66~7 Un passo avanti al diavolo

Capitolo 1: Tenebras Plagam

Kabe has his hands tied, he is lying on a cold and wet floor, he has an incredible headache. He slowly opens his eyes, in addition to his head his body is also sore and his throat is so dry that even producing a sound makes it a torture. Kabe is in shock, he does not recognize the place where he is, a room with a small window at the top reveals a ray of light that highlights the dust in the air. He sees other people besides him, tied up and also lying. Kabe tries to remember the latest events but to his surprise nothing comes to his head, as if before this moment he had not led a lifetime. With effort Kabe sit down, bumping into a boy nearby who wakes up in a scream of surprise.

The boy has a massive build, his short hair soaked in sweat, dark brown color like his eyes. His name is Matt and he is a friend of Kabe's, even if he doesn't know about it. Kabe immediately shuts up Matt and whispers: "Don't scream" Matt: "Who are you, what am I doing here" Kabe: "I don't know, I woke up a little too" Matt: "What do we do, there will also be a way out of here" Kabe: "If there was I wouldn't know, more importantly do you remember how we ended up here?" Matt: "Now that I think about it I don't remember anything, not even my name!" Kabe perceives the fear in his words, the same that he felt before and that he is still feeling. Kabe: "I don't remember anything either, we must have been drugged somehow. See if you can find something to free us" They both start rummaging through their pockets but neither Kabe nor Matt can find anything useful, so they start trying to untie each other's strings. Kabe with a strange agility manages to untie Matt who, not being as agile, cannot do the same. Kabe: "Hey, did you do it?" Matt: "No I can't, these knots are too difficult how the fuck did you do it?" Kabe: "I don't know, I just did it. Find a way ... and quickly!" Matt then begins to look for an object that could be useful to him and notices that he is wearing a sword-shaped necklace, he takes it off and as soon as he touches it he feels a strange sensation. His mind is clouded and memories begin to flow in his head, they are memories of his childhood. Most of them are him and two other children who play together their names are Iyakk and Kabe. Matt's recovering says: "Kabe! We used to play together as kids, I'm Matt" Kabe quite puzzled replies: "How can you say that, didn't you say you didn't remember anything like me?" Matt: "Yes, but after touching this necklace I have some memories, only those of my childhood" Kabe: "From here!" Matt hands him the necklace but when Kabe takes it nothing happens and he says: "What the fuck are you saying I don't remember anything!" Matt takes it back and begins to shred the rope. After 5 minutes he finally manages to cut it and Kabe unties his feet and Matt's. Kabe: "You see it wasn't that hard to untie them" Matt: "Hey here are you the weird one who managed to untie them not me" Kabe: "Do you think we should wake up other people too?" Matt: "I think you could help us get out of here" Kabe and Matt then start to untie and wake people up but even with all the warnings they start making noise and some even scream in terror. With all the mess, no one notices that someone had approached and opened the door.

When they enter the noise subsides in a short time and everyone, including Kabe and Matt, observes them. They are quite muscular men dressed in black military clothes, wear Halloween masks and have firearms and cutting guns. With a grotesque voice one of them exclaims: "I see that you have woken up, and also untied yourself. You've saved us a lot of time, you'll be brought..." A person in the room interrupts the man's speech by shouting: "Stop with the bullshit and let us go if you don't want..." A dull noise takes place in the voice of the man, who is lying on the ground with his head shattered and blood scattered a little on the ground and a little on the face of poor Kabe. The boy's legs, like those of other people, can no longer hold and his mind, already in a pitiful state, is cracked. Some people start screaming and crying, others throw up but they all share the same terror. The mess that was unleashed is appeased by another shot, this time towards the ceiling. The man resumes speaking: "I was saying, you will be used as a sacrifice for some ritual of a cult of fools. BUT, we are magnanims and we put a copy of the key to this room in someone's pocket, whoever owns it will be able to go out and leave without problems. Have fun" silence remains the room even after the men have left, people start looking at each other with suspicious eyes. Everyone in that room could have owned the key. This made people nervous who slowly started talking or rather, shouting again. Everyone was suspicious of each other and began to accuse each other of hiding the key. Kabe after a few attempts finally manages to get up and even if mentally tried he exclaims: "Calm down! We can solve this thing peacefully! We don't even know if they'll let go of whoever owns the key! Do we really want to trust them?!" People shut up until a man says, "What if the key was in your pockets? Who tells us that you're not just trying to escape with the key while we're good and quiet?!" Kabe: "I don't dare..." However, he is interrupted by the voice of other people who are no longer listening to him. They are all turned to stare at Kabe and begin to approach, Kabe understands that these people will only feel what they want and while the crowd assaults him to Kabe a phrase comes back to mind "Each of us is a moon: he has a dark side that he never shows to anyone".