Thy Darkness Within

EPISODE 1

*thump*thump*the sounds of converse hitting the ground could be heard as a boy run through the woods. The boy’s appearance was a mess and anyone could tell he was tired. He kept going though because he knew if he dared to stop ‘it’ would catch up.

The boy was so caught up in his thoughts for survival he failed to see the stone before him, causing him to tumble to the ground. He fell hard into the leaves scattered on the ground rolling through the dirt, forcing himself after his roll came to an end, he tried to stand and that’s when he heard it …… the caws of numerous ravens turning the already black night sky even darker and blocking out the little light provided by the stars. At this point, the boy knew his goose was cooked if he didn’t get out of there, but as he finally made it unto his feet, he heard them once more.

The growls, he knew it had caught up and was right behind him. Turning slowly, he came face to face with the beast. It was a wolf, if you could call it that. It was bigger than any wolf he had heard of. He had never seen one but he knew they were not supposed to be that big. It was more like a bear, if anything.

It’s bright red eyes seemed to be studying him. Its maw was opened, revealing a row of sharp teeth. He tried to take a step back when, without warning, it pounced on him.

“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH” he awoke with a scream so loud everyone in school heard it, he was panting while sweating as though he had just come out of the sauna. Looking around, he came to the realization that all that happened before was but a dream and he was in his history class with a very ticked of Mr. Child.

“Nice for you to finally join us, Mr. Ashwood.” Mr. Child spoke in a tone that was eerily calm and with that all the snickering in the class came to a screeching halt. Everyone knew when Mr. Child spoke in such a tone it just meant he was pissed beyond measure.

“Since you were so eager to sleep and then go on to interrupt my lesson, then you must certainly know the answer to the question on the board, don’t you?” Mr. Child continued to question him in his eerily calm tone. His eyes moved from Mr. Child’s face to the board and what was written might have well been ancient Greek, because he didn’t understand anything. “Um…um…w-w-um” he began to fumble and, by the look of Mr. Child’s face he was not amused , “psssst John”. At this time he heard someone calling. John carefully moved his eyes to his twin brother who was sitting by him , Jay had his signature smirk plastered on his face with his hand stretched from under the desk with a note.

Discreetly, John took the note from Jay and read what he saw word for word. Apparently that was the answer, because Mr. Child looked disgruntled and just as he looked ready to fire another question, the closing bell rang *ring*ring* and John bolted out of there.

John stood outside class trying to catch his breath when his brother came out laughing. Jay came up to him and grabbed his shoulders “ you. Should. Have. Seen. Your. Face. Hahaha priceless, you were like ‘Aaaaaah’” Jay waved his hands, mimicking John’s earlier shriek of terror. John shrugged his hand off and punched him in the shoulder “haha very funny” and walked off , Jay rushed to catch up “okay, okay but seriously of all the classes to sleep in, it just had to be Mr. Child’s like, seriously, you do know it’s Mr. Child right,” ignoring him, John just opened his locker and placed some of his books in .

“Okay but what were you dreaming about anyway?” Jay continued to question his brother, but right before John could speak up, Kennnedy came up to Jay and landed a big ol smooch on his lips. “hey babe” Jay spoke up after separating from his girlfriend’s lips “hey just wanted to remind you of the party tonight” “don’t worry babe it’s a party you know I’ll be there.” He leaned to land another kiss on her lips, “see you tonight then… bye John” she turned to John and said the later part before leaving. John acknowledged her then left , as he stepped out, John caught up once more, “hey you still have not told me what the dream is about.” John looked at him deciding against it and began walking away once more when Jay held his hand. “ Come on brother, let’s talk….”

In a certain cabin in the woods.

“Katherine, how much longer do we have to wait?” a lady covered in an all-black cloak spoke to another lady who sat before her cauldron. The cauldron contained the images of John and Jay as they headed home.

“It begins tonight” Katherine spoke, moving her attention away from the cauldron to look at the two before her, “trust me Josephine, after tonight our plans will come to fruition”. After addressing the one on the left, she turned to the one on the right. Receiving her gaze, the one on the right spoke up. “I have been putting visions in his head and if nothing goes wrong he will be here tonight.” Katherine nodded her head. She then looked back into the cauldron “the darkness shall soon walk the earth once more.”