Nightmare Apocalypse

The Eyeless Reaper

Roarrr

The spider roared in anger and pain as it struggled to fend off the flames which scorched its skin and continued to inflict burn on its body until it shot out a spray of it's gooish liquid onto the ground which created a large hole which it escaped from.

"Whew that was so close" I said with ragged breathes as l remembered how close I was to getting killed again while barely escaping with my life.

"Hey you okay?" Rash said as he walked up to me while staring at the hole in the ground.

"Yeah thanks for saving my life" I said with gratitude as he helped me up.

"It's nothing, we're even now, but why do you look like that?" Rash asked as he stared at my frown.

"I don't know if it's just the adrenaline but the human part of the spider looked familiar, it's probably nothing though" I said with a shrug as I brushed it off.

"Okay so now what? " Rash asked which made me think, I hadn't really thought of the it but now i needed to, it seemed that the top priority was to get out of this hospital.

"Well the main aim is to get out of this hospital but to do that we need more

survivors to fight off the threats, right now my clip is almost empty, if we encounter that spider again which will definitely happen, I don't know what will happen then" I shared my thoughts with Rash who nodded.

"If we want to find more survivors, that would be too hard so instead we should call them to us instead" Rash said with a smile as he thought of something.

"This is the map of the hospital, I tore it off the wall on my way here, so we need to get to the control room to broadcast this message so here's my idea, this hospital has 5 floors and we are on the top floor but the control room is on the 4th floor so we need to get to there first but I don't know which path is safer" Rash said as he took out a map of the hospital.

"I think I do, the path that I used to get here was relatively safe, all the zombies were killed by something, i don't know what but since it killed the zombies it must hate them, when I was coming here, I didn't meet anything so that way should be safer, I think I saw some stairs over here, so if we take the stairs it should bring us straight to the ER section, from there we take a left at this corner and go on straight to the control room, when we get there we can think of our next actions I said after remembering the path I took, that was the viable option at this moment because using the way before us would be no doubt risky since we won't know what to expect but using my suggested route at least we would have around 60% assurance.

"Okay that's a good idea but we don't have any weapons, what do we do when we encounter a zombie or worse" Rash said as he took out his clip and counted 2 remaining bullets.

"I think this should take care of the situation since we're out of ammunition" | smiled as I turned behind me and broke the glass containing the fire axe with the butt of my gun and then took out the axe, I swung it around a couple of times to get a feel of it.

"Okay you have one so what about me?" Rash asked as he raised his eyebrows.

"Oh you can just stay behind me while I teach you how to use a weapon" I replied as I placed the gun on my waist.

"I'm not a coward, why don't I take the axe since I can't use a gun" Rash said with a frown.

"No let's go" I said with a grin then took the lead.

You fucking..urrrg" Rash tried to think of something bad but nothing came.

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Several minutes later Rash and I appeared at the hallway where I started from, along the way, Rash had puked several times after seeing the bodies littered along the hallway.

"This is where I started from so the stairs should just be right after this door, follow behind me silently" I said as I checked and confirmed from the map as l grabbed the axe and creeped towards the door slowly with Rash behind me, I grabbed the door knob and turned it slowly to avoid making noise and pushed the door but the door didn't open.

"Hey what are you waiting for, open the door" Rash whispered behind me as tried to open it again.

"I'm trying to but it clearly isn't working" I replied sarcastically as I tried again and again.

"Can't you open a freaking door, is it locked?" Rash asked as he also tried to but to avail.

"It's not but I think something is blocking it from behind, help me push it" I said with a grunt as we pushed the door, luckily this kinda worked because it opened up slightly enough for us to squeeze through.

"Okay now let's see what's behind it...urrrgg" I turned to see what was blocking it but when I did l immediately puked as I saw the pile of disfigured corpses lying behind the door, the corpses looked like they were torn apart inside out, because the skin was peeled off the bodies revealing the flesh underneath.

"Oh my God, what kind of sick...urrrg, screwed in the head, psychopathic piece of shit did this...urrrg" Rash said as he puked inbetween talking, this was just too disgusting.

"I'm starting to think this path was a bad idea, maybe we should." Rash was talking when I suddenly placed my hand around his mouth and dragged him to the wall in order to hide in the cover of the darkness.

CLANG

Immediately I did, we caught sight of a figure walking up the stairs dragging an axe that was stained with blood, there were even two shades of blood, one darker than the other indicating both human and zombies blood.

The figure walked up the stairs and bent over to where the bodies were piled and pulled one out and we watched as he raised the axe into the air and slammed it into the body, separating the head from the body.

After beheading the corpse, he then picked up the head and raised it up to his face as several tentacles emerged from his mouth and grabbed the head, then pulled it into his mouth which suddenly opened wide.

Seeing this Rash started trembling, I immediately squeezed his arm which caused him to almost scream out but luckily I managed to block it before it escaped, at this time the figure was already done and as he turned to leave after picking up the axe, I saw it's face which was highlighted by the moonlight and my pupils shrunk in fear, it had no eyes in its sockets, it's nose resembled that of an ape and its mouth had tentacles swimming inside.

