Silent Song of Death ~ Rebirth
Chapter 3 – So What?
The big evil appears in this chapter :D
Blaine and Puck arrive in a clothing store and Puck immediately spots two handguns in front of them on the floor. The boys walk over to the guns, confused to why two handguns would be on the floor in the first place, actually why would they be in a clothes shop of all places? Puck bends down to inspect one while Blaine picks up another. Blaine inspects it until he sees something out of the corner of his eye.
"What the fuck?" he tries to say, but nothing comes out when he sees what looks like a type of thing eating a body.
The thing noticing the boy's presence stands up. Blaine notices it resembles the monster from his nightmare from earlier. The monster with the enlarged arms stalks its way over to a terrified Blaine and an oblivious Puck. Blaine backs away slowly in terror with the gun clutched firmly in his hand. Blaine aims the gone and the approaching monster as it approaches Puck. Blaine tries to warn Puck but he finds himself unable to speak still. Puck noticing that Blaine is backing away aiming his gun behind Puck. Puck shoots Blaine a confused look before turning around and comes face to face with the 'Closer'. The thing swings its arms hitting Puck and sends him hurtling against the wall and out for the count.
"PUCK!" Blaine shouts.
"Stay back!" Blaine orders seeing that the Closer was now stalking towards him.
"Get the hell away from me!" Blaine shouts at the things backing right up against the wall.
Blaine left with no choice decides to pull the trigger on the gun, praying that it contained bullets. One shot, the thing kept going towards Blaine. Blaine shot at it again and again and again until the gun made a clicking noise.
"No…" Blaine whispers in fear realising the guns ammo clip was empty.
Suddenly the thing stops moving and falls back to the ground with a thud, it writhed with pain and then it ceased to move.
"What the hell is this thing?" Blaine asks a loud.
"Oww…" a voice mumbles.
"Noah!" Blaine says running over to Puck.
"What hit me?" Puck asks rubbing the back if his head.
"…" Blaine doesn't answer and merely moves away to allow Puck to see what actually hit Puck.
"Do not tell me it was that thing! What the actual fuck is that thing?" Puck asks with a mix of terror and confusion.
"I don't know and I don't give a shit either. I just want to get out of here and fast!" Blaine replies helping Puck off the ground.
Blaine sees that there is some handgun bullets beside a woman's corpse that the monster was feeding on. He walks over to it and looks at the fallen victim.
"Poor girl. She didn't stand a chance" Blaine says picking up the box of bullets.
"Oh fuck…" Puck mutter's when he sees the body.
"Come we need to go" Blaine says reloading his gun.
"This will come in handy" Puck says picking a rucksack off the floor.
"Here take these" Blaine says passing Puck the bullets who puts them into the bag.
Blaine turns away from Puck and lets one lone Silent Tear fall the side of his face.
Puck and Blaine stop in front of a map. The two were debating whether or not they should take it with them. Ultimately Puck pulls it off the wall, reasoning after the encounter they just had, they would be better safe than sorry. Both boys wouldn't admit it, but they were both scared beyond belief and Puck was so glad he went to the bathroom when he did earlier because he could 've guaranteed he would have crapped himself by now. He wondered how Blaine was faring, he did know that Blaine was scared so he decided to be strong for the both of them because Puck knew if he started to freak, Blaine would lose the plot altogether.
"Doesn't look like we're going down those stairs" Blaine says snapping Puck out of his thoughts.
"Looks like we're going up" Puck comments seeing the blocked off staircase.
They reach the top of the stairs and see they are on the second floor. Puck glances at the map he swiped earlier while Blaine walks over to the door leading out the mall, debating whether or not he should open the door, what if there was more of those creatures out there?
Puck watching the Silent battle going on in Blaine' head decides to make the decision for Blaine. He walks over to the door, which startles Blaine from his thoughts and opens the door. Puck could feel Blaine tense up beside at the door opened. Both boys breathed a sigh of relief to see that it didn't lead them out into the mall, but to the employee area. Now that the boys knew exactly where they were. Using the map became a lot easier.
