Chapter 14: The Damned
Danny Torrence never had it easy, he had an alcoholic father and a mother who was terrified to confront him. He doesn't remember much of his childhood, he pushed most of it away when he was sent to a hospital after his father tried to kill him and his mother, he froze to death in the process and his mother died a few years later but he never really thought about it. After he left the hotel he began to see things...People and they tortured him till he broke down and spent ten years being told he was crazy but what the doctors didn't realise was that he had the Shining, a power that allowed him to harness the magic of the hotel.
He met a girl and fell in love until her father tried to turn him into his puppet and so, Doctor Sleep was born. Like John Coffey, he had taken the power of the Overlook Hotel and was wielding it like a sword, controlling the anger of the spirits so that he could destroy anyone who tried to take the power for themselves.
Not many people know this but the hotel is alive in a sense. It knows its power and it hates it when someone abuses it like the Fraternity. Edward Chow was a warlord who claimed that he was fighting the good fight but he was just fooling himself. He had stolen power that belonged to the hotel and it wanted it back.
Doctor Sleep was stood in front of Chow, looking into his soul and twisting it. The spirits of the hotel appeared, surrounding him and watching like an audience. They didn't do anything other than stare, no expression except for their cold, dead eyes. Doctor Sleep reached out his hand and started to pull out a blue energy coming from Chows chest, he started cough and scream as it poured out of him and into Doctor Sleep.
"You thought you were a soldier of the light but you only brought darkness." Doctor Sleep said as he pulled the last of the blue energy, making Chow fall to the ground and cough up blood. He was weak, weaker than he had ever been.
"The Damned will never die." Chow yelled out but he had accepted the hard truth. The spirits started to howl with laughter as they pounced onto him, ripping him apart as Doctor Sleep bathed in his energy.
Kathleen looked at them, the hellish ghouls tear the monster apart. She tried to scream but couldn't, Doctor Sleep saw the fear in her eyes and reached out his hand as the spirits turned their white eyes onto her. She froze but the spirits disappeared and Doctor Sleep walked over to her, holding out his hand.
"Come with me." Doctor Sleep said as he helped Kathleen stand. Carrie then landed in front of them and looked at the terrified Kathleen.
"Kathleen." Carrie said as she ran towards the two. They started to go blue, energy ran around them and they slowly started to disappear.
"You have another mission." Doctor Sleep whispered to Carrie, she had a vision of Alex and Dave fighting before the two disappeared.
Carrie stood there, trying to work out what just happened, she looked up into the air and saw the military helicopters swarm the area, the soldiers jumped off the choppers and started to clean up the area. Carrie took a deep breath and flew away.
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Alex and Dave had been on a boat for a while now, they were beginning to get a little bit restless but they tried to stay out of each other's way. They made it to the island and jumped off the boat. It was cold and dark, the night breeze pierced their skin, they were wearing black armour and had their stealth equipment which mainly consisted of guns with suppressors.
They jumped off the boat and ran up the stoney beach, using night vision goggles to find their way. They made their way to a large temple that took up most of the island. There wasn't many people there, a few guards at the most. Alex was ahead of Dave, he was being more reckless whereas Dave was constantly looking around. Alex ran towards a tired guard, he was smoking so that he'd stay awake but it wasn't working, Alex rammed his knife into the back of the guard's neck and pulled him to the ground. Dave ran up the stairs and fired a shot, hitting a guard in the head.
He wasn't a fan of killing, he did it but it wasn't really him. He felt more like a soldier when he killed someone, it wasn't anything personal, it's just what had to be done. He sprinted up the stairs and smacked a sleeping guard, he taped up his mouth and continued running up. He looked up at the roof and saw the sniper fall off the roof and make a thud, Alex had shot him down which annoyed Dave because it was reckless.
Alex caught up with Dave and they started to hear screams. Alex kicked the door open and sprinted in, he looked around and saw a guard running through the temple, screaming as he fell to the ground, his heart was slowly twisting in its place and eventually stopping. Dave walked up to the guard, wondering what happened.
