Jawbreaker Banshee--Chapter 5

This is the fifth and last chapter of Jawbreaker Banshee. But don't worry, the second volume is coming out very soon so stay tuned! Thank you for looking at this amazing  new work, I hope this one works out great unlike Century All Stars. -_-" Anyway, despite this, hope you like it! Thank you! --KatDon 

Chapter 5: The Ice Shrew Among Monsters

Madness. It was madness, insanity. Aynia and Clidna were on a small boat where they made a grisly discovery. There was people, all in various states of dismemberment. Most of the people were torn apart; one torso floated without limbs near two collided ships. The women on the other hand, seemed to have died from blunt trauma in the crash. They found a man was dead, his body looked like it had been half eaten. And Aynia touched his forehead and saw a disturbing memory inside his dead bodied, but living mind: He hits her again, harder this time. Her head rocks back; her eyes roll wildly. A wet gagging sound slides out of her leaking red mouth. She spits two molars onto the carpet. "YOU!!!!!" He shouted. He is sobbing now, his shoulders heaving raggedly between punches. The living room walls echo the dull meat market sounds of fist against flesh. She looks him dead in the eye and spits out an incisor, another molar, a canine. "Where is he? Where is my son?" This time the blow knocks her sprawling to the floor. She spits out two more incisors and a half-digested index finger. And then this thing that looks like his wife just stares up at him and smiles with a mouthful of impossibly sharp teeth. Aynia let go as she begin to feel increasingly uncomfortable. She managed to calm herself down as she and Clidna had to dig deeper. Then, they found bodies of three monsters and as she touched their skin, Aynia learned that they were once human: The three subjects were males, 22, 23, and 29. The subjects also swore to secrecy. The chemical was successfully administered to all three subjects. Within the first hour, all three of them started screaming in agony. After sedation, each subject had his left arm cut open with a scalpel and his right arm shot by a weapon. When the scalpel penetrated one of the subjects’s skin, it reacted with a dark amorphous solid substance filling the cut almost as fast as the skin was opened up. It sealed so fast that the scalpel was stuck in his arm. The injury caused by the blade was sealed by the dark amorphous blood within three seconds. After 84 hours, all three of the subjects started to act unusual. Instead of using the entertainment around them, they sat in their beds and groaned, as if they were sad or ashamed. After 110 hours, One of the subjects passed out. Blood tests could not be run because the blood was solid and amorphous. The only thing that was determined was the poison in their blood, which was at 5, was far more acidic than usual. The subjects were escorted to the test room. The three subjects looked far different from the beginning. The skin had turned to a shade of grey, and their skin looked noticeably thicker. 

Their eye colours have changed to pure black, and they were bloodshot. The experiment will continue as planned, but the chemical must be remodeled before repeating the experiment. Before opening fire on the subjects; the subjects showed inhuman strength. They immediately pounced on their attackers and used their teeth as a most effective weapon. Six armed men lost consciousness as their attackers touched their teeth to their skin. One’s arm was devoured by the subjects. Another set of two bodies were discovered and Aynia touched their corpses to find out what happened: Beira chose the macho looking guy who had tried to attack her to go first. When he walked in, the guy was more terrified than he had ever been in his life. Security strapped him into the long box-shaped metal frame. He was encased in what looked like a hollow cage without the extra bars in the middle, and two flat iron bars met in in the center of his body. Attached to their undersides were many small, sharp, iron spikes, suspended above his chest. A guard nodded at her and without warning, she pressed a button which suddenly lowered the two iron bars, plunging the spikes into the middle of his chest and abdomen. He screamed and clenched his fists as blood began oozing out, then turned his head to look at me. Beira raised my eyebrows. “I’ll only start when you’re ready. Remember, the longer you wait, the more it’ll hurt,” She reminded him. He breathed heavily, then turned his head back around to look at his bleeding body. Then he winced and looked away again. Soon, he wouldn't be like this anymore! The next day, There was a woman who was dragged into the room, screaming and begging. She shouted that she didn’t do it, and that she was innocent, but Beira was taking none of it. She signaled at security to strap her into the confinements. She didn’t bother to warn her. Slowly, Beira took out a syringe and a small jar full of bluish-yellow liquid. She closed the box then unscrewed the jar lid, sucking out a syringe-full of its contents. "No, please, don’t do this to me-" Beira walked closer, showing her that she was uninterested. She continued to sob and pant. “I wasn’t the one,” she whispered as she shook her head frantically. “I know who killed her, it wasn’t me! Don’t do it!” As the fluid entered her skin, her neck started to turn slightly blue, and her veins swelled up. She gasped in agony. Then Beira ran over to the laptop and started the timer. According to the measurements, she should be dead in around three days. Before they had to turn her body into the body of a monster!

