run!

We ran down the corridor. Smooth stone floors, brick walls, I can hear the flip flop of our shoes as we run as fast as we could down the hall. Wind whipping through my eyes and ears. I can hear my brothers breathing, it was irregular hyperventilating unnatural, . I look back and see him turn the corner right behind us. I stop and shoot at him, red fire cracks out of my wand as I sent out a desperate shot. He, strafes. “keep running!!”  he shoots green at me, I can feel the evil eradiating in the room as his shot gets closer. I deflect then I turn to see my brother stopped. He turned around at the sound of my deflection as it hit a wall exploding parts of it. Shrapnel hitting me and my brother on our head and shoulders. The fear in his eyes is far too great. He was pale. His brown skin was no white, almost transparent. “run dammit!” as I shove him forward to get his feet moving. I fire back my red without looking to buy us some time.

He flinched as a shot flew over his head and cracked more brick and dust on us.

Damn. How did this happen. We see the light at the end of the tunnel and the light. I cant see outside, only bright light searing our retinas. I turn back once more to see him gone into the darkness. Uh oh that’s not good.as I turn back I notice we are outside What ever, we kept running. We hear the hustling and bustling of the city. I cant see anything. as my eyes adjust to the light I reach for my brother and pull him to the alley right next to the building. “this way!” if we can make it to then end of the alley we should be safe. I ran ahead of him. We ran as fast as we could. Running into the darkness once again. It consumes us. I light up so see. The position of holding the light up slowed me down. As we ran it slowly began to light up, I couldn’t see the other side behind us. This street is empty, dead quiet. We only hear our breathing, and we see our breathes. It was cold.

“this way” a familiar female voice says. We turn and I am filled with relief. “lets go” I said as I grabbed my bothers arm pulling him towards a building. We go into a building and down the stairs. “wait here” she told me. I wait at the door. I turn back to see my brother to safety. He was at the bottom of the stairs. To brick walls and stairs are mesmerizing, like looking at a mirror through a mirror, never ending bottom to the darkness. My breathe is sucked out of me, like the vacuum of space after opening an airlock,  I cant believe what I am seeing. How was it possible. He was no where near us. We were gone and hidden from him. How? I see him at the bottom of the stairs, my brother unaware of whats going on.  I see the snare on his face as he aims at my brothers back. He looks up at me, wand still aiming and glowing green. Pauses, smirks,  opens his mouth but I cant hear his words. Im too late. I react, aim my wand but wait I don’t move. I gasp as I come to reality

 I see once again my brother and her trotting down the stairs. I sigh a relief. He’ll be safe for now. I follow them down the stairs. As I study my feet and the stairs as I go down, I realize I am at the bottom. I turn to the right, and down a corridor. There were rooms, with doors. The doors all were green and had a viewing window on them. Everything was in uniform, same color same everything. As if it was a background in a cartoon that doesn’t change.  It seemed never ending. A door closed. I run to it. It must have been 25 doors down. I open it. And I see him, wand in hand, the look of death. He was pale and uncovered. His hood was down his robe was black. His eyes were pure black, his skin was pale, very unnatural ,dead. He slowly raised his arm and  aimed right at me. His face turned into a sneer, then to a leer. I can see the frustration in his eyes and body language. He gives out a loud yell that I cant hear, his voice was muted but I can feel it. I smile at his frustrated face, “good luck finding him” I said as everything turned green, then black.