HUNT

Chapter 1

Tomo blinked as her vision began to clear. She looked around drowsily to see where she was. Her eyes instantly snapped open as she saw. She was in an abandoned metal factory, darkness surrounding her. She was strapped to a metal table, completely unable to move. She willed her arms up against the bonds, with no effect.

"Hehehehehehe…." Tomo's head immediately twisted to where the laugh had come from. A man, seemingly in his middle twenties, stepped into the little light that illuminated Tomo. "A little fly, caught in my web. What to do? What to do?" he sang as he walked towards her. "What the hell do you want!?" she yelled at the man.

"Oh, poor fly, caught in my web. Doesn't know what's happening. All the spider wants is to live," he sang as he ran one of his hands up her arm. Tomo shivered as she tried to pull her arm back, once again without effect. The man laughed again as he walked back into the darkness. "The fly can wait. The spider will be back," he sang again as he disappeared.

Tomo shivered again as she watched him go. She started to wonder what was going to happen to her when she heard the singing again. "Little fly, caught in my web. Mine for fun. Mine for killing," she heard. The wildcat froze. Mine for killing. This man was going to kill her. Her breath increased rapidly as adrenaline surged through her system.

The man hummed as her walked back into the light, carrying a small box. He laid it down on a little table next to her and opened it. Tomo raged against her bonds, trying to break them. The man laughed as he watched her futile attempts to free herself. "The little fly is resisting. The little fly is stuck," he sang as he pulled out smaller bonds and tied her hands to the table she was laying on.

He leaned over her and said, "The fly must know who it is who is the spider. The spider is called Shouta." Shouta leaned back and reached into the box once more. This time he pulled out several needles and a bottle of lemon juice. He poured the lemon juice into a cup and dipped the needles in it. "Tell me, have you ever felt how painful it is when you get lemon juice in an open cut?" he asked as he pointed one of the needles at her arm. "It is quite painful, truly."

Shouta pricked her arm with the needle, getting a surprised yelp from his captive. "Let me go, you bastard!" yelled Tomo, once again trying to force her way free. The man laughed as he pushed the needle into her arm completely. Tomo screamed as he began to stab the rest of the needles into the arms and legs. Shouta reached back into the box after he had run out of needles. Sweat covered Tomo's body as she brought in deep, strained breaths.

Her captor brought out a knife this time. The girl's eyes widened as she saw this new tool of pain. She pushed against the bonds again, earning nothing but another laugh from the torturer. He made several cuts up and down Tomo's arms and legs, in between the needles. Her blood leaked out in small beads onto the knife, dripping onto the floor. Once he finished cutting her, he placed the knife back in the box.

Tomo shook with anger and fear. Pain also shook her. Shouta smiled as he leaned back, watching the expression on her face before leaning forward again. "It is such a thrilling sensation, to have the power over the life or death of a human being," he said as he reached into the box again, this time pulling out a wooden rod. He raised it to a deep cut on her left shoulder and pressed into it. Tomo tried to bite back a scream, but failed.

Shouta smiled again as her screams filled the air around him. After awhile, he put the rod back, drawing the knife once more. He cut her shirt with it, and made small cut on her stomach while doing so. The wildcat let tears of pain and fear run down her face as the man placed the knife right below her stomach. She screamed more than ever when he inserted the knife into her body completely, letting a large amount of her blood to pool freely on the floor.

He laughed as he pulled the knife out. "Pain is one of humanity's greatest sensations. It tells the body when harm is being done. It tells the body about danger. It also tells the body when the end for it is near," he said as he caught some of Tomo's blood on the knife. "Pain can be someone's greatest enemy. But it can also be their ally. Pain gives a person advantage over another, using it as a threat. It can also be used to bring pleasure," as he said this, he licked the blood that stained his knife off. "My use for it is pleasure, as the screams of the dying are sweet to my ears. Their pleas for mercy pleasurable to my senses."

He walked around the table still holding the knife, the pained stare of Tomo watching him. "You shall be the one who brings my pleasure tonight, girl," he said with a menacing smile as he stabbed her on the other side of her body in the same place. She screamed again as he did this. She could feel death coming for her in great leaping strides. "Tell me, what is your name?" he asked her. She spat with what little energy she had. He just laughed and said, "Never mind then. I can find out with an ID match." Shouta smiled as he raised the knife to her chest. "You are going to die soon. Please grace me with some last pain before you do."

He stabbed down with the knife, piercing her lung and painting her chest red with blood. She couldn't breathe. What air she could manage to take in leaked back out in a second. Tomo lay there, no longer to scream in her pain. Shouta stood over her with a satisfied smile as she died slowly and painfully. He had kept his schedule. The man turned and walked back into the darkness.

Keshi-sama: Bloody. Next chapter will be about how the girls respond. Reviews are welcome!