The Masked Child

Chapter 4: The Mask

Once we get to the hotel I pull up outside of it. We both hop out of the car and head inside, we go to the main lobby where I notice everything is still in good condition. As soon as we both walk up to the counter all of the lights go out except one light behind the counter. A mask floated in the light. The mask was a diamond with two rectangles coming from each side. The majority of it was red with a round eye that was red purple and green and on the other side a squinted eye surrounded by white with black dots. Where the mouth should be was half of what looked like muscle and the other side of the mouth red and had four black dots. Each side had colorful whiskers and blue triangles-ish shapes on the cheeks. Wearing the mask was an extremely skinny pale child. He had pure black hair and wore nothing but ripped dark grey shorts he looked as though he died of starvation already.

"You should take on that guy your lightening should be more than enough, it'll be so much fun I promise." The voice in my head seemed to be egging me on to take on this floating child, I would try to fight him but I don't even know if he's bad or not or even what his ability is yet. 

"Haha, if you're looking for a cure you won't find anything of the sort. I will make sure every last one of you surviving humans dies a slow and painful death. Because of my new mask and its powers I was able to start all this. Yes that is right the one who started this whole thing and killed nearly everyone you know was me yours truly! I will end the world and rebuild! The current human race is a disgrace! I WILL MAKE A MUCH SUPERIOR ONE!" said the masked child in a very angry voice

"He's a bad dude. KILL HIM! He started planning this when he got the mask three months ago. He thinks of this as nothing more than a game. KILL HIM!" the voice seems to really hate this kid but as he said this I wondered what he meant be three months ago. It's a voice in my head making crap up to get me to attack. The reason I decided not to attack the kid right there is the angry voice in my head had a very untrustworthy tone in his voice, almost like that friend who always whispers you should try this insert bad thing in your ear. 

I was about to yell something back at him when all the lights turned on in a blinding flash. When I could open my eyes again both the mask and child were just gone and nowhere to be found. We heard a loud bang and both ran outside. The hotel was collapsing and the bottom floors were on fire. We both ran to the van and I noticed a dead corpse laying on the road so I ran towards the body without even thinking. I went to pick up the body and while I was here Jasmine started up the van. I slam open the side door and notice the masked child flying south-east. I tell Jasmine to follow him and feel the van jolt forward then quickly turn around.

This guy definitely had the virus I can tell because the marks throughout his body are very unnatural there are small green dots throughout his entire body and burn marks on his hands and feet when I flipped him over there was also burn marks on his spine all the way up then a circle of burnt skin with a dot in the middle looking exactly like a target on the back of his neck.

Jasmine pulls the van over and says the child was flying too fast and the van couldn't keep up with him. I open the side door and hop outside placing the body on the ground I cut him open to see exactly how he died. His nerves and veins were just gone and organs were all burnt to a crisp. What is this? It burns all of the inside but leaves nearly no marks on the outside of the body.

"Hey Jasmine. I can't think of a single way to cure this its way too unnatural. What the masked child said was true." I say

"What do you mean there is no cure? You said you were going-" Jasmine said then her voice trailed off "Oh shit. There's no way to cure something that just deletes veins and nerves; this is bullshit!"

"If we can't cure this and he started it let's just go kill him." I say with a half confident look as the voice is agreeing and sounds very happy