Chapter 7: Animal
The halls rang with an eerie silence that filled every corner, every crack, and every bare ground amidst the sea of dirty tile. Riku looked stared down the empty hall: at the end was what looked like a lobby. And then… the sound of footsteps filled the hall.
Riku looked up the hall, from where the noise came from… nothing. The sound became stronger… and the footsteps increased… as though an unseen mob was shuffling, shoving, pushing down the hall. Riku closed her eyes and shoved her fingers in her ears… and yet she heard it just as loud…
Then, murmurs filled the moist air… grunts, shouts, and laughs… no words. Riku suddenly got shoved, hitting the wall next to the door where… Daisuke… was in. "What now?" thought Riku, hearing the shuffling… and then, it started to become less audible… and less… and less quieter… and then it stopped… And then screams filled the air… bloody, dying screams…
Riku opened her eyes and got the fingers out of her ears……… and then she screamed; Before her now was a body of a man hanging from the ceiling from his feet, his face uneven among the scars on his face… the same for hundreds of others, lining the hallway…
A dirtier, darker hallway now stood before her; what was once a sea of tile had turned into a few inches of tile… the rest was some type of rusty, dirty wire. The walls had come undone as well, and beyond the wire was nothing, darkness and darkness… Riku shut her eyes again… "This is a dream" she thought, tears coming out of her eyes… "This is a dream…… this is a dream……I'm dreaming……I'm dreaming……"
"Riku?" said a voice from behind her. Riku opened her eyes again… the men were gone, the darkness had lifted, and the thugs filled the hall again…
"Wait a minute…"
"It's strange how things can go our way… ha!"
"Did… did you do all of that?"
"Yeah… did you like it?"
"Who were those people? What happened to them?"
"They had unfortunate accidents with my knife and barbed wire"
"Who are you? What do you want?"
"I'm Daisuke. I'm what Daisuke's ignored all his life. And don't you know what Daisuke wants? You're his girlfriend after all."
"I don't know what Daisuke wants"
"Isn't it obvious?"
"What?"
"He wants to sleep with you"
"What!"
"He wants to introduce his dragon to your dungeon"
"What!"
"He's a creep"
"You're lying"
"I'm Daisuke, remember?"
"That's a lie"
"He's a jerk"
"No he's not"
"He's an idiot"
"No he's not"
"He's a pedophilic moron. He never liked you for who you were. He's a mindless ANIMAL!"
"Shut up!"
"You felt the same thing everyday you saw him"
"You're lying…"
"You always thought 'I'm never going to give that idiot the time of day'"
"Shut up…"
"You're a cruel bitch. You hated him"
"That's not true!"
"If he knew even half of what you thought, his life would have been even more miserable"
"More miserable?"
"He's phantom thief Dark"
"Liar! Daisuke can't be that creep"
"If he hadn't given you that potion, you wouldn't even know he even existed"
"You're not Daisuke…"
"He was trying all his life to look like an innocent little twit... he shut me off..."
"You're not Daisuke… stop lying!"
"He's your miserable boyfriend"
"Shut up…"
"You make him miserable"
"You're lying…"
"HE HATES YOU!"
"SHUT UP!"
"Hahahaha!"
"Shut up… stop laughing…"
"Hahahahahahahahahahaha!"
"Stop laughing… stop laughing…"
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
"STOP LAUGHING!"
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
…
The wind swished the hair around Daisuke's ear…
He was somewhere open…
And then the laughter started coming…
Insane… crazy laughter…
And then the singing came back…
"And if the cloud bursts,
Thunder in your ear…
You shout and no one seems to hear…
And if the people you're with start hating you too…
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon…"