Sahia's Hide or Homocide

SHOH Chapter XIX

     Ending is two or three chapters away! Dang, that took longer that I originally thought it would be. "Ummm. Ash, why is there a Japanese Hide and Seek song?" 'Cause my inner yandere is kicking in.  Jamie is still planning out "The Bitch Queen," so if she still not finished, we are going to make another short unplanned story just to past the time.

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    5:00 a.m had felt like hours, yet the clock rang the hour bell when the hour pointer was pointing at the five. Dustin sighed of relief and Ashley woke up from unconsciousness.

   "What happened?" Ashley asks softly.

    "Sahia must've possessed you, I guess." Dustin assumes.

   "Where's my daddy?" Ashley asks.

    "Someone grabbed him and he blazed up into flames." Dustin then apologizes. "I'd wish that I gotten to him sooner."

   Ashley sighed as her throat became dry and her head tense with emotional pressure inside of her brain. She slightly tilt her head back.

    "Don't worry, Ashley, it's over. It's five now. We won." Dustin informs.

   "I too weak to walk." She utters.

    Dustin picked her up and carried her bridal style. They were both tired and weak from hours of no sleep and hours of getting frightened by creatures here in the dark.

    "Mom?! Dad?!" Dustin looked around to find his parents no where to be in sight. Dustin never saw them climbed the ladder to exit the basement. He then put Ashley down at her feet.

   "Climb the ladder," Dustin looks around as Ash trundled towards the metal ladder. She climbed with her hands and legs trembling. Dustin feared that she might fall, so he stand by the ladder ready to catch her. 

    Dustin climbed up the ladder following her. They were back in the garage. They didn't hear the crisps and the roars of fire. Dustin blinked his eyes to moistened them up. They felt dry and stingy.

   "Once we go home, we can sleep." Dustin told Ashley.

    "I have no parents." Ashley exclaims. "I am only seventeen." Ashley wanted to cry, but she hold it back. She was too weak and too exhausted to cry.

    "Graduation for me is only few months away and since I am eighteen, I can move into your house and both of us can live together." Dustin said while they began walking.

     "We got to pay the bills, get a job, and-" She paused. "And no kids if you were thinking about it."

   "I wasn't." Dustin chuckles. "We'll live as best friends." They left the garage  and walked down the hallway. They can see an opening at the end of it. Not a single door, but an area towards the living room. The living room is where the door is to the outside.

    The house was still dark, but the sun rising from the outside lightened it up enough to help them see.
  
    They heard running footsteps from the edge of the hallway. Dustin and Ashley stopped then stared near the end of the hallway. The man in the cloak started to walked towards them. Ashley and Dustin stand still.

    "You ignorant children." He says while removing his cloak. He had pale skin and grey eyes. His hair was bit of a spikey blonde. He also had a slight muscular build. "You can't leave unless you get passed me." The same guy that warned them, now their enemy.

    "Go away!" Ashley snapped. "It's past five."

    The man let out a loud psychotic laugh making Ashley and Dustin flinch. "Past five, I am still alive until six." He growled as his eyes glowed eerie yellow. He then started to go on his knees. The man began growling and snarling. Dark hair began to grow from beneath his flesh. The man opened his mouth as he growled. His teeth became sharp and yellow. His body began to mold into a shape like a wolf. Then a dark fluffy tail grew where his tail bone should be.

     Dustin's mind realize it was the dog that killed Tyler, ripping every limb in his body to shreds.

   The dog launched at Dustin and Ashley. Dustin's adrenaline told him to flee, but there's no way he could pass the snarling dog. He had no choice, but to fight this being. He socked the mutt right into his face. The dog falled down on its side. He still got back up and snarled at them.

    The dog began to launch at Ashley. Ashley tried to push him away, however her strength failed. She fell backwards and the dog began clawing at her eyes. She screamed as he ripped her left eye out of her socket. Blood ooze from her left socket then her vision impaired.

   Dustin kicked the mutt off of Ashley. Ashley lay on the ground whimpering. Before the mutt can try to launch at Dustin and ripped his limbs apart, a loud bang echoed throughout the hallway. The dog only toppled over Dustin. The dog coughed up blood right onto his face.  Then something dark grabbed the dog off of Dustin with inhuman strength.

    "You don't even touch my brother!" He heard a woman hollor in rage. It was a girl in a dark jacket and wearing jeans.  She took out a butcher knife and slice the wild dog's neck open. Loud snaps of muscle and blood dripped onto the floor. She kept slicing the dog until the neck and head was sundered from its body. The person dropped it to the floor. Blood began to pool onto the wooden floor. The woman began pulled down her hoodie.

   "What the fu- Penel?!" Dustin sat up and looked at his sister intently in the eyes. "How did you even get here?" He asked.

    "Long story." She says sternly. Her voice was promising and human making Dustin reassure that it's not some ghost posing as his own sister.  

    "How'd you manage to hide all this time?" Dustin asks again.

    "Pfffff!" She broke out into a laughter. Dustin looked at her confused. "Don't you know of what we can do?" She asks full of amusement.

   "No..." Dustin says disoriented.

    "We are black, Dusty." She smiles. "We can blend in the dark easier" Penel had a darker colour than Dustin because due to his mom was a light coloured black person while his father inherited a dark colour skin.  Dustin and Penel broke into a laughter until silence by Ashley's loud whimpering.

    "We need to escort her to the hospital." Dustin informs while getting back up. Penel and Dustin both helped Ashley to stand up. Her left hazel bloodshot eye was dangling out of her bloody eye socket. Scratches were all over her face. Her right eye was completely fine, thankfully.

     They called 911 fibbing instead about what really happened. If they told the true story, they might be deemed crazy or in big trouble.  Penel and Dustin explained they found 'this girl' crying in the house saying she was attack by something while they're doing an early morning jog.

    Once Ashley was whisked away to the hospital by an ambulance, they went back home as investigators went into the house unaware of the danger there. Penel and Dustin managed to get inside the house while their parents were in a deep sleep.