Note: Sorry for the long update, but I had a writers block. I hope this chapter isn´t too confusing, but this is happening in Skippers nightmare. Most of the ideas are taken from "The ring" by Koji Suzuki and the Dreamworks Remarke "The Ring" Enjoy! Sorry for any spelling or grammar mistakes, I had no time for a check^^

Day 6

It felt like I´ve been drawn in some sort of undertow. It was like my subconsciousness had been torn out of my body and placed inside another one. After a while I felt like I´m lying on a bed, not my bed in the HQ but one with a soft matress. I smelt a penetrating odor of chemicals and disinfectant. Disorientated I tried to open my eyes, but my lids felt too heavy. I heard some beeps and other sounds around me, which made my feathers ruffle. Finally I managed to open my eyes and bright light blinded my. "W-Where... am I?" I whispered, my voice trembling.

Cautiously I looked around and I got a huge shock. I was lying in a hospital. I tried to move but I soon realized, that I was chained to my bed. Also I was hooked up to a few medical machines, which were making those beeping sounds. My heart began to pound painfully when I suddenly heard noises from outside the room. "Let´s just run a few test on the object" I heard a man´s voice saying.

But another thing caught my attention, the dead girl suddenly stood at my bed. I tried to escape, but the cuffs around my flippers where too strong. "Now, feel, what I´ve felt... Feel my misery and pain I had to go through..." she whispered and disappeared. I started to panic and the door opened slowly.

Two doctors entered, with clipboards in their hands. "Testobject is still in a uncontrollable state. New medication initiaded by lumbal punctuation" the one mumbled and made a note. The other one went to the shelf and fetched a syringe with a needle. Slowly he approached my and my heart skipped some beats. Suddenly cold hands wrapped around my body, forcing me to lie on my side. I trembled as the other one lowered himself behind my back.

I screamed as he stung the needle into my back, penetrating my spine cord. The pain increased as the doctor pushed down the plunger and injected the clear liquid into my back. A burning sensation spread through my body and my vision blurred completely. "Let´s see if we can make any improvement on the test object. At least to keep her calm" the doctor said. "What? Her? I´m not that girl!" I tried to scream, but the pain made me only gasping.

Panting and groaning I laid on the bed with burning pain raging in my body. With last strengh I tried to lift my head from the pillow. The dead girl was standing in a dark corner of the room. And although I couldn´t see her eyes, because they were covered by her wet, black hair, I knew, that she was watching me closely. "Why are you doing that? Why did you insert my inside of your memories? What have I done?" I managed to mutter, but she didn´t respond.

I felt like I knew this answer already. I´ve destroyed her video tape, the only way out of her hell. Although I didn´t know, what had happened to her, I knew she was feeling resentment against the whole world. "See it for yourself" she whispered and suddenly everything around me turned into darkness...

As I regained consciousness again, I felt wet grass under my belly. The pain from the injection was still raging but I managed to push myself up and take a look around. I was lying on a wide medow, only surrounded by a few, old trees. A cold breeze grazed over my body and made me shivering. At least I was able to get on my feed now.

Suddenly I realized that I was standing in front of an old fountain. The fountain of the video. A noise me made me turn around quickly and I saw another woman with long black hair standing behind me. She stared at me with an empty expression on her face, but I could see a few tears dripping form her dark, mercyless eyes. "You´ve been everything I had ever whished for. But I can´t live with you anymore, daughter..." she wispered and drew a black plastic bag from behind her back.

Faster as I could react she pulled it over my head and closed it by squeezing her fingers around my neck. I couldn´t breath anymore as she strangulated me. No scream could escape my beak anymore as I felt more and more dizzy. Suddenly I felt her grabbing my neck and the last thing I realized was that I was falling deep down into the fountain.

Water splashed as I hit the surface of it inside the fountain. With last strengh I managed to pull the bag from my head. I looked above and saw how the fountain was being closed by a massive stone cover. Everything was dark around me now, I only felt the coldness of the water, which was creeping under my feathers. All of the sudden I heard another splash beside me. The room lit up a bit by a gloomy light the dead girl was spreading from herself.

"That´s why I hate everyone. She killed me... and soon I´ll kill you!" she whispered deviously and grabbed my flipper. Burning pain streamed though my body again, as she had burned my flipper through her touch. Then everything went black around me again...

I sceamed loudly when I woke up. I was lying in my bunk, desoriented and breathing heavily. My heart raced, like it was about bursting through my chest. I looked at my flipper and saw that my feathers were actually burned in the shape of a hand. "Skipper, talk to me, Skipper!" I heard voices screaming. I watched my team gathering around me but it didn´t reach my brain, so I could show any reaction. I just barely noticed, what was happening around me. I just felt pain, misery and fear, my heart was still pounding like mad and I almost wasn´t able to breathe.

"Kowalskik, he needs a doctor, quickly!" young Private screamed in horror and I saw the tall penguin waddling into his lab. "Skipper, hold out. You´ll get well again, just hold out!" Private stammered and placed his flipper on my shoulder, rubbing it gently to calm me down. But I couldn´t even feel his touch and my body just trembled. Their voices sounded so distant to me, but suddenly I heard a loud whispering inside my head. "The last day has come..."