Winds Of The Apocalypse (29 page)

The last time it was touched was about five years ago after the big fire that nearly consumed it to the ground."

He paused.

 
"Not a lot of people are aware of this but every time they did a renovation on this building some parts were added over the main existing structure. It created a real maze of tunnels underneath the school along with the ones that were built by the original family for some reason and during the time the house served as a hospital those tunnels were used to hide or clear out the patients during the bombing.” He looked up at his friends. “Finding Din will be a nightmare..."

"So how are we going to find him?" Casey frowned, crossing her arms over her chest.

"We will never find him in this maze and we still have to go and face the monsters cuss they probably have Morgan's body now so..."

“Look, let’s take things one at a time.” Jon said, “Morgan is feeling fine for now so my guess is that they are holding his body in the same state they are holding mine so we have nothing to worry about at the moment .I say we go rescue Din and then think about getting both mine
and Morgan's bodies back, ok?”

“But Jon...” Casey whined. “We don't even know i
f we can find Din down there...

We have not
hing to go by to locate him...”

"Actually, we do." Toby smiled and his frie
nds looked at him questionable.

“What?
How?” Casey asked, looking again at the computer screen Toby was pointing at.

"Well, luckily for us some of us were listening when Din was talking and I found, by his description of the place he was brought to that most of the renovations after the fir
st war were done with concrete.

The only section of the maze that was done with the original breaks is the one that is lying right underneath us, in the basement.
This one."

Toby pointed at the left side of the map, where a few squares of the design were painted in red.

"This is the only original break wall left, it has to be it, and there is just no other place like it. And get this, it was the only place not damaged in the fire five years ago.

There has to be something really special about it, don't you think?"

Casey looked at Morgan who seemed to space out for a bit, looking up at the ceiling as Toby was explaining to them about the structure of the building.

"Morgan.” Casey got up from the floor
and came closer to her brother.

“A penny for your thoughts."
Casey sat beside him, snapping Morgan back to reality.

"Oh." Morgan laughed. "I rather have a million.
” He said, looking up at Casey.

“My thoughts are voluble, you know." He smiled.

Casey smirked. "Well?"

"Well…" Morgan shrugged. "I was just thinking about this whole thing, about Jon and about the Apocalypse and I think that we should break into the base of the creatures
…Again." Colin cracked a smile.

"Well, you see, that’s the problem when you think. You shouldn’t do it, you're blond."

Morgan ignored him and instead looked at Toby who stared at him with his mouth open, clearly in shock.

"Are you insane?!" He practically screamed when he had finally regained his strength to form a coherent sentence. "They already have Jon and
Din, not to mention, your body!

Do you want us all to become ghosts too?!"

Morgan shook his head.

"Look, one way or another we will have to get our bodies
back to be alive again, right?”

He asked and as no o
ne answered he sigh.

“So I suggest we just go to their lair and take back what was taken from
us." He looked at his friends.

"You know we don’t have a choice, don’t you?" All of them but Toby nodded, he was still upset about them going off the course of
rescuing Din again.

”Toby,” Morgan said, seeing his friends’ d
ismay at the change of subject.

“I know I'm being kind of selfish now but we can't be sure that the apocalypse will keep mine and Jon's body where
they are ones we get Din back.

They can't move the room so we can always find him. Even if they get his body out of there it would just be better for us, easier for us to save him so...”

"So what's the plan?" Toby sigh, giving in to his friends' reasoning.

"Well,” Morgan said, his tone suggested that he was going to say something else Toby was not going to like. “Since you are the only one who knows where the apocalypse's lair is…"

He winked at Toby.

“Don’t say it.” Toby warned.

"You will lead us there." Morgan concluded.

“Shit.” Toby growled. “I told you not to say it.” He moaned as Morgan pulled himself up on his elbo
w and looked down at his watch.

"We will go as soon as the sun comes up. They won't chase us back t
o the school in pure daylight."

”You hope.” Toby mumbled, shutting his computer as his friends sat silent, none of them was completely up for the idea of facing the creatures again or ever.

They spend the rest of the night planning, trying to figure out how exactly they were going to do it and make it out of there alive.

With Toby explaining to them how the lair looked and where was the entrance Morgan suggested the direct approach
to their first rescue mission.

It included, among other insane things barging in, screaming and kicking, grabbing the bodies and hopefully managing to get out in the same way.

It was bold and stupid and whatever other word you might want to use to describe it but it was just stupid enough to actually work.

 
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“Casey?” Morgan gently shook his sister awake as the clock on the wall bit six times, bringin
g with it the sound of morning.

“Casey, wake up, it's time to go.” He whispered as his sister groggily opened her eyes and rose from the bed. With eyes still half closed she dragged herself to the bathroom to splash some cold water on herself and after she was dressed she and Morgan left the room to join her already awake friends that were waiting for them in the lobby.

The morning breeze played with their hair as the teens crept along the garden to the winter cellar where the apocalypse's lair lay.

"Everyone's ready?" Toby asked, reaching his hand and unlocking the secret pass
ageway that Din had discovered.

“No...” Casey whispered as they made their way inside, crouching down behind the big barrels that Toby and Din had used to hide
behind last time he was there.

"Wait for it…" Morgan whispered as the wall slid all the way out.

"Now! Now! Go!"

