The Storm
Part 3 - The Killer gets what's coming to him
Written by Arti Cuno and Freakachu
Ash glanced up toward the ceiling where he could hear a familiar yell. "I think Misty's up there!"
Lilja could hear it too, and in her opinion, it didn't sound like she was alone. Probably the thing that was causing all this torture was there. The thing that had carved "UNCLE PHIL" on the wall.
There were also other noises as well, directly above them. Sounded like something or someone was jumping on a bed, and Misty's squeals confirmed Ash and Lilja's suspicion. Misty was being raped by the asshole who made all that terrible stuff happen.
"Wonder what happened to Brock? He followed after her." Ash mused, aloud.
"I'm not sure. Even though I don't like Misty that much, I can't just sit here and let a murderer screw her and then do hell knows what to her. I'm going to find her!" Lilja ran down the hall and after the sounds, the thunder, lighting and rain noises continuing.
Ash looked dumbly in the direction she had gone in, then took of after her with Freakachu and Pikachu close behind.
Suddenly she stopped running, and Ash ran into her from behind, knocking her down. "Hey, why'd ya stop?" She didn't move.
Ash's eyes widened, and he nudged her with his foot. "Hey." She still didn't move.
"Oh shit. Lilja, you better be alright!" He picked her up. She seemed to be unconcious, or close to it and felt extremely feverish. She half opened her eyes and muttered something to him. He carefully made his way into some room, and realized that room didn't have any furniture or anything except a pile of blankets in the corner. He placed her on them, and sat beside her.
"Who's there?" She muttered.
"It's Ash."
"Oh, I..." She reached over for him, and got a handful of his shirt and pulled him down beside her.
"Arti.." Gary said, tapping his girlfriend's cheek to wake her up. "C'mon, wake up... You've lived though worse then this..."
Arti made a faint noise and moved her head slightly. She was too weak to talk, and could barley move. The knife though her stomach seem to have taken all her energy, Gary was worried she'd been poisoned from it. If it was just a simple cut Arti would be able to heal it herself. It didn't help that the knife was still in her, Gary had tried to pull it out but the edges were jagged and it only did more damage coming out.
"Gary..." Arti whimpered, half opening her eyes. "Just go on yourself... I..."
Again she went unconscious. Gary sighed and picked her up. "I'm not leaving you..." He looked at the knife still in her. "I can't believe you've lasted this long, I'm thankful you have, I just hope you'll hang on until we get out of here..."
Nakako put an ear to the wall, listening to the sounds in the room they'd just came from. He looked sickened as he turned to Renku. "Something's going on in there and I have a feeling I don't wanna know what... Sounds like Misty's having fun..."
Renku grinned his demented, pervert grin. "Maybe I shou' check in... Good God wha' the fuck was tha'...."
They both listened again as an evil laugh filled the room beside them and noises like something being hacked at, like a butcher's shop replaced the pervious noise. Still there was screams of Misty's then one last scream cut off with a gurgling noise. The two looked at one another, horrified at the sounds. Something had got to Misty, and it sounded like they chopped her head off.
"Tha'- tha' axe..." Renku stammered. "Some'un used it on Misty..."
Nakako appeared ready to faint. His tanned skin went flush as he leaned against the wall, trying to keep from falling over. "Let's get outta here before it gets US next..."
Renku nodded in agreement as they bother made a break for the door. As they got to it the door to the room the noises came from opened, Nakako jumped to one side of the doorway, getting out of site while Renku jumped behind the door. The thing that had killed Misty trudged by, with a clunk, and drag sound repeating itself slowly, it was dragging a leg along it sounded like to them.
The thing seemed to stop outside the door and sniff the air a few times, it grunted once and continued slowly along.
"That was close..." Nakako sighed in relief, peering out the doorway. The thing was gone now, giving them a chance to escape. They ran the opposite way he went, Renku paused as they passed the psycho's room. He looked in the open too to see Misty, naked and hacked up, he head laying beside her hips.
"'m gonna be sick..." Renku said, running off ahead with a hand over his mouth.
Nakako took chase as best he could in the dark, following the sound of Renku's feet hitting the creaking floor boards.
"Renku! Wait! We should try to stay together and find the others before anyone else gets killed!"
