The Evil Within: ''The Search'' Chapter Six
Sebastian walked out into the dark corridor, leaving the lab of Ruben Victoriano behind him with much anxiety running through his head, the man's body still trembling and shaking from the encounter, yet again allowing it to happen. Sebastian was in a horrible state, compared to when he entered the Mansion, he had bruises all over, cuts were confirmed along every single inch of his body that makes him wonder why he is not dead yet. The loss of blood and the lassitude lingering over his entity made him feel weaker with each passing minute, compelling himself not to think of the miserable state he was in. The man gazed around the dark hallway, pressed against the venerable wooden door from the master bedroom as his blood stained hands scraped and rubbed against the surface to rid themselves of the sticky liquid that was drying up on his hands like a second tissue layer. He inhaled deeply through his nose as his eyes closed, Sebastian's head lowered as the man took in deep breaths that somewhat composed himself into a calm and collected demeanour, atleast he convinced himself he was calm.
The silence did not last long enough for Costellanos to enjoy and recover properly, the dim lights of the lamps in the hallway located against the wall made a grim scene, the golden hue in contrast to the crimson dark red wallpaper made the hall rather uncomfortable to wander in. Sebastian soaked up another deep breath of fear as footsteps were heard, this time, rather loud and notable to anyone, even the deaf would acknowledge this by the tremling force going through the wooden floor that cracked perpetually. The gun Sebastian was holding was loaded, and along the equipment of the man he had several ammo caches with him he found earlier. The man was hardened, though he was deeply scared by the inhuman horrors that were walking on the face of the earth. The man assumed a trained stance that made him ready for gun-point, moving away from the door as he moves through the corridor to his right, the wall being straight before he found a door that appeared quite different than the others, the door had blood stains all over, as if someone was brutally squashed like a bug and the blood spattered against the door. The constant increasing mass of footsteps made him wary, though he didn't make it his sole focus at the moment, his focus was getting out of this god forsaken place and if possible, kill Ruvik along the way home.
Slowly Sebastian extended his right hand towards the door, pressing against it with light force: yet again the door didn't budge, seemingly locked again. Dark ebony eyebrows furrowed in agitation before his head shook and decided to look around for some kind of key that was to fit in the lock. The man's environment went darker as he turned around, his copper eyes blinked several times to adapt to the dark engulfing him as he the male mumbled lowly. ''Goddamnit..not one of these transportations again..'' the cop mumbled out in agitation, clearly not in the mood for any kind of shit relevant to being teleported from here to there without his own consent. He luckily was not moved from where he was stood, instead, he could acknowledge an incredible horde of individuals walking up into the hallway, undead cadavers appearing that stormed instantly towards Sebastian, thank the lord Sebastian had great aiming despite his fears, having learned to put it aside, and focus instead on the task at hand, shooting each single ghoul of sorts in the head, the bodies falling onto the floor with loud thuds, creating a path of corpses.
He had encountered these before, prior into discovering the areas of the Mansion, Ruvik's creations built from hatred, vengeance and agony, sole beings that chased and haunted Costellanos to his death. He moved towards the corpses and searched for some kind of key, a shiny object visable in the corner of his right eye that was near the wall, taking the key he found, nearly it'd slip from his grip due to being drenched in blood. ''Right, let's see if this key fits into the locked door, hopefully that's my way out, or closer to getting out of this shithole'' The man nodded as he moved back to the door and shoved the key into the lock and turned it, the door emitting a sound of approval and opened, continuing as Sebastian sighed lowly in relief.
