Her heels clunked against the ground as she continued walking up the now silent hall, with her collar still buzzing loudly around her neck. "This is annoying." She spoke to herself while placing a hand unknowingly at it, which shocked at the tip of her fingers, but she still didn't take her grip off against it. "They had to tighten it like this?"
The fearful monsters had seeked into a hiding spot, while trying to deduce a way to attack back. And this information wasn't something that Aefia had failed to catch a long while ago. They ran without looking back, because they knew that would be time consuming with their wet bloody footsteps causing them to slip every now and then.
"Well...?" She laughed while following a trail of blood across the floor where broken tiles seemed to have cut through their flesh and drained them. "Who are the ones hiding from the monsters now? Me... or the monsters and ghosty pals that wanted to hunt me down and kill me? I find it funny now..." Her steps came to a stop in front of a room door.
Once inside the chamber, one of the nurse-like monsters hid behind a CT scanner. They trembled in fear as they watched the pale complexion of the human walking inside with a bloody scapel and a simple stars and moon hair clip. Her completely dark, souless eyes scanned the room, then fell to the large machine at the centre.
That was the last vision they got while squatting back down into their hiding spot. They held their hands out in front of them and the flesh turned into a few surgical instruments which were all electricuted at the ends to make the damage more persistent and painful. But just when they stood up to throw them into the air in front of the human...
"Oh hello! Are you lost?" The girl's voice appeared from behind as she puntured a scapel into their skull, causing blood to spew out instantly. "I didn't know... monsters had a mind! This is interesting!" A joy lingered against her voice as she picked up the dropped sharp equipments and clenched them with bloodied fingers.
Then, her eyes immediately turned towards the closet, a few more red footprints. "I would say this once only... it's better to step out now then to have me find you. I won't run behind you if you try to escape... but if you think fighting back is the better choice... I will let you suffer in pain." She spoke while taking slow and precise steps towards the wooden closet which was fully covered in white paint.
Before she could reach her hand out to open it, the door of the closet slammed open and a bloody hand shot out from the inside with an intense speed, which fell to the ground with multiple splattering sounds. The scapels at her hand had blood dripping from the edges as she flashed a smile with the half of her face shadowed. The pieces of flesh were in shreds at the floor as she used her shoes to squash them entirely to the ground, which avoided the monster from regenerating the lost hand.
"That was fast... but not fast enough." Lowering the blades, she reached her hand to grab onto the scalp of the monster with a pair of hollow replacing the eyes. "Weren't you the one? Who set up this collar?" She asked with a smile while dragging it out of the closet and slamming it to the ground with a loud 'thud' noise.
The same hand reached onto the chin of the monster as she pulled it towards her, as the monster seemed to have become completely powerless in front of a normal human. "If you want to stay alive... tell me how to deactivate it... otherwise I will turn your entire body into cubes of meat to feed the dogs..."
"I don't know much about the collar!" It threw another claw at her face as the scapels turned them into thin pieces that looked like fillets instead. "I don't think... that you don't know. Because you are the one who set it up... you know how to pull it out too." She grinned at the monster with souless evil eyes. "You have now lost two hands... you will lose your two legs next if you continue lying like that." The scapels between her fingers shined brightly with the only ray of light directly reflecting against the way blood dripped to the ground.
"It's not like you are not going to die soon either!" The monster shouted as it noticed the way darkness took over her dark green coat at the places she had been wounded. Due to the layers she was wearing, not much could be seen with the way blood poured out of her body. A single line of redness fell from the side of her face as she smiled, making her more scarier to look at.
"I didn't say change the topic... I asked how to deactivate this device." She stepped onto the fallen hand and the monster shrieked loudly with the pain. "If you are not going to speak... I promise I will have to end you now." Her voice rang calmly as she held her hair clip, at the center of her fist, in the air and gradually lowered it.
"I don't know how to deactivate it! I only know that the maniac can control it at most!" It spoke out in fear and panic as it held out the two arms as a defensive action. The sharp edge stopped mid-air as it lowered down to her side and her gaze shifted to the monster's face. "Go on... speak. Don't waste my time. It's valuable." She added when the monster remained silent for a long time.
"The... maniac... is..." It started speaking, while hesitating with each consequetive words. "He... is..."
"Did I say stutter?!"
The monster looked up with a fear at her face as she shouted, and looked down to the ground where blood fell from its hands. "The maniac crafted that device to make sure more victims can be found for his experiments." The words hung in the air like toys as Aefia stepped back and let light reach the monster's face. "And you don't know how to deactivate it? Then did you have it on when you were captured?" She asked, thinking she was probably getting somewhere.
"Yes... we were..." Recalling the memory fragments, it slowly shoke in place. A void, a very long time, and intense pressure against it's body. "The experiment changed us... we were subjects to a very gruesome experiment where the maniac forced us into an abandoned house... then an abandoned room... then... a tight cabinet." The words fell out without a concern of being found out. "I really only recall until that part... and nothing more than this."
