Chapter 24: Chase

Sam, Kate and Alec were still trying to battle the shadow in James as they also struggled y protect the elders but it proved impossible as it seemed that the shadow had the upper hand.

They tried using their powers to cast out the demon once again and as they casted their spells, a form.of dark cloud enveloped the room and Jams fell face hard to the floor.

They had finally taken the shadow down but horror gilled their lungs when the eyes of the entire elders of the council turned pitch black and the dark cloud evaporated.

"Where's James?" Kate questioned as her eyes darter back and forth before it rested on James who was sprawled on the floor like he was dead.

Kate, Sam and Alec immediately rushed towards James and tried lifting him up whilst calling his mam3 repeatedly.

"Do you think he's dead?" Alec asked but was met with a stern glare from Kate.

"He'll be fine. A demon was in him his few moments ago and was zapping his life force, what more do you expect?" Kate asked and Alec pursed her lips.

Just then, amidst choky breaths...James began coughing and eventually sneezed before fluttering his eye lids.

"James." Kate called with an excited tone.

"Guys..." He called and trailed off and with some form of unspoken agreement, they all pulled him into a hug.

"What's going on? Why are you all acting weird?" James questioned finding it kind of strange that the whole team where actually clinging unto him like he had been lost?

Or what if he had been lost because he couldn't place how he ended up here in heaven in the first place.

The last thing he could vaguely remember was the been right close to the big city but he couldn't remember getting in.

"You don't remember anything that transpired, do you?" Kate asked and James shook his head in negativity.

"Of course, you don't. You were possessed." Sam commented and James turned to stare at him.

James was about saying something with the way his mouth fell open but it just hung open like that, his face filled with terror.

"Umm, guys. That's the elders right? Are their eyes supposed to be glowing like that? Though I wouldn't exactly call that glowing." James stated and the whole team swerved to look at the elders who had their eyes pitch black and was staring at them with a murderous glint in their eyes.

"Oh boy. This is not good. All the twelve— eleven elders rather possessed with a shadow isn't good. How the hell was it able to split into their bodies?" Kate asked as they all took up defensive positions back to back staring at the elders that approached them with heavy footsteps.

"If you're asking how I splitted, i would gladly answer that." The shadow in them spake up with a dark hoarse emanating from each of their voices as he spake from each of their tongue in unison and their voices seemed like a clap of many thunders.

"I'm part of them now so I can gain access. After all, I'm part of the council now. See? Twelve elders are just fine, thirteen is ridiculous." The shadow concluded and James rolled his eyes.

The thought that the shadow had passed through hi to get into the big city made him all the more offended and he vowed right at the spot that the shadow had to die.

Imagine having to live with the guilt that he was the carrier of the chaos on heaven because this was pure chaos.

"Does anybody have a plan on how to take these men out?" Kate voiced out as everyone was drowning in their own thoughts.

"An idea on the spot? An absolute no!" James said and Kate rolled her eyes.

"Well we have to survive one way or the other. I don't want to die here, I want to die with a cup of tea in my hand at least." Alec stated and for a moment they all stared at her like they she had gone insane.

"How does dying relate to having a cup of tea?." James asked with a scrunched up face as they all stared at Alex in a weird way.

"Of course, it connects. They say that the tea in heaven is the best of all and I'll be damned to not even have a taste of it before dying." Alec reiterated and she stared at them like they were all confused.

"Whatever!!! The only thing we should think about right now is the way to get out of here alive and maybe if you focus more on task Alec, you might be able to get out alive and have the taste of that tea you want so much." Kate stated glaring at Alec before finally looking at the Elders who were approaching them possessed.

Of course, they were possessed.

"I think the best thing to do at this point in time is to run as fast as we can and as far as possible away from the shadow. It's not like the shadow is going to stop looking for us anyway, but at least to be safe for the moment we have to run." James stated and they all unanimously agreed even without a single word spreading out of their mouth.

"All right, Om my lead. Everyone run at the count of five." Kate said and as she stared at the Elder, she started her countdown.

"Five..."

"Four... "

"Three..."

"Two..."

"One...."

"Go."

And at the mention of 'GO' the whole team spawn away as the Elders gave them a hot Chase.

The teenagers had to remind themselves every now and then that the Elders were not just pursuing after them but the shadow was the one actually doing it.

They were able to navigate and run away from the sight of the Elders as they hid in a dark spot.

The teenagers were safe now but they knew that in no distant time with the Elders spreading and returning back to their different households, chaos was going to break out in heaven.

And since the shadow was able to split now, soon enough it will begin possessing others if they didn't do something about it. But then, they had no plan and working to fight a monster without any plan was equivalent to getting all of them killed.

And getting all of them killed was equivalent to letting Heaven—the big city, the home of homes— fall and they were not going to give in to the defeat so easily.

"Let's look for somewhere more quiet and reserved, maybe we would be able to think properly there. As for now, my head is running 100 miles a minute... And I also have questions." James stated and they all knew that he probably wanted to query about everything that has been going on all through the while he was possessed.

They all retired to a safe place just beside the forest but not before Alec grabbed the cup of tea.

As they started pondering, each man to his own thoughts, they heard light footsteps behind them.

Switching to a defensive position, they all stared behind them to make out whoever owns the footsteps but deep down they all feared that it could be the shadow that had cut up with them.

"Hello, I'm sure you're the good guys."