Baka's notes: Well look at that!
It's christmas! Merry Christmas everyone!
My present for you dear readers is this new chapter.
Don't worry. It's a nice one.
Female Ward (part 2)
"I hate this place…" sighed Naegi.
It was only when they saw a shadow moving that they noticed the existence of the Variant behind them, whom was about to swing his mace on the female detective's head.
Thanks to Naegi, the Variant missed as the male detective pushed his partner away from the swing. Kirigiri countered with a kick to the patient's nuts, making him fall on his knees as the couple ran towards the stairs leading down.
"I'll kill you!" threatened the injured Variant still holding his balls in pain.
They must find the key and they knew where it was: in the Laundry Room.
They reached the stairwell and jumped over the gap, since it was downward, Naegi could make the jump. After being sure that they were not being followed they walked towards the Laundry room where the 'nice' Variant was standing in front of the entrance, as if waiting for them. Being the only way inside the room, the couple very slowly walked towards it. And just like before, when the Variant saw them, he walked away to let them in. This one was a strange individual…
They walked toward the Laundry chute and the corpse was there with the key. Kirigiri grabbed it and both walked back towards the stairs, Naegi whispered a thank you to the 'nice' Variant whom politely nodded in return.
They jumped again over the gap and reached the floor where they had to look for the fuses, but there was nothing else to do on this floor so they used the key to unlock the stairs to the next floor. There was another gap in the stairs, a bigger one, Kirigiri jumped first and almost didn't make it as she grunted when her chest hit against the edge of the stairs.
"Kyoko! Are you okay?" asked Naegi in a worried tone.
"I am… fine." she said as she pulled herself up, "Alright your turn, I got you."
Naegi jumped but missed, making both detectives gasp in terror but the fall wasn't that bad as he just landed on his feet on the floor below. He reassured his lover that he was fine as he walked up the stair again and tried one more time. This time he made it as the lavender haired woman helped him up.
They reached the last floor of the Ward and the first thing they noticed was that it was very dark, one spot though was illuminated by candles. And on the wall, was written, again, 'Follow the Blood'. Kirigiri activated the night vision and saw on the floor a new trail of blood, leading to the corridor on their right. They followed the path and it leaded to the remains of a floor, there was just the ledge large enough to shimmy against it. On the floor below was a patient who tried to open a door by slamming his body against it, when he was covered in bruises he gave up and walked away, grunting insults to the door, not noticing the duo looking down at him.
When they couldn't go further, Naegi noticed the platform in front of them was bloodied and marking a path, he told his partner that they needed to jump over there. The gap wasn't that big so they both made it without too much problem.
They were now in a new hospital room but everything was a mess as most of the beds were turned on their side along the furniture. The room was dark so Kirigiri took the lead but when she reached the center of the chamber the floor cracked. They both understood what it meant as she jumped away but everything collapsed around her. Naegi caught a glimpse of her extended arm and quickly grabbed it.
"Don't worry Kyoko! I got you! I'll-I'll pull you up!" he exclaimed, determination in his voice as he pulled her up.
Once she was back up, she thanked him but he was just staring behind her with wide frightened eyes. She looked behind and saw a dark cloudy mass floating, she quickly raised her camcorder and saw the Walrider staring at them before floating away, disappearing in a corner.
"We need to move." she said and Naegi nodded.
They resumed their journey, the walked around the newly formed hole on the floor and reached out an adjacent hospital room but there was nothing of importance in there so they exited towards the next corridor. But when she approached the doorframe, she suddenly jumped back, startling Naegi.
"Wh-what is it?" he asked.
"J-Just the Walrider who appeared in front of me… but it's gone now" she sighed.
"God dammit! He's everywhere lately." Naegi grumbled as he grabbed her hand again.
The next corridor was leading them." in a loop as most of the exits were blocked. As the rest of the building it was dark, just some candles illuminating some corners, showing blood drawn arrows, leading the way for the couple. They followed the blood as usual and found a room… a very perturbing room.
The room was illuminated with lots of candles, showing that the room was nearly entirely covered in blood. On some walls were Christian crosses drawn in blood and on another wall, was written 'LIES'. They recognize the handwriting.
"Father Martin killed someone here." whispered Naegi in terror, reality striking him like thunder: they are putting their lives in this man's hands.
Kirigiri saw boxes around the room, all empty. These were the kind of box where you put important files.
