Treachery

Chapter 14: Magical King

Riley's P.O.V.

I dragged Gage throughout the school, the clicking of my shoes hitting the wooden, broken floorboards...

I knew where Ryland was... he was in the boys bathroom... about to... about to...

I bit my lip as I dragged Gage harder and harder...
I had to stop Ryland!

I didn't know how or why but every instinct in my body was telling me to save him again!

I was running around this haunted school... city... world.... who knows how big this place is.....

"HAHAHAHWHAHAHWHAHAHAH"

... the Book of Shadow's voice echoed the halls... I suddenly got an eerily gut feeling that I would one day soon know...

I looked back up and realized that me and Gage was standing right outside of the boys bathroom...

I felt my anxiety kick in and for the first time in a while I began to shake...

" R-Riley...? Are you okay... p-please be okay I don't like it when you're upset..."

My eyes widen... Gage was acting different... and I bit my lip once more.

I could almost tell it but even with his soul,  Gage wasn't all there... maybe it was because being resurrected twice in this place really took a damper on your soul....

My eyes widen as I remember the ' Other Riley' I met who had supposedly died here.... his Book of Shadows was kinda like mine but not... mine, now with the power of the Blue Book of Soul... is glowing a hazy black and blue haze... while his was just hazing red...

I couldn't Imagine what he had to go through... but then again... who knew how bad I was doing....

I breathed out one last time and decided to gather whatever courage I had left and stepped into the boys bathroom...

I turned the corner and the sight before me was horrifying and yet not so....

It was Ryland... we did find him... he was back here... when we first got here....

I felt the flush of memories hit me and I lost it and started crying on the spot...

We actually broke up here and somehow I knew that if I died here he would never stop looking for me... and... if that happened...

I shivered at the thought...

This figure infront if me was Ryland but yet not Ryland at the same time....

It was Ryland's body... but he seemed very dark... almost like something evil had corrupted his soul... and his eyes... his eyes were completely black almost as if he was being possessed by something......

" You're not Ryland! LEAVE HIS BODY!" I screamed this out loud and i think it failed to click inside of Gages mind, what was happening...
There Ryland was... standing above the toilet seat... with a noose tied up all ready to go... the near sight of it was enough to make me go ballistic...

Even when the first time we got stuck I always thought that Ryland was never possible of hurting himself.... but in here... we're all possible to go mad... and die... and with that I quickly tackled Rylands body and held him down...
Below him was parts of broken glass that looked dangerous sharp... quickly looking for one... I found one and slowly began tracing it against his abdomen...
" Ryland I love you... but please know I'm not doing this to hurt you."

And with that I slowly pushed the knife inside his abdomen... I didn't sholve it in all the way only enough so that the real Ryland would feel the pain and break through to me...