"That's alright as long as it was helpful... but I still don't know how to deactivate it." Aefia spoke while turning around. "But before that... I have an unfinished promise to carry out. So please don't dissappoint me." Saying this, a scapel landed directly at the centre of its throat as blood spewed out and painted the ceiling red. "That was... absolutely fun while it lasted." An unwanted laugh escaped her mouth as she sprung open the door and walked out with the new lines of informations in her mind.
My dream... was it the same maniac the monster was speaking about? The thought spent a long time inside her mind as she walked around the abandoned hospital, looking for a way out. Blood stains covered the floor she walked as her hunt for monsters flung to the side and her only wish now was to get out of that abandoned side of the hospital and to the more blood, stained and newer side.
On her way, she found a few sterile bandages inside a tidied drawer and tied one tightly around her waist and another around her shoulder while also leaving room for one more around her right palm. The excess of the white bandage was left stained in blood and hanging at the ends, which she couldn't cut off that easily, with the threads causing much disturbance and annoyance for her. If she was successful at cutting one, another would be resisting the rest from falling, so she had no other choice but to leave it that way until she managed to find a way out. But precisely... She didn't want to find a way out.
Her intend for killing, when it had been awakened, it won't stop as long as she had finished what she really wanted to do... And right now it was to find out more about the maniac... and what this specific experiment was. She dropped her usual scapels and went for a few new ones, while sneaking a few alcohol pads into her pocket to clean her hair clip after she left this place. And rubbed her shoes very hard against the rug, until the red sole was shiny again.
Stepping out, a new line of blood stain seemed to have appeared, and it gained her curiosity to follow it. Walking back, she found the place where her blood had stained the ground and her fist had collided with the broken tile, and breathed out heavily.
I did seem to have changed a lot in the past month... and I have gotten weaker too. Until just then, I didn't come to the realization that I was the reason why my mental health had depleted. I also didn't know... I started to think myself weak ever since Ms. Avry died and I lost the battle against the Guardian of Silence.
Her hands reached out towards the door knob, and twisted it. However, it didn't trigger the door to open, as if it had a key, but only she didn't have the time to try and find it. "What a shame..." She trialed off while stepped back a little and slammed her elbow into the glass that was embedded to the door. It as big enough to fit in, so she leaped into the gap and continued following the trial.
"From what I seem to believe... they thought I would be dumb when it came to this matter. That the blood stain was a paranormal activity, where it is already cleared enough they all are hiding into the far side of the building. So there must be another human involved into this... to lead me to somewhere... and locked these doors to consume my time." She spoke to herself as a smile settled against her pale face still half covered in blood.
The trail then led her back into the subway station, with the lighting issues and the crackling of the torn wires and electrostatic noises at some places. The word abandoned... at first glance it may seem paranormal, well exactly at every case it means it's somehow related to paranormal entities if it has a place name added to it. With the abandoned subway, this proved the point... and allowed her to learn that at some cases, ghost can also be paranoid by humans.
The airless and dust covered underground service seemed to be newly build with the way it had its paint absolutely scarless if the blood splatter stains were not there, the walls would give off the age of the building to be about maximum five years old. Her fingers traced the walls as she walked with the stains, it lead her somewhere, or something in particular that would be helpful to her.
Her heels cluttered against the silent room, with the hopes to be able to meet with something possibly connected to the exit. A part of her silvering hair was dyed red with her blood, and crunched with the dryness as she walked. To think she had been running such a long distance just to bump into a much more terrifying monster, it was a totally failing idea to think of right now.
I wish... I still had my skills actively running... I could have run a simulation of the next scenario and prevented this from happening... just what is it about this subway which causes every aspects of my element to malfunction? Even the curse... It feels too light to believe it still exist. Her eyes diverted towards her fingers, partially stained with blood, some hers while some that splattered onto her when she was killing those monsters.
A few monsters who didn't move to the hospital part of the station came running her way with their claws bared and their mouths wide open and roaring. "I am tired of handling cowards who don't know how to fight." The words escaped her mouth as she flung two scapels at the ones closest while continuing her track with the blood stains.
Then, a smile dropped onto her face as she sprinted forward where the monsters were now running the opposite direction. "But it's also fun killing the weak ones!" She spoke while stabbing one directly at the back of their head and immediately pulled out her hand as her sleeves became drenched at the hems, and used the same hand to strike the other one directly at the side of the neck.
Both bodies fell to the ground as she walked past them, her shoes cluttered against the tiles as blood got smeared with her soles again, covering the floor with her footsteps. "It was fun while it lasted... I am assuming there are no more, now that my collar has stopped buzzing." Her voice echoed through the lonely corridors, and as soon as it did, the door which she had found the destroyed bed and met the young girl who turned into a monster, swung open.
This time, she was determined to fight back as her fingers wrapped against the handle and yanked it forward. But by the time it took her to understand it, an invisible force pulled her forward and she plummeted into a void, while it was only because her eyes were shut.
She hit concrete with her knees and opened her eyes to find herself looking sideways then up. She seemed to have fallen into a ventilation pipe the size of a slide and looked up to see a small lined barrier connected to a completely different room, and with a sneak peak... Her mind echoed. I am inside the same house that I was in... inside my dream...