"Ian! Answer dammit!"
Anthony gets out of the room in a blast of bravery and illuminate on the direction the thing he thinks he saw went.
"Anthony?"
"Ian!" Anthony can see him standing on the last place he saw Ian, just a few centimeters behind the double door.
"I'm… not feeling well, let's go, please"
"yeah buddy, this was a huge mistake, but we are going to laugh about this tomorrow, let's go"
Anthony grabs Ian's shoulder and he is surprised how wet he is, instead he lowers his hand to meet his friend's hand. Ian doesn't notice this and looks Anthony in the eyes and recovers a bit of strength seeing him so confident and smiles. Anthony smiles back.
"Sure, we'll laugh about this" says Ian stepping inside the new, darker hallway, his doesn't feel pain on his wrist anymore but he notices the rotted smell from before in this hallway too that makes him cover his nose. Anthony let go Ian's hand and covers his too.
Ian starts walking in the hallway more confident while Anthony follows illuminating the hall and his friend's back, he doesn't want to lose his friend one more time, and at the time scared, he knows he saw something a few moments ago and the film from the camera. Anthony can't move his arms at will, they are paralyzed, and the legs are feeling heavier and harder to move somehow with every step he makes, harder and harder. At first he thought it might be his imagination but now he is having a hard time walking, like if he was dragging something or something was pulling from behind. Anthony looks forward and sees Ian, walking calmly when Ian looks at him and he frowns.
"Hey Anthony, are you alright?, I've some water in my b-…"
"Huh?"
"Fuck!"
"What?!"
"I forgot my backpack in the other room"
"Forget it dude, I'm ok, please, let's go, there's gotta be some emergency stairs here somewhere"
They look around and see only rooms with plastic fabric for a door except for one. Ian stands in front of this room. The room looks like it burned to ground before all this was covered in water with the flood.
"Ian, let's keep walking" Anthony walks past by him and grabs Ian's wrist.
"AGH, what are you doing?!" Ian releases his hand from Anthony's. Anthony is looking at his friends eyes when he notices a drop of blood showing below Ian's nose.
"Your nose is bleeding…"
"What?" Ian touches his nose checking and dries the single drop of blood.
Anthony bites his lower lip.
"Wow, I know it's going to sound stupid right now, but, did you bring your phone?" Says Anthony trying to change the subject.
Ian rushes and starts touching all his pockets searching, even Anthony starts searching for his but he knows its charging in the car. Ian pulls his IPhone finally but just as he thought, no signal.
"Shit, well, let's keep moving" Ian glance inside the room and see a burned metallic bed and some dirty and rusty trays laying on the floor. Anthony starts moving and gets the feeling of being dragged a feels chill in his back, he looks back but the darkness won't let him see a thing, suddenly he is feeling claustrophobic and finds it hard to breath. He looks back at Ian but he had already started walking and is getting further.
"Ian, wait, fuck…"
"Doesn't he even consider that I have the only source of light?" Anthony things a little worried about Ian.
"Ian!" Anthony can't see ian with the light, his steps are heavier than before, he is exhausted and he doesn't know why, the heavy air and the rotted smells force him to go down on his knee and catch a breath and looks at the floor and see bugs, little worms and ants going to a door, a metal door, the first one he sees since they entered that hallway. He is intrigued but he can't see Ian nowhere and decides to look for him.
"dammit, IAN WAIT!"
Ian is a few steps further in the darkness.
"Come on, you are taking your time, aint you?"
"Shut up, it's my legs, I can't move easily, i…don't know"
Anthony hands the camera to Ian so he can rest his arm.
"Have you seen that door? It was full of bugs"
Ian points to a door next to them that looks exactly like the one before. Many bugs start gathering on the door. Anthony walks towards the window next to the door and glance, he is trying to see through the grey dusted window, something like a person is inside he thinks, he knocks on the window and the shape disappears.
"What are you doing?"
"N-nothing, I just thought I saw something"
"Really? Like what?"
Ian grabs the doorknob and feels like its burning.
"gha! Fuck this!"
Angry, he leaves the door and looks towards the hallway and starts walking. Anthony looks inside again and see another figure that looks human-ish, though he only see the head shape he can't see where would the body would end. He feels shivers and goes back to Ian. Anthony tries to forget about whatever he saw, but somehow he feels like that thing was looking at him and he could feel his eyes looking from behind, dragging him back to darkness.