Arti started to wake up again just as Gary sat down holding her, taking a break from wandering about, trying to find the exit. The eevee piled around them, laying down to rest too. The night was turning into a nightmare come true. Gary brushed Arti's hair from her face and sighed. He knew she was in pain. He wanted to be able to rip the knife out of here and hope the wound would be able to heal over like others she'd had did but he was afraid if he pulled it out wrong it would kill her.
He turned her head to look at him, tears in her eyes. "Gary... Just kill me, put me out of my misery..."
He shook his head. She'd asked him before but he couldn't bring himself to doing it. If it had been anyone else, he may have been able to but not her. "Arti, I won't..."
"Please!" she begged, grabbing the knife in her with what strength she had left. "If you don't, I will!"
"No, Don't'!!"
Gary was too late to stop her, Arti ripped the knife out of her and threw it aside. It stick into the wall across from them proving how sharp it was. It had barely struck the wall but the blade sliced into it like butter.
Arti forced herself not to scream even if she seemed in more pain now then before.
"Baka..." Gary said, pulling her close. "Why did you do that..."
She began to cry as he held her. "It hurt too badly, I couldn't stand it... I thought this would be better but it's not... I just hope something kicks in to heal it... before I bleed to death...."
Gary sighed again, not knowing what to say. He closed his eyes and rested his head on hers. "I love you.." he whispered.
After a pause he knew she was unconscious again, the pain was probably too much for her. He checked for a pulse. She was still alive, and breathing. He laid back against the wall again, and listened to see if anyone was coming, wandering around was only making them even more lost. And with everyone separated even if they found out everyone else would still be trapped, unless they'd already left and forgot about him and Arti.
Gary's thoughts stopped as he listened to a familiar sound approaching. The familiar clunk, drag pattern was coming from somewhere, coming closer.
The grey light filtered in through the small dirty window in the room that Ash and Lilja were in. Ash was awake after falling asleep for about a half an hour. He was half laying on Lilja, hoping he didn't hurt her foot or anything. A slight grin was on his face.
Lilja's eyes opened slowly, saw Ash there and gave him a confused look. He smiled at her. After a moment, she realized that she wasn't wearing anything, and sat upright, a blanket clutched up against her chest.
"ASH!" She yelled, red with embarrassment. "What the HELL are you doing?!"
Ash somersaulted off the blankets and onto the floor, where he sat in his shorts. "Uhh..."
Giving him the dirtiest look manageable, Lilja threw the blanket covering her over her head and crawled around searching for her clothes. After putting them on under the blanket, she stood up and threw it off, glaring at Ash, who was now fully dressed again. She started towards him.
"Just what happened... TELL ME!" She growled.
Ash backed out of the room, looking scared. "Uh.. nothing!"
Lilja followed him out into the hall, which was still pitch black from lack of windows. Freakachu and Pikachu, who had also been asleep had awakened, and followed their trainers out into the hall.
"The truth please!"
He looked at the floor. "You mean, you don't remember?"
She shook her head, which Ash could barely see from Freakachu's faint glow.
"Geez Ash, just tell me, did you do it or not?"
"Yeah." He replied in barely a whisper.
She took a step towards him, reached out and slapped him across the face.
"How could you do something like that?!" She hissed at him. "Sure, I love you, but that was NOT the time or place!"
He held his hands up in front of his face and cowered in the shadows, giving Lilja an opportunity to hit him in the stomach.
"I'm really sorry, I didn't mean to, it just happened!"
"How can you be so inconsiderate! I was hurt, and was relying on you to keep me safe, and this is what you do?!" She made a couple more swipes at him with her fist, but missed each time, limping along on her sore foot.
"What the hell is going on?" Nakako queried. After seeing Misty's body bits all over "Unca Phil's" room, he wasn't feeling very healthy anymore. Renku had thrown up in an old trunk somewhere, and came back looking even less healthy than Nakako felt.
Renku shrugged. "Soun's like Ash, and tha' girl tha' was wit' him. Soun's like they fightin' or somethin'."
After the killer had made the second murder, being Misty, no one had even bothered looking for the way out, just trying to stay alive was all they could do.
Nakako snorted. "Lets go and find them. And Arti and Gary too. Then maybe we can find our way back. The storm stopped quite a while ago, and I'm so tired."
"Me too, I'm fuckin' tired too." Renku cursed.
Gary held Arti as she laid unconscious in his arms. He wanted her to wake up and heal herself before she bled to death. The thumping and dragging sounds of Uncle Phil were coming closer.
"Shit! Phil's back!" Gary groaned, as he rocked Arti back and forth in his arms like a child. Uncle Phil appeared in front of them, grinning like a drunkard.
