When Sparrow awoke, all she could feel was the aching headache she had and the pain in her throat. Shocked that she made a sound from her unused voice box she opened her mouth and tried to form words or even make any type of sound, but nothing came out. Maybe it was a one time thing?
Getting up from her lying down position on the floor she looked around and noticed she was in a hospital room similar to her own, but it was rusty and dark, the bed was covered in mould and even weeds had started to come through the floor, informing her that she must have been on a ground floor.
Suddenly a shadow moved quickly past the iron door of the room, startling her. Striding cautiously towards the door she gently pushed it open and peered outside her door. Nothing.
Just an empty hallway staring back at her.
'Where am I?' She pondered as she started to walk down the hallway. Unlike the room the hallway was clean and bright, and eventually she approached large wooden double doors that seems out of place in the clean hospital, stepping through the doors she enters a posh library like area that would be in a grand home, a beautiful large red carpet filled with patterns decorated the room, with bookshelves lining each wall and even a ladder leading up to a deck area to reach the higher books.
The room had no windows, just two fancy looking chairs near the large bookshelf in the far end of the room, and in between the chairs sat a gramophone on an antique wooden side table.
Sparrow was in awe at how big and beautiful the room was, spinning around in a slow circle and admiring the ceiling.
When she stopped her attention turned towards the gramophone, and as she noticed a disk already set in it. Of course she didn't even know what a gramophone even was so she approached the strange object and tried to move the hand, finding out that she had to spin it she did just that until it stopped. Flipping a black switch the disk in the middle started to move but nothing happened.
'Do you just put stuff on it and make it spin round?' She thought to herself,'no other wise what would the big horn thing do? And what does that sharp limb do?' She wondered.
Grabbing the pin she immediately dropped it when feeling a sharp pain on her finger.
'It pricked me!' She thought. The pin dropped onto the disk and it started playing halfway through Clair de Lune, startling her.
'So it plays music?' She thought before picking up the pin again, this time on the non sharp side, and put it at the beginning of the record, playing the song from the start. The beautiful piano notes sounded lovely which caused Sparrow to relax, despite not knowing where the hell she was.
She started swaying to the music before spinning around the room with closed eyes. Little did she know is that the room became darker and cold, the red carpet became a pool of blood mixed with intestines and brain matter.
Feeling a disgusting squelch on her feet Sparrow opened her eyes for them only to become wide, staring at the horrifying scene, she turned back to the gramophone which became pulsing an aura of light around the darkening room. Once the music stopped the aura of light faded away, making the dark room almost pitch black if it weren't for candle in the corner of the room. Suddenly the pool of blood and guts started to get bigger and to her horror it started filling up the room. Quickly turning towards the door her heart thumped in her chest upon discovering the two large wooden doors were now gone. The blood was now ankle deep and she had to pick her feet up to move about, her patient clothes starting to soak up the blood made it harder for her to get around. Finding no exit she turned towards the ladder which she saw earlier and waddled towards that instead. The blood had now reached knee deep and Sparrow was afraid that even when she got to the top of the ladder on the decking area, where would she go from there?
Gripping onto the ladder for dear life she began to scramble up it, but didn't get very far as suddenly a large clawed hand popped out from the pool of blood and gripped onto her ankle. Her hands slipped off the ladder and the hand dragged her into the pool.
She tried to stay calm and hold her breath as whatever had a hold of her dragged her down into the depths of the pool, bewildering her as the room wasn't even filled enough to be this deep. Finally the hand let her go just as she fell flat on the face, coughing from the sudden fall she looked up and realised the pool of blood was on the ceiling.
'I must have gone right through, but how? Where the heck am I?'
Getting up and ignoring her soaked hair she looked around the room, noting the dead bodies lying everywhere that looked like hospital patients just like her.
The room started to shake and suddenly the same clawed hand that appeared earlier suck out of the dead body lying nearby, a head covered in long dark tangles locks followed by many other limbs.
Sparrow stood frozen on the spot, none of her limbs getting the message from her brain to move, fear shook her to the very core.