"What was that?" Dave asked as he turned around, looking at Alex but to his surprise Alex fired a shot at Dave. His armour absorbed most of the impact and he was used to it but it still hurt like a bitch. Alex fired three more shots, tearing up his armour until his dropped a flashbang.
The explosion disorientated Alex and Dave made a run for it, dropping his rifle and pulling out a pistol. He fired several shots and Alex turned his weapon to an automatic and started shooting through the temple. Dave was hiding being a pillar and returned fire.
"Why are you doing this?" Dave screamed as he took cover from the hailstorm of bullets, trying to work out why he suddenly changed his allegiance.
"How long have you been in this game? You should know by now...Trust is how you get killed." Alex explained as he rolled over a small grenade. Dave saw it, jumping out the way as it exploded, he screamed at himself for such a rookie mistake. He was now in Alexs line of sight.
Dave jumped up and kept firing his gun until it was out of ammo. Alex ran to the side and did the same. Dave dropped his gun and took out two rods and jumped towards Alex, kicking him in the chest and then smacking him in the face with the rod.
"What is wrong with you?" Dave asked as Alex fell to the ground, he pulled out a knife and pounced at Dave. Daved smacked him in the face but as Alex waved his arm and slashed Dave's arm.
"I am the Damned….And you're not." Alex said as he stabbed Dave in the chest. He pushed him to the ground and walked towards a small door in the corner. Dave managed to pull himself up, leaning on a pillar, he pulled out a small knife and threw it at Alex but as it flew through the air, it stopped.
Dave looked around in horror as Rachel landed on the ground, smiling. She made the knife move towards Dave, dancing on his throat as he tried to move but couldn't.
"Poor little Kick-Ass...Now you get to be with your whore." Rachel mocked as the blade started to press up against Dave's throat.
As this was happening, there was a loud thunder like noise and Carrie burst through the wall, tackling Rachel and throwing her out of the building. The two ended up outside, Rachel punched Carrie in the face and she let go. Rachel fell into the ocean and burst out of it, hovering in the air as a storm started.
Rachel looked at her sister who was hovering in front of her, the waves crashed against the small island and lightning lit up the night sky, rain poured down onto them but they didn't care...It all ends now.
"Dads dead...You don't have to do this." Carrie said but Rachel didn't care.
"You killed my mother." Rachel replied, her mother Barbara was killed when Carrie first attacked New York after the Black Prom.
Rachel flew towards Carrie but she used her powers to create a wave that consumed Rachel, dragging her into the ice cold ocean. She pushed the water away from her, creating an air bubble and pushed herself upwards, she brought the ocean with her and burst out of the sea as she created an even larger wave with her. She punched Carrie into the island which the wave crashed into. Rachel picked herself up, coughing up the salty water onto the stoney beach. She looked around and couldn't find Carrie, she didn't want to celebrate just yet but as she walked along the stoney beach she heard the loud, crippling sound of thunder.
She looked up and saw a bolt of lightning came right down for her, she jumped out of the way but got hit by the blast, it was like it had been thrown for her, looking for her. Once the lightning disappeared, Carrie flew towards her and punched her sister into the ocean.
Rachel fell back, waves crashing into her, she wanted to get up but Carrie kept her to the ground, punching her several times and keeping her face in the water.
"It's over...They're gone...You've lost." Carrie said as she kept punching until her knuckles were bleeding, dying the ocean water red. A large wave hit the two, throwing Carrie into the ocean.
"It'll never be over, they'll always be another villain...Another war to fight." Rachel said as she jumped up and punched Carrie in the jaw.
Carrie returned by throwing a haymaker which forced Rachel to step back a little, Carrie then hit her with an uppercut but Rachel made the water spin around Carrie, it started to raise into the air and created a tornado of water. Rachel controlled the lighting, forcing it to strike the water and torturing Carrie as she was inside of it. She tried to hold the water and the lightning off, forcing it back but it wasn't enough.
