Capítulo 40: Wake up to reality, happy endings don't exist
[ Christina pov ]
When she was asleep, the sight of her sister being torn apart by demons and eaten by dogs haunted her, whenever she woke up the excruciating pain forced her to scream, while the demons in the fire laughed at her. Right now Christina was asleep, dreaming with blood and broken bones on a hill while she was tied up to a tree. The pain the ropes caused on her skin slowly grew, making her wonder if this was truly a dream or perhaps she had already woken up. Her arms began to burn because of the ropes which were tied too tightly.
Looking in front while trying to ignore the pain, Christina saw Thalia once again, her body covered in wounds while the monsters kept going at her mercilessly, thing advantage of their numbers to avoid her shield strikes and get a piece of her to eat.
Christina opened her mouth and tried to call for her, however no words came out of her mouth. She began to move around in an attempt to break free from the rope that held her in place, however the pain in her arms continued to grow, until eventually it became unbearable, forcing Christina to stop her attempts and just stay in place, trying to scream her sister's name.
"Thalia!" screamed Christina, her eyes opening and her body rising from the bed she was currently in.
"Hold her down!" said a voice she couldn't recognise, however the pain she was feeling made her unable to focus on the sounds that went around or the unfamiliar environment she was in, instead she simply looked at were the pain was coming from, only to find an empty space were her arms used to be along with the hands of people she didn't know as they were opening what remained of her arms open and taking out small crystal pieces from it.
"Give it to her!" said another voice while holding tightly her head and opening her mouth. Someone else moved fast and pushed down a small cube of amazing flavour, however she couldn't enjoy the taste as the pain made her unable to focus on anything. The confusion inside her grew as around her demons started appearing, made out of fire and laughing at her.
"Thalia!" she screamed once again as the laughter and sounds grew louder. "Sis!" she continued screaming, countless hands pushing her back down into the bed. She tried to struggle, yet she couldn't push them away or grab something to fight. The laughter of the demons grew louder and so did the pain she felt, eventually forcing her to pass out once again.
Once the darkness greeted her, the nightmare continued were it left off, and once again she saw Thalia get torn apart by monsters while she could do nothing more than watch, the rope tightly burning her arms and her voice getting lost in the wind.
As time went on, the demons of fire began replacing the hellhounds and furies that devoured Thalia and in turn the hellhounds and furies began appearing in the room where the other people held her down and ripped her own arms open.
Countless sounds confused her senses while the change of scenery kept her mind unable to recognise her actual location. The words said by the hellhounds that kept her down mixed with the sounds of Thalia's bones being broken by the fire demons. The moonlight that shone on the forest mixed with the lightbulb's light from the tent she was in until it was all absorbed by the light produced by the fire of the demons that continued to kill Thalia over and over again.
Blood splashed on her face, every time the scenery changed back to the forest she would appear closer to where Thalia was dying, eventually she was right in front of her, pieces of Thalia's flesh that was ripped apart hit her body before being taken by the demons while the blood of both sister's splashed on the other.
The cycle repeated over and over again. At some point Christina began to loose sense of what was real and what was part of the dream until it all became a blur, where Thalia would get devoured and she would have her arms ripped open at the same time. The fire demons, the hellhounds, and the furies would all appear constantly as the scenery combined.
For what felt like an eternity, Christina found herself at the mercy of fate, her mind and sanity crumbling as the laughter, the roars and the screams drove her mad.
"Shut up!" she screamed as tears flowed down through her cheeks. "Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!"
The fire demons' attention shifted from Thalia to her while their laughter increased. Christina didn't notice when it happened, but at some point the hellhounds and furies had disappeared, leaving only the fire demons and the strange people in her mind.
Christina tried to scream once again as she felt her skin being ripped apart by the fire demons and looked out for Thalia, who now was tied to a tree with burning ropes. Christina felt her skin being burned and ripped apart by the demons as they continued to laugh.
"It hurts! Thalia! Save me sis! It hurts!" screamed Christina while tears flowed out of her eyes as she looked at Thalia.
The fire on Thalia's ropes extended and began consuming her entire body, slowly extending to her face and changing her expression form a pained one into a smiling one. Thalia, who by now was nearly completely covered in fire, began laughing wildly as she broke free from the ropes and came closer to Christina, who was still being ripped apart by the the demons.
"No! Thalia! Come back and save me!" screamed Christina, refusing to recognise the new fire demon as her sister.
Thalia got closer and joined the fire demons in ripping Christina apart as the pain kept Christina's mind numb.
Seconds, hours, years, Christina spent what was an eternity screaming in the forest, calling out her sister's name in hopes of seeing her return to what she used to be. Thalia continued right next Christina, caressing her body and letting the flames consume were her fingers touched.
Christina spent eternity watching Thalia's smile turn from a kind one into a laughing one as the demons slowly broke her mind.
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Author note:
The strange people Christina talks about are the ones performing the operation on her.
Anyway now is time to explain everything that happened here in case it was confusing. Christina was under surgery, where her arms would be cut open, because of this she felt like she was being 'ripped apart'. In her mind this is how Thalia must have felt, so she eventually began feeling like she had exchanged spots with Thalia, so she was the one being ripped apart by the demons while Thalia was tied to a tree.
Well, I feel like this chapter might have been confusing because it all happened on Christina's head as she took different events and kind of merged them together while loosing a sense of which one was the present and which one was the past, let me know if you didn't understand something else and I will explain it.
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