"Were the 'lies' he's talking about all the files missing from these boxes? the facts?" she took one of the empty box and analyzed it, "The records? They look like government agency material, at least thirty years old, probably older… I'm thinking MKULTRA, CIA Mind Control…"
"You think the government is behind this?"
"Maybe, or at least someone who knows about that old project." she said, her tone serious.
This was getting way bigger than expected, what was Murkoff doing with these patients? It was certain that they were brainwashing them, but why these horrible injuries that turned them into the creatures named 'Variants'? What was the meaning for them? And for what purpose were they doing that?
The sound of footsteps brought them back to action, they must go on.
They kept following the bloody arrows that leaded them to a double door. It was slightly opened, but when Kirigiri was about to touch it, it closed on them. Their desire to open that door dropped, but they had no choice. It was the only way out. So the female detective slowly grabbed the handle and pushed open the door. But when she saw who was waiting behind it, she immediately closed it, turned around, grabbed Naegi's hand and ran to hide them both in a dark corner.
"What is i-" started the brunette but was muffled by a gloved hand.
"It's the Twins don't move." she whispered, footsteps were getting closer, "Don't make a noise."
She looked at her camcorder and the first thing she saw was that the twins were still naked. The hairy one was approaching them, murmuring things about seeing them and wanting to kill the couple, then disappeared once more. Once he was out of the way, the detective duo ran to the door they needed to go and closed it behind them, they were now in another hospital room. They ran to the exit to the rear right.
After closing another door behind them they noticed they have reached a large destroyed room: most of the floor was missing, the remaining of it was now just some unstable platforms. The first jump wasn't dangerous so they made it without problem. There was a large but inaccessible hole on the wall in front of them, on the other side was Father Martin.
"Father Martin!"
"Oh! My children! You're almost there!" he smiled at them.
"What was in those boxes?" demanded Kirigiri, glaring at the fake priest.
His smile turned into a frown as he answered: "Nothing but lies, my child! You don't have to worry about it anymore, I burned them."
"Why so mysterious? Just tell us what was on those files."
"Only God needs to be mysterious." was his response, "Be patient, hold on to faith. The Truth will soon be revealed before you." he grinned, "You're almost there. Keep going."
They asked more question but the patient ignored them, they had to move on. They shimmied along the remaining of a section of the wooden floor and reached one last platform, their next and last jump wasn't a big one so Naegi went first. He warned his fiancée that it wasn't very stable so she should be careful.
She nodded and jumped… badly. She hit the edge of the platform, the camcorder flew out of her hand as she grabbed the boarded wooden floor not to fall. Naegi quickly went to her aid but as he moved the whole platform bent dangerously. The camcorder slid down the platform as both detectives stood still but when Kirigiri saw the recording machine about to fall she reached for it but it was too late: their only way to see the dangers in the dark fell and went down to the floor below, but it bounced at impact with the ground and fell through a hole, now it was two floor below.
"Damnit!" she grunted.
"Crap… We have to go and get it but first let me h-" Naegi started but the floor cracked even louder as he took a step forth.
"Move back!" exclaimed Kirigiri as the boards were starting to give up and eventually hers.
She fell to the floor below and quickly raised her arms to protect herself from the debris falling.
"Kyoko! Are you ok?" the ahoge man asked, concerned as he leaned over the new edge of the platform to be sure she was doing ok.
"Yes, I am fine. Nothing serious." she responded as she tried to stood up but more cracking.
Both detectives paled at the noise, and noticed that Kirigiri was sitting on another unstable board… right over the hole where the camera fell through. It cracked again… and broke apart the second after, dropping Kirigiri into the darkness of the floor below.
She extended her arm in a futile attempt for Naegi to grab her as he did the same from where he was. The last thing she heard before the darkness engulfed her was a bloodcurdling scream calling her name.
"KYOOOOKOOOOOOO!
To be continued…
In the next chapter of Survival at Mount Massive Asylum…
"Stop being an idiot and go already!"
"It's broken…"
"Let me GO!"
"You'll never leave this place alive… hehehe…"
"RUN!"
"Wait… is this…?"
Baka's notes: I LIED!
HAHAHAHAHA
Am I not a great guy?
Have a nice holiday.
(Thanks to hunterofcomedy for the idea of Kirigiri falling with the camera)