Thy Heart Shall Bleed
.:FOUR:.
The soft padding of the piece of music playing echoed against the wooden walls. It sent shivers down my spine with every touch of the keys.
"Where is that music coming from?" Wufei asked as we slowly stepped inside.
Besides the tune of the piano, there were no other noises that proved that there were monsters about. The darkness felt like it was trying to cover us like a blanket.
We switched on our pocket torches and scanned the walls for something, anything that would help us in any way. The ground was covered with red carpet that didn't look very welcoming. The walls were a deeply dark red wood color. it looked cold and alluring. There was a bulletin board at our left. It had nothing really of interest. Just about a place called "Heaven's Night," and another one about a ballroom.
We followed the piano music as if an invisible rope was pulling us in. it led us straight ahead and then to our right, which led us to a door with a small sign next to it that said "Restaurant Lake Shore."
Heero opened the door and the music grew louder. Needless to say, inside it looked like a restaurant. Tables were placed around, table couches, a long bar on the left, a patio also on the left. The fog clouded the big screen. The walls were white and the ground was white as well. The whole room wasn't completely dark, it looks like a cold blue. Plants were in certain places decoratively and there, on our right in the corner, was a black classical piano.
The piano was still playing, but there was no one sitting at the front! It was playing without the player! The keys were moving on its own as if they're really being played.
A chill went down my spine.
"What's going on?" I blurted out. Was it some kind of trick?
Trowa was the only one who had the guts to open the lid at the top and show it to us.
The hammers inside were moving as they strike the strings. Sounds normal right? Definitely not how it looked! I heard Relena gasp. The hammers were rusty and covered in reed, and the strings that it strikes were red and I could see red liquid streaming down each string. Is it blood?
"Oh god!" Relena squeaked.
We looked at what she saw and backed away. With each strike of the key, tears of blood appeared.
"Is this really happening!" Relena shouted and hid behind Heero.
"I sense something here" Quatre said with fear in his eyes.
This is like nothing we've ever encountered before. We weren't trained for these certain things.
"What do we do?" I asked, "There's nothing there."
"Hn," Heero pushed his way lightly to the front of us. He took out his gun and aimed right at where the pianist would have been.
"You gonna shoot nothing?" I felt myself mumble.
"Hn," Heero answered with.
Suddenly, we heard tapping of glass behind us. We instantly turned with Heero pointing his gun straight in the direction.
On the glass screen, there was wet writing that had dribbled on there, as if it was heating on the other side.
It read- Help Me 2 Kill Me! With the '2' backwards.
"What does that mean?" Relena squirted out.
The music stopped and started with hitting the keys all at once, forming a hideous sound.
Heero turned again and without warning he shot. The bullet hit to the wall. The hole there bled a bit of blood out of it.
The music stopped instantly and the blood on the keys and inside of the piano all disappeared.
"I think ya got 'em, hero" I said smiling at him.
He smiled back but than it faded away because of Relena. She had her arms around him. I didn't like that one bit but I can't do anything about it. Heero pried off her arms gently. Well at least he didn't seem to like it.
My stomach grumbled loudly. Man, I'm so hungry!
"We can't eat yet, we need to check this floor just in case" Wufei said directing it to me.
I sighed out of despair. I hate it when you have to wait until your stomach starts to eat itself.
We checked out the Restaurant. Nothing of real interest and non-that showed that someone was here. There wasn't any dust on the tables, as if they were just cleaned. We walked out of the Restaurant and checked for danger.
In front of us, in the corner was a table with a lamp on it that was switched off. Opposite that was an small elevator that looked to only fit two people in it.
Quatre switched on the lamp. As he did, there was thumping from the ceiling. It traveled past us and all the way down to our left.
"What is that?" Relena whimpered out.
As we looked down the hallway, lights slowly thumped on. They turned on from the end of the hallway to the light above us. And plus, the lamplight was on. I wanted to say a joke but I was interrupted by Quatre shouting out, "Hey you!"
I looked at what Quatre was shouting at. I caught a glimpse of a ghostly little girl at the end of the hallway. She just went in the door at the end. I didn't get to see her clearly but she was wearing a white dress and she had blondish-brown mid-length hair. It was like Relena's except it was lighter. Sorry that I had to compare it to her.
We were glad to find someone in this quiet, crazy town, we all ran past the other doors we haven't gone through yet to the end one.
"There's no one here" I looked from left to right. The air felt heavy and the hallway had an eerie look. Thee were dark shadows in corners and the ceiling but we saw nothing dangerous. The color of the hall seemed to be gray and to our right, we saw, at the end, a small window that showed whiteness that looked to be painted on with white splotches.
The lights weren't working in here, and so the window slight seemed to be the only th9ing we could rely on besides our pocket torches.
"I guess we could start checking here?" I asked the group.
