Chapter 3- Madness
"I won't let you die! You must suffer more!" The voice which spoke this was clearly that of Alma's. The world seemed to be spinning and finally went black for a moment before the point man awoke again. He was strapped in that old wooden chair still, and was cold. He saw his stomach had been sewn shut and he now looked around the old dingy room from before. Where had the woman gone to he wondered. The world began shaking around him as though shifting and the room began to change. It was shifting and soon enough he watched as the room changed and he now sat in the same chair but in a long narrow hallway.
The sounds of screams could be heard throughout the hallway. The pain, the torture, the suffering, the point man wished it would all stop! The screams were driving him out of his mind, and the fear was enough to make the bravest cower and cry for salvation and peace. Cry for their own deaths and an end to the torture. The point man didn't think that dieing would save him though. If anything it would make things far worse for him. Alma would make it worse if he died, she was going to make him suffer even more if that was at all possible.
The hallway looked normal for a moment but then shifted again showing a parallel form of the hallway. There was the one he was in and then there was the one that was covered in blood. All around the voices changed from screams of agony to whispers that spoke the word "Suffer!" The point man heard it again and again and the voices grew louder. "Suffer, suffer, SUFFER!" It continued and the whispers didn't stop. As the point man watched the room change back and forth he soon noticed that when the room showed the darkened blood ridden version of itself he saw the souls of the damned reaching out for him and it wasn't long before the locks on his chair released and he was able to stand again. The room was still going back and forth but for the moment seemed to be half normal and half blood ridden and full of damned souls.
The point man walked forward and as he did the whispers for suffering grew in number but lowered in volume becoming more sinister. The point man soon reached the mid point of the hallway and when he did the whole place shifted completely and turned into the blood soaked hallway. It was at this point he saw a little girl standing with long brown hair in a black dress in the hallway. She was pale and didn't face him as he walked closer to her being very cautious and careful.
Soon the sounds of scratching could be heard and from the shadowed darkness came the woman who had stabbed him before crawling with a face of madness. She had lost her mind a long time ago and was insane. She crawled her nails screeching against the marble tile. The light behind the point man began to go out block by block and the damned screams could be heard behind him. "Death is not an escape! Suffer you will!" Turning back he noticed the woman contort and was grabbing his legs as she crawled up him and stared him in the face.
She fell and threw blood up and was soon thrown against each wall hard back and forth for about 40 seconds. She was soon torn piece by piece..her flesh peeling from her body and her screams echoing throughout before she finally fell to the ground and was turned over drug down the hallway into the darkness limp. The point man looked wondering what had done this.
It was then he watched as the little girl gave out a laugh and turned towards him. All he saw was black in her eyes and black veins covered her all over. She turned and pointed towards the point man. Thousands of screams came out from through the hall behind her and passed by him into the darkness. As it did the room felt colder and from the ground came billions of children holding babies in one arm and a long knife in the other. The children stood behind the little girl but looked down at the babies. The girl went from smiling to giving a sad face before pointing towards the point man and then laughing.
"Stop them if you can." The voice of the little girl sounded sad but then she smiled. The children soon took the knife in synchronization with each other and then looked at the point man with the same sad face before looking down emotionless and raising their knives. The point man ran forward to stop them but then all at once they stabbed the babies that let out cries all at once. The babies soon fell dead and blood ran from them. The children took a few steps forward and then soon began dismembering the babies bodies and taking their hearts out of their bodies. The children then ate the hearts raw. The point man couldn't stop them and he couldn't believe what he was seeing. He threw up right there, and watched as the children held the babies heads up and laughed blood all over them and covering the faces in splatter as the blood from the hearts dripped from their mouths.
The little girls voice could be heard again. "You failed!" Laughter rang out again and soon enough the children dropped the lifeless heads of the babies and came towards the pointman who turned to go back into the darkness behind him only to find Alma stood there blocking the way. She soon spoke to the point man. "Choose which fear you shall face."
The point man looked at the children and then looked at Alma. Alma then told him something else that made the point man's decision even more difficult. "Choose wisely...one of your fears could be your key to freedom." The point man turned and ran towards the children. He jumped in the middle of them and when he did he felt the piercing of knives going into him but he pushed onward. The stabbing continued and soon he reached desperately for the end of the children but only fell to the ground reaching ever more before Alma laughed and without touching the point man she drug his body from the children and into the darkness as he screamed.
The point man was in pain again and he watched as he flew by Alma. As he did she said something to him. "You fear me so much that you would chance getting killed by all of them over taking your chances with just me." The point man's body stopped short of the darkness as he watched her. She then said something to him that left him in misery and pure fear. "Good, you should fear me...you haven't been shown what true fear is yet!" The point man's eyes widened and soon he was drug screaming into the darkness.