Chapter 4 – where weird things happen...
When I came to a stop at
the bottom my head ached but I felt okay, I laid there on the wooden floor
catching my breath for a while staring up at a broken light bulb. I eased
myself up on my elbows I can hear noises- a series of bumps from upstairs.
I stand up and instantly
regret it, feeling a little light headed I fall against the wall. I grit my teeth
as I wait for the room to stop spinning, without moving my head I look up to
the landing to see if my friends are all right. They’re not there.
Feeling better I walked
back up the stairs as I got to the landing, the door to the attic is still shut
but I can clearly hear their voice from inside.
“Alice your left!” That was Lucy. Veeeeeeeeemmmmm!
“Got it-” BAM! “Sam! Look out!” Something hard
hits the wall – probably Sammy; for a moment II thought there’d be another hole
(don’t ask) to fix. I go to open the door but pause and decide to look through
the key hole instead. I can’t see much, mind but from what I can see the room
looks a mess. The table has been tipped up on its side, ripped up posters swirl
and there are splinters of wood everywhere. Something mechanical is humming, what
the hell is happening?
“Greg, help!” Sammy gasps
from somewhere on my right I think Lucy and Alice are there too, I can hear
them trying to pull something.
“Hang on I need a picture
first” there is a momentary gasp of frustrated silence; I can actually feel the
tension radiating off Sammy, Alice and Lucy through the wall. A camera phone
clicks. “Ok” and the struggle continued. Looking through the keyhole again I
can just make out someone laying on the floor under bits of paper, I think its
Louis no it got to be Louis there’s no one else in the room. I think.
Louis has his back to the
door and I can’t tell whether or not he’s breathing because he’s curled up into
a ball and I can’t see his head. The others seem to be occupied with something
– Sammy sounds like he’s being pinned up against the wall by the mechanical thing.
Wait; could it be the robot?
“Ow! Hit the thing not me!”
Sammy cries. I can’t just sit here and watch while my
friends get hurt, before I pull back to open the door Louis moves.
“You’re in the way!” Lucy
snaps.
Actually he rolls over with
a groan and I freeze glued to the keyhole.
“Well I can’t exactly move
out of the way!”
“Calm down now children”
Greg replies condescendingly. Bile rises up in my throat but I can’t swallow I
shaking too much, in fact I'm not even sure if I'm breathing.
“How ...do...We
stop....this...thing?!” Alice asks in a strained voice.
The skin covering Louis’s face is peeling off
in strands. He’s covered in blood, his eyes are unblinking and I can see his
skull.
“Keep punching it!” yells
Greg
Well I thought it was his skull, until it moved. The bone
flexed like muscles portraying the obvious pain he was in.
“That doesn't seem to DO
anything!” shrieks Alice.
Sitting up, Louis reached up to his head with
his hands; grasping at the pieces of flesh hanging from his head, he pulled
them back behind his ears. The skin covering his head came off with ease and I
gagged.
“I could blast it”- Lucy.
“We need it, Louis needs
it” – Alice
Unable to look away I could
see what I thought was his skull was actually just another layer of skin made
up of bone white scales outlined by blood.
“Not any more”
“Don’t say that”
“He’s dead; you saw what
this thing did to him!”
Louis stretches his back and opens his mouth
to reveal pointed teeth as sharp as needles.
“JUST BLAST IT!” yells
Sammy.
He still looks like Louis-
his face is still the same shape the only difference is the scales, teeth and
baldness.
“Stand back!”
Louis scratches his head in
a daze like he’s only just woken up.
Then the wall explodes.
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