The Demon Within

Chapter 7

I walk out of the classroom and towards the cafeteria for lunch. As I enter the cafe, I spot Griffin and his stupid friends sitting around a table. Of course, Echo is sitting on his lap like some lap dog. I can tell that they are talking probably about me.

I walk to a table where no one else is sitting and just ignore everyone and all too soon I feel the drowsiness that I knew all too well start to take over. I try to fight it, but its just too strong of a feeling to try and push past.

**Tranquillity’s Dream**

He is standing there between the world of good dreams and the bad. His face hidden like always. If I weren’t so close with him, I'd find him kind of terrifying, but I've gotten used to him and now I sort of feel safe when he’s near. It’s really messed up considering how he’s haunted me for the past few years.

"Hello my little one." He says with his raspy voice.

"Hey um why’d you bring me here?"

"Be patient little one you will learn with time."

"Okay..." I say though I'm confused.

"Come closer to me little one I would like to see your eyes." He tells me.

Though it sounds creepy I go along with it. It is the first time he has asked me to move closer to him even if it is only so he can see my eyes.

"Good little one now, do you remember when you were talking to that ignorant male?"

"Griffin? Yeah I remember why?"

"Do you know what you said little one?"

"Yes, I said, 'you’re dead' why is that important?"

"I can gain control of you from time to time I am the one who told him that little one."

"Why would you say that? How can you control me that’s impossible?"

"Little one I told him that because I have a plan. Also, it is nothing close to being

Impossible little one, your ‘incidents’ are caused by me." He says.

This time I stay quiet and I start to look at him instead. Hair is covering his eyes along with a cloak that is black as the night. It’s about time I speak up though it might cause him to harm me more than he does in the mornings.

"Why is it that you make me have these incidents?" I ask.

"First off little one it is your punishment for not allowing me to speak to you through your dreams. Second it is to see how much control I can gain from you."

"You do not need to control me I will do as you ask, you haven’t given me a reason not to trust you. Other than the incidents"

"But little one sometimes you do not listen."

I think about it and decide to stay silent and wait for him to continue.

"Good little one, no more questions." He said.

"Now let me see your wound little one." He orders and I do just that.

I pull my hand from behind my back and show him the cut. I don't know what he’s going to do. He grabs my hand and places it into his which is extremely cold yet soft to the touch.

He starts to say something that sounds kind of like a spell, at first I don't understand anything he says until I hear him say: "From the darkness with in this realm I ask to heal the wound I helped weld!"

Suddenly, my hand goes warm and it starts to glow a nice silver laced with black. The heat stops as the colours disappear. My wound is gone.

I gasp. "I-it’s gone!"

"Yes, little one it is healed. Now, I want to explain my plan. I know you do not like being picked on or others being harmed so I thought we could kill those who hurt the wounded. Do you want to go through with the plan little one?"

I stand there and think about it, killing those who hurt the wounded would be great. I'd be helping many people by getting rid of their problems, but do I want to become a murderer? It’s not ideal… but if I can save someone from the torment it could be worth it. I guess I have my answer.

"Yes, I'll accept your plan and I know who will be the first one on our list!" I say and start smiling.

"Who little one?"

"Echo my ex best friend who turned my life to hell!"

"Good little one that is very good! Just remember, the list must never end little one the list must never end!" he says laughing as I start to fall asleep with my mind racing and his words echoing around in my head. Then of course I start dream. 

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I look around and see that I am at the high school which isn’t a good sign but going along with the dream is a better idea then messing with it. I start to walk around the halls that are deserted. I continue to walk when I swear, I see something in the corner of my eye. I turn to look but nothings there. I know it’s crazy, but I fallow my instincts and walk towards where I thought it was. I look around and nothings there I randomly get a feeling to look down and a folded piece of paper is lying there. As I’m about to pick it up, I see something again. This time closer to the lockers. I walk over but again nothing was there.

This time I ignore the paper and keep walking till I reach a classroom door. What could possibly be inside? I go to grab the handle when I see it again. This time I run hoping to catch it in the act but instead I catch the paper. This time the piece of paper has some writing on it and the closer I looked the more it seems to be a newspaper article.

The article read: a _____ boy named _____ went on a rampage and ______ an entire school. Once everyone was dead _____ was covered in blood surrounded by rubble from the school that he ______ to once __to. He willingly gave himself into the cops. Who took him in for ________ing. It was said the boy would not speak but when he did it never made any sense. The boy was taken ________________ where he was kept in _____ custody. ____ said _____ would never be able to ____ anyone ever again.  

Sadly, the rest of the page was torn off. But out of what was left words were smudged and too hard to make out. It seems familiar like I knew it from somewhere. Then it hit me. I know about this because I heard it on the news a few years ago before I started seeing him! A boy killed the people at his school and then willingly gave himself into the cops which makes no sense. I kept walking and I find another note

This time saying E___o is going to d__  to_i_ht!

"Ha-ha this is reminding me too much of slender man next thing I know is that a man with no face in a suit will appear behind me!" I laugh.

I walked back to the classroom door and it randomly opens.

"This doesn't feel right" I tell myself as I continue to walk into the classroom.

I walked in and everything seems fine. I turn to look at the front of the class and stand in shock for nearly five minutes not knowing what to do. Then it’s eyes open. I scream as loud as I can and run till my legs feel like they are about to give out. Not knowing what will happen if I stop running, I continue hoping I won’t find out...

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"RING!!!"

My phone starts going off, but I decide to ignore it just this once. I sit up and wipe the sleep out of my eyes trying to rid myself of that horrid image. When I stop rubbing my eyes, I check my watch and noticed that only 5 or 10 minutes passed by.