6teen Fan Fiction ❯ 7teen: The Mall Demons ❯ Wild Woods chase ( Chapter 5 )

CHAPTER FIVE

 

The two cars, mine with Amelie, Jonesy, Nikki, and Caitlin… and Serena's with Jen, Jude, Starr, and Caitlin… were still heading deeper and deeper into town as far away from the mall as we could get. We finally stopped at the gas station just outside of town after coming so far.

 

“Man… I don't think I've ever been so terrified in my life.” cried Wyatt.

 

We all were terrified out of our heads. The demons were real, and it would also explain why we couldn't see them on the tapes. They couldn't be photographed.

 

“I guess that Captain wasn't as crazy as we thought.” Jonesy said… and suddenly his head and mine snapped up. “CAPTAIN MCALISTER!!” we both cried.

 

“What, was is it?” asked Jen.

 

“Don't you get it?” I said. “The captain said that the demons come only when he falls asleep.”

 

“Zut!” cried Amelie. “'e could be in real danger.”

 

Serena nodded. “Right… we're going back.” she said. “Lead the way, Mykan.”

 

We hoped back into the cars, and took off back into town… unfortunately we had to by-pass the mall on the way to the captains house, and it was already dark by then, but we kept on going.

 

“Look!” Caitlin cried, We kept in contact using my, and Serena's cell phones in the speaker-slots. The mall seemed to be deserted, and stained with a lot of blood.

 

“Eww. Looks like those creeps were busy while we were away.” said Nikki. The demons had done a lot, but they seemed to be gone.

 

Meanwhile…

 

The captain was still struggling to stay awake. “I must stay awake.” he groaned, but suddenly he dropped down like a log again… and the demons began to rise up again…

 

…

 

Only… they didn't rise up near his house…

 

Along the way to the captain's house, we were just nearing the woods when Starr suddenly shivered. “Whoa. Are you cold, babe?” asked Jude.

 

“No… it's not that.” she answered. “I just have this really, really sick feeling like were being followed.”

 

Jonesy, looked around behind us. “WAHH!!” He cried. “Mykan! Serena!” we all looked behind and saw a whole hoard of the demons coming after us in a stolen convertible.

 

“Floor it, guys!!” cried Wyatt. Serena and I pressed our accelerators down as far as they could go and we began to tear across the road with the demons close behind.

 

“This is insane!” cried Jen. “Why are they coming after us?!”

 

“Does it matter!!” growled Nikki. “The point is… they are coming after us, and we got to get away from them!”

 

“Hang on!!” I cried as we made a hard right-turn. Up-ways, and down-ways through the woods, but the demons were still on our tails. “Watch out!” cried Serena as we were almost rolled off the road.

 

Jude looked behind. “Dudes! They're getting closer!!”

 

“We're going as fast as we can!” cried Serena.

 

“I don't think it's going to be fast enough!” I added.

 

We kept on zooming through the woods, but still the demons weren't giving up. Finally, Jude decided to take action. “It's time to lose these suckers once and for all!” he said with pride, and he opened up the sun-roof on Serena's car.

 

“Jude, What are you doing?!” she cried.

 

“Trust me! Just keep going.” replied Jude, and he began to climb up through the opening with his skateboard in his arms. He waited until he got a clear view of the demon's car. “I'm going to miss you, Sally.” he said to his board.

 

He stared very carefully with precise aim. “Eat board, Demon-Dudes!!” he growled, and he tossed his board straight at the car chasing them. The front tries got snagged on the board and the demon's car spun put of control, and CRASHED hard into a rock and exploded.

 

“He got them!” Jonesy cried.

 

Jude climbed back into Serena's car. “Way to go, Jude!” cried Wyatt.

 

“That was like… amazing.” Starr cooed, and she kissed him passionately.

 

We slowed down a little and then, “Look… what is that up a'ead?” asked Amelie.

 

“It's the captain's home.” I answered. “I hope he's okay in there.”

 

We parked the cars a little away from the house, but before we could get up to get out… more demons suddenly popped up out from nowhere and began ramming at the cars.

 

We all screamed and fussed about trying to get the monster off of us. In my haste, I leaned on the car horn, and sounded it loud and clear…

 

…

 

…Inside his house, the captain woke up, being startled by the horn.

