He’s dead! He’s fucking dead, and it’s all my
fault! I didn’t mean to kill him! Dad, where are you? Please save me!
I was trying to sob as silently as possible, fearing another
retaliation from the guy who had his face covered with a red bandana.
So I tried to squirm away from that room that had fallen into
madness.
The drums I heard playing in the background were getting louder
and louder, the intervals were getting shorter by the second and the
red webs made out of blood suddenly began to develop spikes.
Everyone’s condition was slowly getting worse and worse. I could
hear strange voices coming out of their bodies. They were mumbling
something incomprehensible, but it felt extremely scary and ominous.
I felt the world spin around me at a speed so high I could barely
even keep my head straight. I kept my body and head attached to the
ground as the man slowly dragged me by the legs elsewhere.
It was all my fault, all my fault that the man’s head was now
just a black puddle of boiling flesh and his brains were scattered—
The brain had disappeared from the ground. A sense of dread set
in.
I felt as if my ears were about to explode because of that drum.
Something beneath my right eye was twitching, and the air was
progressively getting colder.
The man was dragging me away from the puddle of puke that stained
the floor and even offered me some water to cleanse my throat, but
because of that, he wasn’t able to see the large brain that had
suddenly disappeared.
“T-the thing, gray… the voices, your comrade has disappeared!
Quick! Please, just believe me! We must escape! The webs are growing
bigger! The spikes!”
My brain could hardly piece a couple of coherent thoughts
together. Much less a coherent sentence.
My eyes were going all over the place. I wanted to point out all
the things that the kidnapper didn’t seem to notice all at once.
“What nonsense are you spitting right now?” He asked me after
taking back the small, empty plastic bottle.
He punched me in the face to calm me down and it was then that I
realized that the drum I constantly heard in the background was none other than my
heartbeat. The kidnapper kept kicking me until I stopped stuttering.
“The thing, the brain, it’s not there anymore!” My hands
were tied behind my back, preventing me from pointing towards the
corpse.
He turned around annoyed, and he too noticed that the brain of the
guy who had just died had disappeared.
Is this where I die? What is going to happen to
me? No, I don’t want to die! I can’t die here! Quick! Let’s run
away from here! Please, I promise I will not rebel or make your life
difficult!
The brain had rolled into a corner of the room all on its own and
was completely intact for now, yet it was emanating an ominous
energy. All five of our senses were telling us to run away from it as
quickly as possible.
“What in the… don’t tell me…” The kidnapper remained
standing still for a couple of second with his eyes wide open,
sweating cold.
We both felt a chilling energy suddenly fill up the room. Whatever
was happening, it was something nobody in the room could deal with.
Even the other sickly kidnappers had woke up because of it.
We saw the many wrinkles of wrinkles suddenly starting to open up,
emitting a weird screeching sound. The brain then split in two, the
two hemispheres separated.
One remained whole, while the other opened itself up, creating a
bunch of small and pointy legs, a couple of small fangs, and from the
many wrinkles small eyes emerged on top of it, all combined to give
life to a large spider-looking creature.
It was still covered in that lucid yet slimy substance that was
oozing off of its body, and the screech it would emit were launching
parts of that fluid in all directions, while those wrinkles in the
back of the spider looking creature would constantly flap around from
the screeches produced.
It was the first time I saw a demon in person, so I didn’t know
what to say or think. I didn’t even know how I was feeling.
“Shit!”
The man was quick to react and put my body over his shoulders and
rapidly began to carry me away from the scene as the demon began to
crawl towards our position.
Suddenly, the many webs covering the surfaces of the room began to
flow back towards the demon, dragging us to it. Some spikes even left
some cuts in my arms, but my mind was so terrified I could barely
even feel the pain.
The lady with the umbrella stood back up despite the pulling force
and stabbed her weapon on the floor, shattering the webs.
“We’ll deal with the demon. Just bring the kid to safety!”
The lady shouted at the man holding me.You might be reading a pirated copy. Look for the official release to support the author.
As she opened the umbrella, she somehow stopped the others from
running away and forced to stay and fight the beast to stall for some
time.
After we got out of the room, the man slammed closed the door
behind us and locked it with a key, leaving the metal key stuck in
the door.
“Let’s just pray the new guys will make it in time.” He said
to himself as he carried me in a hurry down the flight of stairs.
As we made it all the way towards the ground floor, I noticed that
apart from us, there was no one within this building, which was
strange considering it was right in front of such a highly populated
road.
“What’s going on?” I asked the man that was carrying me
away.
“Shit! Shit! Fuck! We’re all fucked now. It won’t be long
until it kills the others and frees all the other demons.” He
muttered to himself as he jumped off the long set of stairs leading
to the underground parking lot.
“Fuck! Why did it suddenly go berserk?” The man complained.
Then I heard a large thud. The demon was slamming its body
desperately against the locked door and the sound of it was so loud
we could hear it from downstairs.
The demon broke the door in a couple more attempts. The second
loud screech made me wet myself out of fear. I was so frightened for
a moment I had completely forgotten how to breathe.
I could feel the anxiety building up in the man carrying me, his
legs shaking to no end, gasping for air as he desperately turned
around to check if the demons were headed our way.
