MONSTERS WITHIN

Chapter 13

The next morning, Peter slowly opened his eyes and woked up, "...heya ceiling..." Peter got up and stretched, but then winced in pain, he looked down at his leg, and half of it looks black, infected, and even pulsating. "..oh lord...." Aunt Johnna walked in to wake him up, only to find peter awake, "o-oh! ..heh...I was just coming to wake you up...good morning..." Aunt Johnna said, "..heya a-aunt.." peter said shakily, johnna noticed the way his voice was shaking, "...you okay? ...and oh my god! Your face!! What happened?!" Peter carressed the back of his hair a bit, "o-oh!! Right! I...I tripped...I'm fine aunty..don't worry..." Peter said, "..aight...I'm gonna get ready..." He said as he walked past his aunt limping a bit, "...huh...something's up.." Johnna thought, peter got ready, and walked out of the house, but then stopped in the middle of it. "....aunty? ....c-can..can you drive me?" Peter said, "..aww..sure thing!" Johnna said with a smile across her face, peter smiled a bit, and they both went out to the car, they buckled up and drove off. Meanwhile, tren woked up in the alleyways, he shook his head trying to remember the night before, oh how he wish he hadn't, he softly gasped once he remembered those lifeless sockets in his grandmother's eyes, and those cold pale demonic red eyes of charlie. "....i....I'm sorry i didn't believe you petey...I should've known after seeing your leg...." Tears fell down his face as he walked out, his wings popped out from his back, and he flew off to school. Johnna pulled up to the school, and peter walked out of the little beetle car his aunt bought five years ago, "oh peter wait!!" Aunt Johnna said from behind, johnna walked up and kissed his cheek, right in front of other kids, and then put a Hello Kitty bandage on Peter's face, "...seriously aunty?!" Johnna laughed, "heheh!! Well you do have a nasty cut on your face, might as well patch it up! See you soon petey!" Johnna said as she drove away, "...siiigghh.....great..." Peter groaned, peter walked by tons of kids laughing at him, "Mama's boy!!" Peter stopped and turned around, "SHE'S NOT MY MOM!!!!" he yelled, he walked to a soda machine and pressed on the Dr Pepper button, witch was old and almost stratched off, it took a second before the soda finally fell out, "..fucking finally...they really need to fix that thing-" peter said before getting grabbed and pulled into the bathroom, someones hand was put over his mouth, "MMPH!!!!" He screamed, but no one heard him, he immediately thought it was Jason, coming for another round. But was met eye to eye with another Coyote, not tren, but a different one, "heya!!" The female coyote released peter from her grasp, peter bolted upwards and was poised to fight, "PFFT!!! Hahahah!! Put down the fists Mike Tyson! Hahahah!!!" She laughed aloud, "w-who are you?! What do you want?!" Peter said now a bit shook because he wasn't expecting her to grab him like that, "pfft....the names Ember! ..you can call me Embs..now your name!!" Ember said with her hands on her chin, with a smile on her face, "...p-peter...that's my name...and woah! ..your tail!" Ember's tail was lit on fire, she looked behind her and laughed a bit, "oh this thing? ..heheh...my tail...I just came here last night! I'm originally from California!" Peter used to live in California befire he moved back to Toronto, he had pleasant memories there, had friends, had a nice school. But he had to leave cause of his aunt's new job, ".. California eh? ...I used to live there...Hot..nice weather..." Peter said remembering the times he used to make sand castles on the sandy beaches, "now your here in this cold snowy wasteland huh? hahaha!!" Ember said with a big smile on her face, "OH YEAH!! How was it?! Did you see the bodys?! How bloody?! Tell me!!" She said grabbing peter and shaking him, "t-t-tell you what?!!" Peter yelled getting out of her grasp, "the murders!!" Peter almost forgot about the murders, and he looked around to see if anyone is watching, or passing by. "...more like breakfast, lunch, and dinner...." He said to himself, "..breakfast lunch and whaaaa?" Ember said tilting her head, "...listen....it's gonna be hard explaining this....but it's not a person committing these..quote unquote, murders..." Ember was more confused, "...I'm not following?" Peter sighed and facepalmed, "...have..have you heard of a Wendigo?" Ember's ears perked up when she heard that word, "oh a supernatural cannibal creature that feasts on human flesh!!" Ember said yelling a bit in peter's ear, "..y-yeah...that's it...and..he already killed too much people...almost killed me-....f-forget that last part..." Peter said with worry in his voice, "..no..fucking...way...you were attacked by that thing?!! That's fuckin A bro!!" Peter laughed a bit, Because he heard alot of kids say that during his time in California, "...hehehe...yeah....it scared me alot...it left me a bad stratch but I'm okay..." Ember gasped a bit, "it marked you?! Where is it?! I need to see this!!" Ember said with pride, Pete was hesitant but he moved his sweat pants leg upwards, and showed her the pulsating marked ankle, "..god..damn...y-you sure you don't need to see someone?" Ember said now a bit worried about peter, "...well...yes but actually..no...thanks though...it hurts but I'm fine..." Peter said, he realized something earlier, but then forgot, "where's tren?" He thought, "..well..I'mma head out...n-nice meeting you ember!" Peter said waving goodbye, "hehe! Later peter!! And call me up if you need help okay?!" She yelled while waving, "I will! ... probably not but I will!!"

