Chapter Twenty-One
Voices In The Dark
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Teri slammed into the floor after jumping from the edge of the other floor. She
rolled over and lay on her back for a second before slowly standing up. The
room she was in was totally dark and silence surrounded her.
“Brian?” she called out.
There was no answer. She was alone again. “I thought I already played my part
of the “Game”,” she yelled out, “what more do you want from me?!”
A weird noise started to come from within the room and Teri froze. The noise
began to build and she realized they were voices. She strained to hear what they
were saying. The voices kept growing and finally Teri could hear them.
“We want death! We want you to die! We need you to lose!” the voices kept
chanting. They seemed to be kept louder and Teri thought that the people were
standing right next to her. All of a sudden the lights flashed on in the room and
the voices stopped. It became deathly quiet in the room.
Teri stared around the room. It was a totally blank room. Nothing was in it. Just
concrete walls and a concrete floor. Teri heard a rattling noise behind her and
spun around. A metal chain hanging from the ceiling with a loop at the end of it
was swinging back and forth. Blood covered the loop end of it, like someone had
just been hung from it. The blood was dripping on the floor, forming a small
pool.
Teri almost screamed when she saw what was on the wall though. Written in
blood that was slowly streaking down the wall were the words, ‘We want death.
We want you to die. We need you to lose.’ The same exact words that the voices
had been chanting before.
Teri gasped and saw a door to her left. She ran towards it and swung it open,
running out of the room. Laughter echoed out after her.
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Brian ended up falling into another hallway that was lit with very few candles. He
could barely see his way around and the shadows cast from the candles only
made him jumpy. He was slowly walking down the hall, hoping he’d find a way
out of there soon. Brian was wondering where Teri was too because she was no
where around.
Brian went walking past one of the doors in the hall when he heard a whispering
noise behind it. He stopped short and slowly walked towards the door, unsure.
“Should I open it?” he thought.
He pulled the door open with a slight creak and looked in the room. He saw
nothing at first but then he noticed something that made him sick. Hanging from
the wall by a metal chain was a man with blood dripping from his neck. His
hands and feet were tied together with more metal chains and his wrists and
ankles were red and blistered. The man looked like he had been severely beaten
before he was hung. Bruises and cuts covered his whole body. What Brian didn’t
know was that Teri had seen the same thing only, there was no man hanging
from the metal chain.
Brian backed up from the room. “What is with this place? Why are there so many
dead people lying around here?” he thought, “Did they all die because of this
game?”
Brian started to turn around away from the room when the few candles in the
hall flickered and went out, leaving Brian in total darkness. He held his breath,
waiting in absolute terror for anything to happen.
That’s when he heard it, a noise coming from within the room. The same exact
noise Teri had heard. The noise kept growing and then he heard the voices
saying, “Death....death....we need death. Now....lose....die....we need death.”
Brian stumbled back from the room and smacked into the opposite wall. He
stared in the direction of the room, the voices still chanting, seeming to be
coming closer. He heard a rattling noise and then it all fell silent. Brian waited in
the dark, willing the lights to flash back on. Then he heard a noise in front of
him, like metal chains. Then a candle flicked on behind him and he stared wide
eyed into the room.
The man was gone and only the chain still hung there, swaying back and forth.
Brian looked down at his feet and saw bloody footprints leading out of the room
and down the hall to his right. That’s when he heard the sound of chains further
down the hall.
“I’m out of here,” he said under his breath. With that he took off running down
the hall in the opposite direction. He was done with playing his part of “The
Game.”
Chapter Twenty-Two - Midnight
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