Once we reached the parking lot located beneath the building, he
rapidly shut the glass door behind us with multiple locks.
“C’mon, c’mon.” He was repeating to himself.
No cars in sight, just pure terror. Even I was starting to feel a
bit unsure whether we were going to survive or not.
Is this how I die? Do I really have to go out like
this? Killed by some lowly demon in an unknown city,far away from mom
and dad?
I began desperately trying to wiggle around to free my wrists,
even injuring myself. I wanted freedom. I wanted to run away as
quickly as possible, but with both arms and legs tied, that wasn’t
possible. If I had to die, at least I wanted to die while on my
own feet.
We heard the loud footsteps of the creature rapidly descending,
then just as a speeding car just got inside the parking lot, we heard
a loud explosion coming from above us.
What is it now?
The large vehicle seemed particularly durable. It had six wheels;
it had three sets of doors, and it seemed pretty tall, tinted a pure
black with dark tinted windows.
The vehicle turned around, almost toppling over, and only hit the
brakes when it almost ran over us. The kidnapper then hurriedly
opened the door to the back of the vehicle and shoved me in and sat
in the seat in front of mine.
“What about the others?” The driver asked.
He was currently wearing sunglasses, a white mask over his nose
and mouth, a black hat and a large gray coat.
“Dead. A demon got them. Now hurry up before we also end up like
them.” The kidnapper responded as he slammed the door shut with all
of his strength.
“Aigo, my friend, don’t take it out of the car. It’s brand
new. Lord Fredrick himself gave this beauty to us. You should be
grateful to even being allowed inside.” The man said while chewing
on something.
“Stop smiling and get us the fuck out of here! The Gray
Collector has freed himself.”
After that, the man rapidly accelerated and got us out of the
parking lot. In the meantime, we could hear the people on the street
starting to panic as whoever tried to subjugate the demon had most
likely failed.
“Haa! Can’t have shit in Litua, anyway congrats on the
successful mission, I heard you stole some high quality ashen, good
work, now let’s drop the problem the first chance we can, I feel
nervous having the kid of the crimson devil in my car.” The man
cheerfully kept blabbering without end while trying to put some music
on the radio.
He then gave up and grabbed a disk from under his seat and put it
on to listen to some music.
“What the fuck are you doing? Keep your eyes on the road!” The
kidnapper immediately freaked out when he saw the man bend down to
get his disc.
“Calm down, take it slow, enjoy life a bit!”
The man was clearly under the influence of something. There was no
way he would have behaved like this normally.
“How am I supposed to enjoy life if you’re about to end it?
We’ve got a demon on our ass! Do you understand? Or are you too
high to even know what’s happening around you?”
“Fiiiine!” the man responded with a light spirited smirk,
humming and nodding to the beat of the song he had just put on blast.
After driving through the steep path between the parking lot and
the road above, the man almost ran over a couple of panicking
pedestrians that were running away from the demon.
“What a mess you’ve caused. This is going to make news all
over the fracture. I can already see the headlines. Maybe we should
drop the kid here. If he dies at the hands of the demon, then the
problem is solved.” The driver said.
When I heard him utter those words, I felt as if someone had
stabbed in the chest. I felt small and powerless. All I could do was
to curl up in a ball while trying to ignore whatever they were
saying.
“Stop spewing nonsense. The boss has ordered us to bring him
with us.” The kidnapper replied.
“Crazy bastard! Does he think with a hostage he can defeat the
crimson devil? As if… I bet she’d kill us all before we even have
the chance to speak up,” he then added before the driver could
reply.
I wanted to breathe a breath of relief, but the troubles
weren’t over yet.
“Orders are orders. Perhaps this is the best time to say goodbye
to this life and start living like civilians would. Who knows, we
might get away with it.” The driver simply couldn’t help himself.
Even though he was blasting music at max volume, he couldn’t stop
talking.
He then made a sudden turn allowing me to take a sneak peek to
what was happening behind us through the wind, the gigantic spider
was growing bigger and bigger, absorbing other brains to grow bigger
and creating a large exoskeleton using the bones of his victim.
It could melt the bones to create its exoskeleton, creating a
large skull protecting its abdomen, large blades on the sides of its
legs, and fangs made of bones. The eyes instead remained the same
size, only their numbers kept increasing.
“Remember, kid, this is all your fault. If you hadn’t provoked
that demon, all these people wouldn’t have died.” The driver said
as he began to accelerate in the highly populated road.
"Stop talking nonsense and drive. How would you know if that''s his fault or not?" The kidnapper with the red bandana said as he took off his shirt.
"I have my sources?" The driver answered.
The last thing I saw before we turned around the corner was a tall
blonde man with long and pointy ears, dressed with a red trench coat,
a red hat, white gloves and red pants standing on the back of the
spider watching everything unfold as the spider was wrecking through
the city.
The screams of the surrounding people remain stuck in my head as
the kidnaper didn’t care about how many people he had to run over
just to get us out of there as quickly as possible.
“Even their deaths are your fault. Make sure to at least look
them in the eyes as we drive past them. That way, they can understand
what killed them in their last moments.” The driver said while
cheerfully humming a holiday themed song.