Chapter III:
Silence
Darkness and silence was all that Dick saw and heard. He shivered throughout his whole spine. His heart was racing faster each second as the suspense grew larger. The thought of not knowing what was there made Dick feel completely vulnerable. He backed away slowly in the direction of the bathroom door. Dick brushed against the door then bumped into the infected resident of the home.
Dick was shocked at the site of the hideous creature and fell backwards towards the ground.
"Well looky here." said the diseased being. "Looks like somebody doesn't have respect for people's property."
The monster grabbed Dick by the throat and pulled him towards the unclean bathtub.
"Time to pay for your crime!" shouted the deformed monster.
"No, please!" yelled Dick with whatever wind he had left in his lungs from being choked by the creature.
The ugly prowler proceeded by filling the tub with contaminated water and drowning Dick in it. Dick resisted as best as he could and managed to spit the water out of his mouth, gasping for air.
"Aw, the fella don't like gettin' wet." said the disgusting creature. "Well, I can't just let you go scot free. Perhaps I should think of another punishment."
There was a short pause in the monster's discussion so he could think of a way to torture Dick for entering in his house.
"I've got it! I'll be right back. Don't go wandering around now, ya hear?" quoted the nasty looking being.
He stood back and looked at Dick and began to laugh then left. Dick took one final spit to get out whatever water was left in his mouth and escaped out of the bathroom.
"I've gotta get out of here before he finds me again." Dick said quietly to himself.
Dick crept slowly around the house, trying his best to avoid contact with the thing again. He went in multiple rooms until he found one with an old revolver and ammo for it inside a table drawer, but the problem was the magazine was missing from it, making the hand-held gun useless.
"The magazine has to be around here somewhere." said Dick again to himself.
Dick scrimmaged around for a while, trying to locate the magazine. He eventually found it in what appeared to be the children's room.
"There we are, just what I needed." said Dick.
"Not anymore, my friend." interrupted the deteriorated creature while grabbing the hand Dick was holding the revolver in.
The infected maniac took the magazine from Dick's hand and chucked it to the ground.
"Now you're mine!" cried the monster to terrify Dick.
Dick panicked and picked up the closest weapon he could find. The only appliance he could locate in the short amount of time was a screwdriver with which he jabbed the creature in the eye with. The monster wailed in pain while Dick was in disturbed shock.
"You're gonna pay for that!" squealed the monster in utter rage.
The degraded mutant took the screwdriver and punctured Dick in the side by his rib cage. Dick cried out a painful scream in agony because the monster struck him in the liver. Dick drove out the screwdriver and reused it once again to jab the creature's second eye out. The infected man was blind at this point. Dick pushed him to the ground and darted toward the magazine that was on the moldy and damp floorboards. Before Dick could reach it, he felt something strike his leg and glide down all the way to his Achilles' tendon. Dick screamed in pure agony, but it did not stop him. He crawled toward the magazine and grabbed it. He placed it in the revolver and loaded it with the ammo he found with the revolver. He spun the magazine and aimed for the creature, but the ugly mutant was swift and struck another time at Dick, this time in his stomach. Dick was squealing in pain, but did his best not to let it bother him. This was his only chance left of survival and he took it. Dick grabbed the freak of nature by the head and shoved the revolver in his mouth.
"I'm done messing around!" said Dick as boldly as he could then proceeded to shoot the monster. Dick fell to the ground and watched the shot go through the thing's brain. The creature was dead and Dick fell to the ground in relief. Dick tried to catch his breath as he was lying down, but fell short because he went unconscious not long after. As Dick was knocked out, something started dragging him out of the room into the darkness.