The spending days of my enjoyment alongside these new faces I've met, I know I was having fun but that cave always came back to mind, it always felt like something was calling for me and it always came from out of the darkened cave where the sun doesn't touch.

I wasn't sure if it was just me dearly missing my sister that much or because I felt at home in that cave of memories, so I chose an option and that was to explore the cave once again after I was starting to be fed up with this constant thought of the cave.

It took me a while to separate from a group where all of the attention was on me for some reason and immediately started chasing off into the woods where nobody followed me at all. When I approached I felt the same fresh aura of peace and happiness as I stepped into the cave to stare at the pictures of my sister.

This is what I always wanted and I finally had the moment to visit the path of my sister's mysterious missing, I started my investigation once again as I scanned all of the pictures trying to find any clues on why she disappeared so dramatically out of my life.

"There doesn't seem to be any signs of stalkers in these photos in and out..." I whispered to myself, itching my chin consciously as unmarked answers swam around my head. Then a picture of me and my sister along with my family perked my interest as I pulled it off the wall to look at it more clearly.

Of course, I felt merely insane with this weird instinct that crunched inside my lifted stomach every time I looked at both of my parent's faces, yes, they were smiling happily but something about it felt off. Their eyes didn't synchronise with the wide smiles that they portrayed to the camera standing behind a gleeful Althea pulling a peace sign to her cheek with her left hand while the right hand was messing my hair up.

But when I was about to pull out my phone from my pocket to see if the question I was asking is answered truly, I heard a slight distant whisper be played very close to me, almost like the whisper was inside the cave with me. I drifted my head behind me with a smile thinking it was just Lia playing around with me, when I turned my eyes in the direction of the whisper I saw nothing, my confident smile dropped drastically into a firm serious expression.

"Maybe I misheard something," I reasoned with myself before I pulled out my phone to look at my empty gallery where there were a few pictures of my parents smiling, I matched the pictures in my gallery with the picture I held in hand and saw that the eyes in the gallery photo felt more sincere and more realistic while the ones on the Althea selfie photo felt more forced and faked.

"Why would they fake-" I went to say but was interrupted by a loud rip of a collapsing tree, I flinched from the massive crack of the tree falling in front of the cave shooting out its leaves past my narrowed feet bending into each other. Seconds afterwards, I uncovered my face from my raised arms and looked at the fallen tree knowing something was up and that something was a dangerous situation I fell into.

But I didn't want to believe that at first, I stood out of the cave thinking of reasons why the tree fell, I found where the tree fell to my right and looked at its roots seeing it was ripped off from some monstrous force. I squatted downwards and wrapped my arms under the bottom surface of the tree to see if I could lift it, while I tried lifting it I felt my energy drain from exhaustion and felt my hands started to sting from the spikey regions of the slim tree.

Eventually, I slammed myself onto my butt and took deep breaths to catch the air of my suffocated lungs and flickered my eyes up into the sky to see the blue waves of the sky be poisoned by the infections of white splashed clouds that had no 3D textures to its exterior outlook. I kicked the tree with frustration as I shook my hands trying to avoid the stinging by adding the pressure of the cold wind brushing across my sensitive skin.

As I was spending time resting peacefully, the sounds of a snapping leaf gained my attention again as I snipped my head around finding nothing was watching me. I scoffed to myself and thought it was just wildlife of bugs and animals trying to avoid me out of fear.

"Sister, today I've learnt that I am a wuss that gets scared at everything. Feel free to laugh at me because I am laughing at me right now," I snickered loudly, pushing my fringe out of my face to see more of the foliage nature.

"Avenge..." A deranged voice whispered behind me, once I got the hang of what the whisper said I felt myself strangle with unstoppable fear when the smell of disgusting foil death flooded into my twitching nose. My heart started thumping insanely fast as I couldn't have the strength to move one inch of myself to look at this thing that stood right behind me.

Strings of rotten blonde hair tingled down my forehead when a horizon of a pale, distorted face with eyes leaking black ink came into view, his rotten knotted hair tangled past his boney face structure as the veins in his head popped out onto the skin with the darkest black I have ever seen. This figure's leaking black eyes reached my pink skin and I started to feel the skin of my face go deeply numb and dry with the stains of black seizing away my lively skin.

His hands were grey and had long sharp nails which were being used to curl around my neck, once his freezing hands fastened around my frozen neck, he began to squeeze with the intent to murder me and I couldn't do anything when traumatized by disheartening dismay. My throat had a bittering pain from the devilish digging of this monster's blackened sharp nails, I didn't even feel the blood pour down my body because I was just so numb.

"You killed me..." The voice of this monster spoke out with a weakened male voice trapped with insanity, as he spoke his words the horrible smell of his breath touched my face with a clear view of his rotten yellow teeth that were about to plummet at any time.

"Why...did you murder me?..." The boy howled out, twisting his head around with every part of his bones cracking loudly as he tilted his head to get a better view of me. His eyelids never blinked once in the span of what felt like hours of staring at me while stabbing his intense nails into my neck, torturing me for an eternity.

I wanted to answer this thing, but I began to lose all the hope I had left when I felt myself be filled with warmth as my eyes began to shimmer into blackness with my body becoming a limp corpse that was dying. It was when I met her again, I met her again...

Wait...Did I meet her again?

I questioned myself if I was just becoming insane when I saw a glimpse of my sister's small layout kick off this monster that was about to kill me with an unknown force of a shockwave banging against my eardrums as Althea's eyes glowed bright blue into my discoloured vision.

"Aaron!" My sister's angelic voice echoed with shattered sadness.

Ah...my sister's voice...was always this amazing to hear.

To Be Continued...