DOARS- Week 8 Day 6- Ending an Era

Welcome back everyone!
As a point of interest, the majority of this chapter happens at night, so most of the pictures are dark, sorry!
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Dear Diary


Today is going to be epic. Before I go to bed tonight, I'm going to have my parents back! Nothing else matters; it's my last day of school, whatever; today is the prom, I really couldn't care less; I will be a legal adult as of tomorrow night, who cares?


I have the cure, and tonight when I save my parents I'll be striking Tony with his final blow. The war will be over, the alien civilization will be saved, the universe will be right again.

It really does seem too good to be true, but I can't start having doubts now, this is going to be quite possibly the most important thing I ever do with my life. I'll need to act quickly, probably, and decisively, maybe. Ok, I really don't know what I'm going to do. I know I have to throw the potion at the ground and a cloud of the cure will encompass anything near it, so I just hope my aim will be good enough.


Not really wanting to leave the outcome of tonight to pure wishes and hoping, I decided to become as prepared and fit as possible. I spent a few hours before school working out. I'm completely sure that it will help me be prepared, but it might. Will I need physical strength? I don't know, do you know?
Didn't think so.


School and prom were the same as normal. I mean, prom isn't normal, but there wasn't anything remarkable about it. I was voted prom queen, got rejected for a dance by a guy that was marginally attractive, made some killer dance moves and pretty much just waited until dark when I could go out and find my parents in the light of the ominous full moon.

Rommich called me just after 10 to let me know that he had a pinpoint on my parent's location. They were at SimHenge. SimHenge was located in the unpopulated and most mysterious area of Sunset Valley, no one went there, except for maybe the odd gem or bug hunter... and crazy people. If something weird was going to happen (outside of the graveyard), it would be at SimHenge. I shivered at the thought. I think Rommich could tell. He offered to come with me, but I rejected him; this was something I needed to do for myself. They were my parents, and bringing my family back together and striking down Tony weren't things that I wanted to share. Tony had destroyed my family and there was no way that I would let anyone who wasn't me destroy him.



After what felt like hours of running, I arrived at my destination. In front of me my mother was rising from the ground as only the dead do.



My father followed suit.


It was horrifying. I'd seen zombies before, alien zombies, but seeing my parent's decaying corpses and the soulless look in their eyes will probably haunt me until I die. Every inch of my body wanted to flee, run away, and just forget that any of this ever took place, but I couldn't. My determination was rock solid and stronger than any instincts of fright that might try to overtake me.
There was no time to waste, every moment that I hesitated was another moment that they were in Tony's grasp.


With a hands shaking from fear and adrenaline, I dashed the potion to the ground between my dead parents and a cloud of smoke filtered up from it, small at first, and then it grew and overtook both of the deformed creatures. This was it.

Under the pale moonlight I waited for hours as the molecules in their bodies came back to life. Every second felt like a lifetime, but it didn't matter, the agonizing wait, the worry, the rapid pounding of my heart, everything would all be worth it. I would have my parents back and finally Tony would be no more.

The universe would be safe again. Finally.

To Be Continued....
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I stopped it there, because everything that follows is technically Week 8 Day 7, so the continuation will hopefully be posted tomorrow! :)