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Chapter 4
"Love will not last long.
Try and prove me wrong.
Everything that's dear
They'll all disappear..."
Year:1988
"You are crazy. I told you that I wouldn't join your little insane project. I-...NO! You listen to me! What you people are doing is inhumane-...Wha-...LEAVE MY FAMILY OUT OF THIS!" Dr. Curien furiously slammed the phone on the table after a serious talk with someone. "Damn it..." leaned against the chair and sighed heavily. What were those idiots thinking?! Messing with people's DNA is extremely dangerous... He stood up and left his room.
It already passed midnight and the corridor was a bit dark. A gloomy atmosphere. Down the hall, he heard someone coughing. He headed to the hall...and saw his son there with a glass of water. He looked a bit pale than usual. "Daniel?" he sounded worried. His son looked at him with tired eyes. "D-dad?" his voice was dry as if he was sick. The lights in the hall was suddenly cut off followed by a sound of shattered glass was heard. His son was whimpering. In the dim-lighted hall, Dr. Curien cradled his son, comforting him. "Shh...It's alright, Daniel..." his son was still shaking. "I'm right here, Daniel...I'm here." he held his son closer...and he noticed how warm his son was. It worried him.
After he brought his son back to his bedroom, Katherine asked him what happened. 'He's not feeling well, Katherine...' he explained. 'I think he's having fever.' Katherine looked worried. 'Also,' Dr. Curien pointed to the direction of the dark hall, 'we need to fix that light...'
"A lonely progeny
I'll keep you company
With shadow and darkness
Welcome all this madness..."
Year:?
Nothing in this section. What a relief. Daniel quietly entered the long corridor, didn't want to attract undead. This was much better than the previous sections. The lights were brighter, the air was much better and there were no zombies around to kill him. What was not good at this moment...he was getting tired.
"Getting tired, my dear?" the voice pretended to feel concern. Daniel continued his way, ignoring the voice. "Ignoring me again? Don't you learn something from the last time you ignored me?" the voice hissed. "Yeah, I learnt something..." Daniel sighed. "You're nothing but trouble...". With that, the voice growled viciously like an animal. "I'm more than that, boy..." it hissed and the lights began to blink rapidly... "Why are you following me?!" Daniel turned to the direction of the voice. His voice shook when the corridor got darker... "What do you want?"
The tone of the voice became sweet...and dangerous. "...You, of course. I wanted to see how good you are...just to make sure that I didn't make a wrong decision on what to do with you.". "What? Kill me? Why didn't you do it when I was in the parking lot?" Daniel just gazed up in the ceiling ...and saw a shadowy figure that had a shape of a furry beast. He froze. "...No, dear...not kill you. If I kill you, he'll bring you back...".
Bring me back?! What is she talking about?! 'He'? That made Daniel felt glad that he wasn't alone... Wait...who is this person anyway?...and what does that 'bring me back' supposed to mean? Lots of questions poured inside his head like ocean waves. They gave him headache... "You're a special one, dear...I think you know that. Even your father always think highly about you." the voice spoke sarcastically. The lights slowly turned off and Daniel shook in fear. This was different from the corridor where he met those bloody humanoids...it was pitch black here and he couldn't see a thing...or where he was going...
"Oh, child...this is easy. How hard can it be?" the voice laughed. The whole corridor was getting colder as well. Much colder than the Biolabs... Daniel didn't move from his spot. Even though he knew that there was nothing in this corridor, he couldn't help but feel like something was watching. "In darkness, I see... Come, child...come to me...". The strange noise of something scratching the wall was heard. Heavy footsteps were coming to him from the back. The floor seemed to shake at each footstep. It stopped about a few inches behind Daniel. He could hear his own heartbeat accelerate and felt the chilly air hit his back. Something was breathing behind his back...
When he turned around...he saw a pair of glowing golden eyes with bloody red pupils staring at him. The smell of blood filled the air, making him felt a bit dizzy. The monster growled...and it got louder as if it was about to roar. He panicked...and ran blindly in the darkness. The monster roared and stormed its way to him. He kept running...and running...but he didn't know where he was going... He could hear the monster behind him and it was getting closer. Then...he hit the wall hard. He moved his hands around and found out that he was at the end of the corridor. He was trapped.
