Female Ward (part 3)

She was feeling nervous. But seriously, who wouldn't? It was her wedding day! Kirigiri was wearing the beautiful white dress Maizono and Asahina, her maids of honor, made her try out and literally cried over its beauty.

Everyone was there, their old classmates and friends. Even some senpais. Her grandfather was there too, even Jin. Makoto convinced her to invite him. There was also Makoto's heartwarming family. And aw, is Komaru-chan really crying?

She was walking down the aisle towards the altar where was waiting the priest and next to him was her soon to be husband: Makoto Naegi. He was just dazzling in his wedding suit and he even combed his hair back that made him look more mature. She couldn't help herself but blush.

He really knew how to make her heart flutter.

She stood next to him and they shared a look before turning towards the priest who started the ceremony.

"You look beautiful, the girls made a great choice." He said sheepishly, his cheeks red.

"Thank you. You look good yourself too, Makoto." She smiled.

"Th-Thank you, Togami chose it for me. But I'm sure you must have already guessed it."

"Obviously"

The both chuckled. And followed the ceremony, exchanged vows and rings,

"At this time, I'll ask you, Makoto Naegi, and you,Kyoko Kirigiri, to face each other & take each other's hands." The priest said and they obeyed.

"Makoto Naegi, will you take Kyoko Kirigiri to be your wife, your partner in life and your one true love? Do you promise to be faithful to her in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health, to love her and to honor her all the days of your life?"

"I do" he answered with a determined smile.

"Kyoko Kirigiri, will you take Makoto Naegi to be your husband, your partner in life and your one true love? Do you promise to be faithful to him in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health, to love him and to honor him all the days of your life?"

"I do" she smiled back.

Then the end of the ceremony...

"By the power vested in me, I now pronounce you husband and wife. You may now kiss the bride"

Naegi smile widened as he leaned forward and slowly pressed his lips against hers. The feeling of warmth was… just relaxing and marvelous.

But suddenly a sharp sound echoed in her ears and the soft lips of her now husband felt metallic… that's not normal. She stopped the kissing and took a step back only to see Naegi spitting blood as bone shears were poking out of his chest.

Naegi looked with terror and confusion at the blades but a hand grabbed his hair and pulled him up before he could collapse.

"What's the matter, buddy? You really thought I'd be satisfied with only two fingers?!" Trager mocked as he waved Naegi's right index and left ring fingers in front of his terrified eyes. His wedding ring fell from the finger into a pool of blood.

Kirigiri couldn't move as she was staring in horror at the gruesome scene in front of her. The once church turned into a dark bloody room and the priest turned out to be Father Martin as he just looked down in disappointment.

"Well that's not all but the big guy over here have something to say to you." The crazy doctor said before letting go of Naegi withthe weapon still skewering his body.

Chains and heavy footsteps were heard as an enormous hand reached for Naegi's neck then grabbed it. Slowly lifting the brunette in the air and without warning, a wet ripping sound echoed around the room as the male detective's body got his head ripped off. His eyes rolled back as his mouth hung open, blood not stopping pouring out of his mouth.

She finally screamed and cried, her hand grabbed the side of her head. Her vision blurred by the tears that never stopped to flow. She didn't see nor hear Chris Walker approaching her. Then pain attacked her neck, then just like Naegi, the big guy lifted her up and grabbed her around the chest. It hurts a lot.

And her last vision was her own bloody body now between Chris's fingers, his arm at the side of his body. His white eyes glaring at her as her vision turned red then black…

Then she opened her eyes …waking up… and was greeted with darkness all around her.

Naegi stared at the hole by which Kirigiri fell. He quickly got up to his feet and started to perambulate in worry. He'd done that for less than twenty seconds when he already slapped himself on the forehead.

"Stop being an idiot and go already!" he scolded himself, "You must go save your fiancée, moron!"

With determination, he jumped down to the floor below and looked at the hole again. It was pure darkness down there. He couldn't see anything! And the hole wasn't large enough for him to jump down and be sure not to land on where she might have fallen… There was a chance that she'd already gotten up, but there was also the chance that she's unconscious… There's no time to see the different possibilities! He needed to get down there and help her!

He looked at the open door behind him. The more prudent thing to do was to find a way down safely. Kyoko would kill him if he injured himself even more for her… But again, it's normal to-

"AAAH! Stop it! You're wasting time!" he shouted to himself, feeling that he's starting to lose sanity in this damned place.

He walked through the door, the next room was dark but just there's enough light for him to walk around it. He must only walk in the light. Never walk in the darkness since without the camcorder and its night vision, he wouldn't see the dangers lurking. As he followed this rule, he reached a locker room with showers. One of them was broken and with water pouring down to the floor.

Naegi looked around to see another exit leading downstairs as this room was the only one with light around, but his luck was against him.

"Damnit!" he growled as he hit one of the stalls, the impact opening it and presenting to the detective a large hole on the floor, leading to the floor below, "..Oh!"

Well looks like his luck might be with him finally.

"I'm coming Kyouko!" he said with determination as he jumped down the hole.

Kirigiri woke up in a dark room. Absolute darkness. She couldn't even see the tip of her nose. She wanted to move but the sudden noise of a can being kicked stopped her. It wasn't her and it echoed all around the room, making it impossible to localize the source.

She eventually turned around and saw some light. She could tell computer screens emitted it but they were facing away from her. She slowly and cautiously walked toward the light.

