Eira
I almost tripped up one of the stairs because of my leg, and I thought, this is why I didn't help them out before.
None of this felt real, none this seemed to have been happening. Maybe if I died I would actually wake up.
The other girls were in front of my, and they sincerely seemed to be running with all they had.
It was in the hall full of dorms that we heard the horrible scream, and my heart started racing. Again, there was the scream again. From a room to the left, and we turned at the stairs, and still kept running.
There was one door open, and we all turned to see a black colored figure, almost looking like a ghost. It had the head and upper body of a human, but then is just faded into a pile of nothing. Basically what you would expect from a ghost, except his human like complexions were not see through, and he had blue veins openly being seen throughout his body, no skin to cover them. The worst was still to come.
Aureole and Altair were cornered by the monster with no weapon, and her eyes flickered to us as Kera put a finger to her lips. Right, we still had our knives.
I gulped, and moved slowly forward, but Kera signaled me to stop. She pointed to all three of us, and then the guy, who was currently trying to stab Altair's head off.
She counted off her fingers, 3.
I took my knife and held it firmly in my shaking hand. Why was this happening? Why was I doing this? 2. It's not too late to run away. It's not too late to stop. I let my hand slightly fall. No... I knew why I was doing this. Because I didn't want anyone else hurt.
I raised my hand, ready for the next signal. 1.
We charged, our hands shaking just as bad as our knees.
"W-" Altair cut himself short, but that was enough to make the shadow guy turn, and I flinched at the sight. His face was more horrifying than his body, with a pool of blood in his eyes, as if he had just gotten out of an eye surgery, and his eyes were, well obviously, bloodshot, with black slits for pupils, and yellow irises. He seemed to have a hole in his cheek, like a bullet entered in him, and he had no lips. Just teeth were jutting from his skin in a certain area with a snake like tongue.
Fear stopped me in my tracks, as well as Ciara, but Kera charged. It was a horrible idea, really. Especially since she got caught by the monster, her arms caught by his. She kicked around, and was able to free herself, but she winced. As I looked at her I saw that the shoulder of her sleeves were gone and her shoulder turned into a sickly gray.
"Kera..." Ciara started.
"I'm fine, I'm fine. Just don't let him touch you."
Easier said than done. But there was one plus side to this. We had him surrounded. He couldn't turn back towards us since we had a knife, but he couldn't attack us for the same reason. Or that's what I though, but no, he charged straight at us, seemingly unaware of our current weapon.
He went at me, and a struck at him with the knife, turning my head as I did it. Well, of course because of that my precision was off and I completely missed, letting him grab my shoulders.
One thing I noticed was that he didn't seem to talk, but he obviously understood. This really wasn't the time for observations though, I thought as a piercing wave of pain flooded out from the area of my skin he was holding. I tried to kick, but it didn't work, and I was actually off the ground. This is what I get for being a midget. Don't judge me, I'm short, deal with it.
My thoughts kept wavering one thing at another, and soon I was bursting out laughing, because who know why. The pain was making me have strange thoughts, almost like it was manipulating my brain. But this wasn't mind control, I was actually, physically, choosing to think these thoughts even if it wasn't by choice, if that made any sense at all.
Everyone was probably stunned, and I really couldn't stop laughing. Soon it was as if I was being tickled, I couldn't stop, and it started to hurt, and feel like torture, what type of agony is this?
Just then a knife came at me, but not from the monster, it was the ought the monster's stomach. It stopped right in front of my ow stomach, and I was suddenly dropped. It was in a split second, and the knife had sliced me, and the last thing I saw was a wide eyed Ciara, her face twisting in terror as she let out a deathly scream. I fell to the ground, half my consciousness gone, and I was hearing screams in the background.
"She's bleeding," someone shrieked, but I couldn't see who had said it and the voice sounded all weird in my head. "And her arm! It's about to fall..."
My arm's about to fall off? That sounded painful, so why didn't I feel any pain? I felt numb, completely numb.
"Get someone," another yelled.
"Guys, the demon is still here."
Voices started to merge together, and I heard, "get--safe--kit--go."
After that I felt arms around me and started freaking out. The monster was going to attack me again, I was going to die. I felt a walking motion and then I felt a soft touch of the ground, as if I were gently being placed somewhere. Where was the monster taking me?
I tried to open my eyes, but the strain made me notice pain, so I instantly stopped. "It's okay," the voice comforted. "You're okay."