Invoking the Devil, Chapter two: A Monster Party
Jill slowly climbed the wooden staircase keeping a close eye on anything strange. She stopped at a halfway point and stared at the painting in front of her it was so…so…disgusting and that was the only word for it although it didn't seem enough. It was a dark painting with burning naked figures being ripped and torn up by hideous monsters and all under the watchful eye of Satan, Jill looked at the title 'The Revenge of Satan'. She shuddered and continued up the stairs and reached the top, she went to the nearest door and tried it, locked. Jill sighed and tried using the lock pick but it didn't work, she moved to a second door that opened when the knob was turned. Jill froze at the sight that greeted her, gross paintings like the one she had seen plastered the walls and lighted candles were all over the dressers and some on the floor. Jill looked at the floor and knelt down by a stain on the tiles…blood? "What's going on here?" She said to herself and walked over to a closet in the corner and surprisingly was the only thing without candles on. Jill opened it and screamed as a strange creature sprinted out, it was very much like a hunter but with longer claws and sabre like teeth. Jill pointed her gun at it and shot it twice in the head, the skull shattered but the thing kept moving toward her, Jill shot at it again taking the head off and finally the creature curled up and died in a pool and blood. Jill turned to look where it had come from, the closet was quite wide and went back a few metres, inside there was soiled hay and a spilt bucket of water. Jill stepped cautiously inside with her gun ready but there were no others but what seemed to be the butchered carcass of a sheep lay hidden in the shadows. She turned away as a wave of sickness swept over her and ran out of what had looked like a closet and closed the door. Walking over to a set of drawers she opened them and started to rummage through, she pulled out a page that looked like it had come from a diary…
January 18th 2001.
Mother has not yet managed to summon the creature; I hope she does not succeed, as surely she will have no more need for me and I tremble to think what will happen my brother Machida and myself. We are both freaks as my Mother mated with a snake for my brother and a living plant for me. Machida does not seem bothered, he is bewitched by mother and would die for her but I will not because of my strange birth I have a knowledge of plants which is why she doesn't kill me. She has taken many children and has killed them all to summon that vile creature but as I have said it has not worked. I must go before my mother sees this and takes it away
Antirrhinum Majus (Snapdragon)
January 20th 2001.
Mother has created more vile creatures using a virus that she found out how to make from a man working for a company named Umbrella. Luckily for her this house has many hidden rooms under it and many secrets so no one finds out what's going on. I am afraid she will inject me with this virus and I will become a killing machine but I know a chemical that will kill the virus and every creature with one drop, it is… (The rest is unreadable)
"Umbrella…" Jill mumbled as she filed the paper and wondered if this person was still here but she had to find Barry first and show him this and see if they could locate the basement and find this guy…or woman. Jill looked at the name scrawled underneath the first passage, Antirrhinum Majus, a snapdragon. Why would someone write that there? Jill turned and heard a doorknob rattle, Jill stopped, it sounded like it was across the corridor. After a while the knob stopped rattling and she heard the door swing open and then a dragging of feet. She opened the door and leapt back as a decomposing figure lurched in, she raised her gun and blew its brains out. Jill went back to the dresser and searched another draw and to her relief found some ammo. She looked through the last draw and found another gun the same as hers but it wasn't loaded so Jill left it. She walked out and wandered over to the door the zombie must have come out of, she went in.
The room was dark and red curtains covered the windows, it looked like a girls bedroom, a picture of a ballet dancer hung above a messed up bed but what surprised Jill was how many plants and pictures of them were around. Photos of Roses, Snapdragons and many more were framed on a desk and on the bedside table with pots of plants that Jill had never seen before. She looked again at the ballet picture and noticed that the dancer had flowers all over her costume and on the stage. Jill went over to the drawers and searched them finding a key and hoped that this was the one for the locked door. The other drawer contained a couple of videos, a copy of the ballet The Stone Flower and a copy of Swan Lake. Ignoring these Jill went over to the curtains and pulled them open, the windowsill was covered in plants. Jill whipped round as she heard movement behind and was amazed to see the rapid growth of a small plant; it grew about thirty centimetres and then stopped. Jill turned away from it and looked under the bed and found more ammo under there and a small brown backpack that she put on right away to store the ammo and paper in. She slowly turned to leave and suddenly noticed a photo under a plant pot and picked it up. The photo was of a girl around nineteen, she had the most startling red hair, it was as bright as a child's pencil crayon. She wore a green dress and seemed to have patterns of leaves on her one cheek, her skin was pale and it cast out an eerie beauty but the girl was not smiling and her green eyes looked past the camera. Jill turned it over and read what was on the back 'Antirrhinum Majus, 2000, with every flower born another dies and soon so will she.' Jill shuddered at the coldness of those words but what was with all this Antirrhinum (Snapdragon) stuff? She put the photo in the backpack and went back out onto the landing, she turned to the last door and tried the key in it, it turned easily. The room she entered was a bathroom, nothing unusual was about but Jill did have the need to use the toilet, she left without flushing.
Barry looked around the living room, someone really had an interest in taxidermy…there were a lot of stuffed animals in cabinets and it kinda gave him the creeps. He had heard gunshots from upstairs and was about to go and check if Jill was OK but something caught his eye, a diary with Alison's named engraved on the leather like cover, he picked it up.
April 17th 2001
That guy at Umbrella seemed not to be as useful as he made out, he wouldn't help me anymore on developing a new virus like the G and T viruses he gave me. I threw him to my little 'pet' in the basement which I found rather interesting to watch as he does have a unusual way of eating, ripping out the guts and eating the inside first. My daughter wasn't happy about this but screw what she thinks, as long as I have her brother on my side I have nothing to worry about.
April 20th 2001
I locked that brat who calls herself my daughter in her little lab all day, she dared try and stop me from researching ways to call up the ultimate monster! I'll teach her a thing or two later, since her father was a plant I could use the same method to kill her as I did him but not now, I need her knowledge of plants and flowers. No one will stop me once I find out the combination to summon HIM and my daughter knows what it is but I'll bleed it out of her if I have to crack open her skull to get it, I've already put a mild plant killer in her water which hopefully will teach her a lesson.
April 21st 2001
I managed to get some information out the little brat today but I had to torture her first, I stripped her naked and whipped her and then forced her to drink burning oil with the help of her brother but feeling nicer I let an infected human in with her for a while…he certainly had fun! (Well I didn't mean I'd be nicer to her.) Sadly I didn't get all of the formula out of her but I'm working on that.
Barry put the book down disgusted. How could anyone do such awful things? He didn't know but he hoped the girl was still around, she could be helpful but it was going to take some fighting to get to her…