Chapter 121 120 : Blood Line
Chapter 121 120 : Blood Line
The tornado tightened around the cabin.
Wood groaned. Nails snapped. The entire structure began lifting under the pressure of the storm.
Then the wind burst inside.
The remaining boards on the roof tore free with a violent crack, and the force of the tornado rushed straight through the cabin.
Everything lifted.
Chairs, broken glass, splintered wood—
And people.
One by one they were ripped off the floor and thrown into the swirling wind.
Ash grabbed the window frame but the force tore him away, dragging him upward into the spinning funnel.
Enid lost her grip on the support beam next. She clutched Lucy tightly as both of them were pulled into the air, spinning helplessly as the storm carried them upward.
Wednesday reacted instantly.
She pushed off the table and let the wind take her, angling her body through the storm instead of fighting it. The violent current pulled her into the air where Enid and Lucy were already rotating through the funnel.
Wednesday reached out and grabbed Enid's arm.
For a moment the wind tried to tear them apart.
Then Selene shot upward through the storm and caught Wednesday's other arm.
Now the four of them spun together inside the tornado, forming a human chain while the violent winds threw them around like leaves.
"Ummm… if anyone has a way to get out of this, I wouldn't mind," Enid shouted over the roaring wind. "Even if it's gross!"
The tornado spun them higher, the world below turning into a blur of trees and shattered wood. The force of the storm kept pulling them upward while debris whipped past at terrifying speed.
"I'm considering several unpleasant options," Wednesday replied, completely calm despite being inside a tornado.
Selene looked down at the chaos below and then back toward the massive face forming inside the storm.
"If you have one," Selene said, gripping Wednesday's arm as the wind hurled them around, "this would be an excellent moment."
"Where is Ethan when needed?!" Enid shouted as a wooden splinter shot past her face, missing by inches. Her grip tightened around Lucy. "I really don't want to die in a tornado!"
The storm roared louder.
Then Selene's mouth moved.
"Ummm… sorry," Selene's voice said—but the tone wasn't hers. "I'm currently imprisoned."
Selene's eyes widened slightly.
Her mouth had spoken on its own.
"…What?"
"Ethan?" Wednesday asked, completely unfazed despite spinning inside a tornado.
"Yes, it's me," Selene's mouth replied. "It seems that guy came here to mess with you while dragging me somewhere else. But I managed to find a way to communicate."
Selene frowned while her lips continued moving without her control.
"Why is my mouth doing this?" she asked.
"Because you're the only one connected to me right now," Ethan said through her. "Your blood is linked to mine. That connection works both ways."
"Then stop talking and start saving us!" Enid shouted as the tornado hurled them around again. "Conversation later—survival now!"
"…Ummm, yeah," Ethan replied through Selene.
At that moment a red mist began pouring from Selene's body. It seeped from her skin like vaporized blood and immediately mixed with the violent winds of the tornado.
The spinning funnel reacted instantly.
Instead of continuing its wild rotation, the storm shifted direction. The wind twisted sharply and began turning the opposite way as the red mist spread through the entire vortex.
The gray tornado slowly turned crimson.
Inside the swirling storm the enormous distorted face controlling the winds appeared again, but now the red mist wrapped around it like chains.
Long spikes of hardened blood formed inside the vortex, stabbing straight through the face hidden in the storm.
The creature shrieked as the blood pierced it again and again.
The entire tornado began collapsing.
The violent winds weakened, the spinning funnel shrinking while the red storm twisted into a thinner spiral. The massive tornado transformed into a narrow red twister before dissolving completely into drifting mist.
The group dropped.
Instead of crashing violently, the remaining red vapor cushioned their fall and lowered them gently to the ground.
Ash was not so lucky.
He slammed face-first into the dirt with a loud THUD while broken wood, branches, and debris from the tornado rained down around them.
Clattering pieces of timber hit the ground.
Glass shards bounced across the dirt.
A chair leg landed nearby with a hollow CRACK.
Ash groaned, pushing his face out of the mud.
"…Okay… that sucked."
Meanwhile Selene stood still for a moment as Ethan continued speaking through her mouth.
"Hmmm," Ethan's voice said thoughtfully. "So this is what a woman's body feels like."
Selene's eyes slowly narrowed.
Through her own mouth she forced control back for a moment.
"You have one second," she said coldly, "to stop being a pervert."
Behind them another piece of roof debris dropped from the sky with a dull THUMP.
"Okay… no need to get angry," Ethan said through Selene's mouth, sounding more amused than apologetic. His curiosity had simply gotten ahead of him.
Selene's expression hardened.
Wednesday ignored the exchange.
"So where are you?" she asked.
Selene's lips moved again.
"Currently trapped in another dimension," Ethan replied. "That Dark One threw me here so I wouldn't interfere."
On the other side, Ethan stood at the edge of a cliff inside the cemetery realm. Cold wind moved through the endless field of graves while the sky above remained dull and lifeless.
He rubbed his cheek and looked around the place again.
"Can you help me out?" he continued through Selene. "I really don't want to stay here for a month."
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