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Chapter 6: Flesh Lips and Crumbling Gems

Beck left Ruby back in that room, hoping that those weird nurses wouldn't be able to open doors, and talking about doors, he had a plenty of options to find where Jade was hiding, the hospital was huge and it had 4 floors, they took at least 1 hour to register the first one and the second one was even harder, because he had to be avoiding those nurses and some ocassional mannequin.

Lucky for Beck, a lot of doors where locked and unable to open, but every time he found an open door, the room was filled with nurses and there was no traces of Jade, thanks to that, Beck became a lot more agile soon, avoiding the monsters was easiest with each passing second and he was very alert to the sounds on the pocket radio, just in case any monster would try to surprise him.

After what looked like an eternity, Beck managed to check every single room in the second floor without finding any traces of Jade (he only found some gun bullets and a dry battery for the flashlight), He was ready to go to the third floor when he remembered Ruby, he walked towards the room wher he left her but he could listen her snoring a little, Beck smiled and went back to the stairs, thinking that actually it would be easier to avoid the monsters by himself alone than bringing Ruby with him, besides, he didn't wanted to disturb her sleep.

Decided, Beck went upstairs to the 3rd floor, and did the same as in the 2 previous ones, he was getting tired of the same thing, trying to avoid the nurses, try to open the doors when the 90% were closed, and spending hours without a trace of Jade. Again he checked every single room, opening only a pair of doors with nothing useful or interesting on it.

Only the 4th floor was remaining, it was Beck's last chance to find Jade in the hospital, if not, he would have to stick to the original plan and go straight to the Lakeview hotel.

He entered the last floor, but there was nothing, just a plain, enormous rooftop surrounded by grating, there was no rooms, no doors, no monsters, but specially, no signs of Jade.
Beck realized that it was finally night time, which wasn't something good, if that town was dangerous even when there was daylight, he didn't wanted to know what hid in the darkness of the night.
He walked a little bit just to have a look at the streets from the 'safe' top of the building, he could see some of the lower floors and the streets seemed empty but he couldn't be sure with that mist.

*E2-1

Beck walked away, decided to go and sleep in the same room as Ruby and wait for the daylight to continue his search for Jade, but as he turned around, he froze, the Pyramid Head monster appeared out of nothing and hitted him with the hilt of his gigantic knife, the monster's strenght was enough to throw Beck towards the grating, which collapsed with the hit.
The boy fell down and broke throught the ceiling of the lower floor, blacking out immediatly.

Beck woke up after a good while, he didn't knew how much time it passed, but he realized that, saving a light headache, he was completly unharmed and the roof was completly fixed somehow.
Another thing that he realized was that he landed behind a door that was locked before, so he had the oportunity to check out that hallway in search for Jade, but the hospital was really different behind that door:
The most of the floor was covered with blood and all of the doors except for 2 where completly blocked by bloody gauze, some of the floor was replaced by grating as well as part of the walls, and it was twice as dark than usual.

Thinking that the gauze wouldn't be a problem, he tried to open the doors, but the fact that the blood was fresh combined with a horrible and disgusting rotting smell that was coming from each door, made him stop, and he decided to go inside one of the normal doors (one was labeled as 'Emegency stairs' so he went to the other one) , which luckly was open... or maybe not so luckly, something was inside the room (which was like a big kitchen), there was 4... things, he couldn't name it other way, they where bloated, malformed masses of meat and flesh with human-like limbs jutting out from it's top and bottom, suspended in a rusty metal frame. A pair of large, smacking lips where on the bottom of each creature.

They gathered around the boy, trying to wrap their limbs around his neck, he had to crawl on the filthy floor to avoid the attack of the creatures and get away from them, but they floated around with no problems at all, Beck decided it was time to attack.
He started firing his gun tryin to aim to the lips of the monsters, which looked more vulnerable than the rest of it's bodies, it worked quite nicely since they started backing away, but with 4 of those things, there was always one behind Beck.

He managed to defeat 3 of those things, but the last one was extremly fast, he couldn't aim correctly and before he could do something, the monster wrapped it's limbs around his neck, lifing him from the floor a few inches, Beck couldn't breathe, he listened the door opening as the monster dragged towards the ceiling...

"BECK!" screamed a known voice

"Ja...Jade?" said him weakly as a blurred red figure was heading at full speed towards the monster he felt the monster shaking because someone hitted it, the limbs wrapping around his neck loosened and he broke free, taking a deep breath and holding his neck, Ruby was hitting the monster with a steel pipe she tore up from the sink, the water was flowing without stopping while the girl brutally hitted the creature, which stopped moving after a while, Ruby threw the pipe away and he was breathing harshly.
Beck stood up slowly watching at the hanging motionless creature, Ruby had her blue eyes wide opened and holding her chest while breathing harshly, she started crying a second after that, the boy walked towards her, but before he could walk 3 or 4 steps, the girl rushed towards Beck and hugged him.

"Are you alright?!" asked the girl shaking uncontrollably

"Ye...Yeah" said Beck a little surprised by Ruby's reaction "Thanks to you" The girl smiled with her eyes filled with tears

"Don't Leave Me!" screamed her still crying "Be more careful please! When all the hospital became like this i was so scared and..."

"Just calm down" said Beck honestly "I will, and you said all the hospital is like this?" the girl agreed slowly

"It happened all of sudden," said her "I woke up because i listened sirens and the walls started changing, I freaked out and ran away, looking for you"

"Well I'm lucky you found me" said Beck smiling "that think would've killed me if you didn't appeared"

"Don't even say it" said Ruby gasping scared "I don't think i would be able to be alone again"

"Let's get out of here" answered Beck with a smile, the girl agreed cleaning the tears from her eyes Beck started walking towards the hospital exit but Ruby stopped him.

