Chapter 75

KIRA:

“It’s the substance,” I say with my gaze still fully fixated on the spot Kelvin has his eyes on. Well, it did not come as a surprise to me because I was already aware of what killed my parents.

I stand upright a little while later and look at Kelvin who cannot seem to take his eyes off the thing. And to be honest, it made me wonder if he had fallen into a hypnosis with the way he was acting.

“Is this what you think we might find in here? There’s nothing special about this.” I say to him and then walk away from there to go check on something else.

Even after a minute or so, I realize that I have not gotten a response from Kelvin which makes me look back at him. And to my surprise, he is still looking down at the substance.

It was at that moment I knew something was wrong. How could he still be standing in the same spot since and be staring at the same thing? That was awfully strange.

“Kelvin?” I decide to reach out to him by calling his name. But when he does not respond to my call, it instantly installs fear in me. What in the world is going on here? That was the thought that rampaged my mind.

I call his name once more but still no response. Now I am caught up with no idea of what to do. Should I keep calling his name or should I go touch him and break him out of whatever reverie he has fallen into?

I know he is still here with me because I have fixed my mind on his heartbeat to see if I would hear anything from it and I sure did get something from that.

Seeing that my options were not looking good, I reach for the link with Alexia and ask her in a panicky voice, “What do I do?”

‘I think you need to tap him. I think he might have fallen into a hallucination since he already mentioned that it happens to him as well.’

“Is that the only thing I can do now?”

‘I think so.’

I take in a deep breath as I start to prepare myself to walk up to the stagnant Kelvin. At the back of my mind, something is telling me that it is a bad idea to go meet him but since Alexia said it was okay, I guess there was no harm in trying, right?

Slowly I take my steps toward him. It feels like the hardest task I have ever found myself involved in a long time. Maybe it was a sign that I should not get on with it. But what do I do in place of that?

The moment I am within arms reach, I hold out my hand toward him. Then with all form of composure, I tap on his arm slowly. At first, I get no reaction from that which makes me try again.

He suddenly shakes his body and I could swear that I felt an electric current pass through me when that happens. It makes me take steps backward in fear of what might happen after that as I watch him come back to life. Except I thought it wrong.

He slowly lifts his head. But he is not looking at me yet. I wish he could because I need to see if he is fine. I should have not wished for that at all.

When he looks at me, my soul instantly escapes from my body. The sight that I am met with is not the sight that I would expect to see from a sane Kelvin. This is not the dude I came here with.

He looks terrifying. That should be an understatement because I cannot point out the right word to use to describe him. Geez, this was making me go insane already.

His eyes... Yes, his eyes. They were pitch black. Both of his eyeballs had nothing that could make me call it something sane. I cannot even find the exact word to use to say what they look like but it seemed to be something that could be linked with being in a demonic state.

I first collide with the table behind me as I try to find my way around. I need to get out of here as fast as possible before he starts to make his way to me. There was no way I was going to try talking things over with someone in this state.

The crashing to the table instantly gets his attention. Because what he does next is take a step forward and I could swear, I felt like my lungs were not working again.

What is the pressure coming from him? It was like I was being choked by something. I have no idea how to even withhold myself from preventing the pressure from coming to me. It was even starting to make my legs wobble. Probably why I could not make a proper stance.

Seeing him come at me makes me start to opt for an option of leaving as soon as possible. I start to ransack my way through but suddenly I get stopped on my track.

I quickly realize what resulted to that because I was now being choked by something. Let us just say that I have a huge hand on my neck that was about to strangle the life out of me.

Kelvin has gotten to me with no idea how. I did not even see him move at all which is why I have no say in his movement. But what I know is that he is not being friendly at the moment. Hell, he is about to kill me.

With his hand still on my neck, he lifts me up from the ground. Now I have to find a means to breathe properly as I am hanging on the air. I try to kick against him in the process but it is futile while it seems I am kicking against the air.

When it almost feels like I am going to give up the ghost, the possessed Kelvin suddenly shoves me off. But it was not a simple one because the shoving has me crashing through the building, landing me right on the ground with a lot of pain shooting through my body.

I scream out at how much pain I could feel from the impact of being thrown against a building. It might have been wooden but it was still not a good feeling for me. And I can swear that I wish I had not come here in the first place.

I try to get up but my feet feel distorted. I quickly take a look at it to see that it has been severed from how much I had taken not too long ago.

As I am figuring out what to do to save myself from this, I see Kelvin standing next to the part of the building I had crashed through. And the next thing he does is jump right down through it.

He is coming at me first now but this time around I think I can keep up with his motion as I stand before a hit lands on my face. I quickly counter with a hit of my own which hits him square on the cheek. With the amount of force I put in it, I am sure I could get him to subdue a little but to my surprise, he doesn’t even flinch.

Who was I kidding? How on earth would I be able to get a possessed being like him to be moved by my pony punch? I am in for a lot of trouble.

I have not even recovered from the surprise that came with not being able to get him to move when numerous hits start to land on my body. I could not keep up to even try to avoid most of the hits as they went through me at freewill.

What happens after I have been weakened by that is I find myself being lifted up in the air and then slammed to the ground. It does not stop there because I am instantly lifted up from the ground once more and slammed to the ground again.

The process repeats itself once more before I am eventually shoved away from there to quite a far distance away from him.

I can hardly feel my body now. Heaven knows I am in so much pain at the moment. I do not deserve this. This should not be happening to me. The fact that I cannot even fight back is what is making me feel like a weakling. And I hate it.

When I cough, what comes out of my mouth is blood. It was expected, knowing how much internal damage I have received. Wouldn’t be surprised if my bones have broken as well.

“Alexia... Is this how I die?” I find myself asking my wolf who has not even given me an idea on how to get out of this alive.

I hear her start to say something but I could not even get anything from that because I am straight up kicked right in the stomach, sending me flying away from where I am.