Big brother left me behind. I remember the sound of the spiderlings scratching, I screamed when one of them got inside of big brother's pockets, I remember big brother shouting then I felt the feeling of sudden acceleration. I peeked outside the pocket and saw when we entered the cave, but big brother just vanished and left me behind.
It was dark and cold inside the cave, I crawled and tried my best to hide when I heard the monster shouting because of big brother's escape.
They are trying to search for me now. I heard Vicky screaming my name. She's infuriated, resulting in more cracks forming on her face.
The spiderlings, I hear them crawling and hissing near my area, I want to cry.
The monster inside Vicky is getting stronger, her porcelain body can't hold it anymore. I'm scared, I don't want to die. Please someone help me.
I'm crouched in a hidden corner inside the cave, a spiderling saw me and tried to tackle me down, but fortunately, I saw a hole just enough for me to get in and not let any spiderlings in.
Tears are streaming down my face, the spiderling is hissing at me outside the hole. Although the spiderling can't enter, the hole is not deep and the spiderling's leg can almost reach me at the back.
My eyes blurred, I kept on digging wanting to deepen the hole. I don't want to die, I need to dig deeper.
I held my hand and saw it bleeding, my nails they... they... I wanted to scream but I gritted my teeth, I can feel mind-numbing pain as I continued to dig a hole deep enough so that I will be safe.
The spiderling got tired of me, knowing that he cannot reach me inside the hole it screeched at me as it ran away.
I exhaled, but I did not stop digging. My lips were pale and cracked because of dehydration crying did not help my situation either, my stomach grumbled screaming for something to eat, I was even starting to pass out due to excessive loss of blood, but I kept on digging wanting to make a safe space where I will wait for my big brother to come and rescue me.
"ThErE YoU ArE."
I froze and slowly turned towards the voice I heard.
'No...no...please. It can't be.'
Outside the hole, I could see her eyes. Blue like the sky and pupils as dark as the abyss. Funny how such eyes brought me calm once but now it gives me dread. The monster looked at me with its other eye...or eyes. I saw it and was frozen in horror, deep black, and make you question if it can reflect any emotion at all. I hate staring at my father's eyes since it makes me remember the time when mom was about to leave me.
She was lying on her bed, her once black ebony hair fell like autumn leaves not leaving anything behind, her once youthful appearance wilted, her eyes were sunken, and she wheezes when she breaths. I hated seeing my mom like that so I rarely visit her.
I regretted it. I regret not spending more time with mom, I regret not saying I love her more, I regret not being a good daughter.
In the end, she gave me Vicky. She apologized that she would not be with me when I grow up, that she can't protect me anymore. She caressed my head and kissed me one last time, moments later mom left.
I cried, and screamed wanting my mom back, not to leave me behind, to stay with me forever, but she was no longer there.
My father saw me crying, I saw tears stream down his face as he looked at the ground, his back heaved up and down his hand covering his face.
My father, at the time my mom left me, laughed. He cackled in glee, celebrating the loss of his wife, chanting that he was rich and all the money was his. That was the first time I saw a light in my father's dark eyes, during the time mom left me, as he was celebrating his victory.
But sadly for him, mom left all of hers to me. The look on his face when mom's attorney came and read mom's will is a look I cannot forget.
I miss mom. I knelt on my knees and stared at my father's eyes. The hole I painfully dug with my blood and sweat crumbled around me as the monster reached out and grabbed me. I closed my eyes as the monster started to cover me with a web, preventing me to escape.
I miss my mom... will she be happy if she can see me now? Or will she be angry since I did not grow up? Mom, is Annie a bad girl? Why do monsters want Annie dead?
Phil wanted to rush back and save Annie when suddenly his head started to hurt stopping him in his tracks.
'What are you doing!?'
The voices screamed inside his head.
'Do you want to die?'
'Leave the girl, she's a lost cause.'
'Look around you. Are you going to save all of them?'
Phil looked around him and saw more figures turning black slowly drifting down towards the abyss.
'Save one then what? Save all of them?'
'You're out of your mind.'
'The time is not yet right.'
'You have yet to completely set us free.'
"THEN WHEN CAN I FREE YOU!!"
Phil screamed wanting answers.
'When the time is right.'
'When you need us the most.'
'When you need power.'
Clutching his head Phil's nose started to bleed.
"I NEED IT NOW!!"
"I PROMISED ANNIE!!"
'NO! WE CAN NOT HAVE YOU RISK DYING! YOU HAVE A PURPOSE TO FILL!'
I deeper voice echoed in Phil's mind making him scream in pain.
"I NEED TO SAVE ANNIE!!"
In a moment of insanity, Phil is driven by his will to save Annie.
"IF YOU DO NOT LEND ME POWER AND SAVE ANNIE, I WILL DIVE IN THE MIASMA AND BE CORRUPTED AS WELL!"
Phil screamed. The voices were prompted to shut up, they started to whisper and talk among themselves.
'Is he for real?'
'Risking his life for a girl he just met?'
'Are we doomed to fail?'
'Why not just give him power?'
'You know if we do that he will turn insane like the ones in the past... or was it the future?'
'SILENCE!'
The pain in Phil's head was slowly going away, he listened intently to the voices discussion.
'Any Ideas?'
'Leave the girl, she's not important.'
'Save her, maybe she'll become a turning point.'
'Give him power. I want to see if he goes insane.'
''''.....''''
'What?'
'If he really goes and enters the miasma, he will be awakened and it will be the end.'
'Just give him little power, enough not to make him insane.'
'I good compromise, but he needs to train his body more to accommodate the power.'
The voices quiet down as the deeper voice clear its throat.
'Phil H. Craft. We have decided to give you a little bit of power, enough to keep you safe and sane until you can set us free. But know this, using this power has a price, your body will be in a weakened state that you can't even raise a finger; you will even wish you were dead. Will you accept? or decline and wait for the right time?'
"I ACCEPT!"
'So be it.'
The voices started to chant as deep hums reverberated in the plains of sleep, the beat of Phil's heart started to get louder and he started to feel a burning sensation in his stomach. Phil clutched his chest his heart started to burn, he felt like he had eaten molten lead. Both his heart and stomach were burning, he was drenched in sweat, he endured as the humming started to get louder and louder.
The space started to crack as a tear manifested in front of Phil. Phil could hear the humming in two places now, in his head and inside the tear in space.
A deep voice echoed, it spoke a language that Phil did not recognize but oddly he understands.
"I ********, **** of ***. Give a part of my power to the seed, Phil H. Craft. May the two be one and one be part of the whole.
After the voice spoke, a large eye appeared beyond the tear in space. The eye stared at Phil and Phil was staring at the eye. Phil saw emptiness, then he saw something explode the universe was then created, and in the center of it all was him. Phil woke up and noticed a tentacle coming from the pupil of the massive eye inside his mouth. Phil shivered and wanted to yank the tentacle out but moments later he noticed that he did not feel any revolting feeling, rather he felt calm like a baby suckling on its mother's breast. The burning sensation in his heart and stomach slowly faded and a second later the tentacle slithered out of his mouth and returned towards the massive eye.
"It is done. We will meet soon again, the seed Phil H. Craft."
The tear in space slowly healed as the voices started to fade away.
Phil stood in place dazed at what just happened, he looked at his body and carefully observe if something was wrong. To Phil's surprise, nothing was wrong, he even felt powerful and felt that he can defeat Vicky. Phil returned to his senses and saw the figure of Annie who was slowly getting closer to the twilight zone. Phil's time was slowly running out as he quickly rushed towards Annie and save her for good this time.