Sewers (part 2)

The Variant in front of them sat down once he stopped talking, both hands scratching his head as he looked at his feet. Our duo walked away from his 'house' as they saw a big pipe going down with a ladder.

"How's that possible…?" Kirigiri said.

Naegi looked at her, he understood what she meant.

"You're talking about DR. Wernicke working here right?" he asked.

"Yes… The document we found said he was deceased in 2009, it's a long time ago."

"So he should be dead, right? What is that patient saying?" the brunette wondered as he threw a glance at the man behind them.

"I'm ready to bet that it have something to do with this Project WALRIDER everyone is talking about." She concluded as she started going down the ladder, her companion following behind her.

Once they got to the bottom of the ladder, they turned around to see that they were in another tunnel, with filthy water flowing down the tunnel. But this time, the water was red, with blood. They looked up at the wall at the other end to see two signs, one pointing at the right: 'Female Ward' and another pointing at the left: 'Male Ward'.

Naegi wanted to joke about the blood in the water and the female ward… but didn't do it as he knew he might get punched.

"Oh. I think I know where the blood comes from." said his partner, pointing at the Female ward sign, a smirk on her face.

Naegi looked up at her with wide surprised eyes, she just said what he told himself not to say. He let out a chuckle as he grabbed her hand.

"I love you." he said with a bright smile.

"I know." she smiled back.

But it was now time to continue their journey, they only met crazy male patients. Maybe they were in the male ward since the beginning? They should go see if there's an exit to the female ward. So they headed down the dark tunnel leading to the female ward, but it was blocked by a gridded wall and door. Locked. Of course. They tried to force it but there was nothing they could do.

So they headed to the male ward. During their walk, a body fell from a pipe, just above their head, almost hitting them if they were going a little faster. The body was missing his head.

"So this is where they drop the corpses…" noted Kirigiri before resuming their journey.

In the next few turns, there was blood and body parts everywhere: against the walls, under the water, hanging on support wood board above their head. But there was something weird. Most of the body parts were actually entrails. And some deep ones too! And by following the blood patterns… it seems that people weren't just killed on the spot… but rather exploded.

They walked passed another locked door, but from the noises behind it they were glad it was locked. They had to go through another smaller pipe, it was dark inside and unfortunately, the water was higher than before, reaching half of their calves.

Once out of the pipe they got up the platform that presented itself in front of them. The platform had two door, one in front of the other. Naegi walked toward the one on his left, he grabbed the handle and slowly opened the door… leading to a bunch of wood board blocking the way. He turned around to say that there was nothing but Kirigiri's eyes widened and grabbed him by his collar before pulling him. Surprised, he almost didn't feel the hand that brushed against the back of his head. He spun around to see a Variant behind the boards, extending his arm through a crack, trying to reach for the male detective. He removed his hand and looked through the crack with hungry eyes.

Naegi didn't wasted a second to slam the door on it.

"Not this way I guess…" he sighed in relief, "Thanks Kyoko".

She allowed a little smile to appear on her lips before approaching the other door, her serious mask back on. She opened the door only to find darkness, her partner activated the night vision of the camcorder to see that the door leaded to a catwalk. He took her hand walked inside the dark room. He noticed and told his fiancée that the room was flooded with water.

The catwalk was broken, so they had to jump down into the dirty water. He had an idea.

"It's too dark and it seems that… Here take the camcorder" he said, handing the recording device to Kirigiri who took it.

She didn't expect to see him jump into the water the moment she looked through the device.

"Makoto? What-"

"I'm alright. Just as I thought the water is up to chest level… Can you see me?" he asked.

"Yes."

"Good. Now try to get on my shoulders slowly." he instructed.

"What? Are you sure?" she asked.

"Yes. Like that you won't touch much that disgusting water. I don't want you to catch some disease. Don't worry about me, I have my clothes. I'll burn them once home."

Kirigiri smiled as she started to slowly slide her legs over Naegi's shoulder, once he got a good grip of her tight she let go of the catwalk and was surprised to see that he could lift her without too much problem, he did get stronger since High School.

"Alright, where to go? I can't see much."

"Yes… There's the stairs leading to another catwalk to your right." she guided.

With the guidance of the lavender haired woman, they walked up and down catwalks in different flooded area. When they walked up the stairs, Naegi let her get down before letting her get back on his shoulders once they reached the end of the platform. They ended up reaching a very big flooded room, it was empty, only pillars and small boxes were filling the corners of the giant room.

