Nightmare and Phantasm (Part 1 of The C.S.F.A Chronicles) *Unfinished*

Part VI - Eirlysa

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Part 6

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"Wow, a new member!"

"Aww, he's so little and cute!"

"This is the first time we ever met such a real thing."

"Eirlysa, where did you find him?"

"Shhh! Silence everyone, he's waking up!"

As Devin slowly wakes up, feeling numbed and drowsey, the first thing he sees is the dim-lighted candle and a group of young girls staring back at him. The room was very dark, which makes it a bit difficult for him to see. Even though the room is dark, one of the girls that stood in front of him squealed as if she were struck by a galloping ardor, "Ah! He's awake everyone! He's awake!"

Everyone started talking enthusiastically as they watch him trying to sit up and rub his eyes while yawning on the small bed. Eagering to get to know him, they said, "Does he need anything? Aris! You're playing as Mother right? Hand him a bottle of milk!"

After hearing the call, Aris quickly prepares a baby bottle of chocolate milk and shoves it right into his tiny mouth. Devin reacts to it by spitting it all out and coughs. Frightened, he jumps out of the bed in panic to run away, not feeling safe staying like this. As he ran, the girls peered back through the door in shock, "Oh no he's getting away!"

Desperately wanting to get out of this place he viewed as a nightmare, feeling like something is crawling up to his shoulders and rather wanting to be with someone he recognizes as safety, Devin attempts to not to whimper in the dim hallways of the black mansion - in fear in which that something or rather someone may would hear him. Sooner no later, after avoiding to look at all of the large and eerie-looking vintage photos that are hanged on the walls of the hallways, he found the staircase that would lead him downstairs to the lower floor. Looking up, he sees through the large window that reveals the black night along with a group of blackbirds calling by. However, as he slowly walks down the first set of stairs, Devin suddenly heard a growing set of disturbing noises coming from the lower floor that is right in front of him.

With a swift grasp from behind, Devin, who reacted to the cold hand with shock, turned to see a familiar figure he had seen before. Immediately, he realized that it was the one who put him to sleep when he first came here. Squeezing tightly, the nonchalant made a stern expression and shouted quietly, "Where do you think you're going? In the dark with no idea where you would end up being at?"

Devin didn't respond, perhaps he doesn't even know what to say to her. Looking at her, she appeared to be wearing some kind of black lolita rain coat with red ribbons and white laces. Her dark red eyes stares right through him with lack of emotions and her unrealistic spiky hair and a big purple bow blocks out the window from showing, bringing in a dramatic scene. Her skin is as colorless as white paint. Seconds later, the rest of the group arrived at the scene. One of them asked, "Eirlysa, did you find him?"

"I just did." She replied, pulling him closer to her by the sleeve. Devin shuddered himself and make some nervous noises, but Eirlysa made him stop.

"Well bring him back before leader finds out, and also to keep him quiet, I don't want the neighbors below to get their attention towards us."

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"What's your name?" Aris asked.

Devin didn't respond. The girls looked at each other in concern.

"You don't have to be scared, we're not monsters who would want to snatch you and boil you in a hotpot."

"Don't scare him Aris, he's too young to hear those scary words. Think bright." A girl with a pretty face said.