THIS GETS PRETTY GRUESOME.
Chapter 3
Harri followed Lea, as he and Isa creeped into the side door of the castle. Nobody knew quite what was researched there and Lea was determined to find out. Harri slid down his back and walked next to him, unwilling to be left out and alone. Isa tagged along claiming to be there to keep them out of trouble, despite it being because of his adoration of Xehanort- one of the Sage-King's apprentices. It was also to soften the blow when Trisha found out.
She twisted her hand into Lea's jacket and trudged after her 'brothers'.
Isa and Lea were giggling to each other, Lea loosely holding his Frisbees in one hand while pushing Isa gently with the other. His head turned and he grinned wildly down at her, winking. Harri laughed in return while Isa slapped his friend up the side of his head.
She adjusted the glasses that the Boulevard matriarch had deemed it necessary to ware. She liked them – she could see shiny things more clearly now.
Laughing and joking quietly, the trio investigated many room. Some rooms were deemed boring and only given a cursory glance while others were generously rifled through.
They'd spent the most time in the armouries.
Lea had compared his Frisbees to a set of steel chakrams. The Frisbees had been hastily dropped and the steel circles picked up. He gripped the circumference between finger and thumb.
Spying a dartboard which had throwing knives lodging into it, he took a breath, curled the chakram into his body like he was throwing a Frisbee and flicked his wrist.
A second later the knife lodged at the bullseye was bisected by sharpened, circular steel. A wicked smirk found home on the pre-teens face.
"Hey Harri," he called, turquois eyes fixated on the damage he caused. The shout of her name drew her attention from silver tridents that were sharper, but less polished than Lara's.
"Yeah?" she shouted back under Isa's scrutinising glare; he'd already has to slap her hands away from the sharp edges twice. It wasn't her fault it was shiny.
"Those bastards in the slums won't have a go at us if I had a few of these."
She giggled as Lea yanked on the chakram, wrenching it from where it had sliced through board and into wall.
Isa shook his head despairingly.
"Seriously, you two?" He was used to, if slightly disturbed, by their fascination with weapons – he supposed it was something with growing up in the slums near Radiant Gardens.
All Isa knew of them is that they became derelict and dangerous as you ventured deeper in– street kids were known to not live long. He was entirely sure that if he and his mother hadn't forced them to their house once a week they wouldn't be here. Even if finding them was an annoyance, despite the fact that on Sundays they stayed in the outer areas of slum. Leyland had also administered injections for various illnesses as the self-called siblings viciously refused to visit any doctors. Isa's sister was training to become a doctor and was the only one the duo vaguely trusted. The last time Trisha had forced them to an infirmary was ended when Harri's teeth sunk into a doctor's forearm.
Lea flashed a sharp grin at him and a scream made them jump and all of them spin around.
"What was that?" Isa whispered. Lea gave him a deadpan glance and scooped up a few more chakrams. The weapons were placed onto his wrist, like dangerous bangles.
The red head gripped his sister's wrist and pulled her out of the room. Isa followed them as they darted down the corridor. Lea stopped at a coat cupboard they'd passed over in their initial search. Slowly, he opened it and Harri was gently pushed forward. Her mouth opened as if to complain and another screech pierced the air. Lea glared down at her and picked the child up by the back of her clothes. Isa was reminded of a cat with kittens as she was placed in the cupboard amidst the coats.
Lea grinned, swooped down and kissed her forehead. He straightened up, closed the door and he and Isa followed another gut wrenching shriek.
Fear was all she felt - the speeding of her heart as it thrummed against her breast bone like a deranged drummer.
Screams periodically pierced the air amidst the strange thumps that made Harri want to sob, yet fear kept her silent.
Soon it was silent. She stayed where she was for a minute before cracking the door open. Pushing the wire frames of her glasses up her nose, Harri pressed her face to the opening. Determining nothing was there, she slipped out of the cupboard.
It was too quiet. On edge, she stole towards the armoury.
Once inside, the child ran to the tridents and lifted one. Only to be disappointed – they were heavy. A thump from outside the room caused her to jump and spin around. On high alert she dived to a rack of knives. Selecting a wickedly sharp blade that likened itself to a cleaver she seen butchers and murderers alike with, Harri readied herself.
