Chapter 10

Medium: The Origins finds a young man setting out to avenge the death of a beloved family member and to recover forgotten memories, only to find himself with a new case and a unknown assailant on him.

Ashley’s eyes are set on the front door in front of her. Standing with fear, she is back inside the house her friends tricked her into going and scarred her. “Come on Ashley, you can do this. You don’t have to stay here for long, just grab your bag and get out of here.”

          She slowly reach in for the door knob, while stuttering her hands. She twist and opens the door. She slide her head in to see through the shadow. The light from the hallway is enough to shine the shadow inside the room to unveil her bag. “Okay, just grab the bag and get out of here.” She walks in slowly. Despite the bag being close to her, she can’t help but look around the area while closing her eyes trying to shut her sights out. As she was grabbing her bag, she hears a rough snarl. She has no idea where it is coming from. She use her flash light app but her phone runs out of batteries and shuts off. She lights up a lighter and clears the shadows to see what is lurking within the shadows. She slowly backs away as she holds up the lighter to her sights. Veined eyes shows itself to Ashley, and her fear begins to grow. Her hand is shaking uncontrollably. She drops the lit up lighter to make her way out of the house and fast. She tries to open the door, but even when it’s unlocked, it still won’t budge. Veined eyes emerges from the closet, and Ashley was brought down on the floor by her own fright. She backs away as means to stay alive, but her hopes were lessening when looking at the eyes of Marlene. As if this isn’t worse enough, the fire from the lighter starts to spread onto other areas and grow into ginormous flammable flames. She begins to feel the heat of the fire, and the fear of Marlene. She can already feel death approaching her fast. She tries to get her mind to think of something else to die peacefully at least, but her mind is plagued with many images of her death in bloody fashions. All she can do is cover her face within her legs so she doesn’t have to see the terrible sight.

          Oof, I barge in and bump Marlene out of the way just in time. What the hell, there’s a girl here. She showed her face to me. Ashley, is that you?

          “Who are you, what are you doing here?” She ask.

          “I could ask you the same thing, come on, we got to get out of here.” I pick her up and drag both of us out of here. As we are making our move, Marlene comes out of nowhere behind us and start tailing us.

          “Can you please move faster she’s gonna get us.” Ashley pleads.

          “Wait, can’t you move?”

          “I injured one of my legs.”

          “Then hold on to me and hop on one foot. It should help us move faster.”

          “I’ll try.”

          She hops on one foot at the same time holding on to me. As every second passes by, our speed increases by a little but enough to run away from the ghost. We are close to the back exit, and as we make our way through, an explosion bursts and separates us apart. I land on the floor that contains the burning heat. I try to get up, and notice Marlene floating above me. At first, fear burst inside of me, but I decide to shove it out and face it. I get to face her, only to find out she was gone. While I can’t see her, I need to get those files and get out of this house as quickly as possible. I run up the walls to the second floor. I make my way through the burning branches that drops inside the house and jump through every broken gap. I grab the files from the drawers and make my way out of the window. As I get out I don’t look, I don’t stand, and I don’t run. Not now. I lay down to catch my breath. I turn back and I see Ashley lying on the same grass as I am. Both of us are safe. Our ears catch the sound of the sirens.

Author's Note

Medium: The Origins finds a young man setting out to avenge the death of a beloved family member and to recover forgotten memories. He shuns himself from having a normal social life for the sake of vengeance. Just when he thought he ran out of leads, he was involved in an incident which leads him to start a new case. This particular investigation changes him greatly while he is being hunted by an unknown assailant whose victims never got to see before they met their doom.

Note: This is my first book and I plan to write more. Criticism, praise, or any feedback of some sorts are welcome.
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