Chapter Thirteen

(Dream)(Dennis)

My eyes opened I took in my surroundings, I was meeted by a pitch black darkness however I could see everything. There was a trail of dark red substance leading off further where I couldnt see it. My brain is screaming at me to stay away but it was also telling me to follow it, I didnt want to stay in this empty area so I just began to follow the trail.

Walking for what felt like miles, the trail of blood finally stop and lead to the edge of a cliff. The cliff had no other half, the bottom was just darkness and I couldnt see anything. 'What am I here for?' I thought to myself while looking at the scenery in front of me.

A shift in the atmosphere and a noise from behind ripped me from my thoughts. I whipped around quickly to see what was the cause when I was met with a horrifying sight.

It was me when bloodlust has taken over, that sinister steam pouring from my body. That wasnt even the most terrifying part no, not at all. Bloodlust had his arm augmented into a sword like at the warehouse, and hes impaled someone. His eyes caught mine and I was absolutely petrified as he let whoever was on his sword fall off to the ground.

I should of never peeked at who it was. Laying on the ground was Tom himself, his already pale skin was an even more deathly pale. His brown eyes were completely void of any life and emotion. He was dead..

"No, Tom please.." I pleaded while Bloodlust began making his way towards me. "Tom, we're suppose to get through this together, me and you.." my mind began going numb, I couldn't even think about anything else but Tom.

"WAKE UP!!" I screamed

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(Dream end)(Dennis)

I woke up sweating profusely, Dipper looked at me terrified. Only then did I notice the steam pouring from my body and the sharp cut that was on Tom's shoulder. He held the slice as blood leaked slightly from it, "hey I'm fine with ok, this is nothing" he said trying to calm me down. "I hurt you.." I trailed off remembering the dream, "just like in the dream.." I pieced together.

He tried to reach for me and I jumped back, "No!" I screamed "I don't want to hurt you again, just stay away from me!" I yelled. I jumped up and ran outside of the door to our house, hoping over a few railing and dashing into the city. I heard Tom and Dipper yelling after me, but I didn't care a tears burned from my eyes.

Once I was far enough into the city and away from the house, I augmented my arm into claws and began to go look for zombies I could take my frustration out on.

Surrounding a tiny building I saw a group of zombies wondering aimlessly around looking for something to tear their teeth into. I headed straight for them, running up before leaping into the air and pouncing on one with a frustrated grunt.

I began swiping aimlessly at all the zombies, killing each one with blind rage as images of the dream flashed back into my mind.

Swipe

"I hate you."

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"I HATE YOU."

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"I HATE YOU!!" I screamed in one final devastating blow to a zombies skull. It flew towards the wall of the nearby building and colliding with a metal thud. Confused, I went closer towards the building. They're all suppose to be made of rocky stone material no? Why was there a metal wall on a stone building.

As I got a clearer view of the building, I noticed the rusted metal covered in the blood of the zombie I just finished off. I touched around the area of the door to see if there was some kind of button becuase it didnt seem like it could be open with a handle, seeing as there wasnt one.

My hand came across what seemed to be a rusted button, I push in on it and a groan sounded from the door as it jaggedly slid over. Inside there was a very foundational white colored hallway that lead off who knows where, I looked behind me to make sure no one had followed before stepping foot into the hallway and walking slowly down the corridor.

It stretched on for a while, I changed my claw back into my hand as I forgot about it, I may meet someone down here. Finally, the hall came to a stop as a taller door stood in front of me. This one actually had a handle, so I grabbed it and twisted it open. The door was unlocked, and inside there were tons of bulletin boards, and files of paperwork scattered everywhere.

What really caught my eye was the larger than life board that sat across the room. It had tons of lines connecting dots, one of which seemed to be the bunker from where I came. I traveled my finger across the lines connecting points on this board, it was a map!

They had other bunkers, waypoints to check in just like this one. One in the town I met Tom in, one in the town where the mall was, and one right here in this town.

"Dennis!" I turned around. Tom, Dipper, Daniel and everybody else stood in front of me with mixed emotions evident on their faces. The second group besides Daniel had nasty glares pointed at me. "What is this place?" Tom said holding his side and looking around. Guilt immediately plagued me, but I pushed it away so I wouldn't act irrational again.

"I don't know, but its connected to the bunker I came from" I stated. Everyone's attention darted back at me when I mentioned that information. "You came from a laboratory?" Jean asked in disbelief, "is that why you can do what you do?" I shook my head yes and sighed.

"Well now you guys deserve the true story huh?" I questioned to no one in particular, but they nodded anyway. "Well, yes I'm from a laboratory" I started. I explained everything to them, everything that's happened so far and everything I know.

