The Troubled Ones

Chapter 4 The Book

"Read it alive?!" Clark says with his scared face. "Well atleast you dont have to go through a 5 hour painful ritual like our ancestors did!" Joe answers him in anger. "Ancestors? 5 hour rituals? Where are you getting all of this information?!" Clark yells in confusion "If you didnt ask so many questions, maybe you would understand everything!" "Sorry Im just curious" Clark apologizes "No interruptions Okay! 500 years ago, our ancestors lived in this city, Willington City. This city was haunted since the time it was built so someone had to do something about it, with that said, our ancestors decided to make a secret vigilante society called "The Troubled Ones" because thats what they were called before. Why were they called that? Because they had the same problem we have right now. So they made this society soon after they figured out the power hidden behind this problem."

"Wait wait wait wait wait. Who figured out that the problem had a power?" Clark interrupts "The person was none other than Clarence Frederick Willington, the founder of Willington City. It turns out he had the problem too yet hid it away so it wouldnt bother others. He researched this problem he found a way to unlock its power, he tried the ritual on himself and unlocked its power after 5 hours. He waited until dark and then fought a ghost to see what hes gained, He thought this is great and gathered as much people he knows have the problem and told them what they are up for. All of our ancestors agreed and proceeded with the ritual"(School bell goes off) "Crap, we gotta go!" Joe yells as they run back to school.

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At the end of school, Joe and Ari gave Clark their phone numbers and their house address and Clark did the same. Clark notices that his Mom hasn't came yet and decided to call her. He grabs his phone and recieves a text from his mom "Honey Im sorry but Im going to be abit late" Clark looks at the text and takes a seat on the bench. He sat there just wondering about the book and how the rest of his history goes. "Why did they shorten the ritual into a book? Was there something wrong with the ritual?" He asked himself these questions until his mother arrived. "Hi honey, sorry Im late its just that the movers came and I had to sort our furniture and belongings." Clarks mother explains until Clark says something "Its okay mom, Im just happy that I made friends at this school" "Thats good Clark!" His mother pulls a book out of a bag. "Clark, I saw this laying on your bedroom floor. Im glad you found a new notebook." She hands him a book, Clark was surprised when he saw that it was the same book he was given mysteriously.

As he jumps in the car he looks inside the book and see's that the book is empty. He gets confused and thinks about it the whole car ride. As they arrive at home he notices that there is a dark figure in his room looking at him, he starts to shiver as he knows that its one of them and hopes its not the most violent one. "Im going to go get some groceries so go ahead inside and get your homework done honey, I will be back in an hour or so" Clarks mom says as she hands him the keys to the house. Clark gulps and realizes that he's going to be alone, being alone means more torture for him. As he enters the house he takes out the book and wonders if it can protect him from his demons. Then he feels as if its to dangerous to read it without knowing about it so he decided to be the tough one and take on the demon. as he continued into the house he felt as if everything already went far down hell already. The lights were flashing, furniture wasnt in there right places, the air became very heavy, he started to feel dizzy and his vision blurred. He stood there thinking why do the dislike me so much that they need to hurt me? what have I done? he looks up and sees the violent one standing before him. "Get it over with" Clark says in a blunt expression "now now weakling, that wouldnt be fun without you being asking why I havent shown up in 3 years, plus I know what you have been up too weakling"

Clark stares at him with glaring eyes "Why havent you shown up in 3 years, Ronin" the violent one stares at him in sarcastic surprise "So you have figured out my name weakling" Clark realizes that he knew his name without information and becomes curious of how he did it "well anyways weakling, I havent shown up in 3 years because you havent done anything to harm our being since then" Clark looks at Ronin with confusion "What did I do to hurt your be-" Ronin kicks Clark in the stomach "HOW DO YOU NOT REMEMBER WEAKLING" Ronin continues to kick Clark in the chest "YOU HAVE ENTERED OUR WORLD BACK THEN, YOU DELIBERATLY TRIED TO RID US FROM YOUR LIFE!" Ronin stops kicking Clark as Clark tries to breath for air. "I TRIED TO STOP YOU FROM KILLING YOURSELF WEAKLING!" Clark looks at Ronin as Ronin starts to cry blood. "What do you mean?" Clark struggles to say while gasping, Ronin picks Clark up from his collar with Clarks feet barely touching the ground "LET ME PUT THIS IN WORDS YOU UNDERSTAND, IF WE GO, YOU GO TOO WEAKLING." Ronin dissapears in thin air and Clark drops to the ground, making a loud thump on the way. The door opens as his mom stands infront of him "Oh honey, why are you on the ground, what happened?" As she picks him up and brushes his clothes with her hands "uhh...I slipped, mom, its really nothing so Im going to go upstairs and do my homework." "Okay honey, I brought some waffles from the bakery so come down in 10 minutes" "Okay mom" Clark rushes upstairs with his bag.

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The next day, Clark met up with Joe and Ari and continued their conversation. "Where did we leave off?" Joe questions Clark "something about the ritual and our ancestors agreeing to it" Clark answers Joe "ahh yes, they continued with the ritual and it took atleast 2 weeks, though there was one circumstance that they had to deal with." "What happened?" Clark questions Joe "The ritual contained of excruciating pain and suffering and you must focus your mind" "meaning you have to focus for 5 hours while you deal with alot of pain?" Clark interrupts "Exactly" Joe says. "Most of them couldnt withstand the pain and eventually gave in and died" "I really hate this part bro" Ari says while covering her ears "Why what happened?" Clark asks "once someone died during a ritual they became the monsters that lurk in your mind, the monsters in your mind is someone who couldnt sustain the ritual" Clark looks surprised "Thats pleasant to know" "Hey your not the only one who has a dead person living in their mind" "what happened after" Clark asks "When Clarence figured this out he thought it was a good idea to put more monsters in someones mind to make a stronger weapon, he was totally wrong" "Wait, how can a monster that recently turned get into someones mind?" "First of all, when a troubled one dies within a ritual, there monster or monsters are spread across the world making a place haunted. Second of all, when the troubled one turns, they turn slowly on the spot. Once they fully turn. They are paralized from the pain for at least thirty minutes giving the others enough time to put them in a troubled ones mind. Lastly, Theres a limit to the amount of monsters you can handle. Go above the limit and its certain death" "thats comforting" Clark says sarcastically "So is the troubled ones group still an actual group?" "Those troubled ones are the ones who take their fate seriously and fight off the escaped monsters or what the troubled ones call the creeps from the world and the base is located somewhere in Willington City but Im not sure where exactly"

"I dont know how to feel about this" Clark says nervously "Im just saying that you could have these monsters in your head controlling your entire life or you can take over them and be free to do whatever you want" Joe says throwing his hands in the air. As the Three head back to the school they bump into Alex. "What are you doing sneaking out at recess you little shit!"