One week later; Clidna begin to see less and less of her stepmother, so she went to see her but what she found disturbed her: There they were, humans......or what used to be them. All of them had abnormal body shapes, claw hands, and looked like naked humans but looked more violent. "What?" whispered Chloris, she couldn't believe it. "Stepmother!?" Clidna cried. Beira smiled at her, "Clidna, hi sweetie." "What the hell are you doing here?!" demanded Clidna. Beira's smile faded, "Do not talk to your stepmother that way!" She admonished. "Beira, Stop this now! I want you to be flat out honest and answer me--" Clidna admonished. Beira but cut her off. "I am only trying to protect you from these people." She said. "Those people are my friends, Stepmother." Clidna confessed. Beira looked at her with disbelief, then a smirk appeared on her face. "Friends? Friends?" She said, then she laughed at Clidna who looked down. She clenched her fists as she heard Beira clapping menacingly as she spoke to her, "All those bastards, They are feeding you lies, like your father." Clidna covered her ears, "Beira!" She shouted. But Beira did not ceased, "They tell you things They just want to brainwash ... They are demons, do not stay here. Clidna, you get your ass out there right now!" "No." Clidna said. Beira walked over to her with a rage look. "Are you talking back to me? Disobeying your own stepmother, I do not care how old you are. You are going to listen to me." She threatened. "Shut up!" Clidna screamed, a horde of banshees surround her and startled Beira. Clidna uses the banshees to keep them ready for anything. "I'm staying here, OK? Goodbye." Clidna ordered but Beira slapped her so hard that she fell to the ground. She tried to get back up however she was pinned down by her stepmother. "Stupid brat, why do deliberately defy me? Is it me?! You hate Mama Frost, is that it?!" yelled Beira, wrestling her to the ground. "Get away from me!" cried Clidna. "What happened to my sweet girl? Huh What happened to my beloved stepdaughter Where's my fairy princess?" argued Beira. Clidna clenched her teeth and shouted out, "Gone, Beira! She's gone, and she's not coming back!" Clidna moved away from her but then Beira seized her, "You're not going anywhere!" screamed Beira. Cassandra pushed her hand away, "Get off me!" She exclaimed, Cass turns away from her. "You cannot handle this!" shouted Beira. Clidna turned back to her, "Oh, I can't? I'm the one messed up, you're the one who is the cause of all that I am!" She bellowed, and stormed off. "CLIDNA!" Her stepmother shouted.

