The spiders den

Alex awakes in the darkness where everything is consumed by spiders thread covering every crevice of the area he sees around him, "Hey, where am I?"

He would seemingly walk what felt like forever looking around as the spider's webs become larger, Alex gets chills not wishing to go further.

"Welcome to my humble abode!"A silky female voice welcomes him from above, she is dressed in a long grey-yellow evening gown with a black crown, her hair is long and white curling at the bottom.

"The potion I drank, it was causing me to hallucinate nothing, but spiders till now."

"Now you are with me in endless dreams forever Alex..."

"You are kidding me?"

A second arm pops up out of nowhere showing him around the room where only murkiness of dark decent could be felt, legs burst from the ground grabbing for his legs.

He jumps up frightened trying to dodge them, "What do you plan to do to me here?"

"Please call me Lady Avic, I am Dominique's pact demon...I promised to keep you here."

Alex thinks for a moment to himself before looking up at her, "It's connected to that book right?"

"My guess is you have not tried to advance with your pledge then?"

"Not...yet..."He replies pausing, "I assume I would not be here if that was the case."

Alex says turning away from her sight, he ends up walking back around in a circle where he meets her again, she howls in laughter at his futile attempt.

"My body is asleep so how do I wake it up then?"

"You are literally asking me, are you insane?"

"You are the only one here!" He shouts, "Who else must I ask then?"

Avic jumps down from her web, "Getting a better look at you..."She says going around getting a taste for how he dresses, she slaps him on the back before stopping fully.

"Are you going to eat me?"

"Eventually..."

"Will I get to see that idiot soon?"

"Oh, you mean Master Dominique?"

"Of course, I owe him for sending me here the bastard!"

She becomes bored with Alex quickly snapping her fingers to ensnare him in her web where he is seized high in the air by his hands and legs to be entangled.

Alex decides to keep still, she touches his face slapping him hard, "You are more a child than a vampire...how did you manage to survive this long?"

"I really wish you would eat me, I am tired of that insult."

Reaching a conclusion she trudges away saying nothing more to him leaving him in the mess of a web, Alex shoots an annoyed glance realizing she does not plan to come back for him.

He struggles against the tight grip almost like it was iron, he tires quickly comprehending he hasn't had blood in a while thus establishing quickly he needs to save his energy.

No longer fighting it he closes his eyes resting till he once again opens them when something hits him, an impending sense of doom; a feeling of dreadful déjà vu hits him.

Outside the waking world, Alice and Christian stay loyally by his side taking care of him, but Dominique lurks drawing them in with sweet words hoping to bring them to his side.

Unable to shake this deep feeling of regret for taking the elixir, but sorrow met by his fondness of Chara who always had looked out for him and literally one of his only friends.

-I need to get out he thought before something happens horribly to his kindred, like a ghost waiting in the shadows waiting to steal them away...not even Chara will survive.

Alice...sweet Alice always seems so knowledgeable, but can she keep her defenses up with Dominique and his friendly tongue, his mind becomes muddled haunted by his ruminations.

Being tethered in a place he could only feel the loneliness seep into his heart that he could only let himself think, the more he could not imagine happiness, no light shown here only a black gloominess entering his soft nature of being.

His head starts to hang low feeling his heart begin to slow more and more, his breathing no longer fast, he begins to accept his new environment.

A small lamp is carried in the distance, two twins similar in character and disposition as Avic glances up at Alex who has submitted, his glassy eyes barely regarding their presence.

One of the twins lifts his head by reaching for his jaw, "What a poor thing you are to be caught..." She says monotone.

"Can you speak?" The other asks gawking into his eyes, "Please give us a sign..."

Alex says nothing, they release their grip on his face, "He is not fully ready yet sister."

"Give him a little more time in the darkness..."

"The darkness consumes all, The darkness knows you better than yourself..." The other responds.