say.

–Are you going to stay there or come here so we can leave? – Zalgo asks immediately when his eyes find mine.

–I'll stay, I've decided not to go with you– My voice starts shaking from fear.

–Too bad, you staying means I'll have to kill all of your friends– He responds back.

–What's the matter with me staying? If you kill them all, Troye and I will commit suicide– I threaten– And you won't be able to have us.

–You think I can't bring your dammed souls to me and slowly destroy both of you? – He fights back.

–I'm telling you to please leave us alone– My voice almost cracks.

–And my answer is 'I won't leave without a Marked One'– His deep voice becomes even scarier.

–Told you it wasn't going to work– Troye whispers softly but still I can hear his fright.

One of the shadows that is beside Zalgo suddenly moves and comes towards us, I feel how Troye raises his arm and when I turn my head to see what's he doing, he has his hand in a weird gesture and from it, a ball of fire comes out from the tips of his fingers, making the fireball rest on the palm of his hand, then throwing it to the shadows, several things around the shadows burn in live fire, and the shadows grow taller.

–Idiot you don't fight fire with fire– I say between teeth.

–You're right– He nods and his hand makes a movement and a really strong breeze of air with dust raises and my hair begins to fly everywhere, Troye throws it to the shadows, and some of them disappear but the most of them stay.

–My turn– I grin showing my fangs and I raise my arms just a little clenching my fists, then raising my foot, bending my knee and then I strongly stomp the floor and at the same time my hands both go sharply down and my body shakes for the split of a second. After doing what I did, the floor starts to shake strongly like an earthquake and we all try to keep balance, this causes that Zalgo opens up his wings and starts flying, the smoke covers us even more.

The smoke starts to completely cover my view, I'm not able to see really well and the smoke gets into my eyes, irritating them and causing them to sting. Involuntarily I grab my brother's and Toby's arms, scared for once in my life of what's going to happen.

–HEY ZALGO! – I hear a familiar raspy and deep voice behind me.

Jeff 

–J–Jeff? – The smoke doesn't allow me to see him really well, only identifying him by his white hoodie.

–Hey sweetie– Jeff side grins in response, showing a small dimple and then standing beside Toby.