They both immediately drop down; Kevin grabs the laptop as he cowers behind Don's large desk. Aimee shuffles next to him, staying out of view from the windows.
"Who do you think is here?" Kevin whispers.
"I don't know? But we're way too close to stop now? Find Dave Stewards file. I will try to shield the screens light while keeping a look out.", she replies, quietly.
The light instantly flashes again, causing them both to tuck even tighter into the desk.
"Okay, I'll search for it now." He says, glancing back towards the laptop.
Aimee watches the glimmer of light briefly glance between each glass cubical, "It must be the cops, looking for more convicts? Please tell me you locked the door." She whispers.
Kevin quickly frowns towards her, "No? Why would I lock it? The place was deserted?" he replies, panicked.
"OW, for god sake! You are useless.", she adds, gritting her teeth.
"Look, you keep reading and I will go and lock the door." Kevin says, handing her the laptop.
"Fine.", she replies, snatching it off him.
Kevin hesitantly crawls towards the door, gradually reaching out for a small lock underneath it's handle.
*SNAP*, it locks shut, but a strict beam of light quickly flicks directly towards Don's office,
"OW SHIT!" Kevin hushley shouts!
The light gets brighter and brighter, until a large silhouette climbs through the darkness, directly outside the door.
"Aimee, I think were busted?" he says, turning towards her, only to see her mouth gaping wide open?!
"Aimee, did you not here me.. I think they..". Suddenly, the door comes crashing down, almost flattening Kevin underneath it, but he rolls out its way, immediately pulling his gun.
A joyful voice charges in, shouting, "FOUND YOU!!"
*BANG! TING!*, Kevin fires into the darkness as a ray of blinding light snaps towards him, followed by a short pause then the same joyful voice speaks..
"Kevin?"
"What.. who is that!" he shouts back!
"Bro, did you… did you just try to shoot me?" Lukz's angry voice calls out!
"Lukz! For F**k SAKE! You scared the crap out of me!!" Kevin screams.
Lukz lowers his light, shining it towards his baseball bat, where a smoking bullet scrape clings to its side, "You shot my bat, you ass?" Lukz replies.
"What! Well, your bloody lucky it's so dark in here! Or that could have been your head!" He shouts back, slotting his gun into a hip holster.
Lukz flicks his light down towards Kevin's legs, revealing them quivering with fear.
"AHAHHA, you're shaking like a leaf! Did you think it was the coppers coming to bust you for trespassing?" Lukz adds, grinning.
"Well, yeah! Who else enters a police station after it's just been evacuated! Actually, you're the reason it's been evacuated! I told you to use no more than 2 sticks!!" Kevin wails out, slowing down his quivering legs.
Lukz cringes, "Ahh, my bad. That is what I thought you said, but I was still daydreaming over Aimee in that…"
Kevin butt's in, "Okay, okay. That's enough. Plus, why are you even in here?"
Lukz scowls at him, then continues, "I was coming in here to see if you guys were okay. A few coppers got battered out front, so I thought some other prisoners might have stayed in here to pick off the remainder?" He says, intently.
"No, this place was abandoned when we came in? But anyway! You won't believe what we found out!", He replies excitedly, as a small voice chirps up from behind the desk.
"Guys, you're going to want to see this!" Aimee says, spinning the laptop around to face them both.
The screen shows a picture of a young couple holding hands.
"Wait!" Lukz says, leaning forwards with Kevin.
"Is that, the two teens which were just slaughtered by Needle?!" Kevin gasps, astonished.
Lukz gently nods his head? "Yeaah, why is this on Don's computer?" he adds.
"Yeah, you're right? Don wouldn't have been able to file this?!" Kevin says, shocked.
Aimee pauses for a second, then points to a little letter icon, "It was e-mailed to him. Just now?", she says, gingerly.
"Emailed? What? You mean someone sent him this!" Kevin calls out, scrunching his face.
She nods again, "Yeah? It has no name or sent from address, so I can't even reply?"
"That's so strange? Don, must have other people investigating for him?" Kevin quietly says to himself.
Aimee glances towards them both, then back to the screen, "Just wait! That's not the weirdest part... the email came with a description of them both, explaining how these two were the first to successfully complete a full control, lucid dream?!"
Lukz scowls towards her, "What the hell is a lucid dream? Sounds erotic?", he says, smiling.
They both glare at him, Aimee continues, "Well, as I was reading through Dave's file, it mentioned Lucid dreaming, basically where you are dreaming, but your aware you are in a dream. He also stated that this was probably what happens to Lukz, when he has his night terror's. That's why everything feels so real? Even the pain."
"Wait! How do you know that!" Lukz howls out.
Kevin grabs his shoulder, comforting him, "We, we read about it in your files. It told us everything about you! It clarified that you are definitely making the demons, as well as being attacked by them in your night terrors. Why didn't you say anything?"
Lukz softly grits his teeth, "Well, I didn't want to concern anyone? People already think I'm crazy, even the professionals which I told didn't believe me?" He replies, timidly.
Aimee leans forward, "It's okay, they did believe you. That's why their dead! Plus, I think I have a way to stop these things from coming to life!" she says, excitedly.
