Time Keeps Ticking

15 Minutes? What did they mean by the birth of their new god? He had no idea what was going on, but then Joseph appeared in his vision once again, scaring the life out of him. "Hello there, Alec. How do you like your current situation?" Joseph asked with a creepy smile on his face. Alec didn't know what to think of it. "If we're being honest, I'm confused, angry, and sad. I'm confused because I can't figure out why I'm here. I'm angry because I don't know WHY I'm here, and I'm sad because I don't know where my family is." Alec admitted as he tried to pull his arms out from his restraints, only to fail as Joseph looked upon him with a smile of joy.

"Good! That's what we were looking for!" Joseph yelled out in excitement, pleased at Alec's discomfort and negative emotions. "Bring them in!" Joseph proclaimed as a set of doors behind Alec opened up, although Alec couldn't bend his head enough to see what was happening. Two men with black clothes stepped out in front of him, each of them holding one of Alec's family.

"What are they doing here?!" Alec screamed, shocked at seeing them here of all places. "Let them go!" Alec yelled once more to the delight of Joseph, who was standing there, laughing as he clapped at Alec's futile efforts of breaking out. "Oh, how wonderful it is to see you try to escape! It's amazing to witness how much effort you put in!" Joseph exclaimed as he raised his arms out in front of him. "You truly are the god we've been told of by the prophets. Our God!" He proclaimed, which Alec decidedly ignored in favour of trying to escape, but to no avail. Alec's brother, Ben, and his mother, Maire, were strung up like piñatas.

Joseph smiled a horrible smile as he walked over to Alec's little brother, brandishing a knife from his pocket. "No!" Alex screamed out as Joseph stabbed Alec's kid brother. Alec watched as he shoved the knife in, unable to scream due to a gag in his mouth. Alex's mother, Maira, was screaming her lungs out, although barely a sound was heard from her as her eyes filled with tears, watching her youngest child lose his blood right in front of her. Alec's brother looked into Alec's eyes with a sad expression. He didn't know how else to deal with this. Joseph pulled the knife out of Ben. And with a devilish grin on his face, he stabbed the knife back in, extracting a look of pure agony from Ben, which just caused Alec to want to break from his restraints. He wanted to beat Joseph's face in so badly, but he couldn't, which just caused his emotions to build up. Alec looked at his brother in anger as Ben slowly went limp, strung up like a horrific piñata. He couldn't process what the hell was going on, but he needed to get out of here. He needed to get back at Joseph!

Joseph smiled once more, taking the knife from the limp body of Ben, as he menacingly walked over towards Maire with a nasty gleam in his eyes. Alec let out a scream while producing a black ball of energy from his chest. He was going to make it explode! Joseph looked towards it and quickly yelled out something.

"Magician! Stop this attack!" He yelled out as a man in black robes walked out from the shadows. Alex watched as his black hole variant was cut out. It just...disappeared, and he couldn't explain why or how. All he could think about was getting out of here and how he would do it. Although, he needed to bring his mother with him as if not, he would have no purpose in life. Except for going back to Aaron, he had no other goals in life.

Alec watched as Joseph dragged his blood-stained knife along Maire's skin, almost like she was a precious doll adored by its collector. Her eyes were wide open and filled with fear as tears slid down her face. She wasn't able to take the pressure. Seeing her own child die... would take a toll on you. Alec, once again, tried ripping his arms out from the table he was locked into, but he couldn't get out. Alec continued to see Joseph making small, light carvings in his mother's skin, almost as if she was made out of clay, and he was engraving his name on her.

Blood trickled down from her skin as the knife slowly but surely began to cut deeper. He was drawing an almost planned pattern, and as it went on, Alec was left to scream at Joseph as he carved a symbol into his mother. It was that of a group of black tentacles with large eyes scattered all over. "This is our God! This is you, Alec!" Joseph proclaimed insanely. Alec couldn't believe what he was hearing. People thought he was a god? "Bullshit!" Alex yelled out in anger. "I'm not YOUR FUCKING GOD!" Alec screamed at Joseph, who just clapped his hands and jumped up and down in joy, as if that's the response he was looking for.

"Great! It's working!" Joseph exclaimed, running the room all excited, like a small child. "It's time for us to begin the final step!" The magician stated as he lifted his hands into the air. Maire and Ben's dead bodies were hoisted higher into the air. "What the hell are you doing?!" Alec yelled, as his mother looked him in the eyes. The gag fell from her mouth, and she only got one sentence in.

"I'm sorry, Alec." Maire sadly apologised as the magician threw a bolt of black energy at Maire. For a second, it looked like nothing happened, but Maire's head slowly began to slide away from her body as blood spurted from her stump of a neck. Alec watched the head fall off the body and let out an inhumanely loud scream. The magician created a seal of magic around Alec, as he did something you were never supposed to do. He broke Alex's seal. The magic circle shattered as Alex's scream turned into the that of a monster, his screams of agony echoing throughout the night, being heard for miles in every direction.

Large black tentacles started to creep out of Alex's mouth, as he couldn't control his form anymore. He had become a monster, and just on time.

00:00. 0 minutes until the birth of their new god occurred.