Truth and Deception
Disclaimer:
I don't own Haunting Ground, Fiona, Daniella (as much as I'd like to), Hewie or the Rooms of Truth and Deception and related objects inside it. I don't even own this computer, it's my Dad's.
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Click.
Even without looking around her Fiona knew that sound was a bad sign.
She ran to the door, yanking at the handle. She gasped, her eyes prickling with miserable tears. The door was locked. The door was locked, Hewie was outside the door, and she was alone in a strange room with strange wax figures glaring mockingly at her from the walls.
You're in for it now, their still faces and unmoving lips told her. Look what you've done, you stupid little girl.
She didn't understand what she'd done. All she done was touch a glass covered pinboard full of exotic species of butterflies and then there was the ominous click which meant the door had locked. And there was no way of getting out.
Fiona stumbled across the room, when…she stopped.
Something was crawling on her skin, and slowly lifting her arm up, she saw it was a beetle, crawling out from underneath her shirt sleeve.
She yelped in horror, shaking her arm violently, swatting at her wrist, to dislodge the insect. She knew her fear was irrational. After all, beetles were harmless, weren't they?
She closed her eyes, regaining her breath. That maid would come to look for her sooner or later, wouldn't she? Maybe she could try to slip past her, set Hewie on her…if he was still waiting outside the door.
Fiona looked around the room. No visible means of escape…
Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Even without looking around her Fiona knew that sound was a bad sign.
Then, she saw it…or rather them.
Hundreds upon hundreds of beetles, swarming down towards her in a black cloud, like the plague of locusts had descended upon Egypt.
She backed away and hit a wall; there was nowhere to run…
They landed on her, and directly after the shock of them crawling up her skin, came pain.
She screamed.
"NO!!" she cried in agony.
They were scarab beetles…but she was sure she remembered her father telling her that they were harmless…
She cried and kicked falling onto the floor…she pulled one off her body, screaming as it took a chunk of her flesh with it, then burrowed back into her body, eating at the muscle…
She screamed as another more crawled up her cheek, moving to her eye…it crawled onto her eyeball; it was eating it right out of her socket…
She screamed as hundreds more crawled up her chest and belly, swarming onto her breasts, chewing at her nipples, tearing away at her shirt…
"Stop! Please! Oh God, please stop!"
She screamed as more ripped away at her pants and forced their way into her mouth, they were eating away at her organs, tearing inside her; they were eating her tongue…
Fiona screamed and screamed as her flesh and organs were torn apart by the beetles, and then...with one last, great, shuddering gasp…she fell silent.
She was dead.
The beetles, picking at the last bits of flesh on her frame, flew silently off, to await the next person who would make a mistake in the rooms of Truth and Deception.
Click.
Daniella walked into the room, closing it behind her, her shoes tap-tapping on the stone floor. She crouched down next to the corpse of what had been once a healthy, living eighteen year old.
"My, my, Miss Fiona," she said. "You have made a mess, haven't you?"
And outside, Hewie began to howl, scratching at the closed door.
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Haha. Fiona got raped by beetles. Reviews, please, constructive crit as always very welcome!!