Homecoming Pt 2: Firestarter

The shadowed and bloody body of his father was staring right into Adrian's soul. He was smiling at him, a terrifying wicked grin of desperation and chaos. Adrian took two steps backs and bumped into his mother's corpse, Adrian looked behind him at his mom.. God.. who did this? ... Charly...

"Oh.. your mom is surely glad to see you back, Son."

Adrian turned back and saw his father now standing up barely 10 inches away from his face, he could smell the sweat, the blood and even the hate emanating from him.

"It's all your fault you know.." The dark figure, once a father, said.
"They came for YOU!, they found us instead and they decided to give you a surprise, by torturing us for 3 days!! you fucking bastard!"

Dirty fingernails pierced Adrian's neck as what remained of his father clutched his neck and strangled as hard as he could. Was his father always that strong?

Adrian grabbed his armpits and pushed hard while turning his neck to lower the pressure off his wind pipe, he then did a quick jab to his father's right side but he did not even flinch. Precious oxygen was starting to be sorely missed from his body and his vision started to get a little blurry.

"Hah! You trying to tickle me? boy?!"

Adrian tried falling to the floor and that movement made the hold give in a little, enough for him to use his legs to try and make his father fall to the floor too. He went for it but his father's pose was steady and he could not make him give in.

"You.. I should have killed you back then! You made us all suffer and now we are all DEAD! DEAD!!!", his father spat at his face, eyes full of rage.

He remembered the guns he carried and quickly pulled one from his holster, he did not want to alert Charly or the others of his presence but his own father was choking him to death.. he knew his father should not be usually this strong, he was a retired accountant for God's sake!

He shot once into his father left thigh to put him off balance, his knee buckled a little bit but he still held his stand as if the pain was non-existant. A maniacal laugh started to emanate from his crazed father's mouth.
His grip getting stronger and stronger and Adrian's consciousness getting weaker and weaker.

Adrian raised his gun and tried to aim at his father's arm, surely that will lessen the hold. He pulled the trigger and sure enough, his father's grapple lessen. As Adrian's vision came back he could see a bullethole underneath his father's chin straight up to another hole on the top of his head..

Adrian gasped for breath as his father's dead body fell to the floor. There was no moment to waste, he had to find Aria! He looked to the dark house and now saw lights inside.. fire! Someone started a fire! Aria!

He took a brief moment to see his mother's corpse and to rest from the experiencie and sadness merged with his fear and anger.. 3 days of torture.. what had he done? Why didn't he warn them? No time for regrets, time for action.

He started to run towards the house when the sound of a bullet being fired was heard and he instinctively ducked and zigzaged, three more bullets came and missed. He quickly determined which window was the bullets coming from and fired widly at it, hoping for a hit.

He used his right shoulder to bash the backdoor in and went into the kitchen, he saw Leo ready for him and they exchanged bullets. Pain bursted from the left side of the abdomen and Leo fell to the floor with a shot to the chest, he could hear him gurgle as he leapt above his dying body and into the living room.

He found Steve, his pistol ready behind the couch, they exchanged bullets but Adrian was too fast for him despite the spreading pain on his side, Steve's head exploded as one bullet pierced the right side of his forehead.

He could feel the heat coming from upstairs and saw Charly at the front-door with a smiling grin like he just pulled the biggest prank ever. Adrian shot all the bullets he had left in his direction but Charly was already out the door.

In the distance, he could hear him shout,
"Nice try long legs! I hope you like your gift! hahahahahahaha!!"

A girl's scream came from upstairs and inmediatly Adrian's heart sank, he ran and ran, half of the upstairs was engulfed in flames now. The screaming continued as he bashed his sister's room door in.

"Happy anniversary, Adrian, my love"

Leonora shot twice into his chest, blood spurted from Adrian's open mouth. Leonora? Why was she here? Aria? I hope Aria forgives me...mom...

Adrian fell to his knees and looked to his chest and he then looked once more at Leonora, he could hear sirens far away and a car being started over the crackling of the fire. Leonora smiled at him and started to walk towards the door where he was kneeling at, he fell face down into the room and she just walked over him, her heels nailing into his back. Last thing he saw was the wedding ring he gave her fall to the floor besides him.