The Gone {GirlxGirl} [BoyxBoy] // Persephone

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Previously:

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"Alright, sunshine, go put some pants on, and we can go." Ana runs to her now dry clothing from last night, hurridly puts them on, leaving her pajamas in their place, and rushes back to Chase. Minutes later, the girls set off.

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Now:

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The girls made their way to one of the many deteriorated towns that litter The Gone, leaving only the crunch of the leaves under their shoes behind them.

 "Let's play a game," Ana suggests while walking. 

"What kind of game?" 

"Maybe like a question game, like to get to know each other!" Ana spoke with such enthusiasm, Chase couldn't even think of refusing. After learning each other's favorite colors, foods, and countless other facts, they finally arrive at the outskirts of the town. Chase grabbed Ana's arm suddenly and pulled her to the side, pushing them both into a kneel behind a beaten down a wooden fence. "Wha-" before Ana got anything else out, Chase's hand was over her mouth. Slowly, she removed her hand and brought her finger to her lips. Ana rose a brow at her, and Chase responded by pointing out into the middle of the town at an old wooden building that looks like it could have been a post office, once upon a time. Slowly, from the side of the post office, Ana sees a hand wrap around the edge of the building. At first, Ana thought it was human. But on further inspection, she saw the gray, almost rotted flesh and black gel that seemed to be keeping it from falling off the bone. Along with that, Its fingers were long and slender, pointed at the tip, like daggers. Then, The figure quietly moves out into the open, and it takes all Ana has, along with Chase's hand over her mouth once again, to keep her from screaming. It was a devilishly, horrid looking creature. It had the primary form of a human but most certainly wasn't human, due to its anorexic, slender stature that leaves its ribcage visible, its hollowed-out eyes and sharp teeth. The worst things about it were the length of its limbs, much longer than a human, and feet with nails just like its fingers. And the part that almost made Ana throw up right there was the large flap of skin that was hanging off its stomach, oozing black liquid.

 "I slashed the bastard earlier when I came out here. Thought it ran off." 

"What is it?" Ana whispered frantically.

 "It's a Dower. That's what I and the others before, named them. Come with me." Chase interlinked her fingers with Anas and pulled her along. They followed the fence to where it stopped and quickly ran past the small gap and behind an old building, out of view of the Dower. "Okay, stay here."

 "No! No, where are you going?!" Ana frantically asks her, till overwhelmingly terrified of this new world. 

"I have to go out there and kill that son of a bitch, okay?" Chase responds, her hands on Ana's shoulders.

 "No, you can not leave me here, Chase Sienna Kane I swear to god if you leave me here," Ana rambles, but Chase can hear the hint of terror under it. 

"Hey, look at me," Chase says, moving Ana to have her back against the wall. She cups Ana's face with her hands, "I'm not going to let anything happen, okay? I've taken thousands of these things out before. I want you to sit with your back pressed against the wall, okay? I need you to stay as still and quiet as you can, I don't know if it'll try to run, or which way it might go. " Chase says. Ana nodded her head, pulling her knees to her chest. Chase stood staring at her for a moment, then pulling a knife off of her belt, and stepped into the open where the Dower could see her. She took a few steps into the street and stopped. 

"Hey, asshole!" She shouted. The Dower turned to face her and let out a low, ferocious growling sound, black liquid pouring from its mouth. "Yeah! Remember me?" Chase says to it, throwing the blade. It let out a vicious screech and took off towards her. She then pulled the black machete from its sheath on her hip. She swung at the creature, slicing its right arm clean off from the center of the forearm. It screamed and flailed a clawed hand towards her. Skillfully, Chase dropped to the ground, leaping up under its claw, shoving her machete through the underside of its jaw, straight through the top of its head. The creature didn't even have a chance as she pulled the blade from its skull, and it hit the ground with a sickening thud.