MONSTERS WITHIN

Chapter 19

Tren had his head down low, tied up with his hands behind his back, and a rag that Charlie used to wipe his mouth with, even the most demonic of monsters have manners, he felt a hand grab his chin, and he was met with thosse red eyes of Charlie's and his grinning smile, "...there heeeeeerreeee....heheh..." Charlie said in a deep demonic voice, instead of sharp toed feet, he had hooves, and large antlers on his head, tren sighed in relief, knowing that peter and ember came for him, "...I'm...I'm gonna fuckin kill you..." Tren said softly, Charlie laughed, "...and how so? ..you are tied up....and now? ..your going to watch all of your friends suffer...heh...see you soon for dinner my friend...." Charlie manifested back into a black rat, with, you guessed it, red demonic eyes, the rat scurried across the cold wooden floor. Just in time to see fredrick and peter come up the stairs, the rat smiled, and ran into one of the rooms. Peter looked around, it felt like he's been here before, it felt familiar, but why? He thought to himself, "...okay...I'll go and check the rooms...you go and find tren okay you three?" Fredrick said checking how many bullets he has, "..no...I'm going with you...." Peter said walking up to fredrick with a brave face on, fredrick laughed at his face and ruffled his hair, "...aight...let's head out Pete...follow my lead.." fredrick said, johnna nodded and kissed his forehead, "..please be careful..." She said quietly to peter, "...I will aunty...I love you" peter said with a smirk, "..love you too buddy...c'mon...ember? Your name was?" She said looking at the coyote with the fire in her hand, "..yeah! ...call me Embs.." ember said, "..heh...okay...c'mon let's go find him..." Ember and johnna walked down the halls, and peter and fredrick walked into a different room, Charlie scurried out from the corner, and then he manifested back into his true form, "...when the cops away? ...Charlie begins to play...heheh..." Charlie said raising his hand up, and a puff of red smoke fills the room, the red smoke made into fredrick's room, he smelled a foul sulfer like stench, he plugged his nose but, it was too late, fredrick fell to the ground unconscious, so did peter.

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Peter jolted upright, and he was in his house, "..w-what?" He said to himself, until a familiar voice came from behind, "you okay buddy? ..you were startled for a bit! Hahah!" Peter turned his head and saw his father, alive now, Peter's eyes widened, "..d-dad? ....how are you-" Peter said with his eyes watering because of his father still kicking, "how am i what? ..making pancakes? ..hehe...hey it's okay...just sit down and eat your flapjacks..." Peter nodded, and then he sat down, his father plopped down a Mickey mouse shaped pancake. He stared at for a bit, confused as if he imagined everything, that he meeting tren, ember, Charlie, this whole Wendigo thing all being apart of his imagination, he smiled as he took a bite of pancake, but something was bugging him. Something was off, but what? His father sat down right by him with scrambled eggs on his plate, "..heheh...you always loved my pancakes...I can teach you if you want!" CJ said with a smile, "..y-yeah....thanks dad..." Peter replied, "...anytime buddy..." His father said ruffling his hair, "...dad...I..I had a wierd dream.." peter said picking at his fingernails, "...oh? ..what was this dream about?" CJ said with a mouthful of eggs, "..like...you were dead...umm..there was a thing called a wendigo? ...that killed you...I met a new friend...that friend turned into something more...I was living with johnna and-" then it hit him, he remembered what happened, he was supposed to find tren but he saw red smoke coming from under the door. "...this isn't real...." Peter said to himself, "wh-what petey?" CJ said looking at his son with his eyebrow raised, "..y-your....YOUR NOT REAL!!!" Peter screamed, everything then collapsed, the house was shaking, and peter looked back to see his father's eyes missing, and a big grin on his face.

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Peter jolted upwards, and immediately got up in a fighting position, "...Ch-charlie i know that was you..." He said, but no one answered, he walked out the room and saw that it was turning dark, he went into his bag and pulled out a flashlight. "..fr-freddy?! Where are you?! Are you okay?!" Peter yelled, but no one answered, he went into one of the rooms, and saw fredrick, with his back turned to the wall, and unconscious, "FREDDY!!!" Peter yelped as he ran towards him, he was still breathing, but just like peter, he was having a whole new world play out before him.

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"Catch daddy!!!" A little girl yelled, fredrick snapped out of a trance like state, he saw his daughter with a baseball and glove, she wored a truckers cap and she smiled as she threw the ball, "..heheh...alright!" Fredrick said, he caught the ball and tossed it at his daughter, his daughter caught the ball and so on so on, a few minutes later a woman came out and smiled, "hey you two!! Dinner's ready!!" She yelled, fredrick turned to see his wife, he smiled as he held his daughter's hand, they both walked in as the sun setted, they all had dinner and fredrick smiled, as this was a good time to be alive. Later that night he and his wife was getting ready for bed, "...heh...you two were adorable!" Diana said with a smile, wearing a night gown, "..heh..you think? ..the one thing i'm afraid of is that she's gonna have problems being a baseball player or cop hahah!" Fredrick said, "awww...she really wants to be a cop like you...it's adorable..." She said kissing fredrick's cheek, "heh...yeah..yeah it is..." he said kissing his wife back. Meanwhile, fredrick's daughter Natalie woked up, she was thirsty so she decided to get a cup of water, she went downstairs slowly and grabbed a cup, as she got done getting her water, she saw something that caught her eye. A pistol, shining through the moonlit night, with safety turned off, and three bullets, she wanted to know how a pistol worked, so she grabbed ahold of it, and examined it carefully, she put the barrel to her eye to see what was in it, and accidentally had her finger on the trigger. BANG!!!!! Fredrick and his wife jolted upright, they both looked at eachother, and fredrick remembered the gun, ".....oh no....." He said softly, the next thing fredrick knew was that he was wearing a suit and tie, and it was raining, he saw a small casket getting laid into a pit, he immediately knew where he was. His daughter's funeral, he lied about her becoming a exotic dancer, his wife did though out of grief and drugs. He then closed his eyes for a bit and tears fell down, he opened them to see that he was on his bed, he looked to the side and saw his wife with bags and carry ons, "...I'm leaving...goodbye fredrick..." She said walking out the door, fredrick sighed. "...i hate you..." He said looking up at the ceiling, his vision started getting blurry, and then he fell on the ground unconscious. The next he knew was he was met with the worried eyes of peter, "..Freddy? ...are you okay?" Peter said, "...Pete...I........yeah...I'm okay...." He said sadly, "...c'mon..let's find the others..." Fredrick got up and and they both walked out, and fredrick held his pistol firmly, but he couldn't get the image if seeing his daughter on the ground with a pool of blood visibly seen, Charlie was putting his ear on the ground, listening to the two, "...heh...look like they escaped!! ...so? ...who's hungry for some rats!!" Charlie said to tren, who's right next to johnna and ember, who were tied up and gagged, Charlie and his stomach laughed, as tren hoped that peter would come soon, before it's too late.