Celine blinked her eyes as the sunlight peeked through the windows of the room. She opened her eyes slightly to let them adjust to the bright light and then was about to move when she felt restricted and her hands in aching pain.
Turning to see what had held her hands, she discovered they were tied and she was alerted. Springing up from the bed, she came to face a mutilated and deformed body of a dead girl and she let out a shocked scream.
"AHHHHH!!!". She jerked away, her heart almost jumping out of her chest. She felt suddenly nauseous and her head was beginning to spin. How did she arrive here? She thought.
She realized she was on a bed, which was not hers. The bed was dirty and... "Oh, lord!" She gasped. The bed was stained with blood; dried blood.
With her heart thudding loudly in fear, she let her eyes wander around the room and she realised this was not just a room. It... It looked more like a dungeon. She saw skeletons, chains, shovels, hammers, rusted nails and the rest of the dangerous weapons she couldn't name and she was extremely horrified. How did she land here?. She questioned herself, again.
She tried to recall what had happened last night, but no matter how much she tried, she felt an ache in her head like a memory in there was damaged. She began to perceive blood, dried blood, the rusted metals, and the smell of diesel, acids and chemicals.
And then the thought hit her. She was abducted!!. She was about to jerk up when she heard a sinister chuckle and she widened her eyes in the direction of such sinister laughter and the sounds of the chain, on her legs.
She found Mr Hemlock at the far end of the room where the sunlight had failed to reach through, titling a knife as he examined it. Her heart jumped into her stomach and she tried to steady her breathing so that her thoughts would be understandable.
"You are awake". She heard him say. His voice sounded gentle and harmless unlike when he was in the bar.
" W-what am I d-doing here?". She stuttered. Within her, she was trying her best to assure herself that she was safe but some deeper thoughts were telling her, otherwise.
She saw him smile and then stood up to walk to her. She discovered something had changed within this man. His face looked more ominous and the aura he carried was deadly, she questioned herself if it was recently, she was realizing that...
"I was scared that you might have died but I am delighted to see it not true. How are you?". A mischievous grin was beginning to play on his lips.
Celine stared at him with an unbelieving and shocked expression. How was she? Does she look great?. She was been chained like an animal and a criminal and yet he was here, staring and asking 'how she was'.
" Please get me out of here". Tears were threatening to fall out of her pretty eyes.
"But we are not done yet". He gasped in mock shock.
"How did I get here then? Someone, please get me out of this nightmare". She whispered the last words under her breath, which was heard by the man.
" Are you praying?". She heard him ask and she opened her eyes which she had shut close, to see him stoop before her. In fright, she jerked away. No, no. She didn't jerk away. She tried to jerk away but her left leg was bound like the right one to a long chain, connected to the bed pole.
"Ah! Let's see if you are truly in a dream". Said Erebus as he quickly slashed her left shoulder and he saw how blood was quick to surge out and Celine let out a loud shriek.
" WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?!!!". She cried, her entire body was beginning to quiver.
Erebus gave a confused look. "You just said someone to get you off the nightmare and I granted you that. So why are you shouting?. Was it painful?". He tried to place his hands on her wounded shoulder but she quickly barked at him.
" Don't you dare try to come closer. Don't you dare".
She watched how he suspended his hands in the air and then raised it down and no longer made advances toward her. She also saw him take the blood dripping knife to his lips, and close his eyes as he took a whiff of it and then licked it. Her eyes almost popped out of their sockets on what he was doing. To her, this man was a psycho.
"W-why? W-why are you doing this to me?. Her voice broke as tears were already dripping down her cheeks as she stared at him with a betrayed expression. " I thought we were friends?".
She saw him not say anything instead, he slit his tongue and sucked on the blood. She felt her heart stop for a while as she watched him bask in the satisfaction of having to sulk on his blood, and then he opened his eyes to stare at her, tilting his head with a usual grin.
"Friends?". He brought the knife down and then directed it to his palms. " Do friends sedate each other?". Erebus asked and he saw her widen her eyes in shock. The cold fingers of fear were beginning to creep into her skin and she moved farther away.
And he chuckled. "Shocked?. I enjoy seeing people in extreme shock. Are you wondering how I knew?. I had one of the waiters sedate you; feeding you your drugs. Great right?. Ah! Don't be shocked". He clicked his tongue. "The bartender was not involved, as I said it was the waiter who had the drinks served".
" B-but... Is that why I am chained up like this?". She questioned to see him come to sit on the dirty bed.
"Actually... He drawled. " You were never meant to be here. The girl I had been waiting for was actually, the one whom I had planned to do all these to...". He pointed around the rooms; pointing at where different kinds of weapons were hung.
"Oh, God!!". Celine whimpered. The fear of death was starting to develop in her. She felt suddenly cold out of anxiety. Never in her life, had she expected to die like this. Die like an animal. " Please don't kill me. I beg of you". She begged, her lips were trembling and her face was drained of colour and tears were streaming down her cheeks.
"Relax. I won't kill you...".
"Yet..."