Madness: Shadows Tales

Moon's hospital pt4

15.  (5yrs when cherri first died)
Cherri decided to not let death define her. Not death or the pain of watching people die with no one on their side to soothe their woes of pain.
   She couldnt bare seeing people suffer. It brought her pain. She knew she couldnt do anything for anyone. if all she could do was stop and stare at them or talk to the occasional at deaths door victim.
  So cherri thought lets see if we can learn some new skills. She did just that moving small items like pencils and things. At first it only shook a little but as the years past she could move things flawlessly. Grabbing extra snacks for kids. Moving clipboards.
One time cherri entered another person's body and possessed it. The body belonged to Mary her daughter. She fell out after a minute with a hazy hangover. She didnt need a movie to tell her she could do this.
   Cherri had seen a couple memories of Mary's. One of them was when they had been sitting on the porch swinging on the hammock and playing hopsctotch. the other was when mary had gotten a concussion. She had tried to hop over the back fence. Mind you it was only 6ft in the air but it had thick woods with a concrete bottom. Mary fell head first as she slipped right over it trying to impress her little sister landing right on that concrete. Cherri went ballastic as she thought her daughter was dead. The girl was only 9. You know how moms get.
   Thats when cherri said," thats not right to enter something that doesn't belong to you.
   The first time tho cherri shot the white lightning out of her aura. it had come out looking like a star, very bright. then it fizzled out like a sparkler. It had been the first time she'd met carl.
    She had met mischievous people through her years dead or alive but carl had taken the cake before sidney. Carl was being carl stealing what didnt belong to him moving medications and changing the clipboard for a man who had come to get a kidney transplant into a prostate exam.
Carl frustrated Cherri so much she just shot it out without thinking. Carl tucked tail and ran.
Cherri would practice her new found star power. learning to do it without tempting her emotioms. She too proved to do this flawlessly. As she was a hardworking woman. Who could do anything she set her mind to. No matter how hard the chore.
  When she met Damon it was two years after her death. He had been standing over his body. Half out of his mind screaming "why" believing he wasnt dead. Cherri comforted him telling him he's ok he's just dead.
  Cherri had become deaths guide. a partner to soothe you into the next life. for the people who where bewildered not understanding what had befallen them. At St. Anthony's that was a neverending quest with no glory.
  As Angela was a different story being young and in the prime of her life. It took her awhille to accept this fact but she came around. She met Angela three years after she died.
  15b (present)
  Cherri had split up the gang sending each in a different direction to find addie.
  Angela went to the third foor. Damon went to the second and cherri would take the basement. They'd each meet back on the first.
  15c
   The second floor was for terminally ill and or cancer patients. It was also used for surgeries, radation, chemo and held the office's of cherri's dear sweetie marty and the other doctors.
   With a lounge where the nurses and doctors would break for a couple of minutes or take a rest after a long shift.
   Damon went up in search of addie. He checked most of the floor as it was quite. Then he came to the room of an old woman dying of breast cancer. She was 66 and her name was Trina hayworth. A slender blonde lady.  He seen sidney talking to her by himself as the smokey creature wasnt with him.
Sidney was hunched over with his hat in hand, pressed to his chest telling the lady," its ok sweet thing your going to a better place. Your soul is gone and soon your body will join it"
He touched the lady and she withered away. Skin and bones she was gone. No ghost! no life after death. Gone.
  Sidney stood up and turned to damon flashing a wink with a knod of contempt for this job was done. The woman now belonged in him.
  Sidney spoke to damon in a dangerously strong low voice," you cant stop us. You and your army. You're not the musketeers. You belong to me now. Chin up. You serve a greater purpose too. I want you to deliver a message for me. Tell your lil cherry bomb you are all going to a place of blackness where nothing exists but dont worry your souls will be free. Free to me"
  Damon spoke in a might god fearing voice," you cant stop us. You might be able to see us. Talk to us but we wont let you get away with this. If god shows mercy then he also shows vengenance through us and we wont stop. ever! till you leave this place you vile wretched creature. We'll show you."
  Sidney seemed to be delighted as he spoke in a vile shallow gleaming strong wickedness," you flatter me. Salt and vingar in you i see. I like that. The spice makes it taste better when i eat you up! My friend ill let you stew a little longer. Ill savor you."
  Sidney laughed till he grabbed his stomach speaking with livelihood in him," its been years. since i laughed this hard. For that you can have a present. for i dont see you opening it in time. Your girls down in the cellars with the wicked. You better hurry before they do. You know how they get restless by the minute. Batter up young buck. I dare you to hit a homerun."
  15d
     Angela was on the third floor. it wasnt that big. It held the storage rooms. Where all the supplies were. People would sneak up there for the roof access and it was pretty quite. Espicially at night.
  The staff would sneak a cigarette or two. gossiping about eachother or just life in general. A couple nurses and doctors would do a little hanky panky in good fun but for the most part it was just a place to clear the mind from a hard day of saving lifes or watching them croke.
  Angela had checked most of the place when she heard a noise. She walked through the boxes and metal stands that held everything.
  The room was dark. There was a dim light in the middle of it.  The light lit up the brown floor with walls that where pained an unsavory white fading to a blackish yellow mold. as it wasnt cleaned or used much. Kept up at all really. 
  Angela hid behind a metal stand with boxes full of needles. As she watched the smokey creature that usually followed sidney but was now alone. tainting the equipment with black smoke.
