Chapter Eleven: Labyrinth of Woe

Josh entered the corridor with the nice wooden door and found nice corridors shaded in the darkness. There was a paper next to him and he picked it up. It was rather large and at the top were small words that said, "Draw my map please."

"Hmmmm, eh since it asked nicely," Josh said pulling out a pen and as he walked he wrote about everything there was.

He found a ladder and climbed down it which it led down into a ripped up flooring. Josh guessed he was wrong about the place not being able to go down more. Inside there was the static again and the sound of the Pyramid Head. Josh knew he couldn't handle that thing at the moment so he moved more and more until he found a door which he opened.

Inside this room were the cages that the hanging demons had, and some torturing devices. Josh walked to the table inside this room which had a red light and found the Great Knife here. He picked it up and smiled, "I'm gonna have me some fun in a bit," he told himself.

Josh went back out and headed for the ladder before the Pyramid Head found him. He moved around this place until her found a door labeled "Maze Part 2". This place was known as the Labyrinth.

Opening the door Josh looked into this new maze like area. He went left and then stopped finding a dead end. He turned and went right, then took another right which ended at a dead end. "Why me!?" Josh asked in an angry tone before turning back and making the left path, which led him to a door which he opened.

Inside here there were stairs before him. He headed up them and there was a metal platform he was on. It was plane, nothing there except an electrical box. Josh moved forward and down the next stairs in here to the room.

In this room was a cell, inside was the one woman. "Amel," Josh staggered toward the bars grabbing them.

"Josh, you're not Jacob," Amel looked at him.

"Jacob," Josh sounded confused. "Have you met him?"

"Have I?" Amel smiled before sitting in a chair in the cell. Josh looked by him and there was a chair. He decided to sit down. "Are you ok?"

Josh looked at her odd, "Well if you say I'm not then I guess I'm not."

"I ran after you in that hallway Josh, but Jacob held me back. He shoved the spear through me but someone helped me here," Amel looked at him with a smile.

"Jacob? No you mean that thing with a pyramid head right?" Josh asked.

"I don't know what you are talking about," Amel said, "but look, have you found that girl yet?"

"No Amel," Josh looked a little scattered now. He didn't understand what was going on at the moment. He could've sworn he saw the Pyramid Head coming after them in the hall and that was what got Amel with the spear.

"Alright, well let's get me out of this cell and we can search for her together," Amel suggested.

"Alright, you stay here and be safe. I'll be back to get you," Josh said turning around.

"Bye," Amel said with a smile before walking to her bed and sitting on it.

Josh was now back where he came from. He moved down this steel floored hallway and went to the door he came from, but stopped. The electrical box had sparks coming out of it, and a wire cutter inside. Josh walked over and took the wire cutter before leaving and returning to the first hallway they came to.

In this corridor he moved back to the door he came from and looked across it. There was a small open door space blocked by wire. Josh used the wire cutter to cut off the wires. There was a stairwell here now that Josh could walk through the wired path. Josh climbed down quickly hoping he could get to Amel quick.

Josh found more maze like qualities here, but they were more of up and down ladders and there was no second path. Josh went up the next ladder, the down the one here. Then he went up another, and down the next. In this hallway the Pyramid Head could be heard. Josh walked on and it shoved its spear before Josh missing him only by a hair. Josh pushed him out of the way and moved to the next ladder, which was the last here.

In this hallway there were two doors, one fairly near the end of the hallway and one at the end of it. Josh ran down it and heard a womans scream from the door almost at the end. He quickly went inside to find the next scene.

"Holy shit," Josh looked inside with the door wide open. There a black door with something inside it, its body made from the wood of the door. It looked like a hog with a door in the middle of it made completely off wood, and a human quality like face, but the eyes and mouth only showed blackness. This was a Doorman.

"No daddy! Don't hurt me in front of the guests!" Kathy lay against a wall as the Doorman was facing her, but then it turned its attention to Josh.

