Room 117

Chapter 3 The Shadows Ward

I felt strong vertigo as my eyes filled with tears and despair. I couldn't move and I was bound by something and at the same time, nothing, and I was grasped by darkness. I was falling into a dark abyss and the more I fell the tighter and darker it got. It felt like I was falling forever like it was never-ending that is until I heard a door close and light-flooded me dry and pain-filled my eyes To my horror I found myself looking at a darkroom in the hospital but I couldn't move my legs nor my arms I couldn't even move my head to look around. The worst part was that I didn't feel like myself I felt like a completely different person I then started to move my head and I then saw the figure come out from the shadows and something about this seemed very familiar like as if I was living Deja vu.The figure then spoke and his voice was very scratchy and eerie almost like his throat was filled with burnt charcoal the weird part is he called me Emily and I then realized that I was trapped inside Emily's body. I tried to scream for help but no words came out I was then looking at the figure and he was telling Emily that she is very particular and special in her own way and then she said that he scared her and he then got very close to her face and he had no pupils and his eyes were completely black and vacant and he then winked at me like he knew I was looking back at him I then saw his mouth open and he quickly charged at me swallowing me whole. I then came to a state of terror. I was sweating and I was in a nightgown and tights and I was in Emily's room except I was actually here on her bed. I then realized that this is real and I then got up from her bed and stumbled out towards the hallway. Only a little bit of light was showing from the moonlight from outside it shed out onto the outer hallways. I then tried calling out for help but all I heard was my own voice echoing throughout the building. I walked out into the hallway and I walked over to a window that was next to an elevator. It was too dark to see anything like the streets and the buildings. It almost looked like it was just dark in an empty space with nothing around. I looked around the hallway and all I could remember was seeing that figure standing behind me in my bathroom. I then thought to myself this must be a dream but at the same time it feels so real. I took a deep breath and told myself I needed to wake up. I tried pinching myself /smacking my head against the wall but nothing was working. I then heard a loud bang coming from somewhere within the building, kinda like a door was either being opened or slammed closed. I listened closely and again I heard it and It sounded like it was coming from downstairs on the first floor along with a series of chains being dragged along the floor sending shivers down my spine. I then went and started to follow the noise the closer I got to where the noise was coming from the louder the noise grew. I finally reached the 1st floor and the sound came from the back of the hospital. I followed it until I came to a door that said basement I could hear the chains coming from behind the door. Here's what's weird is I've worked at this hospital for 9 years and I don't remember this door ever being here. I could hear moaning and screaming coming from the other side of the door. I opened the heavy steel door. I walked down the stairs a little bit and the walls were all covered in this black and purple goo like substance. I saw this black casing with this purple vapor around it. I then walked over to the casing and I was scared to touch it but I kept hearing muffled cries and screams coming from inside the casing. The casing was in the shape of a body the casing was covered in a black gooey tar-like substance I then grabbed both sides of the casing and then ripped open the casing the smokey purple like vapor covering the floor around the casing then rose up blinding me for only a second to reveal a glimpse of Emily's face or that's at least what I thought I saw. All of a sudden I was grabbed by the collar on my gown and before I was able to see if it was Emily or not I was dragged away and pulled underneath the gooey surface and before I got to see who was inside the casing the goo reformed itself leaving me to wonder who was inside that casing.