RED

Part 2

Once again Hammer Town was in a dilemma as Hammer High, the school where Harvey was studying, was being shutdown because of the sudden disappearance of Harvey and his three friends within school grounds but without a trace. Even their bags were nowhere to be seen. Basically there was nothing that could help in the search at all. Lydia, Harvey's mother, was in a state of depression as her son had now become one of the victims of this unexplained disappearances taking place in that town. She had put up posters everywhere across the town but it was all in vein as nobody had seen or come across the missing kids. Her posters became one of the many which lie across the streets getting stepped on by people and carried away by the wind. This incident had now caused parents to hide away their children in their houses, lock every single door and seal up every window. It was like a lockdown and this was just the beginning of it all for their worst fears were to come yet.

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“Harvey! Harvey!” whispered Allan trying to wake up his friend who was still unconscious after the encounter with the  red fella at the church. After several attempts Harvey finally came to and opened his eyes slowly trying to get a clear view of where he was but everything was so blurry. “ Give him a few minutes to clear his head,” said Joe who also lay on the floor all weak.
“ You don't look good Joe,” said Allan moving closer to him.

“ I don't know why but I have this pain in my abdomen.”

“ Let me have a look!” Allan lifted up Joe's shirt only to be met by something he wasn't quite sure if it was there before.

“ Please tell me you had a surgery before that would explain this stitches.”

“ Surgery?” Joe shifted his eyes to his abdomen to have a look only to be met by fresh stitches that weren't there before at all. “What the...” he said but was suddenly cut short by very loud screams that could be heard from a distance and they weren't just any normal screams, this were screams of someone in pain. They all just sat there frozen and in fear. “We have to get out of here,” said Joe trying to get up but those fresh stitches had him groaning in pain. “Where are we in the first place.” He turned his head from side to side trying to get a look at the surrounding but it was a bit dark in there and all he could tell was that they were In a cave or something.

“Quick question! Where's Kish?” asked Allan looking around. There was no sign of him anywhere but he did catch sight of a flickering moving light from a distance and as it neared he realized this was fire. “Shit! Someone's coming!” Allan immediately lay down on the floor flat and shut his eyes pretending to be unconscious and his friends did the same. Whoever this was made his way to them and just stood there staring at what they thought were three unconscious kids. The person crouched down began caressing Allan's face. He slowly ran he's fingers across his face and all Allan could think of at this point was that this must've been a fucking pedo. Suddenly, the person was hit by something on the head and fell to the floor their head throbbing in pain. Allan immediately opened his eyes to find Harvey with a stone in his hand covered in blood. “ We gotta move!” he said throwing the stone down and together helping Joe up. The three tried to move as fast as they could while trying to avoid ripping Joe's stitches off. They ran through different tunnels trying to look for a way out until they stumbled upon a staircase going up. It was here that they heard again someone screaming but this time it was closer as if whoever was screaming was literally a few steps away from them but they couldn't see anybody.

“ Boys! It's very bad to hit someone with a stone!”
The three looked at each other and fear spread across each of their faces. As they stood there confused and shaking terribly.
According to the voice they could tell this was a man chasing them.
“ I'll forgive you but my friend Billy won't, ” added the man.

Upon saying the name Billy, the three friends suddenly heard it. The sound of bones snapping or breaking, they couldn't tell which. It was followed by the deep growling of what they presumed might be an animal but what animal’s bones sound like that? The growling was followed by loud footsteps and this weren't like any normal human steps but they were loud and sounded more of hoofs and they were coming from the staircase itself. Whatever this was was coming down the staircase and heading for them. “ G-G-Guys!” called Harvey in a trembling voice. “Run!” He got a better grip of Joe and together the three ran into a different tunnel as fast as they could. Behind they could hear the monster roaring, a demonic roar. They didn't dare look back but kept moving until they saw a light ahead and it was the kind of light they really hoped to see, sunlight. They had come to the end of this maze of tunnels and just as they were about to get out some force suddenly threw Joe to the ground and Harvey and Allan lost grip of him.

“ Miiiiiine!” screamed the monster. Joe's stitches then ripped open and blood started oozing out of it. He then slowly started floating from the ground as his friends watched in fear, mouth's wide agape. He looked at them groaning in pain and tried to open his mouth to utter something but was immediately sucked back into the tunnels screaming in a speed that his friends couldn't be able to save him.

“ Let's get out of here!” said Allan getting hold of traumatized Harvey who was just standing there in shock and panic. The two ran out of the tunnels and came to a clearing in a forest. A forest that had covered a large area and was clearly impossible to get out of here. If one could estimate, the nearest road to them was probably 7 miles away.

“We're fucked!”