As I was staring at the monstrosity standing in front of me, a jolt from Charles woke me up.
I pointed towards the monster, "Hey, can you see that?", I asked Charles
"I can see what? There's nothing except air.", He took a pause, "Are you sure you are fine? cause you have been hallucinating since morning."
"Yea, Maybe I need some sleep?", I said in a confused tone.
I rubbed my eyes and looked at it again, and this time it was still there, I rubbed my eyes again and this time too it was still there walking towards us destroying everything in its way.
Someone pointed out towards the monster and yelled, "Wait, Why are all the trees falling?"
But if the trees were falling instead of just being a hallucination, the monster must be real too. "But It isn't possible", I thought to myself
"It is possible.", I heard a voice say
I looked around but there was no one except Charles around me, and it wasn't his voice for sure.
"I am sure you realize that the monster is real as well as what's happening right now. It is no dream.", said the voice in my head
"Who are you?", I thought to myself
"For now, that doesn't matter. What matters is to take care of the thing that is coming."
"What even is that?"
"It's a rock golem.", Said the voice in my head
"A what?"
"I shall explain it all to you later, first take care of that thing."
"How am I supposed to even take care of something like that?"
"You have to attack and break its core."
"Is it right to assume that the core you are talking about is the glowing thing in the middle of its chest?"
"Yes. That is the core."
"How?- JUST HOW AM I GOING TO REACH THERE?"
"You will."
"But, Ho-", Before I could complete my sentence, I started floating.
I was having a hard time trying to balance myself, and when I finally did It felt as if my whole body was burning but in a few seconds it started feeling normal. When I looked around I found that Everyone was frozen, Nothing was moving not even the trees. Everything was silent.
"What's happening? Why is everything frozen?"
"For now, focus on that thing that's coming towards you and your friends."
"Alright, So what do I do now?"
"Kill the golem."
"Of course! Sherlock!! I am asking, How do I kill it?"
"Destroy its core."
"AND HOW IN THE WORLD DO I DO THAT.", I screamed out of anger
"Watch out!!!"
I looked to my side and found out that the golem was right behind me and was swinging his big arms at me. I jumped or as I did right now, flew away.
"Once again asking, How do I break the core?", I asked the voice while trying to dodge the golem's continuous
"Try to stab it with something sharp."
I looked around trying to find something sharp, until I realized I had a pen in my pocket. I uncapped the pen and flew straight toward the golem's chest.
But it slapped me away like I was a fly.
I went and crashed into a tree so hard I broke it, I am sure under normal circumstances I would be dead by now. My head was spinning. I was trying to focus my vision and when I did, I saw that the golem was holding Charles in his hand and was going to either eat him whole or crush him in his hands for fun.
I tried to stand up and fly over to him to save him, but I couldn't. I was too dizzy to even make out what was going out properly. All I saw was that Charles was going to be killed and had to do something about it. I thought that I wasn't going to be able to save Charles just when I felt something in my hand. My pen was still there in my hands.
"Hey! Help me.", I cried hoping that the voice would listen
"Just try to aim it as close to its shoulder as possible." " the voice said in an emotionless tone
I tried to aim the pen at the golem's shoulder, my head was still dizzy my hands were shaking, my vision was blurry and I could barely see. The golem was playing with Charles's body, holding out his hands and swinging him like a rag doll. I aimed at its shoulder as closely as possible and threw the pen with as much force as possible.
Normally, I am sure the pen wouldn't even cross a foot with the amount of force I had thrown it. But the pen flew towards the golem at the speed of a bullet, maybe even faster, and pierced its shoulder. The golem groaned and threw the boy he was holding high up in the sky, even though he had survived being with the golem maybe he was going to be killed by falling on his head.
I tried to stand up and run up to him as soon as possible, I tried to sprint but instead of sprinting, I flew over to him at a speed faster than what I could imagine. I caught him but couldn't manage to land safely and hit myself in the back while trying to protect him. I laid him down and looked at the golem. It was holding its shoulder with its other hand and roaring and groaning in pain.
Now that I looked at myself, I was in a pretty bad situation; I was hurt in various locations and I was bleeding heavily, I shouldn't even be standing in the situation that I was in. Yet I was feeling no pain.
"I didn't want to do this. But we don't have any choice.", The voice sounded unhappy, "You won't feel any pain for a while but then at the end, all of it will pour into your body at once, It may even kill you. If you want I can make it so that you would be able to feel pain again, but I am sure you know what would happen if I do that?"
If he did that, it would mean I wouldn't even be able to move and die along with my friends, I made up my mind. "If I am gonna die anyway, I will die after killing this huge piece of rock.", I realized I was smiling.
The golem looked at me and roared in my direction, it started running towards me for his size he was astonishingly fast, and I looked back. The body of my unconscious friend was lying there, If I didn't do anything he and all of my classmates would get injured during the fight.
I flew over to the side of the golem, and yelled "Hey, You load of rock."
It looked towards me, and I yelled again "Catch me if you can, Slowpoke.", the golem looked annoying and started chasing me. I flew to the side of the forest, where students weren't there and no one would be hurt. I flew straight into the forest but the golem took some time since it had to demolish every tree in his path.
"So, What do we do now?", I shouted, 'The pen's gone, we got nothing else to attack it with."
"What do you mean we have nothing?", the moment the voice said that all the leaves fallen on the ground came up flying and each 10 or so leaves bundled together to form darts and arrows, and right in front of me was a stick.
"How are we going to defeat THAT THING with these leaves and stick?", I yelled
"Do you trust me?"
"You think I have an option anymore."
"Then do as I say and take the stick in hand."
I held the stick in my hand and suddenly all the fallen leaves came and attached themselves to the stick and formed a shape resembling a sword.
"Slash the sword at the tree.", the voice said. I slashed the sword at the trees and all 10-20 trees in the view were cut in half by the sword. But some leaves fell off the sword making it thinner than it originally was.
"What in the world WAS THAT?", I shouted
"One thing. That sword will only work 3 times.", the voice said
"AND YOU JUST MADE ME USE IT ONE TIME.", now I was mad at the voice.
"DUCK!!", the voice shouted in my head. I realized that I wasn't paying attention and that the golem was right in front of me.
I ducked down and flew right through the gap between its legs and turned back and sliced its keens. It fell roaring in pain and agony. I flew and came face to face with the golem, it looked at me with hatred and anger in its cold rocky eyes. It tried to hit me with its hand but a bunch of leaves flew from the trees and blocked the strike before scattering and creating a rain of leaves.
I looked down at the golem, I looked at its core and fastened my grip on the sword.
"Rest in Pieces", I said to the golem before stabbing the golem's core with the sword
The golem started screaming and its core was glowing bright, I stepped away from the golem and started walking back towards the school grounds. I reached the end of the forest and when I looked back. An explosion occurred, and the golem had died. I could finally rest easy, I loosened up and fell on my knees.
"You did it.", The voice sounded happy
"Yeah, I did it. I still can't believe all of it."
"But, you still have one more battle to fight." He said nonchalantly and coldly
And then all the pain that I should have been feeling, flowed into me in a instant. It felt as if a thousand swords were slicing through me, my skin felt as if a thousand needles were being pierced into my body, and my bones felt as if they were being crushed by a thousand cars. I don't know how much time had passed but it felt as if months had passed before it stopped. My vision started to get blurry, I was bleeding heavily, I could no longer feel my limbs and everything started feeling cold.
And I passed out.