Kevin and Lukz's eyes flash open, "really?" Kevin asks.
Aimee nods, "As I was saying, Lukz falls into what's known as a, Lucid Dream, which is quite common. But, controlling them is known to be impossible? Then boom, apparently these two teens mastered a way on how to enter a Lucid dream, then control it!"
"Wow. How!?" Kevin asks, intently.
Lukz nods, barley following what's going on.
She smiles, snapping her eyes towards Lukz, "Using a simple technique called, The Dot Test. This allowed them to control their Lucid Dreams, while they were in them. However, this has been attempted before, but no one has ever re-awoken! Apart from these two! Plus, they never told anyone how to wake up!"
"This is crazy! The demons new they could have given us a key to stopping them. So, they killed them! How are they doing this!" Kevin screams out, frustrated!
Lukz scowles his face at her, "Soooo, how does this, Dot Test thing, even work? Plus, how is it going to help me stop them?" he asks, confused.
Kevin shakes his head, then points towards the screen, "It says right here, all you need to do is, draw a Dot on the palm of each hand before you go to sleep, as when you wake up in a lucid dream, the dot's will be gone, allowing you to be fully conscious within your dream, which in term, lets you control it! Plus, these demons are somehow, coming to life through your night terrors, but using this Dot Test..." Kevin says, glancing at Aimee.
She continues, "yeah, using this Dot test you could control your night terror and actually find out what is causing these things to come alive!" she says, revealing a small smile of relief.
Lukz stumbles backwards out of shock, "Hold on just a cotton picking second! Your saying, you want me to go into this lucid dream thing, somehow find out where these demons are coming from? Even though the only two people who knew how to get out of that state, are now on a sushi menu. Plus, I'm the only one who can kill them! What happens if I end up releasing a whole horde, but I can't wake up!!" Lukz replies, panting like a dog.
Kevin grabs his arm, "Lukz, are you okay. You look like you're having a panic attack?!"
He shakes his head, "No no, I'M JUST SO PUMPED UP!! LET'S DO THIS!" He cries out!
Kevin walks forwards, closing the laptop, then stairs up to Aimee, "Lukz is actually right? He could release an armada of them. Who knows what they really want? Plus, these things are somehow using his mind as a portal into our world. Where does he even begin to look?"
Aimee nods, "Well, Dave Stewards went on about something to do with an open gateway, a memory of something, which could have basically ripped his mind apart, allowing a flood of bad horrible memories to take over?" She replies.
"Kevin scratches his head, "Hmmm, sort of like a Trojan, entering the gates of Troy?" His face sparks with realisation.
Aimee looks at him, confused, "what do you mean, like a Trojan?"
Kevin grins from ear to ear, "well, as anyone would know, crossing worlds is completely impossible? Almost like when the Greek Army tried to invade the city of Troy. The Greeks couldn't get through the gates! So, they tricked the city rulers into thinking they had retreated and left a peace offering for the gods, in the symbol of a wooden horse, a.k.a, a Trojan! The Greeks accepted this offering, bringing it inside their impenetrable walls, allowing a few soldiers which were hidden inside the horse, to open the gates from inside, letting the rest of their army in, who were just hiding. Maybe our mother's death stuck so deep in Lukz's mind, it allowed these metaphorical gates to ay stopen?" Kevin shouts out in delight!
"ANNNNNNNND... what's that got to do with my dreams or something?" Lukz adds, storming over.
Kevin Sighs, "Something must be lodged so deep into your mind, it's allowing your worst fears to literally, come to life? Maybe, when your asleep, you're at your weakest… or your defences are down? Which is why their released through your night terrors, but not when you're awake?" Kevin replies, panting harder and harder.
Lukz nods his head, "Fair enough. Can we go now?", he says, excitedly.
Kevin grabs him, then whispers to himself, "These demons only started to get continuous after our mums' death. So, that memory has to be the Trojan? Sounds crazy when I say it out loud?" He adds.
Aimee smiles, "No, you could actually be right? If Lukz can go into a lucid dream, re-experience his mother's death, then maybe there could be some signs which explain where these things are coming from?" She says, painfully.
Lukz butts in, "No. No way! I remember absolutely every little detail about that night! I was asleep, then the thing was on my wardrobe when I woke up! I'm not re-living that day again!"
Kevin shakes his head, "That's right! The demon on your wardrobe had already come to life before our mother's death, as that's what killed her. That memory could be the Trojan, but the entrance was already there? Maybe, you need to go even deeper? Clear your mind, find a path which will lead you to your subconscious? There could be something there?"
Aimee puff's out her cheeks, "Wow, there is a lot to consider? Lukz, do you understand, at all?"
He glances towards them both, with a glazed look over his eyes, "What, sorry. I was playing Bro-Blox, say again?"
Kevin slaps the back of his head! "Dahm it, you idiot! I will explain on the way to Darcie's. Come on, let's go!" He briskly replies.
"Ouch, I did sort of listen? You were saying, it's as simple as a wooden horse is stuck in my head? Which I must destroy? What a load of...." Aimee quickly places her fingers over his mouth.
"Shush, I think someone else is here." She says, yanking them all to the floor.