Chapter 29

Shawn has claimed me. I am his and nobody's going to take me away from him. His words, it's now embedded in my head, and it's not going away. As much as I want to shut off my mind, I just can't because Shawn keeps everything about me running. Though he's the reason why my brain is not functioning. Always. Right now, he has his arms wrapped around my hips as we walk further and all eyes are trained on us. I keep blushing, pushing him away because his action is kind of nagging me, but he persists. Instead, he tightens his hold around me if I ever do such a little move. Both Ivan and Brent are in a pissy mood today, and it's irritating me. I mean, it's not my fault that my Shawn is being possessive and all. I guess it's his thing.

Ivan keeps muttering under his breath and I catch some of the few words he's muttering, but I'm not going to let him bug me that much. In fact, I'm enjoying his misery right now. Shawn is with me. Shawn chose me. Not him. He can cry a river or blood and I won't probably care. He can suffer. I don't know why I hate him so much. I guess I just feel threaten. I know that I should not hate him because I have no reason, but when my mind flashes an image of him and Shawn together, it makes me want to vomit and cry and thrash and hate him more than ever.

Brent. As much as I want to torture Ivan, there's Brent I don't want to hurt. He's my friend, and friends don't hurt each other. Whenever I'd catch his eyes looking at our direction, there would be a flash of jealousy and hurt in his eyes and he'd look away. If I had a chance to mend his heart, I would, but I can't. And I think we don't have a power to.

As per Jelai and Mia, they keep snickering and pointing out things and to be frank, they have already made a name for us. They are calling Shawn Shawty and me Dandi. I don't know why they made a name for us but apparently for them, it looks cute on us. Which is not. Shawn and I agreed to that.

"They look good together, so cute." Mia gushes as she leans down a bit over Jelai and Jelai nods, agreeing. I blush again for a hundredth time. Shawn is not helping, though. Every time he senses that I'm blushing, he's going to point things out and say it aloud so everybody can hear it. I don't know why I ended up with him, but the feeling is so good. "Look at Shawn! He's very possessive and looks like he doesn't want to let go of Dylan. Do you think they'd last?"

"Oh I think they will," Jelai says in a whisper, smiling down at Jelai. Mia, being the shortest, needs to move forward so she can hear what Jelai has to say. It's getting annoying and I just want everybody to stop. Not because it's really annoying, but because they are making me look like a freaking girl. "Look at Dylan and Shawn. They are perfect and Ohmigosh, what would gay sex look like?"

That catches my attention and I've had enough of their talking. I immediately push Shawn aside and that makes Shawn stares at me in shock. I huff and glare at the girls and they laugh out loud with the other guys and I glare at all of them. Shawn's lips slowly tug into a sly grin and I roll my eyes at him. I stomp my foot in frustration and start to walk without Shawn by my side. Good. And bad. As much as I want to be a mature, grown man, I want to be babied by Shawn. I want him to come running for me and apologize. I want those to happen. But it doesn't. And I'm waiting. To my frustration, they all laugh at me and I continue walking, trying my best to ignore them. To everyone, I may look like a kid, but I'm freaking not.

I know I'm fuming, but I don't care. I don't know why I'm suddenly mad. It's probably because of Shawn. I calm myself down, taking a deep breath and inhaling the not-so-fresh air here. I feel the need to release stress. Ever since I got here, I've been dealing with stress and I haven't found a way to exhale it out. Well, except when I'm with Shawn. Mostly when I'm with Shawn. But right now, he's the one that's stressing me out.

A growl invades my ears and I look at my right and find a two-headed creature that has been staring at me for God knows how many minutes. Its eyes are trained on me, and the creature has actually two mouths that split into two, in half. Its fur is black and it's not looking so soft and fluffy at all. I make a step back, which causes the two-headed creature to snarl. Shawn is immediately on my side and hauls his sword out of nowhere. On my right side, Brent is holding a black laso that I've never seen before. His eyes are trained on me and even though they are a bit sad, I find happiness in them.

At least I get to protect you, he says through mind linked and I smile, letting him know how thankful I am. I know that I'll never beat Shawn, so I'm letting you to be together with him. But if he hurts you, I'm going to fucking use my mind power and control him and stab him with his very own sword. I promise that, Shawn. I fucking promise that.