Meanwhile, the memories in Aynia's mind were played in her mind over and over again but more has expanded: That night, while in the garden, Clidna and Shovon lied together and fell asleep. While they slept; Shovon woke up as he is gagged and try to escape but was stabbed over and over again. Early in the morning; Clidna woke up to find Shovon was gone. She assumed he was gathering breakfast but then she noticed a strange thing red marks in the grass. Clidna followed the trail and stopped to make a terrifying discovery: Shovon's body was found all masses of blood over him, lifeless he was. Clidna screamed, tears streamed down her face and picked up his body; craddling it before going into the Village of Corbenic. During that time, Beira told the villagers to do what she told them to do. She shouted out, "HELP!!!! HELP!!!! HELP!!! SOMEONE HAS BEEN MURDERED!!!!" The crowd responded back, "There she is! The witch that put a spell on this boy!" They grabbed Clidna, who dropped the body of her lover, as she was whipped many times, tied her arms to her sides as they spin her and threw fruits, vegetables, and raw meat at her while laughing at her misery. It was so excruciating for Clidna, she could not cover her ears because her hands were tied up. The laughter, it was so loud and it was a lot of guffawing. "Make it stop, make it all stop!" Clidna thought. Later, Clidna learns the woman who was turned into a monster was a former friend name Sabia Nodens. She remembered seeing Aynia discovered the body of a woman found in her abandoned old house, she looked as if she had died from starvation and was surprised when she woke up with a frenzied as she was alive after all. She had been turned into a creature. There was bite marks on her and blood dripped down her mouth. Aynia managed to get away from the woman but as she clutched her bony skin. Then, there was a name by the name of Jane Pyxis, who was part of an experimented that her parents were blackmailed to. A girl sat in the bottom of the old dark well waiting for her parents to return. It had been hours since she had seen them and her stomach had begun to toss and turn from hunger. She hoped that when they came back they would be able to get her out. Some shuffling and noises going on above ground caught her attention, "Jane," Her mom’s voice call out. "We’re back honey." Her parents peered over the lip of the well. Jane’s father winced as he looked down to his daughter. She saw that her mother had been crying. Her father mustered up enough strength to speak. "We brought you some dinner. We know you’re probably hungry." Her parents struggled with the body of a man before they tossed it down the well to their daughter. The water level in the well was very shallow and the snapping noise that the man’s legs made when he reached the bottom startled Jane a bit. She could see that he was still breathing and semi-conscious, but she was so hungry. She looked back up to say thank you and ask her parents if today was the day she could come out of the well, but they were already gone. Jane could hear her mother weeping as her parents walked back into the house. And Clidna discover that Beira and her sisters had put Eitr in the ocean, where it reached the beach. Eitr was a deadly acid substance that would burnt the flesh of other people however Beira, Ernmas, and Maeve didn't care about innocent lives. All that mattered was to make more monsters from the experiments. 
"It's burning," A little boy said, cupping some of the water in the palm of his hand. "Of course it is son," His father chuckled. "You know the sun is beating down." Then, the boy exclaimed: "The water feels funny, daddy!" and flung the offending liquid onto the sand. The father came over and knelt down, leaving my paperback on the beach chair. "Daddy! The water, somethng is wrong!" The father could see tears forming in his son's eyes. "It's okay, son." The father said, as he took his little hand and felt the wetness of the ocean water on my fingers. It was warm, and tingled. The tingling increased and the warmth turned to a heat. The boy began to cry. And then, from down the beach, the father heard a scream. "OH MY GOD!!!" The father exclaimed. The man stood and squinted through the bright sun reflecting off the sand. The scream was joined by others from all around me and he could feel the terror of everyone on the beach becoming one rising wave of panic. He saw a young girl run in with the surf, screaming, her skin melting over her bikini. A portly man in a swimsuit ran in the water and fell. When his arms came up they were bone to the elbow, with great flaps of dissolving skin hanging like cloth. A young man pulled his tiny daughter in by the arms, dragging behind her the stumps that had been her legs. The father watched them come in, running, thrashing, falling, all of their skin melting from their horrified faces and revealing the white bone beneath. There were four test subjects also had large portions of muscle and skin torn away from their bodies. While the heart, lungs and diaphragm remained in place, the skin and most of the muscles attached to the ribs had been ripped off, exposing the lungs through the ribcage. All the blood vessels and organs remained intact, they had just been taken out and laid on the floor, fanning out around the eviscerated but still living bodies of the subjects. They continued to scream to be left in the chamber and alternately begged and demanded that the gas be turned back on, lest they fall asleep. One of the subjects died from having his throat ripped out, another was gravely injured by an artery in his leg severed by one of the subject's teeth. When heart was seen to beat for a full two minutes after he had bled out to the point there was more air in his vascular system than blood. And the girl that was dragging herself away? Well, that girl was by the name of Aibell. She was being tortured by Beira, who wanted to make her a monster but instead, the girl tried to get away however her arms were cut off by Beira. The girl managed to escape, looking for help. Until Aynia saw her. Emerging from the doorway. Hollow eyes. A flayed mask for a face. Ruined, fingerless hands, reaching forward. And so much blood. Aynia had stumbled back two steps, nearly falling over, before something in her brain kicked in and she sprinted for the elevator. Behind, she heard it croaking. And the scraping. Dragging itself after her. Aynia didn’t look back. She punched the elevator button over and over and over. Scrape. Then, mercifully, the doors opened, flashing a ray of light into the hallway. Aynia dashed in, hitting the wall, nearly weeping in relief. Then she realized that she hadn’t closed the doors. It was still crawling on. Inch by inch. Toward her. Aynia smashed her fist on the close button, and prayed. The last thing she saw before the doors closed were its eyes. Bloodshot. Lidless. Staring straight at her. 

