⸸Patient Kim⸸

⸸ 24 ⸸

The following day, a nurse alarmed everyone by screaming. She was startled when a hand touched her leg. A hand that had been chopped off previously, by the masked shadow, was still active.

She kicked it to the side, and a patient growled at her, while gobbling down the hand with his bare teeth, using his mouth to grab the severed limb from the floor, to feast on it.

The patient was barely human. He was another experiment, getting ready to be tested on by the scientists. But not now, however. They were saving this dominant entity for a very specific day.

A day in which they would have all three of their patients gathered up together.

"Speak low, we wouldn't want him to find out." A nurse named Park Hyeon whispered as a tall, male doctor approached her.

"He's only worked here for two days, he won't know where we are or even think where to find us. Did you bring experiment 41?" Hyeon nodded, as the doctor and her reeled in the patient, who's muffled screams could be heard throughout the entire lab, but not from the outside of the hospital, since they were all distanced from the normal-looking side of the mental hospital.

"Hurry, place Patient Jung on here." Hyeon hissed as Hoseok parted his lips and bit her arm.

"You worthless scumbag! Keep your mouth shut, you filthy animal." Hoseok pushed his head back, feeling the veins in his neck pop up from the amount of pressure he used to restrain himself from the doctor. But once the doctor strapped him down, Hoseok was confined to the blood-stained hospital bed, and was forced to keep still.

"Wh-what do you want from me now!" Hoseok questioned, beyond frightened to see the evil look within the agitated doctor's face. His long, pale fingers traced his fragile body with a needle.

"Bring him out." Hyeon did as the male doctor said, and unlocked a large metal door, pulling a patient out, forcefully by a large metal brace he had strapped to his neck. It dug so deep into his flesh, that it was causing him to bleed, every which way he would turn to.

Seokjin perched his head over at the patient, and the smell of blood suddenly tempted him. He sprung up, and ran away from the nurse who thought he had handcuffs on.

She, along with the doctor who was beside her, were fooled by the smart vampire as he used his sharp claws to break himself free from the handcuffs.

Once freed, Seokjin hissed loudly at the woman, peeling the flesh off of her legs, to suck her blood, as she screamed out in agony.

The vampire was so immersed in the way her blood tasted, he was unaware that Patient Jung was beginning to escape. And because all eyes were on him, the workers didn't have time to grab Hoseok when he broke free from the bed and started laughing like a maniac.

"Might I know what's so funny, Patient Jung?" Seokjin spoke, pushing the nurse aside, as she escaped the room with the doctor, requesting backup.

Hoseok's long, light brown hair covered his eyes as he held his stomach, continuing to cackle until he was able to catch his breath, staring at Seokjin.

"Well, if it isn't the famous Kim Seokjin. You're good at masking your devious plans, mister." The patient spoke, as he cracked his neck, loudly. Seokjin noticed a bone was now sticking out of Hoseok's collarbone.

"Oh, dear me... I must have been too rough. This room has pretty colors! Look at how that wall moves. Do you see the dolphins on them?" Seokjin looked up, and saw nothing, but the paint chips the mental patients usually eat off of the moldy walls.

"You must be hallucinating too, are you not?" He grinned, staring down at his hands. When Hoseok saw the scars on Seokjin's neck, he grew curious.

"What happened to your neck, Patient Kim?" The man asked, staring at the long, reddish lines trailing the Vampire's neck. From the moment he pointed at the scars, and Seokjin grew conscious of their existence, they suddenly disappeared.

"These were old memories that often return to me in the form of dreadful looking scars." He coldly responded, as each scar faded away, vanishing completely without a trace.

"A man who could eliminate his own scars. How marvelous. I wish I could do that with mine..." He exposed his torso to Patient Kim, showing him a row of dashed lines that were permanently engraved on his flesh.

"My ability to erase scars doesn't mean that the memories from how they were made on my body will disappear along with them. On the contrary, Patient Jung... I remember everything. I remember how he slit my body with their cold scalpel.

I remember the way his eyes stared down at me, changing from the large, round pitch black orbs that I once met... To a poisonous, dark red color, that I looked into as he dragged his white, severely chapped lips, onto my shoulder, piercing his fangs deeply inside of my neck, until I stopped screaming.

I stopped breathing, right then and there. As my last breath escaped my parted lips, I woke up in another room, in pitch black darkness unable to see anything.

Soon, as they days went by, I developed a strong headache that caused my veins to burst."

Patient Jung gasped, unable to comprehend what Patient Kim was telling him. The man just couldn't believe that this had happened to him.

"I thought that these things only happened in horror movies! What... What exactly is Patient Kim..." He furrowed his eyebrows, showing further interest in Seokjin's story.

"Then one night... I was no longer blinded by the darkness. I could see, and the entities I saw within that room, were like no others. There were demons surrounding me, all around, but no one believed me. They all thought I was lying... Until I myself became one of those demons." Hoseok moved back, as Seokjin walked closer to him.

His gaze suddenly changed. He wasn't himself anymore.

"W....What do you mean... "One of those demons", Patient Kim?"

~No response~

"Patient Kim, are you listening? Patient Kim?" Hoseok shut his eyes, as Seokjin's body started to change. He fell to the floor on his knees, and his shirt was torn up by something that had grown behind his back.

"H-h-HORNS!?" Patient Jung screamed loudly, and the dark entity from within Seokjin elevated him up in the air, by holding onto his waist.

"WHO ARE YOU!! WHAT ARE YOU!?" Patient Jung tried escaping him, and the dark, mysterious entity suddenly ripped his shirt off, leaning into his ear.

A strong odor of sulfur and blood escaped his mouth, as he gripped onto Hoseok's body, widening the gap in his mouth to expose his teeth.

And before Hoseok could say anything, the last voice to echo the within the heavy atmospheric room, was he who had now entered Seokjin's body, possessing him.

"Ego inferias Orphei..."

"I am Orpheus." Hoseok's head was tilted back, and the last thing he remembered was a sharp pain flowing through his neck was bitten by Orpheus.

Ultimately turning the once innocent man, into a blood-sucking vampire.

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