Days Union Short Stories

UNFINISHED | Investigation

Not planning on finishing this ever and its actually decent so 😁👍

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"How much farther? Are you even sure we are going the right way? My feet hurt." Dreadful whined as he kicked a rock on the trail. "You've been whining for the past hour, please shut the fuck up." Dynamic responded tiredly. "We haven't even been walking that long, Dreadful. It's only been one hour and a half." Emotionless looked over at him. The blond crossed his arms and pouted. "I'm sick of this!"

The twelve had been walking for two hours now, Dreadful and Unstable were sure they were lost and that Emotionless was playing it off like they weren't. Good thing the trail was coming to an end, the operatives had approached a rusty vault.

"Is this it? Is this what we were looking for? Really?" Unpredictable sighed as she went to open it. She touched the door, rust came off onto her hands. She cringed at it in disgust. Quickly she used both hands to open it. The handle turned, making a loud screeching noise, it sounded like someone scratching their nails on a chalkboard.

The door opened, inside was fairly dark. "So who wants to go in first, I say not it!" Unpredictable chuckled. "NOT IT!" Unstable yelled. "I'll just go first. I don't really mind, but we need to get the job done." Practical established. The group needed to inspect this place for Night activity, as told by Great. Practical pulled out his flashlight and stepped into the door frame. He immediately felt a cobweb, startling him. "Spiders?" He mumbled, upset.

He shined his light more around the room. It was a long metal hallway, the metal was very rusty like it had been flooded before. He shined his flashlight to the left. Nothing. Not even a wall, the area was too big to see anything. To add onto the creepy aura, you could hear water drop from somewhere. Practical couldn't figure out where, but he mumbled something quietly as he stepped forward.

"Don't worry, it's safe to walk on." He said in relief.
"ARE YOU SURE? IT LOOK RUSTY." Unstable questioned his fellow operatives.
"Well I haven't fallen through, yet right?" Practical reassured him in the worst way.
"RIGHT." Unstable's voice trailed off as he stepped through the doorway. The metal made a loud noise that panicked Unstable a bit. The rest eventually walked in after him, except Sorrowful.

"SORROWFUL COME ON. WE HAVE NOT FELL?" Unstable tried to convince the shaky figure.
"We have to get this done Sorrowful, let's go." Scary stared down at him, tapping his foot impatiently. "I don't want to be here longer than I should."

Sorrowful looked into the doorway to step in but immediately backed out in fear. Emotionless sighed and approached the operative. He pulled Sorrowful in, practically dragging him. Sorrowful started to whine and cry.
"It's okay Sorrowful! I'm here with you! We're all here! We're in this together!" Radiant said in an attempt to comfort the scared operative. He ruffled Sorrowful's hair a bit.
"You want a hug?" Radiant asked, already ready to give one. "Yes, please." Sorrowful looked up at Radiant and sniffled. The two hugged each other tightly, Radiant whispering to Sorrowful that everything will be okay.

Sorrowful dropped the hug and treaded behind them as they walked. As Practical and the rest walked through, some were getting creeped out by the place. For starters, you were walking on rusty old metal. Sorrowful thought it would take one misstep on this path for it to break. He started to silently cry in fear. "Doesn't look to be much." Scary scoffed.
"I'm sure there's something here! Great wouldn't send us here for no reason right?" Radiant beamed as he took the lead.

The walls were cracked and mossy, gross to the touch. Radiant looked over the railing with his flashlight.
"I wonder how far down it goes." He said as he picked up a rock to drop it. Everyone else stopped to listen. Silence still, the rock hasn't hit.
"Uh? You dropped it right?" Dynamic peered over. Finally an echo from the rock after 30 seconds.
"We're going to die! This bridge is gonna break and we will all plummet to our deaths!" Sorrowful cried as he clung on to Benevolent, who was trying to calm him down.
"Great seems like the person to send us into a death trap, have you guys not caught up on this yet?" Laughter erupted from Unpredictable, so much that she ended up putting her hand over her mouth.

Walking a little more down there were rusty steps. Each time the stairs were stepped on a little noise that sounded like a scream came out. "I DO NOT TRUST THESE." Unstable whined.
"For once I agree with Unstable." Unpredictable mention. "How long has this place been around?"

"For a few years, not too long." Emotionless looked over the edge. All of a sudden Radiant screamed, to which they all looked over to see the steps had broken and he fell. "RADIANT?" Unstable pushed Practical and Benevolent aside as he moved forward.
"Unstable wait!" Practical shouted as he leaned to stop Unstable. But he tripped on a step sending both him and Unstable into the darkness.

"We have to report this to Great." Macabre spoke up. "But we can't just leave them!" Dynamic exclaimed with a bit of stress in his voice. "I know but-" Macabre was interrupted by a loud creak in the metal. Out of complete panic, Dreadful ran back up, making the stairs shake and squeak. "Stop!" Placid yelled at the blonde operative. The stairs were shaking a lot and Sorrowful had decided to run backup with Dreadful in fear. The stairs made a loud noise and broke. Several screams, mainly from Sorrowful and Unpredictable, could be heard. Followed by complete silence.

Dreadful gripped onto the rail tightly. Every operative but him had fallen. He couldn't move, he was too scared and panicked. Eventually, he gained the courage to stand up. That's when the stairs made another creak and collapsed on him. Sending Dreadful plunging into Darkness.

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Practical woke up his head hurting badly. It was hard to think, he didn't remember what happened or where he was. He groaned in pain as he sat up. "Hello? Where am I?" He called out. "Shut the fuck up, you lower ranks give me headaches." A blurry figure responded. "Huh? Lower what?" Practical looked at them confused. "Don't tell me you lost your memory." They hissed. Practical squinted his eyes to see who or what it was. Red hair, it was Scary. "Don't be mean to him. We did take quite the fall." Benevolent said. "Aren't you the doctor? Make yourself useful right now instead of making stupid remarks." Scary scoffed.

Benevolent got up to check up on Practical. "How many fingers am I holding up?" Benevolent said, holding up three fingers. "Three." Practical responded. "Maybe you're just refocusing! No worries." Benevolent turned back around and sat near Scary.

Practical tried getting up but noticed something was stopping him. He looked down to see a figure wearing mostly light blue clothes on his lap. "Huh? Unstable?" Practical poked at him.