As the male proceeded into the room, he found himself into a some kind of computer room. One desk was centered in the middle of the room upon a big desk, he gazed around to secure the area, after moments passing he validated it was safe and moved further inside as he open few desks on the sides and retrieved some ammo caches after having wasted a big amount of bullets on the formerly mentioned undead cadavers. Sebastian placed it in his pouched and moved to the computer. He seated himself on the chair and turned the computer on, luckily the power was working, obviously otherwise the lamps wouldn't work either. The monitor of the computer instantly and automatically logged in without asking for a password, giving Sebastian full access to the user account that seemed to belong to Ruvik. Searching through files of the computer Costellanos found some documents that had research results in them. Some test subject showed that long imprisonment made their brains responsive and made a change of behaviour towards suicidal urges that Ruvik created by some kind of experiments on them, who knows what exactly he used for his research on human beings. As Sebastian looked through more files, he ended up on a video he opened, leaning back into the chair as his eyes narrowed. It seems to be an old video where Ruvik and Doctor Jimenez were speaking about how to move on with the research. It seemed to lead out into some kind of argument as Jimenez leaves the lab and Ruvik is stood alone, the audio being: ''That foolish doctor. He does not know how this can help me, how it can help science..'' and more along this line. Costellanos tilted his head to the side as he eyes the feed, watching Ruvik as at a sudden moment the white hooded male seemed to be staring straight at Sebastian, the man instantly moving back into the chair with widened eyes. ''What-..-..What the fuck..'' \
Sebastian grunted as Ruvik stared at him from the video, it was dated years ago, but it seemd like a livefeed. The cop moved out of the chair and readied himself, but before he was able to move, a pitching noise branded and burned his braisn, leaving him in an unstable position as he moves his left hand to press against his temple, groaning in pain as his eyes closed tightly, his right hand holding the gun flattening against the surface of the desk, scurrying along the papers upon the desk as the man sank through his knees, nearly hitting his head against the table but managed to prevent his cranium to crack. Sebastian felt it again, the pain in his brains that felt like roasting, a constant sting, as if something was eating him up from the inside out, the pain was unbearable and it was draining the gathered energy from him. Sebastian had a feeling of what was about to happen. It wasn't some weird assumption, it was a damn fact that Ruvik would show up again. Yes, he was right, what a damn surprise that the familiar voice rang through the room. Though, Ruvik was nowhere to be seen, even on the livefeed he was gone. ''We meet again, Seb. I wonder, why do you refuse to die? Do you find it that pleasant to be my test subject? I thought so''.
Sebastian groaned in retort as he pressured his left on the table and moved himself up slightly in a more balanced position. The wounds across his body weren't an issue for him now, even though he felt like he was on the verge of death, he always seems to pull through to the end, his will and determination to survive was surprisingly strong. The pitching and grinding sound still hammered into the brains of Sebastian without subsiding. The male tried to focus his hearing on the voice of Ruvik, rather than the sound that did not wane. ''I know exactly what the fuck you are on about. Your parents didn't love you, so you kill people in vengeance-, bah, bah, sad fucking story man..'' Sebastian spurted out, pushing the limits of Ruvik to see if he could ever exceed them, if he could actually ever infuriate him. ''Hmm. Not quite, Detective..you are on the right track, but you are going to crash any moment..'' Ruvik appeared just behind the desk, infront of Sebastian whom was still incapacitated. Ruvik merely stood there as his white pearly eyes set onto Sebastian, he was feeding on the miserable state the man was in, loving tormenting others, having the upper hand. He lays out the bait, and the victim falls in it. Sebastian was struggling, visably, mentally and physically as the wounds began to stretch again, blood running over his chest as Ruvik tilted his head slightly, smirking. The burned feet moved along the floor and closer to the desk, the desk obviously being in the way, but Ruvik was walking through it, even more of a validation he was not humanoid. Sebastian was overwhelmed, the noise right now was the longest of all times and he couldn't shake it off. His body was warmed and felt like it was on fire, though he couldn't move to get the fire away. At a certain point, Sebastian slammed his left fist onto the table as he furrowed his eyebrows. ''GET OUT!'' the nan yelled out as the area around him turned dark, pitch dark.
Ruvik stared at Sebastian after the yell, oh how this just makes him even more amused, nobody could possibly ever phantom how this was giving Ruvik a feeling of satisfaction. Deep breathes were emitting from the lips of Costellanos as he mumbled. ''Fuck'' The grinding noise subsiding at Ruvik's command, his right burned hand elevated form underneath the white ragged sleeve that lingered in thin air as if grabbing something. Sebastian coughed heavily as blood was spattered upon the desk as the man groaned, even some landing on Ruvik who was practically standing inside the desk as some superhuman creature. The right burned hand of Ruvik extended towards Sebastian as the digits ran throughout the black strands that were rather messed up from all the countless fights and falls he experienced. ''Poor Seb. You should not fight back, however, it is pleasant to see you struggle, and failing, all the time..''