Baka note: HOP! A new chapter that early? When I just uploaded Scare Me the day before?
Well yeah. Something like that.
Chapter a bit short tho
Female Ward (part 1)
After their brief conversation with Father Martin, they knew they had to go where he was going, which means that they needed to find a way to the upper room where he was. Kirigiri asked for a battery from Naegi since she has the camcorder. After changing batteries, they walked down a dark hallway, a corpse with a battery on his right foot, another dark hallway with blood on the floor to the left, they took the battery and headed left. All doors were locked they reached the one labeled 'Laundry Room' but it was also locked.
They kept walking down the hall until Kirigiri saw in the darkness a patient staring at them from behind a window of the laundry room, then he walked away. The couple found a way inside the laundry room, through one of the broken windows.
As they walked in they heard a noise, it was coming from a centrifuge machine, when Kirigiri looked inside, she saw some sort of dark cloud similar to the one the Walrider morphs into sometimes. Naegi tugged her sleeve, she looked at him as he whispered.
"Kyoko… The sound of the machine… it's very similar to the sounds in my head when I see the Walrider. When I blink and then he's near, I see static, something else for a split second. But it looks oily and dark. I know now that the sound comes from the machines… I… Know this sound, but I can't tell from what."
"I know… I've been seeing the same things." she nodded, she didn't see the creature as close as Naegi has, but she did had those same visions when it was near. She hadn't paid too much attention as she thought it was just dizziness.
"Kyoko… please don't leave me alone in here…" he whispered again.
She squeezed his hand to reassure him and resumed their journey.
The door on their left was open and the lights were on. They entered the next section of the laundry room and found the bottom of the laundry chute in front of them. There was nothing interesting around them. They exited the room through an open door on their right and Kirigiri saw a panel labeled stairs, and an arrow pointing left, that's where they needed to go.
The walked down the dark hallway and as they were about to turn left, the lavender haired woman backed up and pushed Naegi back as a Variant appeared from the corner, armed with a stick.
"I won't let you. Not again!" the patient exclaimed as he slowly walked towards the couple.
Kirigiri guided Naegi towards an unlocked door on their right, but it led to a dead end: some restrooms. The male detective closed the door behind him while the other detective looked for a place to hide, but behind a stall door won't be enough… No choice then, they'll have to run. She told Naegi to be ready and he nodded as he grabbed the handle. But when he opened it, the Variant was already behind the door, making the duo jump.
"Woah!" shouted Naegi but the Variant was immobile, staring at them, "H-Hey there…"
The patient took some steps back, as if to let them exit the room. They had no choice but to do it, the patient kept staring at them as they left. They walked around, looking for the stairs, eventually during their walk, they found a note explaining what was the Walrider, or at least, its mythology.
"The WALRIDER, also known as an "Alp," or "Mara," or "Schrat," is a demonic creature of German origin that torments sleepers. They crouch on a sleeper's chest and crush the breath from him. The sleeper wakes terrified, paralyzed, and asphyxiating. The name "Mara" gives us the word "nightmare." Sexual assaults by the demon are rare, but it has been known to drink the milk from breasts of sleeping mothers, and blood from the nipples of sleeping men."
"Let's never sleep here…" half-joked Naegi after reading the file.
They were now inside an entrance hall similar to the one they were at the beginning of their horrible adventure but without the lights working. Kirigiri told Naegi to rest in the light near the elevator and stairs while she will explore in the dark for something useful, before Naegi could said something she was off. And before he could scream her name, she was back with two batteries.
"Nothing useful except that."
"Don't ever do that to me again, please."
There was the smell of something dead coming from the bottom of the elevator shaft, both looked down only to see a corpse of a Variant surrounded with food. He probably barricaded himself in someplace safe, someplace where nobody could reach him… it didn't work.
They walked up the stairs but a whole section was missing, they had to jump. It was a pretty hard jump to do even for Kirigiri, being the more agile and stronger of the two, she jumped first and managed to pull herself up once she grabbed the edge, and then she grabbed Naegi's arm and pulled him up when he jump in turn. They reached the upper floor but the room was in a big mess, one gridded door was on the floor as if something massive was punched out of its joints, a bed was thrown upside down in the middle and the neon light was hanging by one cable. Only the gridded door leading to another floor and another one leading to a hallway were locked and spared by whatever stormed in there.
