Dead by Daylight (Fanfiction)

Into the woods

The smell of damp ground once again. Leaves beneath her, and grass tickling her face. It felt like the whiskers on her old cat, who would come and nuzzle her in the morning for food. Sparkie had disappeared one day and never come back. She always thought her dad had something to do with it, as he was always moaning about the cost of feeding her.

It was cold and dark, she shivered, feeling the cold in her bones and rubbed her scrawny legs to try get some blood in them. She had lost a lot of weight in the past year, the constant anxiety and moving to America had pretty much killed her appetite. She lit the lighter up, hoping it could shine some light through the dense forest but all she saw were trees, and the constant flickering made the forest look worse. Her head ached and she wondered if it was from the injury or from the weird thing she had smelt on the cloth. She reached to her head and her fingers felt stitches. Why patch her up and then dump her? And what about the others?

A loud scream erupted from her left and the thoughts were gone from her mind. Was it one of the people she had made friends with? It sounded like a male scream. She ran away from it, terrified, her feet stumbling over branches and the uneven forest floor. What was happening? Oh god. Help.

The scream echoed the voice in her mind. "Help me. Someone. Help" It was the scream of life and death. She cried, feeling fear freeze her, weeping at her own helplessness. A voice took over the fear, a five year olds. Her own. "You have to try" Like she had tried to save that girl in the garage. She had tried, and failed, and the girl had died. And many before, and many after. All because she had kept her mouth shut, kept her head down. Because she was too scared of her father to try again. Well her father was dead now, and whatever was happening in this forest, it couldn't be worse than he had been. Inner strength came from nowhere, she knew with clarity she had to save whoever it was, to make up for the girls she hadn't saved before. To redeem herself.

The screaming had quietened to a whimper by the time she managed to get near, inching from tree to tree slowly, scared that one stumble in the dark would break her arm or her leg. A red light lit up a tall wooden stake and hanging from it...

She clamped a hand over her mouth, to stop the scream. A man hung from a hook, struggling to pull himself up, above him branches hung like spiders legs, she could see they were attached to the tall stake. She didn't want to see what they did. "Hey" she whispered.

"Please" the man replied, too loudly for her liking. It wasn't one of the people she had been with before. She placed a finger on her lips, someone had hung this man here, and she wasn't interested in finding out who. "Help me" he murmured, clearly low on strength.

"Who did this?" The man shook his head.

"I couldn't see, it was too dark. They're not here anymore though, I hear footsteps going back into the woods" Overcoming her own fear, she sneaked forward, glancing left and right. A small red light had lit up the stake, hanging above in the trees. The man was heavy and the hook was high, she gasped with excursion as she lifted him by his knees, grunting as he toppled onto her with a cry that she quickly stifled. Tears lit up his eyes as he grabbed his shoulder where the hook had penetrated. "We have to go in case he comes back" Terrified the man agreed, following her back the way she had come.

Without a light she had no way of seeing his wound and sat helplessly hearing him whimper. All she could do was try to distract him. "I'm Violet" the name slipped out easier this time, "What's your name?"

"Bryce" he grunted.

"How did you get here?" she resisted the urge to badger him with unhelpful questions like where the fuck are we? Why the fuck are we here? And who's doing this?

"Um... I was at a bus station" he mumbled wearily, "Got...into a car with my friends, turned on the heater but weird gas came out, we ran, out of the car, my friend...I think he got hit. So much blood. Blood. Everywhere. Oh God. My friends!" He tried to stand up but fell back, grunting in pain and grasping his shoulder. "I'm sure there okay, at least I know a few are, or where" He frowned in the darkness and slowly, in whispers, she filled him in. "They must be in here somewhere" He looked around desperately. Wanting to go find them. She held him down. "No, when the sun rises we can look, but with your shoulder and this darkness we can't"

He laughed, a bitter high sound.

"It doesn't matter either way. Dead, that is what the man said when he hit Ohm, he laughed and said it didn't matter if someone was injured" He looked at her, faint light showing madness in his eyes. "The man said we would all be dead by daylight"

(A/N: Okay so I wrote these first three parts in one go, then published them in bitesized chunks where I felt it was appropriate. The other Fanfic I'm writing is still swirling around my head but having watched so much Dead by Daylight on youtube recently I felt inspired to write. I know it takes a long time to get into the action and for that I apologise, I'm just a bit of a ranter, on and off the page. It is also rated M for the violence to come so even though it seems very toned down at the moment, it will get there trust me. Thank you for reading and any comments, positive or negative, will be appreciated. Thankies :3 )