Edward Foster,
I woke up gradually, with my face on the floor. My eyes were numb and my vision unsteady. I picked my face off the ground and onto my knees. I rubbed my face, sighing in relief. I sat there for a while, I stared at hand, there were no burn marks.
Something felt different, I was feeling strange. However, I couldn't put my finger on it. Next I look around, the door to my room was close. "No one came upstairs"
It was dark outside. "Shit, How long was I out for?", I asked myself, while trying to stand back onto my feet. Only to stumble towards my desk, with the golden bookcase and Red Cross on it. "What are you?", I said tilting my head and picking it up by the handle.
For sure it was just a glorified dagger. Again suddenly, the Ruby lit up, fearing the incoming agony, I immediately dropped it and jumped back. It clanked to the ground. I inspected my hand by gripping them tightly, realizing that nothing had happened, this time.
I went back to pick it up and the Red Gem started glowing. This time it didn't hurt, but then another thing became apparent in the silence. I turned to my room door which was still closed. "Why my parents didn't check on me? Even when I was screaming?"
I placed the Red Cross back inside the golden bookcase. I opened my room's door and peeked outside, the house seem empty. Though I should have realized other possibilities, as to why no one came.
I walked downstairs peeking into the Living room, no sounds coming from the kitchen or the living room. I turned to my right and walked straight to the dining room. Passing the door to the basement which was underneath the stairs.
As I turned my head into the Dinning room, I found the bloody scene, the mangled bodies of my parents on the floor. The stench of blood was in the air. My father's arm mangled and head bashed inwards from the back.
My mother was next to him, missing her head which it had in his hand. Towering over the bodies was that white mannequin-looking thing. It held my mother's head by the hair.
Right off the bat, something was not right with the mannequin, as it turned its oval flat face towards me. Unlike last time, it was now about my size, just a few centimeters smaller than me.
But my eyes didn't pick up that first, as the addition of the breast and an hourglass shape of its body was what took my attention. It was as if it had switched its gender.
But that moment ended, as soon as, the mannequin threw Mother's head to its side. I knew what was about to happen. I turned around and bolted, as that thing started chasing me.
Making a run for the door wasn't an option, since I remembered its speed. Just as I reached the staircase on my side. I grabbed the wooden rail and swung myself towards the stairs while ducking my head. Just as I had, the mannequin had lunched itself at me from behind.
While I successfully dodged it, the mannequin crashed into the door, breaking through it like a wrecking ball. It landed outside, while I quickly ran up the stairs. The mannequin didn't waste time jumping back inside. This time around it acted more human-like with landing on its feet, unlike an insect.
I quickly reached my room and got inside. Turning around only to see it, breaking through the wooden railing, and landing on the stairs. "Absolutely not", I slammed my door shut.
When suddenly something came flying at me, In a quick second, I grabbed it. "Excuse me?", Seeing the Red Cross in my hand. Looking up, my room was empty with just me in it. But I didn't have time to think about it further, since I realized that I should get away from the door.
A second later the mannequin crashed through it, shattering my room's door. Throwing me down on the floor. I turned around to see that thing standing back on its feet. "Fuck", I was stuck in my room with the mannequin with an unusually appealing body of women.
I needed to escape, while the mannequin readied itself to charge. Crouching down on its feet, ready to crash its bulbous head into me.
At that moment I pressed my hand down, wanting to escape through the ground underneath me and then poof, the dust cloud rose. I crashed down on the hardwood floor of the dining, looking up through the hole. Seeing the ceiling of my room, through a hole.
"What the...Fuck?", I said picking myself up, grabbing my back as I walked away from the hole. Imagining pain while there was none. The red glow of ruby picked me off, I brought it close to my face, staring intently at the gem. Something was definitely swirling inside of it.
"So, that was you?", I asked, now speaking to an inanimate object. Only to hear a loud thud behind me. I turned around and it leaped at me, reaching me in a moment and tackling me in the stomach with its shoulder.
The force blew the air out of me and I got thrown back, straight into our Stove oven. The metal bent around my back, as I skunked into it. I braced myself for pain and it never came. My eyes again went to the Red Gem on the Red Cross still glowing.
Okay, so maybe I am not going insane and it is the doing of this thing.
Only if I knew how it was doing that. But then I quickly switched my attention back to the mannequin. Who was ready to lunch itself again at me. Without a second thought, I rolled out its way.
It crashed into the Stove oven, while I jumped back on my feet and ran away from it. Turning around to see its hand stuck inside the Stove oven. Gas busting and turning upwards and filling the room. I looked behind me and saw the unlit candles and the household lighter which my Mother kept next to them.
I walked past my parent's bodies and grabbed the lighter. Click the flame on and lilted the candle, then picked it up. I turned around to the mannequin, who pulled out its hands-free and my dead parent in the middle.
They didn't deserve this.
I threw the candle over to it, while it just kept looking at me. I immediately turned around and went for the window. Only managing to open it halfway, before everything went up in flames. The blast lunched me out, through the window, and out on the lawn.
Again I didn't feel any pain, or maybe I didn't want to. I picked myself up quickly patted my body for injuries, and there were none. I was completely fine, without a single scratch or broken something. I turned around to see the raging fire inside my house, burning upwards to the night sky.
"Dame it, what the hell is going on", I said painstakingly, not having a clue on what to do. Until the screeching of tires came from behind me. "Edward!", someone called out to me. I turned around to see him inside of the car, Father Sebastian.
"Sebastian?", I said in an exhausted manner. "Come here and get inside the car!", Father yelled. Rather than questioning him, I said "Sure". I walked over to the other side of the car and got inside. Finally having a moment to rest, only for a moment. As the figure pulled itself out of the blazing fire. The mannequin was still alive and of course, it was.
It came out through the same window. Both I and Father Sebastian just stared at it. Quickly I placed my hand on Father Sebastian's shoulder and he looked at me. "Would you please drive?", I asked pointing at the road with my hand, with a kind smile.
Father nodded, stepping on the accelerator. The car drove straight, leaving behind the burning house.
...
"Do you know what's going on?", I asked and he looked at me and I'll be honest, he had a unusual look about him. It was something close to when you pick someone out of a deep sleep and forced them to do something, like driving a car.
"What were you doing on the highway?", Father Sebastian asked ignoring my question.
I looked at him in confusion, "What?". "I am asking you what were you on the highway for?", Father said worryingly. "I don't know, that mannequin-thing attacked me and Lauren there", I responded quickly.
"Wait what. You and Lauren?" he asked, surprised. "Hey hey", I said stopping him, "What about my questions. What is the hell is that thing, huh?", I asked again. "Yeah... I don't know", Father said, in a regretting tone. "Don't give me such a standard answer", I replied.
"Whether you like it not, it's the truth. I didn't believe Grant when told he told about it", Father said.
I sighed, "For me, until Yesterday I was dating Lauren. Then on the way back, we got attacked on the highway by that thing...I don't remember making out of that alive and today I woke up in my bed completely fine", I said skunking further into the seat.
"I see, that is a tragedy", Father said, driving the car out of the town. "So what about this?", I said pulling up the Red Cross. Father Looked at it, then at the road, and then back at it, "What is that?", Father asked.
"What the hell do you mean?", I asked. "It arrived at my home, after I came back from the church". "Well I don't know what it is. Anyways, I am heading to Grants old residence, you might as well come too".