13 13. Will The Horrors Ever Stop?

Chapter 13

After some time, Ryela found herself walking down an endless way of hallways not sure where she's at. Right before she took a turn, a familiar face caught her eye. And there stood sweet MaryAnn in the corner chatting away with some new rescued kids. Then in that second, all of the negative emotions Ryela was experiencing slipped away just a bit as warm, fuzzy comfort came in. She slowly walked down the hallway to her still having just a little fear, but again, her attention was caught by a painfully sharp voice that rang terrors in her ear. She turned around to reveal infuriated Jake striking a kid; causing the kid to hit the wall behind him and fall almost completely unconscious. Ryela watched in alarm as he turned around in her direction. His fierce, terrorizing eyes connect with Ryela's as he shook his sore hand and let out a scoff. Several petrifying emotions ran through her body shaking her very core as Jake walked down the narrow hall to her. 'This isn't good...' Ryela's thought to herself as she gulps down in fright. Every step he took, another awful memory quaked deep in Ryela. Soon her thoughts began to intertwine with fear making the worst possible feelings overtake her body.  In fright, she tried walking away; closing her eyes harder in each step she took just desperately trying to wash away the scenery

-Woosh-

A small flame shot by Ryela like a rocket and swerved in front of her face, soon sizzling away in the mist. She flinched back in fear and stopped in her tracks.

"Hey, princess," Jake smirked as he chillingly walked up to Ryela.

Ryela kept her eyes low as her fierce foe faced her. But something very unusual hit Ryela deep in her spirit, and she lifted up her eyes. "Don't call me that…" she said in a slightly shaking tone as an unwanted picture flashed her eyes.

Jake let out a scoff and rolled his wrist, "Since when did you think you can tell me what to do?"

Jake's vigorous attitude cut straight through Ryela's confidence causing her to shudder.

"What? Now you can't defend yourself, Ace?" Jake instigated with a taunting smirk.

Ryela began to rub her wrist where her restraints were and her body started to faintly shake.

"Hey? I asked a question," he raised his voice as he reached out for Ryela.

"And she has that choice of answering," MaryAnn interrupted stepping in front of the scared girl and stopping Jake in his taunt, "If she chooses not to, then you have to get over that… because Ryela does as she pleases."

Ryela gave an appreciated look and took and a few small steps back. Jake's shot his eyes away from MaryAnn and huffed out a breath.

"Don't think I didn't see your little act between you and Miss Hart at dinner the other day…" MaryAnn began as she pulled out her phone. "And what happened right now to that boy…" she said glancing down the hall at the slightly cracked wall where the kid was punched.

Jake gulped down in fear as MaryAnn typed in her phone.

"I guess I won't have to wait later to tell you… You've been suspended from training time until we see improvement in your attitude."

"What?! You can't just do that!" inveighed Jake, "This prick over here is the one that takes fights she can't win! She's the one getting in my way!" he protested, firing a deep glare at Ryela.

"Well if you keep acting like this, then no one will be in your way as I take you to the Main Office," smirked MaryAnn. "Now do I need to make myself clear?"

Ryela stood there in shock at MaryAnn's sarcastic comments as Jake stormed off in rage.

MaryAnn took a deep breath and wiped her forehead. "Jeez, kids these days." MaryAnn joked, "So are you okay? How've you been? I heard about your friends leaving for World-Interface…"

Ryela's face lightened up at MaryAnn's eagerness to understand her. "I'm fine… thanks to you, Ms. MaryAnn. I-I'd call you by your last name, but I-I don't think I know it…" she trailed off looking at the ground.

"Oh, now...what did I say about all that proper name stuff?" MaryAnn questioned with a soft face and sweet smile, "You can call me whatever makes you feel comfortable. Unless calling me by my last name does make you comfortable, then its Waver."

"O-oh, okay. I forgot about that," Ryela chuckled mildly.

"Well, I have to get going and catch up on some work. I know you can't train but there is still fun stuff to do"

"Like?" Ryela blurted out in sarcasm.

MaryAnn gave a soft chuckle and explained, "Well we have a beautiful mountain landscape to go enjoy... a nice and calming pond to take a dip in. I'm working on a nice garden later, after work, if you would like to help? And also, you can go explore the woods, within RGST limits..." she added giving a mischievous eye towards Ryela, causing her to snicker.

