|Smile for The Camera|

Chapter 2: Smile for The Camera*

|Previously|

“Mhm~ What did I do to deserve such a delectable butterfly into my web~?” Aoi flinched, his blood thirsty words sending a trail of goosebumps on his arms, and continuous shivers down his spine. But alas, the feeling had stopped, by getting knocked out as Azure quickly jabbed a pressure point on his neck. This made the tall man chortle darkly, picking up the grey haired man bridal style, also picking up the camcorder.

He had an evil look on his face, along with a sinister smirk.

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|Aoi|

‘I can’t hear anything… I’m scared… and it’s dark-’ I awoke in a jolt, eyes flying open as they widened like saucers, upon seeing my limbs strapped to a wheelchair. I struggled, trying to wriggle my wrists and ankles out of the restraint, until I stopped, when I felt a breath tickle down my nape. Someone was… sniffing me.

“Someone’s awake~” The low voice of Azure Akihito whispered huskily into my ear, causing me to lurch forward and look over my shoulder with a nasty glare. “G-Get the fuck away from me!” I shouted, causing Azure to place a hand upon the fabric over his heart, feigning to be hurt and walked around me to stand in front of. “Ouch! And I thought we were actually getting along!” Azure shook his head and smirked down at me.

Oh no.

I looked around my surroundings, which turned to be just a bloody bathroom. Emphasis on bloody… I grit my teeth, as Azure turned around to play with my camcorder, placing it on the sink afterwards and turned back to face me. “Mhm~ Smile for the camera!” He chuckled darkly, going over to a metal cart with different tools on them. My blood ran cold. “Now, for being such a bad boy and running away from me, even screaming at me, you will have to be…” He paused, eyeing me from the corner of his eyes.

“... Punished.”

‘Oh God no!’ I thought in a panic, the horrid scent of blood wafting into my nose as Azure took some large, surgical scissors in hand, that was used for cutting the rib bones and other parts. My eyes widened in horror. “No… NO NO NO! PLEASE!” I pleaded, as he chortled darkly, staring into my salmon eyes, that were filled up with quivering fear. “I love it when you beg~” He placed his knee in between my thighs on the chair, and positioned my ring finger in between the blades. “N-No! N-No- AHHHH! G-Gah!” I let out a painful scream, as he cut off my finger clean off the bone.

My vision palpated, as the pain was almost too much to bear. “S-Stop! P-Please!” I screamed, but was met with a large hand connecting to my cheek. SLAP! He slapped me with a scowl. “Pay attention!” He yelled to my face, as my eyes downcast to the bloody tiled floor, where my ring finger had fallen on to. Blood gushed out from the stump in between my fingers, the tender flash inflamed around my bone, which was cleanly cut. It was gut wrenching to even look at.

Needless to say- it made me sick.

Azure scoffed, setting the scissors down. He was about to pick up the saw when something was heard outside cluttering. His eyes hardened like steel, growling under his breath. He turned to face me, a harsh look on his face. “We will finish… This later~” I could only sit frozen as he walked past me to head out the door. Once he was gone, I eyed the restraints and shook my wrists as hard as I could, till I finally broke free of them, that sent me stumbling down to the floor.

I felt the bile rise up to my throat as I leaned my arms on the sink, lowering my head to stare at the floor as I emptied my stomach. The pain of losing a finger was too much for me to handle, which sent me forcing the tuna sandwich I had ate for lunch out of me.

I struggled to get up, my breathing coming out ragged as I picked up my camcorder, to take the old battery out and replace it with a new one from my pocket.

“I need to hide.”

|Azure|

‘Who dares to disturb my time with my precious victim…’ I growled inside my head, gritting my teeth as I stepped out of the room and fixed my tie, looking down through the glass pane window to see multiple police officers. I rolled my icy blue eyes and smirked, as I walked down the staircase, to stand in front of the door. With a twist of the knob, the door swung open as I grabbed the man in front and pulled him inside, locking the door before the others got in.

I liked- no, loved taking my time~ I’ll pick them off one by one!

The man shivered underneath my pale hand, as I put both palms on either side of his head, to use my powers to dive deep into the man’s psyche. ‘Fufufu~ Very afraid of his wife~!’ I thought, as I closed my eyes, and shifted into a curvy brunette woman with a scowl now present on my female face. “Adam! How could you!” I cried out in my high pitched feminine voice, while pointing at the shivering man. “Y-Yes love-” My irises glowed in a blazing red energy, as he froze, eyes going blank when I put him under my influence.

“Kill them all.”

I commanded straightforwardly. He nodded, turning around to open the door, as he raised his gun towards his fellow soldiers.

“Die.”

I smirked, as the man opened fire, killing each and every one of the soldiers still standing. “Good boy~” I purred into his ear, shifting back into my original form, and used a dagger in my sleeve to drive it through his back and out his chest, the slowly beating heart impaled on my shiny dagger. The heart was very pleasantly warm, still thumping in my grasp. I took my arm back and held the heart, observing it as I kicked the man’s body down the steps, falling with soft thuds. I brought the heart to my nose and sniffed in the metallic- yet sweet smelling scent of fresh blood.

The maroon liquid stained my hand in red, yet I never cared. I always loved the color red. I clenched my fist on the heart as I squeezed it tightly, emitting that flavorful ‘pop’ that was always like music to my ears.

I dropped the heart on the floor and kicked it away with a grin. “I should get back to “Camcorder-kun~” I muttered mischievously under my breath, turning around to go back up the steps. I opened the door to the bathroom and felt my blood boil underneath my skin. He was gone, and so was the camera. “NO! YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO BE MINE! I’LL FIND YOU, YOU FUCKING COWARD!” I yelled in rage, grabbing the surgical scissors and headed out the door.

“I’LL FUCKING FIND YOU!”