Going back in reality; Clidna looked at the names that Aynia fought and realized Beira had sent them after her! She begins to recall times that Aynia had encountered them each: Groggy Aynia went to the window and shut it before going back to sleep but felt something strange was happening. She pulled out her gun from under her shirt and looked upto see a ray of light that irradiating. Aynia nearly jumped when she saw eyes looking back at her, they weren't regular eyes. They were black and creepy as they bore into her horrified face. The person with those eyes stepped out and revealed to have a long, horrendous smiled across his face, Aynia stared back with frozen fear on her face. The figure of a man stood watching her and said something of a way a maniac would say: "Shhh! Sleep my pretty thing." Then, the man pulled out a knife and aimed at the agent's heart. He jumped on top of the bed but Aynia fought back as they begin rolling around with Aynia kicking and punching. The man threw the knife, trying to aim it at her heart but instead, the sharp blade went into her shoulder. Just then, there was a knock at the door and a loud voice went: "This is the police, what's going on?" The killer turned and ran down the hallway, he went to the back door and broke it opened. Aynia watched him go as she would never forget those eyes looking at her, nor that grin on his face. Aynia told the police what had happened and they were still looking for the killer, she learned that the killer's name was none other than Chester Grindylow. Everywhere she goes, Aynia could see this tall, slender, horrible and faceless creature. It was beginning to haunt her dreams as it all it ever does is stand there, watching. Agent 146 feels watched, like she's not alone. Aynia research on it, this thing wasn't natural and learned about it the creature who is called 'Tall Man'. "Who the hell is a Tall Man? Could this be the stalking creature?" wondered Aynia. She was beginning to feel uneasy however she had to know somehow. She did some research on the Tall Man and digged up some research on the related cases about him. Aynia heard a loud thud as her light went out as she saw something cast a shadow in the total darkness, she could see the outline of a man and he wore a suit. He reached his arms up which turned into tendrils as they draped over the agent, covering her eyes before she fell unconscious. Aynia woke up with a gasp, looking arond as her light was on and sighed. She decided to research on the Tall Man even more and learned that his name used to be known as Noppera Kaufmann. On that night; Aynia was returning home and was trying to get some sleep when she turned and gasped at the sight of a naked man, or a large hairless dog of some sort. Its body position was disturbing and unnatural. For some reason, the agent was not instantly frightened by it, but more concerned as to its condition. Aynia scrambled around her bed and was completely silent for 30 seconds, looking at her. It placed a claw-like hand on her knee and ran out her room. 

Out of the house. Aynia was trembling as she couldn't sleep that night. She went to see her neighbor, where she saw a familiar creature in the window, hunched over and crouching while covered in blood. Aynia barged the door opened and went in but the creature got away! It ran out of the house, as Aynia rushed over to help her neighbor, who spoke his last words before he died: "He is....Rakshasa, they call him 'Rakshasa'." Aynia looked up and was shocked to see that the dog-man creature was staring at her before scampering away! Lewis Sypher grew up with several mental disorders during his childhood, making it difficult for him to fit in with other people. He was constantly bullied by his classmates for his tics and was ultimately deemed unsuited for a public school surrounding, so he switched to homeschooling. Although he received plenty of support from his mother and older sister Verona, his father lost himself to alcohol, drugs and gambling, and started abusing his family.When Lewis was 17, he and his sister were involved in a tragic car accident resulting in Verona's death. Lewis's symptoms started to worsen because of this; he lost his appetite for food, slowly began to lose his memories, and became even less social than before....Well, Lewis wasn't after her but still, he was abused by Beira. Aynia became very paranoid and she felt like something bad was about to happen to her. She could feel it. And it's giving her deja-vu as it seems. While walking; Aynia was scared to see small animals lying dead on the ground bleeding. She had a shocked and saddened look on her face however she kept moving as she begins to walk a little more with that worried look. As she kept moving, there were more dead animals as Aynia moved past them looking more and more worried She was shocked to see how they all died in rather gruesome ways; a puppy was hanged on a tree with what appeared to be his viscera hanging out, a kitten had all four of his limbs torn off and a bunny had his eyes gouged out and his throat slit. Aynia was running up a hill and then she stopped, there was a dark figure. Aynia walked closely toward the man. In a split second, Aynia saw the figure facing towards her with his eyes open and they were black with those red glowing pupils. He laughed as he said, "Hello Aynia. Do you want to play with me?" Aynia ran, looking scared out of her wits. Suddenly there was a creepy laugh, Aynia was seeing flashes of the creature popping everywhere, again with those eyes. He was behind Aynia slowly gaining up on her running! This time he had the most deranged looking grin on his face, he looked as though he was enjoying the torment he was giving Aynia as he gained up on her. Aynia tripped and laid there and started crying. But then the man appeared right in front of her and Aynia looked up in horror. Blood started to come down those blackened eyes of the man's as a grin slowly grew from his face as he looked down at the horrified girl. 