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Tren walked through the backdoor, tear marks visibly seen on his face, tren sighed and walked in and shut the door, but was met with Peter's face, tren screamed a bit, but then sighed in relief, "..heya tren..I...I came to tell you that I'm sorry....sorry that i yelled-" immediately tren came up and hugged peter, and bauled into his chest, "..oh my g-god...trenny? What happened?! What did she do?!" Peter said putting his hands on tren's shoulders, "Ch-charlie..h-he...he...oh my god!" Peter's eyes widened once he heard the words 'charlie', he hugged tren tight, and tren hugged back. "...calm down...it's alright...just thank god you escaped..." A few minutes passed and tren was calm now, he looked down at his twiddling thumbs, "..now...tren? ...what happened..." Peter said softly, with his arm over tren's back, "...Charlie he......he killed my Grandmother...r-ripped her eyes out...and..ripped her chest open..and pulled her j-jaw off...I...I hated her...but...I...I-I miss h-her..." Tren hugged peter again, "..I thought I was going to d-die..." Peter hugged back, with tears about to come out, "..I did too....I'm glad your okay...I'm so glad your okay-" "I want to run away.." tren interrupted, peter was a bit shocked at what tren said, "..w-why..?" Peter said softly, "...I don't want to stay here if he's still around...." Tren explained, multiple things were circling around Peter's head, so many questions, answers, then he spoke, "then i'm coming with you..." Peter said, then covering his mouth a bit after he said that, "..p-peter..no you can't! What about your aunt?" Tren said a bit worried, "i don't care about that...I want to be with you....they can chase us...but we will still be together...forever...I promise you that.." peter said while staring into tren's eyes, "...o-okay...thank you...I love you..." Tren said softly also staring into Peter's eyes, "..I love you too...so much..." Peter leaned in and they both kissed, and held eachothers hands, then they heard faint clapping in hallway, "..wooooww...such a fucking shocker!! I say stay away...and you fuckin decide to smooch up with my lover?" Jason said walking up with a couple of his friends, tren and peter stood up and immediately backed up, one of Jason's friends grabbed tren and held him back, and Jason walked up, and socked peter in the mouth, "GAH!!" Peter yelled, "JASON NO!!!" Tren yelled trying to fight back from his friends, "c'mon freakshow!!! GET UP!!! C'MON!!" Peter tried to get up, but Jason stepped on his back, and kicked peter in the stomach, "GHH!!" Peter yelped in pain, tears fell down tren's and Peter's face staring at eachother, then peter heard his father's words in his head, "never give up petey...always fight back..and always, always! ..get back up again...okay buddy?" Peter growled, he then swooped Jason's legs making him fall over, "GAH!!! YOU FUCKING DICK!!!" Jason said getting back up again, "SAYS THE PERSON WHO FUCKIN CUT MY FACE OPEN!!!" Jason lunged at peter to punch him, peter blocked, but then Jason stopped,
"..uhhhh...Jason what are you doing?! pummel that freak!!" Jason did nothing, only stood there, peter looked at Jason's eyes, they were burning. Like something being ingrained into his skull, Jason's eyes started to bleed, peter backed up, tren headbutted one of Jason's friends and ran over to peter, who has a bloody nose, peter held tren in his arms, but then backed up into something else. "...heeheheh....am i interuppting something?" Peter spun around and saw Charlie, the same, horrifying, sharp tooth, red eyes glowing, monster, he grabbed Jason by the throat and sank his teeth into his neck, spurting blood out of it, "...Finally....FRESH MEAT" Charlie ripped out Jason's jugular, his friends screamed in fear and ran off, but Charlie chased after them, "..t-tren...w-we gotta go...we need to leave now!!" Tren nodded quickly, and they both got up and bolted out, Charlie caught up with Jason's friends and ripped them apart, "mmmm...hehehehe...so so so tasty....huh?!" Charlie saw the door wide opened, and no peter and tren in sight, "...GRRRRR!!! NOT AGAIN!!!" Charlie let out a blood curdling roar, and the lightbulbs exploded, leaving a pair of angry glowing red eyes in the darkness.