A/N – Yay! Finally, I finished writing this chapter. This one is very hard to write * sob* But I hope that it will be interesting chapter to you guys. In this chapter, I hope Mevis didn't turn into Mary-Sue because of her skills. I tried to avoid it as much as I could.
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Chapter 4
Flight To Survive
Running was something that Mevis hate because it was a coward act and something that she wouldn't do unless... it was necessary.
Especially, this circumstance...
" FUCK" She hollered when the psychopath swung its weapon that looked like the scythe slashed on her back in deep cut. It made her lose the balance and fell on the floor very hard as the wound was opened. Then, he activated some kind of pedal which brought the cell down and set off the trap that made wall with spikes came closer very fast to mash her like a juice. Mevis gritted her teeth, bearing the pain as she tried to get up and run forward until she found the metallic door on the floor. Not wasting any minutes, she quickly opened and went in before she found herself slide down.
" AH!" She screamed when there was another another trap that almost grid her legs but luckily she dodge it in time before she found another one and managed to avoid it. Then she closed her eyes, preparing the impact from falling into the red crimson pool. After she fell into that, she resurfaced up to gasp for the air and blew out the blood that got into her nostrils as every part of her body feel disgusted at the blood which covered her from head to toes.
Mevis turned around suddenly when she heard the familiar exclamation came out from another hole with the man who fell into the pool of blood like her before he came up and spit the blood out of his mouth and wiped the rest on his face away.
Mevis wiped some blood that she got from the splash when the man fell in before walked to him.
" Sebastian! Are you alright?" She asked with worry once she recognized the man.
" Mevis, is that you?" Sebastian said, feeling unsure if the woman in front of him was one of rookie since she got the blood cover on her a lot.
" Yes, sir but I think we should get out of this bloody pool before the wound on my back is infected." Mevis said before she brought herself from the pool with Sebastian followed behind.
" Argh!" Sebastian stumbled when his right leg touched the floor. Mevis rushed to him and checked for the injury until she found the deep cut at his calf.
" Oh my god, did he do this to you too?" She helped Sebastian sat on the floor before started to ripped some part of her shirt, revealing her dyed undershirt – it was dyed by blood.
" You know that ugly with chainsaw?" Mevis furrowed her eyebrows confusingly.
" No, I was chased by the lunatic with the scythe. The big scythe." She said before she made her hand to show expressed how big of the weapon that mad man used before bandaged his wound. Sebastian snorted before slowly got up without hurting his right leg.
" Great. Just one psychopath, I barely survived. Now I have to face two of them." Mevis grimaced at Sebastian's comment – feeling that whatever he said was like adding fuels to flames.
" I think we can complain about that later. Let's find the way to get out of this place." She said before held his arm around her neck to walk with her support to the door which connected to the underground.
Mevis looked at the sewage and looked around for something that she could use to let Sebastian walked without risking the infection.
" Just get in." Sebastian said curtly, feeling annoyed at her for wasting time in worrying about infection and walked into it until he got off when he reached to the other side.
Mevis slowly walked into the water, wincing when it almost reached to where she got her wound as she toddled until she made to the other side.
" Where is the exit?" Sebastian said as if he talked to himself, ignoring her and walked to where the dead man sitting on wheelchair and picked up the file that was beside the man. Mevis walked to Sebastian and read the note in his hand.
Beside the locked gate at the far end of sewer, there is a ladder which would take you to the old ward. If you could make it through there, you would find the elevator leading outside. You and your friends would be the one who escaped. You might be the only people who survived.
-R
" R? Who is R?" Mevis asked as she mused if whoever wrote this note was ally or enemy. Then, she felt like something scrabble her brain. She bit her lip, hoping the pain in her head was gone until it was mitigated.
" I'm not sure but let see if he lies us or not." Sebastian said and walked to where the note mentioned that it would be the exit. Mevis followed him behind closely as he walked to another room which had the ladder lead up to some room.
" Mevis, are you alright after you were attacked by that man in white cloak?" Sebastian asked and looked at her half seriously half concernedly.