Just in a split second the man lunged at Aynia who let out a loud screeching. She wakes up in horror as she learns it was a bad dream and goes back to sleep. In the second nightmare, Aynia who looked afraid and a little unnerved. Then there was that maddening laugh came again. She begins to think, "This is just like my dream!" Aynia saw several bloodstains on the ground as she looked nauseated walking down this blood-stained road, still she kept going. As Aynia ran, the man appeared right in front of her with those eyes again, "Found you!" He said. Aynia tried to punch the creature, but the creature vanished in black smoke. Then the man appeared behind Aynia again and again, and the creature vanished again laughing. Aynia was panicking even more, she then fell to her knees and clutched her head sobbing. The creature lunged at Aynia who let out a distorted and terrified screeching. Again; Aynia woke up in terror and fell asleep. In the third nightmare; Aynia was walking down a hallway. The floor was shiny and checkered, the walls were a dark grayish purple with animated candlelight’s and a few dark bloodstains here and there, and there was a dark red curtain hanging above on the top part of the screen door. Then, the red curtain sways very slowly. Aynia didn't look entirely nervous like the other two dreams but she did have a suspicious look on her face as if she was just a bit paranoid. She went down a long flight of stairs leading downward, she seemed unsure of herself, though she pressed onward. Down the steps, Aynia noticed that the walls have gotten darker and more reddish; the red torches are now an eerie blue. The walls turned more dark red and the torches were a black flame now. Suddenly, the creature in black popped right in front of Aynia. The creature appeared before Aynia, startling her. "WHO ARE YOU?" demanded Aynia. The creature leans over and whispered, "I am every human's worse nightmare.. You bitch." It laughs and lunges at Aynia, who fights back. Clidna came to the rescue and took down the creature. Saving Aynia's life. It was over...Or was it? That night, there was a knock at the door. No one there. When she turned around, Aynia saw this guy was in her living room. Aynia tried to run out her back door. She only succeeded in falling to the ground. He looked down at her, held his bag out, and said, “Look in here, my darling.” When Aynia woke up; it was all a dream. 

But the worst was yet to come for what had in store for everyone else: It all started with a tanker accident. It was all over the news. Everyone thought it was just another oil spill. There were plenty of volunteers. Plenty of people wanting to help the poor defenseless animals. Plenty of victims. Within hours of the tanker accident, it started happening. The animals had gone crazy, they were scratching and biting the clean up volunteers. Rescue workers were still trying to get the crew out of the ship. They could hear screaming inside. Screams to open the doors. But that’s when it all went to hell. As soon as they cut the door out. There was 6 minutes of broadcast before it went silent. 6 minutes of screaming and agony. The ship crew attacked the rescue workers like rabid baboons. Breaking bones and tearing flesh. The people on the shore weren’t fairing any better. Those that had been attacked by animals were attacking everyone else. It was worse than any war zone report, it was sheer brutality, and yet the broadcast still went on for 6 minutes. 6 minutes and then blank faces. Nobody could explain what was happening. They tried to continue with regular news, the economy, the weather, a cute human interest story, but they couldn’t make us unsee what we saw. But there was one reason and that was the cause of an experiment with the creation of monsters. The memories were overloading her brain and she couldn't help but feel like her sister. Etain has moments like these but this was too much to deal with all these flashbacks in her mind: Aynia discovered the body of a woman found in her abandoned old house, she looked as if she had died from starvation and was surprised when she woke up with a frenzied as she was alive after all. She had been turned into a creature. There was bite marks on her and blood dripped down her mouth. Aynia managed to get away from the woman but as she clutched her bony skin, she could see inside her mind: She was chained at the wrists and ankles, shackled to a metal bar that was secured to a concrete wall. Locked in a small, soundproof room, hidden behind her ex-husband's laundry cupboard. He set up a small television in there, running a news channel at all times, so she could see all of the reports about her missing self. The woman was growing weaker every day without water or food, but he would be back soon to beat her, and that's when she would make a break for it. The woman had a plan to get out, it wasn't foolproof but she had to try. She still had hope, that's all that mattered in those moments. That was, until the woman saw the reports that her ex-husband and the prime suspect in her disappearance, had been found dead in his home. They had already come to inspect the scene and take away his body, packed up and left. The woman was all alone now, with no chance of escape. She had no hope left. Aynia lets go as she was awestruck with what happened and managed to slaughter the woman out of mercy. After burying the woman creature's body; she left the house but came across another home of where children and their babysitter was laid there in their own blood. She touched their bodies and learned what happened: A few years ago, a mother and father decided they needed a break, so they wanted to head out for a night on the town. They called their most trusted babysitter. When the babysitter arrived, the two children were already fast asleep in bed. So the babysitter just got to sit around and make sure everything was okay with the children. Later that night, the babysitter got bored and went to watch TV, but she couldn't watch it downstairs because they did not have cable downstairs. So, she called them and asked them if she could watch cable in the parent's room. Of course, the parents said it was OK, but the babysitter had one final request... she asked if she could cover up the taxidermy statue outside the room with a blanket or cloth, because it made her nervous. The phone line was silent for a moment, and the father who was talking to the babysitter at the time said, "Take the children and get out of the house... we'll call the police. We don't own a taxidermy statue." 

