CHAPTER THREE :

THE OWL

"Twelve, Twelve wake up!"

"HUHHHH, HUH HUH HUH"

After hours for Twelve passing out suddenly, she finally wakes up amidst a crowd of her close friends and siblings. Eleven, Will, Max, Erica, Mike, Lucas, Dustin.

Twelve woke up from her sleep and sat up, she quickly held Eleven's hand tightly beside her.

"Twelve, are you all right?"

Twelve didn't answer, she just tried to control her very breathless breath.

Twelve also looked around trying to figure out where she was right now. Apparently it's not at Eleven's school anymore.
"You're in Mike's basement now, Twelve."

Twelve nodded at Dustin's explanation, she then asked.
"What happened to me?"

Erica in front of her then answered. "You passed out... suddenly."

"Erica, can you tell us in more detail?" Lucas said as Erica's brother told her to.

Erica nodded.

"Earlier during art class, Twelve was about to put her first brush on the canvas. She was painting, painting very regularly. But a few minutes later it hit me that Twelve wasn't looking at her painting."

Erica's words explained everything.
Mike who heard the explanation from Erica then asked. "What do you mean she didn't see the painting?"

"I mean.. her stare is blank."

"What are you talking about--"

"I'm back in the Lab." Cut Twelve made all her friends see her.

"What do you mean?" Ask Eleven. Twelve then tried to explain everything.

"It's true what Erica said, I was thinking about what to paint. So I closed my eyes."

"But when I opened my eyes again, I found myself in the hallway of the Hawkins Laboratory."

"And... suddenly come a strange sound, a mysterious sound.."

Eleven seemed to slightly lower her head with a frown. "Vecna."

"Vecna?"

"It can't be him, didn't Nancy kill him already?" Mike said.

"Who else is Nancy?"

"My older sister."
"Jonathan's girlfriend." Eleven and Mike said together. Twelve just nodded slowly to both of them.

"And Vecna, he... once put me in a coma for months." Max's words made Twelve even more curious.

"So... Vecna ​​is you guys's enemy?"

"Yes."
"There were many before, but they've all died." Answer Will.

"What do they look like?"

Twelve's question a second ago made all of her friends look at each other.

"Uhmm... first named Dermogorgon. Faceless, tall and when he opens his mouth looks like a corpse flower." Definitely Will the first time.

Then Dustin tried to explain their second enemy.
"Second, Mind Flayer. Looks like a very large monster, black in the sky like a shadow."

Twelve answered "Shadow..."

Everyone seemed to be waiting for what Twelve would say.

Meanwhile in Twelve's mind she recalled and kept replaying the incident when her friend in the rainbow room was killed.

"I don't know, it's just... that was weird."
"I'm scared."

Hearing her little sister's words, Eleven then held Twelve's shoulder.

"Everything will gonna be alright, Twelve."

Twelve just nodded, again.
"I want to go to the bathroom." Twelve said then she stood up and went to the bathroom alone.

In the bathroom, Twelve turned on the sink faucet and washed her dry face.

After feeling enough she turned it off and put her palms on both sides of the sink.

Twelve looked down to exhale.
Now her mind is only filled with fear, tension and curiosity.

After silently watching the sink drain, an idea popped up in her mind.

"I want to..."
"Huh, alright."

Twelve wanted to use her powers to see what would happen in the future.
Twelve turned on the faucet with a high flow rate, finally the sink now made a loud and noisy sound.

Twelve closed her eyes. Slowly, her mind drifted into the future.

The first thing she saw, the sharp eyes of an owl.
Second, the owl appears to be standing in front of the door with a picture of a flower in the middle of the door.

Then suddenly her vision became pitch black, the owl disappeared somewhere.

Twelve frowned in surprise, but a few seconds later a scene appeared again.

Twelve looked at the scene again, clearly seeing it steadily.

Twelve wide, opened her mouth at the sight of the three of her friends in the rainbow room who were killed.

Again.

She see it again.

Twelve quickly opened her eyes, making herself return to the original world.

She closed the water faucet that had covered the sink a lot.
Twelve was a little surprised to see the scene that appeared again.

But Twelve tried to ignore it. So now she decided to get together with her friends again.

Twelve opened the bathroom door, took a few steps and finally arrived in the living room.

Twelve was confused as she watched her friends dwindle.

"Uhm.. where are the others?" she asked after finding the living room without Will, Mike, Erica and Lucas.

Only Eleven, Max and Dustin were left sitting on the couch. So Dustin answered it. "Them? They went to meet Argyle."

"Ouh..."
Twelve then decided to join her three friends. She sat next to Eleven as well as Max, while Dustin sat on the other couch.

Max and Eleven seemed engrossed in fiddling with music cassettes. On the other side, Dustin was busy with a black owl in his hand.

Twelve frowned when she saw the owl, it seemed so familiar to Twelve's eyes. But unfortunately she did not remember about the owl.

Twelve surprised. "Huh, that owl..."

"Twelve!"

Twelve turned her head when Eleven called out to her. "Yeah?"

"Come on, listen to Max's music, the song is cool!"

Twelve nodded smiling in response. "Yes, wait a moment."

Eleven said yes, then she returned to enjoying the music in her ears.

"Dustin." Call Twelve.

"Yes, Twelve?"

"Uhm.. where did you get that owl?"

Dustin looked at the owl in his hand with a cheerful smile. "I don't know, when I opened the door this bird came straight to me."

"He's cute, isnt it?" Said Dustin.

Twelve just nodded slowly and stared at the owl.

Trying to remember, but still failed.
She decided to forget about it and joined Eleven and Max listening to music together.

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