Winds Of The Apocalypse (34 page)

She started walking to the door but Lisa re
ached for her to stop her.

"Wait, we can't all go." She said as Casey ripped her hand away from her grip, looking at her own hand as if it was smeared with s
omething incredibly disgusting.

"I knew it was a trap." Casey glared at Lisa who shook her head,
almost in annoyance.

"No…But even if Utopia is not there we still have Utopias personal guard to deal with and if I lead all of you in there together it will look s
uspicious. Don’t you think so?"

"So what do you suggest?" Jon came closer to his sister, t
aking his twin’s hand.

"Just two.
I will be able to take two of you in without it looking too suspicious."

Lisa declared.

“No!” Toby stepped forward. “Guys, it’s too dangerous!”

“We don’t have a
choice Toby.” Casey announced.

Jon nodded. "She’s right,
we don’t. Ok, then I'm going."

"Me too.”
Colin volunteered, walking up to his friends’ side.

“Does everyone here have a death wish?!” Toby exclaimed but
everyone seemed to ignore him.

"No," Lisa said looking at Jon. “Not you. Casey and Colin are the best for this.”

Casey looked puzzled, her grip on Jon’s hand unconsciously tightened. "Why?"

Lisa frowned. "Cuss I will need to pass them as candidates for the chamber of souls, lost children. Jon looks too much like Morgan and they all saw Toby with Din so they will recognize him and May is totally out of the que
stion so it has to be you two."

She pointed at Casey and Colin as Jon frowned. Her annoying words made sense but he
wasn't happy about the outcome.

Lisa ignored his hard glares and turned to Casey
and Colin. "Is it agreed then?”

The two teens unwillingly nodded. “Good.
” Lisa smiled.” Let’s go then."

She
said, opening the bedroom door.

“Jon…” Casey looked down at her hand and Jon groggily let her palm go, leaning
in instead to hug her tightly.

“If something goes wrong,” He whispered. “Call for me…I will feel you. I will find a way to ge
t you out of there, I promise."

He whispered softly in Casey’s ear, making sure that no one had heard it but his twin. Casey nodded slowly and then stepped away
from her brother.

Soon after they left, heading for the labyrinth under the mansion, led by w
hat could be their executioner.

"Now what?"
Colin asked ten minutes later when they arrived at the basement and Colin assumed that they had stopped in front of the labyrinth entrance to the tunnels since the wall in front of them was made of pure concrete.

"Now," Lisa took a deep breath. "Hold on." She closed her eyes and to Colin’s and Casey’s frightened gasped turned back into an apocalypse, cloak and all, her feelers dancing in
the air outside her black hood.

Once she was done with her terrible transformation the new found apocalypse had reached into her black cloak and pulled out a pair of silver long ropes. Colin automatically pulled Casey back and away from the
apocalypse, glaring up at her.

It seemed as though every one of Casey's friends and brothers had had the urge and the instinct to protect the younger teenager as if she was the most delicate and fragile of them all but, to Casey’s opinion, they were
seriously underestimating her.

"Relax." Lisa smiled a terrifying smile that made chills run down b
oth Casey's and Colin's spines.

"What are the ropes for?!" Colin stepped a little forward, shielding his friend and creating some sort of a human barrier between Lisa and
Casey, never leaving her hand.

"You will pass as my prisoners." Lisa said, as if it was the most natural thing in
the world to do at that point.

"It is a trap! I knew it!" Casey stated, staring at the ropes, ready to call for Jon but Lisa’
s laughter stopped her.

"What?!
Did you actually think that you will walk up to Utopias personal guard and say: 'hey, my brother, one of the boys from The Prophesy is in there right now? Can you please step aside so I can go in and rescue him'? C'mon!"

She smirked in her apocalyptic shrieking voice. Her smirking was no better than her smile, also a horribly sigh to see but Colin and Casey didn't really care anymore about it. They exchanged worried looks between them, not one of them knowing how to proceed
.

“What can we do?” Casey whispered as she slowly nodded to Lisa, reaching her hands forward and allowing Lisa to bind the silver ropes to them both as Colin fallowed her example, letting the creature tie their a
rms behind both of their backs.

"And now we can go in." Lisa said, leaning forward and pressing the wall in front of them, activating the same mechanism that allowed them to enter the apocaly
pses base in the winter cellar.

It seemed that Utopia wasn't the most thoughtful or original creature on t
he planet.

The two teens stared into the darkness of the labyrinth for a second before Lisa slightly pushed them forward, l
eading them into the dark maze.

"You know…" Colin leaned closer to whisper to Casey. "I really start to think that you were right a
bout this being a trap."

"Stop it!" Casey whispered back, irritated. "You only make me feel m
ore nervous than I already am!"

“Sorry…”

"Bow your heads!" Lisa's voice sounded strained behind them as they approached a green yellow door at the end of another corridor they were walking down and the ugly apocalypses that were guarding it. Casey almost gasped, they were fucking huge!

Bigger than any of the ones that they had the dubiou
s pleasure to encounter so far.

"Don't let them see your faces!" Lisa warned the two teens as they were close enough to catch the foul smell that seemed to co
me from inside Utopias chamber.

The teens obeyed, shivering at the sound of Lisa's high pitched shriek as she spoke to the other monsters. The two huge apocalypses hissed something back and then the door to the chamber was opened and Lisa had forcefully shoved the teens in, the
door slamming shut behind them.

