Dead By Roselight
Chapter 19: Wolf Among Sheep
Yang was beginning to slowly wake up, after having been knocked out by Sheila. The first thing she felt upon regaining her consciousness was the terrible headache she got from the blow to her head. The blonde began to open her eyes and noticed that she was still inside one of the asylum's rooms. However, there were no windows and the door seemed to be blocked by furniture.
Yang tried to move, but soon found out that her movements were restrained. She was currently sitting on a floor with her back against a wooden pole. Her hands were on the other side of the pole and something had been wrapped around them tightly, effectively securing her there. The brawler tried to scream, but a cloth tied over her mouth prevented her from making any noise.
"Oh, you're finally awake," a familiar voice called from behind Yang, causing her to turn her head. There she saw Sheila looking at her with a smirk. "Good thing you didn't wake up just a bit earlier. That would have sucked. Just wait for a moment and I'll be there with you in a second."
The brawler felt as another rope was put around her body and was tied together behind her back, securing her to the pole even more. Despite her struggles, she couldn't free herself from her captor. If she had her Aura, then she might have been able to do so. But since this world took that away from her, she was left practically defenseless.
Suddenly, Yang remembered something very important from before she had been knocked out. The image of Phillips bleeding on the floor and dying came to her mind. She began to furiously look around the room she was in, hoping to find the purple-haired boy somewhere. It seemed that Sheila noticed what the blonde was doing, as walked in front of her captive with an amused look on her face, after finishing putting on Yang's restraints.
"What's the matter? Looking for your little friend?" the brunette asked in a mocking tone, angering her captive. "Don't worry. He's right here with us."
Sheila walked behind a large wooden crate that was in the room and picked up something. Yang's eyes went wide with horror, as she saw her captor lift up Phillips' body. The boy was now completely pale, due to dying from loss of blood. There was a large cut on his throat, showing where he had been struck.
"Hey, Yang! It's me, Phil! The useless little brat you had to drag around! I hope you like my new look!" Sheila said while moving the corpse around and doing a bad impression of the boy. She began to laugh upon seeing the enraged look on Yang's face for what she had done to him. "I knew it was a great idea to bring this useless thing with me! I just love it, when I get my prey to make expressions like that!"
Tears of rage and sadness began to fall from the blonde's eyes. Even though it wasn't her fault, she blamed herself for what had happened to Phillips. In her mind, this was another failure from her to protect someone dear to her. First it was Ruby, then it was her own teammates and friends from team JNPR. Now it was Phillips. Yang just wanted to scream and cry for what had happened to those she was supposed to protect.
"Now, I'm sure you want to ask those old cliché questions that pretty much EVERYONE I do this to asks from me," Sheila continued as she dropped Phillips' corpse to the floor. "How could I do this? Why am I doing this? You know, the ones that are certainly floating around your mind at the moment, right?"
The only response the murderer got from Yang was an angry glare.
"Oh, how scary. I'm just shaking in my boots over here," Sheila mocked. "Anyways, like I was saying, you're probably wondering why I'm doing this. This might come as a bit of a shock to you, but I'm simply doing this because I like it. And I've been doing this for a few years already, long before I even came here."
Yang simply kept glaring at the brunette.
"If you happened to ask any of the others about my past, they probably told you that I was some poor woman that was abused by her boyfriend and was in constant depression before I came here. Well, the thing about that background is that it was a lie. By making such a dramatic past for myself, I not only explained why The Entity took me here, but it also provided me with sympathy from others. I mean, how could anyone doubt such a tragic person like me?" Sheila explained. "The truth is that I had been overtaken by negative emotions when The Entity got me. My identity as a murderer had been revealed to the police and I was on the run from them. I was hiding in a forest with the cops getting closer to me with every second. I was in despair over the things I would lose. All the people that I wanted to kill, but I wouldn't get a chance to. Now THAT was a tragedy to me."
The murderer took a small pause in her story, thinking back to the time she was talking about. Then a sudden smile appeared on her face.
