Night Predator

Chapter 12 – Memorial To All Your Sins.

Naruto was floating in the sea of darkness that had become his night-time world, every night he would dream of bobbing up and down in an oceanic of darkness. Nothingness surrounded the blond with no sound or light...Just him totally alone in the darkness.

But suddenly the world would change around the form of Naruto, it would become a blinding light and Naruto almost blinded by the light would see the shadow cast figure of some one in front of him. Then he would wake up...

As Naruto opened a eye his vision was blurred and he felt slightly cold, as his sight came into focus he saw the room he was in. The walls were covered in blood and claw marks, this caused Naruto to come to his senses fairly quickly.

The room Naruto found himself had once been tiled with white tiles but over the years of neglect many had been broken or fallen away, as Naruto stood up he looked down at the mattress he'd woken up on. The thing looked revolting it was stained with blood and other bodily fluids, the spring in it were half poking out and it smelled foul. Looking around at the room he was in Naruto suddenly realised he was in a cell, a small hole in the far corner of the room served as a toilet and a huge heavy door stood at the other side along with a mirror, the mirror was a strange thing as it took up much of the wall and despite the many bloody hand print that covered its surface it was intact. Naruto walked over to the door and looked at the thing, it was locked and on its surface was blood and finger nail marks as if somebody had tried to claw their way through the metal.

"Awoke for the Void are we 'Fox'." The placid voice echoed the room through a speaker in high corner of the cell.

Naruto recognised the voice as it echoed the room, Naruto turned to the mirror and glare at the image of himself...The bastard was watching him, the mirror must have been a one way mirror.

"Where the fuck am I?" Naruto slammed a fist into the mirror only for his fist to bounce off leaving no marks save for the throbbing pain in the blonds knuckles.

No reply came for a while...

"Where the seed of the worlds destruction was first planted, where humanity hoped to save itself but ultimately doomed itself..." The voice spoke in it's placid tone, speaking without any hint of emotion.

Naruto thought for a moment and the the meaning in the others words became clear.

"This is the source of the virus?" Naruto asked as hugged himself as the chill of the room began to cling to him.

"Yes. Research Centre 12023215 Code named Tartarus was the source of the virus...Amongst other things." The voice said as the door suddenly made a clicking sound.

Naruto took a few steps backwards away from the door in a tense silence, after several seconds it slid to the side revealing a corridor beyond. For a moment Naruto though of what he should do , he could wait in the room and die of hunger or becoming a lunch for the infected...Or he could walk out the room and probably get killed by a maniac with a fucking knife. He took the second option on the principal that at least this option meant he had a fighting chance of survival.

As he took in a deep dress he stepped out into the corridor expecting death to strike him down, when it didn't he looked from left to right a the the empty hallway. What he saw was rows of doors with windows next to them, the hallway was stained with blood and grim decades old. As he looked down the corridor he saw it went on as far as the eye could see, with hundreds maybe thousands of door. Each having a window next to them that let a person see inside the cells that lay beyond the doors, here and their in the corridor were bodies...Many were no more that rotten mounds of bones and tattered clothes all were still...

Naruto saw that on each of the doors was a number as he looked back at the cell he came out of he saw the number seven, as he walked down the hallway he glance into some of the other cells. Many were open and led to empty cells, some had skeletons in them. As he walked along he took a look at the rotten mound of bones that littered his path, although his stomach turned at the sight Naruto could see that most had been in pitch battle with the others. Many were locked in mortal combat with others, here and their were weapons, the rifles all seemed to be empty and shell casings were stow around the carnage.

As Naruto found a huge double door he felt like he was been watch and looked over to a wall camera that had a red light blinking.

"Through the gates that lead to hell they swarmed, screaming,howling, snarling, biting and devouring..." The placid voice came through the speakers that were here and there on the walks.

As Naruto opened the door he herd the voice inside speak.

"There is something here, I can it..." The voice was cut off as Naruto saw what lay beyond the double doors.

The half rotten forms that stood in the doorway looked at the blond with cold dead eyes... Naruto was paralysed with fear and couldn't move a muscle. Inside the voice howled...

"Run! RUN!"

In another part of the building the man stood watching the security monitors as the blond stood with infected gripping him, readying to bite into him.

"Now Fox, what will you do...Will you die and fade away or die and be reborn." The man said in his cold placid voice.

TBC