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Manor of The Dead!
We are shown to be in a small woodland area, and rain is shown to be pounding down on the earth like bullets. The sky is pitch black, and lightning streaks across the clouds. Thunder is soon heard afterwards, echoing throughout the entire heavens as it usually does. We cut to a small cart being pulled by horses, and steering the horses is what seems to be a young man wearing a heavy black coat. He is shown with light brown hair, and green eyes, and also seems to be wearing glasses.
"How far are we to our destination?" Asked a voice from inside the cart.
The young man turns back and replies "Not to far, maybe a couple more miles, at most."
We go inside the cart, and see a young woman with long black hair, red eyes, and light brown skin. She is shown to be wearing a white kimono with a red outline. "I see...thank you."
"Anytime, m'lady." Said the young man. "Hyah!" He yelled, having the horses speed up their movement.
Sometime later, we cut to a large black manor at the end of the pathway. Lightning once again jets across the sky and thunder roars once more. "Woah there."
Said the young man, now having the horses come to a complete stop. "M'lady, we're here."
"So I see." Said the young woman. She slowly exits the cart and takes a look of the manor. "So, this is it."
We cut to a flashback. We are now shown to be in some sort of office. The young woman is shown sitting down, and a hand comes from the shadow, laying down photos of the exact same manor.
"We have heard several reports of mysterious occurences taking place near the town of Kilimere. Many witnesses claim that this manor is the source of all the commotion." Said a male voice in the shadows.
"You believe it to be of some supernatural scale?" Asked the woman.
"Actually yes, several people who claimed to have been near the manor have heard strange noises that sound rather...unearthly, as they claim." Said the male voice. "Several lawmen have went into the house themselves, and have failed to come back out ever since."
"Noises? Like what?" Asked the woman.
"Moans, screams, some even said growling and roars." Said the voice.
"I see, very well, I'll go over there and check it out, see what I find." Said the woman.
"Your services are most appreciated, miss." Said the voice.
We cut back to the present. The woman is shown looking the manor over. She then proceeds to walk to the entrance. Before entering, she turns back.
"Wait here, I won't be long." Said the woman.
"Of course, m'lady." Said the driver.
The woman proceeds to enter the manor, and is soon met with a large dark lobby with a double stairwell.
"Yes. There is definately something evil lurking in this manor. I can sense it." Said the woman. Lightning flashes and thunder roars as she begins to walk further into the manor. She climbs the stairwell and eventually reaches the door on top. She enters through the door, entering a long dark hallway lined with red carpet.
The woman looks around, and pulls out some sort of rod from her kimono. The rod is for the most part wooden, with a large blue orb at the top of it. She moves slowly through the hallway, her eyes scanning every square inch of the hallway as she moves.
CRASH!
She quickly turns around, only to see an old vase on the floor, shattered to bits. She eases her guard, only to raise it again as she begins to hear another strange noise. A sort of droning noise which continues to grow louder, the droning then proceeds to become whispers.
"Join us." Said the whispers. They keep repeatedly saying that as she moves cautiously to the end of the hallway. She opens the door and the whispering stops. She enters what seems to be a small living room area with another stairwell. A drawer is shown along with a desk. On the desk seems to be a note.
The woman approaches the desk and picks up the note. It reads "To those who may find this note, this is a warning. Within this manor is a man of unspeakable evil, who kills people and uses their bodies all in the name of science. I have seen what this man is capable of, and what his intentions are.
Even now while I write this, his work seems to be catching up to me, leave now while you still can, or else..."
"The note ends there." Said the woman.
Suddenly the drawer slams open and out comes a bloody body of a man. His neck is shown to be ripped open, and his eyes devoid of any life. He slowly begins to rise up. He looks dead strait into the woman's eyes and let's out a miserable moan.
The woman jumps back and aims the rod towards the now moving corpse. "FIRE!" Yelled the woman. From her rod escapes a small ball of flame. It hits the corpse, and it instantly begins to burn. The corpse let's out one last miserable moan before completely being converted into ash.
The woman takes a deep breath, and suddenly hears the handles on the door behind her beginning to move. From the other side of the door, we also hear more moans.
"Damn!" Yelled the woman. She quickly get's behind the desk and pushes it towards the door as fast as she can. A rotting hand breaks through the door, and as she suspected, more mangled corpse like creatures are shown on the other side.
"Join us!" Moaned the corpse like creatures.
"Where did all of these come from!?" She thought to herself. She quickly runs up the stairwell and enters through the doorway.