"However, my luck hadn't ended apparently, as I got taken here. I'm not sure why The Entity didn't make me into one of it's killers, though. Maybe it's because it saw me as too weak or maybe it knew I wouldn't follow orders. Whatever the reason, I'm glad I got taken here this way," Sheila continued her explanation. "The only person I'll kill for is myself. I'm not going to do it for the sake of some thing that doesn't even show it's face to me. Especially not in such a boring fashion as sacrificing people on hooks. The way I do it is by slowly enjoying myself with whoever has caught my eye, such as you."
The brunette then turned to look at Yang with an insane grin on her face.
"The same way your sister caught my eye," Sheila said and licked her lips, shocking the blonde girl. "I mean, how couldn't she? She was just perfect. That cute face with those big, bright eyes of hers. The perfect ass. It took all of my willpower not to just jump her the moment I saw her! And to make it even better, Ruby was also a Huntress! I have always wanted to have my way with one of those!"
If Yang was angry before, now she downright furious. This person that her sister had been helping out of the kindness of her heart had been planning to torture and kill her! How could a monster like this exist!? Didn't she feel like she owed Ruby anything for keeping her safe!?
"But goddamn if luck wasn't on my side! Not only was she part of a group that made it impossible for me to do my thing, but I never got a chance to get her in one of the realms! And just to really piss me off, that damn Nurse apparently got her!" Sheila started to suddenly rant angrily. "Can you believe how pissed off I was!? All that waiting was for nothing! My prize gone to some floating bitch with a bag over her head!"
The brunette took a couple of deep breaths to calm herself.
"Good thing my luck hasn't completely run out, though. You happened to come here, making you a pretty good replacement for your sister," Sheila said with a smile on her face. "I mean, there was also that faunus friend of yours, but-"
Upon hearing Blake being mentioned, Yang began to thrash angrily in her bindings and let out muffled screams.
"Oh, that's right. I haven't told you that story," the murderer said with another insane grin on her face. "I told you that The Clown got her, right? Well, that is only part of the truth. You see, The Clown was about to get her, but I managed to rescue her. I even patched up her wounds, so she wouldn't bleed to death. Imagine her surprise when I showed her my true colors!"
Sheila began to laugh like a maniac while thinking about her encounter with the cat faunus. Meanwhile, Yang just kept getting angrier at the monster in front of her. Not only had she been responsible for the death of Phillips, but she had planned to kill Ruby and had got her hands on Blake as well!
"Unfortunately, just when I was starting to have fun, goddamn kitty bitch decided to go and ruin my fun! She somehow managed to knock down a stand, alerting The Clown to where we were! Is it too much to ask to have some fun around here!?" Sheila suddenly yelled angrily, before calming herself again. "It sucks that I had to give up such a great prey, but at least I got some enjoyment out of watching her get sacrificed. You should have heard her scream and cry. That's also one of the best things about this place. I can kill all I want and the blame goes straight to the killers!"
By now, Yang was so angry that she was clenching her fists so hard that blood was dripping from her hands. Right now, she just wanted to kill the brown-haired lunatic in front of her.
"Anyways, you're probably smart enough to get what's going to happen next. I'm going to take my time playing with you and enjoying myself. When you and your little friend don't join the others, they'll just assume that The Nurse got you both. A pretty sweet deal for me, am I right?" Sheila said as she walked up to her captive and straddled her. She pulled out a switchblade and brought it close to Yang's face. "Anyways, enough talk. It's been too long since I've caught someone. No way am I going to let my chance slip by."
The blonde tried her best to pull her head away from the blade, but her captor held her still. The murderer was slowly caressing her victim's skin with the flat of the blade, only wanting to scare Yang for now.
"Now, you can scream. You can beg. You can cry... Hell, you're going to do all of that," Sheila said as she was about to drag the blade across Yang's cheek, only for a loud shriek to stop her.
The brunette slowly turned to look behind her, where she saw none other than The Nurse floating right at the door. It seemed like the killer had found them and had teleported inside.
"You have got to be freaking kidding me!" Sheila yelled angrily as she stood up and held her weapon at the ready. "No way are you taking my prey from me a second time! SHE'S MINE!"
