Daemon High: The Sense of Dread

What is THAT?!

Chapter 3:What is THAT?!

Okay the scream came from down the hall, on the...er...which is right again? Xiang pointed to the left, I mean right, and said “It came from over there,”

As if on cue, the scream came again. This time no wards were exclaimed, just the sound of fear. The fear of death. Our walk became a run, well I was running actually, Xiang and Lawrence were keeping up by doing their drifting thing. I would have shadow cloaked but I'm not that lazy and we're so close anyways. What the-

Something black was speeding towards my way, I didn't have time to dodge so the thing knocked me over and I fell on my back. Xiang and Lawrence stopped, Xiang drew his sword and Lawrence's arms caught white fire. I looked up and saw this black mass floating in midair right above us, it was literally just a black mass, but it intended to prove me wrong by showing me it's face. It wasn't a face at all,it looked more like a skull, it had that ear to ear grin and eyeless sockets that seemed to lead to nowhere. The worst thing was it's laugh, without warning it started laughing. It sounded like an alignment of many voices. I could say it was the creepiest moment of my life.

I reached into my cloak and pulled out a double edged sword, ready to fight if it attacked. Lawrence made the first move, he placed his hands together and fired a stream of white flame at the thing, but it just dodged and went for Xiang, still laughing. Xiang tried to slice the thing but the thing suddenly changed direction and when for me.

I got ready to stab the thing, but it went right through me, giving me a cold sensation and disappearing into a wall. The laugh still lingered here, but it slowly died down. Shaking off the fear, we when to find who ever made the scream. We found a maid lying face first on the ground, I felt her neck, no pulse, she was dead. Xiang looked at her and said “She died of shock, you can see it on her face,”

He then proceeded to flip her over, creating a bigger mess than before. A huge chunk of the maid's face was ripped off, blood flowed off her non-existent cheeks and onto the floor. Xiang straightened himself and said “Or...not...”

Lawrence drifted forward and said “Bloody hell! What happened? No pun intended”

“Her face got ripped off, but that...thing...” I said. Xiang turned to me and said “Ripped it a lighter way to put it, the term is torn off,”

Lawrence touched his chin and said, “If that thing could do that...I wonder what else it could do...I mean it's looks scary enough, and it's laugh is enough to make anyone cry,”

“Any idea why it's doing this?” I asked

“Why are you asking me? I'm not the guy that's been scaring people and taking faces lately,” said Lawrence. I turned to Xiang, hoping for something about that creature, but he just shook his head and said “I don't know what that is...but I'm guessing it's either one of those shadow creatures that live here or something completely different...”

I've heard footsteps coming towards us, I looked in the direction and saw Lucy and her Scythe-leton, Clacks, following behind her. If you're wondering what a Scythe-leton is, it's a skeleton, which transform's into a scythe, and it has a pair of wicked looking blades coming out the space between it's ring finger and middle finger. Kinda like Wolverine. Oh it also has a pair of curved horns growing out of it's head and it's skull isn't exactly human shaped. It's a cross between a human's and...something...I think it's goat or something...

Anyways, Lucy was was wearing her usual black gown, don't ask me how she runs in that, and there was a wild look in her eyes. She looked left and right and asked “Where did that scream come from?”

“Look down,” said Xiang as he pointed towards the maid. She looked down and saw one part of her dress stained by the blood, “Oh...” she said as she took a step backwards. “Well...err...hmm....I have nothing to say right now...”

“Yeap...shocking, she died pretty suddenly...”

“She was my mon's personal servant...Oh...Mom's going to be so depressed...”

There she goes again, her care is genuine but really if you've lived with her for 14 full years...you get annoyed by it. Sometimes I wonder if we're even twins, we're nothing alike, except the face but nothing else. I don't know what Lawrence sees in her...she's too nice...for my liking anyways.

“So mind if anyone told me what happened here?” she asked. Lawrence scratched his chin and said “Well...We've encountered some black creature on our way here, it wasn't anything I've seen when I was...alive, or something I've read about, or heard about,”

Xiang adjusted his hat and said “Probably must be some bored ghost, we come in different shapes and sizes anyways,”

“Killing people is what you do when you're bored?” I asked. Xiang smiled awkwardly and shrugged, “Well...everyone has a hobby...”

“This hobby is dangerous, we find it, we put it down, put it down like the beast is!” said Lawrence. Lucy cut in, her Scythe-leton turned back into her scythe, and said “First things first...where're we going to find it?”

“Wait for another scream?”

“Eure Majesty! Run!”

We all turn towards the direction of the screaming and saw a guard in a death grip with a maid running for their dear life. I readied my sword, expecting to see the creature, but I got something else...

Xiang unsheathed his sword and said “Hey Lawrence...get ready...they're weak to fire...”

“What are you...OH MY GOD,”

The guard and maid ran right past us, the guard turned around for a moment and yelled “RUN!”

Lucy threw down her scythe and it turned into Clacks with a simple click. I tossed her my sword and drew out another one.

“Great...tentacles...Hey Xiang?"

"Yeah?"

"Let's hope these ain't Japanese..."

"Oh...SICK!"