Chapter 14: City of Homes

At this point, Mary was happy the team had broken up, after the fight that broke out after the met the good witch.

Peter and Mary agreed to go to the end of the world where Kia said their was a party waiting for the people who were not destroyed by the shadows.

Alice decided to stick with James, while Kate and Alec decided to go back to their home and meet what’s left of their so called family and Carly who was know as the time lady was not sure what to do so he paused time and reason.

“If I should go with any of them, this my little adventure is over” one of the voice in her head said

“But if you go with James, you would be happy for the rest of your life, he likes you and you like him” another said

“You could go with Kate remember you never had a sister, she could be like your elder sister which you never had”

“Or you could go with Peter since Alice already likes James and she is already with him”

“Or you could continue the journey and be the hero that saved humanity and prove grandma wrong”

“Stop!!!!” Se yelled when she saw that the voices in head would continue to bring up ideas, she was not sure what to do so she resumed time and say alone on the floor as she buried her head on her arms as the team broke up, everyone picked a new part to thread on.

Late at night, the journey to the end of the earth was looking unreal to Peter but since he was with his crush, he wanted to be her hero so he continued the endless journey.

While they stopped to spend the night in a cave, Mary went out while Peter was deep in sleep and transformed into her demonic form to hallow out to Kia where he was.

She was one of the great demonic beast, she was huge, with two huge big wings that was the length of her whole body, she was a lot like the hell beast but the difference was the hell beast we all know was a guy.

“It’s good to be back to myself” she said as she spread out her wings to stretch them.

In few minutes, Kia came flying in, his demonic form was nothing compared to that of hers. He had huge wings which swept his feet but he was not as strong as she was.

“I got the job done, you nothing compared to me now”

“Well the reward would be for both of us” Kia said as he walked her to the entrance of the cave,

“Time to wake the sleepy head up right?”

“Yeah” she said then they both smiled.

Peter was busy enjoying his sleep when he heard her scream, immediately he was up and was half way in his night creature form

“Who do you think you are to…” he stopped talking when he recognized the horns of the demon who was chocking Mary,

“It’s you from that city, hmm hell bridge” he said with fear in his eyes as he stepped back gently

“Ohh you remembered, yeah James was right after all, it was the hell bridge” he said as he smiled and walked closer to Peter while he was still chocking Mary.

“No you see you did the guy wrong big time” he gave a smirk again and for some seconds while he gave a smirk, he took his eyes off him and he was no where to be found

“You can hide but you can’t run Peter, you can’t…. Aahahahahah” he screamed out as he dropped Mary,

His hands was bleeding really bad and he was back to his human form.

“Run Mary run” Peter said as he helped Mary up then he looked back at the demon then he saw Kia

“Kia!!!!! I don’t understand” Peter said as he walked back to meet Kia,

“You love Mary, why would you want to kill her?”

The Kia burst into a loud laughter, he laughed like that was his last

“Mary let’s get out of here before things get we…”

He was shocked and confused when he saw Mary transforming to a demon too

“What!! You all in this?” That was the last question he was able to ask before he saw his life flash at him then he was out.

“Ohh no, Carly you a good girl help him one last time”

“But how?”

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James and Alice were few cities from the end of the earth, they also believed the story that there was a city waiting for the survivors, just like they said it was real.

James and Alice had met few people who said they were from the city but something was odd about this people they had met, they were not their self, it looked like they were possessed.

James and Alice decided to rest in the city of host, the city used to be the best at taking care of their visitors.

There use to be a feast for every single visitor that walked into that town in the past years, and everything they want to buy was free for the first two weeks. That was how it got the name of Host, the people that lived there never go out to greet anyone because others love to visit them because of the free things they would get.

But now the city was nothing like that, when James and Alice walked into the town, it was nobody noticed them, the dancers and drummers where nowhere to be found.

“This used to be one of my dream towns to visit” James said as he looked towards one of the drummer who was lost in sleep in where he was seated.

“It’s not that bad, the food still look good” a man said as he appeared in front of James and Alice,

“You guys look like you not from around here right?”

“Yeah we are going to…”

“We just want to pass a night” James said as he interrupted Alice.

“Wow this is an amazing stop over for you guys” the man said as he turned around and pointed at a building and said

“That’s my hotel, we would be happy to host you guys and we still practice the old culture, it is for free”

“Well thanks for your offer but…”

“We would take it” Alice said as she interrupted James

“Sir would you excuse us for some minutes” James said as he pulled Alice some steps away from the man

“I don’t think we trust this man”

“We have nothing to lose James, and we need a place to pass the night man”

“Ok fine and they would have a very soft bad for us” he said give her a naught eye.

They returned to the man and accepted his offer. Just like he said, the hotel was so beautiful and the people in it were happy, so happy. They were behaving like they were not part of the rest of the town who were all in sorrow.

“Happy we chose this man hotel” James said as he sat on the bed then felt the texture of the bed more with with hands pressing the bed.

Soon they were both fast asleep, when James felt the strange energy, he could feel he had sense the energy before but he was too busy sleeping to remember. He shone it it off like it was nothing and hugged Alice tighter then fall back deeply to sleep.

Just as he was about to fall asleep, he had a flash of where he had felt that energy, the lady that asked for directions last, before they got to the town of Host, she was a shadow.

Then he opened his eye,

“Shadows, we forgot totally about the mission, the shadows are still way ahead of us” he whispered to his self then he heard a voice

“We should be more worried about the shadow that has been knocking since the past minute” Alice said as she pressed the switch beside the bed and the light in the room came on.

“It can’t one in unless we invite in, so no matter how hard it knocks don’t say the word”

“Which word?”

“The word” James said as he pointed to the paper he was holding, he had written the word

COME IN. In capital letters

“Ohh that word but it won’t help, I’m the town of Host, everyone are welcomed in any home remember” Alice said as she looked at James, hoping he had another way out

“Well we run, you go out the window first then I am right behind you, we make sure we find the hotel manager first ok?”

“Okay” Alice said as she got into her trousers and packed her bag as she was ready for the jump.

While James was busy packing his bag, the shadows broke in, and they were more than what they expected

“Jump!!” Was all James could scream as they made it out of the room.