Jon grabbed Casey's arm and together they ran into the middle of the room to the pyramid like machine, luring the apocalypses away from Jon's visibly uncons
cious body in the far end wall.

It still lay exactly in the same place that it had been in the
last time Toby had been there.

As predicted, the apocalypse hadn't moved it but they did not add to it either, it appeared that Morgan’s body wasn't there at all.

Morgan, Colin and Toby, using the apocalypses focus on Casey’s and Jon’s appearance made their way in that moment to that cell divided wall with the intension of taking the body but, unexpectedly, Colin had just stopped in the middle of their sprint from behind the barrels and turned to the right, his eyes wide and frightened and his jaw hanging agape.

"Oh my god!
Look!"

Colin screamed to his friends as he turned completely in that direction, leading them away from their designated task because there, right in front of them, a tall ugly apocalypse stood, keeping a firm grip on a terrified blond girl's arm.

"That's May! She's in our class!!" Toby gasped. “Morgan!” He looked at his dilemma struck friend. “We have to help her!” He pleaded, knowing that he was making the most unfair request he could have ever made.

Morgan stood, his eyes flickering from his brother’s body in the wall to the frightened girl that seemed to have no idea what she exactly was in the middle of and then he didn't have to decide anymore as the apocalypse blocked their path to Jon’s body, making the decision for them.

"Change of plans, guys!" Colin screamed as the three of them ran straight into the overgrown ugly apocalypse, knocking it off its feet, making it grunt in a shrieking furry and most importantly release the now shock struck girl.

"C'mon!" Colin grabbed May's hand and pulled her after him towards the exit, noticing straight away that she was in a no condition of walking. Too scared out of her mind, he gathered as the monsters began to close in on them.

“Run!” Colin screamed, lifting the mute girl off the ground and cradling her in his arms, he ran after his already departing friends with Morgan turning just at the exit to search for his absent siblings.

"Jon!! Casey!" Morgan screamed as he stumbled over the earlier knocked down barrels.

"Casey!!!" Morgan screamed again, seeing the apocalypses closing in on his younger siblings on the other side of the lair.

"Get out of here! I'll take care of her!" Jon yelled at Morgan, turning Casey away from the advancing monsters and hugging her tightly.

"I'm sorry." Jon whispered.

"For what?"
Casey asked astonished, bounding her hands around her brother.

"For this."
Jon whispered as he closed his eyes, letting his head fall on Casey’s shoulder as he held her tighter, “don’t let go.” Jon warned her.

“Whatever you feel, just don’t let go of me.” He said although he knew that it was a huge risk taking Casey with him. Jon wasn't sure that his baby sister's body could even survive this trip or that he could even do with a full hum
an but he didn't have a choice.

“Hold on.” He whispered and then they disappeared in a flash of bright light with Casey’s barely audible cry echoing in the distant, drowned by
the monster’s enraged shrieks.

Morgan watched the two disappear from sigh and he couldn't help but to sigh in relive. “Morgan!” Toby grabbed his arm and pulled
him through the stone opening.

"Let’s go! Let's go! Let's go!" He yelled as they ran through the abandoned gardens, away from the retched winter cellar and back into the semi protective walls of the old eerie looking mansion.

Colin was still carrying the blond girl as they ran up the stairs to Morgan’s and Casey’s dorm room. A few students looked at them suspiciously as they ran past them but they were all far too busy with their own affairs to give the sweaty boys much attention as they left them behind.

“Finally!”
Morgan breathed out as they entered his bedroom.

“Oh my god!”
Morgan stopped dead in his tracks as soon as his eyes focused on the sigh before him.

“Casey!” He growled
, his eyes narrowing as he looked down at his siblings sitting together on the floor.

Jon was sitting on the carpet, his legs spread as if he had fell on them, with Casey half lying in his lap, her bleeding
form held by her older brother.

Crimson painted Casey’s mouth, her arms looked as if her veins were on the verge of bursting open, red little prickles of blood were visible on them and bloody tears ran down her porcelain white cheeks
from her half open brown eyes.

“Morgan…”Casey mumbled, struggling to open her eyes wider but failing
to do so on her first attempt.

"What the hell happened?!"
Morgan asked anger in his voice as he took a few steps into the room and leaned over Casey, laying his hand on Casey’s trembling arms and looking up at Jon. “What happened?” He asked again lowly, the sound of his threatening voice making all present in the room to go silent, nobody moved, not even Morgan.

"I'm ok, Morgan…" Casey whispered,
breaking the tension, “I’m ok.”

She said as she reached her weakened arms up to Morgan and allowed him to pull her up from Jon’s lap, leaning against her twin, her legs barely holding up her wrecked body.

"What did you do to her, Jon?!" Morgan demanded, holding Casey around the waist, guiding her to the nearest bed to sit on.

"I had no choice…” Jon shook his head, joining his siblings on the already bloody covers, pulling them up to wipe away the remaining blood patterns from Casey’s face and arms. “We had to get out of there…" He said, looking up at his baby sister. “I’m sorry.” “No…”Casey tried to protest
but Morgan huffed in annoyance.

“Stop it! Just answer me! What did you do Jon?!" Morgan asked almost growling, ready to punch his brother if it came to that.

Jon grimaced.

"I brought us here Morgan. You must have seen us…I had to use our way of travel, I didn't have a choice and it proved to be a lot more pressure then I intended on a her human body…"