On the news, there was reports about a boy that was killed by a strange creature. Aynia found the body of the boy in the morgue as she absorbed from his skin of what happened: The boy lived in a rented two-floor house. Both his parents worked so he was often alone when he came home from school. One early evening when the boy came home the house was still dark. He called out, “Mom?” and heard a voice say “Yeeeeees?” from upstairs. He called his mom again, and again got the same “Yeeeeees?” reply. He felt she was calling back at him and climbed up the stairs. When he reached the first floor he called her once more and the voice “Yeeeeees?” came from the furthest room. The boy felt both uneasy, but also felt a strong urge to see his mother, and started to walk towards the room. But just as he was about to open the door into the room he heard the front door downstairs open and his mother come in, carrying a lot of shopping bags. “Sweetie, are you home?” The mother called in a cheery voice. Hearing her voice made the boy feel instantly better and he turned back to go downstairs at once… but not before he had a quick glance towards the room. While he watched from the top of the stairs, the door to the room slowly opened a crack. For a brief moment, he saw something strange in there. A pale face, staring at him with an amount of teeth. Gasping, Aynia lets go and she runs off before anyone else could discover her. While running, she found the body of a man as he looked as if he had been eaten in a way and he was bleeding so much so with one touch on him, Aynia could see inside the corpse's mind: A girl sat in the bottom of the old dark well waiting for her parents to return. It had been hours since she had seen them and her stomach had begun to toss and turn from hunger. She hoped that when they came back they would be able to get her out. Some shuffling and noises going on above ground caught her attention, "Jane," Her mom’s voice call out. "We’re back honey." Her parents peered over the lip of the well. Jane’s father winced as he looked down to his daughter. She saw that her mother had been crying. Her father mustered up enough strength to speak. "We brought you some dinner. We know you’re probably hungry." Her parents struggled with the body of a man before they tossed it down the well to their daughter. The water level in the well was very shallow and the snapping noise that the man’s legs made when he reached the bottom startled Jane a bit. She could see that he was still breathing and semi-conscious, but she was so hungry. She looked back up to say thank you and ask her parents if today was the day she could come out of the well, but they were already gone. Jane could hear her mother weeping as her parents walked back into the house. Aynia lets go and gasped as she took the body and reported to the blue blood fairies about how there's something strange going on here. The blue bloods brushed off her concerns and took the body to the morgue. 

That night; the elevator door opened and Aynia stepped out. The lights were out, for some reason. Walking to apartment unit to deliver a package to the room was somewhere further down, near the end. Aynia began walking, eyes turning involuntarily to each passing doorway. Then she heard it. Scraping. Dragging. And a noise that she convinced herself was due to an old air-conditioner unit starting up. Until Aynia saw it. Emerging from the doorway. Hollow eyes. A flayed mask for a face. Ruined, fingerless hands, reaching forward. And so much blood. Aynia had stumbled back two steps, nearly falling over, before something in her brain kicked in and she sprinted for the elevator. Behind, she heard it croaking. And the scraping. Dragging itself after her. Aynia didn’t look back. She punched the elevator button over and over and over. Scrape. Then, mercifully, the doors opened, flashing a ray of light into the hallway. Aynia dashed in, hitting the wall, nearly weeping in relief. Then she realized that she hadn’t closed the doors. It was still crawling on. Inch by inch. Toward her. Aynia smashed her fist on the close button, and prayed. The last thing she saw before the doors closed were its eyes. Bloodshot. Lidless. Staring straight at her. It’s been three weeks as Aynia looks at the newspaper reports that the girl had crawled on her stumps, bleeding gallons, dying only inches away from the elevator door. There were four test subjects also had large portions of muscle and skin torn away from their bodies. While the heart, lungs and diaphragm remained in place, the skin and most of the muscles attached to the ribs had been ripped off, exposing the lungs through the ribcage. All the blood vessels and organs remained intact, they had just been taken out and laid on the floor, fanning out around the eviscerated but still living bodies of the subjects. They continued to scream to be left in the chamber and alternately begged and demanded that the gas be turned back on, lest they fall asleep. One of the subjects died from having his throat ripped out, another was gravely injured by an artery in his leg severed by one of the subject's teeth. When heart was seen to beat for a full two minutes after he had bled out to the point there was more air in his vascular system than blood.

