THIRTEEN

Chapter 9

Her vision was blurred, she blinked incessantly and looked at the bare ceiling with a small flickering bulb hanging from a hook. Nina got up and looked around and saw bulged figurines lying on bed covered with white sheets. She took a close look at one of them and saw two decaying feet stretched out from the sheets with a toe tag on it. She looked at the tag and saw a name John Harison.
 The dim light flickered with a click, swinging through the string. All she could hear was her footsteps which echoed down the large hall surrounded by lifeless beings. She stopped in front of one of the bodies, looking at its decayed toe which moved as she thought. She looked  around carefully observing the old pale green walls with no windows attached to it. The musty smell increased as she kept walking down the corridor. She stopped and hastily turned around when she felt a faint thud raging from behind. There were faint creaks of the tracers heard all around. She stopped near one of the corpses and walked close to it. Its face was covered with white sheet only revealing a bit of its rusted skull with a few strands of hair on it. She leaned and slowly removed the cover from its face to see two dark eyes which were gaping lifelessly at hers, its face was covered with pale putrescent flesh stretched till its nose with intense fetid smell around it. She flinched at the sight of it and pulled back her hands which were holding the sheet and revealed half of its body. It was a  male body with dark rotten skin,glimpse of bones protruding out through the skin. She turned around to leave when she heard a grind. She stopped right there and she slowly glimpsed back at the bed and saw the corpse's head was turned towards her. Her heart was pounding hard as she gaped at its face. It let out a howling shriek . Nina fell down on the floor screaming, her body was trembling, she crawled backwards when the corpse got up and trudged towards her. Nina managed to get up, stumbled and staggered and ran down through the corridor. She looked back and saw the man spurting behind her with a large thud. He howled again and she saw that the other cadavers got awakened. She stopped her pace when  she realized she was surrounded by countless monstrous beings. She cried and trembled and hunched back when she noticed a small boy among the crowd. It had dark pale blue skin with white eyes. He passed out a smile at her and walked through the corpses towards her. His smile turned into a grin when he came closer. The corpses held out their arms towards her when she moved away but got badly scratched in her neck. Blood oozed out from her neck, they came closer towards her when suddenly one of them got pushed away by a large drawer. Nina looked aside to see Rachel and Sami pushing the drawer against the huge monstrous body. 

" Nina run!", Sami cried and they threw the tracer on them and ran down the corridor. Rachel looked back and saw them running and swaying down their way behind them. 

" This side!", Nina pointed towards a tunnel on the other side. They went inside the small tunnel and saw the mob passing. Nina was panting, she pushed her palm against the wound, her clothes were drenched with the crimson red fluid. Sami hastily tore a piece of cloth from her dress and held it against the wound.  

" Demasía Hospital, Los Angeles , built in 1800 abandoned fifty years after it was found that the doctors do inhuman experiments on the patients in the name of treatment and keep their corpses here. It was made as a hidden mortuary.", Rachel said, holding a torn old pamphlet with the name of the hospital written as a bold heading. 

" Why are we here…?"Sami asked, giving a perplexed look. 

" It is one of the portals that is connecting that house. There must be a door to exit…" , Nina could barely say when she  groaned in pain. 

" Nina!"Sami cried, pressing the cloth harder on her neck. 

" I can't. …I…", she panted heavily when she sighed and let out her last breath. 

" No!!!! Nina!!!"Sami cried, embracing her body with her chest.  Rachel stared at her impassively. 

" Stop crying", Sami looked at Rachel with her eyes filled with misery.