Arriving before his apartment, Alan gaze landed on three people that he had really really not expected to be there and neither had he wanted for them to be there either.
It was his three friends, the three bullies who he had befriended, and the three people that he had somewhat grown attached to even though only slightly, it was the three people that had quickly befriended him, helped him and treated him as one of their own almost instantly, so to say that he wasn't even slightly attached to them would be a lie.
Humans are social creatures afterall, and Alan had quickly grown used to them, their jokes and their humor, he had started to enjoy their presence. Atleast…when they were 'them'.
But the three people standing in front of him, standing before his apartment, weren't his friends, they were someone else, or rather 'something' else.
Instantly activating his mana perception, Alan quickly noticed that indeed, the same sickly yellow aura was still fully covering their bodies.
'God damned it.' Alan thought to himself as he instinctively took a step back before stopping as his lips curled up in a twitching smile, or at least he tried his best to do the best impression of a calm smile that he could.
"Alan… It's great that we saw you leaving alone… It's much better to come with us… your real friends rather than someone like her."
"Alan… It's great that we saw you leaving alone… It's much better to come with us… your real friends rather than someone like her."
"Alan… It's great that we saw you leaving alone… It's much better to come with us… your real friends rather than someone like her."
The three of them said at the same time as their lips curled up further and further until all three of them were giving wide toothy grins towards him, that wasn't the end of it however as they started walking towards Alan slowly, it wasn't just slow movement, or a slow walk, the way they were doing it… it was off, Jeannie looked like she was about to fall down after every step that she took, only for her to reposition her foot at the last second to stop the fall.
John meanwhile swayed as if he was completely drunk on his feet and Adrian, seemed to be the only one that had somewhat remained decently standing, if one wasn't looking at his arms that is, his arms were completely limp at his sides, as if he had lost all control over them.
The sight caused an image to instantly appear in Alan's mind. It was as if they were wooden marionette puppets being controlled by a clumsy puppeteer from above them.
"I don't think I can come with you today guys, how about we meet over the weekend, that was the plan anyways, wasn't it?" Alan said as he lifted one arm to scratch the back of his neck, a nervous tick when faced with the stressful situation before him.
"Weekend… too far away… we already ran out Alan, we need more… more… more." Jeannie said as she kept half walking, half almost falling towards Alan before she stopped right before him, John and Adrian flanking her on the sides.
"Ah… then can you just let me go get some stuff in my apartment and I can come back down and then we can go there, it's in port angeles anyways so we need to take the car and drive right?" Alan said as he looked past them towards the door of the apartment building.
'They don't have superhuman levels of strength or anything, the drug doesn't do that… infact theyr even slower and weaker whilst under this possession effect… so… as long as the real 'thing' doesn't appear here.' Alan thought as his gaze turned back down towards the three of them, his eyes narrowing slightly as logic cut through the almost paralyzing feeling of fear that he had been feeling.
He was indeed right, the current motor skills that the trio had shown were much much weaker than the skills of any other regular person, not to mention the fact that they were practically as dumb as rocks in their current state, this would mean that they likely didn't have any real plan in place.
"It… is fine." The thing controlling them said by using Jeannies mouth as the trio looked directly into Alan's pupils with their own dazed and slightly faded eyes.
'It's fine?' Alan thought slightly confused at the agreement, if they allowed him to go to his room, he could simply slip away by using the emergency stairs and find a hiding spot and continue living inside the dungeons until he grew strong enough, it would be an easy escape path for him.
As Alan started nodding his head, taking one step forwards to head past them, he stopped as the trio spoke once more, this time, all three of them speaking as they had earlier, in complete eerie synchronisation with eachother.
"They… are here. In Forks. No… need for Car. They are coming here… they should be near."
"They… are here. In Forks. No… need for Car. They are coming here… they should be near."
"They… are here. In Forks. No… need for Car. They are coming here… they should be near."
Alan froze, the words kept repeating inside his mind over and over again, like a sick mantra of doom, his pupils widening until they no longer could from shock as he instantly took a few steps back, his arms that had been at his sides lifting up slightly in a more reactive defensive posture, his hands shaking badly as his eyes moved left and right constantly, searching for someone, anything really, however he couldn't see anything but the regular street and buildings and the clearly irregular trio in front of him.
*Gulp*
Swallowing audibly, Alan concentrated his gaze back onto the three of them once more as his hands slowly tightened into fists, hard enough that his nails dug into the base of his palm and drew blood.
"They're… here?" Alan asked slowly, his mouth barely working at this point, the shock was slowly wearing off and being replaced by absolute terror, if the thing that had created those drugs was coming here… he needed to run, and he needed to run to the only place that he knew would be safe.
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