Genesis: book 1 COMPLETED

Chapter 20: Stage

The landscape from before completely melted away and was replaced with a cypher background.  It was like there were walls everywhere with orange lines of data running across.  We were basically floating around as I gaped at this amazing sight.

"Pretty cool, huh?" Sabi asked with a sad smile.  I looked at him with confusion before nodding.

"Yeah, I love it," I muttered as I reached a hand out as far as I could in hopes of touching a line, but failing. 

Soon after that, the place disappeared and a thick forest replaced it.  The landscape was wet, both ground and trees, and was thick with all sorts of different types of plants that seemed to engulf everything that it touched, making me back away slightly.

In front of us was a large, old building that, like everything else, was covered in shrubs and moss.  It looked dark and creepy.  Some place that I wouldn't like to find my stalker in.

Sabi nodded. "Well, I have to go now.  I'll talk to you later about business, Seth.  And Ben, I'll tell Liam that you said hi."

"Get the fuck out of my face," Ben growled.

"Will do, see ya," Sabi said before disappearing.

Once he did, Ben walked forward.  "Come on, you idiot!" He said to me before I began to walk beside him.

"So," I said, trying to start a conversation.  "Who's Liam?"

Ben frowned, his eyes narrowing at nothing.  "Don't worry about it."

I nodded, not wanting to push his buttons, before we got to the front entrance.  I grabbed the handle and, with great ease, swung the door open.  Not a really good sign.

I peered into the dark hallway and gulped, but the drive to save my friends and family was bigger, and I walked in with my head held high.

As soon as Ben came in, the door slammed behind us.  I tried to push them back open but they wouldn't budge.

"I sense a strong dark phenomenon," Ben muttered to himself.

"Well, there's not point in going back now anyways," I replied before walking forwards. 

A few seconds later, we reached the end and a a giant closed door.  I hesitated before putting a hand on the door, pushing it open sightly and gasped.

You know how I said everyone was missing.  I wasn't exaggerating.  Every worker on the island was tied up to their own chair and was facing the stage, which was entirely empty.

Before I could do anything, however, a heavy force made me and Ben literally fly across the room and onto the stage, where we were pinned to the wall.

A young girl with long blond hair and bright pink eyes came dancing out while pulling two heavy steel bars.  Once she came into the center stage, where we were, she stopped and grinned at us.

"Hello!  My name is Elle!" She said before picking us one of the bars and rapping it around Ben like it was rubber and doing the same to me. 

Ben was thrashing around and cussing like a maniac while I just calmly looked around.  Was Elle my stalker?

Elle giggled.  "Yes, well, I mean I'm one of them." She said.

I gulped.  There were more?

Another girl with short white hair and toxic green eyes came out while she was writing into her clipboard.  "Of course there would be more.  You are a important factor in the demon world.  All of them are practically plotting their own plan to find you.

I gulped.  This was going to be way harder than I thought.

"In fact," the girl said.  "The daughter of Lucifer himself is here too."

"That's right," said a calming voice in the shadows that made every hair on my body stand on end.  The lights flickered as the new guest walked on stage.

To say that she was beautiful would be an understatement.  She had long black hair that flowed like it was in water and blood red eyes that flowed in the darkness. 

"Hello, Seth," she said with a smirk.  "I'm Lucy.  And my friend over there is Z." She pointed to the white haired girl.

I put on a big fake grin, my eyes filled with rage.  "Wonderful!  Is anyone else coming to our tea party?"

Lucy's smile faltered before coming back even bigger than before.  "Actually.  We do have one guess to come before we can start.  Come on out."

I turned my head lazily to one side to await the new demon.  I almost helped when I saw a familiar figure.

Katie.