DREAMER

Running through a dark tunnel was a graceful beauty. She had blonde hair and enthralling blue eyes, her lips were lined with red lipstick which ominously matched the blood that dripped from her palms. 

Her footsteps echoed in the lightless abyss, but there were more that followed after hers, rapid and inhuman. With how much weight was being thrown around, the abominations had to be a sight. 

The nurse could hear them just a couple of meters behind her, dragging their grotesque forms across the metal tunnel. 

Despite the troubling circumstances, the nurse bore an eerily calm expression. 

She had managed to evade the abominations that had awakened by the tunnel entrance, and now there were quite a few chasing after her with madness burning in their eyes. 

Although she had managed to gain a reasonable distance between her and the crazed creatures. There were still some slumbering ahead of her. 

Unfortunately, they would soon awaken. 

The nurse's breath trembled ever so slightly at the sight of them. 

They stood out in the darkness not just because of their vile presence but also because they were just too abnormal to ignore. As they churned she could see their revolting shapes seethe and roll. 

With her teeth digging into her lower lip, she ducked under one then used the metal to side to ricochet over another. Her pace was efficient with little wasted movement. Which made her only wonder how the ginger-haired girl could have gotten away from her so easily. 

Thinking about it struck a nerve, it was obvious from the way her brows twitched. 

Soon she could see the lab's white lights that shone from the other end of the tunnel. 

The Abominations were still right behind her, and there was no way she was letting them breach a room filled with over twenty children. 

She gathered her Will in her throat and then moments later a deafening shriek shook the tunnels, causing its metal surface to groan and wail.

Soon she was through the tunnel, white light bouncing off her skin as she shot out of the lightless maw of the tunnel. The creatures had already recovered from the dreadful effect of her Spell. Those who survived were now barreling towards the light-filled room. 

The nurse peered into the lightless tunnel for a bit, her ice-blue eyes glaring chillingly into the dark. Then with a calm gaze, she shut the door. 

As the massive steel gate groaned to a close. The abominations hissed and groaned, pained by the denial of flesh to feast on.

With the gates now closed the nurse couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief. She barely flinched at the banging that came seconds after. An echo of madness and hunger.

Thankfully the steel gate was thick enough to keep Calamities in. So it should hold for a bit. 

She walked past the twenty-plus children who sat on the metal floor. Their eyes were stark white and dull. 

One caught her attention the most. She was small eight maybe nine. Her jet black hair flowed without wind same with the white hospital gown that fell from her shoulders.

The young girl sat away from the rest of the children. She was squatting at the centre of the room staring wide-eyed at the massive obsidian core that hung from the roof. 

The obsidian core was basically groaning with Calamitous Will its tendrils sending a constant stream of red Will to the core. 

The grotesque infant that once hovered below the core was now gone with most of its bone with tendrils fallen to the ground. 

"…Diane welcome back."

The nurse said as she circled around the girl. 

The black-haired girl barely spared her a glance in reply. It didn't move the nurse too much though, she was all too used to the child's strangeness. 

"And how long can you keep the kids asleep?"

The nurse asked as she traced Diane's line of sight till her own icy pupils fell on the obsidian core at the centre of the room.

Diane didn't raise her head to answer, this time she simply kept her head tilted with her gaze placed solely on the core as she spoke softly. 

"Long enough."

Her voice was childlike, soft, meek and sorrowful yet still pleasurable to the ears. 

"Long enough? That'll have to do then."

The nurse repeated her eyes still on the core. 

"Magnificent isn't it? Raw Calamitous Will doing what it does most."

Diane looked back at her then, her stark white eyes mildly beckoning on the nurse to finish her statement. 

"To disrupt."

She finished with a smile. There was nothing she loved more than disruption, especially when things weren't going her way. 

"Where is my sister?"

Diane suddenly asked her voice not really forceful but still quite serious.

"Lucky to be alive."

The nurse answered with a faint frown.

Diane turned then, her eyes still as emotionless as ever. She watched the nurse with a curious gaze her brows slightly furrowed. 

Right before she could speak the room trembled vigorously. Diane peered at the massive core at the centre of the room. 

It kept trembling causing the metal-plated room to groan and whine. The children still sat seemingly unbothered by the quaking. 

The nurse meanwhile had a bright smile that stretched across her gorgeous face. This was what she had been planning for years. 

As the pulsing grew more and more rapid like flowing water, the mountain itself trembled. Soon the core combusted into a myriad of blinding white. 

The sound that followed was deafening, metal groaned, and rock was reduced to ash. Soon a bright red ray of Calamitous Will was continuously eating into the same above the core. 

It dug so deep till a sunroof was gradually being produced in the underground base. 

"Here it comes."

The nurse said as she stared at the space above her. Just then the heaves seemed to shriek causing the mountain to groan and tremble. It was the Calamity wailing from above as the red Calamitous ray consumed it in its furious light. 

Diane's expression changed then morphing from dull nonchalance to a soft worry as she faintly narrowed her brows.

The cries of the Calamity above filled their ears. 

It wailed in an eerily human way.