MONSTERS WITHIN

Chapter 20

Fredrick held his gun upwards, he was a bit frightened, not by charlie, but by how he knew about his daughter's death, peter's hands were shaking, thinking about how his father's grin just ingrained into his skull, "....fr-freddy? ...you weren't the only one who saw red smoke and then saw a vision of your worst fear and regret did you?" Fredrick stopped in his tracks, and stared at peter, who continued walking. "...yeah...my daughter..it..it was nothin'..." He said, he followed peter and they made it to a red metal door, with a big handle in the middle of it, with the blood written words COME ON IN!!!  "...yeah..this looks like charlie...." Peter said placing his hand on the door, feeling like someone is watching them, "...I saw my dead father....alive somehow.." peter said examining the door, "...damn...you okay?" Fredrick said with a small worried tone, "...yeah..I'll be fine....what did you see?" Peter said turning around and facing him, "...my...my daughter...she...she was only 8 years old when she....how the fuck did he know about her?!" Fredrick exclaimed, "I...I don't know...but he knew about my father...because...he killed him.." Peter said, "yeah...your aunt told me when we-" fredrick stopped himself before he could say, but peter immediately knew what he meant, "...y-you....k-knocked up my aunt?!!!" He yelled, "me and her got drunk!! She lept herself onto me and....and we......ssiiiggghh....listen your like 15 years old you don't need to know about this crap..." Fredrick said facepalming, "but still!! ....wait...if you....that means your my uncle..." Peter said with his jaw dropped to the floor, "....huh...guess you could say that...from a random kid that made me spill my coffee to my nephew...what a week haha!" Fredrick trying to light up the mood, but peter didn't budge, "..yeah...yeah I guess..." Peter was a bit upset that he and johnna had sex, he felt off and worried that fredrick would get angry and hit her, or hit peter, he shook it off as a bad thought again, "...you ready?" Fredrick said holding his pistol up, "...yeah..." Peter said holding his fists up, fredrick positioned himself, and then ran at the door and kicked it down, "TORONTO PD LIEUTENANT FREDRICK!!!" Fredrick yelled as he pointed the gun in a dark corner, they both saw ember, johnna and tren tied up, tren was screaming something, but peter couldn't make it out, it finally hit him what tren was saying, "Look out" all of a sudden a sharp pain was rammed into fredrick's back, "GAAAHHHH!!!!" Fredrick screamed, he was picked up by a tall dark figure, "hello Freddy!!!" Said charlie, Charlie hurled fredrick at the wall, knocking him unconscious, "..and hello, hello, hello, petey...." Charlie said clawing the hallway walls, peter backed up and raced to help tren and the others, "AUNTY GO TO FREDRICK!!! AND EMBER AND TREN YOU NEED TO RUN!!!" He said untying and pulling the rags from there mouths, "HELL NO WERE HELPING!!!" Ember said spitting out the rag, "p-peter!! You came back!!" Tren said hugging him tightly, "...yeah...like i said...I would never abandon you.." peter said softly, johnna ran up to fredrick, who was unconscious, "please don't be dead please don't be dead please don't be dead!!" Johnna said over and over again, "...uggghh...m-my...my legs...I..I can't feel them.." he muttered, johnna gasped as he spoked that, "aaawwww....young teenage love!!! ...what a waste of time...." Charlie said as he looked closer, "...Charlie...it's time to end this!!" Peter said grabbing a metal pipe on the ground, Charlie laughed maniacally, "YOU?!! VERSUS ME?!! AN ALL POWERFUL DEMONIC CANNIBAL FROM HELL?!! YOU MUST BE JOKING!! HAHAHAHAAHAHH!!!" Charlie yelled, peter felt scared, weak, and most of all alone, until tren and ember stood beside him, "not when you got us around to help!!!" Ember said summoning fire in her hands, tren pulled out a bat that he found in the alleyways outside, "...GRRRR!!! ..YOU LITTLE SHITS!!! YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT KIND OF POWER YOUR MESSING WITH!!!!" Charlie said raising his claw up and swiping down at tren, tren dodged in the nick of time, ember hopped on Charlie's back and began riding him like a cowboy with a angry bull, infact that's exactly what's happening, "GRRR!!! GET OFF!!!!" Charlie grabbed ember and hurled her at the wall, "GHH!!! ...ouch...." Ember shooked her head and ran back into the fight, not knowing she accidentally knocked over a jug of gasoline, filling the room with the liquid, Charlie was trying to hit peter by swiping at him, "don't stop till you get enough!!" Peter said dodging every swipe charlie could swing, Charlie stepped in the gasoline and slipped, falling on his back, peter noticed the gasoline, and his eyes widened. "...get out...everyone get out!!!" Peter yelled, "WHAT?!!! NO WERE STAYING HERE!!" Tren exclaimed, "...tren...I'll be okay...just get my aunt..and uncle...heheh...out of here..I'm gonna have a talk with Charlie..." Peter said walking up and kissing tren, "...o-okay...please be safe..." Tren said, "c'mon guys...let's get out of here..." Tren said, ember and johnna helped carry fredrick out of the door, ember nodded at peter, who nodded back. "...I got this..." Peter said to ember, "aight...careful.." ember said shutting the door, "....heheh...this is suicide....that's what your doing..." Charlie said with a smug look, somehow, without peter even noticing, he transformed back into his regular form. "...i see you changed back.." peter said sitting down looking at Charlie's red eyes, "...heh...yeah! ...thanks for noticing...what do you want to talk about friend?" Charlie said smiling, peter took a deep breath and closed his eyes, peter opened his eyes, and spoke "Did you know my father?" Charlie chuckled a bit, "...CJ? ...heheh...yes...yes I did...Hunting buddies!! Hahahaahahah!!!" Charlie laughed as he said, "...hunting..buddys?" Peter said tilting his head a bit, "...by day...elk hunters...by night? ....hehehh...there's things your father did not want you to know petey....secrets...dark dark secrets...." Charlie said grinning, "...m-my.....my father...was one of you?!!" Peter yelled, "yep!! A 500 year old Wendigo!!! Hahahahah!! He turned my ass to what i am today!!! HAHAHAAHAHAH!!!!" Charlie yelled, peter was filled with anger, his father was a wendigo just like charlie, he punched Charlie in the face. But Charlie kept on laughing, "...heheh...heh.....hey petey?" Peter was at lost for words, he was angry, but most of all, sad, he looked at charlie eye to eye. "...what..." Peter replied, "...c-can you be the one....who finally kills me?" Charlie said still smiling, Peter's eyes widened and his ears perked up, "...Ch-charlie....why?" Peter said, "..the day i got lost from my group...over 300 years ago....cold winter night...me and your father...no food...no water...I just accepted death! ...but your father had other plans...we survived on squirrels...salmon...time flew by when...when we both realized that we craved for something more....we then manifested into what we are today....your father met your mother...and he forgot everything....even at one point..heheheh!! Ditched me to make love with her and made you!! ...when i came back...I tried to reason with him....he didn't want to come back with me...and..I admit it!! Hahahah!! I'm guilty! ...I wanted to eat you..." Charlie explained, peter looked down, shocked to learn this secret backstory his father held for years and years, "...then you...you killed him..." Peter said furrowing his eyebrows, "...on accident...he was transforming into the monster he was so many years ago....i loved him as a friend...but i had to end it all....then I went into the forest, found a cave, and almost 12 years later...I woked up...and was really really hungry..but now...I'm not hungry anymore...I'm stuffed!! Hahahahaaha!!" Charlie said laughing, peter stood up and clenched his fists, "...y-you really want me to kill you? ...after what you did..." Peter said, and Charlie nodded, "...yes...thank you if you do!! .. maybe stab me..slit my throat..." Charlie said closing his eyes, peter looked around and saw a old box of matches, he picked up the box and pulled out a match, he saw a trail of gasoline leading to charlie, he lit the match, and charlie smiled, then it turned into a laugh. A sinister, evil, maniacal laugh, then Charlie spoke his final words, "S-SEE YOU IN HELL..." Peter nodded a bit, "...lookin forward to it.." he dropped the match and the room lit ablaze, Charlie laughed and laughed, as his skin and fur start to singe and burn. The whole room caught on fire, peter looked around and ran out of the room. And ran out of the burning building, as the day finally began, on this horrific night.

