The Elementals: The Rise of the Deviants

Chapter 21

Chapter twenty one

[Cara’s POV]

“Help me! Please! Anyone!” I sobbed and screamed. However, as I looked through my own eyes, my screams never left my motionless mouth and my sobbing and movements never connected with my own eyes and hands. I was trapped. I was trapped inside my own body and no matter how hard I tried screaming in my head, or tried to force myself to run away, I couldn’t do it. My body, now under the control of Malum, stood guard at the entrance of the dungeon. Wails and sobs of prisoners echoed horrendously through the long corridors and through the hole in the side of the castle wall the rain poured in, drenching the stone grounds and enhancing the putrid smells.

“Someone please help me!” I cried once again. Once again, it was only in my head and my eyes and body stayed motionless as I continued to stand as a perfect puppet. Due to the damage made by my friends on the cells and castle many of the cells were open, but no one dared to leave them – the ones who were physically able to anyway. They had tried, at first. The prisoners tried escaping and running out of the dungeon but Malum quickly let them know how bars and glass wasn’t the real cell holding them in. Every once in a while one prisoner would gather enough courage to run and-

In the corner of my eyes I saw a movement. And as I continued to stare blankly forward I could notice the dishevelled hair of an Abled – one who hadn’t been experimented on yet. “RUN!” I pleaded and encouraged silently, hoping that Malum’s invisible eyes wouldn’t see the Abled prisoner trying to escape.

Kill. Him.

“NO!” I shouted back in my head.

Kill. Him! Malum’s voice was echoing in my head, invading the only space I had left of myself.

“No! Please don’t make me do it! PLEASE!” I cried and cried and cried.

KILL! HIM! Malum’s husky voice screamed in my inner mind.

Without permission, my eyes moved, then my head followed by the rest of my body. “No! Stop! STOP!” I shouted in my head. The noise in the dungeon grew when everyone realised that he had been spotted. The Abled prisoner’s eyes snapped to mine and they widened as pure fear filled the windows to his soul. He turned suddenly and ran as fast as he could and once again, even though I tried so hard to stop my own body, my hands began motioning and circling until bright violet beams of energy formed between my hands. With the Abled prisoner in sights my body threw the beams of energy towards the prisoner and I watched, helplessly, as my own Godforsaken ability flew straight for his back.

“NOOO!” I screamed as my body’s beams pierced into his back and swiftly passed through him like a hot knife through butter. Suddenly the Abled stopped running and flopped straight down to the ground and, thankfully, out of my eye sight. I didn’t want to see what he looked like after having the beams slice through him. I cried and I cried, but of course my actual body never shed a tear. All my turmoil, all my fading hope and depression was stuck inside my mind with the little bit of consciousness I had left.

Well done, Chaos. You could very well be one of my favourite puppets with your abilities and obedience. Malum’s voice cackled in my head.

“I will never obey you! Never! I will always fight you, my soul will never be yours to completely control!” I spat back.

Not right now.... but soon. You wait and watch, dear Chaos. You will eventually, as will everyone. I’m only lacking one ingredient to my experiments.

Malum’s evil cackle resonated throughout my mind and if I had control of my body, I was sure to have been on my knees sobbing.