Cult Of Vecna ( Eddie Munson )

Chapter Thirty-Two - Wake Up! April!

The two groups had both finally made it to Eddie's trailer, April sighed heavily feeling slight water on her chest still "Right here." Eddie spoke riding in front of the group and pulling up at his trailer "That's gotta be a Guinness World Record. Most miles traveled interdimensional." Robin spoke as they all got off the bikes and headed inside April walked behind the rest of the group coughing "Just inhaled a bunch of that crap." Steve spoke letting out a cough too " It's stuck in my throat." Steve spoke as he let out another cough as the group headed into the trailer, April stopped just outside as she leaned over and began coughing feeling whatever was on her chest come out but due to the darkness didn't know if it was water, dust, or blood which after all of this could have been anything. She stepped in with a deep sigh before being grated with the large red gate "Goddamn." Steve spoke shining his torch into it, "This is where Chrissy died. Like, right where she died" Eddie spoke in a mumble as he looked, pulling April to his side who was still coughing a little, "I think there's something in there." Robin spoke in an almost whisper as they watched it begin to move "What the hell is that?" April whispered stepping slightly forward, suddenly the gate pushed open dropping liquid all over the floor with the whole group squeaking as they moved away from it. They watched as what looked like a wooden stick pushed through it opening the gate, Steve began to walk towards the now hole looking up into it with April close behind, Nancy holding onto her shoulders "No way." Steve whispered as he looked up as the group moved closer seeing Dustin, Erica, Lucas, and Max on the other side "Hi there." Dustin spoke with a laugh as he waved up or down to them. "Hi." April spoke in a slight cough as she waved "Baby are you okay, you keep coughing" Eddie spoke in a dull whisper looking at her as she just nodded back "Hi." Steve spoke at the same time as Nancy and Robin, "Holy shit, this is trippy." Robin spoke as Dustin's laugh echoed through Eddie's trailer on both sides "Bada-bada-boom!" He shouted within his laugh

Dustin was currently trying to make a rope using Eddie's bed sheets, While Lucas and Max brought his mattress out and placed it under the gate. "Those stains are, uh... I dunno what those stains are." Eddie spoke causing April to let out a laugh as she nodded "Erm... I do" she spoke feeling his hand squeeze her shoulder laughing only causing her to laugh louder. "Mmm," Robin replied looking at April as she laughed trying to escape his grasp. Dustin stood on top of the mattress as he looked up to the group on the other side "Not quite sure how these physics work. But, uh... Here goes nothing." Dustin spoke as he through the make-shift rope through the gate holding it up "There we go. And if my theory is correct..." He continued before letting go of the rope as it held straight through the gate "Huh. Abracadabra." He spoke in a slight chuckle as he watched it hang without anyone holding it "Holy shit." Max spoke as she stood watching it work as if magic "All right, pull on it! See if it holds!" Dustin spoke as he watched Robin grab onto it and pulled it down without it moving on either side causing him to laugh again "This is the craziest shit I've ever seen in my life. And I've seen some crazy shit." Erica spoke in amazement at the current situation "Guess I'm the guinea pig." Robin spoke as she began to climb it the best she could "Let's clear the landing pad." Dustin spoke as he watched her climb up moving back so she could just fall onto the mattress, as she climbed making her way through the gate she lost her grip causing her to hit the floor "Oh my God! Oh, thank God. That was fun." Robin giggled as she lay on the mattress back on the normal side of Hawkins. "All right, guess I'll go." Eddie spoke as he began to climb "Easy, Easy Baby" April spoke as she watched him before making his way through the gate also landing heavily "That was fun. shit." Eddie spoke as he stood up brushing off his leather jacket. April moved her hand to let Nancy go before her, April wasn't loving the idea of falling after everything they had been through today, so she watched as Steve gave Nancy a leg up before she began to climb making it onto the other side with a light laugh.

April looked at Steve who smiled at her feeling the exact same as her "See you on the other side." Steve spoke as he held his hand out to give her a lift up the same as he did to Nancy, "On the other side." She spoke with a sigh as she griped on and began to pull herself through, she got to the other side and let go ready to fall onto the mattress but ended up somewhere else falling onto the hard floor of Starcourt mall "Fuck me" She gasped as she hit the ground pulling her hands straight up to her head before turning and rolling over as she began to stand to her feet seeing the mall in the upside-down with thick vines covering every wall, She spun in a circle taking it all on before she realized where she was. "April. Hey! Hey! Stay with me. April! Hey! April, wake up. Wake up! April!" Steve shouted holding her face in his hands as he stood her head trying to get her attention, the group on the other side standing back onto the mattress watching as April stood, still with her eyes clouded "Vecna." Max spoke as she looked at Eddie seeing a look she hadn't seen before, one of horror. Eddie had seen two victims of Vecna's die and to see his Girlfriend like that he thought she would end the same way. He stood still, almost frozen. April stopped when she saw Billy, mangled and tied up in vines against the wall of the mall. She walked closer before she realized and felt herself drop to her knees. She had found Vecna or more as he had found her. She stepped back smacking straight into one of the beams before hearing his voice echo down to her "Do you remember what you did, April? Or have you already forgotten? When I kill someone... ...I never forget." Vecna spoke as images of Billy's death flooded her mind, she always felt guilty. Like Max, that she should have died, not him, not Billy, Not Max but her. She gasped as she watched as the fire began to bloom from the other side of the mall forming shapes of Billy.

