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(First time ever...Warning:...blood here...there...everywhere...should I rated this M?...well, my description is quite bad so I don't think that is necessary...)

Chapter 2

"Don't be scared, my boy...

Don't lose all your joy

I am always here

Always keep you near..."

Year: 1987

It was very late at night when Dr. Curien heard his son screamed from his room. Katherine jolted up from the bed and was alarmed by the scream. They ran out to the hallway and entered their son's room. They found their son on his bed, crying and shaking in fear. Dr. Curien rushed to his son's side and comforted him. Katherine was standing by the bedside reassuring her son that everything was alright. After a while, their son calmed down and fell asleep in Dr. Curien's arms. He tugged his son in bed and left the lights and the door open.

'Must be a terrible nightmare he had there.' Katherine gestured to her son. Dr. Curien nodded. 'I'll be scared too if I dream about blood...' he told her. Katherine hugged her husband...


"I see something there

There's no need to glare

That river of blood

Drown you like the flood..."

Year:?

Daniel jumped a bit when the elevator suddenly stopped. When the elevator's door slid open, Daniel pressed himself closer to the corner. The hallway on this floor was completely dark. Like an endless corridor leading to the dark. "What's the matter, dear?" the voice echoed seemed to come from the hallway itself. "There's no need to fear." Yeah, right...he scoffed. "What awaits you there..." it continued with a mocking tone. Daniel sighed, "Oh, why should you care?!" the voice went silent.

He couldn't stay there forever anyway. There was a sign pointed to the dark hallway that said 'DBR Institute' but he didn't notice it. He went inside the dark hallway. He depended on his hands to feel the walls through the dark hallway. After a while, he felt something wet around his hands but he ignored it. He saw a lighted room at the corner and walked towards it...it felt good to finally step in to a lighted place. When he glanced at his hands...he almost screamed. Blood...blood all over his hands and his wrists. The wetness that he felt back there in the dark hallway...they were blood!

At that moment, he heard something snarling. He looked around but he didn't see anything. A drop of thick red liquid fell from the ceiling and dripped on his shoulder...he jerked backward, looked at his shoulder and saw...more blood. He looked up to the ceiling and saw something terrifying. A number of humanoids soaked in blood crawled all over the ceiling and watched Daniel with hungry red eyes. Daniel screamed. The bloody humanoids snarled again and reached out their bloody limbs to catch Daniel. All Daniel could do was to run away from them as far as possible. He exited the room into another dim-lighted hallway. Man, this place is like a labyrinth...Daniel was panting hard from running.

"Run, my boy, just run..." the voice spoke again. Daniel glanced at the back to see whether those humanoids were following. He didn't look what was in front of him. "You'll miss all the fun" Daniel hit something hard and fell back to the cold floor. His eyes went wide when he saw something in front of him. "All the pain and screams..." A fat gray-skinned monster turned its humongous frame around and stared at Daniel. It growled loudly and came for him. "Blood gushes out like streams..." the voice echoed. Daniel backed away from it but the monster caught his arm and pulled Daniel closer. He's going to eat me! Daniel panicked. "Bon Apatite." the voice cackled wickedly.

As Daniel struggled to break free from the monster's grip, he saw those bloody humanoids right above him. They roared and pulled Daniel away from the grey undead, up to the ceiling. Great, they even steal among themselves just to eat me... The bloody humanoid that caught him bend its head forward to bite him, Daniel held out his hands and pushed it away from him. At this close range, he saw the appearance of this abomination clearer. It was mostly yellowish skeleton covered with red mushy muscles that doesn't seem to hold blood. More of them were crawling towards Daniel, wanting to tear him apart...one of them bit Daniel's arm. He screamed...while the voice laughed at his misfortune.

Screaming was a very bad move if a person doesn't want to attract more things that wanted to eat him alive...this was no different. More and more of decayed zombies including the fat zombies came through the doors in the hallway and headed to the source of loud commotion. Sounds of moaning and groaning quickly filled the quiet hallway and drown the boy's scream. Somehow, the voice was still clear in the hallway... "Hush now and sleep tight. This dark and cold night...When you close your eyes...the bright round sun dies..." the voice murmured. The sound of flapping was heard in the air vents.

A bunch of oversized bats swarmed in through the air vents and started to bite everything in its way. The bloody humanoids were the first to be bitten and fell off the ceiling down to the ground where hungry zombies were waiting. Daniel fell on top of the dead zombie and quickly crawled out from the hallway away from the zombie mob and a swarm of bats. He went in to the stairway at the end of the hallway. He was bleeding pretty badly and the wound on his arm was started to feel numb. There were no crazy dead things around the spiral stairway, which was good. His other hand pressed on the wound hard, trying to stop the bleeding. And when he thought that he was safe in the stairway, the gates around the stairway moved and it shut the path where he came in... He startled.

The gates rattled and the stairway itself shook as something big was climbing its way upward. When Daniel looked down through the bars to see what was coming...he thought he stopped breathing. A deformed sloth was climbing up in an alarming speed. He ran up the stairs and tried not to fell off the stairways in to the abyss down below. "Such a coward little pup..." the voice groaned. The sloth was getting closer, shaking the whole cage and the stairway as it moved towards Daniel. Daniel winced every time he passed each floor. There were no open gates that he could escape from this beast. The sloth seemed to be frenzied and started banging its head against the cage. Without a warning, a bunch of decayed bodies fell down from the bars in the ceiling. One fell in front of Daniel.

"!" Daniel looked around for possible exit and-he saw an open gate on the next floor. The beast was done with its banging and continued its way to snatch him. Daniel ran there as fast as he could and finally made it out. He shut the gates just in time before the sloth came banging its long claws against the gates. Its white eyes stared at nothing in particular. He noticed that the sloth was blind. He must have used his sense of hearing and touching to look for me... Daniel turned to another long passage that would lead to the Bio Labs."Run...run...run..." the voice mocked. "That is the only thing you can do best, child? That's very disappointing."

Daniel frowned. He stopped and stared at the wall as if the woman's voice was there. "Shut up, will you?!" he blurted out. The voice merely laughed at his sudden outburst as if it was satisfied. He sighed and continued his way down the passage while holding his bleeding arm.

Author's notes: That sloth Fool is the noisiest, the craziest boss in the arcade and I hate it so much. I planned to make the part with the Fool longer but it didn't go according to plan. At least I did the creepy part ...My first attempt in trying to make people scared...way to go. Thanks for all the views...