" After I was black out from that attack, I found myself tied to the chair before I set myself free and got chased and cut by the lunatic with the big scythe. And...I lost my trusty gun. What about you?" Mevis looked at Sebastian who didn't look so well – his face had some dry blood stain and his gun was gone from his suspender shoulder gun holster as same as her. His face looked tired from the exhaustion from running and losing some blood indicated that he need the first aid. Also, he lost his raincoat that Mevis always saw him wear it wherever he went but she decided to drop the subject because whenever she talked about it, he would be upset and chased her back to work.
" Being hung upside down with no gun by the maniac with a chainsaw. Running until it got my leg. Then, that bastard activated some kind of bloody hell trap and I had to escape with the door on the floor before slide down and met you." Sebastian said while scanning the room for anything that he might use for something before he gave up.
" Alright, Let's move on. You go first." Sebastian looked at Mevis who rose her eyebrows at him questionably.
" Why? Wait, let me guess ' Lady first' code, right?" Sebastian gave her annoyed look - " Don't joke around with me. Shut up and climb this ladder' stare.
" What? I'm just trying to lighten up the mood." Mevis defended before shook her head for his temper and climbed up.
Once she reached to the top, Mevis scanned around the room and when the coast is clear, she sent the signal for Sebastian to climb up. She looked around for something that could tell her what happened to this place until she saw the file with the symbol of Beacon Mental Hospital and ' Confidential' mark on it.
13:00 – STEM system operation test begins.
13:15 – Success. Confirmation of brainwave synchronization; loss minimal. Continuing experiment. Agent collects the data.
13:30 – Anomaly occurs. Not with the subjects; the stenographer claimed they weren't feeling well and then fell into coma for reasons unknown. Doctor orders the STEM system terminated.
13:45 – Staff begin complaining of nausea and falling unconscious one after another. Those who can still move plan their escape from the hospital but for unknown reasons are unable to. Though the STEM system should have been deactivated, subjects maintained brainwave synchronization with the host.
14:00 – He...that man appeared
" What were they experimenting about brain?" Suddenly, she felt the ache in her head again and this time, it worsens than before. Mevis's tear came up as she fell over the floor. Sebastian rushed to her but could not do anything.
" Mevis! What's wrong?! What happened?!" The only answer that Sebastian got from her was the moan in pain and tear on Mavis's face as she tried to bear the ache in her head.
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Flashback
Mevis found herself lay on the medical bed as the doctor and nurse brought her to somewhere. The nurse looked at her with emotionless as she reported something to the doctor.
" Doctor, this subject is danger. You know that when we tried to synchronize her to accept the data. She was the only one who could resist it. There might be the high risk that once she found out, she will kill our agent."
" But that was her advantage which we could use to against him. She had the potential. So, don't question my decision and send her inside along with the other officer and our agent." Doctor said curtly and walked away.
…...
" -Evis! Mevis! Mevis!" Mevis blinked her eyes a few times and looked at Sebastian who crouched beside her.
" I'm fine. Just my over-stress disorder need some attention." Mevis got up staggeringly.
" You sure?" Sebastian asked.
" I'm fine. Just a few day offs after we get out of this place, I'll be fit as fiddle." Mevis said and took a deep breath in her lungs before exhale it softly as she felt her headache was gone.
" Alright, I'm feeling much better." Sebastian nodded and proceeded to open anther room and checked it cautiously.
" It's safe." He called out and gestured her to come in while he was holding the door for her before closed it.
They walked through the moist corridor until they found another door. Mevis opened it with her combat knife in another hand to defend herself. Once she made sure that it was safe, she nodded to Sebastian and opened another door which was the archives and went to another room that had two lockers.
Suddenly, there was the loud noise came from where they had came in. Mevis turned around swiftly before her eyes widen in pure shock. The psychopath with chainsaw was coming to their way.
" Shit...better hide" Sebastian hissed and tried to open the door next to the locker but it wouldn't budge. Mevis poked Sebastian at the lockers before they hid in there.