April started to climb the stairs to the first floor of the mall, away from Billy, away from the fire before finding herself at the top of the stairs in the broken Creel house. She stood taking it all on distant sounds of screams echoing through the thick red fog, she began to walk down the stairs as sounds of clocks began to play around her "I see you've been looking for me, April. You were so close. So close to the truth. How was old, blind, dumb Victor? Did he miss me? I've been meaning to check back in, but I've been busy. So very busy." Vecna spoke as she made it to the bottom of the stairs seeing the mangled bodies of Fred, Chrissy, and Patrick. She continued to look around before being met with the door, the stained glass window for the creel house with a light singing behind it as it opened the world-changing and putting her inside the Creel house in 1959 the day Victor had bought it. She watched as Victor, Virginia, Alice, and Henry all entered through the door all holding the same look of hope, "What'd I tell ya?" Victor spoke to his wife who smiled happily "Wow." Virginia spoke with a happy sigh "This is amazing. It looks like a fairy tale. A dream." Alice spoke as she came through the door and began to run up the stairs "Alice, no running." Virginia spoke as Alice continued to climb the stairs "It's so big!" Alice replied before disappearing onto the first floor "This is nice." Victor spoke wrapping his wife into a side hug "Yeah." Virginia spoke imagining all the memories they were about to make "Yeah." Victor replied as April's eyes shifted to his son, Henry who stood in the corner of the room unhappily.

"Like you, I didn't fit in with the other children. Something was wrong with me. All the teachers and the doctors said I was... "Broken," they said. My parents thought a change of scenery, a fresh start in Hawkins, might just cure me. It was absurd. As if the world would be any different here. But then... To my surprise, our new home provided a discovery. And a newfound sense of purpose. I found a nest of black widows living inside a vent. Most people fear spiders. They detest them. And yet, I found them endlessly fascinating. More than that, I found great comfort in them. A kinship. Like me, they are solitary creatures. And deeply misunderstood. They are gods of our world. The most important of all predators. They immobilize and feed on the weak, bringing balance and order to an unstable ecosystem. But the human world was disrupting this harmony. You see, humans are a unique type of pest, multiplying and poisoning our world, all while enforcing a structure of their own. A deeply unnatural structure. Where others saw the order, I saw a straitjacket. A cruel, oppressive world dictated by made-up rules. Seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades. Each life is a faded, lesser copy of the one before. Wake up, eat, work, sleep, reproduce, and die. Everyone is just waiting. Waiting for it all to be over. All while performing in a silly, terrible play, day after day. I could not do that. I could not close off my mind and join in the madness. I could not pretend. And I realized I didn't have to. I could make my own rules. I could restore balance to a broken world. A predator... But for good. As I practiced, I realized I could do more than I possibly imagined. I could reach into others, into their minds, their memories. I became an explorer. I saw my parents as they truly were. To the world, they presented themselves as good, normal people. But like everything else in this world, it was all a lie. A terrible lie. They had done things, Eleven. Such awful things. I showed them who they really were. I held up a mirror. My naive father believed it was a demon cursing them for their sins. But my mother somehow knew. Knew it was I who was holding up that mirror, and she despised me for it. She called a doctor, an expert. She wanted him to lock me away, to fix me, even though it wasn't I who was broken. It was them. And so she left me with no choice. No choice but to act. To break free. With each life I took, I grew stronger. More powerful. They were becoming a part of me. But I was still a child. And I did not yet know my limits. And it nearly killed me. He was arrested, and blamed for the death of my sister and mother, just as I had planned. But I was far from free. I woke up from my coma only to find myself placed in the care of a doctor, the very doctor I had hoped to escape. Dr. Martin Brenner. Papa. But the truth... The truth is he did not just want to study me. He wanted more. He wanted to control. When Papa finally realized he could not control me, he tried to recreate me. He began a program" Vecna spoke or should I say, Henry, Peter, or even One spoke.

He let April see everything, his life, His suffering, how he completed all of this, how he killed rabbits, how he killed his mother and his sister, how he almost killed himself, and how he created blame on his father for killing them, how he was given a number, how he was used for Dr. Brenna, how Eleven created him now,

Vecna.