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Nightshift 43: Chapel

Sep 05, 2009 13:49

[ from here ]If it wasn't for the fact that this night was growing gradually more absurd by the minute, Rolo would have been mildly surprised to find that the room he just entered looked like a chapel or church of some sort. He also should have been surprised to find what sounded like a fountain all the way in the front of the room, situated where ( Read more... )

utena, teresa, leonard, rolo, the flash

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roseoverture September 13 2009, 08:33:33 UTC

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She looked over her shoulder "Why, are you seeing something else?" she asked before turning forward to get an overview of what the room looked like. Everything seemed the same as it was during the day, save for one obvious addition - a very strange statue of a monster sitting just behind the altar. She couldn't quite see all of it quite yet in the dark, but she could hear some kind of flowing liquid coming from the statue's direction as well.

otnemememento September 13 2009, 18:39:24 UTC

"My wife," he answered dryly as he stepped through the doorway. "I often see her when I close my eyes. This place is making her appear before me when they're open." I know she's not real, but it's hard not to trust what I see before me. It's hard to know the truth. At least her death is something I know. Something burned into my mind.

He moved his flashlight across the pews, feeling out the room. "Seems like a strange place for a church," he remarked. And what is that noise? "Is there a fountain in here?"

roseoverture September 14 2009, 00:34:32 UTC

"Really? You're seeing people now?" That worried Utena even more than the moaning and the intercom problems. This was dipping back into the thing that had made her so angry earlier - playing on the emotions of patients by throwing twisted versions of their loved ones in front of them.

She made a frustrated sound as they moved forward, thinking of Landel (or whoever) all snug and secure up on the third floor, laughing at them. "It's just a trick. He just wants to get to you," Utena told Leonard very firmly as they moved forward. She swept her flashlight beam across the pews, looking for anything that might be in hiding.

As they got closer to the statue, the subtance pouring out of the fountain became easy to identify. "Blood . . ." Utena bristled visibly as her light crept over the liquid spewing from the statue's mouth, turning it from shadow dark to crimson. "I wasn't here this morning, but I'm willing to bet this thing wasn't here before."

otnemememento September 14 2009, 02:42:28 UTC

Leonard's light hit the statue and the blood pouring from its mouth. "Shit, is that blood?" he asked, taking a closer look. He felt a chill run down his spine. This is fucked up. What the fuck kind of-

His thoughts were interrupted as an immense sound rang through the building, accompanied by the whole room shaking. "What the fuck is that?" Leonard asked loudly, knowing what it sounded like. "An explosion? What the fuck is going on here?"

roseoverture September 14 2009, 04:45:12 UTC

Utena tensed and instinctively dropped into a ready stance, one arm up in front of Leonard and ready to cover him in case anything fell in or came flying at them. "Whatever it was, it sounded like it came from above!"

Another series of short shockwaves followed the first. Not seeing anything else that looked safer to take shelter under, Utena lead Leonard to a row of pews. "Get down and stay down until this stops!" she told him, letting him go in first. She didn't have long to stay on her own feet after that, however. The final shockwave dwarfed all the ones before it, rocking the room and sending Utena falling to the ground between the pews. She could hear windows cracking around them, but thankfully, the walls and ceiling remained intact.

otnemememento September 14 2009, 18:50:28 UTC

Leonard gathered himself from the floor between the pews after the shockwaves had ended, brushing pieces of glass and plaster from his hair. He could tell from the dim light of his flashlight that the majority of the windows had shattered- the ones that remained intact were missing pieces of glass. The ceiling, while it had held, was marred with cracks from the explosions.

What the hell was that? Is this place under some sort of an attack? He moved his flashlight along the center aisle, then to the fountain in the front of the room. A crack in the side allowed blood to trickle from the pool onto the floor. What the fuck kind of a place is this? Some sort of Satanic church? A better question would be what I am doing here.

"You okay?" he asked, shining a light down to the girl and offering her a hand. "What the hell just happened?"

roseoverture September 15 2009, 17:12:53 UTC

Utena brushed herself off when the movement ceased, taking Leonard's hand and rising to her feet, thankfully with ease. "I don't know. Nothing like that's ever happened before," she answered, on edge and ready for something else to happen ( ... )

otnemememento September 17 2009, 20:45:37 UTC

"Looks like something straight out of a horror film," he said. He made his way out of the pew and toward the fountain, stepping over shards of glass that blocked the flowing liquid from the fountain from spreading across the floor. The blood found its away around the pieces, painting the ground a dark red.

Leonard looked into the fountain, shining his flashlight carefully. He stepped backward quickly, running a hand through his hair and shaking his head. "This is messed up! Fuck, where is it all coming from? What is this, demon worship or something?"

The intercom hissed, its sounds more disturbing than before. He could hear the muffled sounds of his wife in the bathroom, her cries held back by a man attacking her. He spun wildly, looking for the speaker on the walls- the sound was unmistakable.

roseoverture September 19 2009, 06:43:56 UTC

This time, only Leonard heard a change in the intercom; Utena continued to hear disturbing noises, but they were the same disturbing noises as before. She wasn't ready when the man suddenly spun around with eyes darting wildly for something that wasn't there. "You see something again? Where is it?" she asked, raising up her poker and watching the shadows for any sudden movements.

[Sorry, I think we'll have to finish this up quickly. You probably noticed, but I haven't really been all here consistently with my characters as of late, so it's probably best to avoid backthreading for long if possible. :( ]

otnemememento September 19 2009, 07:35:57 UTC

[No worries! :D Leonard is about to have a total meltdown as it is.]

"Don't you hear that?" he asked incredulously, still looking for the source of the sound. Leonard's grip tightened on his makeshift weapon as he looked around, the intercom screeching louder. He could her her last breaths as clear as if she were on the other side. Fuck! Is it a recording? How the fuck could they have a fucking tape of that?

His hand went to the side of his head, the side where he'd been injured that night. It hurt just as badly as if he'd been rammed into the mirror again. He could feel the blood trickling between his fingers, his vision dazed for a moment as he stumbled. He moved his hand into the light of his flashlight- I'm... not bleeding? What the fuck is this?The sounds continued- he could hear himself fighting with one of the intruders, his wife still trying to breath as she struggled from under the plastic shower curtain. The recording got louder as he heard the sound of shattering glass through the speaker ( ... )

roseoverture September 19 2009, 16:33:08 UTC

"Leonard, it's got to be another trick! I don't hear anything!" Utena tried to tell the man, grabbing for his shoulder and trying her best to block out the sounds of scraping metal and ghostly screams so that she could focus on helping her companion. She hoped that a firm grab and shake would snap the man out of whatever vision he was having. If not, she was going to drag him out of the Chapel by force.

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