31 Agares

Dezzy walked first in the line while Vanessa hanged in the rear. Dezzy continuously looked back and asked Nana, who was centered between the two, why she kept flashing the flashlight in dark areas.

Nana kept her cool as usual and answered that the light should help keep away certain creatures. Dezzy found it to be a waste, but only continued her search for the lake house.

Once in sight, the three girls hid behind a tree and looked for potential threats. Unfortunately, the batteries died and the girls were left in the dark. Nana apologized, but it did not fix the problem.

The girls crept over to the lakehouse with no visual aid. Nana immediately grabbed hold of the wooden railing and took a knee by the door while Dezzy and Vanessa went inside the creaking door.

The lake house was small. More like a lake shack. At best to their estimates, it was no bigger than a living room.

"Try to find a charger for the flashlight," said Nana.

Dezzy argued, "Why would there be a charging station for a flashlight"?

Vanessa who was feeling her way through the dark had just found a charging station. Dezzy shrugged her shoulders and proceeded to turn on the lights. Afterward, she searched around the messy shack and found an engine.

Nana sat outside looking around in the dark. There was no sign of anything lurking. She looked back and front then side to side. She even took peaks up and down to not let anything out of her sight.

That didn't stop the chill that came to her shoulders. She stood up to warm herself up but became lightheaded. Taking a step back, she realized the hairs on her body were now standing. To make it worse, her gut was now in pain.

"This is clearly the work of a demon," she thought.

Her voice was clogged from uttering a word to the girls who just found a small wheel barrel.

Nana, who was now on the ground in pain, was trying to crawl inside. A creature dragged her away. She couldn't scream nor squeal. All she could do is allow the creature to do as it pleased.

She stared at the beast into its hollowed eyes and goat-skeletal face as it held her by the jaw. The sickness that was instilled moments prior was replaced with numbness that filled her from head to toe. This sickness that Nana had been facing was in fact the demon Agares' Terror.

After helping Vanessa place the engine into the wheel barrel, Dezzy asked, "Where's Nana? She would normally be complaining about the noise right now".

The two stuck their heads out the door but didn't see her. Vanessa grabbed the flashlight off of the charging station and a spear from the corner.

Dezzy herself grabbed the Flashlight from Vanessa and began pushing the wheel barrel out of the lake shack with Vanessa in the front. She rolled the wheel barrel down the short steps into the muck. No matter where Dezzy scanned her flashlight, she nor Vanessa could find Nana nor an assailant.

Dezzy began feeling a chill take over her while Vanessa remained firm on her spear. Dezzy's breathing grew harder as her hands began trembling. The girls were walking fast across the muck when Dezzy stopped to shine her flashlight.

Vanessa began asking if she's alright, but Dezzy only insisted that she was fine even though tears were coming from her eyes. As Dezzy frantically scanned through the lake area, she found a man standing in the bushes. She immediately dropped the flashlight, screaming. Vanessa picked up the flashlight to shine on the man again.

He held Nana's lifeless body on his shoulder. Vanessa called out to the man as she kept the light shined on him. She kept demanding the man to let Nana go, but he never listened nor even moved a muscle. Vanessa instructed Dezzy to hold the flashlight on the man to which she reluctantly did.

Dezzy quivered as she held the flashlight, allowing Vanessa to swiftly move forward. But as Vanessa got closer to the bushes, the bush itself had bitten at her.

Dezzy screamed loud enough for even the girls by the car to hear as she herself ran away towards the lake shack. The flashlight fell aiming away from Agares. He was able to safely move with Nana on his shoulders and Vanessa in his crocodile's mouth.

Dezzy ran into the shack and locked the door behind her. After realizing the man didn't move in the light, she frantically looked around the shack once more sources of light.

Agares blew out the lights and began banging on the handle of the door.

Dezzy jumped out of the rear window and ran to a nearby post with a fusebox on it. Despite turning on the fuses, no light came on.

She bent down and felt for the cord attached to the fuse box. Agares was chasing after her on his oversized crocodile.

"I hate you, Kiki," said Dezzy repetitively as she sprinted with her right hand tracing the wire.

Soon after running, Dezzy found the end of the cord and a socket. She plugged the two, lightening the lake area.

Dezzy was still trembling and too scared to save her friends. She ran towards the front of the lake shack which was just as bright as the rear. There wasn't much she could do except runaway with the engine in the wheel barrel.

Once near the road, she heard some rustling from the shack. The lights were off. Go figure her attempt to take one of the demons out went to waste. That didn't stop her from reaching the well-lit road.