Light pitter-patters, fast and urgent, became louder and the door banged open. Harri screamed and spun while heaving the blade. She missed, the cleaver lodged into the wooden door. Splinters rained down on a blood soaked boy. He was slightly taller than her, slate hair in disarray but still covered one eye. The other, a startling electric blue, was wide. His hands came up into the position of surrender as Harri raised something she had grabbed threateningly to him. The crazed look in her eyes soon morphed into confusion. The cacophony of her heart against bone quietened - slightly.
Her eyes were drawn past the boy and she was deafened in the frantic struggle of her heart. She was sure that if she died today then her heart would have beat enough for a lifetime.
Her shriek stuck in her throat and Harri ran and hit the black beast with the spear gripped in pale, shaking hands. Another hand wrapped around her wrist and pulled her forward.
The butt of the spear dragged along the stone floors as they ran blindly away.
Soon he slammed through double doors and straight into a man with long, blonde hair.
"Ienzo, who's that?" The boy shrugged, the girl glared and twisted her hand out of his hold.
Ienzo was pulled into a bone crushing hug and Harri backed up. The boy was placed back on his feet, Harri took another step back and shadows flickered and twisted before reaching forward.
All hell break through.
The man in the lab coat exhaled and wrapped Ienzo in his arms – turning away from the monsters. Ienzo screamed as they were jumped. Harri also screamed a battle cry as she swept the spear in an arc in front of her, knocking a few black creatures away from her.
A few got behind her, flattening her to the ground as she yelled and thrashed. Her glasses fell off and cracked. Claws lodged into her back, drawing blood. The turned her over and grotesque hands reached for her chest – ripping apart the flesh there and scrapping against her ribs. Black splattered across her vision and a high pitched scream bubbled from a blood soaked throat. She pushed her arm up and knocked the beast from her chest and renewed her thrashing. Shaking them from her, she vaguely noticed a red light be emitted from the man and Ienzo struggle out of his arms, covered in blood.
Machines lined the walls, there screens lit up a radioactive green. She appeared on top of them. Collapsing on to her back, pressing her cheek to the cold metal as pain shot through her body and Ienzo screamed.
Monsters clawed through his flesh and a larger one came to tug on ribs. Harri watched as he passed out, the rib being wrenched from his chest with a series of cracks. Red spurted out, arching and splattering on the floor, as a large organ was grabbed and torn from his decimated rib cage. A crimson glow rose from the bloody mess.
Harri refused to close her eyes in respect of the dead boy.
An astonished gasp came from the door and Harri forced herself to look away from what used to be Ienzo to see Isa and Lea. A chakram was flicked and a wet thump was heard. Flopping her head back, Harri saw a decapitated creature dissolve into the shadows it materialized from.
"Harri?" She flopped her hand in response and a few minutes later Lea was crouched next to her. He ran a hand through her hair, transfixed with the blood on his hands and the slow, melodious 'plink' of her blood dropping on to the floor.
Isa screamed and ran down the corridor and Lea kicked a monster of the computers. It squealed and landed in her blood on its rump. Lea turned to see most of them follow Isa, took one look at Harri and jumped off the monitors. He then dragged her off it and held her in his arms as she whimpered.
Then he followed after Isa.
They found what was left of him after they followed his screams.
Unlike with Ienzo, Isa was collapsed on his front. His back was mutilated and the heart had been yanked out. Lea collapsed next to him, rolling Harri out onto the floor before he began to cry.
These wasn't beautiful tears; of a stoic male with one man tear rolling down a cheek. His nose scrunched and sniffles gave way to bawling. His snot was wiped on the back of his hand and cheeks flushed. Eyes bloodshot and hands clenched in Isa's shirt. Harri rubbed her fingers against his leg, unable to do more. She wished she could.
They appeared, circling them and closing in. Lea let out a howl and threw himself over Harri, knocking their foreheads together. The shadows jumped onto them and savaged his back as he sliced through his lip in an effort to not scream.
Green stared into green, both held an extinguishing light, until the red head discharged an equally fiery flare and was heaved off Harri.
Badum
She lolled her head so she could see her brother.
Badum
There was no motivation in her to scream.
Badum
A shadow creature straddled her stomach, latching its claws into the mangled flesh she was detached to.
Badum
Ribs fell on the floor with a squelching noise.
Badum
A clawed appendage wrapped around her heart
Badum
She saw was a rosy light.
Ba
Nothing.