I managed to hold back my fear as I watched it descend the stairs, I waited for a few more minutes in case it came back before releasing Rash who puked violently as I walked over to the dark stairs and sank into deep thought as I remembered words that started the apocalypse, it said something like 'creatures from your greatest nightmares'

"Okay what the fuck was that?, what kind of fucked up psycho would create something like that" Rash said with heavy breath while wiping off the sweat off his forehead.

"Me..." I replied as several buried memories swirled in my mind.

"What?..what you talking about?" Rash asked with confusion.

"I think that thing was created by me..." I answered with a pause as I took a seat with my back against the wall.

"Okay could you explain yourself" Rash said as he also took a seat.

"As a kid I used to really stubborn and into horror movies, my parents felt like it

was strange but brushed it off as normal, I was so into horror movies one day decided to create my own horror character and at that time, my imagination was wild so I decided to create the ultimate killer, an abomination, a creature that couldn't see but had perfect hearing, was made out of tentacles, ate brains to live and could take on any form, so it could be right next to you and you wouldn't even know, after creating this thing, something terrible happened, I started seeing it in

real life.."I narrated then paused.

"It haunted me for days, weeks, months, at first it was dreams but it soon came to real life, finally, my parents took me to see a doctor and something happened and it suddenly stopped, I totally forgot about all of it until now" I tried to sort my thoughts while trying to not suffer from a mental breakdown.

"Wow that's some dark shit right there, that's fucking scary and fucked up, I don't even know what to say cause l'm like shocked for words" Rash said in a bid to get me to laugh but he was only met with silence.

"Hey look I'm not that great at giving inspirational speeches but I'll try my best, just

look at all these bodies lying on the ground, all those deaths are on you and all the other deaths that it's gonna cause are on you, because you created this with your sick mind, you're just like Hannibal mixed with Ted Bundy, or Jack the ripper mixed with Chucky or Pennywise mixed Freddy Krueger or Slend..." Rash said as he got carried away.

"Okay what the fuck are you even talking, I'mlike totally lost right now cause we

were talking about the eyeless reaper and then we're suddenly talking about all

these other psychopaths, by the way you arelike really bad at giving motivational

speeches, like really really bad but on the bright side I think you're right" I said asI

stood up.

"You do?..i mean yeah of course you do" Rash said with a smile.

"This is all my fault" I said with conviction as Iglanced at the disfigured corpses.

"Yeah" Rash said a little loudly as he nodded.

"I caused all these deaths" I said with a serious expression.

"Yeah" Rash said again a little louder than the first.

"So now I gotta fix it, Rash we're going to kill that thing" I said with a grin as clenched the axe tightly, my confidence overflowing.

"YES...wait what?, no no noo" Rash shouted with excitement then paused as my

last words registered themselves in his mind.

"Thank you for this great idea Rash" I said with a pat on Rash's shoulder.

"My idea?, when did this become my idea, I think we're just on edge, maybe we should just take a deep breath" Rash said seriously.

"It's just as you said, 'if we want to fix this, we have to take it out" I quoted.

"That isn't what I said, I definitely didn't say that, did you hear a word I said" Rash

said in disbelief.

"Yeah of course, I heard 5 words, I know right, I'm such a good listener, anyways don't be a wuss, I ain't never seen a black man who was a wuss before" I said with a shrug as I turned around and started my descent down the stairs.

"I can't even called that racism cause that will be selfish" Rash said with a grunt as

he followed me unwillingly.

"Hey don't worry, if you asked me to tell you how confident I was in killing that thing on a scale of one to ten, l'd totally give myself a ten" I said confidently.

"Really?" Rash asked suspiciously.

"Yeah totally, well maybe a 9...or a 8..a 7 will also be good...a 6 won't be that bad, I mean a 5 is the least..a 4 is.. "'m just gonna go ahead and stop talking" I said after realizing that I couldn't stop the number from reducing.

"You just went from 10 to 4 in 3 seconds, that's sooo reassuring" Rash said sarcastically.

"Don't worry we're totally gonna be fine, the worst that could possibly happen is death...okay I didn't mean that" I said quickly as I heard Rash's sigh behind me, as we descended down the stairs, not knowing what to expect or the kind of sick

things we were going to encounter, we didn't notice the camera at the top of the stairs follow their descent down the stairs, it would seem that someone or something was expecting them.

Somewhere in the hospital, a figure sat in a dark room, in front of him were several screens which showed almost every floor of the hospital, on the screen, several figures could be seen but the figures attention seemed to be drawn to one which had Rash and I, the figure stared intently as it observed our actions with a menacing smile.

"It would seem that we have some interesting guests, hehehehehe, I want you to pay attention to those two, report their every move, I want to see if they can get here, especially this one" The figure said with a grin as it pointed at me, behind it, a figure hidden in the darkness stepped into the light of the screens and it's appearance could be seen.

It had a humans upper body and a spider's lower body, this was the spider which had attacked Rash and I, it glared at me as it's mouth opened and it released a weird sound, behind it zombies were numerous zombies which walked towards it, it then pointed at me and released another shrill which caused the zombies to go crazy and rush out, their destination, us.