Sinking Slow

The Creature within

I went through Gracin's room, the only way you can get to the bathroom which was a door from his room. I got some of Rina's clothes and went in the shower. Gracin stayed in his room to work on more stuff on the computer. I went in and shut the door, set my clothes down and got undressed. I went in the shower and cleaned myself up. I washed off the dried rat blood, and my dirty hair, and dirt off my body in general. I also noticed lots of different cuts and scratches on me in the shower. I used a homemade of course, shampoo, conditioner, and body wash that Rina said she made from a good smelling substance in a goblin room. It smelled pretty good. I had to admit, she was pretty creative with a lot of things, I don't not like Rina. She was scared of the maze, but it's okay, everybody is just more scared than others. I know she tries the best, also I think that she has a crush on Gracin, and she tried to make sure I don't flirt with him. I smiled at the thought of it. But there would be so many more guys after her than me up on earth, don't know how any body could get jealous of me. I've never been a very confident person, I know I'm not ugly but I don't think I'm all that pretty either. I stepped out of the shower and dried off. Rina always wore armor like clothing, so that's all there was. I put on stiff like pants, but very tight. Then a top with metal that seemed to push up my front more. I felt a little strange wearing it. I wouldn't normally wear stuff that's at all revealing or showy. I grabbed a comb and walked out of the bathroom, Gracin was still sitting there. "Oh hey....Morgan" he paused before he said my name. He sort of looked all at me, more than..he has before. "Hey" I shyly said, and then got out of there, not so much taking my time like Rina does when she walks. When I walked out there I almost forgot that there were two other guys out there. They looked at me the same way Gracin did. I rolled my eyes still combing my hair. Rina stopped from lifting weights to come to me. She examined me up and down. "I think you look better in that than me." "Was that a compliment Rina??" I asked unbelieved. "No," she said getting up. "You're not pretty, you're just not ugly." I smiled and then she did too. Gracin opened his door and hollered. "Morgan! I need to show you something come here!" I walked to him but out of the corner of my eye, I saw Rina roll her eyes and go back to lifting weights. I walked to him fast at first, but I slowed down, almost forgetting what bounced as I walked. "Morgan look." He said and I sat down in his room in a chair beside him. He typed a couple things on the computer and it popped up some..cameras. "Cameras?" I said looking closely at it. "I know right, so weird. I didn't place those there." We sat in crazy confusion. "You know what that means right?" He looked at me afraid to here what I was about to say. "Supplies was randomly placed for me as I was walking, cameras are set up? This isn't a creature we're dealing with Gracin. It's a person." He stared in disbelief at me. "Why did you get me? I have to go tell Rina." I started to get up. "No wait." He said, I turned around from opening the door and looked at him. "Come sit down. I slowly sat down. "To be honest Morgan, I kind of wish, I don't know, I wish that you lead us, not Rina." "Well I can't fix that Gracin, she's the one who made the group, not me. She's the one who's kept you safe after all." "I mean, you need to tell her that you're a leader." "Gracin I'm not. You all barley know me and just met me." "But you are," "I feel like I'm more than that." "I'm more than just the brains, Morgan, I'm strong too, I'm creative too." "And charming." I thought to myself. The way he slightly laughed was almost as if he read my thought. "So what's your story Gracin?" "Oh you already heard Rina's boring story, you don't need to hear mine too." "Please tell me." "No seriously, it's not a good idea" he looked at me with his gorgeous blue eyes. And he looked into my eyes. I gave him a look. "Okay" he started to say, "I enjoyed the maze, I didn't really know it though, I didn't go there a lot, I only went a few times, with my mom and dad. It was kind of like a park to us. Well, one day we went there, very early in the morning. I felt kind of sick so they thought the fresh air would help, but..." he looked down at the ground afraid to say anything. I put my hand on his shoulder, slowly starting to rub it. "Then they, when I had my back turned they stuck a needle out of the blue in my arm, I passed out and when I woke up.." he bowed his head down out of view for me. "The Lobisomems were ripping them to shreads with their teeth and claws, and I could do nothing but watch." Something was way different about him now, his eyes weren't blue, they were a deep purple now. "Your eyes Gracin." He looked down away from me and wiped the tears from his eyes. "Oh you know, after all that mess, I went through the door, but I didn't sink in tar." As he spoke, I watched his eyes slowly fade into blue again. "I fell in fire, and it burned, it burned horrible, the most excruciating pain I've went through I think. Nothing from me was burning though, after that I fell in water, I felt relieved more than anything, but there were no burns on me. I swam through the water, and I could breath in it, I found a closet, I opened it and a