Male Ward (part 1)

Naegi backed away from the door and the smell. He turned around.

"L-Let's keep going…" he whispered.

"Yes…" Kirigiri agreed before turning her heels too.

Both walked up the stairs they came across and reached the Male Ward. They were now in a short corridor with only one exit… that was blocked by furniture. But they both quickly noticed the flashing light against the wall coming from under a metal storage unit containing propane tanks.

"It seems we can go through there if we push that thing." pointed out the female detective.

"Alright, let me do it." the ahoge boy said as he started pushing the storage unit.

It was really heavy but after a few seconds he moved it out of the way of an open vent with blood flowing in. Follow the blood. It seems the directions were still going. Naegi crouched and saw a man on a chair at the other end of the vent that was leading to another chamber. He said he'll go first as he slowly got in. Once at the other side, he called out to his partner that it was fine. The man was twitching but completely harmless. There was a pool of blood at his bare feet.

They got out of the room and closed it behind them. They were now in another corridor. Longer this time. There was a blocked door at the far end on their right, close to it an open door. And on their left was the wall but with another room. They decided to go there first. It was pitch black, so Naegi got inside with his camcorder in night vision.

Inside the room was a chair reversed and a big pool of blood. And on the walls was a very dark message written in blood… He got out of the room and joined his lover to share his discoveries inside the room.

"They… They've been torturing people in there… And by method. On the walls was written: 'FINGERS FIRST. THEN BALLS. THEN TONGUE.'." Kirigiri flinched at hearing this, "Somebody is supervising the torture… Instructing them." he concluded.

They walked down the hallway and when they approached the open door, bangs were heard. They glued their back against the wall and slowly walked toward the entrance. Naegi leaned in to see what it was. In the room was a table with nothing important on it. On the floor was a patient curled up and sobbing. There was another door in the room, blocked by a storage unit. And the bangs were coming from that door. Someone was trying to get in.

Naegi said there was no danger as they entered the room. The man on the floor ignored their existence as he kept crying and hiding his face. Kirigiri was examining the door for a second while Naegi was looking around. He jolted when he heard the loud noise of something heavy being pushed he looked behind to see his fiancée pushing the storage unit. He ran to her to stop her.

"Why are you doing this?" he asked, "There are Variants behind that door!"

She stopped and looked at him.

"Look around you. There's no other way." she said, "Come and help me and be ready to run, okay?"

Naegi wanted to argue but knew that she was right, it's the only way forward, he got next to her and helped her push the storage unit. It was way faster when they were two pushing it. The door was now free to be opened. They braced themselves as Kirigiri reached a gloved hand to the handle and pried it open.

But there was no one. She looked at both end of the new hallway that presented itself to them and there was no one.

They looked at each other and shrugged before resuming their journey. All doors on the hallway were locked, but they did found an open vent on the wall, they crawled through it and reached a hospital-like room. Most beds were hidden by curtains, and absolutely none of them wanted to see what was behind them with the smell and moans coming from behind each one.

Naegi noticed a functional battery so he went to retrieve it. He then heard a voice coming from behind the curtains on his left.

"Can't sleep…" the voice moaned in pain, "Wernicke is waiting for me there…"

Wernicke again, the doctor that should be dead and is working at the Asylum. What is the connection between him and everything that is happening here?

More grunts and moans were coming from behind the curtains. They walked to the end of the room, where a double locked door was waiting for them. They looked at the window on the door to see a patient sitting on a chair, hanging his head down, there was blood on the floor and the man wasn't moving. Once again, it seems they needed to go through that room, but the door was locked. They must find another way in.

As they turned around, the saw that one of the bed curtain wasn't hiding a part of the bed. What they saw was now carved inside their mind forever. They slowly approached the gruesome scene in front of them. 'Half' of a man, the top part was flesh, but the rest was just skeleton, and by the look of things, his flesh and muscles were not removed with precision, it was eaten.

"Jesus Christ… He was… Eaten…" whispered Naegi, slowly bringing down the camera, not sure if he wanted to record this scene any longer.

Kirigiri saw the confidential document that was lying next to the patient's bed. She took it and read its content.

It was a report of a certain Richard Trager, a new doctor that worked here at the Asylum. He talked about the fact that the Project WALRIDER was adding more corpses to the pile, and the cost will be exorbitant. But what was deranging was the last paragraph of the report. The doctor telling that he just learned that a human being can't survive without both kidneys. What kind of doctor is Trager?

The duo looked around for a way to continue, they found an open vent and both jumped in crawling through it. They reached the room and dropped in. The moment they touched the ground… Shouts were coming from behind the double door as the man on the chair started screaming. He was actually attached to it. They looked behind only to see two Variants bashing against the door yelling:

"WHORE! WHORE!"

"WANTS MEAT! WANTS MEAT!"

