"It's going to be okay!"
"How can I trust you!?"
"Trust me... Wait. Where am I?"
Chapter 1
In the middle of darkness, blood-stained clothes, with nothing but four torches lighting the area.
"What's going on? Who was I talking to?"
The wind gushing through, and the strange hollows that echoed throughout... Somewhere. No, more accurately everywhere.
"Damn. Why can't I remember anything?" Is there something liquid in my hand? A pool of blood? Why is there a pool of blood? The man thought to himself, seeing something inside of the blood.
That's when he felt the sharp pain exactly where the pool of blood was, right in the middle of his left hand. He didn't know why or how he didn't realize it before but the pain was biting at him like a rabid dog that is teething. Blood oozed and clumped in the pool which made him feel lightheaded.
"I can't keep staring. I need to pull it out even if it makes me want to puke everywhere."
He started to pull his hand out of the dark pool of slimy blood dripping down. The more he pulled out his hand the more blood dripped and fell off his hand, it is a miracle he was alive. Once he finally pulled out his hand, it revealed a nail drilled into his hand with a note attached to his hand.
"Keep The Lights On. 4 at all times. Fix all the mistakes. I'm trusting you, Yuto Daiki." The note read with each word varying in size like someone was making a ransom note.
"Yuto Daiki? Am I Yuto Daiki?" The man kept thinking over and over again while the slow wind and scratching cold kept peering in as if it was trying to cut his throat in secret leaving his body lifeless like the darkness.
"I'm going to think I'm Yuto from here on," Yuto said as he then started to fold his hands together and breathe in and out.
That's when the breeze was getting colder and stronger.
"What the hell is going on!?"
Yuto looked up to see a ceiling of darkness above him but way out of his reach. He then looked around and saw complete darkness, different from darkness from just seeing in the dark. The darkness where you can't see yourself and can only hear.
"Hello? Hello!? Is anyone out there!? Please help me! I don't know who I am, or where I am! I think my name is Yuto and my last name is Daiki! Does that sound any alarms!? Hello!?"
Yuto took a deep breath after yelling with all his chest letting every ounce of voice get squeezed out of him.
"Alright, I need to stop this pain. I also need a way to keep the lights on." Yuto then tried to stand before the pain in his body shot back at him, like a sniper forcing him to sit back down.
"Alright, no standing. How did I get here?" Yuto kept repeating to himself before he tried to feel what was around him in the darkness.
"Maybe there's something around me that could help." Yuto kept finding rocks, bugs, hints, and parts of plants yet nothing that amused or surprised him.
"There isn't anything? Maybe I need to organize a plan." Yuto thought for a long time, letting the cold breeze and dark space act as a comfortable space and not a terrifying one.
"These plants are quite sturdy. If I tie them together, maybe I could get a further distance.
Yuto then grabbed the plants he gathered over the span of his time in a small circle light and tied them together to grab something. With his amateur building skills and a nail in his hand he somehow made a long line with a scythe-shaped curve at the end.
"Now I'll get something!" Yuto then started to scope out every side.
"Rock. Rock. Plant. Rock. Bug. Rock." Yuto then pulled back his makeshift material grabber and instead just laid down on his back.
After 30 seconds, he launched himself straight back up and started again.
"Being bored isn't for me! Rock. Rock. Bug. Rock. Rock. Something. Something!" That's when Yuto with all his might yanked back the special treasure he acquired for himself.
"Let's see what they got for the little old me! Is it... honestly, I don't know but it better be something! I'll close my eyes and count to five. 5,4,3,2,1 What is it!"
That's when Yuto opened his eyes and it revealed the head of a young female child. Bloody, scarred, and with the fear still lingering on her face. Yuto then fell back and started to scream.
"Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! I feel so sick! What the heck is going on!? Is this a child's head!? Who's down here!?" That's when the breeze kicked up to a new speed and the temperature dropped down by a huge portion.
"Now nature's mad too? What did I or this kid do!?" That's when the unthinkable happened. The torches that were lit got overpowered by the sure power of the breeze leaving no light.
