Living in an Imagination

Waves and Waves of Shock

The three Creators fell out from the portal. Eda walked over shakily to the nearest couch and plopped herself down forcefully, Aria sobbing as she tried to get up to a standing position, Autumn kneeled down, adrenaline was wearing off and they all felt worn out, especially Aria and Eda who were running with riders on their backs just now.

Sireda emerged from the control room/office with Glier, Delta, Elsa and Rhea pushing each other to get into the teleportation room.

"Are all of you okay?" Sireda questioned as the other unaffected four went around and checked on them.

Eda, Autumn and Aria nodded, Autumn and Aria still a bit tearful, Eda looked a bit pale.

Sireda raised a brow, "In that case, I would like you all to come in to the control room, it's urgent."

Aria muttered, "It's gonna... take a while... oh man..." She stood up nonetheless.

Eda stood up shakily and took a step forward. Sharp pain shot up her legs and up her body. With a cry of pain, she sank back to her knees, hands clutching her right thigh.

Delta rushed over to help, she tried to pry Eda's hands away from the wound in fear of it being infected. Eda hissed and gripped on tighter, her knuckles whitened.

Glier snarled, ".50 calibre bullet I presume... machine guns, medium sized, the types that mounts on a tripod and belt-fed. Eda, who did you put in your universe to use this?"

Eda said through gritted teeth, face drenched in sweat as Delta and Elsa worked on the wound, "I didn't... I did... n-not even k-know it was... included... I don't even know how... machine guns... o-or gatlings functio- Ahh....sss...."

Eda hissed as Delta applied pressure to the wound to stop the bleeding. Autumn, Aria and Rhea stood in shock and they had no idea what to do.

Sireda narrowed her eyes, "Gunshot? That can't... Elsa, go get help. I'll handle the wound."

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Minutes passed, Eda did not come out of the substitute operation room which is her bedroom.

The others sat in silence in the living. Rhea was the first one to hear footsteps coming from the upstairs, she alerted the rest.

"Sireda?" Rhea called out. No response but it was apparent that the person was coming down.

But there's no sight of the person, even after a few minutes more of waiting.

"Are you all looking for m̸̢̖͔͉̥̰̯̟͉̜̱̿͐͗̊̀͐̔̈̒͠é̶̻̤͖̻̜̻̈́͒͒͂̏͗͘?"

Delta jumped, Aria, Autumn and Glier immediately went into their fighting stance. Rhea on the other hand was frozen. A figure stood behind her.

It was a man, in a black hoodie, ultramarine shirt beneath, with black hair that was dyed blue at some of the parts that covered half his pale face. He has three streaks of purple on each side of his face that extended from his eyes to his jaw that did not seem tattooed, instead it looks like it was there naturally. The mysterious being tilted his head, put his arms behind his back and went to stand out in the open away from Rhea.

He coughed, "I'm sorry, the glitches caught up to me sometimes, trying to lessen the effects. Slow but not fruitless."

"Who the heck are you?" Elsa asked.

The man tugged at his sleeve, "Well, I'm disappointed that Eda didn't really tell you everything, you may call me Zalgo."

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Glier's POV