The Haunting

Get up Mikey.

Get up.

But I don't want to get up, I'm in so much pain, I feel like death.

But I have to get up, I'll die here if I don't move.

But not moving sounds really good right now.

My arm's feeling like they've just been torn apart, I feel them throbbing, feeling my muscle's hit my skin as they throbbed. I clench my teeth to try and lessen the pain, but nothing is working. Can I just lay here and die? I'm going to die anyway, why can't I just die right now. Get it over with.

…

No.

I have to, I have to go find my brothers. If there even freaking HERE! But I have to look don't I? I turn my head and look at the dead thing on the ground next to me, his head is like right next to mine. But I'm to hurt to be afraid. I reach my good arm around me and grab the guy's shirt, it took some time but I managed to rip his shirt off. So many jokes run through my head.

Anyway I take the shirt and rip it in half, then take one half and rip it again, I take the longer half and slowly and carefully wrap it around my forearm. I tie it in a knot, close my eyes, the jerk my hand back, tightening the knot.

I almost scream as I feel the sudden white hot pain race through my arm. I groan a bit as I secure the knot. Hopefully that will stop the bleeding. I take the smaller pieces of fabric and wrap them around my hands, covering the holes. Mainly to stop the bleeding, and I know that if I didn't cover it, it would play with the hole.

I would, I would end up sticking my fingers in it and cover my eyes but look through the holes. It's amazing what could take my focus away. As I tighten the fabric around my wrist, I lift myself up to a sitting position, moving my hands and carefully moving my arm, making sure that I can still move them.

I look down at the guy and notice something on his chest.

A tattoo.

"Holy crap" I say softly.

The foot clan symbol.

The guy had it tattooed on his chest. What does that mean? Was he a foot ninja? Was this the work of the Shredder? But…why would he put his own ninja's in this?

I begin to feel my brain hammer against my head, the dull ache that I endure as I asked myself questions. I shake my head and quickly stand up, realizing that standing up wasn't such a good idea. My vision goes blurry and I begin to feel dizzy, I place my hand on the wall, the sharp sting that rolled up my arm was tolerable, but this nausea wasn't. I leaned up against the wall and closed my eyes, waiting until each small pain went away on my body.

My arm still hurt like hell.

Wrists were bearable.

Nausea was kicking my ass though.

If I stay here to try and get rid of my nausea, I would be here for a while. I open my eyes and look around the room. Noticing something unusual.

I look on the ground and feel my heart rate rise through the roof in fear, sweat formed on my neck, my breathing quickens, and I'm sure if I had hair on the back of my neck, they would be standing.

The 'foot ninja's' body was gone. But that's not the part that got me, it's the fact that he's standing on the other side of the freaking room, facing the corner.

I stare in absolute shock and terror. I don't even know what to do, just sneak past him? Oh my god he's standing right there, facing the corner. What the hell, what the hell, what the hell.

I literally feel my inside burning in fear, and the more I stare at him, the more my sanity drops, I can actually feel my sanity leaving my body. Is that even possible? No idea, but I feel it.

I feel my shell hit the wall, the soft thud it made roared through the room, sounding like an explosion to me. I close my eyes in fear, not knowing why I closed my eyes, closing my eyes in probably the worst thing I could do right now. He could be standing right in front of me and I wouldn't know it.

I feel the sweat from my forehead slide down my face, past my eye and stop at the corner of my mouth. I can hear my heart beating in my chest. My insides were melting in terror, I don't want to open my eyes.

Ah screw it.

I jerk my eyes open, vision slightly blurry at first, but after it focused, I see the man/whatever else it could be still standing in the corner. I breathe in relief, but still fear for my life. Then I see his head twitch, then slowly, very slowly, turn.

My heart rate drops, ghastly whiteness spreads across my face, stricken into silence, arms spread out on the wall's, stomach turned to ice.

The head turns slowly, followed by the body, then stops, upon seeing me. The creature/man/whatever else it could be stares at me. His face changed, his god damn face is freaking different. Mikey liked the other face, this face, mouth looked like just a straight line, eye's as if there were no eye lids, a sickly white color across his face.

He stares at me, I stare at him. The death like gaze he gave me, I can feel it sucking all of my emotion out of me. All my happiness, all my dreams, just…everything. I feel like I'm not in my own body, I feel like this isn't real. It continues to stare at me, I feel tears begin to fall out of my eyes.

Tears of pure horror. My blood feels cold, like icy water is running through my body.

I stop my thoughts as I see the thing twitch, then it puts one foot in front, then drags the other foot ahead, as he's moving his feet, his body is doing this weird twitching movement.

I want to run, I want to cry, hell I want to die. But I'm completely frozen in fear as he inched closer and closer, still doing the freaky twitching.