But more noise were heard, noise of metal hitting each other. She couldn't localize the source but knew what it was: cutlery. So she could guess she was either in a cafeteria or a kitchen.

Maybe.

Anyway, she reached the light and the screens were static but illuminating the desk they were set on, and more importantly: the camcorder. How on Earth did it fall there? No. It was put there in purpose. She grabbed it and examined it.

She gasped when she saw that the screen was cracked.

"It's broken…"

But thank god, it didn't affect the others functions. And the screen still worked, there just was a big crack on the bottom left corner.

As she looked around with the night vision, she noticed that she was indeed in a cafeteria and the doors were open, she must go back upstairs and rejoin Naegi. He must be very worried.

A movement on the left caught her attention. She turned around and jumped as she saw three armed Variants that were staring at her. She started to run toward the doors. She must find Naegi and escape those Variants.

"Uh? She can see us?"

"Get her!"

"KILL HER!"

She ran through dark rooms and hallways, she could hear the three men yelling at her as they gave chase.

There was a big room behind the next busted door and- uh?

Is that…?

Naegi jumped down the hole and landed on top of a stack of lockers. It was another shower room but with lockers this time. He jumped down again and left the room. The hallways were dark but some candles were lit.

And as he walked down, thunder suddenly roared and illuminated the hall just for a split second. Just the perfect amount of time for Naegi to see a patient running the way he must go as it had some light and all the doors were barricaded.

Then a second thunder roared when he reached the corner where the patient disappeared. He walked down cautiously and fists clenched. He knew that he have no chance to beat one of those crazy patients but he must keep going. Kirigiri was in trouble!

And just as he finished giving himself determination, a patient jumped out from the darkness and reached for Naegi's neck and grabbed it.

But before he could tighten his grip, the brunette swung his arm back.

"Let me GO!" He shouted as he punched the patient square in the face.

The man fell back but quickly got back on his feet and ran past Naegi, whimpering.

"Wow… no one would believe me if I told them that I pushed one of these creeps away with a punch."

He chuckled but quickly got serious as he kept walking down the dark hallway. He entered a large empty room illuminated by the moonlight outside. Well it wasn't empty as there were two Variants inside. One was sitting on a table, staring at Naegi when he came in while the other had his face glued on the window, looking for something.

Naegi looked for another door that could lead him where Kirigiri fell and found it. He walked towards it.

"You'll never leave this place alive… hehehe…" said one of the Variant, he didn't know which one said it.

He did his best to ignore whoever said that and kept walking until he saw a shadow running towards him… it was…

"Kyoko!" he said, his face showing happiness but it quickly turned into a worried face when she saw her frightened eyes and most importantly: the right side of the face soaking with blood.

"RUN!" she ordered, and he understood why when she grabbed his wrist and when he saw the three Variant pursuing her.

"Follow me! I know the way up!" said Naegi with confidence, as it was now him leading the charge.

In less than a minute, they were at the locker room. Kirigiri closed the doors behind her as Naegi jumped over the locker and extended his hand for her to grab.

"Come on! I got you!" he said with determined eyes.

She grabbed the hand and got pulled over the locker. Then they climbed up the hole and reached the second floor's showers. The danger was gone now. The Variant gave up and walked away. And there they were, both in each other's arms under the broken shower getting wet. Naegi said that they should huddle away from the water as getting a cold would only make their condition worse. Kirigiri blushed and agreed as she helped him stand up. They walked back to the room where she fell and there she hugged him and made him sit down.

"I'm sorry I couldn't help you when you fell…" he apologized.

"It's not your fault. But everything turned alright, I'm fine and I got back the camcorder. The screen is broken though."

"Forget the camcorder, I almost lost you…" he kissed her cheek and brought her closer.

"...Makoto… Let's rest for a bit…"

"Sure…" He whispered as she laid her forehead against his shoulder, and he rested his head on hers.

They stayed quiet, like that for at least five minutes. But footsteps brought them back to reality; it was coming their way! They stood up and climbed up the platform where they've gotten separated. They walked down the dark hallway following the collapsed room and then, next door to the left, they reached the second collapsed room where Father Martin was waiting for them. But not anymore. He was gone again.

The only way to reach the other side of the room was by shimmying against the ledge on their left then jumping down to the platform. Thankfully, this time everything went well. The doors lead to a tight corridor, where a Variant was waiting for them. But he didn't moved as he looked at them. He even told them to come quickly as Father Martin was waiting.

"Only one way out, only one way." he said as he gestured for the couple to go through the gridded door next to him.

It was the only way they could go so they did as he said. But as soon as they crossed the doorframe, he closed the door behind them.

"How do you know you're not a patient?" he concluded before locking the door and leaving his post.

No choice then but to keep going.

But the corridor they were in was familiar. Very familiar.

"Wait… Is this?"

"I think it is."

"We're back to the Administration Block!"

"Where everything started."

"And where everything will end! Kyoko! We're almost out of here."

Naegi shouted in delight as he hugged her.

But the nightmare isn't over, it continues…

To be continued…

In the next chapter of Survival at Mount Massive Asylum…

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"So he really is alive…"

"The key to the house of God is in the theater. Behind the light. In the theater, behind the light"

"Shh. Can you hear that?"

"Only a test subject who witnessed enough horror was capable of activating the engine."