The Asylum comes to an unfortunate end in this final chapter! Jade is released, but on one condition that may risk Beck's life. Is there something worse than a demon lurking in the dark and will the six friends make it out alive? Read on for answers!
The Asylum
It was a little girl, alive and breathing. Her skin was pasty and grey, but her chest was clearly moving with heavy breathes.
"S-She's, alive?!" Robbie choked.
The body emerged from the rug, slowly getting her balance and staring blankly forward.
"I'm alive in form, but not in heart." She hissed "They took the life out of me in 1937, two years before Red Rock was closed down."
Her hair snaked around her shoulders in greasy, black strings. Her skin was oily and pale and her eyes were blood shot and weighed down with bags.
"Who are you?" Cat asked softly, as if she were speaking to a normal human being.
"Alice Petty Field." She replied in a coarse whisper.
They all recognized the name instantly.
"Alice Petty Field?" Tori gulped "Nancy Petty Field's daughter?!"
"The stories are true..." Andre murmured in disbelief.
"Yes, me and my mother were trapped in this god forsaken place for many years. I was born in here on my mother's 8th year. My father was one of the employees; he'd attacked my mother on a number of occasions, but never admitted it. As a result, she was punished for being a slut." The girl explained thoroughly, anger boiling up inside of her with each word.
Tori shook her head "That's terrible..."
"This has nothing to do with us, though! Please let our friend go, lets us all go!" Robbie pleaded.
"Your friend was a non believer of our kind; we had to show her the truth, unless she'd get into far worse trouble. We're not bad spirits, we're just angry ones." Jade retorted.
The girl nodded in agreement "If she were to run into him, she'd be in grave danger..."
"Who's him?" Andre asked.
"The worst one of them all," Jade snapped "He still walks the grounds, just like us..."
"But why do only you walk the grounds?" Cat frowned
"We're the only ones who chose to stay. He needs to pay before he lays to rest, we won't let him leave until he does."
"Let our friends go and we'll help you." Cat demanded.
Everyone went silent; it wasn't like Cat to stick up for herself like that.
Jade approached her slowly "I'll release the one within if you attract him. Out of our 73 years here as lost spirits, we've never been able catch him. He's cunning; he hides from us in places we've never even been..."
"I'll act as bait!" Beck's weak voice chirped in.
They all turned towards him. He could barely speak, let alone stand up to a vicious ghost.
"The fresh blood of a young boy, it's perfect." The girl smiled.
"He'll get himself killed!" Andre butted in.
"I have to do this for Jade, Andre! There's no way you can convince me otherwise." He struggled to his feet "What do you want me to do?"
It was the long corridor that seemed to never end. All seven of them stood in the doorway, not sure whether to step in or not. This is the corridor where they found Jade, something evil lurked here.
"Release her, and then I'll do your dirty work!" Beck gritted his teeth.
"Very well..." Jade clutched her stomach as if in agony, her knees buckles and she sunk to the ground.
Andre touched her shoulder "Jade, you OK?"
"W-What happened...? Where's Beck?" She croaked.
"Don't tell her, not yet. Just keep her out of the way!" Tori whispered.
"Where's your mother gone now?" Cat asked the girl.
"She's still here, I can feel her..." She replied "Now, let's get this started before morning."
Beck's arm was still in a pretty bad condition, but it was the scars on his chest that the girl paid most attention to. She let her bony finger explore inside the wound, looking for one thing and one thing only, a finger nail. She held it up to examine. It was caked in rich, human blood and smelt strong and pure.
"This is it." She hushed, flinging the nail forward so it lay in front of the door on the far end.
Jade scowled "Who did that to him?!"
Tori and Andre bowed their heads, unsure what to say to their friend. But they didn't have to say a word, as she lifted her hand in front of her eyes, noticing that there was a finger missing a nail.
"No!"She cried, reaching desperately out to her boyfriend, knowing that she couldn't move her legs.
"It wasn't you, Jade!" Tori grabbed her arm and layed her down "There was something inside of you, someone controlling your body and your thoughts, it wasn't you!"
The smell of human blood drifted through the door and off to some unknown hiding place. Eventually, a creature, less human like than the little girl, emerged. His back was hunched and his hair came out as grey tufts upon his deformed, ghastly white head.
"What happened to his face?" Beck asked in a whisper.
"He was shot in the head by the police force; all employees were sent to death when the truth of their murderous ways were revealed. They never did get his head back in perfect condition for the viewing of the body; he was left severely deformed in the afterlife." The girl explained.
The creature stepped forward, sniffing the nail suspiciously and then lunging forward towards Beck, his feet only inches away from his head. Just as he was about to crush his skull, a dark figure of woman approached him.
"Time to pay for what you did!" She growled.
"Now's our chance!" Tori cried.
Andre grabbed Beck and Robbie grabbed Jade. They all escaped out of the door and down the stairs.
They could hear the muffled call of the little girl "Go! Go! Run away before it's too late!"
The sky was streaked with orange and purple, night was fading away fast. The six friends burst through the doors and didn't stop running until the asylum was out of sight.
"Did that really just happen?" Andre asked uncertainly
"Well, if you mean, did we just have a conversation with a dead girl and her mother and then watch Beck put himself up for bait to attract a psychotic ghost, then yeah." Robbie replied out of breath.
Cat giggled at his sarcastic remark.
"That was the guy who cut the chandelier, I remember now!" Jade whispered "He used these rusted old scissors and- Whoa! Where are my scissors?!"
Andre smiled and handed them to her "I found them by you, but didn't really get a chance to hand them over; Beck got you out of there so fast."
Jade smirked and turned to her boyfriend "Yeah, I know. He's great. Too bad I'm gonna be a cripple for a while..."
Beck pointed to his bleeding arm "Well, at least we can be cripples together!"
"That must have been the person who cut my knee then, I can't remember, but I'm pretty sure I heard a man's voice." Robbie shrugged.
"Come on guys!" Cat grinned "We're free! Let's stop talking about it and get out of here!"
Everyone agreed with that. With Beck limping by the support of Andre's shoulder and Jade being carried by Tori and Robbie much to her annoyance, they all walked off together, away from the evil building they'd left behind and back home to their normal lives...
None of them told anyone of their experience. Their wounds were pretty hard to hide, so they came up with the story that Jade had been crushed by the chandelier because it was simply unstable, and then Beck had tore his arm and cut his chest trying to get her out. Robbie just wore trousers for a while to cover the gash, scared as he was such a terrible liar, especially to his parents. They reported the building and told them how it wasn't safe in there, and it was destroyed several weeks later. None of the six friends knew whether the girl and her mother had got they wanted and made their enemy pay, but they liked to think that they did. One thing that was for certain for all of them now, they were defiantly believers of the afterlife...
The End
Well, I hope this ending was satisfying for all of you reading this! I tried to make it a happy, but at the same time mysterious conclusion as they never actually did find out whether the horrible ghost paid for what he did to all of the patients years ago. My little brother has been moithering me to give him some credit in the final chapter as he helped me come up with the chandelier part of the story, so thank you Jamie! Please review and remember that I'm glad to answer any questions if there are any (which I don't think there should be as I'm sure I answered it all in this chapter, but I might of made a mistake!) Thanks! Amber x