"Okay… I may check out the garden thing later…"

"Sounds great! I'm planting a blossom tree right in the middle, so we can work on that first if you're up to it."

"Ok." Ryela agreed as MaryAnn left. Which left Ryela standing there with a rather happy heart. Then after a split second of going over what happens, she made her way out of the hallway and into training fields.

By this time it's about three in the afternoon, leaving Ryela a few hours till MaryAnn is free from office work. So to occupy her time, she walked around a bit and watched as the kids trained. She found a nice little spot under a tree and sat down. She leaned against the tree and gently rested her head on it. Being filled with aches and pains of both physical and emotional stress, she closed her eyes and took a deep, steady breath. Slowly, the noise of the kids training, the beautiful sounds of nature, and even Ryela's own breath dialed down to the note of a whisper and her subconscious went blank. The image in her mind was white, stimulating peace in her body as she took another steady breath.

-Flash!-

For only a split second, that calming blank scenery turned into a heart throbbing, dark canvas that made Ryela squint her eyes in pain.

-Flash!-

"Y-you,"

A horrifying voice thundered in Ryela's mind, and the word 'you' kept on ringing in her ears as the dark image flickered repeatedly. So she closed her eyes even tighter forcefully trying to wash away the horrors.

-Flash!-

"Y-you... r-really... th-think-"

The voice again echoed terrors in her ears making her eyes began to cry boiling hot tears. The mixture of the hot tears and Ryela's cold skin made the tears evaporate into to smoke almost instantly, as they made their way down her cheeks.

-Flash!-

"Y-you... r-really... th-think... you can run?"

The familiar voice straightened out as the dark scenery showed a man. His image glitched and flickered back in fourth with the blank image Ryela had before. This shadowed man slowly walked up to Ryela, still flickering on and off. Soon the picture was clear and the man's voice was strong.

"You really think you could run..."

He said again getting closer to Ryela.

-Bam!-

In a flash, the man clenched petrified Ryela's throat and began to slowly and painfully crush it as he finished is taunt,

"You really think you can run..."

He growled as he leaned close to Ryela.

Scared Ryela struggled hard as tears gushed out of her eyes. She attempted to grab to the man's hand that was holding her throat, but her hands fazed through and all she felt was her own burning neck where the hand of the man was. The man leaned right into Ryela's ear and whispered,

"You really think you can run... from me?"

And again his voice echoed screeches in her mind.

-Flash!-

Like before, the man was standing in front of the girl without a hold of her neck as the picture flickered on and off.

"I will always be inside you..."

The man haunted her as he slowly faded back into the dark.

"Always..."

"No!! Ryela screamed in her vision, as she took hold of her ears. But the cold stoned man just kept chanting those words over and over as it rang tortuously again and again; making her mind excruciatingly spin around in a circle. Leading her to the feeling...as if, her mind was being forcefully torn apart memory by memory, thought by thought, pain by pain....out of her soul.

So in response, Ryela dropped down to the floor and she took hold of her stomach in misery. Then she slowly shifted her hands and squeezed her ears. Finally, in her dream, she let out a screeching scream that was loud enough to crack the foundation of the nightmare; she screamed for all of it to stop...the pain, the taunting, the horror...everything… To the point she wanted to die. So as she yelled for mercy, thick crimson blood dripped out of her eyes as tears, and they rolled down her cheeks.

-Flash!-

"Even to death!"

-Bang!-

"Ah! Oh, my-...o-.. m-" Finally Ryela snapped out of her nightmare having complete loss of words, and all she could do was sob. She huffed huge breaths and lets out several tears. She grabbed her head and squeezed it tight and then clenched her heart. She slowly made her way to the dirt ground and tiredly dropped her head on it.

And there was Ryela in the fetal position on the ground just like in her dream. She let out loud obnoxious sobs as she laid there in distraught. She exchanged between crys let out, and deep breaths in, as she lay there having an extreme mental break down.

No one was around hear her call of distress because she was too far away from the courts. So she laid there in a pool of tear... alone...

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~AUTHORS NOTE~

I was going to post this yesterday, like I really wanted to lol. But, I decided to just post today, so I can post every day. I'm not promising I can everyday post, but if I can then yes. So hope you like this chpt... It was really hard to write and was physically burdening cuz of so much emotion I put in it, so I hope you like it! Trust me the next few chpt will be less tragic... But yeah thxs for reading and stay tuned!