To Catch A Cardinal

Chapter 40

*Ghost's Pov*

The darkness that crept around the corners of the room was frightening. The emptyness that I felt was killing me slowly from the inside out. A light was shining over me and I held my head between my knees, curled up in a ball in the corner of the room. The smooth surface reminded me of home, and it was painful.

I could here his laugh. And it replayed over and over in my mind. Suddenly a bone chilling name was called from my left. I looked up and heard it again. This time louder. The room was slowly growing lighter. Ahead of me was a squared figure. Cardboard Friend.

I quickly stood up and clung to the wall. Pressing my back into it, the coldness of the walls seeping in through my hoodie.

"Hellow Gregory! How are you?" He said in a high pitched voice. It scraped my ear drums and my head was raking with pain.

"I-I dont know you!" I stammered but his answer was worse.

"Of corwse you know who I am."

"I dont know."

"Yes youw doo! Say my namwe Gregory!" He said. My body was swamped with pain and I felt blood trickle down from my head. The blood was black.

"Your.... your Cardbo...AHHH!!!!" My throat became dry and I coughed up blood, as I collasped to the floor. He had drawn closer and was only 5 feet from me now. The eyes where just circles holding nothing in them and it gave me the creeps. I tried to inhale but it was hard to breath in. It felt like smoke was all I could take in.

He walked closer and closer. And as he did the pain grew even greater. I was now on my hands and knees spiting up blood and my arms and kegs where shaking so badly.

Cardboard Friend reached out a boxy hand and rose it up, me following it with out doing anything. Cuts where forming on my arms and legs and sides, my hoodie torn to peices and my face now dripping with black blood.

It was agonizingly painful to watch myself do what he did. He held me in his hand by the collar aand flung my down into the ground multiple times, leaving the floor cracked as I basically dug a ditch in the floor to the wall.

Cardboard Friends eyes where now glowing red. I touched a slash on my side and felt blood, but when I looked at it, the color had changed slightly. It was now a super dark red.

If I just accept my fate, I will never defeat my opponent. I shall not give up! I thought to myself.

I slowly got to my feet, dizzy from my landing, and turned to face Cardboard Friend. He was about to raise his had again but he froze in his spot with a bolt of light coming right at me, but it had also stopped. I turned to look at the shadow coming out from the shadows. It was a girl, she was shorter than me and had long golden brown stright hair. She had all white on and looked like an angle, but she wasn't.

"Greetings Johnny," She said softly. Her voice was so gentle and calm. She passed right infront of the bolt of light and walked over to me. "My name is Scarlet. And you have just said the right words. You have gained determination."

I looked up at her as she stood over me, she wiped her hand over a wound and it began to heal. With in seconds I could never have known it was there. "Wh...what?"

"Confused much? I can explain if you want." She said nicely.

"Yes please." I said.

"Well if you have a moment, I'll help you in every way I can."

(Dun dun duuunnn!! Jk! Hey guys its Fate here. I have come to give news! I will be making another book! Yes I know its the thrid one but I really enjoy doing this! The Third book will be called My Mysterious World and I will let you all know when its out! So thanks for the support and I will see you later adventures!"