Town Darkness

Chapter Five

Lights flickered in the dusty room. In the center sat a single chair pushed underneath a table. Along the left wall was a one way mirror. "An interrogation room." Jack said, walking into the room. Rust colored stains were splattered across the floor as multiple scratch marks adorned the walls.

"What kind of twisted interrogating were they doing?" The door slammed shut after they entered the room, causing them to jump. Ethan tried turning the knob, but they were locked in. "Fuck!" He hissed under his breath.

A loudspeaker into the room switched on, emitting a loud static whine before the click of a cassette player echoed in the room. A male's recorded voice came from the loud speaker. "Son, please state your name for the record."

A long pause, then a high pitched static sounded, causing the group to cover their ears. "God fucking damn!" Felix hissed before the recording continued. "How did you get here? Where did you come from? Where's your parents?" Another silent pause, then the sounds of a little boy crying.

Ethan became nervous, this interrogation seemed very familiar to him. The others kept trying to open the door, with no success. The little boy finally spoke, and Ethan knew why this interrogation was familiar. It was his interrogation, after he had finally escaped. His voice was faint, uneasy. "I... I don't know. I can't remember... anything."

The others seemed to remain clueless on what this was about. "What the fuck is going on, let us out!" Jack shouted as he banged on the one way mirror. The recording stopped and the sound of something metallic skidded across the floor from under the door, causing them to turn and look. Felix picked up the worn down looking key, it had the number 219 etched onto it.

The light began to flicker more ominously, causing them to back away to the door, trying to open it and banging on it for one of the others to help. "Someone let us out now! Mark, Nate, Mat, anyone!"

The light shut off instantly, leaving the room pitch black, the only sound was their panicked breathing and pounding on the door. The light flashed on again, revealing the monstrosity that stood across from them on the other side of the room.

Its mangled, armless body dripped with black acidic liquid. The only facial feature it contained was a gaping black orifice where a mouth would be. A strangled, gurgling screech erupted from it, the others screaming in terror. "Fuck! We need to go!"

It began to shamble towards them, a gurgling, retching sound coming from its throat. Felix turned the knob again, the door swinging open from their weight against it. They fell on top of each other, and scrambled their way back up, running out of the hall in a panicked daze, the creature slowly lurking behind.

Mark's group had finally found the armory and grabbed the supplies they could get to. Their supplies consisted of; two standard issue pistols, a hunting rifle, a steel baton and four clip on flashlights. "Well, I guess we found some pretty decent stuff." Nate muttered, grabbing one of the flashlights.

Mat picked up the medical kit that had fallen on the floor, he looked through the contents, making sure the essentials were there. "This might come in handy." He looked up at them, shrugging slightly. "You know... just in case."

Banging and muffled screamed sounded through the station, causing Mark, Nate, and Mat to bolt out of the room to the main part of the station, meeting up with the currently horrified other group. "What's going-" Another horrifying screech came from the demonic monster as it shambled towards the group.

"Someone shoot it!" Felix shouted, as Mark fumbled with one of the pistols. It retched, spewing black liquid from its facial orifice. Ethan being in front of the rest, proved to be unlucky. What happened seemed to play in slow motion.

Ethan lifted his right arm in front of his face, blocking the liquid from hitting it. As the liquid hit his arm, he screamed in pain, dropping to his knees. As he fell, a gunshot echoed in the air, black acid splattering the wall behind the wretched creature. A pained screech erupted from it that faded to silence in Ethan ears. For a split moment, he envisioned it being torn in half, then it began.

The world became still, the only thing moving was him and the thing before him. His breathing became steadier as the creature let out a blood curdling cry as the head started splitting apart. Black liquid gushed onto the wooden floor in wet sticky globs as the wet, crackling of bones were heard as the monster was torn completely in half.

Jack repeated Ethan's name while shaking him back to reality. He watched in horror as the monstrosity was split in half by an invisible force. After its body stopped twitching, Ethan seemed to snap back into reality.

He looked up at Jack, breathing heavily, and Jack could've sworn, his friend's eyes seemed to glow a dangerous blue color. Just as soon as he saw it, the color faded back to their normal color, then was replaced by an expression of pain.