"Shit."
Screams started to form and the sound of tons of footsteps could be heard as well.
"Hello!? Hello!? Is somebody out there!? There's a dead kid here!" Yuto screamed with his might but it didn't earn him any responses. He knew somebody was out there, he could hear them.
"Please respond! This joke isn't funny anymore!" That's when Yuto started to think, what if it's not a human? He stopped questioning if it was somebody and started questioning something.
"Oh no." Yuto then tried to find something, anything to relight the torches on the floor yet, he only felt the same rocks and plants he felt the first time.
"Whatever you are... I'll kill you! I- I swear! I'm not scared! You're scared!"
"LAH" Yuto heard behind him as he felt breathing on his neck then a hand as well.
"Hello?"
"LAH!"
Yuto then turned around to see a green-eyed scally monster with red eyes and hands that felt hot, beaming down on his neck.
"Ahh!" Yuto screamed as he threw the kid's head right at the monster and started to run.
"LAH!" The monster chased Yuto around the endless ground as Yuto jumped and climbed random tall rocks that stood in his way like a barrier.
"What the hell is that thing!?" Yuto kept repeating as he tripped on something making a huge splat sound when he landed.
"What the..." That's when Yuto saw another body of a teenager, this time with a look of sadness, and regret.
"Oh my god."
"LAH!"
"Oh god!" Yuto then threw the other body at the monster as an offering of peace.
"Forgive me," Yuto says running away but out of curiosity turns around to see what happens to humans given to these things.
The monster stopped and grabbed the body before his jaw unhinged and twitch started to swallow the body whole. Midway through the monster crunched, leaving a spine-chilling sound that entered Yuto's body and made him feel like ants crawling up his skin, or the breeze creeping on him again.
Blood gushing out like a strawberry being crushed, and the bones being cracked kept echoing through the halls to remind Yuto of what he was seeing. Somebody is being eaten... whole. Yet, Yuto still watched as he saw the heart get thrown into the sky and slither its way down his monster throat as he began to keep tearing the body apart.
He pulled out the eyes like faulty wires, the same with all its limbs leaving it in a condition where you wouldn't even know it was a human anymore. Each limb you could see being swallowed down through his neck since it poked and screamed at Yuto, screamed for help. Every part of the man's body being torn apart made a pop sound as it was getting ripped from its sockets.
That's when the monster threw what could only be seen as a penis, being squished with full force before the monster swallowed it down.
"I- I."
Yuto couldn't even speak witnessing this manslaughter. He couldn't even run anymore.
"How is any human supposed to live down here!? Why was I the only one given light when they're little kids down here who needed it!? Innocent souls! Are they innocent souls!? I don't even know! Maybe I should just give in... Is that what you all want!?" Yuto yelled as he slid down to the ground in utter fear.
The monster's enjoyment was there as the blood flew all over its body, getting on the man's mouth and hands like a plate of messy wings. He threw the body parts and limbs of the man, sometimes a chuckle could be heard. It was... something that could change the mind of anyone.
"I don't spend my days chasing hopeless hope! I'd rather get it done and die right here! You hear me! Come and get me!"
The monster then started to run over to Yuto and right before he could punch Yuto, he ducked.
"I want to die! Why can't I accept that I want to die!?" Yuto kept that thought cycling through his head as he now started to run again from the monster's barely dodging its ferocious attacks.
"Why can't I just die!?" That's when it dawned on Yuto. Even though he wanted to die... He still feared death.
"This place is a hellhole!" Yuto said before slipping on what was another body this time his leg twisting the other way making it hard for him to stand back up again. That's when he felt dripping.
Yuto then looked up to see that it was drool, dripping from the monster.
"I guess you really want me huh? I guess this is it..."
The monster then grabbed Yuto's arm and chomped down on Yuto, making his arm seem weak. Like biting into freshly made bread, warm and easy to tear apart.
Yuto tried to struggle and escape but the more he did the more his arm started to slowly split from his body.
"Somebody help me! Please!"
Yuto screamed before the blood scattered everywhere on his body.