My Savior (On Hold)

Chapter 32: We're Gonna Need a Spotlight pt2

The Woods

Hope, Landon, and I were walking to the woods to get Dorian as quickly as possible to make sure he didn't get infected by the slug, once we made it up to him, he was just staring at the unicorn, "Mr Williams, we need your help Dr Saltzman's been MIA and this creepy slug came out of my ear" Hope explained

Dorian turns around to look at us and Landon and I both look at him suspiciously until he lifts up a jar containing a messed up slug, "Did it look like this?" He asked us causing me to sigh in relief

"Yep, exactly like that" "That's the one" Landon and I tell him
"This one tried to get into me. I was hoping it was the only one, I think our harmless friend the unicorn walked on the school grounds to infect us" Dorian says ask just a s he does the unicorn freaks out before dying right before out eyes

"See harmless" Hope says as I let out a shaky breath grabbing onto her hand

Community Area

Hope, Landon, Dorian, and I were looking at a bunch of books trying to figure out what to do and how to find out who was infected, "Okay we have no idea how long the unicorn was infected before it keeled over so we should figure this out right now" He tells us as we keep looking through the books
"I though only one monster comes for the urn at a time" Landon states

"Except the unicorn wasn't the monster, it was just the host to that thing" I say before pointing at the ugly slug as Dorian nods in agreement

"A parasite, it must have arrived here in the Trojan Horse and then it moved onto us. From what Hope describes its sounds like it latches onto the pre-frontal cortex, yet part of the brain associated with inhibitions" Dorian finishes off using the technical terms

"So I was slug drunk?" Hope asked dumbing it down making me quietly chuckles

"We have multiple slugs, it must replicate inside the host and wait for the opportunity to infect someone else" Dorian further explains making me scrunch my nose in disgust

"I'm good on the gory details, thank you" Hope says while shutting a book

"So how do we stop it?" I asked Dorian
"That's the weirdest part, I can't find any ancient legends about a creature like this" He says and Landon starts to look at us like we are crazy

"Invasion of the body snatchers, the faculty, I say again Wrath of Khan. SiFi is our modern day myths meaning they could have been inspired by something right in those movies. It's all about mind control before the slug popped out, Abby said that Hope wanted to take the urn some place, I'm guessing malivore" Landon states and it actually makes sense as to why what happened today happened

"So it's like an infection, it gets worse as it spreads. Stage one it lowers your inhibitions, it makes the person act out of character. Stage two one your open o suggestions you'll do whatever the slug wants" Dorian says and Hope picks up the slug as we start examining it closely

"Until stage three, you are the way of the unicorn" Landon finishes while I'm still looking at the slug

I notice something about it, "Did you see this part of this thing looks bio-luminescent" I tell Dorian and he grabs a black light and grabs the slug from us, pointing the light only for it to glow really bright

"Whoa" Hope, Landon, and I say at the same time

"You see that" Dorian says and then points the flashlight at Hope

I turn around and look at her wide eyed seeing a trail near her nose, "I don't want to know do I?" Hope asked when she sees our reactions and we start taking out heads