Josh pulled out his shotgun and went at the thing. He shot once and the thing squealed like a pig. Then the door opened and the body was split in half, though some force dragged Josh inside. Josh appeared near the ceiling now and landed on the ground before raising himself. He shot the thing once more but it just didn't want to go down. The Doorman quickly jumped on Josh and squealed with pride. As it was just about to bite down on Josh Kathy picked up a television in the room and slammed it down on the Doorman making it fall. Josh rose himself but Kathy wasn't done with the Doorman. She kept kicking it and kicking it until her shoe entered the beast making it bleed more and more.

The walls seemed to be like flesh, but near the ceiling were holes that had something that looked like a tongue come out of each, but they were small. A small table where the television used to set was also here.

"Are you alright?" Josh asked.

"Am I alright!? Is that all I get after I helped you get this far!?" Kathy asked furious, "It was daddy! He almost killed me and all you can ask is if I'm alright!"

"I'm sorry… just thought it was polite," Josh said.

"No I'm sorry…" Kathy said with a sigh. "I over-reacted. He was my dad, but at least you saved me from him."

"Well it wasn't all me. I mean when you picked up that television I'm sure that it head caved in after you dropped it on the things head," Josh said looking at its dead corpse.

"My dad isn't an it, my dad's a he," Kathy looked at Josh with an angry eye.

"Oh…" Josh said.

'Another psychotic huh? Been running into a couple of these lately,' Josh thought to himself.

Kathy walked to the door of the room and looked at Josh. "I'd stay with you but I feel safer alone." Kathy opened the door and left.

Josh went out the door too but Kathy was gone by now. Then he moved out and down the hall. Inside this hall was another two doors, which one was near the exit and one was the exit, but locked by some hand-cuffs. Josh walked to the only door he could enter.

In this room were six nooses that hung from the ceiling. On the floor under them were words. "Murder, Battery, Kidnap, Steal, Violence, Assault." Josh looked at a paper in the middle of the nooses on the floor and started to read it.

"There once was man that I loved here, his name was Jacob. Mine is and forever will be Lina. We went here for our anniversary and yet I felt sad about him. He reminded me of a friend that I blame for all of this. And he did not commit one of the crimes here. Let's see what you say and if you can get the key?"

Josh looked at all of them. He could pull them all but that would just be stupid. Some of the nooses had the same crimes so he guessed that he must've committed these felons. That left pretty much Murder, Kidnap, and Steal. Steal seemed like a give-away of anybody doing so, so he let it stay the way it was. Josh then looked at the last two. He shrugged and spun around, when he was done he pulled on a random noose and opened his eyes. A key fell to the floor. Josh looked at the one he pulled, which was labeled Kidnap.

Josh picked up the key which was a hand-cuff key. Making way to the locked door Josh pulled out the key as he arrived and unlocked the cuffs. When he could open the door he did so and ran down the short hallway, ignoring the turn and entering the door.

"No… not again," Josh said to himself in a depressed tone before messaging his forehead. Amel lay in the cell bed, a bullet shattered through her skull. "Amel…" Josh knelt down to her and looked at the bullet. With his experience he noticed what kind of bullet it was, a magnum round.

Josh left the room with anger written on his face and took the turn. Inside this room it looked like a graveyard, but it was inside. You could always call it a catacomb. Tombs here and there but there were six dug up. He read the names in order:

"Amel, she shall pay for he intrusion

Sammy, her murder has gone too far

Jacob, He was once a lover

Kathy, her suffering will be rewarded

Sophia, she has searched for ..

Josh, the main interference"

Josh was a little surprised to find his name on a gravestone but shrugged it off and looked at his grave. Unlike the others, which were all dug up, his seemed to go farther down. Josh jumped down into the grave not ready for what was about to happen.

Down in this room there was fog from the cold climate inside this small green room. Four bodies lay in each corner and Sammy stood before a door. She looked back as Josh came down.

"Sammy? What happened here?" Josh asked kneeling down at the bodies and noticing they had bullet holes in their heads.

"I finally finished what I came here for Josh," Sammy said with a smile, almost too normal for what she was about to say. "I kill everyone who put me there."

"Put you where?" Josh stood up cautiously.

"Thought you would've known by now. In that damned hospital, Brookhaven. Oh I have hated that place with more hatred than anyone has for anything. But I thought you knew I was there," Sammy looked at him with a puzzled look.