The tears continue to fall out of my eyes, feeling the salty wetness roll down my face and enter my mouth, the salty taste lands on my tongue and I feel my taste buds erupt in a salty flavor. Out of complete fear I open my mouth and make this really weird noise, it sounded like a cough and a 'huh'.

It stopped, dead center of the room. I'm too scared to close my mouth, so I leave it open like an idiot, but I didn't care. I didn't care about much at that point.

It stayed in its position and continued to stare at me. I can't hear my heart beating anymore, I can't hear my own breathing, I can't hear anything. My head throbs, like it's going to explode any minute. I can't tell if my nausea is still there. I can't fell anything actually, like my entire body went numb in fear.

His face twitched, then I felt my heart literally burst when a small smile grew on his face, then everything changed in a flash. Like I switched rooms in a millisecond.

My eye's flicker around the new surroundings, it was the same room, but what was inside made me want to end my life.

The man still standing in the center.

Leonardo hanging behind him, hook impaled through the eye, stomach ripped open, it was empty where his inside should have been, leaving a hallow shell of his former self.

Master Splinter, sitting in the corner, looked like he was holding a something. I feel my eye's slowly inch open in horror, seeing himself lying in his father's hands, but as a kid.

Donatello laying on the floor, lower half of his body was missing, leaving his small intestines laying all over the floor, sai impaled through his fore heard.

Raphael, standing in the corner, arms wrapped around his own chest, muttering something under his breath.

"It's not real…It's not real…the face…the…face of a dead angel…" Then he burst out in laughter, "its face's…its fu*king face…the flesh of the tiny children…the children…crying for their mothers, begging for mercy"

I don't even want to watch anymore, but I feel like something's making me watch. Then a grisly smile formed on Raph's face, it looked like he held his breath, his head started shaking a bit, his green skin became noticeably red, his eye's grew bigger and bigger, shaking more intensely. After what felt like hours of watching, I watched the blood as it started running down from his eye, I let out a cry of despair. Blood started rushing out of his eyes, then his head jerked.

He fell to the ground faster than a ragdoll, blood running out of his eyes and mouth. "PLEASE" I finally gather the courage to speak.

"It's ok little Michelangelo" I hear, look and see Master Splinter patting little me on the head. "You're troubles will soon be over" Then I watch a Splinter grabbed little me by the neck and lifts me off the ground, takes his other hand and place it on top of my head, then jolted it to the right, little me's head looked to the right unnaturally. Splinter dropped little Mikey, I feel my heart cry in sadness as little me hit the ground.

Master splinter leaned his head against the wall and started humming.

I looked back at the thing as it stayed standing in the center. His face unchanged, smile grew larger, unnaturally large.

Then everything changed in a flash, the room went back to the way it was, and the thing disappeared. But I didn't move, I was still stricken in fear to move a single limb.

I wanted out of this room, I wanted out of this dream. My sanity lowers every minute I'm in this place. I finally begin to feel my limbs again, but I let them go numb. I feel my feet slide across the floor as my shell grinds against the wall, making an odd noise.

Then I feel myself touch the ground, arms slouching to my sides. I don't think I'll ever get that sight out of my head, my thoughts haunted by what just occurred. I look around the room, not knowing what to do.

It feels like everything's getting to me, I bring my knee's up to my chest, wrap my arms around my legs, bury my face in my arms and start crying.

Not in sadness.

But in fear.

In spine tingling, hate dropping, brain numbing fear.

…

I fear the dark, you don't understand, I absolutely hate the dark, I mean there have been times at night when the power went out in the lair, which happened a lot believe it or not, and I sat in my pitch black room, sitting on the ground, much like I'm doing right now. Softly crying, but not wanting my brothers to hear me or they'll think I'm a huge baby, which I am not a baby.

Let's see you try and take on a huge crowd of foot ninja's, while the Shredder is creepily watching you. Older brother almost unconscious and the apartment you're in on fire. Yeah, not so easy. If I were a big baby, I would have ran away, but no, I stayed and fought like a lion. The only reason I'm sitting here crying my eyes out right now, is I'm so haunted by what just occurred.

I look up slowly and examine the dimly lit room, seeing the four hooks that hung eerily in the center. I'm alone, but yet, I still feel like there are eyes on me. Like when you're sitting in a classroom and you're talking, and you see the teacher look over at you and you look away to try and convince the teacher that you weren't taking, you can't see the teacher, but you still feel there eye's on you. That's how I feel right now.

I need to get out of this room, I just need to get out and run. I don't care where, just run. I place my hands flat on the ground and carefully push myself up without causing to my harm to my arm and wrists. I stand straight up and feel the nausea hit me right away. I catch my balance and take a couple deep breaths, closing my eyes and clenching my teeth.

God this sucks, I feel like fainting and I can't get that god damn creatures face out of my head. It's like glued to my brain and there's no way of getting it out. I shake my head and open my eyes, not giving a damn about the nausea, I look around the room and begin to walk, stop in the center and look around for a door, my eye's sweep past something that looks like a door.