They silently agreed and split up. I was with Trowa and Quatre. Sigh, Relena got her way again. With Heero. And this time I wouldn't be there. Damn. I could hear Wufei grumbling about being stuck with a whiny girl like Relena.
We all started at the doors on the right. Near the window. Our door had a gold plate, engraved with 102. While Heero's went through the 101 door. Basically, we're going through the even doors, while the others have odds.
Our door was working and made a little creak. Inside it was dark, as expected. There was a bed on the left. A closet, draws and that's about it. Nothing very interesting. The walls were covered in an old-fashioned icky color and pattern. Light green with white patterns. Together they made a horrible combination. No offence to anyone who does have those. Anyway, getting off track here.
Either way it was a boring room. There were only crappy clothes in the draws and nothing in the closet. After everything that has happened to us, I would have expected at least something that would happen.
After Haro's appearance and all I haven't heard or seen him at all. Maybe I'm just crazy or something. Yeah, that must be it.
My group got out of that boring room and decided to go to the next one, 104. As we opened the door, we heard Relena complimenting Heero as they moved to the next one also. God Damn her!
This room looked exactly like the last one! How boring. I'm ready for something, when nothings happening! Bummer. We checked the draws but nothing interesting was there.
We moved to the next one, 106. Still looked the same! Except for one small hole in the right side, looking through the next room that I guessed was 108. It looked like someone used an axe to try and get through to the other side but they stopped for some reason.
The three of us took a peek in the hole. It just showed us the other wall next door. We turned to leave when we heard…
Meow
A cat. We backed tracked the hole but there was no cat that we could see.
Meow
It sounded like it was next door. We ran out to the front of 108's door.
Meow
We got no signal that Heero and the two others had heard it. But we had no time to wait. We busted open the door and looked around. No cat.
Meow
I felt like the noise was coming from the draws far from us. But how could that be?
I moved cautiously to the draw grew open; the smell of death hit us like water. It smelt horrid. I looked inside the draw and my eyes widened.
A blood puddle and stained white silk cloth was there. The cat was quiet…
I saw something glitter gold my hand shake as I reached inside the draw, pushed aside the stained cloth and saw what it was. A collar to a cat, I imagined.
It wasn't stained with blood at all. As if it was kept preserved clean.
The collar had a black leather strap with a gold plate. It was engraved. On the front in lovely writing is said-Terry, and on the other side there was small writing- To my dear sister, Happy Birthday.
That would have been a nice gift to have. Especially if a sibling gave it to you. For some reason I felt empty and upset.
"We should keep it" Quatre said quietly, "You never know when it could be useful."
I silently agreed and put it in my backpack. We moved out and stood there. We couldn't hear the others at all. No footsteps, no voices.
"Guys!" I yelled out. There was no reply. They would have heard us. Those doors weren't blocking sounds.
It was like they were cut off from sound, or were we the ones being cut off?
"Duo" a little girl's voice was heard but it was cut off.
The lights in the hallway turned on all at once. Then a vooming noise was heard. It went louder and louder, and as it did, the lights became brighter and brighter.
"What's goin on?" I panicked and looked around. Where were Quatre and Trowa?
"Guys? Where did you go?"
The lights became so bright! Flashes began to strike. Like it was in my head. It started to hurt with every strike. It filled my eyes with white and red flashes. I could hear myself yell out along with the vooming sound. The pain felt too much!
"Look out!" A voice yelled out.
The bright lights were empowered and so I shut my eyes tightly and heard the explosion of each light. I felt something around me. Something strong. I heard my whimpering.
"Duo?" Again, the voice softly spoke, "Are you alright?"
I cracked my eyes open a bit. I only saw green. I felt warm. I could feel that I was standing.
I opened my eyes more and saw that Heero had his arms around me. Me! I lifted my head up and Heero looked worried. He tightly held me. I could see in the corner of my eyes that Relena was huffing in jealously. Ha!
I noticed that Heero and the others were staring at me. Trying to guess if I'm alright. I blushed a bit and hesitantly moved out of Heero's arms and looked around.
Glass was on the floor. I looked up and realized that the lights really did explode.
"What happened?" I asked everyone. They looked puzzled.
"We're not really sure ourselves. One minute you were there and then you just started to disappear. But we could still see you a bit and then the lights blew up!" Quatre said in a hurry. He looked relieved at seeing me unharmed.
"If it weren't for Heero, you could have been hurt" Wufei pointed out. He saved me again!
I looked at Heero. He just nodded. I saw that there were a few nasty scratches and cuts on his arms and one on his right cheek. They looked painful.
"Oh man, you didn't have to do that!" I blurted out. A tint of a blush was on his cheeks.
He mumbled out, "You could have gotten hurt."
"We need to fix those before they become infected" Trowa said, meaning the scratches.