"How bizarre, why couldn't I sense them!?" The woman asked herself. She looks forward and sees another doorway. She goes through and enters what seems to be a living room like area. She walks with caution, almost as if expecting another corpse creature to appear from out of nowhere. She enters into a small room with another corpse laying down on a couch, holding something in his hand. The woman approaches with caution, and sees that the object in the corpse's hand is that of a key.
She takes the key, and the corpse simply just falls over, too dead to spring to life apparently.
"Where does this key lead to?" Thought the woman. "Don't tell me I have to go all the way back to where those things are."
Surely enough, she finds no other door in the room she's currently in. She quickly backtracks to the small room. Surprisingly, none of the corpse like creatures are still trying to get in. She runs down the stairs and quickly unblocks the door.
Upon entering the next room, she sees that all of the corpse creatures have fallen apart, not moving at all.
"In the name of science...obviously these things aren't what the person responsible for this had in mind." Thought the woman to herself.
She reaches the end of the hallway and enters back into the main lobby. She scans the area as thoroughly as possible. Surely enough in the left hand corner,
there was a door she missed. She approaches the door, only to find that it's locked. She uses the key to unlock the door.
She enters into the next room, where a few more corpse like creatures are shown standing around. They take notice of her, and slowly creep towards her.
"FIRE!" Yelled the woman, launching a few fireball towards the moving corpses. They let out small screams upon being hit by the fireballs, and slowly but surely burn into ashes. She walks into the end of the hallway, but finds that there are no doors.
"What?" Asked the woman. "This only leads to a dead end, unless...FIRE!" Yelled the lady. She shoots another fireball, and the wall explodes revealing a long dark hallway. At the end is a door with a blue glow at the other side of the door. The lady walks up to the door, and casts Fire again, blowing the door down. At the other side of the door is a medium sized laboratory. On the cieling is shown to be a weird spherical machine releasing a beam of blue energy. The energy is shown being absorbed by a large hulking figure strapped down on an operation table. The figure is shown to also be rotting, and being held together by what seems to be stitches.
Whispers start to fill the room, even louder than they were originally. Only instead of saying things like "join us", they are more or less crying out in pain, crying out for help.
From the door, enters a short, fat, balding man wearing glasses. He is shown writing something down on the clipboard, he looks up and notices the woman, instantly dropping the clipboard.
"You...How did you..." Began the man.
"Who are you?" Asked the woman.
"Heh heh heh. I am soon to be the greatest scientific mind in the world." Said the man.
"So this is your operation? Killing people, harvesting their souls, and forcing them to be your slaves? You're a sick man!" Said the woman.
"I shouldn't even bother asking the question whether or not you met with the other failures, as that answer is completely obvious." Said the man.
"What is it you are trying to achieve here? Why are you messing with the laws of nature?" Asked the woman.
"So I can create a method which will bring an end to the source of all people's sorrow. I am trying to create a way to give living beings, eternal life!"
Said the man.
"No mortal being can obtain eternal life. Let alone create it!" Said the woman. "Especially in this fashion!"
"I have almost perfected my method, my dear lady. What you see on this table before you, is my masterpiece!" Said the man.
"That abomination? You're more deranged than I initially thought." Said the woman.
"Say what you will, but this "abomination" as you like to call it, will be the first of many who will have the privilege of eternal life!" Said the man.
The machine stops working, and the creature on the table is now simmering with the blue energy.
"Ah, finally!" Said the man. "My masterpiece is now complete, behold girl, for what you see is the first of it's kind!" Said the man.
"GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOAN!" Mumbled the abomination. The straps keeping it down break rather easily, and it rises off the table, and the whole room shakes as it's feet touch down on the floor.
"Yes, it's even more beautiful than I imagined." Said the man.
"GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAN !" Yelled the abomination.
The woman get's her rod ready.
"You poor stupid girl, you wish to fight something that is immortal? Go my creation, show her that resistance is futile!" Said the man.
"GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOAN!" Yelled the abomination, taking his attention to the man.
"What, what are you doing!?" Asked the man.
The abomination grabs him, and the combusts into a series of blue flames. The man is heard screaming his head off as the flames burn his body. The abomination then drops the man's body, which is now nothing more but a shriveled corpse.
"GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOAN!" Moaned the abomination, who then turns it's attention towards the woman.
"For the sake of the souls this man has abused, I will destroy you!" Yelled the woman.
Author's notes: And so ends yet another chapter. I apologize if this chapter just seems to be all over the place, I plan on getting better when it comes to that certain problem. Will the woman succeed in her mission, probably. If you like this chapter, leave a comment or a review. See you next chapter.