Chapter 8: Double Torment

Ramona's POV

"Creepy village.." Neil said

"I think this is where our buddies were standing.." Stephen pointed to where the ground had footmarks and a foot mark that dug deep as if they tried to push something away.

Could Scott be still alive in this foredoomed village? I felt tears roll down my cheeks and wiped them away. Scott is still alive, I know it... That jerk better be alive... I clenched my fits and bit my lower lips in anger...

"Now where do we start...?" Stephen asked, waiting patiently for my answer.

"We should split" I answered, "Stephen and Neil you go to the right. Both me and Kim will go to the left"

Stephen nodded and carried Neil with one hand like a soccer ball, Neil frowned "Really Stephen?"

"If you guys found Scott and Wallace, call us and wait on top of the hill we were just on. Where we saw their footmarks, okay?" Kim commanded,guess she knew I couldn't talk because of how my hands are shaking and the way I'm trying not to cry as best as I can.

"Alright, you girls better be careful. If you ran into anything call us, alright?" Stephen ordered.

I nodded, grabbed Kim's arm and left.

If Scott was here he would probably mention that this place looked like one of his games or anime.

"I hope Knives's alright." Kim said.

"Yeah..."

"Meow"

I looked to my front and found the cat, it was black and had a collar bell. How did this cat manage to survive in this place? I shook my head and decided to continue moving.

Kim, on the other hand, knelt close to the cat to not frighten the little thing. She rubbed it's head and smiled. Just looking at how kind Kim was melted my heart, knowing that no one saw this side of Kim.

"Hey, we're looking for two guys that came to this village, one of them is an idiot with orange hair and the other has a black hair." Kim asked.

"Y'know, even if it saw them it won't be able to answer.." I informed lightly.

"She" Kim fixed.

I giggled and nodded afterwards, it's really sweet to know she cares.

The cat only purred and walked towards a statue and rested there. Kim stood and said that we should probably move on from where the cat stopped. I looked to the left and saw a path that led to the forest. I nodded and followed Kim.

"If we didn't find anything, we'll go to the forest to the left," Kim nodded and we looked at the statue.

"If only I brought my camera" Said Kim, "Then I could've used this statue as a pic of our album" I laughed and hit her shoulder playfully.

"Seriously, why would they make a statue holding a heart?" Kim raised one of her eyebrows and kept staring at the statue.

I shrugged and said "Maybe that's what they do in their ritual." and went downstairs

"Could be" Kim nodded and followed.


Stephen's POV

Everything's fucked up in this village. I kept thinking to myself to not scare the crap out of lil Neil.

Neil looked around and ran towards a well, this gave me many ideas, I could yell and freak him out or try pushing him in the well. In the end I only shaked him to pretend as if I want to push him, he yelled and tried to push me.

"Stop it!" Neil yelled, " I heard someone talking inside this well..."

I looked inside the well, it was pitch black not a single sound coming from it. "Yeah... nothing's here"

He stomped his foot and said "I swear! I'm not kidding I heard someone talking!"

I sighed and used my flashlight to see if someone was in there, a face of a woman appeared and was getting close, I backed away and fell on my bottom. My heartrate was speeding up and was pounding harder than I could.

"Stephen" Neil walked towards me and knelt "You alright?" as he placed an arm over my shoulder..

"Shit..." I breathed "I need a lil bit of time to rest, sorry bud... My heart's beating like crazy..."

"Here," He gave me a bottle of water he got from his bag and sat beside me. "When you feel like you're ready tell me..." I nodded and tried to calm my breaths.

Just before I could rest I heard large footsteps, I stood in front of lil Neil immediately in order to protect him from any harm in this fucked up village.

"KOOOOOOOOOROOOOOOSUUUUUUUUUUU" the hulking deformed hunchback angrily.

"The hell is this thing..?!" Still standing, making sure Neil is behind me.

"Ooooh! I know what it means! In a video game I played with Scott!" Neil jumped happily at finding what that word meant.

"Yeah? Care to hurry up and tell me what it means?"

"It means..." he slowly stopped jumping and began to panic bit by bit "kill..."

I cracked my hands and my neck "He sure is killing time for us to find our buddies"

The ugly creature ran towards me and I punched his face when he got close. I jumped over him and kept punching his face nonstop.

He spat blood at my face and elbowed my stomach, I coughed roughly and fell on my back. He got over me and choked me harder and harder by the second.

"Run!" I yelled at Neil and tried to move the freak away from me.

