Chapter Fifteen: Trapped Day two; 11:58 a.m.
"Hey there. Will you come play with me?" A little boy, maybe eight years old, inquires to Migel and Lilly. Migel lowers the pistol's aim from the child and looks at Lilly, who seems to really not want him to shoot any of the kids that they've seen. The boy wears a, tucked, black shirt, with a denim coat overtop, and blue jeans. The boy's skin looks pale, almost to the point of looking sick, but he appears unharmed.
Lilly runs up to the boy, who seems so out of place here, "Sure, but first ... do you think you could answer us something? What's going on here? Where is everybody and where'd those monsters come from?" Using a soft, motherly tone with the boy.
The boy scrunches his expression at the questions and looks quizzically at Lilly, "Monsters? What monsters? I've only seen monsters on t.v.," he pauses a moment, glancing around, "and I don't really see how you could miss everybody being around. Nobody's gone and no one's missing."
Lilly looks around, seeing nobody around. She kneels down and puts her hands on the boy's shoulders, looking at him with a look of concern, "There's nobody here, honey, and we're trying to find a way out of this place."
The boy giggles a little bit, and looks at Lilly with a peculiar look, "What'you talkin' about, silly? There's people all around. And if you're lookin' for the exit, there's the great big signs. Like right there," he points off to the side, where there's a game stall, "I don't get how you missed it, it's right there." He puts his arm back down and looks at Lilly, then quickly turns around, seemingly looking at something there. He stares a moment, then turns back, "My daddy's callin' me. C'mon he might be able to help you cwazy people out." He starts prancing off, humming a playful tone. Lilly and Migel follow the boy through the carnival.
The boy leads to a stall which is recognized, but not from where it is now. The stall has the label: 'Drown Your Dad' written with black ink. Inside the stall is a round trough, with a dead body hanging out of it. The boy approaches the body, drowned in the water, and stands there a moment. Lilly turns to Migel, and he shrugs.
"Daddy I found these weird people. They were sayin' stuff like there was monsters around..." He pauses a moment, as if listening to something, then giggles, "I know isn't it just crazy?" The body in the water remains there, motionless, and dead.
Lilly squats down and puts her looks at the boy, a bit worried, "Honey? Is that your dad?"
The boy looks at her as if she asked a stupid question, "Yeah it's my dad. Who'd you think 'e was? Another monster?" He giggles some more.
Lilly looks at the body, then back to the boy, "That man there, your dad ... he's dead. Are you sure you're alright?" Lilly looks disturbed, thinking that the boy must be insane.
The boy looks at the body, then Lilly again, "He's not dead. What is it with you? You see monsters, you're lost, you can't see everybody around, you think my daddy's dead ... are you sure that you're alright? You must have something wrong."
Lilly grabs the boy tightly on his arms and starts screaming at him, hysterically, "NO!! That man is dead! I'm not blind, and I know that there's nobody here!! What is wrong with you?!?!" She shakes the boy while screaming at him, obviously frustrated. The boy just stares at her, now witha blank expression. She looks confused now and turns to Migel.
Migel looks a bit surprised, and thinks, 'Holy shit, someone sure as hell psyched out there.' He just looks at Lilly and shrugs again, not sure of what to do. Suddenly he notices the boy's eyes change to cat-like eyes. They look evil, and shift around, between him and Lilly. Lilly turns back to the boy, and his eyes return to normal.
Instantly, Migel draws his gun and aims at the boy, "Lilly, move!" She looks back at him, noticing the drawn pistol, and becomes frightened.
"No!! He's innocent!!" She turns back to the boy, who still seems normal, but is no longer frozen, he looks at Migel, scared. Lilly turns and puts her arms out, protecting the boy. "Lilly, if you know what's good for you, you'd realize that there's nothing innocent in this place anymore. MOVE!!"
Lilly shakes her head, "Nothing here's innocent?! What about me?! You found me here, does that mean that I'm evil somehow?" Migel just stares at her, stumped.
"I'm telling you, that boy's no real boy, I saw it in his eyes. He isn't a normal kid. Just like those other ones ... he must be killed before he hurts one of us!!" Lilly slowly shakes her head, and glares at Migel, intently. He looks angered and betrayed. His hand shakes a little, not wanting to shoot this woman, but she has proven herself to be an obstacle, and may cause harm to him now, by protecting an antagonist. He stares at her, aiming the pistol at her head, having been trained to kill any obstacles like this, but he can't kill her. She's the only thing around that's still innocent and normal.
Finally, Migel lowers his gun. Lilly becomes less tense, and stands up, the boy standing behind her, clings to her leg, looking around it, still frightened. The boy reaches up as if to get Lilly's attention, when Migel notices the he looks to be reaching more for the shotgun, slung over Lilly's shoulder. The boy pulls the shotgun around Lilly, and shoots at Migel. Seeing the attack coming, Migel leaps to the side, avoiding the shot, but hurting his leg more. The boy cocks the shotgun again, aims up at Lilly's face, and pulls the trigger. Migel takes the opportunity to hold up his pistol and shoot the devilish boy. The bullet hits him right in the neck, killing him instantly, and dropping him to the ground.