Rachel kept forcing more and more into it, focusing all of her concentration into it but this lead to her downfall. She didn't notice the bullet fly through the storm, slicing rain drops in half and tearing its way through the night sky and eventually hitting Rachel in the heart. She into the ocean as the tornado fell down with her. Rachel's body was consumed by the mile high water as it collapsed onto her, Carrie managed to fly out of it and crashed into the beach, she looked back at the ocean, looking at her sister's watery grave.
Dave was inside the building, he had his rifle and was leaning out of the window. He looked at Carrie and nodded, he walked towards the wooden door in the corner so that he could confront Alex. He taped up his knife wound and slowly walked towards the door, he was in so much pain he could barely walk but he had to. He pushed the door open to see Alex on his knees by a bed which had Sue and the child on it. Sue was unconscious and pale, she couldn't be alive but the child seemed healthy.
"Why did you attack me?" Dave asked.
"You go around acting like you're heroes, protecting the innocent and defeating evil but you're no better than the villains. I lost my brother to that freak, Rachel lost her mother...You lost the love of your life." Alex explained. He kept his eyes on Sue, holding her hand struggling to keep it together.
"We've all lost something." Dave said, trying to comfort the broken soldier.
"Don't give me that...You claim to be a hero but you've probably taken more lives than I have, at least I call myself a villain...at least I killed for a reason, why do you do it? To make yourself feel stronger? Feel like a bigger man or is it because you've realised that the world doesn't need a hero to protect them...It needs a man who knows how to make the hard call no matter what it does to his soul." Alex continued to explain, Dave understood what he was saying...He wasn't proud of the lives he had taken but he did what he did for the greater good...That's what he told himself at night.
"What happened to her?" Dave said as he looked over the dying Sue.
"I loved her like a sister...That's my niece, they deserve a good life but they'll never get one." Alex said as he stood up and turned to Dave, knowing the end was here.
"It's over." Dave said as he pulled out one of his batons, Alex smiled and nodded as he pulled out a small knife, no bigger than his thumb.
Alex slashed Daves taped up wound, he screamed out in pain as Alex punched Dave in the teeth and then slashed his throat, he didn't cut deep enough for it to be fatal but it still stung. Alex lunged towards Dave, grabbing hold of him and stabbing Dave in the chest, it didn't do to much, his armour was thicker than the knife. Dave pushed him back into the wall and fell to the ground, he had lost to much blood at this point.
"You and you're friend...You're monsters and that child is the key to ending this cycle, you heroes don't even deserve to live." Alex explained as he pulled out his pistol, he aimed at Dave and squeezed the trigger. The bullet left the barrel but stopped in the air just before it could hit Dave.
"Did you kill Sue? Did you kill her just so you can take her child." Carrie screamed as she walked into the room. She made Alex float in the air, pulling his limbs apart until he screamed.
"I didn't kill Sue, I released her from the hell you put her in...I AM THE DAMNED." Alex screamed as Carrie threw him into a wall. He fell to the ground and started to chuckle to himself as Carrie looked at him. He didn't really want anything, he just wanted to keep fighting, to keep playing the game until there a clear winner, finding new ways of fighting. He wanted the child to taunt her, to ruin her...Carrie knew this and she couldn't let him have that.
"It's over Carrie, you've lost." Alex said as he spat out some blood, Carrie checked on Dave, he was unconscious but could be fixed if she had the right equipment.
"How have I lost? You're the one dying." Carrie said as she looked at Alex.
"Your father, your mother….Your cousin…..Your boyfriend….Your friends…..Everyone you've ever loved is dead, why can't you realise...You have nothing, you're all alone." Alex mocked, he kept coughing up blood as Carrie pushed him closer into the wall.
"I need you Danny...Please." Carrie whispered to herself as she went to check on Sue, tears fell down her face as she realised that Alex was right, the sudden realisation that she truly never had anything.
Well I hope you enjoyed so please review. Sorry it's late but I ended up doing an all night shift so I couldn't upload it yesterday, so Rachel is finally dead along with Chow, what will happen next? Why has Danny taken Kathleen? Until next time, have fun.