Chapter 3
The hospital was as abandoned as the town, cold, lifeless and bone-chillingly eerie. But as if it was hard enough to see outside with all the fog, it was even harder to see in here. It was so dark; I couldn't see inches of my in front of my face. There was almost no paint left on the walls and the tile was almost freezing. I put my hand against the wall to see if I could feel anything. I felt a piece of paper. I looked closer and saw that it was a map of the entire hospital. As I looked ahead of me there was a reception desk, there was a small window to hand over cash or whatever they needed. I decided since that was the first room I saw, I would try to open it first. I went over and turned the knob and it gave way and opened. I looked around, but really couldn't see anything until I turned to my left. On the floor was a small flashlight that I could fit in my jacket pocket. I looked around with the light and saw that this room was something tip over and shatter. The noise caught me so off guard; that I jumped and fell over. I just hoped that the noise wasn't too loud for anything else to hear. "Goddammit." I said to myself very quietly. I got up and looked around and looked at my map. The door ahead of me was labeled "Doc. Room." I looked up and saw that a message was written in blood. "Pain, pain, when will you go away?"
My heart froze as I read the message. It wasn't there before I fell over. I gathered every single amount of courage I had before I reached for the knob. I turned it and unfortunately to me, it was unlocked. I opened the door and heard another kind of gasping noise. I turned around to see another monster; this one was even more gruesome than the one I saw in the park. Its entire body was covered with blood and barbed wire was taking its place as a strait jacket. It gave a harsh screech and walked toward me. Every step it took caused more and more blood to pour down its body. As I looked at the creature, I remembered that I dropped that rail I had used to kill the creature in the park while running from it. I backed away and tipped over a table. I looked down at it and I saw that a colt .45 handgun sitting on the floor. I grabbed and ran out of the room, while examining the clip at the same time. I ran out of the reception office as well and ran over to the next door. I turned the knob, no response. I ran to the next door, locked. I had lost most hope when I ran to the next door, but this one opened. I looked around and saw that in the middle of the room, was a glass separating one side from the other. I went over to the glass and looked on the other side. There wasn't a door for someone like a patient or someone from the faculty to get on the other side. There was a bed covered in a white sheet on the other side of the dirt covered glass. It didn't look like anything was under it, but it still struck fear in me. I got my gun ready as I walked back to the door in case that monster was there. Thankfully, there wasn't any sign of it. I continued to walk down the hallway and I turned right. I opened the door closest to me. As I walked in, I saw another hospital bed, this one covered in a dark red sheet. I thought it could have been blood, but I said quietly; "this is a hospital, they wouldn't do that to someone…"
I still wasn't sure though. I walked over and pulled over the sheet. On the bed was a body with knives that were gouged into an already split open stomach. My stomach churned as I backed away and placed my arm on the wall. I started to puke.
I wiped my mouth and looked over at the body. It was sitting up… looking at me with its pure white eyes. Guts started to fall from his stomach. It started to mouth words, but I couldn't understand what it was trying to say. The only words I got from it were: agony, and death. I shut my eyes in fear and when I looked back, it was sitting back on the table, with the sheet still covering the body. I stood up and ran out of the room. As I looked at the wall in front of me, another message appeared. "Memory," was all it said. I walked around trying to open all the doors left in the first floor, but most of the locks were shattered. I went to the last door, which on the map said it was a staircase. I turned the knob and opened the door. I heard something creaking upstairs. I decided that I would go downstairs before seeing what it was. I was so damn terrified. I ran downstairs and looked behind me to see if there was anything there. I continued to run until I hit a wire fence.
"What the fuck?" I said to myself. Well, the faculty must have had something down here that they wanted to keep to themselves. I ran back upstairs and heard the creaking again. I steadily made it up the stairs and toward the noise.
"help…me…." A voice said in the distance. I barely made it to the door after hearing the voice. I held the gun ready as I opened the door. "help…me…" the voice came back. It was a woman's voice. "Hello?" I called, hoping for an answer. "help…me…" was all that came back. I heard footsteps in the distance and I turned to the left and looked down a hallway, but there was nothing there. "help…me…" the voice called again. "Keep talking, I'll find you!" I called. I ran around the corner and looked around. Curled up in a ball, in the corner of the room, was a girl dressed in a nurse outfit. "help…me.." She said again. I walked over toward her. She looked up at me with blood red eyes. She reached for me, her arm was covered with syringes. She instantly stood up and her head shook in a very violent motion. I held the gun to her head as she walked toward me. My hands shook as I pulled the trigger.