"So this is like some government conspiracy shit then?" Klancy asked. "Basically yeah, they saw my life as disposable when they came and got me so I bet they weren't planning on me actually be able to do stuff for myself but here we are" I said.

"Hmm, I still don't know if we should trust you, I mean look what you did to Tom" Jean pointed out. I looked at Tom's side and bawled my fist. "Jean will you shut the fuck up? You have no idea what happened up to that point so would stop talking on it like you do? Arent you busy brooding over your dead boyfriend you piece of shit?" I snapped.

Jean's face said it all, my heart shattered as I realized I just destroyed him. "Hey Dennis what the fuck? That was so uncalled for" Blaire yelled as she chased after Jean, Klancy glaring at me before following her, Daniel looked at me with a sorry look and ran after them as well.

I sighed and pinched the bridges of my nose. "Why are they always acting like I'm the fucking bad guy, Jean wont stop being a negative prick and acts like his boyfriends death is everyone elses fault" I ranted.

"Hey hey, it's ok" Tom said wrapping and arm around my shoulder. I tensed as the guilt flushed throughout me again. "Come on now Dennis, are you still on about that?" Tom sighed.

"Look it's ok I promise, I'm not mad at you at all, you were terrified waking up and you were terrified in the dream" He said. "I do not blame you for what happened like at all, but I do want to know what exactly did happen. You can tell me and Dipper about back at the house but let's go with this new information" Tom said gesturing back to the map.

"Yeah, ok" I complied with a sigh. I grabbed the map off of the board and folded it as best as I could, slipping it inot my pocket and walking out of the room with Dipper and Tom.

Outside, there were no zombies around, and no sign of Jean or the others either. I'm guessing they went back into their house. Tom, Dipper, And I walked back into our side of the complex and into the house we currently stayed.

Dipper had a perplex look on his face. "How did this all happen so fast.." Dipper said. "What do ya mean bud?" I asked him as I sat down on the floor. "In just two days we've managed to make them hate us so much, but they wont even comply or try to reason" Dipper stated.

"You're telling me Dip, they're acting like I'm not on their side, I mean at this point I might as well not be anyway" I rolled my eyes. Dipper giggled a little bit and sat down next to me. Tom eased his way down and sat on the other side of me.

"Man what're we gonna do, we could ditch them and just leave them to fend on their own, but that's terrible right?" Tom asked. "Yeah it is, but I feel like they're gonna be asking for us to just leave pretty soon anyway" I said, sighing.

Just then we heard a scream and shuffling outside from these thin walls. I jumped up and looked out of the window to see Jean getting attack by one of the fuckers from that cult.

"Shit!" I swore, "it's those idiots from the stupid fucking cult" I yelled. Dipper jumped up angered and pulled out his gun, so did Tom. I changed my arm into a sword this time, I was gonna let the bloodlust take over just a little but only a little.

I ripped the door open and watched the scene play on. They were beating Jean senseless, and it only made me more angry. From where I stood outside of the house, I braced myself and I leaped into the air and tackled the assault crook away from Jean. I waisted no time stabbing him in the throat, a choked gargle coming from his mouth.

I stood from where I was and looked over at Jean who sat baffled on the floor. "Are you ok? I promise im not here to hurt you Jean" I reassured as he nodded yes.

"I don't know where he came from Dennis, he just grabbed me and-" Jean was cut off by another mans voice. "So we've finally found! Silly goose, running away from the ring leader AHAHAHAHAHA" A sickening voice rang out.

I turned around to see a man wearing a maroon cloak over tattered clothing, and he had a plague doctor mask on. Goons soon protruded from behind him wearing the same exact fear inducing mask.

"What do guys even want!?" I yelled angry. "Well we wanted Dipper.." he trailed off a wide smirk replacing his thoughtful look. "You seem way more interesting tho, so maybe we should just take both of you instead hehe~" He cooes sickeningly.

"GET HIM!" he yelled at his goons as they charged at me with cries of war. I got into a stance ready to slice through them all, when suddenly some slammed down in front of us.

There standing straight and looking towards the cult was Dipper, and be did not look happy. He slowly walked back towards me and stood next to my side, Tom lurched over to us as well.

I looked at Dippers hardened face to see that his eyes were a fiery red like mines turned, all tho his was more like fire then mine was more like molten steel.

"You guys should leave, ASAP" Dipper spoke out in a deeper voice. I smirked wildly at his tone dangerous tone and turned towards the others. "Well you heard the guy, so are we going to do this hard way, or the killing you way?" I added sinisterly.

The leader was taken a back by our threats, but that idiot was more crazy then we ever will be. He began laughing maniacally like a mad man. "Please do your worse~ GET THEM!!" he screamed once more. Klancy, Blaire and Daniel finally came out from some random corner with their guns.

"Well, let's do this then" I said smirking as they ran towards us.