Deception

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Three bullets pass through my legs and stomach. I fall to my knees, and one of the bullets pops out of the back of my thigh. I scream in pain, and I can hear a response from the floor above me, but it sounds like they're tied up. A wire pops up out of the floor in front of me, and behind me, along with a small, new tv and a DVD player. He appears on the tv and he starts talking as he smirks.

" Hello Cole, looks like you're in a bit of trouble. The real Kai is upstairs, tied up and has a wire wrapped around his throat, tightening every minute. The whole building is rigged with explosives, so, Are you going to get out now, or are you going to save the hellbound?" He says.

" You fucking bitch." I say.

I plant my hands onto the ground and pull myself to the door and another tv pops up in front of the doorway.

" Interesting, you did the exact same thing as I thought you would." He says.

" Is this some prerecorded bullshit?" I ask.

" Yes Cole, it is, but you might want to spend less time asking questions, and more time getting out of the house." He says and an explosion goes off.

It starts off In the middle of the building and I crawl as fast as I possibly can out of the door, but my leg catches most of the blast, and I'm thrown into the minivan. I make an enormous dent in the side of it, and I fall off onto the ground and my legs are still bleeding out, so I give up, and call 911. I can kinda hear the sirens, and the paramedics pull me into the ambulance. They put me through anaesthesia and I pass out, but when I wake up, I'm not in a hospital, I'm on the street. I look over and the ambulance is turned over, and in fire, so I stand up, still injured, but the bullets are gone, so I make a strap up my wounds, and I look down the street. It's Kai, so I throw a sword through his abdomen but it flies through his as if he was never there.

" Hologram?" I question.

" No, this is a mental message, you like." He says.

" No, not really."

" Aw, too bad, I think your brother does."

" Wait what."

" Your brother, besides the dagger piercing his chest and the wire tightening around his neck, I think he's enjoying himself."

" What! Where are you keeping him!"

" Look in the ambulance, and you'll find a phone, you will receive a phone call. It will tell you two addresses, you choose which is the the right one."

He fades away and I sprint over to the ambulance, and I grab the phone out of the drivers pocket. They call, and tell me two addresses, but it's not Kais voice. I pick the first one, because if most people would pick the second one but I'm gonna pick the first one. I try to create a motorcycle but it just doesn't work. I think of every single part of a dirt bike, what's it made out of, what it does, and the bike begins to take form. I give it a nice American Flag paint job and I ride down to the first address, and I look through the window to check for traps, and there are three guns positioned at the doorway. I create stairs going up to the top floor and I look through the window and there are no traps, but my brother isn't there either. A tv rises out of the ground and Kai starts speaking.

" Oopsies, You chose the wrong building, sorry." The screen turns and I see my brother, and the wire tightens and slits his throat.

" NOO!!!!!" I scream at the very top of my lungs.

I feel every single bit of air escape my lungs, and my heart stops beating. Every vein in my body closes flat, and every scar I've ever had opens. All the systems in the husk of me stop moving. I'm a dead man alive. I fall back, as if the universe stopped moving. The sky goes black and the clouds stop, I feel nothing, and when my head slams against the stairs I feel everything, but no matter how hard I fall, I stay awake. I feel every inpact, every cut, every wound, everything that has ever happened to me all at once. The pain, the suffering, the happiness even, and as I fall off of the last step, instead of hitting the ground, I see reality warps from the night sky into hell, fire and brimstone, yet there is snow. I land onto the jagged stone, tearing into my body and face, but I ignore it. Maze stares me in the eyes and stomps on my chest and I heave.

" Wake the fuck up!" She yells.

I stay silent, and she kicks me in the side but I stare emptily past her. All I see is the memories that I had of my brother, Jonothan Lane. Us playing in the grass when we were kids, and playing with our dog, Charlie. His life was enjoyable, or at least that's what it seemed. All he wanted to be was kind, giving money to charities and all that shit. It's my fault, I didn't choose the other house, I'm just not smart enough, I don't know how I'm gonna beat him. But I'm gonna find him, and I'm gonna do every single conceivable way to torture him, and then I'm gonna kill him.

" Maze, that's enough." Lucifer says.

" No it's not." She says out of anger.

" Mazikeen!" He shouts.

She kicks me in the stomache.

" Stop!" He says.

A shockwave of flame bursts from him and pushes past us.

" He's in enough pain, his brother died." He says, with sympathy in his voice.

She stops kicking me.