Chapter Twelve: A Deeper Discovery Day two; 10:55 a.m.
The door to the large building-like ride opens. Migel and Lilly slip out and come back into the main stretch of the carnival. However, they find themselves to be in what seems like a different part of the stretch. The stalls and rides around are different ones. Across from them is a stall titled "Drown Your Dad" Migel has to look at this stall a moment, because it's definitely not a normal game. The stall is just empty, except for a trough in the middle, with a limp body hanging out of it.
"What kind of game is that? ... Whatever ... " Migel shakes his head and looks around some more, to find it to be clear of any threats. Migel walks out into the middle of the stretch and starts walking along it, with Lilly holding close to him. When they come to a ferris wheel, it suddenly starts moving. In the seats of the ride are bodies laid out. Blood is spattered all over the seats. Suddenly a strange and creepy laughing comes out from behind him. Looking back he finds the scarecrow standing there, wielding his two weapons at his sides, staggering to stay upright, and still walking towards him, with the ever-present smile and glare. Migel moves Lilly to the side as he steps forward and calls out, "Alright asshole, you wanna die again? You forget that I have range, and you don't, moron!" Just as Migel casts the final insult, he raises the pistol and shoots the scarecrow in the chest. The scarecrow takes it and remains standing, and laughing with a rough, coarse voice. Migel shoots again, and the scarecrow falls over dead, again.
He turns back to Lilly, who is completely confused. Migel just shakes his head, "Nevermind..." and is about to continue walking when he sees the boy again, the same one as before. A young boy, maybe six years old. He's sitting on top of the "Gravitron" ride, which is a large saucer or ufo shape. Migel gets a bit angrier. "These fuckin' things won't stay dead!" He walks towards the boy, but as he gets closer, it seems to change. Cuts, gashes, and pins appear throughout his body as he steps nearer. Even his skin colour goes to a pale, dead, gray. His face hangs low, eyes shut. Migel points the pistol at the boy, and fires. Right when he fires the pistol, he drops down to the ground, blood bursting out from his thigh, while he curses loudly. The desert eagle falls on the ground beside him. The boy on the ride, falls off with a new hole punched in his head. A demon man comes closer, cocking a shotgun in his hands, shooting out the empty shell of a twelve gauge slug.
On his head is a baseball cap, with wood splinters sticking in it. Both ears have several piercings struck through them. His eyes glow with a mysterious red. Nails and pins stick out from all over his body. Hundreds of nails are punched into his legs, especially. Lined across his chest is shells in little pockets.
Lilly stands there, frozen at the sight of her only protection being injured. The hunter starts walking closer to Migel, laying there on the ground. As he comes within ten feet, he lifts the shotgun, but Migel whips around, wielding the desert eagle, and shoots the assailant in the chest, several times. The hunter lets out a gurgling howl and drops to the ground.
Migel, lays down on his back, and Lilly throws herself to his side. The wound in his leg bleeds, but doesn't appear to be too severe. Lilly starts rambling at a fast pace.
"Look you're gonna be fine. The bleeding isn't too bad, and I don't think it hit an artery or anything. And I'm just glad, 'cause I can't do this on my own. I mean, I-I-I-I could've never made it here... "
"Lilly..."
"...with those damn things everywhere, I mean I would've probably just gave up or something..."
"Lilly!" Migel says in a more stern voice to cease her hysterical rambling, "Shut up." Lilly laughs and smiles, glad that he's alright. "Could you maybe help me with patching this up?" Lilly nods quickly and looks around for anything to use. Migel tears a piece of cloth from his shirt and hands it to her, to wrap around his leg, tying a knot in it, to keep it in place.
"Is it alright now?" Lilly says, as she turns back to Migel's face, laying there on the ground.
"Yeah, I think it's fine." Migel tells her, even though he doubts be able to walk on it still.
"Oh, thank god you're alright!" Lilly exclaims as she throws her arms around him, a few tears reaching out of her eyes. Migel just sits there a moment, a bit surprised, then puts his hand on her back. When she pulls away, he moves his hand down to her waist, then just sets it back on the ground. He lays there a moment, just looking at Lilly, while she stares back. They just sit there looking at each other for a couple seconds, before Lilly starts to lean forward. A hysterical and annoying laugh calls out again, causing Lilly to jerk up. Migel takes on a look of complete hatred and anger. He sits up and grabs the Desert Eagle, shooting the scarecrow again in the head, and keeps pulling the trigger, but the clip is empty.
"Help me up." Migel requests Lilly's assistance to stand him upright. She gets up and takes his hand, trying to lift him up, but she's barely strong enough to help him at all. Migel manages up and just keeps his weight off his injured leg. "We gotta find something I can lean on." Lilly offers her shoulder, but even she knows that she isn't strong enough to hold him.
They both look around quickly, looking for anything they could use. Lilly spots a board that he might be able to use and runs to get it. Migel places the board under his arm to support himself.
"Grab that shotgun, and any of the shells there that we can carry." Lilly goes over to hunter-looking carni on the ground, hesitant to touch him. Migel walks up and helps her by placing the 'crutch' on the hunter's throat, leaning on it, causing plenty of cracking and other grotesque sounds to come from it. Lilly is discouraged from touching the body more, but she forces herself to take the shotgun from his hands and salvage as many shells that she can fit in her pockets. "You better hang on to that. Too much weight for me right now."
Lilly looks down at the gun in her hands, "I can't use this, I don't even know how."
"Well that didn't stop you from shooting before."
"But that was different, he could've killed you if I didn't do anything." Migel just shakes his head and comes up with a solution.
"Ok then, just hold it, and hand it to me whenever I need to shoot something." Lilly nods. Migel turns and looks at the boy on the ground, who seems to still be dead. The two of them walk on down the stretch, still lost and trapped inside of this pit of insanity.