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I swung at him, wanting him to lose his balance. I tried to get his mask off. I grabbed his hair and pulled. I bit my brother on the arm and drew blood.
I saw red, like people say they do. A sheet of blood red was over my eyes and I couldn't think. Just pummel. Pound, tear, destroy.
We reached the bottom of the staircase and Alex tried to squirm away from me. I launched myself at him.
Jake tackled me.
I hit the cold cement and I cursed him and raked at his face.
"Jesus Christ!" Jake cursed. "What happened up there?"
I roared at him. I had no words.
"What happened to your brother?" Jake demanded of Alex.
Alex was crying. I had made him cry.
"He's an animal!" Jake said, pinning me to the ground with his knee in my stomach. My arms were behind my back, somehow. In addition to football, Jake had also been on the wrestling team. And he had maybe fifty pounds on me—I was pinned.
We didn't hear Niko until he was standing right beside us.
"I sealed it," he said. "It's done. But we're gonna need to cover the hatch with plastic sheeting and the loading-bay doors back here, too. I'll get the staple guns if you guys get the—"
I must have growled or barked or something.
He gestured to me.
"What's wrong with Dean?"
I swear to God, I wanted to rip his throat out.
CHAPTER SIX
THE GATE RATTLER
Jake strained to keep me pinned. Rage hammered in my heart. I wanted up!
I heard this weird whine. A panicky whine.
It was coming from Brayden.
"What is he?" Brayden said. His upper lip was curled back in an expression of disgust. "What is he? What is he made of?"
"What are you talking about?" Jake said, still struggling to keep me pinned.
Jake must have weighed two hundred pounds. I was flattened against the cold cement floor.
"Look at him!" Brayden cried. "There's smoke coming off him. He's straight from hell!"
"What are you talking about?" Alex said. He sounded scared. He sounded like he was crying but I couldn't see him from where I was pinned.
Brayden was pulling at his hair, looking all around.
"It's everywhere!" he cried. "Smoke from hell."
He backed away from us and huddled against a stack of giant boxes.
"Brayden, there's no smoke," Niko said. "Everything's okay."
"There is evil everywhere!" Brayden wailed.
"Dude, you're flipping out," Jake said.
Niko went over to Brayden.
"Don't touch me!" Brayden screamed.
"Look," Niko said to Jake. "His pupils are completely dilated."
"Get away from me," Brayden said.
"It must be the air." Niko came over to look at me. "The air went all green. We must have been breathing in the chemicals. Some kind of psychotic agent in the air."
