Bipartite

chapter-5: don't stop

"Run, and don't stop, do not look back, do not speak, do not let go of each other's hands, DO NOT LOOK BACK!" Eliza told her half asleep twins dressing both of them in black outfits she made, prepared for this very night, eliza had to dress Angie in a boyish clothes so that she could run fast without tripping over her skirt. She then gave a dagger to Joel, which was confused and asked the reason, in which his mother replied that there was no time to explain. "Mama.... Where's papa?"asked the lil girl with innocent eyes,holding onto her mother's dress, tearing up, eliza kneeled down and hugged both her kids as if it was her last, unfortunately it was." Your mama and papa loves you both very much with their whole heart but you must run, it's not safe here, run away as fast as you can"and just as she finished her words Alex came rushing to the wooden closet that he had built that had a secret door leading to the garden behind the house. "It's not safe here, go fast!! " He told the kids, fear could be seen in his eyes. Eliza then gave Angie a token of goodluck and handed her something, a treasure that not even Alex knew about, she then whispered," You can choose what to do with this, the power is held in here, protect your brother at all cost" Not knowing how to respond Angie nodded her head. They hugged each other for the last time and there they go, the parents could only wish for their safety and for them to reach a new world unlike theirs which was filled with criminals and gruesome people. Eliza closed the closet doors and locked it securely, she knows that the lock would be destroyed in a matter of seconds, but for them, even just those seconds were long enough to make sure they're buying enough time for their children to reach the other side safely. Silence filled the room, then a knock was heard. Both Eliza and Alex looked at each other, and knew this was their end, but they won't give up that easily. Eliza grabbed the poison she had carefully prepared from the poisonous flowers found in the deep forests, it's not enough to kill a person, but it is enough to destroy their immune system and shut down their mind for some time, and with no experience whatsoever, Alex held an axe, the one he used when he would chop off woods. Both went downstairs to finally face their biggest fear. "Well well well, you both have been hiding enough, haven't you" The man in the tophat asked, he seemed to be the type that would give you a Lollipop with a smile then shove you inside a white van and run off. He walked around the tiny doorway and picked up a family photo of the family that he longed to see for a long time, "what a nice lil family you have here, don't mind if i destroy it, hmm? " He asked mockingly. "We're the ones you want not them, you dare touch my children and you're dead meat" Eliza strongly exclaimed, silence filled the room when the man started to laugh and and said "oh Eliza Eliza, you're same as always, a lil bitch who stands for her words but can't even save the ones she loves and ends up running away, when are you even gonna stop running away? And those children of yours are the dead meats, they would make a good price on the markets don't you think, the children of a famous engineer/journalist and a powerful nurse.... Who also happens to descent from witchcraft, oh oops I'm sorry, I didn't mean to spoil the surprise Alex" He snickered. Alex was dumbfounded, his own wife, from the witches, "is this why you never told me your childhood? Anyway that's not the point now, it doesn't matter" He held Eliza's hands even tighter than before. Seeing this only made the man snickered some more, he motioned his hands and a demonic looking monster entered through the winder next to the man standing, the moon shone brightly that night, so bright that you could see the disturbing smile plastered on the man's face.
"Angie please, we need to hurry" Joel panted to his sister, telling her to hurry up but since their pace wasn't the same and both were holding their hands, they just couldn't run as fast as they had hoped for, "I'm trying, i really am, I'm just so tired and we had just awoken from our slumber that it's hard to run properly" Slurring on her words she started to see nothing but black in front of her, since she was already slow and a bother to her brother, she decided to keep quiet about it, but then suddenly joel stopped "... I can't see, all i see is darkness, the forest ahead of us is too thick to see" Oh so it wasn't only her that was seeing pitchblack, Angie thought. Joel had promised both his papa and mama to keep his sister safe from anything or anyone and he was going to fulfill it, no matter what. And he made up his mind to keep on goin, there was this awfull smell of flesh rotting, animals in the woods kill anything they could find so they needed to really be carefull, he tucked on his sister's arm and said "come on let's go, we need to keep going" And as he was just about to run, something held him back, on his hands he looked down to see his sister holding his hand tightly as tho it was gonna fracture his bones, he then looked up to see his sister looking straight to the direction they just came from, clearly remembering their mother's words not to turn back, he turned his sister and told her to run, her eyes were forming with tears and they both ran as fast as they could but suddenly, Angie broke down into tears, Joel was puzzled as to seeing his older sister, whom was always happy and joyfull, crying her heart out. Just as he knelt down to comfort her, his position made him face the way from which they came from. His face frozen, he went into panic mode and his heart beating harder then ever, all he could see was their house, on fire, that explains it. The blackness were the clouds from the fire, and the rotting smell was from no animal that he had suspected, it was from their own parents, he knelt down next to his sister, lost for words."mama and papa are no more, they're*sniff sniff* THEY'RE DEA-" *SLAP!! * don't say that, Angela slapped her own brother, "get some senses into your head, we must run and never look back again, we are orphans now and we only have each other, we shall never talk about them again, now get up and run" Joel, amazed and confused by his sister sudden change of personality, she was like a completely new person, but they ran, and ran and ran as fast as they could. Little does Joel know, was that what she saw when she looked back was way worse. While they were stopping from the blackness and Joel thinking how to get past it, Angie heard a sketching smell coming from the way they had came from, she knew she wasn't supposed to turn back, but out of curiosity, she looked back and saw something no child should see. Her parents screaming at a monster, her mom was picked up by the monster while her dad tried to fight him with an axe leading to no use, then she saw it, her mother, the one who gave them life, the one who sings for them, the one who makes them smile, was tore from limb to limb and tossed into the burning fire of the house, she then saw her dad, looking at the burning house and his wife. She could only see the silhouette of them but it was sure then he had lost hope, he knelt down looking back at the monster, slowing picking up his axe and just as it was about to hit the monster's head, the thing squeezed him in his head and picked him up, and the next thing she knew, he was Lifeless, his body hanging from the monster's hands ,the monster then tossed the body over to the fire.
She saw things children shouldn't see, and the worst of all, was that the monster saw them, he looked at them, he seemed as tho he looked straight in her eyes, she knew they were next she knew they would die.... If they don't run.