Crimson

The answer?

"What the hell?" I say as I walk towards the tree seeing nothing there, I put my hand to where the spiral once was but nothing happens, I growl out in frustration, my body heaving up and down as I feel the darkness rising up, I create fists by my sides as my eyebrows frown together.

"Where, is it!?" I shout as I turn to the burnt house growling, Conner puts a calming hand on my shoulder and I relax almost instantly.

"We'll figure it out okay? Just calm down" he says to me, I huff out in frustration before turning on my heels and brushing him aside as I walk off into the dense forest. The crunching from the twigs and the soft kisses of the cold air around me, I close my eyes and breath in smelling all the air around me. Once I'm calm I head back towards the burnt house seeing Conner sitting on the porch, his eyes foggy as his hands bleed from his nails digging into his palms.

"Conner? Conner!" I shout, he looks up and sees me, a tear rolling down his cheek as he tells me something that shatters my heart. I run, pushing branches out of the way as tears stream down my face. A fallen tree in my way as I raise my hands clasping them together and forcing the down as the tree snaps in half, a black smoke-like fog surrounds my feet lifting me up as I jump over a cliff face to the other side Conner's wolf standing there on the other side whining and howling for me to come back.

I keep running until I make it to an area so cold that my breaths fog up in front of my face. It wasn't winter so the ice and snow didn't make sense. I look around and notice something is off besides the snow.

"I know that you're here!" I suddenly shout as if something possessed me.

"Show yourself!" I bellow out, my eyes smoking as I begin to see pairs of eyes matched with teeth as they laugh surrounding me. I wave my arms in front of me as a cloud of black smoke forces itself grabbing one of the faces.

"Carman?"

"Hey there" she says as I drop her down to the ground, the smoke disappears as she stands back up, her smile still on her face as her eyes are solid black.

"What are you doing here?"

"It's who I am, this . . . This is my territory and you're trespassing" she says to me as she scowls, I growl at her as she laughs it off.

"What are you on about?"

"Why are you acting surprised? You knew deep down that I wasn't someone who you could trust!" she shouts at me, more faces peer out from the dense air as I recognize them. All demons of all kinds, small children, young adults, some from school and even ones that I didn't even recognize at first.

"Conner trusted you!"

"And that was a mistake! I only have one leader! We all do!" she says as she stands directly opposite me in a challenging position.

"You're going to hell!" I say to her as I dig my heels into the snow below my shoes, she smiles and stands straight.

"No, you are" she says to me as I feel hands grab me, I look around me seeing all the demons surround me as they drag me through the snow, I scream as loud as I can, kicking them and scratching them but it doesn't do a thing. Soon I find myself in a cage as I scream, the air is thin as I take in a big deep breath. The ground comes closer and closer towards me as I cover my eyes them.

"You're okay" someone says as I open them seeing a pair of arms holding me, I push him off of me and look up seeing a tall man standing there. Dark hair and eyes as he looks concerned.