Gain and Eliminate

Chapter Fourteen: Hello

Out of the shadows crept a figure dressed in torn fabric and ruffled hair. Mere strips of violet hair could be seen through the thick cover of darkness. In the rays of the moonlight, a face became visible. The face shook Renee, her heart began beating faster and she became tongue tied. A warm, and not to mention an overly familiar feeling of death trickled through her as her memories began flickering through her head. "Shauna!" A gasp flew through Rachel.
The figure smiled and then the world around Renee and Rachel shook.

Piercing feelings of chills, cold sweats, and so many more feelings only a human could have nightmares of feeling at once. A warm brisk wind flew through the room. Shauna stood up, only to again fall to the floor in a freezing sweat, beads and blades seemed to endlessly pour from her forehead. A loud thud crashed through the hallway as her head slammed against the molding wooden planks. A vast scatter of shadows hustled from behind the shut doors into a hurry to huddle around Shauna.

"She was breaking and entering; we can't just let her stay!" Zane exclaimed.

"But we know her, Zane!" Mickey yelled back at him.

"Both of you, just shut up!" Renee burst in rage.

Rachel deeply inhaled and stutteredly exhaled in both exhaustion and agony. "We should need to calm down and take all of this into consideration." Noah interrupted everyone's bickering with a firm voice. "None of us are going to get anywhere when all we do is yell at each other in exacerbation and distress."

"Noah's right." Renee admitted in reluctance. Zane shot an unnoticed scowl to Noah, he watched in a flaming anguished emotion that burnt through his entire blood stream. Boiling content became unbearable as he felt his pulse quicken.

"I need to leave the room." Zane broke away from the conversation in great distress. Renee rolled her eyes subtly. "I should go check on him." Mickey suggested. She then followed him out the room. Shauna, as she lay on the ground, heard nothing but the pounding sound of a hard slap from outside the main room's corner in which everyone had huddled themselves in strategically to create a semi-circle around her freshly wounded skull and body. Then Shauna and her vision regained its blurriness and black tint.

Renee ran in a cold sweat along with Noah, Rachel, and Angel; all carrying Shauna on top of their arms into Renee's room, leading to Renee's bed. They gently lay her down with great care and Renee offered to sleep in the main room that night. As Renee attempted to calmly close her eyes in order to fly into a, for once, joyous dream; a horrid shadow flung through the darkness in which hid the figure from Renee.

In a sudden jump and exertion of every piece of energy, Renee jolted into the shadow's reach, it grabbed her by the waist. The only thing Renee could see was a golden necklace wrapped around its neck. It pulled Renee's back against it and muzzled her mouth. "Moving will only make it worse." it whispered in an airy and husky voice.

Renee fell back in an unwilling faint.

Sodah woke up the next morning and threw herself onto thing area in the main room. She took a sip of water from her cooled cantine. She quickly flung herself into the air and turned herself to face the seating. "GONE. GONE. GONE. GONE. GONE!" Sodah ran aimlessly throughout the shelter, running in and out of everyone's bedrooms.

"SHE. IS. GONE."

"Who, who's gone?" Angel stuttered.

"RENEE!"
"Guys, Zane's gone, too." Mickey grudgingly muttered.

Angel, flew into Rachel's room, "Uh, so is Rachel..."

Everyone began to search both Zane and Rachel's rooms for any clues as to where they had disappeared to.

Angel crept out of Rachel's room holding an object and staring at it with great concentration. "Where do you guys think Rachel got this golden chained necklace from?"