Chapter 37: Miracle

The storage room was full with shelves upon which were kept medical supplies.

‘What should I do next?’ I wondered. I looked around for something I could use as a weapon but they were all useless so I get to the farther to corner from the door and crouched in the dark hoping she wouldn’t come inside here and find me.

Definitely as usual theses days it wasn’t my lucky day because the next second after crouching down I felt a cold breeze on my neck, I very slowly look back just to se her standing there and this time there were a white branch in her hand.

“You ape!” She said again and was getting closer, I jumped to the left and barely escaped from being beaten by the branch. I tried to run back to the door but was stopped as she made me tripped and fell to the ground with a loud bam.

‘This time I think I really have sim broken!’ I thought for how hurting I was feeling all over.

“Who do you think you’re to meddle in what isn’t of your concern?” She said and smiling she added “Let me show you what happens to noisy ape such as you.”

She crouched besides me and looked at me for a while with clear curiosity written upon her face.

“Who are you?” She asked at last but I didn’t stay there to answer her question instead get on my feet and grabbed the first thing I saw and throw it toward her, it was a plastic cup, she avoided it easily but still it gave me time enough to get out and run all the way back to Niki’s mom room.

Everything was still the same but now frozen no one was moving all it was eerily silence. I entered the room passing Niki standing in front of the door the hazy daze on her face said that she wasn’t seeing me, there was one doctor by Niki’s mom left side massaging her chest and a nurse by her head holding a oxygen mask on her face.

Getting closer I could at last see the face of the person living on the bed it was the same woman the one who was asking for help, but that time like the other people in the room the wasn’t moving either.

Out of nowhere the woman in white appeared next to the one lying on the bed, she lifted the white branch she was holding and put the tip one Niki’s mom front, and there where a glimpse of light after what the stick started to change color from white to the most profound scarlet, in the other hand Niki’s mom skin was getting wither it was like that stick of wood on her face was taking away the life inside her.

“Oh no!” I cried out. I couldn’t possibly let her kill her just like that. There were a supply of surgical instruments on the table on the side table, I grabbed a pair of scissors and threw it at her but it passed through her just like if she was thin air and she didn’t budge a little bit.

“Help!” A small voice said behind me, it was another Niki’s mom or I should say her soul or her spirit or something alike, she wasn’t running and standing there she has her hand clutching her collar as if she was trying to get free of some restraint applied there, but I didn’t see a thing. Furthermore there was a string of light coming out the apparition of Niki’s mom binding her with her real body on the bed and it was the same light that was getting out of her front to the stick.

I threw the other thing I could find to her just to get the same result, useless as they all pass through air like there were nothing there.

As to let me knew that I couldn’t do anything to stop her she didn’t pay attention to anything I did.

“I have to tried.” I said a move forward and this time instead of her I choose to grab the stick she was holding onto Niki’s mom front. When I grabbed a hold of it my hands burned like I had touched a high tension electric wire barehanded, in a second I the heat went from my hands to other part of my body so I was burning like I was standing into a blazing oven but I didn’t let go, she wrestled against me in order to take the stick away from me given she was stronger than me the battle didn’t last long and I found myself thrown against the wall.

On the ground I saw black smoke coming out of her earlier fair maiden face had now cracked all over like a cracked porcelain bowl what made looking at her more terrifying.

She came closer to me and kneeled by my side, upon close view one of her eye ball was ripped to the middle and through the opening all I could see inside was thick blackness and nothing else.

“I see!” She said and put the tip of the stick on my front and it started sweeping away my life, firstly I felt cold and my limbs started to feel numb and lightheaded.

‘You can’t sleep, you can’t loose, hold on!’ Someone said or it was just an hallucination my mind created to make me get though that situation. With the last bit of strength I could manage to gather and pushed the stick away and unbelievably I succeeded in throwing it away and at the same time she too fell.

Before I blackout I saw the stick on the floor being broken in two pieces on the floor by a pair of sneakers I was sure to have seen somewhere but couldn’t remember where, a ray of light went from the branch to the body lying in the bed and the person who had broken the stick came close to me but I saw his like behind a clouded glass.

“Hey it’s okay now, everything is fine. Sorry I’m late again.” He said with one hand cuddling my bruised cheek giving me a sensation of solace, a familiar sensation like it had happened a thousand times.

When I get back to myself I was standing by Niki we both standing by the door and looking at the medical team who frantically was trying to save the patient lying on the bed.

“Charge at three hundred!” Barked a doctor. When the one who was holding the defibrillator was about to use it Niki’s mom suddenly bolted straight on the bed and started breathing just like she had run sprint. All the machines was now emitting a deafening pitting but she was alive and fine.

“It’s a miracle!” Someone said.

Looking around I found nothing suspicious and the woman in white where nowhere to be seen.

“Did I dreamed it all?” I wondered because there were no signs of the things that had just happened, I still had my backpack secure on my shoulders and I didn’t had any bruise.

Niki ran into the room and put her mother into a tight embrace.

“Mom...” She said crying. Her mom patted her back reassuring her.

“Don’t worry it’s all fine now.” She said softly.

I started to turn around but something caught my attention, on the ground was the two part of the broken branch, now white, which that woman was holding against my front making me break into cold sweat.