Migel puts his hand on the ground, and manages onto his feet, though unstably. He takes the board up to under his shoulder again, "See now what'd I tell you? I told you to let me shoot him. Now look what's happened..." he pauses a moment to shake his head, with a frown, "You ought'ta be damn well glad that there was only one shell in that there shotgun. Oth'wise you'd be dead right about now."
Lilly stands there in a state of shock, having just slapped death right in the face. She looks over at Migel, standing there. "Oh ... my god ..." Not another word manages out from her mouth before she throws her arms around Migel, tears coming to her eyes. "I'm so sorry. He just seemed so pure. I mean how could this place make something so ... innocent?" Migel just stands there, with one arm holding the board, the other at Lilly's side, still holding the Desert Eagle. Lilly pulls herself away from Migel.
"Well I can see where you're comin' from. Just don't do that again, I always have a reason for killing someone ... or something." He explains to Lilly, who looks, extremely, relieved. "C'mon, I think that there would be the exit out of this place." He motions his head towards a path that leads out into the forest, away from the carnival. Lilly turns to see the path and looks back to Migel, baring a large smile, and glad to be getting out of this place.
The two of them head over to the large sign and out into the forest, leaving the carnival and it's mysteries behind. As they proceed into the forest, they come into an excessive darkness, that seems to have just suddenly come down on them. When the darkness cuts view down to about fifteen feet, Lilly becomes a bit paranoid and starts walking closer to Migel. A strange figure starts coming into view. Migel reaches for his handgun, but releases it when he finds the figure to be a car, with teh driver's door open.
Migel approaches the car, inspecting it with his hand resting on his holster. Looking inside the open door, he notices the keys laying on the front seat. He turns to Lilly for a moment, then sits inside the car, taking the keys, and putting them in the ingition. He leaves them there, wondering if the car will lead them out of this wretched place. He turns the ignition and the lights come on.
Up ahead on the path in front of the car, the headlights illuminate what looks like a gigantic spider web, stretched across the path and a little on either side of it as well. Upon discovering the dead end, Lilly collapses to her knees, crying.
"NO!! How can this be here? We need to get out of here." She stops and buries her crying face in her hands. Migel steps out of the car and looks around.
"I don't think we really ought to be here. What says that there isn't something that crawls around on that web thing?" Lilly sits up after he makes this comment, and starts looking around for anything. The web appears motionless just as well as lifeless. Suddenly, the car spits and dies. Lilly screams, then vices her hands around her jaw. "Alright, now I really don't think we should be here."
The two of them turn away from the web and start running. Running back towards the carnival, a dreaded place, but their only option.
As they run, the darkness seems to lighten up a little bit, revealing the trees on either side of the path. Lilly looks over to the one side and notices that there's something in the woods, running at her pace, and in the same direction, as if to be following her from the side. More of the figures appear, just barely visible in the darkness. They look to be a canine shape, but move differently than any normal dog. She slows down, and finds the figures to do the same. Migel slows down, and looks at her. She stops, still looking at the figures. Once she ceases movement, the figures come to a halt and seem to turn towards her. Her eyes widen and she throws out her hand, pointing at them.
Immediately when Migel sees her point, her draws his gun and turns, aiming forth. Right when he turns around, one of the figures leaps into view, at him. he fires the pistol, and grabs the creature by the sides of it's neck and turns as he falls, slamming it on the ground.
The canine demon looks like a wolf, but with several cuts and skinless patches all over it's body. It's claws look longer and more viscous. Dark, murky brown, blood pours out from a bullet hole in the center of it's chest.
Before the wolf can get up, Migel throws himself over it, punching it in the head with full force. He grabs the pistol and fires another bullet right into the wolf's ear, blowing a chunk of it's head off. He turns to the path, and instantly throws the gun at Lilly's foot, hitting her in the ankle, but making her move as another wolf comes flying out from the trees. Migel pulls himself up, as the wolf turns around, facing Lilly and goes after her again, but runs right into an aerial Migel as he tackles the wolf down, beating it in the neck with his knuckles. He pins the wolf down and is about to give it another blow when another wolf comes leaping out, slamming him on the ground. Lilly cowers into a small ditch, scared out of her mind, and unable to do anything else.
Migel takes a claw in his side and is about to have his face bitten, but he shoves his whole fist into the wolf's throat. He holds it like that, then open his hand and manages to grip the inside of the wolf's throat and tears it out it's mouth. Blood sprays everywhere, and he grabs the other wolf again, to break it's neck.
Migel gets up and cleans himself off, before getting his gun and the scared woman. He takes her hand to help her onto her feet and walks off down the path, returning to the carnival.