HDMGF Book 2- Part 25

Short chapter today, sorry guys. Lots of school and junk. 

Jake’s POV

Fire… everywhere. The sky was filled with screams. What’s happening? I wondered, but no words came out of my mouth. There were Neame, a lot of them. They were flying around so quickly, some were even smashing into one another. What’s going on? I tried to ask one of them. One of them, who was laying on the ground, looked up at me; he looked scared. His feathers were puffed up, and his eyes were wide. The glittering shine that most Neame have was almost completely gone from him.

“Please… no.” He begged. Was he talking to me?

Are you talking to me? I asked him, but once again, there were no words. But something did happen. His pale blue feathers turned black, and he fell flat on the ground; dead. What the-? I tried to yell, and move back, but my body wouldn’t move, or rather, it was moving, but I wasn’t in control. The screaming kept getting louder; everything was growing more chaotic with each passing second. Without warning, my head turned and I saw several Neame, each decorated with fine jewels and gold lace, but it was different from what I had seen on the nobles I knew. Their gold lace was more like strings, wrapped around their wings, like a spider’s web. They darted around me, and there was a pain in my side. I didn’t even see them do it, but they must have cast a spell. I wanted to see how bad the damage was, but I wasn’t in control, so there was nothing I could do. Instead, my eyes tried keeping track of the Neame that were flying around me and attacking.

“You beast! Just die!” One of them shouted, but they were moving too quickly for me to see who it was. Before I knew what was happening, I had spun around in time to see a wall of fire consume me. It hurt, worse than anything I have ever experienced before, but my body, or whoever was in control of it, didn’t even seem to care. The flames died down after a second, and I saw the Neame who cast the spell, perched on a nearby building, looking satisfied. I was still writing in pain, but after a moment, it started to fade, and the Neame’s look of pride turned to terror. “That’s not…” The Neame started to say, but as his sparking feathers turned black, he fell quiet, and dropped off his perch dead.

Stop, please stop. I begged. I wanted this nightmare to end. I didn’t want to see this… evil. If I’d had control of my body, I would have been in tears, or throwing up. My body didn’t listen to my begging, no matter how much I did it. It simply kept on its rampage, never bothering to block attacks, or even dodge them. It simply took them, endured the pain, and then the pain went away. It killed and killed for what felt like hours, and I was forced to watch it all happen. It didn’t stop with just the Neame, it killed the animals, the plants, even the insects on the ground. Only once the entire town and everything in it was gone, did my body finally stop, and the world begin to fade away.

Why… why was I… why do this to me!? I screamed. With the nightmare over, I felt like I was floating in an endless void. There was nothing to my left, or my right; not up or down. There was just darkness. I wanted there to be something, anything. Normally when this happens, he shows up, but not this time. This time, I was jerked awake, back in my mum’s house; lying in bed. My eyes popped open, and I immediately rolled off the side of the bed. I was throwing up and crying before I knew what was happening. My whole body drenched in sweat, and I couldn’t stop shaking.

“What was that?” I sobbed.