 

…

 

Suddenly, the demons all vanished into thin air, and we we're all still okay, physically. “Hurry up before they come back!” cried Jen. We all dashed to the house and pounded on the door.

 

“Boss… hey boss, open up!!” cried Jonesy.

 

Caitlin suddenly screamed when she realized she was stepping in a puddle of the demon's slime on the porch. “Awe, man! They're crawling all over the place.” cried Wyatt.

 

Suddenly Nikki felt a hand grab her shoulder from behind, and she SCREAMED, causing us all to jump. Thank goodness it was only the captain. “What you all doing here?” he asked.

 

Jonesy caught his breath. “Boss… you got to help us.” he cried, but before he could say another word, the captain could see the gash on Nikki's leg.

 

“That's a mark from the demons.” he said with concern. “So… the old captain's not as crazy as you think. Quickly, come inside, all of you!”

 

Later on…

 

We were all sitting in the captain's secret room, and he was showing us some old pictures of what the grounds by the mall looked like before the mall was actually built.

 

“It was on that day, thirty years ago…” he said. “When a band of explorers traveling into the outback lost their lives in a sandstorm, just like out there near that floater-mark out across the lake. When a ship got caught in a big storm.”

 

He went on saying that those shipwrecks was where he salvaged all the jewelry from, and that was what inspired him to go treasure hunting on land. “I curse the day that I robbed the treasure from the outback.”

 

“And when I opened up my jewelry store… that's when they started coming after me. The ghosts of those poor explorers who died in the sandstorms.”

 

He told us that he began to time his sleep, and how he would sleep long enough for the demons to reach up to his front door, and then he would wake up and the demons would vanish into thin air, like that.

 

Finally he couldn't take it anymore, so he visited the gravesite where the bodies had been buried, in the outback, and he buried all that he took from them. “I even gave the management of my shop away hoping that it would please them more.”

 

We all looked shocked at what he just said. “Whoa. You mean, I was set up.” Jonesy said. “You made me manager of the store all for that?”

 

The girls exchanged gasps of shame.

 

“Un-cool!” I said.

 

“Very, un-cool!” added Wyatt.

 

The captain nodded his head. “Yes, and I am very sorry about it.” he said. “But it didn't do me any good. I gave back their treasures… I gave up running my store… and they just kept on coming!”

 

He sat upright. “Don't you see… it's revenge that they want… not restitution. Those horrid beasts will do anything to kill me, and anyone else who's been involved.”

 

“Whoa… trashing my mellow, here.” Jude said.

 

“Wait a minute…” said Jen. “Are you sure you gave it all back?”

 

“All but what I traded away, and sold.” the captain answered.

 

“WHAT?!” we all asked at the same time.

 

“You see, back then I wasn't as rich as I am now.” replied the captain. “I needed to make some vast amounts of cash if I had hoped to make it all the way. So I had to part with some of the gold that I found from the explorers.”

 

“Well, then that's the answer.” said Serena.

 

“Beg your pardon…?”

 

“You gave away some of the treasure that you tool, so you didn't give it all back.”

 

The captain nodded. “I suppose that is right.” he said. “I tried to track down the pieces that I had sold, and given away, but it was no use. I could never return all that I took.”

 

Amelie suddenly had an idea. “Maybe, if you cannot return what you took from them… then maybe you can give them your collection. What you earned from zee treasures. It may just even things up.”

 

“Amelie… there's no way he's going to do that.” said Nikki. “I mean sure he's loony, but he's not stupid.”

 

The captain took a moment to think about Amelie's idea. “You know what, my dear… you might be right.” He said as he stood up firmly. “This all has to go back… every last bit of it.”

 

“But I'll need you're help… all of you. We must get this done tonight.”

 

Most of us agreed to help him, only Jonesy and Nikki were still a little reluctant. “No way we're doing all this messy stuff.” Jonesy said. “Yeah, I mean we're not the ones who did the deed.” added Nikki.

 

“Come one you guys… we got to do this.” said Jen. “It's the only way we ca get the demons to stop.” The rest of us nodded in agreement.

 

“Remember my friends…” the captain said. “They're after you all too. Once they know you… they're not going to stop coming. I'm not so sure you'd be wanted to… go to sleep… anytime soon.”

 

Couldn't argue with that, so they agreed to help out. “Ugh! This is going to be a long night.” Nikki muttered.