chapter thirteen. RUN RUN RUN

        NOBODY'S POV.

"I think I found it. The source," El spoke.

Phoebe glanced over to El, "where, El? Where are you?" She quizzed, wanting El to get out of there. She been in Billy's mind for too long and Phoebe sensed that she was becoming tired and weak.

It took a moment for El to respond, "Brimborn Steelworks." She says and Johnathan quickly got up to his two feet. He took a hold of the phone book and came back to the sofa where everyone was. He hurriedly look through the pages with Nancy.

"Here. Okay, steelwork, steelworks..." he mutters as he flipped through the pages. Nancy trying to keep up with him. "Here! Steele, steele...uhhhh, found it! Six, five, two, two Cherry Oak Drive."

"That's close." Nancy says.

Mike turned to El, "El we found it! Get out of there! Get out!" Mike begged, just as concern for her as Phoebe was.

Moments were passing and El still hasn't returned to us. The gang all rose to their feet, rushing towards El side. Mike frantically shacking her to awake. El was gasping, panting rapidly, and crying for help.

"El, please! Wake up!" Phoebe yelled.

El suddenly ripped her blindfold off,  "No!" She cried, loudly as Mike quickly took her into his arms. Comforting her that she was okay and safe with them.

"What the hell happened?" Max questioned.

El took a few more moments to relax. She took a seat at the sofa and everyone huddle around doing the same.

"He said he was building something. That it was all for Phoebe and I." El said, still shaken up. Phoebe looked over to her sister in concern. She was worried for El, but also afriad to what the Mind Flayer means he's building something for them.

"Building something?" I wondered.

"Is he talking about the flayed?" Max quizzes.

"He must be." Nancy says.

"So, he's building an army. Just like we thought." Lucas confirms.

"Yeah, but he's not building his army to spread." Mike starts.

"He's building it to stop Phoebe and El." Will finished.

"Last year, when Phoebe and El closed the gate on him. I have a feeling that really pissed him off." Mike states.

"Like, royally." Lucas scoffs.

"And the Mind Flayer now knows that they're the only thing that can stop him. But if they're out of the way-"

"Game over." Lucas finished.

"He also said he was going to kill all of you." El inputs which put everyone even more on edge.

"Yeah, well, that's nice." Max sighs softly.

Suddenly Phoebe's ears perked to the sound of faint screeches. The blonde stood up from her seat and went walking towards window. Sensing that something is really off. "Do you guys hear that?' She wonder, hoping that she was just going crazy and hearing noises. She shudder softly, looking intensely out into the dark woods.

"It's just the fireworks." Johnathan said.

Phoebe shook her head. Not agreeing with him. Something felt wrong. Then a thought occurred to her, "Billy." She says, turning back to El. "When he told you this, it was here, in this room?" She worriedly asked. El nods and Phoebe facial expression changed into fear.

A loud thud was then heard outside.

Everyone looked around the house in fear.  Hoping that maybe they were all just being paranoid.

That was until Phoebe noticed Will. He was lifting his hand to the back of his neck. She knew what that meant.

"He knows we're here." Will confirms.

Everyone rose to their feet and went rushing outside the cabin. In the mix of the loud explosions, they were loud things tumbling and falling. They all noticed something off in the distance. Phoebe squinted her eyes and to her horror, she saw a huge monster waiting for them at the end of the road.

Fear filled them all.

They whole gang all went rushing back inside the cabin and began preparing themselves for what was about to happen. Boarding up all the windows and doors, gathering weapons and closing all open doors in the house.

Phoebe rushed to El before any madness began, "hey, I need you to promise something. Save up your powers. Recharge and let me handle this one." She says to her younger sister. Phoebe caressed El's face and tuck a piece of her hair behind her ear, "okay?"

El nods in understanding, "but if it gets too much for you, Im helping."

They agreed to their agreement and made their way to the center of the living room with everyone else.

Everyone was standing in silence. Any noise made, everyone jerked their heads to that direction. The flayed could be coming up in any moment, at any angle.

The lights began flickering, dishes started to clatter and the house began to shack; signally the monster is nearby.

"It's close," Will spoke.

We began to hear leaves rustling, tree tumbling, and rumbling footsteps.

Fear was building up in everyone, but they all stood their grounds.

The house started to rumble louder. Glass was falling and shatter and footsteps becoming louder and louder.