"It's burning," A little boy said, cupping some of the water in the palm of his hand. "Of course it is son," His father chuckled. "You know the sun is beating down." Then, the boy exclaimed: "The water feels funny, daddy!" and flung the offending liquid onto the sand. The father came over and knelt down, leaving my paperback on the beach chair. "Daddy! The water, something is wrong!" The father could see tears forming in his son's eyes. "It's okay, son." The father said, as he took his little hand and felt the wetness of the ocean water on his fingers. It was warm, and tingled. The tingling increased and the warmth turned to a heat. The boy began to cry. And then, from down the beach, the father heard a scream. "OH MY GOD!!!" The father exclaimed. The man stood and squinted through the bright sun reflecting off the sand. The scream was joined by others from all around him and he could feel the terror of everyone on the beach becoming one rising wave of panic. He saw a young girl run in with the surf, screaming, her skin melting over her bikini. A portly man in a swimsuit ran in the water and fell. When his arms came up they were bone to the elbow, with great flaps of dissolving skin hanging like cloth. A young man pulled his tiny daughter in by the arms, dragging behind her the stumps that had been her legs. The father watched them come in, running, thrashing, falling, all of their skin melting from their horrified faces and revealing the white bone beneath. The little boy was crying. From high above, the sun beat down on the beautiful white sand of the beach. Now it was covered of blood and bones. And people were brought into a van as they were never seen again. In this memory in her head; Beira had sneaked off as she saw all the animals calm and cool before she made them go insane by an injection. Next thing that happened, they were scratching and biting the clean up volunteers. Rescue workers were still trying to get the crew out of the ship. They could hear screaming inside. Screams to open the doors. But that’s when it all went to hell. As soon as they cut the door out. There was 6 minutes of broadcast before it went silent. 6 minutes of screaming and agony. The ship crew attacked the rescue workers like rabid baboons. Breaking bones and tearing flesh. The people on the shore weren’t fairing any better. Those that had been attacked by animals were attacking everyone else. It was worse than any war zone report, it was sheer brutality, and yet the broadcast still went on for 6 minutes. 6 minutes and then blank faces. Nobody could explain what was happening. They tried to continue with regular news, the economy, the weather, a cute human interest story, but they couldn’t make us unsee what we saw. But there was one reason and that was the cause of an experiment with the creation of monsters. The creatures called Dearg Due! "UGH! How many more people is she putting at stake? And how did I saw her do....?" Aynia said to herself, but then she stopped as she realized what had happened. She discovered that she has another power....The power of premonition, to see what has happened now or sometimes happened that is coming up. And see things to expand more on the perspective view of others, "How is this happening? What the hell is going on with me?" thought Aynia. 