No way to go but through the hallway with the broken door, it was dark as the rest of the building, but a flashlight coming from another room blinded them, they then noticed that the room the light was coming from was from the room they talked with Martin. But they couldn't reached his side from where they were. Martin came back with another instruction.
"Nearly here! You can cross on the upper floor" he shouted.
"Uh… Thanks!?" shouted back Naegi.
"You're welcome my child. But be quick." answered the fake priest.
They walked around to find a way to go to the upper floor and found a room with what seems to be a hatch for the laundry chute, inside was a security corpse with a key, the key for the stairs going up, the one they saw earlier. But of course, it was out of reach. They could just open the hatch and grab the keys… But they needed three fuses for the control panel next to the chute. Fuses that were not there… Fuses that they needed to find.
"Why do we always have to look for missing stuff here?" sighed the ahoge man.
They left the room and started wandering in the dark hallways, looking for the fuses. They reached a cross, but the way forward was blocked by a wall and a corpse of a patient. This immediately put the duo on guards. They turned right, there was a reversed bed blocking the way but they could easily jump over it. The noise they made though alerted a variant who screamed even before seeing them.
"STAY BACK!"
The couple quickly hid behind a small corner with a drawer against the wall, Kirigiri saw through her camera the patient who walked pass them, mumbling curses and he jumped over the reversed bed. They quickly walked down the hallway toward where he came from, some big hospital room missing the beds. They closed the door behind them and when they saw the metal storage unit, Naegi pushed it against the door. The room was faintly lit by some candles positioned around the room. One part in particular had a lot of them, near a bed with a corpse lying on it. Over his body, against the wall was a sentence written with blood: 'Invite the Walrider'. Something on the table near the bed caught their attention though: a fuse!
Kirigiri grabbed it but they haven't noticed that there was no way out but through the door they came in. No choice but to push back the storage unit and pray for the patient not to be waiting to ambush them.
They did as planned, but the patient was nowhere to be seen, a very dreadful thing to learn. Where was he? They walked down the hallway and when they reached the cross again, this time they went the other way: the other side of the corridor they were in. While approaching the next room, more candles but on the floor this time. Another bloody message: 'Pray for Revelation'.
"...'Pray for Revelation'... 'Invite the Walrider'. Did Martin write all these 'instructions'?" wondered Naegi.
"Whatever they are, we should not follow them under any circumstances."
"Yeah."
They opened up the door to the next room and they almost closed it back as they saw a corpse on the floor, surrounded by candles, and near it was a patient, staring at the detectives menacingly, a butcher knife between his fingers. The same message from before written on the floor with blood. There was another fuse on the table near the corpse, but too close to the Variant.
They needed the fuse and the patient wasn't moving, just staring. Kirigiri approached the table.
"Wait, Kyoko! Don't!" half-shouted, half whispered Naegi at seeing his fiancée approaching the armed man.
But Kyoko didn't stop as she snatched the fuse, earning a scream from the patient who suddenly started to approach her, weapon ready to slice her throat open.
"NO MOOOOOORE!" He raised his weapon.
Naegi pulled Kirigiri out of the way and they quickly ran away from the room, the man chasing them. During their rush, they violently bumped into the other one that was wandering the halls. He fell to the floor, but quickly got back to his feet when he saw the couple. They ran faster than ever.
They reached again the room with the laundry chute. The patient was still chasing them. They ran into another dark hallway and hid under a random bed inside a room that luckily was open. The Variant looked around before giving up and walked away. They resumed their search for the last fuse shortly after the Variant was gone.
They reached another room lit with candles, but instead of a Variant was a corpse hanging upside down from the ceiling, behind it was written in blood on the wall: 'Drive in the nails'. And thankfully the last fuse was right next to it.
Once the fuse in their possession they didn't waste a second to go back to the laundry chute. Kirigiri quickly put the fuses back in place and once the three set, Naegi pushed the button to open the hatch. It was painfully slow! And just when the key was reachable, the corpse moved a bit from the opening and fell down the chute… with the key.
The duo stared at the laundry chute. The room was silent. No one made a noise. Not even the Variant behind them.
To be continued…
In the next chapter of Survival at Mount Massive Asylum…
"I hate this place…"
"I'll kill you!"
"Don't worry Kyoko! I got you! I'll-I'll pull you up!"
"God damnit! He's everywhere lately!"
"It's the Twins, don't move. Don't make a noise."
"KYOOOOKOOOOOOO!"
Baka note: I had the same reaction when the body fell with the key: silence.
But what is going to happen in the next chapter?