Deleterious : Dreamlands

Slaughterhouse

'If you wake up randomly around 3am with no reason, there is a high chance that you're being watched...'

GORE WARNING 😉
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Alex and Oliver make their way down the dark hallway. Both of them are eager to see if this is their escape from this odd place.
As they get closer to the light they begin to walk faster, eager to find out what awaits at the end.
Finally, they reach the end of the hallway. The light at the end leads into a small room with a single wooden door.
Oliver hesitantly reaches out a hand and twists the knob on the door which reluctantly opens with ease. He and Alex step into the next room only to be greeted with the most horrific sight and the most pungent scent imaginable.
Alex screams and Oliver gags in disgust as they are first greeted with the rancid scent of rotting and decaying flesh. Meat hooks line the dimly lit ceiling, some are empty but most have huge chunks of old, bloody cow meat hanging from them. The stomachs are torn open, causing the snake like intestines to spill out. Baskets are filled with severed human limbs and they are scattered about the bloodstained floor. Maggots infest the decaying meat, slowly making progress on consuming the fowl flesh. The walls, too, are stained and smeared with old and new blood. Various knives and tools hang from hooks on each of the walls, their blades stained in a deathly rust colour. In one corner of the room, there is an old wooden table drenched in blood and covered in gashes and scratches.
Oliver backs away from the scene and tries to open the door they came from, but the door is now locked. There's no going back and the only thing they can do now is to move forward through the suffocating scent of the room.  Oliver can't help but to feel sick on his stomach at the mess they had walked into. The scent becomes unbearable and he doubles over and wretches in the corner, losing the contents of his stomach. He wipes the remaining bitter acid off of his lips and takes in a shaky breath.
"I- I want to leave..." Alex whimpers with terror. Her whole body is shaking with fright and her skin is as white as a sheet.

"The door is locked. We need to find a way out of here." Oliver replies weakly. He reaches up and takes down two butcher knives, handing one to Alex and keeping one for himself. The blades on them are at least a good seven inches long and the black handle fits perfectly in their hands.
"We need to-" Oliver is interrupted by the sound of heavy chains rattling along the cement floor and distant echoing footsteps. The two of them freeze and listen as the sound grows progressively closer to them.

"Someones coming!" Alex whispers, grabbing Oliver's arm.

"Damn it! We need to find somewhere to hide!" Oliver whispers back in a panic.

They both frantically look around for somewhere to go as the whistling and rattling grows louder. All Alex can see is death and blood in her blurry panic to find a hiding place.

"Look up there!" Oliver says, pointing to a vent above the wooden table. "Let's go!"

They both rush over to the table, climbing on top of it. Oliver reaches up and opens the vent. He boosts Alex into it and then crawls inside himself. He gets the metal cover put back onto the vent just as someone enters the room.
But this person isn't normal. It has the arms and legs of a human and it is clothed in a long white apron stained red. But the head of this....thing....is most certainly not normal. This monster has the head of a decaying slaughtered pig. The eye sockets are hollow and black and the mouth limply hangs open from a broken jaw. The ears are limp as well, and a fresh line of blood trickles out of the left ear. The neck is sewn onto its human shoulders in sloppy, infected stitches.

The two of them stare in horror at the odd beast as it drags in a fresh slab of human-shaped meat on a long chain. The beast walks over to the wooden table right under them and throws the huge slab of meat onto the table. It takes a butcher's knife from the wall and proceeds to hack at the slab of meat, sending fresh blood to splatter onto the walls and floor. Some of it even splatters through the vent and into their faces. Oliver shifts his weight as he moves to wipe off his face and cover his nose from the horrid scent. As he moves, a nail in the vent comes loose and clatters to the ground. The beast's head snaps up from the noise and it blindly looks around to find the source of the sound.

"I think that thing is blind..." Alex whispers to Oliver. "It has no eyes."

Oliver shudders. "We need to find a way out of here before it finds us." he says. This is when a perfect idea comes to him. He grabs another nail from the vent and throws it across the room and it clatters loudly to the ground. The monster roars and squeals angrily like a pig and it scampers quickly over to the nail now laying motionless on the floor. In the process, the monster runs into an empty meat hook and it embeds into it's arm. Blood flows out of the fresh wound and the monster squeals again in pain. It blindly tries to remove the hook from it's arm, tearing it from it's flesh causing the wound to bleed even more.

"This is our chance, let's go!" Oliver whispers and he and Alex both crawl out of the vent and fall to the floor. As they escape from the vent, the metal cover creaks noisily attracting the pig man's attention back to them. It is only a matter of time until the grotesque monster reaches them, so they bolt over to the doorway from where the monster had came from. Their footsteps echo loudly throughout the hallway as the monster chases blindly after them. In it's hand it still wields the bloody butcher's knife as it angrily follows after them.