The Rising Storm
Chapter 9 – Prison is Hell
Naruto stumbled through the darkness of the prison, the floor slippery under foot with large piles of bloody masses been everywhere. As Naruto followed the small form that always seemed to be in front of him he herd voices echoing around him, small quirt voice that were soft and not fully developed. He herd giggling and singing, he herd arguing and disagreements. As he came to a corridor he followed the shape down and as he emerged in the other side he was bathed in light...
"Hello." Naruto herd the voice before his eyes adjusted to the sudden immersion in light, as he regained his sight he saw he was in what had probably been a visitors center where prisoners families would have come. The room he was in looked like a children's play pen with the floor scattered with toys and children's playthings. In the center of the room sat the little boy Naruto had been following, the small child lay on his stomach coloring in a book with a large black crayon. Now in the light Naruto could see the boy fully, he was no more than seven years old and wore indeed a school uniform but it looked at least a hundred years out of fashion. The small waistcoat and shorts looked very out of place to Naruto, the child's combed back mosey blond hair revealed a small slim face with green eyes that were concentrated on the book, the child hummed to himself as he scribbled on the paper. After a moments of silence from Naruto the child looked up slightly worried.
"Sir, Is something the matter." The child said in a very posh English accent that was reminded Naruto of the films Sakura used to watch from her romance collection.
"No." Was all Naruto could manage as he stood slightly in dazed state.
The child shook his head and went back to his coloring, Naruto looked around the room for a moment and then back to the child. Something dripped from the child down onto the page, Naruto took a step towards the child when suddenly the walls started to ooze a black slime that dribbled down to the floor and started to pool. When Naruto looked back to the child the boy had his head up again facing the blond, Naruto fell backwards in horror. The boys eyes were gone replaced with gapping bleeding holes. The boy's mouth smiled and in a carefree voice spoke...
"What's wrong mister?"
Naruto screamed and got to his feet pressing his back up against a wall and staring at the boy who hadn't moved. Suddenly the child's form seemed to flake away as if it was made of ash and the wind had caught it, till their was nothing left. Naruto covered his eyes and screamed as the horror of what he'd seen overtook his mind. When final he'd stopped screaming and removed the hands from over his eyes he gazed around, the room was completely normal. No black ooze was pouring from the walls and no sign of the small boy...Only a book laying open on the floor with a black crayon laying next to it. As Naruto walked over to the book he saw a page filled with childish drawings, what Naruto could make out was a large black form in the center of the page. It looked like a monster from a nightmare with a mass of arms and legs, where its eyes were was two violet orbs of crayon. Suddenly Naruto herd the door creak behind him and as he turned he saw a shadowy shape pass the open doorway, he suddenly felt the uncontrolled need to follow the shape.
Elsewhere in the prison Sasuke and the other Hunters were closing in on the demons hole, as they neared the hole the bloody mass of what had been prisoners and guards became ever more mutilated and feasted upon. As they passed a cell block they saw a great pile of flesh and bones piled in the open space, blood was oozing everywhere and the floor was an inch deep in the crimson liquid amongst over bodily fluids, it appeared the prisoners did not have very strong stomachs or bladders.
As they pressed on they found found a strange sight, in the large corridor that connected the cell blocks to the final block which housed death row a mass of bodies littered the corridor. But these were no human bodies, the bloated inhuman forms of demons oozed blood allover the corridors white surfaces. Sasuke looked at the form closest to him and saw that the creatures very heart had been tore out, the wound surrounding the hole in its chest was burnt like someone had used a heated blade to rip the heart out. Most of the others had died in the same way with their hearts been tore out, yet some had been ripped into pierces and their bodies had teeth marks as if they'd been chewed on. As Sasuke looked around he was surprised when a one of his comrades gave a cry of surprise, when looking over to what had spooked the man he saw a young women. Her skin was dark and her clothing looked like something a slave would ware, chains and rags her hair was long and unkempt and her dark brown eyes glared at the hunter with unhidden malice.
She spoke in a strange language Sasuke had never herd and spat at the men before turning and racing off into the darkness, the Hunters instantly gave chase racing after the strange women. As soon as they went through the doors they wished they hadn't as the darkness enveloped them their screams echoed around them.
Naruto walked through the world in a daze following a shadow, he knew it was a bad idea but he had no control of his body. The he herd screaming and he recognized one of the voices, his heart jumped and his legs took to a sprint as he herd Sasuke's screams.
As Naruto walked into the cell block of death row he saw his fellow Hunters curled on the floor screaming as they rolled around in agony...
"Hello again Naruto..." A familiar voice echoed the room and Naruto looked over into t0 darkness at the other end of the room.
The small boy he'd seen earlier stood at the very edge of the wall of darkness, stood next to him was the dark young women. Behind them in the darkness of the room was something huge and dark hidden in shadow, Naruto felt his spine chill as he saw two huge violet eyes stare out at him from the mass of shadow...
TBC