"The main stairs are blocked" said the girl "There's at least 25 nurses swarming around them" added her with a shiver

"Then we should take the emergency stairs just like I did back in the appartments" said Beck turning around and walking towards the opposite direction, followed by the girl.

According to a sign next to the stairs, they were in the 3rd floor, so they went down the stairs 2 floors to reach the first one and leave that horrible hospital, Beck sighed when they arrived to the door, but then he groaned as it was blocked, and it didn't mattered how much they tried, the door didn't budge.

"What are we going to do?" asked Ruby still pushing the door with any result

"Maybe..." said Beck looking back, there was still 1 floor to go down, maybe if they went down they could find another stairway to go to the first floor and get out... "Let's go down the basement" said Beck decided "We can find another way to go to the first floor down there"

Ruby looked nervous but she didn't complained and followed Beck right away, the room got darker and darker with each step they took, Beck felt uneasy all of sudden, like if he shouldn't be down there, he had the feeling that something hoe¡rrible could happen if he kept going, and Ruby seemed as nervous as him, but she smiled and agreed when he slowly opened the door.
There was a long and dark corridor, it was 2 and a half or 3 feet wide at most, they couldn't see anything beyond 3 feet away.

"I'll go first" said Beck, thinking that if something appeared in front of them, he could take care of it.

After walking around for a few minutes, Beck realized that the it was more a Labyrinth than a normal corridor, it twisted several times, but it didn't had another paths to take, it was just a long, twisted corridor with nothing on it.

"I Don't like this" said Ruby really scared, Beck was going to answer, but a sound made him freeze for a second: A metallic screech.

"Shit!" said Beck knowing what was next "Ruby, Run!"

Freaked out, the girl started to run behind Beck, the metallic screech was getting closer, if that thing appeared in front of them they wouldn't stand a chance, but when the Pyramid headed monster appeared right behind Ruby, who squealed in panic, Beck didn't had any other option but to pull the girl's arm and run faster, but for some reason, the monster wasn't as slow as the one he fought back in the appartments, no matter how fast they ran, the monster was always behind them, Beck then realized that the monster wasn't carrying that heavy great knife, it was carrying a long spear.
The panic took over Beck, he just kept running, ignoring the fact that Ruby was left behind since she slowed down a little, he was just concentrated in the small square of light at the end of the corridor, it was an elevator which could take them out of that hell.
Beck Smiled as he arrived to the small elevator, now he just needed Ruby to arrive, but as soon as he stepped in, the elevator doors started closing slowly

"BECK!" screamed Ruby in panic as the boy tried to hold them without any success

"DAMN IT!" said Beck mashing the button on the elevator to make it stop "OPEN UP!"

"BECK!" screamed the girl again as she managed to reach the doors, but the remaining space was too narrow for her to go inside, only her pale hand was inside the elevator

"BECK, HELP ME!" Screamed Ruby really scared, trying to get inside the elevator, Beck was pulling her arm to help her but the space was too narrow

"SHIT!" said him pulling the doors and mashing the buttons "OPEN UP, STUPID ELEVATOR!"

The monster was closer and closer, the girl kept screaming in paninc and the boy was desperately trying to open the elevator, suddenly something else went inside it and made Beck walk back, his face was covered with blood and the tip of the spear went through Ruby's chest.

"Be...Beck" said the girl with weak voice and her blue eyes wide open, her hand slowly fell and went out of the elevator and the doors closed completly

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! RUBY!" screamed Beck hitting the elevator's door as it started to go up...

*E1
*E2-2
*E3

Beck slowly walked outside the hospital, it was still nightime which didn't made him feel better, he was tempted to go back to the hospital and lock himself inside one room and spend the night there, but knowing that his only companion's corpse was one floor bellow him made Beck feel uneasy.
Not sure what to do next, he looked at the map to try to find some sort of clue and he saw a name: Lakeview hotel, he remembered that he was heading there before entering the hospital so he decided that heading towards there was his best option...

-HINTS-

*E1: She was dead, it was so sad indeed and now he was all alone again, but there was no turning back now, he was about to find Jade, he could feel it, and crying for someone who looked like her wouldn't help him find Jade...

*E2-1: Looking around, something called Beck's attention: there was a diary in the middle of the roof, he walked towards it and started reading:

-May 9-
Rain.
Stared out the window all day.
Peaceful here — nothing to do, I'm totally bored.
Still not allowed to go outside, stupid doctors...

-May 10-

Still raining.
Talked with the doctor a little,
I know, I'm pathetic and weak
Even when everyone think's i'm strong.

-May 11-
Rain again.
I'm getting sick of this weather
Don't feel like writing

-May 12-
Rain as usual.
I don't want to cause any more trouble for anyone,
but I'm a bother either way.
It's too hard like this, It's just too hard...

-May 13-
It's clear outside finally
The doctors told me I've been released,
I've got to go home but i know the reason,
I'm D- and they want me to spend my last hours with him...

A tear ran down Beck's cheek, that diary... he knew that diary, there was no other explanation... she felt like a trouble, she was sad, she was aware she would die soon...

*E2-2: Ruby was gone, he failed again, first with Jade and now with her... was he that useless?! Couldn't he protect a single person without failing?!, Beck was angry at himself, now he wasn't sure if he was able to keep going on the search for Jade without failing...

*E3: He was stupid... why would he had to chase Jade inside that hospital?! if he listened Ruby, she would be alive now, but no!, he had to find Jade!, and now he lost both his girlfriend and the only girl who could replace her, but now he had to stick to the original plan and find Jade...

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