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Ambulances, fire trucks, police mobiles, were everywhere. Tren and peter sat down on a ambulance together, holding hands, "....so...your father...your father was a wendigo?" Tren asked, peter nodded slowly, "...yeah...he was just like charlie..." Peter said, tren kissed peter, and peter kissed back, "...thank god your safe..." Peter said to tren softly, "...just thank christ this horrific nightmare ended....I'm just glad for that..." Tren said, ember came up and smiled, "hey you two...fredrick is doing okay..there transferring him back to Toronto...so that's swell..." Peter sighed in relief, "..that's good..." All of a sudden a cat hopped on tren's lap, it was Mandy, and she was happy seeing tren safe and sound. "...heya Mandy...thank goodness your safe..heheh.." tren said petting mandy's head, "...what do you wanna do tomorrow?" Ember said sitting by peter, "...eating a salad that's what I'm doing!! Cause after all of this?!! Yeah i'm turning vegan!!" Peter said, tren and ember died of laughter, "g-guys I'm serious!! I'm not gonna eat meat the same way again!! Hahahah!!" The group all smiled, as the sun finally hit the earth, on a new day.

---Epilogue---

two coroners were taking a look at some of the victims bodys, on the left is tren's grandmother, on the right is the very first victims, the husband with his head split opened. And in the middle is Jason Briggs, with bandages over his eyes, "...jesus...so basically I'm hearing that a monster did this..." said the first coroner, "..really? ...pfft...there's no such thing as monsters...c'mon...it's lunchtime...Dunkin donuts?" said the second coroner, "if your buying!! hahahah!!!" they shut the doot as they left, a few seconds later the lights starts flickering, the lamps swinging side to side, Jason's hands starts twitching. all of a sudden Jason bolted upward, and ripped his bandage off his eyes, and screamed in fear,
".....heheheh........they think they killed me........LET'S SHOW THEM WHY GOD ABANDONED US JASON...." said a familiar voice in Jason's head, Jason stopped breathing heavily, then grew a pissed off look on his face. And let out a blood curdling roar, as all the lightbulbs exploded leaving Jason in the dark, and a very familiar and demonic laughter, could be heard in the darkness.