acceptance

Mark ran as fast as he can toward the general direction of town, as he reached the end of the tree line he saw a rood when he was crossing the rood he was all most hit buy car

Marcy gasped as she screamed, "WTF was that, I must be having a panic attack that wasn't real, that wasn't fucking real" as she was driving with high speed 

"I should call my dad and tell him to go home and bunker down" said Marcy as she reached for the phone just as something ran in front of the car she pressed the Car brakes and stopped in a loud screech

"Marcy is that you" said Mark in confusion "mark thank good I almost hit you" said Marcy in shock 

Mark looking back at the forest said "that doesn't matter right now we have to go fast" 

"the fog" said Marcy with a hint of horror in her voice "you heard them too didn't you" asked Mark in a serious tone 

"not only did I hear them, I saw them" answered Marcy dead serious

as Mark looked around he realized that the fog is creeping in from the forest, his train of thought was cut short buy the Serge of disfigured screams

"we should probably go" said Marcy in an urgent tone "yeah, we should move fast" replied Mark with urgency

as Mark jogged and opened the door to the passenger said, he said in confusion, "a wolf cub?"

"Not now Mark, we have to go" said Marcy with urgency as she picked the cub and put it in the back

...

The doorbell rang in the bunker like home "Hello Johnny are you home "said Alfred in a caring tone

"how is it this time" said Johnny in frustration. "Oh, it's Marcy's dad" replayed Johnny to himself in a softer tone

"I will be there in a minute" said Johnny on camera speaker. "Ok take your time" replayed Alfred to the camera

Johnny, a brilliant young man, was inseparable from Mark and Marcy when they were together. However, they gradually drifted apart as time passed. 

Johnny opened the door and welcomed Alfred with a hug that Alfred didn't expect, "it's nice to meet you to johnny "said Alfred with a smile

as Johnny realized what he is doing, he let go of him and said in embarrassment, "It's nice to meet. So how has Marcy and Mark been doing".

"They have certainly been doing better than you" said Alfred while looking at the state of his cloth

"I see that you have done some renovating to the house, it looks like it can take a bomb and survive" said Alfred in surprise

"oh, this is preparation for what is coming" replied with a serious tone that made Alfred freeze in his place 

"what do you mean buy 'what is coming'?" asked Alfred in confusion 

"I have been employed in an underground laboratory where we have been conducting experiments on the concept of interdimensional teleportation. I am confident that we have unlocked the gates to hell." answered Johnny with seriousness and horror.

"What?!?" Alfred asked in shock.

"I know how it sounds, but please believe me I am not crazy nor am I on drugs I saw through that portal we wear making, and I know what I saw, so please believe me" said Johnny with extreme pain in his eyes

"don't worry, I believe you Johnny" said Alfred with a soft supporting tone

"oh yes, hold on a sec" said Johnny before going into a room searching for something before coming back with a hand held radio and putting it in Alfred's hand and saying "keep this on you in all time if something happened call me on it channel 8, Ok"

"Ok, I will keep it on me at all times" said Alfred with seriousness

he seems to be in some kind of shell shock state. He must have truly went through something terrible. Is he telling the truth or is he just hallucinating either way, I will support him because I know he is a good man, thought Alfred to himself.

After some time of talking, Alfred said, "it's time for me to go back to the clinic and help Marcy"

"tell her and Mark I said hi" said Johnny in an up beat tone

"sure will" said Alfred with a smile

as he closed the door, johnny gave out a sigh as he said with a chuckle, "I fell better just by talking he sure is better suited to be a therapist then a veterinarian"

"I should probably go back to my work" said Johnny to himself as he stood up

he entered a room that looked like a laboratory that was filed with gizmos and electric junk as he looked to the wall filed with monitors connected to high-tech cameras that watched every corner inside and outside the house, then continued his way toward the work bench and grabbed a laptop like device that had an antana sticking out of it. He said, "just some more tinkering, and it should be ready to go."

.....after some time 

"this should be ready, all I have to do is put the right frequency, and it should tell me when it's time to get every one and hunker down" as he put the frequency it instantly started to scream in a loud alarm that filed the room he turned it off and said in confusion "that is wired is it broken or som-" his words wear cut short as the town sirens started screaming 

he realized the scanner is not broken, it was working correctly. "Fuck fuck fuck" screamed Johnny as he stumbled to some kind of control panel and activated a lock-down that closed all the windows and doors with a metal barricade that can only be opened from the inside.

Then he remembered Alfred, Marcy, and Mark

"the radio" he said as he voluted toward it and put it on channel 8 and screamed "Alfred do you hear me pls pick the radio up"

There was silence then a crackle of the radio and Alfred stared speaking "yes, hello what's up johnny is everything alright"

thank god, thought Johnny to himself before saying in urgency, "get Marcy and Mark and come to my house fast what I tolled you was coming is here"

"Marcy went to help some dog and will come back in a sec and Mark is probably up the mounting so that will be a problem" said Alfred in a worry tone 

but before Johnny could replay an unknown crackle cut him "Hello can you hear me" said a man voice

"Mark, is that you?" said Johnny in surprise, "Johnny yes it's me, but there is no time for chit-chat something weird is happening, and we have to bunker somewhere" said Mark with urgency 

"I know I was trying to call you to warn you about the things that hide in the fog, do not trust what you hear, go pick Alfred then come straight to my house do you understand" said Johnny with a commanding tone

"will be there in 15 minutes" said Marcy from the radio with mark

"this extremely weird" said Marcy in worried tone 

"we have no choice but to accept this reality, or we will end up dead" said Mark in a serious tone