Both detectives immediately looked for an exit, they saw a storage unit blocking a door and dashed to it pushing it away. Once out of the way they got out of the room and closed the door behind them. They started running. There was another open door, they went through it and when they saw a metal storage unit close to the open door, they closed it and pushed the unit against it.

"YOU CAN'T HIDE!" yelled a patient bashing against the newly blocked door.

"THERE'S GOT TO BE ANOTHER WAY!"

The female detective saw another door that was blocked by another storage unit. She called out her partner to help her. They pushed the heavy object away and got out of the room to end on a hallway.

"There's another door!" they heard from not so far away.

They looked on their right to see the Variant bashing on a door that was about to give up.

"There's more than one way to fuck a cat. COME ON!" the patients yelled.

They ran down the hallway and almost tripped against a desk that was on their way. There was a trail of blood leading to an ajar door. They went through it and closed it once inside the room. There was a metal storage unit so they pushed it to block the door. They looked around the room and noticed that it was some sort of morgue, on the table in the center of the room was another half-eaten man, but there was no bones on the lower part of the body, just guts. The blood was coming from him. It wasn't the trail from Martin. But it didn't matter now. They needed to escape.

"WALRIDER!" yelled a patient from behind the door.

There was an open vent on the other side of the room, Kirigiri was about to help Naegi get inside since it was a bit too high, but the adrenaline was pumping through their veins and he jumped inside the vent without any problem, he extended his hand for Kirigiri to join him and she gave her hand to him. They went through the vent and landed in another hallway. But when they stood up, a bang from their right was heard as the door just got bashed open and an armed patient came out of the doorframe, looking left and right.

The patient yelled at them and resumed the chase. The duo reached a room with some glass walls. The path in front of them was blocked but some of the glass walls were broken so they went through them. Then reached a straight line corridor leading to a big hole on the ground. The fall was very deep and they certainly wouldn't survive it. They had to jump over the hole. They looked at each other as they stepped back for some momentum and dashed through the corridor, toward the hole. They jumped.

Barely reaching the other end as their hands grabbed the edge and their body slammed against the wall. Kirigiri pushed herself up and quickly helped Naegi who seems to have some problems.

"You slippery little whores!" insulted a patient behind them.

They looked back, the Variants were staring back at them before running in another direction.

"Looks like… we-"

"Don't jinx it." the lavender haired girl cut him.

They walked down the new corridor, all door were locked. There was a door at the corner. Naegi was about to reach the handle when suddenly…

"There's another door! THIS WAY!" was heard and the door suddenly started to bang.

Naegi jerked his hand back and started to look for another way to go. Kirigiri grabbed his hand and started running to the corridor in their right. The door collapsed and the Variants started chasing the duo once more. The door in front of the couple was blocked, so they turned right into another small corridor. And jumped over the wall through the broken window near the ceiling. They ran through what looked like a classroom but quickly ignored it as the men behind them were gaining on them.

"I want my money! I want my money! I want my money!" they yelled at them.

The detectives didn't understand but who cares at a moment like this. They ran down the hallways and reached another room, they closed the door but no storage unit to block it! There's a dumbwaiter in the room with an intercom. It's a dead end!

Suddenly a voice was heard from the intercom.

"Who's down there? You're not one of them are you?"

"No we're not! Help us!" yelled Naegi at the intercom as Kirigiri was looking for something to block the door as she heard the running footsteps of the Variants getting closer.

"Quick! Get in the dumbwaiter if you want to live!"

The dumbwaiter came down, and the brunette opened the grid, called out to his fiancée to jump with him. He got in but kept the grid up as he extended a hand for her to grab. The door collapsed as two Variants got inside the room and were about to catch Kirigiri's hair. But she jumped just in time in the small dumbwaiter with Naegi close to her. He kicked the Variant in the face before closing the grid.

The dumbwaiter quickly started to go up. The brunette was holding the lavender haired woman close, they looked at each other and started laughing a bit. They needed to calm down. Someone just saved them!. The lift stopped and the grid went up. Naegi looked at the face of their savior and gasped as his eyes went as wide as dinner plates.

A Variant that looked like a doctor, was waiting for them in a polite position.

"You made the right choice here, buddy." he grinned under his tattered surgeon mask.

To be continued…

In the next chapter of Survi-... The Trager Show…

"You are that little shit priest guys, aren't you? His… Witnesses or whatever."

"She has a nice ass, your girl."

"Shhh. You weren't putting that tongue to any use anyway…"

"And that's what I'm here for… To make…"

"No no no no no"

"...You…"

"NO PLEASE DON'T!"

"...believe…"

"PLEASE NOOOOO!"

*SNAP*

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Doctor Trager got a new patient...

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Who will go first?

*snap* *snap*

Nobody likes a quiter.