"Sheez, no need to be gore, dude." I respond back, rolling my eyes but a smile is playing on my lips. In seconds, I grab the bracelet on my wrist and it becomes a spear immediately. And in seconds, the whole gang has their weapons ready. "Let's show 'em who are the bosses here." Every seconds tick by, and each seconds, a monster keeps appearing out of nowhere, and they're probably hundreds by now. Our eyes are trained on them and theirs on us, each group waiting for a signal to attack.

A witch a with a curly black hairs, her bangs covering eyes, and a green pale skin, her teeth are sharp and deadly, comes surging on us, showing us her pointy claws and that's when Beige uses his power to make trees bloom. He lifts his hands up and the creatures get stuck and that's when Albert moves forward and opens his palm, releasing blue fire and burning them, as well as Cole. An ogre comes surging at us and both Brent and Shawn move too fast I barely have time to process them and in seconds, Brent is already using his laso to choke the ogre and Shawn uses his sword to chop off the legs. He has a thing for chopping his enemies legs, I swear.

I turn around, finding out that there are a lot of monsters behind us and Jelai, Mia, Beige, Ivan and Giovanni are already fighting them. Running forward to Ivan to save him being stabbed by an unknown dark creature, I jump onto his back and break its neck, which makes a horrible cracking sound and I look at the other creature's eyes and the creature stops. I use my mind to command the creature to attack the creatures and when I look at Ivan, he's frowning at me. At least be thankful, you dirty mud. I want to shout at him but fight against it. Mia bends, pointing her arrow upwards, above the sky and in seconds, it's raining arrows that makes me stare at her in amazement. For her height, she sure is a diva. Jelai keeps sending bolts to everyone that comes near her. She has a hard expression on her face, determined to kill these bitches. Beige uses his power to trip down the creatures with the vines and London uses the opportunity to use his Earth power, which is ground manipulation, to smash the creatures with heavy rocks. Ivan turns around and releases a strong gush of wind in the creatures direction, making them fall back and that's when he turns around and uses his water power to drown them. I run around, jumping and kicking another two-headed creature and stab the black lady and as soon as my spear gets pass through her body, green blood splatters around me and it smells not so good. I turn around, raising my spear a bit and it slashes the throat of another creature that makes me smirk.

My eyes fly to Brent and he doesn't have the laso anymore. Instead, he's using his barehands to fight the monsters and he's doing it really well. He moves so fast and swift I can't even see or predict what would be his next move. He kicks the faceless monster on his head and throw a punch that makes the faceless monster fly, and every time he looks at other creature's eyes, they'd stop and look at each other with confused expression. Brent is enjoying. I shake my head and roll my eyes at his childishness. Looking around, the place is full of green blood and we need to get out of here.

"Let's go!"I shout at them and they all take a step back and we start to run in one direction. There are a lot of them, and we can't just use our powers and fight them. It would cause us to lose strength and power. We need a lot of energy since we're in this world, and in this world, every place is not safe. A huge rock, I mean huge, huge, very huge rock, comes into view and in the end, there's a door that leads to God knows where. That's probably the best way to take. "Okay, look! There's a door that leads to what the hell! And I can't see any other paths! So let's take it!" They all nod and once we get inside, the door immediately closes.

Panting, inhaling, we start to walk again. The place looks dark and we barely see each other but at least we can make out each other's figure and presence. We walk slowly until we reach the 12 pill-like machines. The machine that led us here.

"I think we're at the end of the Journey," Shawn says in a faint voice, looking at the machines with a cold expression. "This pill will lead us somewhere, like the first time we took it."

"We're at the end of the Journey," I say, smiling, but I can tell there's a lot of things await us to where? "Let's get inside each pill and find out what does the end of the Journey really look like." And they all nod. Before I get inside the pill, Shawn hugs me and plants a soft kiss on my lips.

"I'll wait for you on the side, yeah?"

"Yeah," I say to him and one by one, we get inside the pill. Since it's transparent, we can see each other and I give them all a smile and that's when everything shakes and the pills have flown very fast into the sky.