The life of Nusi

Chapter 18: Nusi's Proclamation

Covered in blood, leaning up against the wall, body aching, Nusi pushes her hair back out of her eyes. Bodies lay dead all over the white tiled floor. Nusi counts sixteen and says to herself,

"thirty-four more still alive, piece of cake." Like a cat, Nusi moves along the wall not making a sound. She smells the air for a second and knows right away that there are three people hiding around the next corner. Nusi squats down and waits for her foes to make the next move. She can hear their beating hearts and knows by this sound that the person farthest away is afraid. "That's the one," she thinks to herself, "that's my bitch." With her fingernails, she scratches the wall, making a sound that sends chills down their spines. Without warning, Nusi jumps up on the ceiling, stops, and then lunges down on the person farthest away, ripping their heart out before they hit the floor. The first two haven't even had time to turn around to see what is happening. By the time they do turn, all they see is their companion lying dead on the floor, hole where their heart should be, blood still flowing out.

"What the fuck," the one said a loud. The sound of a ball bouncing down the hall could be heard as the first one looked around the corner. From the ceiling, Nusi grabbed the second one and crushed his head in one swift motion. His body slid quietly down to the floor. The first one looked back to see her friend lying there dead. Terror filled her entire soul, as she blindly started running down the hall. From the ceiling, Nusi made it as black as the blackest night. The only sound that could be heard was the heartbeat of Nusi's last foe. The woman put down her weapon and pleaded with Nusi to stop, even though the woman didn't know who or what she was supposed to be killing.

"PLEASE!" The woman begged. Nusi didn't say a word, she only made the sound of the woman's heartbeat grow louder and louder, until it was so loud that the woman grabbed her ears and started screaming. Blood ran down from the woman's ears as she fell to the floor. Nusi walked over and made it stop, as she appeared from out of the darkness.

"Don't be afraid my child," Nusi said to the woman. Nusi was backlit in a golden light as she appeared from the darkness. "I can make the pain stop. Take my hand," Nusi told the woman. The woman reached out and grabbed Nusi's hand. Immediately Nusi saw the woman's whole life, and said to the woman, "I see your sins." The woman's eyes widened as she heard Nusi say that.

"I'm sorry!" The woman pleaded to Nusi.

"I'm glad to hear that," Nusi said in a caring voice. "Will you repent and sin no more," Nusi asked.

"YES!" The woman yelled. "I swear," she yelled again.

"No need to yell my child," Nusi said, "I believe you." With a sigh of relief, the woman took small breaths as the pain somewhat eased. Nusi helped the woman up into a sitting position against the wall. Nusi sat down next to the woman, stroking the woman's bloody hair out of her face. "SSSHHH," Nusi said as she turned the woman's head to face her. The woman tried not to cry, but it was no use as tears flowed uncontrollably. Nusi leaned in close to the woman, almost like she was going to kiss her and looked deep into the woman's eyes and said, "you must feel their pain before I can forgive you."

"What?" The woman said in a puzzled voice.

"YOU MUST FEEL THEIR PAIN!" Nusi growled back at her. With that, Nusi unleashed every bit of pain the woman had ever caused on another living thing in her entire life. The woman screamed and twisted from a pain no one in the world could ever image. The pain became so intense the woman stopped moving, no sound, no movement. As she lay there, Nusi bent down close to her and said, "I want you to go back and tell the others what has happened to you. If they continue to bother me or anyone I know, it will be much worse for them," she said to the woman still paralyzed from the pain. "I want everyone they have taken and practiced on restored and released." Nusi said. "Do you understand me?" The woman blinked. "I'll take that as a yes," Nusi said. Nusi waited a few more seconds, then relieved the woman's pain. "Have you repented?" Nusi asked.

"Yes!" The woman yelled.

"Ok then," Nusi said as she helped the woman up. "Oh," Nusi said, "I will leave you with one last thing before I go. If you fail me in anyway, or the terms I have set before aren't met, the pain you just felt will be nothing to what you will feel for twenty straight years. No one will be able to stop it, no one will be able to kill you, not even you." Nusi said. "Your punishment will be for you to watch your son and daughter endure the pains of your sins."

"What if they won't listen to me?" The woman pleaded. "What if they try to kill me?" The woman cried.

"Then I suggest you try hard," Nusi told the woman. "You must show as many as you can to live and let live. Your kind' whole existence depends on it." Nusi said again. "For your sake, you won't see me anymore," Nusi said. The woman stood there as Nusi became a mist and vanished leaving the woman in the darkness alone. Nusi woke up and sat straight up in her bed. "Just a dream?" Nusi thought. "That was so weird." She thought. "It seemed so real too." Nusi said to herself.

"Nusi breakfast," Heejin called from the kitchen. Ever since the tsunami Heejin had moved in with Uncle. Her house was washed away, and Heejin said she needed to be closer to Nusi from here on out. Nusi loved it.

"Coming!" Nusi called back, and she quickly put on her robe and slippers and headed towards the kitchen. "Good morning," Nusi said as she walked into the kitchen, giving Uncle a kiss on his forehead.

"Good morning," Heejin and Uncle replied as Nusi went over and kissed Heejin on her cheek before she sat down to eat. As they ate, Nusi leaned over to Heejin and whispered,

"Can I talk to you in private?" Uncle lifted his head from his paper and raised an eyebrow. Nusi looked at him and said, "woman things." Uncle went back to reading his paper.

"Come on," Heejin said, "but we need to hurry, you don't want to be late." Nusi and Heejin went to Nusi's bedroom and shut the door. There Nusi told Heejin the whole dream. Heejin looked extremely concerned and said,

"Don't mention this to anyone." With that Heejin told Nusi to get ready for school as she sat on the edge of the bed thinking of what Nusi had just told her. "What did it mean?" Heejin thought. "If it was anyone else, I would think it was just a dream, but with Nusi..." Heejin thought. By this time, back at the Bialowiez forest, reports of what had happened were coming in. The woman was found sitting next to her two dead friends crying. As she was being taken to the hospital wing, she was mumbling coherently.

"What happened to her?" The doctor on duty questioned the guard.

"No one knows what happened," The guard said back. "She was found with two dead, and we have reports of sixteen more dead throughout the basement hallways. Whatever they ran into, it torn them apart except for her." They put the woman in a bed as she yelled,

"WE MUST REPENT FOR THE SAKE OF OUR CHILDREN!" The doctor gave her a sedative, and the woman quickly fell asleep.