Friends

The New Alexa

The body of Alexa suddenly jerked up as though she past some kind of barrier. She started to walk towards the innocent boy. Eyes empty, body convulsing, and hatred radiating from her, she started to attack the boy.

"Alexa... I know that you must be so eager to complete your first task, but let's be civil. Do not rip him apart with your hands, use the tool that I provided." after saying this, the cloaked figure gestured towards the axe. "Go on, try it!"

The body of Alexa unevenly hobbled towards the weapon. She ended up tripping on the debris from the fallen wall and fell. Determined to cause destruction, she crawled towards the weapon. Once she got up, her whole body was covered head to toe in scratches and blood. She started to hobble back to the boy.

"Now, now, we cannot have a young demon tripping and falling. Follow me dear and I will fix you right up."

A new wall immediately appeared in place of the old one. And Alexa followed the cloaked figure. They arrived at a room and it snapped its fingers. Alexa immediately regained consciousness and gained complete control over herself.

"WHAT DID YOU DO TO ME?!" demanded Alexa

"Do you really want to know? I am afraid that the science behind it would be too complex for you..."

"ARGH!" Alexa growled

Alexa leaped onto the cloaked figure and started slashing at it with her axe. Screaming and laughing, she didn't stop hitting and attacking "it". Oddly enough, "it" seemed to have enjoyed this moment: it laughed and although "it" was dying, "it" seemed to have finally gotten what it wanted. Once she stopped, the whole room around her was covered in blood. She jerked away from the body. Panting and wide-eyed she was so frightened by what she had done. She dropped the axe and let it fall to the floor. She slowly looked down at her hands and they were covered in her victim's blood. The thing that she fought so hard against, she herself became. She never thought she was capable of such things. After a few moments, she calmed herself to a degree and realized that she killed the enemy and that she, Aura, Taylor, and that young boy were free. Before leaving the room, however, she decided that she would lift the mask off of "it" and find out who was torturing them. She slowly lifted the mask. The fabric as though refused to come off. She tugged and tugged and then finally, it came off. She stumbled backwards from the sudden release. She walked up to the "previously-cloaked figure and what her eyes saw, she herself could not believe: she saw herself. She saw herself on the floor and this could have only meant one thing: there was one person who was pretending to be her. Figuring all of this out, she runs out of the room. Unsure of where to go next, she tried to as though connect with her other side. She took a deep breath after another and nothing seemed to work. She got frustrated at the lack of progress and immediately her head slanted sideways and she could no longer have full control of herself.

Woah....I can see where everything is...

Her other self's eyes as though had a map of the whole place. She started walking to a blue icon which she assumed was Taylor since the only colors that he would wear would be blue. About halfway there, she could not move. She was as though stuck. Immediately instead of the map, a red warning sign appeared. The signed blinked a few times reading: "Plan A invalid. Execute Plan F, Plan R, Plan E, Plan E, Plan N." Before she was given a chance to decipher the warning, it disappeared and did not reappear. After the sign disappeared, she gained full control of herself once more.

Why do I have control again? If I did not make myself do this then who did?
Alexa quickly dismissed the seemingly irrational thought believing that she got rid of the enemy. She walked forwards and she heard an awfully familiar annoying high-pitched voice:
"Ugh. My head... What happened, where am I? OH NO! ALEXA!!! ALEEEEXXXAAAA!"
Of course it's Taylor, who else.

"Yeah. I am here Taylor."
"Oh good! I thought that you were never coming back! I thought- I thought that it got you and killed you."

"Well I am certainly not dead. What do you remember?"
"Uh, well I tried to valiantly save you, but then I fainted."
"Is that all?" inquired Alexa

"I think so..." lied Taylor

Oh my god she killed the boy. She killed the boy. SHE KILLED THE BOY. Am I next? How did she escape? Wait, is- no, she couldn't have, is she with-

He couldn't even think about this possibility. Taylor knew Alexa for so long and he knows that she is not capable of this. He decided to pretend to not remember anything in hopes of not being - what he believed - her next victim.

"Earth to Taylor." Alexa waves her hand in front of Taylor's face

"AH!" yelped Taylor "What?"

Well he is awfully jumpy...

"Do you know where Aura is? I need to tell both of you something."

Something like what? Confessing to murder maybe?!  Thought Taylor

"No I am currently unaware of Aura's current whereabouts." once more lied Taylor

"Robot much?" Alexa chuckled.

"HAH. Hah. heh..." Taylor nervously laughed

"Well, I will look for her over there." Alexa gestured to a long white hallway.

"Yeah...uh...and I will look there." Taylor frantically tried to find someplace to point at and he ended up pointing at a wall.

"Ummm?"

"Uh. I meant that I will keep watch in case she returns to this room."

Not really caring what Taylor did, Alexa walked away and towards the hallway. After a few moments of listening to her footsteps receding, Taylor bolted for the wall. Remembering that this was not the right direction of the cells, he made a sharp turn and ran down the stairs. He jumped down the stairs. He ended up flinching from the loud sound that he created and then briskly walked. In a few moments he was in front of an identical wall as the one upstairs. Not having anything to break the wall down with, he frantically searched the vicinity. Not finding anything, he ran at the wall and started hitting it and yelling Aura's name.
"Aura! AURA!"

"Taylor? Taylor is that you!" Aura sighed from relief

"Yeah, yeah Aura it's me! You cannot trust Alexa! Whatever she says do not believe her! Please!" pleaded Taylor

Finally he has come to his senses and realized that people like Alexa aren't to be trusted.

"I promise I won't!" Yelled Aura to the wall.

Footsteps approached from behind Taylor and he froze. He couldn't breathe, he couldn't move, couldn't think, couldn't speak.

"Hello Taylor. Long time no- SEE!"

As though on cue, right after those words were said, Taylor's body fell to the floor with a loud thud. Aura, too terrified to speak, did nothing and merely listened to his body being dragged away.