Neil looked around to find anything he could use as a weapon. I could tell he was panicking...

The freak kept squeezing even harder and I could feel my neck going to break anytime soon and felt my eyes going to white until Neil jumped at the hideous creature and tried to grab on by placing his arms around his neck and squeezing as hard as he could. The gruesome monster let to of my and tried to push Neil away. I gasped for breath as I woke up and looked at the hunchback.

Neil was trying his best to not let go but I could see him slowly letting loose of the freak. I tried to look for a plan before it's too late.

"Stephen!" Yelled Neil, "Once he gets closer to the well I'll let go and I want you to push him in!" Neil tried to squeeze the monster even harder. I nodded and prepared to run and slam that asshole.

The deformed monster got close to the well, "Now!" Neil let go and the freak angrily grabbed Neil and threw him towards a house that the walls even broke because of the force.

"YOU BASTARD!" I yelled as ran as fast as I could and slammed the disgusting creature down the well.

The monster yelled and the echo's were heard due to how deep the well was until minutes later a thud was heard. I looked back at Neil and sat close to him. "You alright...?" I asked, checking for any injuries.

He nodded and said "I'm alright, just dizzy is all..."

I checked his head and felt something wet on my palms, blood. The backside of his head was bleeding.

"Y-you're alright..." I informed him then I took a bandage and a bottle of water from his bag and washed the injured area.

"Thank you for what you did there... You saved my life" I confessed, wrapping bandage around his head.

"You would've done the same" Neil reassured.

I smiled and patted his head softly, "Still, I'm grateful to you and owe you big time"

Neil laughed and said "Well, you can repay me by playing video games with me until I beat you and order dinner!"

"I accept the offer but cancel the second, I'll order dinner for a week"

"Deal!" Neil replied offering his hand for me to shake.

I laughed and handshaked him.


Wallace's POV

I took a sip from the bottle and placed my hands over Scott's. Just looking at how cute and vulnerable he is made me smile.

"You really like me don't you..?"

I flinched and looked at Scott who's appearance changed "Negascott..." I clenched my fists and gritted my teeth.

"You don't have to be angry, I just missed you is all..." He smirked as he sat and looked at me.

"What do you want...?" I asked, looking at my- at Negascott.

"Well..." He reached one of his hands and held my face "What do you want...?" he grinned as he licked his lips.

"I want you to get Scott back and to get away from this place.." I answered angrily.

"Really, Wallace...?" He got closer to me and slowly closed his eyes as he placed his forehead on mine. I let out a soft breath and closed my eyes bit by bit. Our lips were inches apart and I could feel his warm breath and the way he tries to calm me by rubbing his hands tenderly on my face made me want to kiss him ever so gently.

"Wallace," He slowly let go, gaining my full attention. "They're here..."

I took my katana, stood up and looked towards Negascott "Who are you talking about..?"

"Some weird ass samurai demons carrying different kinds of weapon.."

"Stay here, and get Scott back..." I ordered as I made my way to the door.

"You're hurt, Wallace." He informed, "You can't beat them in this state and you'll only get yourself killed"

I clenched my fist and said "I'll take care of them," then left the room and closed the door behind me.

When I got out I heard voices coming from both sides of the hallway I moved to the right and held my weapon tightly. Just as I opened the door the dark demon stabbed me with his spear, I couldn't dodge it. I coughed and pulled the spear away from my stomach and slashed his neck with my katana, blood spilled on the ground
as he fell below me, the others were running behind me trying to reach me. Guess they know when a member of theirs is dead, huh?

A huge samurai wearing a mask grabbed my shirt and pulled me into the air, I spat blood at his face which only caused him to be more angry and threw me outside of the window. I hit the ground and coughed up blood and tried to wake up only to lose balance and crawl instead. Minutes later, I heard their voices outside of
the house and were probably searching for Scott but failed to find him. Just before things could get any better the samurai that I slashed his throught was untop of me, trying to stab me on multiple places. I grabbed his spear and tried to push it away, it was getting closer to my chest I gritted my teeth and kept on pushing his weapon away when suddenly he fell beside me with a katana on his back.

"Negascott.."

"Even bad guys can be heroes you know" He pulled the spear away and stabbed the demon with it.

"Thanks" I smiled as I rested my eyes at him.

"It was nothing..." He blushed and looked away. "You need to rest, I'll help you out this once."

I chuckled and decided to not tease him and let him do as he pleased.