It was a clash of two killers, as the brunette charged towards The Nurse with her switchblade, hoping to finally end the teleporting killer's existence. All logic and reason had left her head over the possibility of her prey being taken by someone else, causing her to go into a blind rage.
However, The Nurse was no easy target for anyone, as she simply grabbed Sheila's arm with her hand, stopping the switchblade from hitting her. The ghostly killer then tried to attack her opponent with her own weapon, but the brown-haired murderer managed to stop her arm as well. But while many would have considered this to be a stalemate between the two killers, it was far from one. Sheila might have been a killer with a large amount of victims, but her opponent was a supernatural monster. The brunette was soon pushed back by The Nurse, causing the two monsters to go past Yang, who was still tied to the pole.
Seeing how the two killers were preoccupied with each other, the blonde decided to use this chance to escape. While she could still hear the sound of fighting between Sheila and The Nurse, Yang began to rub the rope that was tied around her wrists against the pole. It didn't take long for the rope to begin tear, before being torn in half completely, allowing the brawler to free herself.
Once freed from her bindings, Yang wasted no time in getting up in order to make a run for the door. There was no telling how long Sheila and The Nurse would be fighting, so she needed to get out and fast.
Just as she was about to run, something grabbed the brawler's leg, tripping her and making her fall to the floor. Yang looked behind her to see Sheila holding her ankle and giving her a look that was both enraged and insane. The murderer also seemed to be somewhat bruised from her fight with The Nurse, as blood was falling down her forehead.
"You... Where do you think you're going!?" Sheila asked angrily. "I might have missed my chance with your sister and your faunus friend, but I'm not letting you get away! You. Are. MINE!"
The brown-haired woman was about to use her switchblade to stab Yang in the leg to stop her from escaping, but a pair of hands suddenly wrapped themselves around the murderer's throat. The Nurse had come back to finish her fight with Sheila, and she was now strangling the brunette with all her might.
"Gah! L-Let go... of... ME!" Sheila struggled to say while being strangled. She let go of Yang's leg, allowing her to run away, and began to stab The Nurse in the arms in the hopes of freeing her throat from the ghostly killer's grasp. "Let go! Stupid bitch! Let me go! Let... me... go..."
The brown-haired woman's struggles were beginning to slow down, until it reached the point where she didn't even have the strength to hold her weapon. Just as Sheila was about to fall unconscious from being unable to breathe, The Nurse suddenly increased the pressure on her victim's neck, causing a loud snap to echo in the room as Sheila's neck was broken, telling that the murderer had just been killed.
While The Nurse and Sheila had their last struggle, Yang had ran to the door and cleared it from all of it's barricades. Once that had been done, she kicked the door open and began to run through the asylum's corridors, hoping to get away before either one of the killers emerged victorious and came after her.
For a moment, it seemed like the blonde would be able to escape without a problem, but it wasn't long until The Nurse appeared before her, having teleported after her. Yang barely managed to duck under the ghostly killer's saw, as she tried to hit her possible next victim. With the way in front of her blocked by The Nurse, Yang quickly turned around and began to run as fast as she could.
As she started running, the brawler noticed an open window just a bit further away from her. She made a dash towards it, seeing it as her only way to escape her pursuer. Another ghostly shriek echoed through the corridors, as The Nurse teleported after her prey. By just a tiny margin, Yang was able to avoid the bonesaw that was aimed at her, as it only managed to cut a couple of her hairs.
Luckily for the blonde, the window she had jumped through was one the ground floor of the building. Had it been a much higher floor, she might not have made it out as well as she did. Once her feet had landed on the grass, Yang ran as fast as she could, hoping that The Nurse would be left behind this time.
The brawler reached the end of the building and turned around the corner, hoping to find someplace to hide from her pursuer. Unfortunately, what she saw was a certain pink-haired cat faunus girl, standing still and staring at her like a deer in headlights.
"Lucy, run!" Yang yelled at the frozen girl. "The killer is coming after me! You need to get away from here and quick!"
