Can't Find My Way [Completed - Short Story]

Chapter 7: Eternal Love (Arthur)

I waited until everybody fell asleep. I stared at the ceiling of my tent thinking what would happen after this. I can hear the crackles of the bonfire outside, even the sound of the crickets are all over my head. Voices from outside started to fade out and when it totally went silent, I know that it's already time.

I get on my feet and peeked outside my tent, it was dark and silent, with no sign of anybody except for the creatures of the night. The moon shines down and lights up the town, shadows form under the trees. Runes and sigils from everywhere glow faintly like glow worms. I'm fascinated by the beauty surrounding me, it was totally stunning. Well, you got what I mean; it almost feels like I'm dreaming and so I slapped my face. "Ouch!!!" That hurts!

After I dozed off from the beauty of the night, I took my off. I need to snap out of this, I need to get to Micah; I need to know if I was successful.

I started my journey back to the hospital; everything seems chaotic back there; I never thought that civilization caused much damage to the world. The streets were empty but you can see the stupid lights around the town; flickering street lights, on and off traffic lights, dim night lights coming out from the windows of those lined up buildings.

On the head of the streets just right in front of the Hudson's Hospital, I saw a shadow of a man; I'm not quite certain if it's a girl or a boy but that's not the problem here. The thing is that man was like looking at me straight into my soul, giving me the creeps. Tiny hairs from behind my back stand like they were electrocuted, which sends a signal to my whole body that it's not safe to make a staring competition with that person. I almost turn and go back to the tribe but I need to shrug this off, that man can't do me any harm, right? And so I continued from where I stopped, I took a step forward and then the man moved; ridiculously fast, I must say. The man looks like struggling from procrastination then in a blink of an eye, the man vanished. I rubbed my eyes to make sure, but yes, my eyes are not fooling around, the man was gone, like it was never there in the first place; there must be something wrong with my eyes or it is the talent of seeing fooling me. Well, that's not my biggest concern now and so I went straight to Micah's room, ignoring those spirits lurking around the hospital. Yes, I can see a ghost but not vividly though and I've been trying so hard to ignore them ever since I learned how to use my talent.

Moaning and screaming, that's what most of the spirits do here in the hospital, it's really disturbing, I can feel their agony, their anger, their sadness, and their loneliness. And the worst part was they know that I can see and hear them. Some of them talk but not in a conversational manner.

"You're a fool!" one of the spirits said but I just ignored him.

"It was a mistake!" said the other.

"Everybody will suffer!" said another one.

All of a sudden I felt something cold and empty at my back, it gave me goosebumps that made me startle a bit but that wasn't it yet, because that spirit wasn't contented so it whispered into my ear and said "You defied the law, you'll die soon!" she said, I just continued walking and ignored her while my face all turned white from fright.

I saw a body lying in front of Micah's room, I ran towards it hoping that it wasn't Micah or a ghost that's pulling a trick on me. As I got closer to it I recognized its white uniform, He's probably a nurse or a doctor in this hospital then why is he lying here on the floor. I saw his face; he looks in pain and frightened. I almost puked when I noticed his awfully wounded body like he was attacked by an animal; his body was covered in blood and his ribcage was ripped, his eyes were still open and so was his mouth.

I rushed inside Micah's room to check her up, wishing that she wasn't attacked inside. I saw her lying on her bed, sleeping sound as sleep. I walk towards her and kissed her on her forehead, as soon as I pulled away from my face to her head I saw her eyes opened.