Sinistral

Chapter Six

What's the worst pain you have ever experienced?

Breaking a bone or maybe falling over? I had experienced pain throughout my life but its nothing compared to burning and imagine burning alive and not dying from it. 

It felt like my skin sizzling, burning but not burning. I couldn't explain it anymore then just that. Ever burnt yourself on the oven? Imagine that ten times as worse.

I wish I could say the pain stopped there but it didn't. It didn't stop there. I wish it had back then but it didn't. I had a lot more to come, I mean its Sinistral worse then hell and twice as much pain as you could ever begin to understand.

It was take the pain, take it all to save Zack. I knew I had to do whatever it took to get him out of there.

 I was falling.

Strange right? Well for me it was. I mean I was burning, burning alive but not dying as I'm already dead. Nothing felt right, like something was strange. Something felt wrong.

That's when I hit something hard. At first I thought I hit the bottom of the flaming pit of doom until I heard Zack's screams from nearby. I opened my eyes to find my head against solid ground. I struggled to a kneeling position to find myself in some kind of dark cramped corridor.

I looked at my hands. They were bright red, almost like they had bled but they felt as dry as bone. I shook the thought of being red like that for the rest of my life, like it mattered as I looked around but I couldn't see much at all.

Where is Zack? He must of fell down here like me. It couldn't take us too two separate places, right?

I heard a scream nearby but maybe it had echoed down into the corridor. I saw a dim light coming into the corridor in the distance. There was only one way I could go as all the other ways were blocked by a huge solid brick wall.

I pounded on each one to make sure they were real and I nearly broke my hand. What happens if you break a bone here? Does it heal, do you just feel the pain? I have no idea but not sure I want to find out.

My heart suddenly skipped a beat. That figure had hurt Zack, I heard a crack like he broken his arm. I hope Zack is alright, it had been my choice to take that direction. I led me and him into this.

That's why I can't just walk away or not believe this is my fault because it is my fault!

I felt myself shake a bit but I walked towards the dim light ahead of me. It got brighter as I walked towards it. My heart beating too fast for its own good.

I suddenly felt cold. It's the first time in Sinistral I felt cold. I hadn't felt like this since I had died. I'm not sure if I should be worried or not about this but I kept moving forward.

"Leave me alone!" I heard Zack's voice ahead of me. Its so close!

I sprint forward rushing through a gap in the wall and nothing. My feet didn't touch ground I fell but not for long. I landed into cold ice water.

As soon as my body hit it my skin seemed to kill me. I had just been burning, the change of heat is too much, my body is straining if that's even possible.

Two hands latched around me and pulled me from the water but only to get my hands forced behind my back and chains tying me up. "What the heck are you doing!" I shout because I was beginning to panic.

"Shut it," I heard a whisper in my ear but I still couldn't see who was chaining me up.

"Zack," I call in hope he is here. He has to be!

"Cay..." but then it was muffed out.

"Hey leave Zack alone!" I shout as I guessed they had put some kind of rag into his mouth. The person who had chained my hands together turned me to face him.

At first I thought it was the Scars taking there revenge but I had been mistaken.

I didn't get much time to take them in but it was clear they weren't Scars. They were much taller, more thinner and twice as scary. They had fangs coming out there mouth either side and claws.

He smiled right at me and brought his hand down my chest. I screamed as he pieced my skin, blood dripping down my chest as he took it even deeper into my skin.

I heard muffled screams but this only seemed to make who ever this is dig even deeper. I struggle to stand but I use the only thing I could. I kick out at him but I soon come to realise that had been a big mistake.

He went flying backwards but so did I as he let go off me and I plunged into the ice cold water. As soon as I hit the water I felt the cold go into the dip cuts down my chest. My body started to shake, it was struggling to take the pain and when I say that I mean I'm struggling. It maybe my body but since its my body that means its me.

Why am I so weak? Why can't I take pain? Zack probably has taken way more then me already.

I managed to reach the surface air reaching into my lungs, if I even have lungs. I couldn't stay above the surface for long as the chains behind my back began to weigh me down and I piled back down into the water.

I couldn't do anything apart from try use my legs to swim but it wasn't enough. I didn't know what too do. I'm stuck!

Just then I saw a bright light shine above the water. I just about made it out. I didn't know whether to celebrate that I'm under the water or not. Just then something hit the surface. At first I thought it was that guy who had chained me up coming to get me until I made out who it was.

My heart skipped a beat. How had Zack escaped? He brought me to the surface and onto the ground. I was panting as he helped me out the chains.

"You saved me, I was meant to save you," I sigh as he looks at the claw marks down my chest. "I'll be fine," I add on.

"I didn't. I only did because he saved me," Zack points towards a figure lingering over the guy who was on the floor knocked out I guessed, as no one can actually die here as far as I know.

Its the guy who told me about my so called Task and that I had been chosen. He had just saved us!

"No time for questions here we must go before he comes around," he smiles right at me.

I nod but I still felt like I was under water. I didn't know which one I had hated more. Burning alive or drowning in ice cold water but because I had the long claw marks down my chest the water had felt a lot more worse.

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