"Shh… Do you hear that?" Blaine asks.
The sound of moaning, similar to that of an infant would make fills both boy's ears. Blaine turns to his left and sees a small creature staggering its way towards them.
"P-P-P-Puck!" Blaine stutters pointing at the creature.
Puck takes a moment to observe the thing staggering towards them. It was a bipedal creature, resembling that of a tadpole. Its skin was pale with a bluish tint to it which was covered in splits and cracks. It had two short legs which end in deformed toe-like digits. Its head has a single hole in it where many of the cracks and splits in the skin seemed to be centred around.
Blaine backs up into the wall behind him terrified at the approaching thing. Puck seeing that Blaine is too scared and shocked to do anything decides to act. Pulling out his knife, he throws it at the things head, hitting it straight in the centre of the black hole.
"What the fuck? That should of killed you! It's like you have a Numb Body to pain!" Puck shouts at the thing.
The Numb Body takes two more steps in the boys direction, causing Puck to take two steps back, before it drops to the floor, dead. Puck walks over to the corpse of the Numb Body and fishes his knife out of its head and cleans it off before pocketing it. Puck extends his hand out to a terrified Blaine who hastily accepts.
"Lets get out of here, now!" Puck whispers to Blaine.
Blaine and Puck sneak down the hallway keeping an eye out for more of those things. They come to a fork in the path. When they see more of those things down the left route, it was a no-brainer that they were going to go right. They jog down the corridor and reach a white door with a strange handle. As Blaine opens the door he breaks off the weird looking handle. Blaine gets a feeling to take it along with him so he puts it into the bag Puck was carrying.
"What? It could come in handy" Blaine says when he sees the confused look Puck had given him.
"Well if there is more of those things around, then let's keep looking for more items that could come in handy. Let's try Berry's Bakery" Puck says pointing to the bakery beside them.
"Did you just say items?" Blaine says amused and raises one of his eyebrows.
"I wanted to sound smart" Puck says smirking at Blaine.
"So what did you find?" Puck asks after finishing looking around his side of the bakery.
"Pair of tongs, what about you?" Blaine says tossing Puck the tongs who then bags them.
"Our favourite, white chocolate chip muffins" Puck says passing one over to Blaine.
Under any normal circumstances, Blaine wouldn't eat any food that didn't belong to him, but given the circumstances he was in and if he were to continue to fight those monsters outside, he'd need his strength. Blaine quickly devoured his snack.
"I wonder where everyone is" Puck asks a loud.
"Wish we knew" Blaine replies.
"Come on Blaine lets go" Puck replies leaving the shop.
"Just how are we going to get that key? Because one our arms are too big to fit under that pallet and two there's way too much stuff on top of it to even lift the stuff off." Puck says pacing around a storage room.
"Puck we could try using those tongs we got earlier" Blaine suggests.
Puck looks at Blaine as if he were a genius. Puck fished the tongs they got from Berry's bakery and bends down to retrieve the keys. Blaine looks around the room to see if they can make use of any more stuff. Blaine's eyes settle upon a pattern and something just clicks for him.
"I've seen this pattern somewhere. And not just now either." Blaine thinks as he walks up to get a closer look at the pattern on the wall.
"A long time ago… when was it? And where?" Blaine whispers putting his hand on it.
"And…" he whispers bringing his hand up to his head.
"Why does my head hurt so much when I try to remember it?" Blaine questions himself.
A brief flash of red fills Blaine's vision making his head, that much more painful.
"Blaine?" Puck asks snapping Blaine out of his thoughts.
As quick as the headache appeared it disappeared with haste.
"Yeah?" Blaine replies confused.
"I said I got the keys" Puck says holding up the keys.
"Oh good, let's move" Blaine says walking to the door.
Puck dodged another swing from the arms of the Closer as he ran. Blaine ran up to the shoe shop trying to fit the key in but it wouldn't work. He lets out a shriek and ducks when the monster aims its arms at him. The Closer gets it arm somehow stuck in the wall, giving Blaine and Puck a chance to escape.
