Chapter 3: Endless Halls with Bloody Walls
The lights began to flicker widly, dimming and brightening every other second, and the alarm's screech slowly began to die and soon became an echo in the deep reaches of the halls; Soon an eerie silence fell apon the halls and all that could be heard was the rapid breathing of Selusa and I. I turned to Selusa with a worried expression laid upon my face.
I took a deep breathe and began to speak, "This can't be good, cant be good at all."
Selusa turned his head slowly as if extremely annoyed, "Nah, I was thinking this was a good thing."
He said in a very sarcastic tone. I looked apon Selusa again, now with an agrivated look upon my face, I flailed my arm at him and then glared.
I sighed at Selusa with extreme dismay and said in an angry tone, "I am being serious you moron, if the lights are flickering that means they are tampering with the power generator on the third floor."
Selusa stared with and empty look, "and?"
I looked at him and rolled my eyes, "Come on."
As I began to run down the halls, my footsteps began to echo louder and abruptly in the silence that now over shadowed all of the halls. Selusa quickly followed his composite armor shining each time the lights flickered above us. We ran further and further down the empty halls. I suddenly stopped, my footsteps still echoing in the distance.
The once grey dull walls were now splattered with a mixture of black scorch marks, and red blood that left the grey all but unseeable. The walls were a mural of carnage, as right beside them laid the bodies of a Shadow Knight and three stormtroopers. My eyes became red with emotion and my stomach became uneasy as the smell of rancid death overwhelmed my senses. The once proud Knight now laid face down drowned in a pool of blood, his once vibrant armor was now soaked and discolored crimson. The Knight's sword now rested in the rib of a stormtrooper leaving the armor fractured and destroyed, blood splattered upon the blade and hilt alike in a mesh of grey, red, and black. My breathe grew heavy and slow like a dieing man; Tears began to slowly ease down my face, slithering every outline of my profile. Selusa grabbed my shoulder and sqeezed tightly; I felt the pressure build as a sharp pain emitted from the area. He quickly tossed me around so that I faced him, then a sharp pain engulfed my cheek as he slapped sense into me. My face turned all the way to the side as he let go and both pains began to fade. His voice now boomed in my ear as he yelled.
"Get ahold of yourself!"
His hand raised again, as he continued
"This is no time to wait around you idiot!"
His hand became a tightly bound fist, as he continued to say.
"Now I want you to..."
At that moment a large flash of light overcame me; I felt myself being lifted up and flung back from where I was, pain quickly overcame every inch of my body as I squinted my eyes and tightened every muscle of my body as to overcome the pain. My ears were now bombarded by the screeching sound of an explosion, a ringing now overcame my ears as I continued to fly back and far away. My body soon hit the floor and tumbled about, the sounding of cracking and my grunts echoed amongst the noises of the explosion. I was abruptly stopped by a wall as my whole body hit it at once. Deep silence now overcame the halls, and the only thing that could be heard was my fragmented gasping and breathing, and the echo of foot steps growing louder with every passing second.