The Overlord Trilogy: The Light

8 • Puppets

Four Days Remaining

Kali

I watch in horror as the lights turn on, Amber's skin bubbling and moving. Half of her face looks like Liz while the other half looks like Amber, my eyes looking back at me. I quickly look to Liz and allow some relief to come as nothing in her appearance has changed.

"Who are you?" Aya stands up and backs away from the creature. It lets out a laugh, a horrid mix of our three voices.

"My name is Thana and I will be your worst nightmare." She grins, the mix of flesh and teeth shifting. "See I have evolved my power so I can retain people that I have seen. Like how I mixed things up?"

"What do you want?" Liz moves next to Logan, Aya coming up on my left and grabbing my hand.

"I want James to suffer, the distraction outside provides a great situation to capture those closest to him." The lights in the room flicker as Thana walks forward, stopping at the edge of the bed. Everyone tenses, Thana's grin growing.

"James will-"

"Will what?" Thana turns and looks at Liz. "He already locked me up for a long as I can remember. He already killed my family, he already has been torturing me!"

"I am sorry he did that to you." Thana looks at me and smiles apologetically.

"You have no place to be apologizing to me. You're this bastard's friend!" Thana leans closer to me, Logan moving forward defensively.

"You stay away from her." Thana lets out another horrid laugh before turning her head to look at Logan. Her hair immediately changes, Amber's blond hair now Logan's jet black. I scream and lunge at Thana, pulling her towards me. Blood sprays onto the sheets, my face becoming soaked as I dig my nails into her cheek and rip it open.

"You bitch!" Logan pulls Thana back as she tries to dig into my skin. She lets out another scream as Logan slams her into the wall, kicking her to ground. Aya and Liz hold Thana down as Logan moves toward me quickly, taking the pillow from behind me. I sit up and watch in shock as he sits down on top of Thana and holds the pillow down to her face, pressing down. Thana struggles to move violently, kicking her legs and trying to scratch at Liz and Aya.

Soon Thana stops moving, blood pooling around her. Logan keeps the pillow pressed to her face for a couple for seconds before pulling it away, my wide eyes looking up at the ceiling. I grimace at the horror in my eyes, surrounded by Liz and Amber's flesh. Suddenly Thana's body begins to crumble, cracks running up the skin. Logan jumps off of her, Liz and Aya letting go as well.

"What the hell?" Logan and the others step back as Thana's body crumbles, nothing left but dust in the shape of a body. I look down at my shaking hands, blood covering them.

"L-Logan...?" Logan turns to me and runs over, turning off the life support machine before picking me up.

"I am going to get her cleaned up." Logan walks out of the room and begins to walk down the hallway.

"We're coming too." Logan turns, myself turning with him, and looks from Aya to Liz. "It isn't safe if we split up." Logan nods and turns, Liz and Aya joining us as we continue down the hallway. We stop dead in our tracks when a laugh echoes down the hallway.

"I-Is it h-her?" I look up at Logan. He keeps looking ahead, moving faster down the hallway. Liz and Aya keep us with us, our speed walk turning into a sprint as we near other people.

"Excuse me!" The nurses turn around and run towards us.

"What happened?" A doctor runs over and joins us, looking at me nervously.