By Your Side? Always | ALWAYS #1

Chapter 28: My Demons, Alive & Burning.

I bite my lip when I notice how the shadows disappear, yet knowing this isn't over, I realize how hard I'm biting my lip when I can taste the blood coming from it, sucking on the metallic red liquid that comes out from the wound I just created.

I breathe heavily when Zalgo is just one meter away from my weak body, for the first time in a long time, I feel weak and unable to do something, it's weird to feel this again, you know? Toby's feet don't touch the ground, he's being lifted by the neck with Zalgo's powers, he moans something that I can only understand as a growl of pain, then his body violently flies bending itself a little and collapses violently on the wall, making him grunt in pain once again.

Zalgo doesn't seem to care about it, but, he walks this time as the inhumane thing he is and when he's less than a meter from me, his hand makes a movement extending his arm and he makes my body fly away from the spot I was standing on, crashing on the ground a couple of meters away, and then he flies with his bat-like wings to where Toby is, and he opens his mouth, near Toby as I observe horrified. Zalgo lets out a inhumane scream yet at the same time growling to Toby's face, Toby screams either scared, annoyed, or in pain as he turns into fetal position begging Zalgo to stop, and there's where I lose control...

I make a purple galaxy portal feeling the anger boil at the top of my heart, head and lungs, my breathing turns agitated from the anger and the deep feeling of wanting to kill this fucking demon. When I cross the portal I'm only a meter away from Zalgo and Toby, taking my biggest knife out, a butcher knife to be exact I throw it to Zalgo, and it lands gracefully between his wings, for what I see it doesn't hurt him, it just hits him grabbing his attention.

Fucking great... Notice my sarcasm.

Taking a big hunting knife I run growling to Zalgo and jump to him, when I see that I land hitting and kicking his chest, I realize that Troye made his way to us and as I fight Zalgo, he takes Toby, dragging him away, I start trying to hurt Zalgo but he only laughs and with a very light movement of his hand, I fall to the ground grabbing my throat as he chokes me, I can feel the air missing in my lungs, and how my throat is closing because of how hard he's pressing me, then his hand makes my body leave the ground and my feet can barely touch the ground, my lips gasp as I try to recover the air, coughing and trying to scream but it's impossible.

There's a point in where when you're being choked from the lack of air you faint, and I'm starting to feel that way, my view is covered in black dots that move fading and producing more and more like a plague, the voices in my head bang the back of my skull, for a moment I believe that they think that screaming can make my skull break and they'll be free, and for a moment, I believe it might be true from how strong the pain gets.

Zalgo suddenly stops chocking me and my lips produce a sound that sounds like a moan as I cough trying to recover the air, grabbing my throat as I get up dizzy from the ground and try to run, running stupidly as I feel dizzy, really dizzy to the point where I think I might fall if I don't sit down. When I get to the stairs I pray for my body notto fall, as I run faster every time, getting to one of the rooms in the house, Judge Angels' room. I bang on the door, no one answers so I open the door, then Dina's body is pictured under the bed, her blonde short hair shines through the darkness of the room as she's under the bed, her white clothes are stained withdirt and some blood, probably not hers.

-I need your help- I say.

-I need your help too, I'm stuck- She says almost laughing but still smirking.

-Alright- I say taking her by the arms and pulling her to me, when she's no longer under the bed she dusts herself off and look at me.

-I heard the fight- She says referring to Zalgo's presence.