"Sammy, you can't just kill people for putting you somewhere." Josh then thought for a moment. "Wait, you killed Amel didn't you!?"

"Well she did get me drunk so they could put me in my room, you have a problem with that?" Sammy looked at Josh.

"Sammy, you can't just kill someone because they thought you needed help," Josh explained.

"Oh I was just helping them enter the next life in hell. Or as Claudia would tell me the Paradise you go to after you die. I still don't believe in it but I put them somewhere better," Sammy smiled with that creepy normal smile once more.

"Sammy, you can't just…" Josh said looking at the bodies.

"So you're in with them too huh?" Sammy smiled pulling up her magnum. "You just want me to go back there so I can be better for your damn society. Well I'll kill you before you can do that."

Josh fumbled for his shotgun and pointed it at Sammy. "Sammy stop, I'm not in on this with anyone!"

"That's what they all said, before I made their head go splat," Sammy laughed and Josh shot. He got her in the side and she let out a little squeal. "Ugh I'm not going to let you kill me," Sammy opened the door behind her quickly and closed it without regard for Josh.

Josh entered the room which had cold cow bodies hanging from the ceiling, all skinned with the guts and such still in tact. Fog was worse in here, and the light fixture was really horrible. His flashlight barely made it so that Josh could see.

"La, la, la la, la," Sammy's voice started to sing from inside the room as a bullet hit right next to Josh on the door.

Josh pulled out his Great Knife seeing as though he might just get his one good swing in. "Come on out Sammy, I don't feel like playing hide-n-seek right now," Josh said looking around.

"Oh great idea!" Sammy suddenly yelled, her voice echoed so it was impossible to tell where she was. "You hide, and I'll seek!"

"Not what I meant," Josh looked down and walked with the knife hearing the footsteps lightly moving around the place. He moved behind one of the dead cows and tried to follow where the noises were coming from. It was impossible though, the echoes were so close and far at the same time.

"FOUND D-YOU!" Sammy Screamed appearing in the light with a psychotic face. She stuck her tongue out and a gun shot was heard before she vanished. Josh felt some pain in his foot, she must've shot him there and wow she was pretty light on her feet moving around to him and such.

Josh walked on and looked around. "I guess it's my turn to seek then huh? Those are the rules for hide-n-seek right?" Josh said looking around.

"You can't find me," Sammy's voice echoed as she giggled afterwards.

Josh walked more down the room looking at the dead cows. He found the room to be square with about six of the dead animals hanging from the ceiling. It was a little large, kind of medium-large you could say. Josh had walked everywhere though, and Sammy appeared to be no where.

Josh walked and as he passed a dead cow he heard a giggle from inside. He turned toward it and watched as Sammy burst out covered in blood holding her magnum. "FOUND ME, YOU GO HIDE NOW!" She said loudly before laughing hysterically and shooting off rounds from her gun.

"Holy shit," Josh ducked as the bullets flew past him. Sammy stopped and jumped back in the cow. Josh swung his blade at the cow slicing it in half. The siren just went off then and the cow withered away into nothing but Sammy falling to the floor in two pieces.

"I… I didn't…" Sammy said starting to choke.

"Sammy I… I…" Josh bent down next to her. Her face turned with a horrible expression as she opened her mouth to speak. Instead of words a blood bubble came and popped, afterwards Sammy stopped moving.

"Sammy I didn't mean to kill you," Josh said looking at her severed body.

After moments after what had happened Josh stood himself and headed for the only new door in this room. It led outside to some docks. Josh turned around and opened the door, which showed the historical society instead of the room he came from, but Sammy was still on the ground dead. Josh ignored this and walked to a boat. On the boat here was a note:

"Congratulations Josh, you have made it one step ahead now. There's only one more place in your journey, and it's a trip back to reality. Take the prize that awaits you after this. Trust me, you will decide it more than anyone else that was here. But remember, your actions have made a difference.

Oh yes and another P.S.

I won't be talking to you anymore. They found me and now I'm sure to die. Good luck to what lies in the future."

Josh sighed. 'Three people dead and I can't do anything about it. Though something is so odd. I still feel as though… Amel isn't dead…'