The Monsters Call (Slow Updates For Now)

Chapter 2: The Warnings

I hope you like it. I'm still getting used to this, BTW, so it might still be horrible.

Jareth woke up to the sound of his alarm. He used an alarm on some occasions to exercise. Surprisingly, nobody else woke up from the noise. Jareth grabbed a different pair of basketball shorts and went to the bathroom to put it on. This time, the shorts we're black with orange and a Jordan sign on it. Then he went to the basement where all of the exercise equipment was.

There were some dumbbells, two weight lifting areas, two treadmills, there was also a television and a few DVDs that had to do with workouts. Jareth started by stretching and then jolted when something grabbed the back of his neck. He turned around quickly, ready to fight, and seen Brittany.

"Oh, it's just you."

"Uh, yea it's me. Who did you think was behind you?"

"Uh...nobody, I guess."

"Whatever. Do you mind?" Brittany looks around and raises an eyebrow waiting for an answer. She was asking if she could exercise here too. With him.

"Oh, um, go ahead."

Brittany go into a space where a yoga mat was and stretched. Jareth's mom did yoga on the weekends, if you didn't know.

Brittany stretched her hamstring a little too much and yelped, "Ow, that hurts a lot.", and gets up. She decided that she's done stretching and starts doing some push ups.

For a girl like her, she really can do pushups and didn't mind getting a little sweaty, which was surprising. She got up to forty pushups before she fell down. She rubbed her arms and then went on the treadmills to jog. Brittany jogged for 10 minutes and got tired. The young woman went back upstairs after she exercised with the dumbbells, probably to go shower.

Jareth was finally alone again. He went to go lift weights. He lifted the bars until his arms almost gave up. When he stopped, Jareth immediately went to the treadmill and run for a while. He was running at 5 miles per hour (MPH) and stopped after eight minutes. Jareth exercised for about twenty more minutes and then went to his room to get some clothes and heads into the shower. After 10 minutes of showering he puts on some clothing and goes back into his room.

Dorian's POV

*in his dreaming state*
*himself was narrating as he was dreaming*

My friends. They were screaming and running, for some reason I do not know of. One of them yelled something at me but I didn't understand it. The environment was very loud.

The place got dark. No. The dark was growing.

Darkness overcame the scene and the whole setting was dark, although I could see myself. The darkness went away and when it all left I appeared to be somewhere else. My friends were with me and they looked frightened. We were in the bathroom. Together. We had knives in our hands. Voices were heard from outside of the door. The voices sounded abnormal and demonic. Once the things stopped talking, it began banging on the door. The banging got louder and louder...the door was about to open and...

I'm waking up. It's time for me to wake up...wake up now...

"Oh great, another nightmare..."