Project Z

Ch. 15

I was running and everything around me was dark

'why am I running?' I thought. In all the darkness I was in there was a hole of light so I ran to it. The light was so bright as I passed through it making me close my eyes but when I opened them I was surrounded by the undead. Without thinking I ran through the horde quickly pushing each undead body away. Each time I pushed one away it seemed as they closed in more onto me until I was surrounded by them and unable to get through. As fear ran through my body I curled up into a ball since I didn't know what else to do and waited for death to take me. 

I waited but nothing happened. When I looked up I was in a flower field with butterflies around

"Annabeth," Becca said who was standing behind me, "What are you doing here?" she asked 

"What happened?" I asked her

"You're not supposed to be here" 

"What do you mean?" just then my parents, Jake and Natalie were behind her

"Mom where am I?" I asked her my voice crack 

"You're in heaven honey" my heart stopped with tears filling my eyes

"No" I whispered "That can't be. We can't be dead. This can't be real" my voice soft 

"You're not supposed to be here," Becca said "You're too early" I laid there in the field my body numb.

"This can't be real" is all I said before tears overflowed my eyes and my body started shaking violently 

"Anna," A voice said looking up it was Dylan standing in front of me. My body trembled and shook even more, with my throat threatening to close up due to all the tears

"Anna," he said again

"Shut up" I choked out

"Anna," he said again moving closer and down toward me until I felt something warm on my face. Lifting up my head staring at Dylan who was knelt in front of me 

"Anna," he said before I shook involuntarily.

"Anna, Anna, Anna" was all I heard each time louder than the last. I tried to block it out but it didn't work. Then a bright light appeared with screaming.

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I woke up in a cold sweat and shaking with my face wet

"Thank god," Dylan said hugging me I shrieked at the contact

"What is it?" he asked pulling away immediately I said nothing 

'What happened?' I thought to myself, not knowing how to respond I just cried. Confused Dylan left the room only for Becca, Natalie, and my mom to enter rushing over to me

"Annabeth, honey, what's wrong?" my mom asked

"What happened?" Natalie asked 

"We heard crying and screaming only to see you shaking and crying" Becca explained I cried harder. My mom tried to hug me only for me to shriek again upon contact

"How about we give her some time alone" Nat suggested agreeing they all left the room; leaving me with my thoughts.

Everything was jumbled up and confusing as to what was real and what was fake

'Did I die?' I thought remembering everything vibrantly clear now. Sitting up I hugged my knees "If I died then how did I come back?" I asked 

'They didn't have anything if I did die to bring me back?' I thought

"It was all just a dream. Yeah just a nightmare, a really bad nightmare" I said getting up and walking out of the room

"Hi guys," I said as everyone was still here

"Hey Annabeth are you feeling alright?" my mom asked I nodded 

"Yeah just a really bad nightmare that's all" replying

"Well if you need anything I'll be helping in the kitchen," she said walking out. 

"Dylan, can you stay?" I asked as everyone was walking out he nodded and we both went into my room. We said nothing for a while as we both laid down on my bed 

"Babe," Dylan said 

"Hm" he moved closer to me "I will always be here for you no matter what. Just know you will always have me by your side through anything" he told me I hugged him tightly.

"Thank you" I squeaked he hugged me back

"I don't ever want what happened today to happen again ok, so I'm going to be sleeping next to you from now on," he told me. Nodding I still was hugging him, he kissed my forehead then laid my head on his chest

"I will always protect you, my princess" I blushed and smiled at this.

For the rest of the day, we laid there with each other talking. When everyone came back we went out to see them

"Welcome back guys," I said 

"Hey Annabeth, how are you feeling?" my mom asked 

"Better actually, sorry about what happened" I apologized 

"Don't be sorry, you couldn't help it" Mr. Jacob said 

"Mr. Trevor told me to give you this," my mom said handing me a folder

"Thanks" I replied looking through it 

"Well lets all head to bed," Mr. Jacob said nodding we all headed to our rooms.

I looked through the folder I was given. It was a report on what they did today in the lab so far it talked about what substances they turned into a solid.

"Substance #1033:

It had turned from a green liquid into a light green power. With placing this on one of the subjects the results were it briefly caused pain before the subject wasn't affected anymore"

I smiled at this as excitement rushed through me 

'We might actually have a chance' I thought as I smiled a pair of arms wrapped around my waist as I felt light kisses on my neck

"What are you reading?" Dylan sleepily asked me 

"It's just the report from today" I responded not caring he pulled me down onto the bed

"Dylan" I laughed

"Sleep Anna" he whined setting the folder down I curled up to him

"Goodnight silly," I said before falling asleep.

000

"Ok, I want everyone working today!" I announced, "Have you solidified all of the substance?" I asked Mr. Trevor

"We only got half of them"

"Finish them and we'll test the ones they have done," I said walking over to the observing deck of the lab

"Set up for the first trials," I told them.

After every trial, I noted what happened and told them to make it into another form of a solid. None of the trails were successful so far.

Days later we are still working and trying to see which ones will cure/kill them.

"We've tried everything nothing is working," one of the other scientists said 

"What haven't we tried?" I asked 

"Nothing, we've tried every form, every substance we can think of that would work," Mr. Trevor said

"There has to be something we haven't tried," a scientist said

"Maybe we should get an opinion of someone besides us" Mac suggested thinking about it, we agreed.