i reach my hand out to the other side of the gate gripping onto the side which was slimy, to pull myself out. i grabbed els hand and helped her climb out. i look around completely i shock that this is real and not a dream. "four!" my attention turns to el who is helping hopper and joyce fight off the small huddle of weird bats that were circling us in the air.

Me and el used our powers to throw the bat's to the floor and keep the others at bay. once we fought off the bats hopper and joyce look at us with anger, but they look thankful at the same time. "you guys ok?" i ask as they hug us. "as long as you are" hopper replies. i turn to look at what joyce was looking at. the rest of the group was stood by the gate. "i thought i said no kids" steve just smiled hoping she would forgive him. "JESUS H CHRIST" eddie shouts as he looks around stressed. we all look around at our surroundings. The air was cold like ice cold then I reflect on what will told me on that night.

He likes it cold.

i look over at eddie who is poking a bat with a twig with a look of disgust on his face. 

I spin around at the noise of someone shouting but i turned to realise it was Steve shoving a bat into Robins face.

My vision suddenly goes hazy as the others voices drown out. I felt my heart pounding against my collar bones. What the hell is going on? Did I turn around to quickly?

I carry on blinking my eyes but my vision wasn't clearing. "are you OK y/n?" I heard lucas say to my side.

I slowly nodded my head. "I think I turned around to quick" I lifted my hands to my face and rubbed my eyes. I loved rubbing my eyes it always felt amazing. When I opened my eyes again mg vision was good as new but lucas wasn't stood in front of me. I turned my head around my body soon following. But there was nothing around not even any bats.

I felt as if my heart was in my throat slowly choking me, taking away my breath. "guys" I soon managed to get out. "I'm sorry" I looked to the side of me where I heard the voice coming from.

It was vecna.

No no no I can't be in another trance. We are in the upside down. There is no music to save me. "wh-what do you mean your sorry?" I didn't know what confused me more. The fact that I was having a conversation with vecna or the fact that he just apologiesed to me.

He got closer and closer to me taking small steps. The squelching noise taking me back to what happened in the lab. "I'm not here to hurt you"

"then what do you want?" I suddenly blurted out. My throat was burning from where I was trying to not cry.

"I want" he paused taking in a breath that sounded like crackling fire. "I need to show you something"

I went to run but the vines wrapped around my feet stopped me. It's like he knew what my next move would be. Like he knew I was going to try and escape and how exactly I was going to do it. "please y/n let me show you" I had no choice but to say yes. It wasn't like I could say no, he probably would have killed me.

I closed my eyes feeling the tears fall from them. But when I opened my eyes again I wasn't restrained I was in a garden. The sun shining down on me filling my body with warmth. I didn't even have to look to the side of me to know vecna was there. I knew he was there because my nostrils where filled with the awful rotting flesh smell.

"What are you trying to show me?"  just then I heard a sound behind me. It sounded like a grunt, an angry grunt. "look. If you mess this up you will regret it". A man and a young boy stood in front of us. "why will I" the boy spoke back and I instantly recognised his voice. Henry creel.

Before I could say anything the man was raising his hand into the air. He gave and intimidating look toward Henry. "hey STOP" I walked over to push the man but I just walked through him. "what the hell" I whispered checking over my body. "they can't see or hear you. This is only a memory". I looked back up and the boy was suddenly slapped. The sound causing some birds to fly away. The man spat on the ground and walked back inside.

Young Peter took in a angry breath his fists clenching at his sides. He soon followed his father inside the large house. I didn't even care about vecna I just followed young Peter in.

The creel house was fancy. Chandeliers hung from the ceiling sparkling in the setting sun. The sun's rays also laid upon the floors which where made of what looked like oak wood.

"come on Henry, I put extra carrots on your plate" I heard a soft voice say. It was definitely a woman's. As I walked into the room i heard dream a little dream of me playing on the radio. Suddenly goosebumps formed on mg arms as a screeching sound filled my ears. A little girl who was sat opposite young Peter at the table was scraping her for on her plate. As she was doing this she was sending an evil smirk toward young Peter.

Peter rolled his eyes. Then came a thud and the cries of tge little girl. "mom Henry kicked me". The woman who I figured to be Peters mom, shot him a disappointed look as she rubbed the girls arm comfortingly.

"this was the worst night of his life" I shuddered at vecnas words. I looked up at him. He looked hurt almost broken at the scene playing out in front of us. But before I could even reply there was the sound of a chair scraping the floor. I looked back to see the woman was no longer in her chair but she was raised in mid air. My brows furrowed at the sight. Her arm suddenly shot backwards followed by a sound I could only describe as a branch snapping. I looked away not wanting to see anymore.

Then I heard the woman drop the the ground her hand laid next to my foot causing me to gasp. I only felt light headed and sick. I then heard the scraping of three more chairs but no cracks only footsteps.

Why had Peter never told me about this?

I fell to my knees ignoring the sudden pain that shit through them. I looked back up to vecna the world fading around us like dust blowing away in the wind. We where back to where we started. The empty lake.

"is this why you aid you where sorry" warm tears flowed down my cheeks the saltiness filling my mouth. "you are him aren't you" in that moment my stomach sank it finally all made sense. "YOU ARE EVIL!!" my voice echoed around us soon followed by thunder.

"you had so many opportunities to take my life and you didn't! Why was I the only one you couldn't kill?" he knelt down to me. His claw-like hand reached towards my face. His finger wiped away a tear. A clap of thunder filled the air.

Suddenly our surroundings changed again. We where in the lab. But we where in a room I had never been in before. There where jars filled with dirt but not regular dirt, this dirt seemed to have a mind of its own. It seemed to be reacting to the heat. I walked around to see more jars they where labelled with names.

'hive mind dirt'

'first flesh'- in the jar was what looked like a brain but more bloody and slimey

'head of a baby demogorgon'-in this jar was a head of some alien like creature. The head had four petal like shapes coming out of it all filled with loads of teeth.

"what is this place?" I turned towards vecna or Henry or Peter. I dint know what to call him anymore.

"it was created by brenner. He created this not me" he pointed at himself

"what do you mean?" another warm tear slid down my cheek.

"papa made vecna but vecna needed powers to operate when I woke up from my coma after being shot he baisically sacrificed me. Papa could control him at first but once vecna discovered the true amount of power he could take from me he disobeyed papa and took over"

I could hear slight bits of Peters voice come out. He was fighting against vecna to be able to tell me this. It was causing him pain I could tell from the look of discomfort on his face. "I can't fight agaihim much longer but please save me"

Suddenly it was all gone and I was in the void not in the empty lake. "GUYS" the words scraped my throat. "EL...EDDIE!!" I felt like someone was watching me sending shivers down my spine. "i had been in the void numerous times and never struggled to leave but this time no matter how many times I tried I couldn't.

"GUYS PLEASE HELP"