”
Aggh…” Casey choked, she saw Colin fall to the floor beside her and then she felt one of Lisa’s feelers touch her throat and suddenly she could breathe again.

“Sorry,” She apologized. “I couldn't do it sooner.” She closed her bug eyes and changed back into a human, reaching for the teen’s arms and then removing their ropes,
helping them up to their feet.

“Where is Morgan?” Casey looke
d around the almost empty room.

"There is nothing here but this thing!" Casey growled as she pointed at the ugly throne, disappoi
ntment evident in her features.

“You led us here for nothing.” Co
lin blamed, rubbing his throat.

”Patience.”
Lisa shimmed calmly and then she stepped up to the green slime covered throne. “Now…”

She drew a deep breath and closed her human eyes, emerging i
nto the form of the apocalypse.

She lowered her feelers to the throne and pressed on a few of the seemingly moving insects that covered it in random locations until another shriek came, different, more powerful than what the regular
apocalypse could ever produce.

It nearly knocked Casey and C
olin out, it was so terrifying.

”
Agh…”Colin growled, holding his head. “Why did you do that?”

Lisa didn't answer, she turned away from the throne and a second later a golden cage containing Morgan's unconscious soul appeared on the floor in front of them, his body appeared soon after lying motionless on the ground besid
e it.

"She killed him!?!" Casey couldn't contain her scream, she ran to the cage, falling to her knees and reaching her hands insid
e to caries her brother’s face.

"Oh god!"
Casey cried. "She killed him! Look! He is not on life support anymore!

She kille
d him!"

"No she didn't.” Lisa resumed her human form so she will be
able to speak to them normally.

“Quite the opposite actually."
She told them, coming closer to the golden cage and pulling the unlocked cage door open. "As you can see he is quite well.” She pointed at the body that lay beside them. “The body is in a good state, breathing, she partially healed him Casey so he doesn’t need the machines anymore."

Casey breathed in
and Colin quirked his eyebrows.

"Why would she do that?" Colin asked, picking Morgan's body up and adjusting his lig
ht weighted friend in his arms.

“She wanted a pretty trophy.” Lisa snarled. “Always the one for the appearance, like any queen she thinks should be and that will be her downfall.” Her voice was filled with venom. C
asey gulped.

“Colin…Is he really ok?” Colin looked down at his friend, lacing his fingers carefully around Mo
rgan’s neck to check his pulse.

"She’s right.” He confirmed. “He’s alive." Colin smiled to Casey who smiled back
at him with a sigh of relieve.

"She put him in the same state as Jon is to stop him
from fulfilling The Prophesy."

Lisa shook her head. “She will never learn.” She smiled as Casey reached into the cage and carefully pulled Morgan’s soul out, laying him on her knees as Morgan whimpered
slightly.

"Morgan?" Casey whispered, gathering the boy in her arms and standing up with him, taken aback
by his feather like lightness.

"Morgan?” Casey whispered more clearly, afraid to raise her voi
ce so she wouldn't startle him.

"He can't hear you." Lisa looked at the door to the chamber, her voice vacant of all human emotion. "He is too weak
.” Casey looked down at Morgan.

"We have to get him out of here." She said to Colin who nodded wordlessly, carrying Morgan'
s unconscious body to the door.

"How are we going to
get out with the guard there?"

He asked, turni
ng his head to Lisa who smiled.

"Leave that to me." She said, closing her eyes again. Her body began to shift, she started growing smaller, and Casey was beginning to wander how she is not tired from all that form c
hanging she was doing for them.

Casey blinked surprised, it shocked her that she had cared about an apocalypse the way she did. She took a short breath, and it must have been Lisa's human side th
at awoke her sympathy, no more.

Casey looked at Lisa who was still changing and a moment later another Colin stood before them as the Colin that held Mo
rgan’s body gasped in surprise.

“Oh shit…”

"I'll distract the guards." The other Colin said lightly, he sounded just like the original Colin, it was just creepy. Too many people that looked alike in the same room.

“I feel like I’m in a fucking twin convention.” Colin muttered b
ut the other Colin ignored him.

“Wait until they come after me then run up, just go right all the time, never stir from that path, it will lead you back out. If they don't catch me I
will meet you in your bedroom.”

Casey opened her mouth to thank h
er but instead she bit her lip.

Ultimately the two teens nodded and then Lisa, in Colin’s form had opened the door and ran out, leading the shrieking guards away from Utopias chamber, allowing the te
ens to head back to their room.

“I don’t think that she is going to make it…” Colin mumbled as they ran down the dark corridor. Casey didn't answer, she held onto Morgan’s soul tighter, afraid that it would at some point slip through her fingers. She hoped that Lisa will make it; they needed her to br
ing their friends back to life.

Chapter sixteen: Off to find the crystal we go

They only had to hide ones in the halo beneath the large lobby stairway to avoid a random student that came downstairs from spotting them carrying Morgan's body but other than that, luckily, there were no more intrusions on their path to safety. In fact the whole thing, surprisingly enough went quiet smoothly and pretty soon all four of them, technically, were back in Casey's and Morgan's room with Colin using his foot to knock on the door.

“Oh! Casey!” Jon hugged her tightly as he
was the one to open the door.

Casey suspected that her brother hadn’t moved from his spot the whole time that they had been absent. It filled Casey with happine
ss, if not a little self-pride.