"Try the Hudson Bestsellers!" Blaine says tossing Puck the key.
Puck rushes up to the door, shoving the key into the lock and prays the key would open it, Puck silently thanks whoever was watching over and listening to them when the door opened. Puck pulled Blaine inside and closed the door.
Blaine sees some books on the ground and he gets that gut feeling again, like something is telling him to go over there to the books. He walks over to the books while Puck takes a look around the bookshop. Blaine picks up the book "Shakespeare Anthology II", not sure of what to do with it, Blaine places it on the empty space on the bookshelf. Something catches the corner of Blaine's eye, at the very edge of the book he sees half of what looks like a dark red number. The number looks like the top of number one or it could be the top of number seven. Blaine picks up another book which is volume one of the first book he chose. Blaine places the book beside the first one he picked up. It forms the number one. Blaine gets an idea, maybe all the books are like this. He picks up the rest of the books and arranges them a few times on the bookshelf while Puck silently observes Blaine. Eventually Blaine is met with four numbers.
"1438" Puck says causing Blaine to jump in fright.
"Fuck sake Noah! Don't scare me like that!" Blaine says placing his hand over his chest.
"Sorry. What do you think it is, a code?" Puck says.
"Beats me" Blaine replies walking up to the counter.
"Handgun bullets" Blaine comments picking them up.
"Looks like we weren't the only ones trying to get out of here" Blaine says tossing them over to Puck.
Blaine turns back and sees a door that requires a code to open. He glances back at the code on the books before turning his attention back to the door. He hops over the counter and says he's always wanted to do something like that getting a short laugh from Puck.
"The code was 1438, right?" Puck asks joining Blaine.
Blaine enters the code from the books and both he and Puck sigh with relief as the door unlocks.
They get into another hallway and Puck sees someone standing at the end of the hallway, Blaine rushes past him having already seen the person.
"Hey. Wait" Blaine says quickly rushing down to the person.
The person had short brown hair, wore long black robes and was barefoot. The person's skin was very pale as evident by the colour on their face, hands and feet.
"What's going on? Where is everybody?" Blaine says talking quite quickly as Puck joined him.
"And those weird monsters…" Blaine says slowing down his speech.
"They've come to witness the Beginning. The rebirth of Paradise, despoiled by mankind" an effeminate male voice says confirming the sex of the person in front of them.
"What are you talking about" Puck asks raising an eyebrow.
"Don't you know? Your power is needed." The man says pointing to a confused Blaine.
"How should I now?" He asks extremely confused.
"I am Kurt." The man says introducing himself further confusing the teens by not answering the question.
"So what?" Blaine replies not in the mood for games.
"Remember me, and your true self as well. Also that which you must become. The one who will lead us to Paradise with blood-stained hands…" Kurt says looking at Blaine.
"This freak is crazier than a mental asylum" Puck whispers to Blaine.
"Kurt, right? Did you do all this?" Blaine asks sounding pissed off.
"It was the hand of God" Kurt replies smiling.
Suddenly an unbearable pain overtake Blaine, he grabs at his head as he sinks to his knees. Puck looks at Blaine in terror not sure of what's happening. Puck turns to glare at Kurt who is already looking at him with a hypnotising look. Puck feels his eyelids get heavier and heavier. Blaine calls out to Kurt through the pain in his head. Blaine receives a fright when Puck drops to his knees beside Blaine.
"I don't get it. What does he want me to remember?" Blaine whimpers.
Monster Debut:
Numb Body: It was a bipedal creature, resembling that of a tadpole. Its skin was pale with a bluish tint to it which was covered in splits and cracks. It had two short legs which end in deformed toe-like digits. Its head has a single hole in it where many of the cracks and splits in the skin seemed to be centred around. Symbolism to be updated later.
This chapter was actually four times longer. So i decided to split it in half and chapter 4 and 5 where born. So R&R :) Oh yeah have to ask, is anyone loving the dark humour?
Z xx