Inner Demons

Static

I swear it's him, trust me!

The water running from the sink was relatively loud as Ethan did the dishes, but even over that he swore he heard something like a voice, no, two voices whispering to each other as if he couldn't hear. He shuts the water off and turns around, faced with an empty room, a shiver of uneasiness runs through him as he turns back around.

Throughout the day Ethan got strange chills, as if someone was watching his every move, he'd hear voices that seemed to be only inside his head, he thought he was going insane. Theories speculated his mind about what was happening, but after getting back home from grocery shopping he decided to blame it on paranoia. He jumped onto his couch, expelling a sigh of relief, he grabbed the controller and smiled as he turned on the TV.

Can we do it now?

He stopped mid click, a cold feeling washing through him. "That was way too clear to be something shifting on a table," He thought. Ethan quickly looked around the room, well aware that the mood had dropped into a much darker place. He slowly got up from his seat and walked around the back of the couch, looking for somewhere the voice was coming from.

A loud crackling noise from behind him made him jump, his heart racing as he realized it was static from the TV. He walks over and turns off the TV which becomes black and silent. He turned back around and walked a bit forward down the hall, his knees shaking as if they couldn't support his body much longer. When he reached the end of the hallway he peaks into his bedroom, giving a quick glance around then exhaling deeply.

"It was nothing, I'm just on edge today," He told himself quietly. He walked back into the hallway, content that he just needed sleep, until he heard static again, but it seemed to be louder this time, as if trying to get his attention. He froze, knowing for sure he turned it off. He slowly crept back into the living room, just as he imagined, his TV screen was completely white with a horrible stativ noise emitting from the speakers behind it.

Ethan took a deep breath and walked closer, making direct eye contact with the white screen. A shape of dark green flashed onto the screen for just enough time to notice. He squinted at the screen, continuing to slowly walk up to it. His heart skips a beat as in happens again, but clearer this time. A face, it was a face, just the silhouette though. It was when he had gotten about and inch from the screen, eyes fixed, waiting for it to happen again. It did.

The sudden appearance of a head and shoulders of a man popped not only onto the screen, but out of it. At the same time a high pitched laughter filled the room. Ethan screeched and fell back, onto the couch, breathing heavenly and paralyzed watching this creature crawl out of the screen limb by limb, landing steadily on his carpet in front of him. Even though it was already out of the TV it still glitched as if behind a static camera.

"Well hello there," Its voice was a bit high pitched and just as glitchy as its person, "I'm sure you know who I am, right?" Ethan continued to stare, taking in the creature's face, and features, he recognized them as someone he knew.

"S-Sean?" He said quietly and shakily, readjusting himself into more of a ball of protection.

"Hmm I suppose, but I think you can do better then that. Come on," The man opened his arms then pointed to himself, smiling widely and showing off sharpened fangs, "who am I?" Ethan gulped and took a few more seconds to look over the person in front of him. He knew who he was, of course but he couldn't bring himself to say his name, it just seemed, well, impossible.

"Oh shut up, can't you see you're scaring him?" Another, deeper voice rung from behind the couch, loud footsteps walked over on Ethan's right and he heard a click. The lights turned on, which had blinked out when the TV acted up.

"Well how would you have done it then?" The creature from the TV crossed his arms and pouted at the direction of the footsteps.

"I'll show you," The footsteps grew closer until a man emerged into Ethan's line of sight, a taller pale man in a suite and seeming to glow with red and blue. He walks past the man before him and turns off the TV, still roaring in the background. After that he stands up straight, readjusts his jacket and walks over to Ethan, kneeling in front of his paralyzed body on the couch. "Hello, nice to meet you, I'm sorry if this idiot scared you, he's just not good with introductions."

Ethan slightly jumped at the man's offer to shake hands. A sweet calm smile was on the man's face and Ethan calmed down a bit, allowing his legs to move away from his chest and a shaky arm to reach across and shake his hand. His grab was very gentle and he released quickly.

"Who..." Ethan looks from one to the other, slightly fearing they'll say what he expects them to.

"I think you know that, I mean who else could we be, right?" The man in the suite stood up and readjusted again before gesturing to himself with an open hand, "I'm Dark, and this," He places a hand on the other's shoulder "is Anti."

"O...kay," Ethan sits up a bit more, slowing becoming more confident with his words, "but...why are you here...why do you exist?"

"Well you don't think Mark and Jack came up with this idea themselves? No no we've been with them from day one, pushing them on the paths they were destined to be on," Dark smiles and looks at Anti, "as for why we're here, well, I suppose it better wait til' morning."

"Morning?" Ethan glanced at the clock on the kitchen counter 1:30am, "Oh." He slowly got up from the couch, leaving as much room between him and the demons as possible as he made his way to the hallway. He wasn't really sure if it was the shock or the drowsiness but he couldn't bring himself to do anything about the two now, he didn't even care what they did to him when he slept, he just had to trust them and go to bed.

Hello, guys I'm the author and this is my first story on here so go easy. I hope anyone who reads this likes it, leave a comment with suggestions for what the three can do together, or how you think it'll end. I'll try and get a chapter out at least every couple of weeks, so stay up to date! thanks for reading and g'bye! <3