You know what, im so excited and ready to write this puppy that im not even gonna have a cynical intro to increase the word count and amuse myself!
Anne laid silently in her bed. The hospital room was as silent as it was simple. How strange that only in the wake of its loss did she miss simplicity. Then again, the events that had occurred thus far were as far from simple as she would dare imagine. And yet she felt oddly content with her situation. Her home and likely all possessions were now ashes, and she still didn't know if her parents were okay... but it all seemed so insignificant now. Now that Charlie and Itchy and her were together the world itself seemed to fade into the background. Charlie had lied, stolen, and cheated his way through life, and Itchy was another case altogether. But she could not deny that the best part of her life had been her time spent with them. Falling asleep in that old cab in the junkyard she called home, watching the stars drift through space, wondering what adventure the next day would bring. The ever lasting sense of living a life that was her own.
And the memories began to take over reality, as Anne's eyelids slowly closed. The white room engulfed in perfect darkness. Only to become something much, much worse.
"Little Girl..."
Her eyes flashed open, met with a raging inferno of hellish nightmares. The air a cloud of dust and ashes swept up in the winds. She was just a little girl again. She was surrounded by dead earth littered with mutilated corpses and bones laying in piles of decay. She only realized she was screaming when she felt her lungs cry for air that did not exist here, screams of agonizing pain filling the air as a ring of fire surrounded her. "It was your time! … you have DEFIED the oath!" A choked yet enraged serpent like voice tore into her soul, clawing at her sanity like nails on a thousand chalkboards. Confusion and fear filled her as she fell to her knees, The surrounding ring of fire becoming an encompassing tornado of flames raised high above the weeping orphan. "You will feel this constant pain until the end of time, and your soul is BURNED!" Helplessly the tear filled eyes glared with horror into the great blaze, and images of horrific torture and death began forming within the dancing flames that began to draw closer. "Little girl... Welcome, to HELL!" The flames walled her in, licking at her skin as the screams became hoarse and full of suffering. The flames engulfed her entire being, slowly reducing to a pool of boiling blood and ashes. The hellfire eating away at her skin as she could feel her insides melt. Her organs rising, lurching, boiling her body as if she was an acid filled cyst. Blood poured from her mouth and eyes and she weakly thrashed. Skin falling from her bones as she liquified.
"Wake up! Dammit we are losing her!" The doctors frantically fought to save the child, her heart rate going into overdrive and a fever in the hundreds. The heart rate monitor a near constant siren. A mechanical death rattle. "Her heart is going to tear itself apart!"
"Come on I need a-" the room was silent. All at once, every sound was cut off is seconds. Save for the now constant ringing of the heart rate monitor. One half formed tear welling inside Anne's lifeless eyes.
… BOOM! Bet you weren't expecting that!