Vampire Ranger: The Mysterious Play


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Warning: Gore and profanity.


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I fly on a Staraptor towards Chicole village, and switch on communications so that if they call, they will be able to contact me.


"Kate, Kellyn is missing," Hastings says. "Officially now, and we're unsure what to do about this. Please go and check out the situation. Keep communication on at all times."


I grimace as I approach Chicole; the sky is dark as if a storm were over it, but a red hue hangs ominously in the air. Staraptor stops and just flaps awkwardly. "Land here for me," I tell it calmly, and we touch down. Staraptor is fleeing the scene before I've taken a step away from it, and I sigh. Things aren't looking so good.

The sky starts getting darker, and a silver mist creeps into the clearing I'm standing it. My heart starts beating erratically, but not out of fear, out of longing for something to be in the darkness. I slam my palm into my forehead, and shake myself. I shouldn't be thinking this way. Walking through the mist, I delve deeper into the woods.

My surroundings oddly feel like they're closing in on me, and before I can be enveloped in the blackness, I stumble upon the deserted village of Chicole. Pausing for a second, I take in the scene before sprinting down the pathway between all the houses. The mist turns black before long, and I listen carefully to the sounds around me: silence. It's deafening, and I feel irritated. There should be some pokemon here at least. I pass down another dirt road, and the psychiatric ward is around the next bend.

I freeze when I see what else is there; it looks as if a tornado blew through just the little clearing in front of the ward.

Trees are uprooted, glass is everywhere, wooden boards are strewn across the glass, and the most unsettling thing is that there are large, puddles of scarlet liquid.

Blood.

I find myself gulping, and walk through the eerily silent clearing.

Stopping in front of the door, I push it open carefully, trying to make as little sound as possible. The inside is pitch black, and I reach down to turn the flashlight on my styler on. That's when I find that I've lost connection with the union. A blood curdling scream erupts from a lower level, and I jump.

Shit, I think, why do I have to lose connection now of all the freaking times!? I step inside and shut the door before I have time to lose my nerve. Pointing my flashlight up in front of me, I hold back a yelp as I see blood splatters all across the walls. I walk forward but stop on something that is smooth and cracks underneath my foot. Looking down, I see that I stepped on a head; the head of a corpse. Their eyes have been gorged out and crusty blood covers their face like a veil.

I swallow back some bile, and remove my boot from the face. I point the light at the ground and make my way carefully past several corpses. I pass the front desk, and point my styler behind it. I throw up immediately from what I see. The nurse who worked here...her head is cut clean off, yet hanging on by a stretch of skin. I stagger away, feeling suddenly weak.

Kellyn, my mind screams, where is he?! I start running.

Who did this? A psychopath?! Were the patients who went insane here when it happened!? I run through so many questions in my head that it begins to spin, and I don't see the stairs until I'm tumbling down them. Banging my head into the wall at the landing, I groan, and slowly sit up. A longer set of stairs leads down to my left, and I get up. My light must've turned off when I fell. I try turning it on, but it is very dim and continually flickers.

I make my way down the next flight of steps, and stop at the bottom where it reeks of decaying bodies. I gag and pull a handkerchief out of my pocket to tie around my mouth. I get a sinking feeling I'm going to find something bad. I pass through the room and avoid all "obstacles" with the help of my flashlight, and make it to the door at the end of the hall. I try the knob, but it is completely locked. I put my ear against it, and manage to hear a faint wailing.

Startled, I jerk back, and blink in confusion. How did people get stuck in there? Was it to keep themselves safe? I pull out some trinkets and start unlocking the door. I hear a click, and begin to open the door when I hear a shout.

"KATE, NO!" I open the door all the way, just when Kellyn barrels towards me. Too late. My flashlight shows me the most horrendous sight of all. Some sort of bloody zombie group pours out of the room, teeth chomping and voices cackling.

"Why did you let them out?!" Kellyn exclaims, and uses a chair to knock one of the zombies away from me. I step back, and point my styler at another one that is leaping at me.

ZAP! A burst of electricity slams the zombie back into the room.

"What the HELL is going on?!" I scream. Taking a 12 inch metal stick, I extend it into a five foot pole and continue defending myself.

"I have no idea. I helped everyone here when they were mindless and daft, but they just suddenly went berserk, and tried killing everyone!" I use the pole to propel myself into the air, over half the zombies, and land behind them. They whirl around and I knock them into the room again. Kellyn heaves one into the air and tosses it in along with the rest. I slam the door shut, and lock it tightly. Kellyn walks over to me, breathing heavily.

"I'd just got them all in there too..." he mutters, then looks up into my eyes. "We still have a few that ran off, and we need to catch them." I don't comprehend what he's saying, because I stare in horror at his eyes.

"They're turning orange!" I shriek.

Kellyn sits down next to me, and I look at his blackening arms.

"I was bitten when one of the last patients turned into a zombie," he tells me. "I only have a little bit of time left until I go insane. That's why I was going to lock all those zombies into that room so that they would tear themselves apart." I nod.

"But aren't they people from Chicole?" Kellyn's silent for a while.

"Yeah...they are." He looks at me. "But they aren't anymore." I put my head in my hands.

"So my parents...?" Kellyn puts a hand on my shoulder.

"I was going to go into one of the medicine rooms, and inject myself with too much of something..." he says. "At least that way, I'd still die me." I shake my head.

"No," I say. "I'll keep you from turning into a zombie." Kellyn's face crumbles.

"It's impossible."

I jump to my feet. "You're just giving up too easily!" I shout, and dash off before he can see me crying.

"WAIT!" he calls, but I don't listen to what he says after that.

Stopping, I put a hand on the wall to allow myself to catch my breath. I pant heavily, but then notice the wall I'm touching is..warm...and...ALIVE?!

I back off after hearing a maniacal cackling. Pointing my flashlight up, I see the most disgusting, and insane zombie yet. Its face is stretched, its eye sockets are enlarged, the eyes are black, blood is dripping out of every possible exit, and it's finger nails are super sharp claws. I scream bloody murder, as I jumps onto my metal pole as I try to keep it at arms length.

It slashes at me, and I knock it off with a quick flick. It comes back from behind me, and snakes its claws around my neck. I feel the puncturing wounds before the screech ebbs its way out of my mouth. The zombie lowers its sharp teeth down to my skull and opens its jaws. I slam it across the head with my pole and it loses its grip slightly.

Whirling in a circle, I take aim, and plunge the sharper side of the pole into the zombie's gut. It makes a strangled howl and falls limp across the pole. I'm frozen in shock. Then I drop the object stuck to the zombie onto the floor. I stumble backwards, and bump into something. I whip around and bring my fist at whatever it is, but Kellyn grabs my wrist to stop me. I shake, and fall into his arms, shuddering and sobbing.

I never knew that the darkness could be dangerous. I'd always thought of it as exciting a mysterious. But now I've seen the darker side, and it's scary as hell. Kellyn pushes me back and looks at me in worry.

"Kate, your wounded!" he says in a tight voice. I reach up to my neck, and feel sticky wetness coming from very sensitive points.

I look at my hand and see what is on it, and faint right then and there.


~Fin Scene 3

~Misty