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Chapter 11: Fear The Apocalypse

Halloween Morning

10:38 AM...

After Brenda had gotten home, she went to her room and automatically fell asleep, of course I couldn't sleep.
I was too busy wondering what the men in the dark robes had done to Brenda, why did they kidnap her from the hospital, I needed answers!!!
Then a knock came from the door. I ran out of my room, through the hall that lead to the kitchen and living room, went through the living and opened the door to find Mr. Robinson, Brenda's first period teacher (who had an odd style of clothing), and a women who, um, looked oddly familiar to Princess Leia from Star Wars, but a bit creepier, standing next to Mr. Robinson, huh...
"Hello Ms. Harmon, we're afraid something's wrong with your daughter, Brenda, but dont you worry one bit, we're here to help."

Halloween

12:05 AM...

After Amanda disappeared into ashes, the men in robes came back chanting some foreign words I couldn't explain. They surrounded me, still outside the circle of lit candles that surrounded me. A wave of pain went through my body, from my head down to my feet, pain shot out. I grunted and shouted loudly, as the world around me blurred out. Soon it wasn't just us in the empty, huge building, spirits of the dead surrounded us, both laughing and crying, both young and old. Staring at me, watching me in the pain I was in. "Croatoan!" One of the men in the dark robes shouted at the spirits, making them disappear from our sight. I remember learning about that word in the 7th grade; it was found carved onto a tree in the location of the Lost Colony; Roanoke. Once they stopped speaking in the foreign language, my father then shouted, "Thou shall sleep for 1 hour! And she'll be no longer the same, but with great power, power to unleash the fire that'll end the world!" I lost oxygen, everything dimmed in darkness, thr world around me fell into a billion pieces...

12:40 AM

With Brenda asleep, me and Sandra had time to talk, so I took off my robe and placed it on the dirty ground of the empty huge, rotting, maybe a death wish for all who enter of a building. Sandra, standing by the candles that surrounded Brenda, waved at me to come towards her, and so I did. "Hey, Sandra" I said as I got near her.
"Roy, we need to speak."
She sounded serious, well, she's always serious but this sounded serious-serious, important-serious. "What it it?" I asked her. "Its about me," said she as I interrupted her quickly, "You're pregnant?! I knew it! I knew you looked a bit more bigger!"
"What?! No, I'm not pregn- are you calling me fat?!" I looked down in embarrassment, avoiding eye contact after that humiliating scene.
"Ugh, I just need to say something."
"Say it."
"I'm not who you think I am. I used you to get closer to the one important person, Brenda." Before I could say anything, she then whispered the word, "Soporaltum." Causing everyone in the room, except Sandra, to immediately fall to the ground and get into a deep, deep, sleep...

1:08 AM...

I dragged her sleeping body across the alley ground. Dirt on her back, my arms ready to break and fall onto the ground any second. The wind blew right through me, my hair going everywhere. "Ugh, for a skinny teenaged girl, she's super heavy!!!" I shouted out loud, the words echoing through the dark alley. "Sandra" The voice of a man startled me. I turned around, "Hello Matt." There stood Matt Robinson, one of the teachers of Pristance High. Matt walked up to me, he wearing a dark brown scarf over a plain white T-shirt and he wearing jeans, "You've always had a odd sense of style. I remember once you wore a buttoned up shirt, pink jeans; don't know why you'd wear that, and some boots. Odd style, odd style indeed."
"I always thought I had a, peculiar sense of style, not your ordinary style, something new,"
"Something odd" I added.
"Something new" He replied quickly.
"Yet odd."
"Whatever Princess Leia lookalike."