She shook her head quickly. “They’re still outside nao-ne-na-o. If we go outside now, we’ll get eaten alive. That one bite hurt worse than anything I’ve ever felt before!” She said, as her Blue icy mind looked at the woman and categorized her as a Player. The weird woman certainly looked like a Player would. Pale blond her streaked silver by age, and a gaunt face malnourished by the burning fires of madness. The black dress hung strangely off of her emaciated frame. All in all, she reminded Jinx of herself, if the damage had never been corrected. “They’ve come to witness the beginning. The Rebirth of Paradise, bespoiled by Mankind…” Jinx intoned softly, causing the woman to startle and stare at her strangely.
“You know the ancient Texts?” The madness gleamed in the woman's eyes now, but it didn’t matter. The Silver-Blue mind was already in place now. Jinx leaned casually against Nao butterfly’s waist and smiled grimly, arms embracing her Big Sister’s frame as if she were the Mother.
“Do you like the Red too? Does God love the Red and Play with those who want to see more of it?” The Silver-Blue mind asked innocently, eyes reflecting the woman’s madness casually as she pulled Nao nearer to the pews.
"A deity such as God has no time for your ignorant, mortal games." The woman's voice was haughty and grated on Naomi's nerves.
"Oh? Well, if she's so terrible, I'd think she'd have plenty of time to spill some blood." Naomi said with a raised eyebrow, the mocking evident in her words.
"Be quiet, you unclean imbecile! You should be thrown to the demons." The woman sneered at Naomi.
The green eyed girl felt the anger in her rise. "Just who do you think you are?!" Naomi cried. "Maybe it is YOU who should be thrown to the demons!"
"Blasphemer! I am loved and protected by God! YOU are the one who shall BURN in the eternal fires!"
Jinx jerked back as if she’d been struck, the choking stench of burned flesh clogging her airways as she shivered and gagged on it. The two women shouting each other down were safe, but everything else was burning suddenly. You could see it. Anyone could! The wood of the pews turning blackened and the paint peeling off in the heat of the flames. Hundreds of people burning, so many. Nurses, doctors, men, women, children, a little girl in a blue dress locked in a circular cage and the screams never stopped until the flames went ever higher. Then all turned Black, and it remembered what cause this. What made the world BURN. The words against Naomi. The threat clear in the madwoman’s words. Naomi. BURN. The Butterfly would BURN. Then the world turned RED and it didn’t matter that the woman was defenseless. She simply charged at the woman, slamming into her with all the considerable force and speed her enhanced body could give. Her claws spread wide, beautifully catching in the darkening shadows as she tore into the woman, ripping her open from shoulder to ribs. She’d just been about to go for the throat when the darkened shadows congealed into a singular mass that stank of Man and Fear and RAGE. A giant of a man, monster, who’s appearance caused the madwoman to laugh recklessly, proclaiming him as proof that she was protected by god. The RED of Jinx’s mind and body didn’t find him impressive at all, even going so fall as to evaluate the giant triangular hat he wore as a mask as a hindrance. The only threat she saw was the gargantuan blade he held dragging behind him. Snarling Jinx, stabbed her claws into the woman’s legs and launched herself at the new threat. The most dangerous thing in the building didn’t even flinch as her claws gutter him. He, IT, didn’t twitch either when she ripped a hole in it’s torso. The Monster just grabbed her out of the air, easy as anything and held her aloft.
Naomi stood wide eyed as the woman's words sunk in and echoed in her ears. For a moment she could glimpse the world on fire that Jinx saw; the little girl in blue. She shuddered as her world seemed to pulse harshly. Blood. Sticky, sweet smelling, metallic blood spattered up to her lips as Jinx gutted the zealot. Her heart thundered in her chest. She would burn... She would burn... the woman wanted her to burn. Burn, burn, fire, pain, red, blood, hurt, pain. Naomi began to spiral downward into her madness. Green eyes darkened to near-black as she curled in on herself. Whispers emanated from all corners. Then... scraaaaape. A figure stepped out of the shadows. The man... the monster... It carried a large knife, slightly resembling a buster blade, and it scraped the ground as he materialized out of the shadows. The maddened, hysterical laughter of the wretched woman proclaiming this to be her savior filled her ears. A flash of red and suddenly Jinx was attacking the monster. Naomi rocked on her feet. "Kill the monster from the shadows..." Her voice was sing-song-like. "Blood to shed is all that matters..." More singing came from her lips. Was the monster here to play this bloody game too? This fighting game of survival? He wouldn't win. No, Naomi and Jinxy were heroes. This was their story. They would win, the good guys always won in her stories.