Despite the blonde girl's warning, Lucy stood still. All she could do was shake while staring at her comrade with a pale and terrified look on her face. Yang knew that if she didn't do something, the pink-haired girl would get caught by The Nurse.
Almost as if someone had summoned her, The Nurse appeared at the corner of the building where Yang had just been. The ghostly killer had regained her teleportation powers and had chased after her prey.
"Shit! She's here!" the brawler cursed, as she picked up her pace in order to reach Lucy quicker. 'Lucy's too scared to move, making her perfect prey for the killer! I need to grab her and carry her with me or she'll get killed as well!'
Just as Yang was about to reach her comrade and grab her, the look on Lucy's face suddenly changed. Much to the blonde's surprise, the pink-haired girl stepped out of her way, causing her to fall to the ground from surprise. As soon as she had managed to clear her head from the daze she was in, Yang turned to look towards Lucy, expecting to see the faunus girl being cut down by The Nurse.
However, what she actually saw was something unbelievable.
Instead of being simply cut down by the teleporting killer, Lucy managed to avoid the attack through a very dangerous stunt. When The Nurse began to teleport towards the cat faunus, Lucy actually ran towards the killer, causing The Nurse to go past her victim.
All Yang could do was stare with wide eyes, as the formerly scared girl was now expertly dodging the killer's attacks with ease. Lucy even had a confident smirk on her face while doing this. The blonde stood in disbelief of what she was seeing.
"Hey, new girl! The hell are you standing still for!?" Lucy suddenly yelled, breaking Yang out of her thoughts. "Get going already, before this bitch decides to go after you instead of me! I can handle myself, so get the hell out of here already!"
"R-Right!" Yang replied as she turned around and began to run away. "I'll try to send you help! Don't get yourself killed before that!"
"Hmph! Unnecessary," the pink-haired girl said with a cocky smirk. "I can handle this bozo easily."
For a moment, The Nurse looked after the running blonde, contemplating going after her. However, Lucy threw a rock at her head, causing her to focus on the survivor closest to her at the moment.
"Don't go looking at others," the cat faunus said. "I'm your dance partner right now."
Meanwhile, Yang had managed to run away from the killer and found herself a place to hide at. There were some thick bushes on the asylum's front yard, where she managed to hide herself for the time being and to regain her stamina.
As she was catching her breath, Yang looked through her pockets to find the video camera and note she had found earlier, hoping that Sheila hadn't taken them away while she had been unconscious. Much to the brawler's relief, she still had the items with no signs of damage on them.
The reason Yang had taken an interest in the camera was because it stood out so much. The asylum looked so old that it had to have come from a time where video cameras like the one she had found didn't exist yet. This must have meant that someone from the real world must have brought it with them.
The blonde could only wonder about the things surrounding the camera. Who did it use to belong to? Why had it been left there? What had been recorded with it? And what was the note that had been attached to it?
However, Yang couldn't think about these things now. She still needed to go and fix the generator, so they could leave this horrible realm. The brawler might have lost her partner, but she wasn't going to give up. She was going to do her job for the sake of her comrades that were still alive, as well as the ones who had passed away.
Author's notes: I decided to make Sheila into a deranged serial killer, as I've kind of wondered what it would be like if a person like her ended up with other survivors in Dead by Daylight. With the exception of maybe one or two survivors from the game, there don't seem to be any actual criminals or such among the playable survivors. I kind of wanted to put in a person that not only is a threat to those around them, but sees the world they're in as an opportunity instead of a terrifying situation.
The way I see it, Sheila wasn't turned into a killer out of two possibilities. First, she's not as threatening or powerful as the other killers. Second, she wouldn't be willing to submit to The Entity's commands, as it wants the killers to sacrifice survivors, which Sheila doesn't want. The way The Entity would see her would be that she either gets killed or sacrificed, or she survives long enough to give into despair and turn into a controllable killer that it wants her to be.
As for Lucy, her character is going to be explained in the next chapter. Hope you can wait for that.
Until next time.
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