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8: Having Doubts

Nick was totally scared and decided to summon Edrek back into his body. Immediately he touched the pearl, the glass-like board fell, landing horizontally, which made it crack and shatter around the room in million peices.
Nick's parents came rushing up hearing the sound in their sleep. Like before, the debris vanished, leaving no trace of something supernatural.
Nick quickly grabbed the pearl, searching for an empty pocket on his plaid pants, to hide and also secure the pearl from his parents.
"Nick, what made that noise? Did anything break? Did you hurt yourself? Did you destroy anything? In fact, why are you awake at this hour?! " Nick's mom asked him a lot of questions at the same time, panting out of fear. "Um, mom, I heard the sound too. It's not from here. I think it came from the neighbors next-door. " Nick lied. "Oh My God! I almost had a heart attack. I thought something happened to you, " Nick's dad let out a sigh of relief before continuing, "But anyway, why are you awake by this time of the day? It's about 2 AM now! "
"Oh dad, about that, I just came from the bathroom before hearing the noise. I've been asleep all the while. "Nick lied, yet again.
" Okay, we are off to bed. Do sleep tight. Night! " His mom concluded, pulling at his dads arm as they made their way out of his room.
'Phew!!! That was a close one! ' Nick sighed, grinning widely from ear to ear- wait, he still is in trouble! Damn! Damn! Damn!!! That bastard has really stirred his life to the negative path. You know who I'm talking about... Dr. Mario Mc'Vida!!!
Now back to what he was about to do. Nick gently released the pearl from his back pocket.
"Edrek? Please, I need to talk to you. " Nick called out softly. In a femto-second, the pearl shot its bright blueish glow across the room. Edrek Mathias' voice came booming out from the pearl. "Hello Nick! How can I help you? " Edrek asked. "Um, can you possess me again? " Nick replied with another question. "Why? " Edrek questioned. "Oh, God! You possessed me before to protect me. So what other reason would I have for you to possess me? I know I vowed to complete this. But on a second thought, why was I chosen? Why?! Why?! Why?!?!?! I've got no supernatural powers. I dont have any damn experience or knowledge on supernatural stuff and all that. I am a huge mess in stuff like that. I'm beginning to have doubts-extreme doubts! I wanna turn back. I'm scared. Extremely scared! " Nick released all his thoughts. "Oh! You want to commence with this again? I've told you... You were chosen for this. You can't-" Edrek was cut short by Nick. "No, no, no, no, no. I wasn't chosen. Like, I cant be chosen-can I? But whatever! Just leave me alone! Go sort your problem out yourself! " Nick shouted and hopped onto his bed, burying his face in a pillow crying.
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"Mom, dad? Chloe? Where are you-" Nick suddenly stopped when he saw a pool of blood on the floor, his parents and sister, all tied up together beside it. He heard someone whistling behind him. Turning back,he saw the Duke of Hell, Dr. Mario Mc'Vida. "What have you done to my parents? My sister? You evil bastard! " Nick shouted with venom I'm his voice. "I just tied them up, thats all. " Mario Mc'Vida replied nonchalantly. "Nick...... Nick.... Only you can stop this...... Fight till you conquer-"
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Nick woke up with a start, panting and sweating profusely from the dream he just had. 'No! Nothing bad will ever happen to my parents! ' Nick prayed in his mind. He gently got off the bed and went into the bathroom to brush his teeth and have a shower. After that, he went out of the room and down the stairs to the sitting room. To his surprise, his parents and sister were already up, watching a movie on the television.
"Morning dad! Morning mom! Morning Chloe! " Nick greeted them all. "Yeah boy,morning! You are finally up. It's 11:30 AM already, sleepy head! Are you sure you didn't take it from your mom? " Nick's dad said jokingly.
"Hey you! Don't start with that! " Nick's mom chided, smacking his dad on the chest. "Ha! Yeah! You truly are a sleepy head mom! No offense, " Nick said, dodging his mom's hand which was trying to give him a playful slap.
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After Nick had his breakfast alone because the rest of his family had already had theirs, he hopped back up the stairs and into his room. He knew he had to continue fighting no matter what. He then decided to apologize to Mr. Edrek Matthias. He unlocked his safe and gently took out the pearl from it.
"Mr. Edrek?" Nick called.
"Yes? How may I be of any help to you? " Edrek replied, as though nothing had happened between the both of them earlier.
" First, I wanna apologize to you for what happened earlier. I didn't mean to be rude. I was just frustrated. I'm sorry, " Nick apologized sincerely.
"Oh, about that? I'd forgiven you already before now. It's not your fault. A normal human being won't like to be in this situation. Don't worry, you are in safe hands. I will keep on protecting you till you conquer. Having doubts is something normal. I hope you are still going to continue playing this game? " Edrek asked.
"Oh, yeah! I'm gonna fight till I conquer! I guess I'll make that my lifeguide quote. " Nick replied happily, even though he was still sad.
They chatted for a while, planning their ways of defeating the Duke of Hell-Mario.
Suddenly, Nick heard a loud scream from downstairs.
Nick quickly wobbled his way downstairs.
He almost passed away at what he saw-a blood writing- saying: 'I've got them! Come get me! '

Phew ε-('・｀) ﾌ ε-('・｀)ﾌ..... I'm finally done¡!¡!
Oh, come on!
Its pretty tough to craft something of this length-even though it's still short- when you've got little ideas. I've been extremely busy. So since there isn't any work on Christmas 🎄🎅🔔❄ Eve🎄🎆, I managed to write this up.
Yeah, some ideas I used were given to me by my sis. Just a little. OK! FINE! Most of the ideas were my sister's.
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