Demon Hunterz: Annihilation (Book 3)

Chapter 16: The Devils lair II

I find myself standing in this strange world. Even weirder than the one I was in moments ago. Where everything around me is pitch black. Blacker than normal. But there are a few stripes of clouds that scrap along the sky. With bizarre floating cubes that matched the white sand under my bare feet..

I look further ahead. To see that the sand spreads on for miles on end. Like an ocean of its own. Forming hills and entire valleys.

I saw my baby brother. Simply standing in place. His face a shadowy blur as his red glaring eyes stared in my direction. Holding a glowing red book in hand as the pages flip open on their own. His mouth moving rapidly. But I couldn't hear the words that come out of it. Let alone read his lips. They were moving too fast. I sense something building within his figure. It feels heavy and dark.

Is this magic I'm sensing?  It feels heavy and dense. Definitely stronger than anything I've ever known, that's for sure. 

I walk towards him. His words sounded foreign. No, maybe too foreign. The words sounded overly com0plicated and was unlike any language I ever heard of. Filled with long, lyrical sighs and chants. His tone was like that of someone broken, his voice flowing with the heavy notes of sadness and longing, yet also a strange sense of relief? 

Curiosity builds and I find myself looking left to right. Taking in the desolate, lonely world. The sky above that holds faint green stars that twinkle like tiny eyes in a sea of black. The eerie mechanical hum of what appears to be floating pyramids that flash images of people, buildings, entire worlds fill of fire, ice, and pools of lava. I force down a gasp when I saw flashes of myself in the floating pyramid to my far right. 

I blink, stunned and confused. Stepping in closer, thinking that this must be a wild dream due to all the stress I've been dealing with, I see within the pyramid's glossy sliver exteroir a little girl with long, flowy black hair. In her Nightmare before Christmas pajamas, leaning over the sink to spit out a glob of toothpaste. The girl rises with depressed, tiresome rings around her eyes, appearing to be around ten or eleven. 

Every feature on the girl's face was undeniable hers. The more the images flashed and changed, the more the girl aged and a new scene would fade into existence. Right now, the girl had moved to a new day. Her body, now curvier at the waist, yet despite her developing body, the mood was extremely sour, as the object shows the other me, curled up with her back against a door. Crying alone. 

My mouth could've hit the floor. I remember this! This was the day Freddie broke that vase! Well, claims to not have broken it. 

"Just what is all this?" I turn around, heart racing. More confused than scared. I swallow down my emotions and face the pyramid once more with a high head. My view fills with a long, pale arm extending forward. 

It was my arm. Reaching towards the strange object. At myself which seemed to exist in another world. A different reality. 

No, what the hell am I even saying? Girl, pull it together. None of this is real! It's all just my mind playing tricks on me. That's all there is to-

My brother, the shadowy figure I saw before, finishes the spell with a loud clap. A thunderous sound can be heard from the skies, like a giant had fallen from a place I couldn't see. The world trembles and Freddie's body distorts, turning into a fine black mist. Every now and then, his body would glitch in and out. Appearing as if he were teleporting from one space, only to warp back to his original spot one second later.