"That's 'dead end' for you, boy!" the voice laughed menacingly. The glowing eyes came closer, accompanied by heavy footsteps that shook the floor. Daniel pressed himself at the corner. "I-I thought that you're not going to kill me." he stuttered. The voice snickered at his words. "Of course, I'm not going to kill you." It paused. "...I'm going to eat you." Even though the voice sounded frightening, Daniel found her statement weird.
"That's the same thing as killing." he muttered. "There's a difference." the voice spoke, sounded a bit frustrated. "If I kill you, you'll come back. If I eat you, you'll stay dead.". The sound of something sharp scratched the floor. It sounded like claws of an animal slashing against the tiled floor. "Let me put it this way. You will not be lying around for anybody to mourn..." the eyes glowered dangerously at Daniel. "...or for him to bring you back...". With that, the monster banged Daniel into the wall and bit his shoulder.
Daniel screamed as the monster sank its sharp fangs deeper in to his shoulder. He could felt the blood trailed its way down his arm. He tried to push it away but the monster seized his arms and pressed them at the wall. There was nothing he could do. He knew that death would come to get him soon. He was going to lose his conscious... "Daniel..."
He heard a faint voice calling him but he didn't have the strength to answer. The monster was drinking his blood greedily like a leech. "Daniel..." a soothing voice called to him. Suddenly, the monster released him and roared in pain. The woman's voice screeched and yelled in fury. "CURSE YOU, CHILD! WHAT DID YOU DO TO ME?!" The monster and the woman's voice seemed to disappear in an instant, leaving Daniel on the ground bleeding to death..."Get up, Daniel..." this voice was distant and calm...but he couldn't tell whether it was a man or a woman's voice. It sounded strange like...electronic voice. "Get up...you're almost here...".'Here?' Daniel frowned. As if it heard him saying it out loud, the calm voice whispered. "Here...where it is safe."
"Nowhere is safe..." Daniel winced. He couldn't move. If he even stirred, he would feel the stinging pain in his shoulder. "...You'll be safe with me..." the calm voice reassured him. Daniel wasn't so convinced. "I've been moving around this place and I found nothing but things that wanted to kill me." There was a long silence. "I don't want to kill you..." the calm voice spoke up. The place started to get warmer and the lights came back slowly, showing a tint of light blue. At the sight of lights, Daniel felt better. "Were you scared?" the calm voice asked with concern. Daniel didn't answer. "Don't worry...you'll no longer be scared once you're here with me..."
Daniel sighed heavily. He was so confused. There were voices in this place. One wanted him dead while the other wanted to help? What's going on around this...wait. Is this the person that the woman was referring to? "Why are you helping me?" he asked. It didn't answer him. "There's a ladder nearby... It'll bring you to the next floor. I'll see you there..."The voice went silent afterwards. 'I'm getting nowhere...' Daniel stood up slowly. Then he noticed something strange. He felt his shoulder and realized that it stopped bleeding, only the numbness remained. The wound was smaller than before and it wasn't painful anymore. This was similar to the wound on his arm. 'It can't be...'
He walked out from the dead end and went the other way through the corridor. The cruel woman's voice remained silent. He liked it. Then he saw the ladder, just as the calm voice told him. He climbed up and found himself in the passage with lots of giant glass tubes that were placed beside the path. As he waked passed each tubes, he saw bony looking humanoids inside them. They looked frightening. He hurried his pace and went through different rooms and then... at the end of the path, he saw an opened door with lights coming out. He walked slowly and glanced inside-
"GOTCHA!" somebody exclaimed and hit Daniel hard on the head. Daniel was knocked unconscious.
"What the-?! It's the kid from the Priority Alpha Section...How the hell did he get here?!"
Author's notes:This is a crazy chapter with another 'cliffhanger'. I have my own reason...The next chapter is going to torture me...painfully. If I offended anyone, I'd like to say sorry.