Mevis tried to be quiet as much as she could when the door was slammed down by the lunatic with chainsaw loudly. The psychopath growled madly as he came in, scanning around for two preys which he sensed that they were around here.
" NO! That bitch is MINE! MINE! MINE!" He turned around to see his lunatic friend who held the big scythe.
" Did you HEAR me?! That one is MINE! Now move aside, you fatty- ARGH!" The lunatic with scythe screamed in agony as his body was cut by the chainsaw. The blood and flesh spattered everywhere and dyed the chainsaw and its user including some part of the room in deep red color. Mevis leaned back to the locker, shaking in fear at the scene she peeped through the locker's door and covered her mouth to muffle her cry as she flinched when that monster kicked another door violently and waked like nothing happen.
Once the sound of chainsaw was trailed off but it wasn't far from her, Mevis opened the locker where she hid slowly and got out cautiously. Sebastian came out and limped to her.
" We can't let him see us." She whispered after she gathered her wits and looked at her decease pursuer with pity.
" I know. We need a plan to distract that bastard so that it could buy us some times to sneak away without being noticed." Sebastian said as he looked around for something until he found the perfect object for noise maker – a glass bottle.
" I will distract him to buy you some times." He said before he tiptoed and gestured her to follow him. Mevis gulped and walked stealthily after him. Part of her wanted to say that she will do it for him since her injury didn't hinder her in running but her cowardice after watching that gruesome scene made her too scare to come up with any plan to help him.
Sebastian peeped through the broken window of the room to see where is the psychopath before he threw the bottle to hit the wall on the other side. When the bottle was shattered to the floor, that monster ran to that direction and swung the chainsaw in air. Sebastian nodded to her as a signal that she could go. Mevis bit her lip and was hesitated before she ran cautiously to another room and waited for him.
Once Sebastian made it and passed the lunatic without being caught, Sebastian and Mevis walked quietly until they found another door. Mevis opened it slowly, wincing at the sound of the door before moved aside to let Sebastian come in and locked the door. As she was trying to the screen to block the door, Sebastian stopped her.
" No, it's too loud. Just leave it like that." Mevis nodded before let it go and opened another door which she saw the elevator at the end of the hallway that filled with the wheelchairs and medical beds.
She smiled in relief. Just getting into the elevator, they would be safe and free from this nightmare. However, the fate seemed to be cruel to them. Mevis looked back and saw the door was slammed down by the hand of a certain person – the monster with a chainsaw in its hand, readying to finish them off.
" SHIT! RUN!" Sebastian hollered. Not wasting any seconds, Mevis run and pushed the wheelchairs to clear the way for Sebastian to help catch up with her. But because of his injury at his leg, it slowed him down and the psychopath almost caught up with him. Suddenly, there was something hit her hard and made her forget the fear of death. Mevis rushed to Sebastian and dragged him to the elevator with her by pulling his arm. A swing of chainsaw missed by a hair's breath when they arrived inside the elevator as its cell doors closed in time before the psychopath could come in.
As the elevator moved up, Mevis felt her heart beat in hummingbird's heart rate and broke out in a cold sweat from that life and death situation. All of sudden, she felt weak and slumped on the elevator's floor weakly.
" Thanks. I owe you one." Mevis gave a weak smile to Sebastian, feeling glad that she still had some strength to fight her fear and had courage to save him.
" Actually, I'm scared stiff to help you at first. But, imagine that I was the only one who survived from this hell, it made me feel guilty for the rest of my life and I might decide to commit suicide." Sebastian was quiet and looked at Mevis solemnly.
Mevis closed her eyes in shame for what she said to him and admit her fear to him but she didn't want him to think that he owed her. She accepted that she was a coward which was something that all police officers and detective shouldn't have it.
" But you still save my life. That's all that matters." Mevis looked up at Sebastian in disbelief. She thought that he gonna insult her and then drop the subject.
" We all have fear, Mevis. Even the detective like us who faced the dangerous situation. Believe me, I did this job for a long time before you and Joseph were recruited in but I was still fear in the situation like this." Sebastian said and looked at her calmly.
" It's good to admit that you fear but don't let it get you."
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