Oakheart Hospital

~Chapter 5~ Safe at last?

The sound of a siren grew louder as it fought off the ringing sound in his ears.

Cuphead's eyes slowly fluttered open. His body sore, his breathing shaky. He looked around. There sat Mugman, who was his brother, along with the rest of his crew for the ink machine; Bendy, Boris, and Felix. Mugman's eyes widened with worry once he noticed Cuphead was awake.

"Cuphead! Are you okay?! What in the world happened?!" Mugman exclaimed, worried about his older brother. "I-I'm fine, Mugs...At least I think?.." Cuphead groaned, examining his body as he did.

"Whatever attacked you, got yer eye. They said it'll still be functional after it heals, though" Felix said. Cuphead raised an eyebrow and cautiously put a hand to his left eye. His eye was bandaged up and didn't even notice! They just have numbed it.

"So...what in gods name happened to you?" Boris budged in. "Uh...it's...a long story..." Cuphead responded.

"Tell it"
"...well..."

As Cuphead explained, his pupils slowly shrank as he remembered the horror he witnessed. "And there was this..spirit?...I think his name was Mikey...the paper I found said he died in that hospital...his room number was...A24...yeah...so I found it and went into the room..." As he kept explaining, Felix seemed awfully interested. Like he was solving a puzzle.

"What hospital was it?" Felix asked. Cuphead thought as hard as he could, trying to remember. "Oakheart...Oakheart hospital.."

"Then I know exactly what attacked you." Felix said, his tone as serious as cuphead ever heard.

"You we're attacked by Mimic. That old abandoned hospital is known very well because of him. Those papers you read? About his death? Were true. The poor thing busted his head, then later on was left to die in that radiated hospital. He was the age of 16 at the time. And now he haunts it." Felix explained. "Mimic?...why do people call him Mimic?..." Cuphead asked.

"Well...Mimic got his name by what he's done to trespassers of that property...Those who've made it out say that he takes the form of a person that would easily lure whoever, closer. Some even say they witnessed they folk they were with, being tricked...and even eaten by him..."

Cuphead's, non covered eye, widened in shock. "So...I...I could've been eaten?!" He exclaimed. "Yeah.." Felix responded. Cuphead sat there, in shock, eye wide, having no words.

Soon the felt the ambulance slow and take a turn. Bendy looked out the window. "Oh, we're here!" He said. Cuphead sighed in relief and laid back on the stretcher.

The staff soon carried Cuphead into the hospital, using the stretcher. The rest waited outside in the lobby.

Mugman looked over at Bendy. He noticed Bendy seemed pre-occupied. He wasn't sure what Bendy could've been worried about? Bendy had already had his daily ink attack...And they knew as a fact that Cuphead would be ok?...so..."Hey...you alright?" Mugman asked. Bendy snapped back into reality and looked over at Mugman. "Hm- oh yeah...just thinkin'..."

"..'bout what?.."

"...if that Mimic spirit usually eats its victims...Why didn't it eat Cuphead?..."

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To be continued...