  The thing would stare at whatever device it was trying to corrupt. It would open what looked like its mouth. spitting a dark foggy smoke into every inch of it.
  Then it would float to the next thing  doing the same.
  Angela gasped at this. She hated this thing and sidney. They ruined the hospital turning it into a cemetary and not a place where people could be treated. Where hope should live but didn't. her emotions got the best of her. She didnt like what it was doing. It showed as the light above her burst.
  The room became dark but the two ghosts, one a foggy greyish white and the other an evil dark foggy spirit didnt need a light to see.
The evil dark fog found her as it  floated infront of her. She could see it's eyes. They where darker than the room itself.
  It breathed in. sucking Angela's essence into it.
  Angela screamed. The room rumbled as the needles flew across the room. She continued to struggle sending her own lightning out.
   It struck the thing but she wasn't strong enough. She yelled "help me!! please! cherri! someone help me". No one heard her. The evil spirit over powered her. consuming her. Right inside it. Inhaled and derailed right to the last gulp. Angela was gone. Into the darkness.
15e
Cherri was on her way to the basement.  she was strolling through the couttyard. When she saw the light shine through the windows from above. Brighter than anything she'd ever seen. Below those lights in the garden of flowers stood a ghostly man bright as can be. with a white robe that shined just as bright.
  The man was bald and short. He called Cherri through her mind saying," come here dear we need to have a chat."
Cherri was mesmerized as he put her into a blur. She followed without hesitation.
  She asked the man," who are you? Ive never seen you before.,
  The man answered with a joy to him," my dear! im St. Anthony
i dont get out much anymore but when i seen the man with the beast. I decided it was time to get out of retirement.. I fear i waited to long but i have trust in you. Ive been watching you over the years. You dont dissapoint."
Cherri was a little confused but proceeded to answer as she had questions of her own " well if you've been watching this place for so long and me. Why havent you stepped in to help or hell why havent you done anything for all these people that keep dying?"
St anthony solemly spoke with a calmness," there are no time for questions, at this moment. That little girl will be taken over. This place will fall. if you dont stop this but i can help you. Just give me your hand."
  St. Anthony touched cherri's heart. While holding her hand. She felt a pulse with a blurry shock wave burst throughout her body. A sensation took her. Cherri's essence glowed pure and bright for a moment then it was gone.
Cherri was dazed. She had looked down for a moment when she regained her strength but St. Anthony was gone. She heard his voice in the distance echoing through her," you gotta go now. Its your only shot. To the cellar where they contain those who are evil. You know the place. Run!"
16
  Cherri made her way to the basement. Where the morgue and psych ward were.
  She saw carl standing infront of the door looking like a gaurd dog. She told him," im not gonna ask you twice. So do as i say now and move Carl. I know your not a horrible man a trickster yes but not down right ugly. So move."
Carl showed a frightful smile. as he twirled his fingers about interlocking them around his head saying," what you gonna do? Make me! Huh bitch!"
  Cherri feeling invigorated rejuvenated with a new passion in her said strongly," you bet your ass carl. Ill take you to the cleaners"
  Carl laughed while saying sternly," you dont have it in you bitch. Let me show you a real man."
Carl proceeded to move forward breathing in deep to take cherri inside him. To take her essence.
  Cherri stood firm thinking of her dear addie. She felt her body erupt a lighting strike. It shot out faster than  ever. Striking carl right in his face. He exploded into a shimmer that poofed away. His grey ghastly ghostness was gone.  Vanished into thin air.
16b
While cherri and her gang where doing there thing. Checking the floors for addie. Addie had been stuck behind the closed doors of the psych ward.
  She pounded on the doors screaming for dere life," let me out! plz! Oh please. I dont want to be here." She repeatively said this but no one answered her call.
  She was petrified as a little child looking under the covers for the boogeyman. Or looking to the closet fearful of a monster being there. She was scared out of her mind.
  She heard a voice from behind her a petrifying low but loud thunderous voice saying," its you and us child. Dont fear us. We are friends. We are here to help guide you. So why dont you come on over pop a squat and we can talk."
Addie trusted her insticts that read run as fast and as far as you can go but she had nowhere to run.
The evil spirits had her teapped in a half circle infront of the doors to her freedom.
She took off passing right through the spirits. She ran down the hall. Going to each room around her. Trying to open each and every one of them. They were all locked. All but one. she tried to jar them open but was left in the dust.
  The spirits followed in pursuit of their morsel. Addie came to the last room at the end of the deserted hall. It opened. She jumped in slamming the door behind her. Thinking she was safe.
  The spirits walked right though the door. The most evil was standing infront. It had the darkest most petrifying glow of them all.
   They all smelled of rotten eggs. The leader spoke to her in the same tone as before," let me introduce myself i am the hangman. The pleasure is all mine. As you know young lady. Today on the menu is you. Your gonna help us! help you! Capeesh!
  Addies terrified as she spoke shaking and trembling," no thanks sir. I just want to go back to my room. Ok! please let me go back."
  The hangman laughed saying," ole Reamus doesn't let anyone escape his grasp without a purpose. Young lady! Neither will you. Now be a good girl and come sit on daddy's lap. He's got a magic trick to show you. Then you can show us to the world.. How does that sound"
  Addie screamed speaking in a squeaky trembling voice," no i won't. Your bad and i dont help bad people. You're gonna have to kill me cause ill never help you. Ever!!!."
Reamus looked at her laughing saying," well dear that can be arranged but you'll be dead and we'll be free with your body."
  Then a bright light struck Reamus.