shining light came through." "Kind of like the crystal ball," I quietly said. "Yeah...and I arrived at the maze. I didn't have anything to protect me, I was in that maze, alone,.. for fifteen days." "That's impossible," I interrupted. "Gracin,..I'm not saying you're lying but...that's impossible for you to stay alive for fifteen days, without protection, and I barely lasted one night." He just looked down at the ground. "Well, I was..pretty lucky than huh?" I looked at him in confusion. I don't know how he would last that. I felt there was something he didn't tell me. "Listen Morgan...don't tell Rina I told you...because I told her it was two days. She told me how lucky I was to last that, I must be some kind of miracle. If I were to tell her the truth, fifteen days she wouldn't believe me." "I don't even know if I do" I thought to myself. His eyes started to turn a shade of purple again, just not as purple as before. "Morgan, I am not lying to you!" "I never said you were!" I yelled back. He stared in my eyes for a moment, "but you thought it" I sat in shock. His eyes flashed back to blue again. I knew this whole time there was something about him. The only thing I could assume now, is that if he's not human, he's a creature, a creature in disguise. "No, no!" I kept repeating getting up out of my seat about to burst through the door. As I back away he kept following. "Morgan, listen I can explain." "No no!" I kept repeating as he tried to talk to me. I finally opened the door and stormed off to the other side of the room since there was no where else to go. I kept saying the same thing, and he kept trying to explain, but there was no explanation for it. "No! No!" "Morgan wait!! Stop! I can explain! I'm not what you think I am!" Rina and the guys saw both of us raise our voice louder and louder. The boys slowly started to walk that way. "No! you're not human!" "Yes I am! Morgan you need to trust me!" "No!" "Trust me!" He yelled this time grabbing my hands from trying to escape out of his presence. The boys ran this time and Draigon snatched him up off me and threw him on the ground like a rag doll. "Why are you putting your hands on Morgan!?" Brus yelled in Gracin's face making spit fly. Rina sat, looking sad more than anything on the couch watching, and I stood out of breath from screaming. Gracin started to speak. "She she..j ..just wouldn't listen to me..she she" as he spoke he started to get louder and louder with every word. "Morgan just accused me of..some something that I I'm not and I would never do! And!.." "calm your voice!!" Driagon yelled in his face. He stared to calm his voice a little more this time. "She said I'm something, but she had no proof of it! Ha!" He started to creep me out now almost like he was happy, but he yelling..almost like it was..evil happy. He was smiling now as he spit out his words. "She thinks! Ha that I am a creature! Haha she has no proof of that! Once so ever!" I realized that his eyes had just turned a bright purple again. "See! Look into his eyes!" They all looked and they all saw. Brus picked him up by the back of the shirt, and hung it on one of the hooks for the torches that didn't have one in it. Driagon got in his face, but not yelling. "What kind of creature are you?" Gracin opened his mouth to take a breath, but that's when we all realized,..it wasn't just his eyes. His teeth..his canine teeth..were sharp. He had a purple glow in his eyes. He didn't answer Driagon's question, he just smiled an evil smirk. Driagon slapped him In the face, not that hard though, compared to what he could do. It was odd that Rina didn't seemed frightened of the moment just really sad. After being slapped twice Gracin finally said something, but still with a smile on his face. "He's not coming back!" He yelled. "Who!?" Brus yelled from right behind Driagon. "Gracin, he's not coming back!" He started to laugh now. I've seen hideous things, but I hadn't witnessed this before. Brus and Draigon just back away in shock. No body said a word more. Gracin just continued to laugh the most evil I had ever heard. I realized now, that it wasn't his fault, I made this a big deal and I caused this. He wasn't a creature, he was possessed by one. I got up and walked closer to him. "Be careful Morgan" Brus said stopping me by the shoulder. I just nodded and he slowly let go. I walked up to Gracin's face and he just looked at mine so evil. Still slightly laughing, his eyes turned purple and his fangs still sharp. "Gracin come back to us." I told him. "Gracin isn't here!!" He screamed in my face, but I didn't budge. "My kind will kill you all, we're the strongest, you all will suffer in this maze, because of what you all have done! you will never escape!!" He screamed I touched his face "Gracin, you can over power this thing! You can come back to us! I'm sorry for not listening, we all get scared Gracin! Come back to us now! We need you." His evil smile disappeared but his fangs and eyes remained the same. "Gracin! I know you can hear me! Your more powerful than this! We need you! Right now!!" I was desperate. His eyes turned blue again, and his teeth slowly sunk into his gums. He closed his eyes, and sighed, and fell off the hook. He must have passed out. I laid my head on him. Eventually all of us did. We all joined to Lay our heads on him. I realized that this thing was part of him, and we couldn't change that.