Then she remembered those visions of those girls: Light pours through the window, the girl push herself away from the deranged psychotic killer. She's scared our of her wits and she wanted out of this place, The killer just chuckled seeing her expression. He was happy that he could scare her. This female victim have irritated him quite a lot, but strapped in this straightjacket he didn't have much to do, rather than wait for the rescue personnel. The girl looked around the room, to try and find something that would help you get out, but she knew there was nothing as such, otherwise she would have escaped long before. She was about to give up when she heard voices calling her name, she responded shouting and soon people broke in the room she was in bringing her and the killer out of there, she was soon taken away from there following a brief interrogation as she met her worried family and friends. The girl was taken back home, and after she freshen up and she sits down on herr couch to watch some TV. But she becomes horrified as she comes to learn from the news that the killer has escaped killing three people in the process and injuring many. People were being informed and were told to stay inside there houses with their doors and windows properly locked. The girl rush back to her bedroom to check the window. The girl sighed when she found her window was locked securely. She plopped down on her bed as she wanted to sleep now only to be jolted awake by a shuffling sound near the foot of her bed. She looked in front of her to see the infamous killer smiling evilly at you with his knife raised above his head, he swiftly pressed the blade against her throat as his other hand clasped her mouth, muffling a scream. The girl stare at him wide-eyed, shaking as she waited for his next move. The killer chuckled seeing her, coarsely dragging the knife along her throat, slitting it open. He chuckled as life slowly drew away from her eyes and her lifeless body slumped into the pool of her own blood. He sighed happy with his own work as he wrote on the walls with your blood, 'FEAR'. He walked up to her lifeless body and sat down beside it, "Well Janice, you had this coming, you made such a good kill! You were perfect for my next prey! I loved that fear in your eyes! That is why I decided to kill you first as my prey after my long entrapment! Congrats!" He said laughing maniacally to himself as he climbed down her window walking in the dark of the night as he looked for his next victim. On the news; the reports are in about the death of Janice Rowe, who was held hostage by the killer. Now, another girl has been kidnapped. Her name is Lindsey.
The masked guy lunged at her hearing her question, he pinned her against the floor, "What I feel is unexplainable." He said in a husky tone. His tone made the girl shiver. She was scared of him, very much. He was menacing enough to make tears run down her cheeks. She trembled under him, causing him to just smirk. "Please, let me go. Please." The girl begged. The masked guy tsked through his mask, "I can't seem to let you go Lindsey." He whispered in a needing tone filled with raw hunter instinct. Her sobs became louder as she was afraid of him. She tried to move against his grip only to have him black her out. The girl woke up tied to an operation table. She panic trying to break herself free. She hear a faint chuckle from the corner to see The masked guy leaning against a wall, sitting on the floor, reading a book. "Please let me go." She said crying again. The masked guy got up from his place and walked towards her. The girl scream sharply at the pain as she slowly slid off into darker abyss as the blood slowly drains out of her. Again, sunlight poured through the window, The girl  looked at the deranged killer as she waited for her answer. The killer was pacing back and forth in the room trying to find a way out of this place. "Mr. Killer-boo!" The girl purred making the infamous killer slightly cringe in disgust, "Don't call me that you woman" He shrieked as he tried frantically to yank off the plank from the boarded window. The ditzy girl pouted slightly, "Why can't I, Mr. Killer-boo?" She asked earning another growl from the killer. "I swear if you don't stop calling me that then I am going to kill you" He spat at her as he yanked off the plank from the window. "Ooohh!" She exclaimed somehow excited by what he said. The killer shook his head as he yanked off the last plank from the window, "Finally" He muttered as he tried to jump off the window, he was stopped by her pulling him by his wrist. "Don't leave me here Mr. Killer-boo!" She said hugging his arm. "That's it!" He snapped and pushed you to the ground, pinning her. The lovestruck, ditzy girl was taken aback but she blushed deeply as you thought he was going to kiss her, she closed her eyes and pushed her face forward. Seeing her made the killer sick in the stomach, he growled as he fished out the pocket knife she had with her from her pocket and he slit her throat harshly. She opened her eyes in shock as to what happened now clearly afraid of him, she started to back off of him which made the killer smile with a malicious intent. He crouched to her softly and stabbed her heart, she screamed loudly and slowly fade into darkness. She opened her eyes slowly to find herself in your room, your wounds treated and bandaged. She tried to sit up only to meet with pain, she laid back down and closed her eyes. The girl shivered thinking about her encounter, even though frightful, a blush seem to creep to her face. "Mr. Killer-boo." She said out loud chuckling softly. "I thought you had your lesson woman." The killer's voice boomed near her ears making her jump, she looked at him with fear in her eyes as he leaned close pressing the cold blade against her bandaged throat, drawing blood from the fresh wound. "But apparently not." he said looking at the girl, as he harshly pulled the knife at her throat, she tried to back away but couldn't.....Then, it expands more in the memories as she learned what the guy looks like. 


It was coming in her mind, like a photo developing....The killer was a skinny teenager and has pale skin, moppy black hair and lavender eyes. He wore a hoodie, a shirt, and jeans. He wore shoes too. And a scar on his neck. He had a psychotically smirk on his face. Then there was a vision: He was walking until he stopped in front of figures that Aynia couldn't see clearly or identified. The guy said to them, "It's time." The others nodded, smirks on their faces and their leader laughed maniacally. Aynia awoke from the vision as she realized what is about to happen.