How To Stay Alive

Chapter 18

I climbed up a rope that Roman had threw down.

It was like a basement, by that I mean it was dark and underground.

There was a trapdoor to open to get out.

"Thanks." I said to Ro.

He nodded.

"C'mon Pat." I smiled.

His eyes were glassy.

"Patton?" I asked,
"Y-yeah.."

I realised that there were blue vials.

Patton was holding one.

He popped the cork and drank.

"PATTON!"

Oh... No.. Please...

"Yeah!" His eyes strong, he smiled.

The powers!

Roman held one.

Am I going insane?

He had drank it.

What the...

I was up.

No..

I was on the ground.

Chill, Virgil.

Logan made some noise. I couldn't hear anything but muffled mumbling.

"... And Virge." I suddenly heard,
"Hm?"
"You know about the problem with my teleportation?"

What.

"Yeah."

It felt like there was a grey cloud above my head, a shadow constantly following me. Whispers echoing in my head.

Something. I don't know what. But something was definitely wrong.

Like a spelling mistake that you can't pick out. A perfectly symmetrical face.

A house with half the walls one shade and the others a slightly different shade.

Wrong. Something strange. Like untangled earphones.

Someone with perfect big, blue eyes.

An almost leaning tree.

Like an old website from the late 90s.

Strange. Something important forgotten. Something unimportant remembered.

A rose with no smell.

Cloudy, yet sunny days.

Tension in the air.

Strange lights in the sky, on a starless night.

Nothingness, when there should be something.

Something, when there should be nothingness.

Noise, when there should be silence.

Silence, when there should be noise.

Happiness, when there should be sadness.

Sadness, when there should be happiness.

A person in the shade.

Love in a curse.

A hate, in love.

"Virgil?" A sound kicked me out of my mind, Patton!
"Huh?"
"I can't travel more then two people."
"Who are ya gonna send?"
"Ro and Logan?"
"Sure!" I smiled, no truth behind it.

He smiled.

Then Logan and Roman were gone.

"Can't ya teleport us?"
"I'm trying.."

A while passed.

"I can't."

Then it hit me. It smacked me in the face like a wave crashing against a rock. My stomach dropped as though I was on a rollercoaster and my mind was racing 100 miles an hour.

He couldn't.

A forest was stretched in front of us.

Silence.

"Run."

A/N

I want to thank CallistaF-B for being so helpful to me when needing help on some parts of this chapter!