'Move move! MOVE MOVE MOVE' she yelled to herself in her mind.
'Fear can have great control over the human body once it is triggered, it can affect the signals sent from our brain to other parts of the body' Ruvik explained as he showed Sparrow a diagram of the human brain,'do you ever get when your scared but you can't move?'
The 18 year old Sparrow nodded as she listened carefully to what he said.
'The best way to get out of the situation quickly, is to inflict pain on yourself, a slap to the face should suffice' he said before playfully pushing Sparrows face away from the diagram, making her smile and push him back in response.
'A slap to the face' she thought as the creature had fully burst through the body and was now facing her.
Bring her hand up quickly she slapped herself hard across the cheek, making her head snap forward away from the creature, where she could see a long dark hallway but at the end of it stood a single pale blue door with a dim light on the top. Finally the signals from her brain sparked to her legs and she was soon bolting down the incredibly long hallway with the creature following behind, she had never felt adrenaline rush through her body this fast before and was surprised at how fast she could actually run. The door became bigger and bigger until she was able to reach out and push the door forward, smashing her shoulder into it in the process and quickly slamming it shut behind her. She breathed heavily and bent over to put her hands on her knees.
'What even was that thing?' She asked herself, for now she could only run away from whatever threat that approached her, and maybe find some answers.
Suddenly a scratching noise could be heard from the door she just got through. Sparrow bolted upright and prepared for the worst as the scratching continued until the familiar clawed hand burst from under the door.
'No, please God no' Sparrow begged as another claw appeared and essentially dragged its whole form under the thin door and in front of her, making physics fly out the window.
Sparrow once again ran away from the creature and turned a corner, giving a breath of relief as she saw an elevator up ahead.
Racing faster than her body was capable off for that last bit of distance she almost slammed into the rusty cage like lift before mashing the buttons to close the doors. The doors closed as the creature slammed into them and tried to reach her through the bars, eventually going up she calmed down as the creature was out of her sight.
Scared to death, Sparrow felt tears prick the edge of her eyes, she didn't know what was happening. Thinking back she remembered Jimenez dragging her into a room, bathtub like things were everywhere, wires everywhere. No. There was a wire with a needle at the end poking through the top of the tub, where your head should rest. Did they.
'Am I plugged in to some sort of machine?' She wondered.
When the elevator doors opened she cautiously stepped out into a bloody dark red room, a door directly in front of her beckoned her to explore. Heading through she entered a corridor, this time it was bright and tiled, there were no splats of blood anywhere.
Suddenly the door at the far end of the room opened, she was too far away to see exactly who it was, but the man was dressed in a white thin robe, a lot like a scientist outfit but it had a hood.
He started to stride confidently towards her, barefoot and head down, giving her some sort of glare she couldn't see properly.
But as he got closer, her eyes widened in shock and mouth opened slightly.
'Ruvik' she recognised. Suddenly he sort of glitches and teleported right in front of her, startling her that she nearly fell over, nearly.
"There you are, my little bird" he whispered almost menacingly.
Sparrow brought her hand up and stoked his cheek like she always did, seeing his eyes close in comfort. She wanted to ask him questions, where was she, how can she see him when he's supposedly dead.
Suddenly his eyes snapped open and he grabbed her wrist tightly, hurting her, before smirking and pushing her away, making her fall over. She looked up in shock only to cower away as he bend down and grabbed her chin before lifting her up forcefully, making her feet dangle.
"I know what you fear" his deep voice sent chills down her spine as she started to struggle to breath,"your mine, to do with as I please" he brought her face close to his,"let's see if I can make you scream for me"
Black dots appeared in her vision as she struggled to break free, her vision going black, her pain fading, as she let herself go to the depth of sleep.
AN/ and boom we get down to the Ruvik we all know and love mwahah so Sebastian and Leslie and that will be appearing in the next chappie, hope you liked this chapter feel free to Review let's me know people are liking the direction my story is going, if not constructive criticism is greatly appreciated, would love to know where I'm going wrong, once again thanks! :3