The Beautiful Monster

Chapter 204 - Connection

"Elias!" Alyssa's voice echoed throughout Elias' head over and over again until his eyes opened.

He was back in the hotel room, panting and sweating in bed once again as another nightmare ravaged his sleep.

He felt Alyssa's hands on him, and he automatically flinched away, remembering how her corpse grabbed him.

"Elias, it's me!" Alyssa said, frowning at him.

Elias drew in a deep breath through his nose, calming himself as he stared at her. She was real.

The nightmare was just another nightmare, or was it? It seemed so real, and he remembered every single detail of it. Alaric had reached out to him somehow.

"Sorry. I'm sorry," he said, knowing that he had freaked Alyssa out once again.

He was tired of having these nightmares that kept growing worse and worse. He couldn't even find peace in his sleep.

"It's okay. What happened?" Alyssa asked him, looking worried as she stroked her fingers through his hair.

"Alaric talked to me through my dream," Elias told her. He knew how crazy that sounded, but it was the truth. It wasn't a normal nightmare. He wished that it was.

Alyssa stared at him in shock.

"How could he do that?" she asked him.

Elias didn't know the answer to that, but he had a feeling maybe Melina might know. Things had been going so well for the past two days. Now, things were bad again.

If Alaric could reach him through his dreams, he could possibly be close to them. That meant that they needed to move now.

Melina narrowed her eyes in confusion as she sat next to Alyssa on the sofa.

"I didn't," she replied.

"I think it was meant for me. Alaric used it to talk to me," Elias explained.

"You talked to Alaric?" Scott asked. Even he looked alarmed.

Elias nodded as he paced slightly between them. He hardly even knew where to start. The nightmare seemed like a fever dream at that point.

"He basically wants to take over humankind, let the supernatural reign free. He'll control what's left behind after everyone tries to kill each other," he replied as he shook his head. He couldn't let his nightmares come true because everyone that he cared about would be dead.

"Yeah, we knew he was up to no good," Scott said from one of the lounge chairs. "What else?"

"He's ready to fight us," Elias said as he turned to look at Melina. "He's not scared."

"I didn't expect him to be. We'll have to prove him wrong," Melina replied as she rose to her feet.

"He said that he'll see us soon," Elias added, which was probably one of the most anxiety-inducing things that Alaric had said. How soon? Was Alaric right around the corner, or did he just say that to make Elias nervous?

"Might want to step on the gas, Tyler," Scott sighed as he shook his head. "We're screwed."

"No, we're not. He's just trying to scare us," Melina said pointedly. She looked over at Elias. "He made a connection with you somehow. That was the only way he could've gotten into your dreams."

"A connection? How could he do that?" Elias asked. He didn't like the thought of having a connection to Alaric. If he could get rid of it, he would do so.

"There are multiple ways. Did anything weird happen before you went to bed?" Melina asked him as she eyed him.

Elias' thoughts immediately shifted to when he fell outside before bed. That had to be it. Somehow, that had to be connected to Alaric and the nightmare, but he didn't know how.

"I think something knocked me down outside of my room before I went to bed. I don't know what happened.

I felt something weird on my neck, and then I fell and was dizzy," Elias explained to Melina, hoping that she could somehow make sense of it.