CHAPTER 50: THE HORROR

Mellon helped me find where Eric was, and we found him being strangled by the smoke.

He's fighting, but none of his punches could hit anything but air.

"Eric!" I screamed for his name, and it called the attention of the dark entity holding him.

"Ack- Allen, r- run!"

His face is turning pale, and in no less than any second, he will lose consciousness.

A blinding light occurred at all corners coming from Mellon's hands. The white smoke spread everywhere, conquering the darkness the entity brought with it.

Lifting my arm before my squinted eyes, I saw it disappear, and eventually, Mellon withdrew his power.

Eric fell on the floor, weak and pale.

"Eric!" I ran to him and knelt on the floor.

When I touched his face, I hissed from his burning skin. He's as if he bathed himself with lava, and his skin became one with the burning stones.

"What's happened to him?" I exclaimed as I watched him becoming weaker and weaker by the second.

"Half of his soul had been taken by the darkness," Mellon an