I walk up to it and feel it with my hands, my skin gets warm with relief as I feel a door knob. "Thank god" I say in almost like a hum. I grab it and twist it, the door jerks out and I let go, I ponder for a second, if I should really go out there, I mean…is it safe out there? Well it isn't safe in here?

Whatever.

I tapped the door and watched it slowly creak open. The outside looked like a dark and abandoned, I stepped out of the room and look around, at first I see a sign that had the words 'Children's ward'.

A hospital?

I'm in a freaking hospital?

What the hell is going on?

Ugh, calm down Mikey, calm down, just find you're brothers and get the hell out of this nightmare.

I looked down the hallway and noticed something on the wall. Large letters splattered across the wall. I slowly walk up to it, keeping my guard up. Before I read the letters, I notice a key hanging on a string in front of the words.

I examine the key, then reach up and wrap my fingers around the single key, I yank it down, then hear a large metal hitting stone noise. I feel my heart leap out of my stomach as I turn and see a large blockade block the hallway. I catch my breath and stare at the blockade. What the hell just happened? I turn back to the words and read them.

The answers you search for will be found in the security office

Great, now where the hell is the security office. I look and see a conveniently placed map hanging on the wall. I grin as I walk up to it and study the map, I see the big red dot that signified that I was here. I take my finger and travel down the line and stopped at the security office.

"It's right down the hallway" I say to myself.

Then my heart drops, my head slowly turns toward the hallway where the security office is and sees the blockade.

"You've got to be kidding me" I say softly.

I focus back on the map and try to find and alternate route to the security office. My skin turned cold, there was another route, all the way around the freaking hospital. My arms slouch down to my side and I back away from the map.

Could this get any worse?

I look down at the key in my hand and notice the black tag that hung off of the chain with the key. What's that supposed to mean? Ugh I have no idea.

Well…I have a long journey ahead of me, I guess I better start walking.

I clench the key in my hand and start moving along down the opposite hallway, away from the blockade. I look around at the room's as I pass, seeing the door's closed, I walk up to each one and jiggle the door knob, but each one were locked.

Then I thought about, took the key and slid it into the door, after a minute of trying to turn it, it didn't budge. I sighed and just ignored the doors, looking down and walking across the cold ground. I turn the hallway and stare down the empty hallway.

…You know…I think it would have helped if I actually grabbed the map. I turn back around and start heading down the hallway with the blockade, but stop, staring in fear.

Down the hallway, I see s small child, no older than seven, standing there, looking at the blockade. I don't know what to do, I feel all the blood rush to my feet.

I cough, "L-little girl" I call out to her.

She didn't respond at first, I thought about just turning around and walking away, but as I went to turn, I see the little girl slowly turn around. I feel my insides turn to ice as the little girl turns and faces me. We stare at each other for a minute before she slowly lifts her and points at me.

I feel my hand twitch.

"Daddies home" The girl said.

I freeze, noticing something.

She isn't pointing at me.

She's pointing behind me.

At that time I feel a warm gust of air brush past the back of my neck, like…a breath.

I feel my limbs go numb again, the blood boiling inside my skin. I…I don't know why, but I have to.

I slowly turn my head, seeing the little girl leave my sight, the wall next to me, then what was behind me.

My hate rate dropped at the sight of the creature standing right behind me. I breathe out, continued to breathe out, like all of my breath was being sucked out of me.

His eye's unchanged, boring at hole through me. I stare completely froze at him. Then a voice in my head helped me snap out of my trance, I kick my feet below me and thrust myself down the hallway, pumping energy through my legs and up to my brain.

I don't want to look behind me, but when have I not done something when I was told not to. I glance behind me and see the creature running for me.

I let out a girly scream and force myself to go faster. I look at the end of the hallway and see a door to the left, it was different, strangely different. All the normal doors were just blue, but this one. This one was blue, but looked as if someone splashed black pain on it.

Then I remembered the key. The black tag.

It could just be coincidence, and if I stop and try to open the door only to find out that it didn't work, the creature would surely kill me. Is it a risk I'm willing to take.

Meh, what the hell. I'm most likely going to die anyway.

I take the key, halt myself in front of the door and quickly jam the key in the door. I close my eyes and turn the key.

My heart jumped with relief as it turned sharply and the door knob unlocked. I quickly opened the door, yanked the key out of the hole, ran inside and slammed the door shut. I quickly locked the door back up and caught my breath, continuing to lean up against the door, expecting to feel the creature slam up against the door.

But I felt nothing.

Nothing happened.

I hear nothing.

I feel nothing.

I open my eyes and see I made it into the room unharmed. I breathe out in relief and looked down at the key.

"Turtle?"

I freeze, the sudden voice was eerily familiar, and I turn around slowly and see the Hun.