Within The Darkness

Part 1: Mundane Start

A/N: If anyone reads this story... I hope you'll like it.....

My eyes open up to see nothing but black. Just black, emptiness and silence, but soon that silence was dwindled by my panicked breathing.

Where am I? What is this place?

My heart started to beat fast, I felt sweat falling down. Then, I remembered, I was in an alley following a whisper urging me to go to it, then suddenly I was subdued by people wearing gas masks and white hazmat suits.

What do they want from me?

"Hello? Is anyone there?" I yelled, I frantically stood up and was about to walk, only to discover I was chained to something.

"Help! Anyone plea-"

"Shut your mouth, missy." an angry voice hisses, I turned to the direction of the voice and tried to walk towards it, but the chains kept holding me back.

"Who are you? Where am I?!" I whisper, the voice chuckles darkly and I hear chains rustle, it wasn't mine but someone else's. I sat down and tried to calm myself, I laid down on the cold floor and chose to not speak and only listen to my sorroundings. A faint breeze chilled me and I heard a wolf howl.

Am I outside?

I felt something crawl up my arm and nibble on it, the hairs on my back stood up and I shrieked.

"What the hell is happening?!" I yell, I flick off the object on my arm and I heard it fell to the floor with a squishy sound.

"Shut your mouth woman! They might get agitated!" The voice hisses

"Who?"

My question was immediately answered, I hear a door open and the room slowly goes bright, the room only consisted of chipped black tiles and dull gray walls. A man carrying a large iron staff walked in, he had a gas mask on and a black hazmat suit. He whispered something and the front end of the staff lit up, the sounds of electricity were emitted from it. Slowly, he approached me and pointed the glowing end of the staff towards me, my heart-rate quickens as it gets closer.

He suddenly jabs the staff on my arm, I immediately felt a burning sensation and electricity coursing through my body, I shriek in pain and fell down on the floor, I kept twitching and tears fell down from my eyes.

"That was just a warning." the man wheezes before shutting the door, the room turns dark and I felt myself calm down.

"If you make any sort of racket again, you will be given much worse punishments," the voice says. "My children are growing restless and hungry for flesh, it will soon be time until we get out. For now little girl, rest. Rest until the day comes."

I positioned myself comfortably so I can sleep, I felt my eyes getting drowsy until I felt sleep take me.

I woke up to see the room was lit up, I realized I wasn't chained anymore, the room had ripped wallpapers, chipped walls and tiles.

"You have awoken, little girl." the voice says. I turn around and my eyes widened in horror, there was a man with messy white hair, he was wearing only a pair of dirty shorts, but what most frightened me was the fact his stomach was bloated, there were thousands of maggots continually eating his bloody flesh, his face was dirty and his eyes were only white. He walked towards me, each step he took caused some of the maggots to fall down and crawl back towards him. I surpressed my urge to scream and run but I backed up with my back pressed up against the wall.

"Calm, my child, my sweet children pose no threat to you unless you attempt to harm them." the man says in a rough voice, he sat on the floor and stayed silent, I couldn't help but stare at the maggots falling from his stomach, he didn't even look like he was in pain.

"My children are growing hungry," the man says, pointing to the maggots as one by one he caressed them.

"That's messed up..." I muttered as I tried to move as as far as I can from the maggots that were moving towards me.

"It seems that my children already grew a liking for you." he says as he looked at the maggots.

"A liking for my flesh you mean," I reply in a scared tone, the eyes of the man moved probably hinting that he rolled his eyes. One maggot was crawling on my thigh I was about to squish it until-

"Don't you dare." the man warns me, his eyes narrowed and I was hiding the urge to burn him along with the maggots. I reluctantly let the maggot crawl on my leg, it looked like it was looking at me.

Creepy

"Umm so..." I say in an unsure tone "How long have you've been here?"

The man looked at his stomach, thinking. He scratched his head as if he was confused.

"All I remember I was taken in January two thousand nineteen." he says

"It's already two thousand twenty five! You've been here for six years!"

"It seems so. I don't know.... at least I have my children," the man says in a confused tone."By the way child, you never told me your name."

"I'm Cassandra Newman."

"Felix Abernathy," the man stuck out his dirty hand, I reluctantly shook it, but I was still relieved that he was human, having maggots and all but still human.

And a question suddenly struck my mind.

How long will I be here?

A/N: And Imma just gonna end it here. Hope you like the first chapter! :3 And please do vote if you liked this chapter!