A Blood Red Top Hat

Chapter Twenty-Four: Dark Clouds

Dear Readers:

I don't really like writing Author's notes in front of the story but stay with me, I cannot think about the amount of readers that is reading this story, i was like "HOLY *BEEP*!", I can't thought about anything to thank you guys! But thank you for 75% americans readers, 4% canadian readers, 3%UK readers, 1.6% LADDIES(irish readers if you are confused), 1.6% Portugal readers, 1.6% Poland readers, 1.6% Romanian readers(BUNA, idk i used google translate), 1.6% Filipino readers, 4% Aussie readers and lastly 1.6% kiwis.

Thank you to all whom follows the developing book: A Blood Red Top Hat.

Sincerely yours-Phantoms Edge

previously on A Blood Red Top Hat:

(this is for those who skipped the last chapter for their own sake of sleeping at night) There's this 'hybrid' insect girl start chasing Spirit, and yeah..."YOU CAN NOT ESCAPE HIM!" (that's the last sentence of the chapter).

Before the information reached my mind, the girl lunches forward. Faster than anything, the force pushed me off my feet and landed on the grey floor on my back, I screamed. At least I wanted to, but darkness covered me, trying to open my eyes but no avail, it hangs there like a men holding onto a bar before falling down to the darkness of the cave. I try to scream, my voice doesn't respond. I curse within my head as I flop down as the unspoken anger rose upon my chest.

I don't know how long have my eyes been blinded but after a while a small streak of light shine through the curtains of mine, and slowly, more and more gathered and stab right into the puilple of my eyes. I attempted to take control of my own body again and it listened.

White, and then black, covering and wrapping around me, I let out a loud groan as my hands fumbled around the surrounding for any clues that where I am in, which does not comfered me as a hard cold surface in contact with my hand, the world around me slowly become clearer as my brain adding on the details of objects around me.

"Spirit."

I jumped, my heart pumped faster my eyes scan across the room, a black figure fades into shape, a black haired male.

"Wretched?" I gasped out, the figure step closer, a small flash across the male's face, which echoed to me as well as I did the same as him. Smiling back with gratefulness that somehow, this dude; Wretched could find me.

"How?" I choked out after that few second of quietness, the blue eye boy puts his finger on his lips as a signal to 'hush', which I don't really wanted to follow but due to the place and the situation we are in, I keep my mouth shut.

"There's a lot you don't know about me, and I really wish you don't know." Wretched whispered which makes me really uncomfortable of the low tone of his voice compared to my voice seconds ago.

I proven a nod to fill the silence, Wretched nodded as he turn on his heel and pointed down near his feet, I gasped, which I didn't think I didn't but my body reacted this way.

Blood covered the ground, the crimson splattered all over the metal ground, on to the grey walls of whatever this place is, and stained Wretched and mine's shirt. A girl, the girl that once chanced me down the 'test room', was lying lifeless on the ground, head de-attached to the body which rolled off to the side, my eyes stayed and stared at the sight, it felt, gross.

I wanted to scream at Wretched, ask him what did he do, or just, shook him until all the answers come out. But I couldn't as I pulled my eyes off the disturbing site. "Follow me." Wretched simply gestured to a direction which he started to move to, I followed him.

We reached a wall, no, a shuttered door, Wretched easily slide the metallic door as the light poured and pooled inside the room that I've been in and...The poor girl which been beheaded(learnt that word when watching supernatural). The hallway was lit with grey all over, the walls;grey, the floor;grey, the ceiling;grey. Just a plain hallway that have many doors aside.

"I think I know where to find this dude." Wretched look both way down the hallway and then he step out normally as he did everyday where I stumbled with fear.  "I study this place and I believed there is a main control room, and that, possibly will be where our next 'famous-aj-youtuber' will be."

Without pausing, he contiuned, "If we find that person behind all this, you step back and let me do the work." Wretched walked down the hallway until a few turns which he indeed, walk like nothing has happened. 

The grey hallways fly passed me as the boring walk keeps on going, my brain completely shuts off, I wanted to know, who is this boy and how didn't he cheat this system? How did he even get in this place? Did he even play Animal Jam-

"Where here, get ready." We turn one last corner as we been welcomed by a special door which has more details than the normal metallic side-doors, I gulped down a mouth-full of my saliva which is been building during the walk. Wretched give me one last look and step forward to reach out the handle, he twist the handle and give one harsh push that send the door flying and hitting the wall on the other side.

Wretched run in, no one. There's no one in there but thouthands of screens hanging on the ceiling and walls, small panels on the table with millions or even billions of buttons. "Crap." Wretched shouted out as he throw himself closer to the screens, and I followed him closer. 

"I was so close." Wretched shouted out, as I stared blankly at the black haired boy.

"Yeah you were close." I didn't say that, another voice did. Which immediately gain Wretched's attention.

We both look up, the screen glitches, and soon, it become clearer as small screens become one big screen.

On their, a teenager, blonde hair standing up on his pale face, his smile seems like knife as he stare down. "Wretched and Spirit." He smiled again, his blue eyes wrinkle behind his black framed glasses. "Don't worry, I am just 'leaving for a while', to check on, the clan."

My eyes flutter at his features, I know him, like how I know Zarfy.

"You are not going anywhere, especially near our Clan." I bite out, finally I could hear myself looking confident. He shook his head.

I look him right into his eyes, maybe he cannot see that I am looking directly into those eyes but I am, I feel confident, strong and I shall not let our Clan fall down.

"Skorm, we shall not let you get close to the clan."

He smiled as I shout out his name.

"Watch me."

Preview of the next chapter:

Skorm;his name, finally out in the public.

What trick will be pull off this time? What will happen to the clan?

How could Spirit stop him, but at what cost?

Find out more in the next chapter of A Blood Red Top Hat.