where did we stop?

Zayn blinked his eyes open and the fluorescent light from the ceiling almost blinded him, he winced clutching his head in his hands. It was buzzing with headache, his eyes moved around the little corner and knew this was a hospital, however, how did he find himself in the hospital?. Before he could think, his mother barged through the curtain breathing heavily.

He lifted his head to her and her eyes were bloodshot red, misting with tears, stains of dried tears on her face and he knew he needed to stop but how could he. He didn't even know when to talk to that sneaky wraith.

"Zayn my baby" his mother sobbed, touching his arm and bandaged head. "Are you okay?Should I call the doctor?, is any place hurting you?" She kept asking more series of question which weakened zayn more but he let her do her thing. His father died through accident, it must have been a shock to her with the underlying trauma waiting to be unleashed.

Minutes later, the doctor came in with some drugs and injected him which made him go back to sleep. While he was in his sleep, he found himself in that place again. Lights. Too many bright lights, he raised his hand to his eyes to block it off but it just kept blooming and blooming until it faded into nothing.

For once there, he'd thought he was going to get blind but no, the hall where he was now was empty. "Hello" he yelled, yet no answer, his voice echoing through the hall, he yelled again and the same thing. No doors, no windows, just walls around him.

"Anyone here" he walked around shouting and yelling for what felt like forever before the walls began enclosing around him. He stepped back, going back however the other side was the same. He ran, he sprinted to anywhere breathing hard though he knew not where he was going.

"DO YOU WISH TO BE SAVED ZAYN?" A loud familiar voice asked in laughter, the walls enclosing as he sprinted through the thin road before the last piece of wall would enclose all around him, he woke up. The lights were off, his eyes gazed outside and saw it was night time.

He pulled the cover off and came down from the bed, with unsteady steps, he left the ward. His mother was nowhere in sight. Maybe, she was out for a break or went home, whichever it was better she didn't see him, right now.

While he walked down the hall with the lights off and a few bulbs low enough to be used to walk, he saw a shadow trailing behind him. He didn't know where he was going but didn't want to lay on the bed or sleep which would lead to those weird dreams of his.

He thankfully saw a nurse who asked him where he was heading to and he said he didn't know but would love fresh air in his system thus she led him outside to the rooftop of the hospital. 

She left him after making sure he was okay, zayn watched how the shadow appeared after the nurse left. He didn't know what to make out from what the wraith wanted but whatever it's for, he wasn't interested or want to be part of whatever faction existed out there.

He saw the deep fear on his mother's face when the truck had hit him, he saw her life flash right in her eyes. Devastation. Scared. Sad. He was her only last hope which he can't forfeit for anything. His father had made a mistake which he didn't want to know of, knowing it was for the best they all stayed ignorant and oblivious of what was happening.

Since, humans are not only the only creatures in this world which would one day either create an apocalypse which they would devour and try to take away over, he needed to protect his mom. 

While he sank his brain mulling over his thoughts and what to do, the wraithlike figure emerged from the dark and stood tall at zayn's back but his shadow could be seen on the front edge of the rooftop. 

"THERE IS NOTHING TO THINK ABOUT BOY?" Zayn blinked his eye open but didn't turn, there was nothing to see anyway only more darkness and mysteries about him. "THE WORLD WILL FACE AN APOCALYPSE IN A NEAR TIME SOON, IF WE DON'T TAKE PRECAUTIONS AND STOP IT" 

"And what does that have to do with me?" Zayn gritted out, "you are the faction or the faction could stop it not a boy whom you probably killed his father and now trying to manipulate his son!!"

"YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND BOY!!, THE WORLD IS NOT ONLY ABOUT THE CREATURES YOU KNOW—"

"This has been all what you have been saying, 'you don't understand boy' I don't want to understand or I'm not interested or—"

"WE WOULDN'T WANT TO SEE YOUR MOTHER DEAD, WOULD WE?" The wraith chuckled which swayed his shadow a bit, shivers curled down zayn, he knew he wasn't bluffing. He could do it. They might have killed his father and wanted to kill his mother too.

"What do you want me to do?" His eyes closed and he breathed out gazing out to the dark sky filled with stars and down to the city filled with evil. 

"NOW WHERE DID WE STOP HMMM?"