The morning breath came through my open window. It touched my face with its light fingers. My eyes fluttered open and my mouth let out a robotic yawn. The sunlight filled my room revealing the dirty ground and my alarm clock beeps as it struck at 6:30. I rolled over lazily and looked at the picture of my mom. Her hair bounced in the invisible wind. Her smile was wide as the sunrise behind her. I smiled at the memory as I got up and put on a pair of blue jeans that laid on the floor.

I sifted through my shirts in my dresser. I pulled out at a Hollister shirt from the bottom of the dresser drawer. It is oak wood shined in the morning sun, and the closet door opens enclosed from the wind. I slip in the crack of the door to grab my windbreaker from its golden hanger. I grabbed my bookbag from its resting place slung it over my shoulder lazily.

I walked down the birch wood stairs that were brightly lit from the rising sun. I walked through the back room that was lined with my dad’s knives and swords. The blades reflected the sunlight toward the fish tank that sparkled different colors. I walked through the living room that held all my mom’s old doll’s. A picture hung on the walls as the feeling of the carpet between my numb cold toes. I grabbed my socks from the bin that sat in the corner. Guarded by my dog that sleeps with a slight snore. I carefully walked around her and I walked through the kitchen and grabbed an apple from the middle of the table and took a bite.

I walked out and the fall wind blew the delicate Leaves around on the trees as I ran to school. I ran the two blocks so I would not be late and when I got there I dashed inside. I ran past the front office down the plain white hallway to my locker when I saw a shadow scurried toward the kitchen door when I stopped, nothing was there so I kept walking to my locker. I typed in the combination and the door atomically opened and I threw my stuff in then jogged into the classroom where my classmates were waiting for Mr.F so I sat with my friends at one of the gray tables. We talked all period until the bell then Mr.F ran in with a gash on his leg. We looked at him and he dismissed us as I walked out he glared at me.

The whole day I was shadowed by Mr.F and at lunch, he sat two tables away from me as he kept an eye on me until the final bell of the day rang. I went to my locker and opened it when Mr.F walked up to my locker and simply asked me in a low whisper “ May you please help me with something in my room?" he looked at me with a twinkle in his dark brown eyes. I agreed slowly and walked to his class with him. His eyes never left me until he walked to the lab stations and pulled out the ungraded test and two red pens " I need help with these." he said kindly. I nodded and grabbed a handful and sat at one of the tables then started to grade the test.

I was done around 5:30 so I gave them to Mr.F as he whispered: “Have a nice day puppy!" I hesitated then shook it off and started the walk to my locker. When I got there I typed in the combination. I got my stuff out of my locker. There was someone standing behind me. As I turned I froze in horror as it floated toward me, it was a solid gray creature that had no legs. it just had a flap of skin that hangs on by threads.

The creature waved its hands towards me. As it lifted them up I could see that the creature finger was bitten off by its moldy green teeth. I smell its breath reeked of sewers, rotting flesh and pig slop. I almost puked as I saw the lumps on its back oozed blood and pus, that leaked and gave its whole body shining glitter. The thing that floated before me started to charge me like a bull. I thought quickly and I jumped out of the way as it crashed into the locker. With a whimper from the beast, I slammed it shut and it clicked locked with a clink.

I heard clapping as Mr.F walked out of the inky dark hallway "Not a lot of people can out move my pet" he said in a hollow voice. He stood there as he pulled a silver cylinder out of his front pocket and rubbed it “Do you know what this does?" he asked. I hesitated then shook my head. He looked at me and said "It makes the person that wields it the ability to make a person do what they want like for example," he pressed his thumb against it and I fell to my knees with a thud.

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He said in a stern voice "See but that's not all it can also mess with your brain cells!" then he pressed it again I howled with pain as a sharp pain shot through my head like lightning bolts. He laughed "That is so fun, at least for me," he sighed. He walked over and pulled me to my feet with a tug “I missed you Apollonian and I am going to love what happens next," then his tan fist smashed into my nose and my eyesight went black.

I woke up chained to a platform I looked around. I was in a basement of some sort. There were silver shelves lining the wall, boxes of books and clothes lined the other wall. On the right side wall there was a weird machine that had three white arms to computers on the wide base and in the middle of the machine, there was a cradle that leaked yellow and gray lights. I tried to turn but the chains prevented me. I heard someone walking down the stairs whistling a song. It was Mr.F he looked at me and smiled “Hey buddy how was your sleep? Oh I'm sorry about the chains but I can't let you leave, can I?" he looked at me again and started to walk toward me with a key “I will unchain you but if you make the slightest wrong move you will be back, okay?"

I nodded and rubbed my wrist as the chain dropped to the floor. Mr.F walked around grabbing pieces of the machine and putting them on it. I watched as he put a long knife with ancient carving in it. As the knife touched the skin his blood flowed out like red sand onto the crystal. He looked at me and cleaned the knife with a rag. I looked at him and in a nervous voice I asked: “Why did you call me Apollonian when my name is John?" His eyes never left the silver blade as he told me,

“Because that's your name puppy, your true name and you are the last piece from a century-long puzzle!" He walked toward me and raised the long knife "Your blood is very precious to me and I need it so I will take it!" I tried to back away but the thing that grabbed me. I froze as its stubbed fingers wrapped around me and it led deep into my ear and started to breathe. I held my breath as Mr.F lifted my arm and put the knife to it. Pulled and Blood came like a stream of black liquid. Why is my blood black when it is supposed to be red? I went into stiff fear as I watched the blood on the knife. He walked it over so carefully to the michin. He was walking through the cluttered basement with extreme care. He smiled as he reached the power source in the middle of the machine. “Do you have anything to say on the last minutes of a sane world?" he looked at me with a crooked grin.

“Yes I do," said a new voice, it was a deep tone with a hint of the centuries. “I will find you and I will not stop until you are imprisoned again” growled the new voice as he tore out of the things moldy hands. He stared at him and said nothing then started to laugh.

“You were in him the whole time Apollonian " he paused and said with a hint of confusion "Wait where is the other one John?" he asked with a twisted look on his face.

“He was I when he's in control of this vessel," Apollonian replied with envy. He stared him down as he started to walk toward the machine.

He sighed “Well you're too late Apollonian, this is my last piece" then he pulled out a skeleton key and shoved into the machine and when he turned the key the ground shook and broke as hideous mutant beasts rose from the ground one by one. “You remember my pets don't you Apollonian?" he said in a stern voice.

“I do," Apollonian said simply as he looked at Mr.F with fire in his eyes.

“Well then you know the damage they're going to inflict on this rock," Mr.F said with a strict tone as he raised his hand and the monsters marched toward the exit. Apollonian looked at him as his neon suit gathered around him. His suit had a dark glow as his fiery red eyes looked at Apollonian “Well see you again soon!" he said and his hand shot up and a black ball launched into Apollonian chest. The world became dizzy and out of place as Apollonian lost his grip on John's brain and became John once more as they fell into a deep slumber.