Chapter 294

Vlad froze and eyes teared up as he took a step backward. “Nightmare- It’s a nightmare…I need to-”

Maddie was snorting and her voice became broken and sorrowful but full of malice. “That monster touched my baby.”

Then the screaming started in the lab room and Vlad rammed the door down as he twisted the knob, panic, and fear on his features as he shifted from college-aged adult to his true age. A dark figure was raking clawed fingers along a desk as another hand kept Maddie pinned against the wood. Maddie’s fiery orange pixie cut splayed along dull wood to fade into deep ochre reds as the blood swept from the shadowy figure clutching her neck in its jaws. Grey eyes were listless and devoid of life from her as another sickening crack echoed. Vlad was running forward and shifting. A hand blasted the shadow away as he jumped up and over to her. A gloved hand shakily attempted cupping the wound as the other charged ectoplasm and hovered over her chest. “ Don’t die.Don’t die. Don’t die. Please. You can’t-” Eyes darted around pleadingly, “Jack?! Jack help! Maddie’s-”

Jack was right in front of him, clawed to ribbons and glaring with tearing eyes. A hand was on some sort of silver gun. “Yeah V-Man. I’ll help. First I have to get rid of the thing that did it though.”

Tearing red and orange eyes widened and a flicker of shadow caught his gaze behind Jack. A dark version of Plasmius was lurking with Jazmine in its hands, rocking her gently as she slept and grinning at him as it kissed the top of her bright blue bow. Then it’s form shifted to an acrid green shadow as Vlad tried lunging to get to Jaz only for Jack to fire. One-shot in the center of Vlad’s breast and then a second so Vlad fell backward from the desk. Wet and choked sobs echoed in the space as the proto portal flickered on at the side of the desk Maddie had been at.

The room illuminated in neon greens and wisps of light. A wire was sparking in the frame still as Jack and a dead and warped Maddie came from the side of the desk and grabbed onto Vlad’s legs to drag him around the furniture.

Jack was grinning insanely, “If I can see how you work being dead and all they’ll be alright. Maddie will be alright.”

The dead corpse helping Jack drag Vladimir across the linoleum to leave trails of red and green was humming. Seconds later Vladimir was being hoisted up by his spiky black hair by Jack and slammed against a black student desk. A head rolled numbly as Vlad cried and choked on the ectoplasm in his throat, “ F-Flapjack…demon has Jaz….De-”

Jack smiled coldly and nodded before taping Vlad’s mouth closed. “ I know V-Man. I’m taking care of it. Now be a good freak and behave? We don’t want to wake the neighbors.”

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