Ten

Chapter Five

Chapter Five – The Freak Zone

Along with the rest of the group, Kelly made her way up the stairs following closely behind Robert, and stopped in a line behind him while he checked the door. The door wasn't locked and he opened it and led the others inside, but not before insisting that everyone be quiet.

When she entered, she saw that the room was a sort of a lounge room with couches and chairs and other items of furniture all around, and a doorway that led to another room or rooms was at the far end. The next thing she noticed was the immense amount of sexual imagery all around them. There were nude paintings and sculptures all around the room, some of them with a distinctly religious tinge, while most of the others contained some kind of sadomasochistic theme. Most of the art involved either large sexual organs or women and men in various states of coitus. It was quite overwhelming.

"I just knew it," she observed, "Per-vert."

"Pervert," agreed Carl, "But a well-stocked pervert," he noted as he opened what appeared to be a large liquor cabinet full of expensive alcohol.

"Nice!" exclaimed Dominic.

"Some of these pictures are seriously demented," noted Gabe, looking over several paintings of women being subjected to various sexual tortures by either men or various kinds of beast-like creatures.

"Ugh! You're right," replied Kelly, taking in one near her. It looked like a pack of werewolves raping a young woman.

"I don't even want to look," Chloe turned her face away.

"Actually, I kind of like this one," Madeline noted, pointing to a painting of a female-dominatrix impaling the skull of a bound male victim with one of her metal spiked-heeled boots.

Oh my God, she's such a ho-bag, thought Kelly.

"Yeah," added Bibi, "At least there's one for us girls."

"Hmm. Kinky," smiled Dominic.

"That doesn't disturb you?" Madeline asked.

"Nah, there's worse ways to go than that."

Madeline laughed, "So you want me to stomp on your head?"

"No," he tried to explain, but gave up, "Never mind."

Kelly laughed, until she remembered what this guy had been accused of doing. Then she held on tighter to her hammer. As she and the others looked around the room, Robert moved on to the next room after the living room. The attic was very large and seemed to be one large area separated by various walls that created multiple rooms, but with no doors in between the rooms, except for the bathroom. Soon everyone followed Robert to a room that appeared to be a sort of control room.

"Check this shit out," suggested Carl as he spotted the large array of audio and video equipment. There were multiple computers and monitors with recording and remove control equipment.

"It looks like the inside of a TV station," said Gabe.

"A control room?" suggested Chloe.

"Something like that," replied Robert, who was still looking around.

"Wait," said Carl, "Look at this!"

He pointed to a group of computer screens with shots of nearly all the rooms in the house, which rotated every ten seconds or so. Images from the outside were coming in as well. Even the room they were in was included on the video feed.

"It looks like he knew we were coming and when to bug out," noted Robert.

"But where could he have gone?" asked Bibi.