"I'll do it!" Relena chirped out. 'Grr,' was all I thought.
"I'm alright" Heero said keeping his cool.
"Hay what's that?" Quatre curiously asked. We all looked at what he was looking at. There was a torn piece of paper. Quatre picked it up, showed it to us and read.
"Today I saw him staring at her again. I don't see why he couldn't just tell her! It's not like she'll be angry, she'd most likely be kind and sincere. I hate her," he looked at us, "it looks like it came from a diary of some sort."
He then shrugged and put it in his pocket.
"Well guys," I breathed in, "we need to keep moving and… I'm hungry."
Quatre giggled. Good thing we gundam pilots know how to take everything so easily and quickly otherwise we'd be bait. Relena has learnt how to keep her composure as well, I'm guessing because of her tactics of a better world with peace. Gah! I'm practically complimenting her. Ew.
We, together, checked the last three doors. Two were locked, rooms 109 & 110, and the last one, room 111, had a small tin box that was locked. It wasn't that heavy so Wufei put it in his bag. Isn't this fun? Collecting.
We headed back to the restaurant to have little 'nibbles' on the food we brought in our bags. We had to save most of it just incase we stayed a little too long than planned. I wish we could just eat the food from the restaurant but we didn't know how old the food was or if it was infectious or not. Damn.
As we ate, we checked what we had in our bags. Wufei tried to open the tin box that we got from room 111. Hope it has something useful inside.
I wondered what the time was and looked at my watch… that's great, it's not working. It must have ran out of battery. Damn again! The hands were stuck on… 12 o'clock? That's weird. I remembered back at the Historical place where I met Haro (or was that just craziness?) that it was 1:30 pm. How does that work? It couldn't have taken eleven and a half hours to get here. Unless I'm just going crazy again, 'cuz then that'd make sense. Double damn, my watch is broken and I'm questioning my sanity. Just great. I looked at everyone's wrists for a watch but alas saw nothing. As I sat there looking around. I just remembered that I needed to pee. I got up and moved near the door out.
"Oi, where are you going?" Heero shouted.
I gave him a cheesy grin, "I gotta pee."
Relena wrinkled her nose in disgust. Well, I was telling it how it is.
"I'll go with you" Heero surprisingly said. Relena and I were both shocked.
"You will?" I blurted out. This is a first.
"Yeah. Come on" Heero said grabbing my arm and moving out of the room, "I'm sure I saw toilets over here."
"But what about your scratches?" Quatre yelled out. Heero didn't seem to hear or either he didn't care.
Heero took us to the two doors near the door we had already been in. Both doors were labeled with those two people that define which one was male and the other female by prejudice putting one picture with flippy hair and wearing a dress.
We, of course, went into the men's toilets. Even though we were probably the only people there, women should still have there right to privacy (and not because the author of this is female). We checked around for any threats but there were none. The place, well, looked like men's toilets, obviously.
The sinks were on the left with a big mirror and the toilets were on the right. The theme color was blue and I saw in the corners some mold erupting. Ew.
I checked one toilet for me to use. It seemed clean. Stress 'seemed.' Heero didn't go to the toilet. He just stood there leaning against the sink, arms crossed, looking around. Maybe he wanted to protect me, well, I hoped that was the reason.
When I was finished with my 'water' business I washed my hands at one of the sinks.
I caught Heero staring at me.
"What?" I felt nervous.
He walked over with hands both raised, palms facing each other. His hands raised higher until they were both on my cheeks. I felt them burn against his hands and I couldn't speak.
"Duo" was all he said as he pulled me closer to him. His face was close to mine. I thought he was going to kiss me.
"Y-yes?" I scrambled to reply.
"I don't want to lose you…"
A gasp escaped me. He slowly moved forward and kissed my forehead it felt soft and warm.
I can't believe this is happening to me! If only Relena was here to see this! Through all these strange and creepy things in this town, it was worth it for this moment.
He slowly pulled away but still kept his hands on my face. I thought then that he was going to kiss me but he only rested his forehead against mine with his eyes closed.
All I did was look at him in confusion. What is wrong with him? He felt and sounded like he wanted to be comforted. So I placed my hands on his wrists to keep them there. This is nice…
"Heero, Duo!"
Damn. Heero let go of me and so did I, sadly.
Quatre came in, "Wufei finally got the tin box open!"
We moved out of the toilets and walked back to the Restaurant. What happened back there? Heero acted really strangely. Must have been everything that is going on in this town.
"Why are there so many!" I heard Relena ask.
We moved inside the room and saw. Photo's spilled out. The other guys were holding some in horror. What is it? I thought.
I saw one on the ground, its back facing me. I bent down and picked it up.
"Wha-?" I couldn't believe it!
It was me!
SO HOW WAS THAT CHAPTER? Lol. I hope this is still good.