"I come ta get my knife." He reached down, picked it up, and started limping away.
Letting out the breath he had held, Gary leaned back against the wall. "At least he wasn't here to finish us off."
"DAMNIT ASH!" Lilja sobbed, tears running down her cheeks.
"I didn't mean it! Honestly!" Ash's eyes were wet as well, he thought for sure she hated him now.
Lilja shook her head. "You know what that is, Ash? Do you? IT'S CALLED RAPE!"
Ash stopped backing up and swallowed. Rape? Him? No! He would never do anything like that! "No! It wasn't! You were awake, and you never said no!" His voice quivered.
"I don't' remember at all!" She yelled. Her eye caught a glint on the wall. A mirror was right beside her. Lilja smashed her fist into the glass and a large sharp piece fell at her feet, which she picked up.
Ash gasped. "You aren't going to use that on me are you?!" He cried.
She advanced toward him, the piece of glass out in front of her. "Don't you know how upset you made me?" She sniffed. "I mean, I didn't even know! I don't even remember at all!"
Scared to death, Ash was crying as well. "Just.. put that down ok? You don't want to hurt anyone with it! Please!" Freakachu and Pikachu begged her to stop as well, but she kept walking towards Ash. Soon, she had him backed in an even darker hallway.
"You deserve this." Lilja cried, as she threw the glass in Ash's general direction, since she could see nothing. She heard a cry of pain, and was immediately sorry. "ASH?! I'm sorry! I didn't mean it! Are you okay?!" She hurried over, the Chu's following. Freakachu's tail lighting the hallway. Uncle Phil stood there, with the glass impaled in his chest. He swung a knife at her, catching her shoulder and making her yell out. "Another girlie eh? M'gonna have some fun wit' you!"
"Lilja!" Ash rushed over to her and held on to her. Uncle Phil still stood, looking stupidly about, finally he slumped slowly to the ground, muttering. "T' names Unca Phil. Ya can call me Unca Phil. S'not Phil, or Unca, it's..."
"Uncle Phil!" A familiar voice echoed down the hall, finishing Phil's sentence.
"Renku?!" Ash exclaimed.
Renku, his tail flame and Nakako came into view. "Yeah, it's me! Hey, wha' happened ta her?" He pointed to Lilja who was holding her shoulder and sobbing. "An' what happened ta you?" He looked at Ash, who had been crying before.
"She kinda tried to kill me, and hit Uncle Phil instead."
Nakako shoved Renku out of the way, who made a face at him. "Mind explaining why she went on a killing spree? We already had a murderer."
Ash blushed. "Ummm... nevermind."
A thumping noise was heard, and then a dragging sound. After that heavy footsteps came closer.
"Wha' th' fuck?" Renku swore, searching for the source of the noise and his eyes came to rest on the still figure of Uncle Phil lying on the floor in a pool of blood. "Th' bloody bastard's dead, so why th' sound?!" Everyone froze.
"Hey you guys." Gary called, appearing with Arti, who he was carrying. Arti seemed to be in worse shape than Lilja, who had only been sliced with the knife. Arti looked to have been stabbed with one. Miraculously, she seemed to be recovering, she was awake to say the least. "Whoa, what happened here?"
"It's a long story." Ash replied.
"Hey you kids! I was wondering where you went! It's 5am." Yet another familiar voice called. Everyone looked around.
"Where's Brock and Misty? Are they still lost?" Arti mumbled. Then she recognized the voice as her father.
"Eh Sanimi!" Renku slapped Sanimi on the back. "Wha' took ya so long ta find us?"
"I just started looking about a half hour ago. Power came back on just after you guys left. Where's the rest of you?"
"I have no i-" Gary started.
"Misty's dead." Nakako cut in. "Brock must be too, he was with her. Chris was taken away by a giant Ariados."
Lilja coughed. "Chris is dead...we saw his body."
"And I saw his head." Arti shuddered from Gary's arms.
"Lilja tried to kill me." Ash whimpered, still holding Lilja.
Gary laughed. "You almost ended up like Uncle Phil?"
Ash nodded. He didn't think that was very funny, considering Uncle Phil was now practically in a swimmingpool of blood.
Sanimi motioned for them to follow. "We better get back in case there's any more maniacs running around out here."
Everyone followed Sanimi through the maze of halls he seemed to know so well, back to the house, leaving the bodies behind.