She snarled and screamed through the RED, ripping at the things arms and wanting it dead, dead, dead! Before it killed Nao. Before it BURNED them all. She shrieked in frustration as the thing simply shook her as if to say, ‘hold still’. Then, as if all time had stopped for this moment The other hand dropped its giant butchers cleaver and reached underneath the front half of it’s strange Pyramid-like helmet and mask. A tiny snick like sound echoed through the suddenly silent room as the long locked hinges creaked apart ever so slightly and he drew her closer so that her nose almost fit between the openings. A rotten, foul breath blew her bangs clear and suddenly she saw. And Saw. And SAW! And then the screaming started as the awful thing, the Rage and Hate and Stink of all things that ever were roared through that FACE and it wouldn’t ever be better, and nothing helped. Not even the BLACK that came as a last resort, and the Woman was laughing. The Blue clad girl crying. And Jinxy BURNED.
Naomi watched as if transfixed for a moment. Her head tilted and she hummed lightly. Then Jinxy started to scream. Panic and fear flew through Naomi, piercing her. She began the decent further into her madness. The whispers grew to cries and shrieks. She began to shake. Then... "NO!" Naomi fell to her knees, hands over her ears. "You'll never save her. You'll never go home. You'll never stay alive." The mocking, taunting words, over and over, from all corners of the room. The mad woman laughed, Jinxy shrieked, and the beast roared, and Naomi gave in to the swirling darkness that overtook her.
"Yesss... call on ussss." The hissing voices called.
"Yes. Come. Kill them. Save us. The red girl is important. All others. Decimate." Naomi's voice was stone cold, her eyes hazed over, black as midnight. There was a rending sound in the air and the scent of brimstone filled the air. Naomi stood and raised her arms. Out from the shadows came a rattling, breathy sound and HER monsters came forward. Seven of them, looking blue-ish white as if they'd drowned. No eyes, only mouths with sharp teeth, fingers long and sharp. They didn't seem like much, and then they moved. They were swift, and their claws deadly. In one swift motion, the mad woman was beheaded. Naomi laughed in ghoulish glee at the sight of the head rolling away, blood leaving a trail. Bright red, sticky, sweet, metallic blood. HER monsters then converged upon where the brute had Jinxy. "LEAVE THE GIRL UNHARMED!" Naomi yelled as they began their assault of the man with the pyramid head. The screams in her head escalated as they attacked the monster, claws ripping. The Pyramid Head dropped Jinx as he fought back, swinging his knife at them. However, he lacked speed where they had it. They were quick, and even if he did take a couple out, the remaining five were speedily taking him down. Claws dipped in and out of the beasts' flesh, leaving bloody holes in his body as though he were nothing more than paper. With a final roar, the monster retreated, and HER monsters followed after. "Don't leave him til he's finished." Naomi's icy words followed them.
The impact didn’t even still her twisting, screaming mind for a moment. The Blue clad girl rocking there, her skin already peeling off and blackening even though she wasn’t in the cage yet. The Black swirled in the madness of STINKROTHATE like water in an empty bathtub and soon washed away to be replaced by the RED of hate and need to fight. To protect. The Red self pulled her shaking form to its knees and stared around the inside of the church with wide, hollow eyes. Her bangs and hair swept back in disarray so that her eyes could be seen for the first time in a very long time. She hated the feeling. Trying to get up, she slipped in something red that wasn’t a part of the Red and fell onto her side, the red, warm liquid splashing all over everything and her as the wide eyes stared up at her in glassy disbelief from the severed head. Not Nao. Good. Then the shivers began in earnest as Jinx shoved all the things she’d seen in the …….. somewhere, shoved them all down into the green until she could think without screaming. “Nao. Nao. Nao.” She muttered and glanced around, finally finding the woman standing between two beautiful blueish white bodies. “Nao! Jinx can’t forget to not-remember. “
Somewhere inside, Naomi cried in relief that Jinx was okay. But that Naomi was nearly lost, and so out of reach. The world convulsed and Naomi fell to her knees once more as the whispers started. They were all around her. "Make it stop. Make them stop!" Naomi began to rock back and forth.
"Waste of space. Monster. Murderer. Unclean. Burn. Die. Waste of space. Stupid. Ugly. Worthless. Garbage..." The whispers went on and on, all around her. She rocked back and forth, whispering to herself, telling them to stop it. Telling them it wasn't true. "Jinxy...tell them... tell them..." Naomi's eyes remained black, even as her guardians slipped into the shadows and left them alone. Naomi shook violently, and began to scream.
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Silent Hill: Psychosis Break
FanfictionA short story/ fanfiction created by one of my dearest friends and me many years ago. Silent Hill has always been a place of fascination to us, and we wanted to know what would happen if we threw our two most insane characters into it.