Kirigiri zoomed toward the center of the room where she could see light, there was another catwalk, leading to a ladder. But the end of the catwalk was broken, but they could jump from there and grab the ladder and go up. She guided her partner toward the catwalk when they suddenly heard a noise that wasn't supposed to echo down here… chains.

"Chris Walker!" whispered Naegi as he slowed down his march, trying to do least noise possible.

"The stairs of the catwalk are on your right, in front of you. Not far away" She whispered as she looked around, she saw the glowing white eyes of the big man, on their left, he was getting closer. "He's on your left, a bit far away… but he's coming this way."

They slowly got up the catwalk but a sudden sound of chains told them to run as Chris noticed them and was running toward them. They dashed toward the ladder, Naegi trailing a bit behind the detective. She jumped and grabbed the ladder and quickly started climbing to leave place for her fiancé. He jumped, but his hand slipped against the last rung and fell to the water below.

"MAKOTO!" yelled Kirigiri as she saw him fall.

"I'm alright!" he shouted, "Quickly go up! I'll join you soon!" he ordered before disappearing in the darkness.

She looked at the catwalk and saw the massive form of Chris staring at Naegi, he looked up at Kirigiri and 'smiled' as he said…

"I'll bring his head to you, little pig. Then I'll get yours." and he disappeared in the darkness too.

She got up and noticed something horrible: she has the camcorder. Which means that Naegi was in total darkness downstairs! She wanted to call him and throw him the camcorder, but by the time she did this, she'll attract the big fucking guy to him. She kept climbing and reached the room upstairs. There was a patient crying on a chair, but she ignored him as she was staring down the hole, worried sick. She started perambulate around the hole, not looking anywhere but the hole, waiting for an ahoge to appear.

It's been a whole minute now. She was about to jump back down when she heard a gasp and someone climbing. It was Naegi. She ran to him and took him in her arms. He patted her back in the embrace, whispering to her that he was alright, that everything was fine. She gave him back the camcorder.

They resumed their journey after another minute of hugging. They walked down a narrow corridor. Suddenly a patient armed with a stick ran toward them, he raised his stick high up yelling a 'GET BACK!' and smashed it down on Naegi. Except that Kirigiri got in the way and took the harsh hit instead. She fell to the ground, holding her head, where the patient hit her. The patient ran away after that hit.

"Kyoko! Are you okay?" Naegi shouted as he got to his knees to see if she was alright.

There was a trail of blood dripping down the right side of her face, staining her lavender hair. She said she was fine as she stood up, still holding her head. Then walked down the corridor, the man has disappeared who knows where… The corridor leaded the couple to stairs going down into another tunnel of the Sewers of the Asylum. They got down and saw a sign telling them that they were near the Male Ward. Dirty water still tainted by blood. They suddenly remembered the instructions of Father Martin… Follow the blood.

They walked down the tunnel, following the bloody water. Thankfully it was calm this time. The only 'exciting' thing that happened was a patient that appeared out of nowhere and started running away from the couple. He disappeared behind a gridded door that he locked behind.

They ended up in front of two sections of wood supports which they could squeeze in between to pass through. They noticed the unstable pipes behind the wood boards so they picked up the pace. Once out of the sections, hot steams burst out of the pipes, making the way back impossible.

There was stairs on their right leading to the male ward, where they needed to go. But something at the end of the tunnel caught their attention, a light. They got there to see that the light was coming from behind a closed door. The door was locked but they could see through the window on the door. And what they saw made them gag.

"Jesus Christ!"

They thought the sewers couldn't smell any worse… Hundreds of bodies crammed into a room, thousands of flies. The smell was unsustainable. They took several steps back.

Was that the Priest's 'way out'?

The nightmare continues for our heroes… but none of them knew… that for one of them… the nightmare was about to get worse… as a certain Doctor was waiting impatiently for his next patient…

To be continued...

In the next chapter of Survival at Mount Massive Asylum…

"It seems we could go through there if we pushed that thing."

"Why are you doing this?"

"There's no other way"

"Can't sleep…"

"Jesus Christ… he was… eaten"

"WANTS MEAT! WANTS MEAT!"

WELL! Another chapter's over and we're getting close to the horrible moment!

BUT FIRST, I'll go cry after that episode. I need to write/draw/read/watch naegiri. A LOT