Comatose Overdose
Chapter Three
As the door flung open, the screeches stopped, and Li found himself alone in a filthy, dark corridor, with words written along the walls in what appeared to be fresh blood. From all around him, white noise was being emitted. It was quiet yet irritating. Li looked around him, only to find an old radio. The noise sounded as though it was getting slightly louder, and no matter what buttons he pressed he could not turn it off.
He turned to his left, only to hear that the noise had amplified slightly, and he could just make out a character moving down the other end of the hallway. It was walking in a strange, antagonistic manner. It seemed to be moving opposite the direction Li was facing; slowly towards his person.
Li was cautious, but no longer frightened. Sounds played tricks on the mind, whereas people didn't. What could this person do that was so damn terrifying? Nothing. He was angry that he had been scared of something that, from afar, looked so human.
Unaware of what this creature actually was, he moved willingly towards it, even though the closer he got, the louder a sound his radio emitted. The noise only made him feel angrier, as it was irritating him to a point where he stopped to look at it, glanced at the figure before him, and launched it directly at it's head. The creature hit the floor and didn't move, which Li grinned about.
Walking towards the figure, his stomach began to turn the closer he got. It was radiating a hideous odour, and it seemed to have a thick, shiny skin covering it's entire body, yet completely covered in red and brown stains. It was disgusting.
A thought of fear began to creep inside his mind, unbeknown to the origin of the creature. Li stared at the radio, which was still emitting a loud sound of white noise. Suddenly, the creature let out a loud screech, and a thick green smog, shivering violently and crawling around Li in circles. Whilst coughing, with one eye open and the other tightly shut, Li dived backwards over the creature, slicing it's back with the knife he was gripping tightly, only to land behind it covered in it's thick, viscous blood.
After it let out another loud screech and stopped moving yet again, Li decided not to take any chances, and pivoted slightly whilst in a squatting position, lunging onto the creature, his knife firmly held in both hands, landing with the blade in the back of it's dying, fleshy neck.
Watching as the blood crept from the creature, Li had not moved. His eyes were opened wide yet straining, his sweat ducts leaking salty fluid onto his forehead. He stayed there, pondering, until his stare moved onto the radio again.
It had stopped making noise.. But.. How? And why? He couldn't get it to stop before, yet here it was being quiet. Even during the fight, the radio still blurted out that consistent noise.
Li picked up the radio, with a theory in mind. He got to his feet and began walking towards the direction the creature had come from. As he did so, the radio started to make noise again. Li stopped in his tracks, staring at the radio with wide eyes. He knew why it was making that noise.
Carefully, Li walked forwards, his knife ready. He could hear another noise, this one somewhat different to that which he had previously heard. It sounded like metal scraping against something solid.. The friction of the blade and another surface. Not stopping, Li ventured forward bravely towards the noise, only to find a dark silhouette slowly gaining shape as he got closer.
The head of the figure seemed somewhat larger than the rest of the creature itself, and had an odd shape about it. It wasn't head-shaped, no.. It seemed.. Triangular.
Upon shifting his focus from it's head to it's hand, he noticed it dragging what looked like a great knife behind it. This somewhat scared him. Suddenly, the creature turned around, as though it could see him through its large metal helmet.
Instantaneously, he could here large footsteps behind him, only to see another pyramid-head creature standing behind him, this one clenching a large spear with both hands. Li squinted his eyes, grabbing his knife, placing his other hand on the gun he had tucked into his trousers, his pupils turning red as a bright blue line formed around his person.
As the two creatures advanced forward, Li charged his right arm with a powerful electrical current, forcing energy into his gun, increasing the muzzle capacity as he shot at the creature with the spear, diving forward a split second after to avoid dismemberment from the great knife being swung at his head from behind. The pyramid-head armed with the spear, staggering back, received a kick to the gut, as Li rolled forwards and lunged his foot directly at it, charging his gun with more electrical power, lying on his back to take shot at the other creature still leant forward from the weight of the blade as it missed it's target.
He let off a few charge bullets at it, only to see it deflect them with it's large blade. Quickly jumping to his feet, Li drove a knife into the abdomen of the pyramid-head in front of him, to find himself being launched backwards from the swing of its spear. It was as though the creature never felt a thing.
Lying in the middle of the floor, slightly dazed, Li rolled to his left as the large blade landed directly where he was. Seeing this as a moment of weakness, Li charged himself once more, this time with more power than he had ever felt, and lunged his knife into the creature with his left hand, shooting several bullets into it's chest, as it fell backwards, landing in a puddle of it's own blood.
He rolled backwards over its seemingly lifeless body to recover his knife, and then took aim at the other creature. It began walking towards him, and so he charged himself once more with energy. He pulled the trigger, but unfortunately for him, all that was heard was the empty clicking sound, rather than the fulfilling sound of a shot being fired. The clip was empty, and he had no magazines on his person. Whilst thinking, Li did all he could. He attempted to pick up the large knife, trying to prepare for the creatures advance.
Just managing to pick up the blade, he knew he that he'd never be able to defend himself effectively with that blade. So he did what he thought logical. He ran.
His radio fuzzed and crackled as he ran, and he charged his body when it got louder, shoulder-ramming anything he came across, so that he might knock it out of his way and carry on running from the slow creature.
He could see that the corridor ended with a door. He was praying that it was unlocked. He carried on running, and just slammed the door, turning the handle at the same time, to find it was open. His radio was quiet, so he thought he was safe. Unfortunately, as he lunged through the door space, he found that there was no building on the other side. He had just flung himself out of a door which led to nowhere.
Realising that he didn't have his grappling-hook wire, Li felt doomed as the floor neared his person. He felt somewhat relieved to be leaving the nightmare he had come across, but he thought he could've found another way... Unfortunately not... The dark ground outside embraced him as he became inches away from death...
There you have it. Chapter Three complete
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