Until it suddenly came to silence once again.

Everyone was breathing heavily and looking around.

"Where'd it go?" Max wondered.

It was silent for a couple of more seconds, Everyone still searching around the room, when suddenly something shot through the wall in one of the corner of the house.

A long tentacle slithered around the room, making it's way towards El.

"El!" I shouted but Johnathan came to the rescue with his ax. He swung his ax into the tentacle and it screeched loudly. Johnathan remove his ax, causing the tentacle to become furious for stopping it. the tentacle screeched and swung Johnathan into the bookshelves.

At the tip of the tentacle was a mouth and it was nawing towards Johnathan. Screeching loudly as it gets close to him. Getting ready to harm him, the tentacle drew it attention somewhere else when  Nancy began shooting at the monster.

Nancy kept shooting at it as it was making way towards her. She soon ran out of bullets and back up against the wall as the monster kept coming towards. She closed her eyes tightly accepting her faith as the tentacle launches towards her, but it never came.

Nancy opened her eyes to see the tentacle stuck there, right in front of her, wailing. It was screeching in pain and frustration due to being stopped suddenly. She looked to her side a little and see Phoebe standing their with her armed stretched towards the monster. Phoebe nose bleed as she twister her arm, ripping the head off that tentacle.

It shrieked in pain and quickly went out the hole it came from.

"Holy Shit," Max says but suddenly another tentacle came flying through. Spiraling towards Phoebe, but she raised her hand and stopped it quickly. Then another tentacle came through the other side of her and she stopped just as fast as she did with the other.

Phoebe was feeling a mixture of emotions in the moment. She was angry, hurt, and sad. She looked around the room, seeing the fear in everyone's eyes.

Phoebe released a sigh and breath in angrily. She moves her arms in a pulling down motion and ripped the heads on the tentacles once more while screaming loudly. The heads fell to the floor and the rest of the tentacle went running out again.

The tired blonde girl was panting heavily and didn't get the chance to move one step when a loud sound was heard. Phoebe soon realized that she wasn't standing anymore, instead the monster was dragging her across the floor by his huge tentacle of a tongue. She felt the flayed teeth dig into her ankle as she was almost dragged out of the roof of the house, when someone grabbed a hold on her.

Phoebe was screaming and saw El trying to hold onto her. Soon everyone came to help her pull Phoebe down.

"Nancy, shoot him!" Johnathan shouted.

She was loading her gun and began shooting at the face of the monster. Everyone screaming in fear using all of their strength to get Phoebe back.

Lucas was in the corner of the room, watching everything happen in shock.

"Lucas help!" Max shouted at him.

Lucas looked to the side and saw Johnathan's ax from earlier. He quickly grabbed it and went running towards the monster, gashing at the flayed tongue. Nancy kept shooting at it while Lucas axed away at his tongue.

Everyone began feeling their feet being lifted off from the ground. "Pull!" Max yells and they began pulling even more.

Lucas successfully remove the tongue of the monster. Everyone went falling to the ground in a loud thud. Phoebe was with El and the blonde was crying in pain.

"Pheebs, are you okay?" El asked her sister.

El then heard a screeching sound. She looked at Phoebe's ankle and still saw the monster tip of the tongue latched to her.

"Mike!" El shouted, pointing towards the monster on her ankle.

Mike rushed to Phoebe and yanked the monster off her. Phoebe screamed, loudly in pain.

El rose to her feet when she saw the monster face through the hole in the ceiling still. He was growling loudly at then all. In anger, El rose her hands to the monster and slowly began doing a motion with her hands as if she was pulling something apart. She yelled loudly an the monster's face was suddenly ripped in half.

Phoebe and El, were slowly losing conscience. Nancy and Johnathan helped Phoebe off the ground and practically dragging her out of the house. Mike and Max doing the same with El.

"Hurry! Go! Go! Go!" Johnathan yells and he then decided to lift Phoebe up into her arms and placing her in the car besides El.

Soon everyone was all in the car and Nancy went speeding off.

El caressed Phoebe's face as the blonde would do to her. Phoebe was whimpering in pain from her bite, "I'm sorry I didn't protect you." El says softly to Phoebe.

"I'm the older one. I'm suppose to be doing the protecting here." Phoebe says with a weak grin, "we're both tired now."

El nod's, "Which means we both need to be careful." She said with a soft smile. Phoebe nods, agreeing with her.