Angelina woke up in a different part of the factory, she thought it was a bad dream but when she saw another dead body she knew she was still in this horror factory. Once again there was a strange message on the body which read in a bloody handwriting:
FACE YOUR FEARS. If you can.... :-)
She didn't know what was more creepy, the smiley face or the message itself. She stared at the body while thinking: What fear dies she even have? There are things she dislikes, horror movies, stalkers and some bugs but those didn't scare her. What scares me? She thought. She started thinking: heights terrify her since you never know when you could fall of and die, small places also scare her it makes the oxygen around her thinner and slowly suffocates her. But this a factory she thought. It's on the ground and very big, she can't be scared here. Can she? She tried to get up but she couldn't, she was stuck on the ground. Suddenly she heard footsteps, she turned her head.... No one was there. She looked up to the ceiling only to see a black figure above her with three fully white eyes, its smile covered nearly the entire face. It only had canines.
"You forgot sleep paralysis demons." The being said while lunging at her. The last thing she heard was a scream and she was the scream's owner.
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Jane woke up in an alleyway holding her phone.
"What the- wasn't I in the factory?" She thought while getting up, she wasn't in the normal clothes she was wearing. She was in a barista outfit, normally the skirt was suppose to be very long but this skirt was above her knees. She was confused. Why she is wearing her old job's working attire? She quitted there a month ago because of a regular customer who harassed her, when she complained to the boss she told her to deal with it so she dealt with it by quitting. Suddenly a whistle broke the evening silence.
"Don't turn your head, Jane." She told herself, "You're a lady, not a dog." She got up and started walking away from the alleyway, she heard footsteps behind her but forced herself to continue walking, the footsteps became louder and closer. She stopped walking and turned to face the stalker. All the blood drained from her face.
"Mike?" She stammered while looking at a teenage boy with short blonde hair and icy blue eyes in a red and black jacket, black shirt and baggy white jeans. Mike was her classmate, he was the first person she talked to when she arrived in her new school. Everyone told her that he was a bad person, he always got into fights, broke a whole lot of rules. His dad was a rich businessman and the mother was a model, the only reason she talked to him was because he was holding a manga she really loved. But then things started taking a strange turn, he sat by her in every single class, sent her a whole lot of expensive gifts. He described her as his euphoria: his everlasting happiness. Now the last part sounded cute and romantic, had it not been the fact he hired someone to stalk her at her workplace.
"You're my stalker?" She asked horrified. Mike gave her a warm smile.
"And you're my euphoria." He said in a sort of romantic but creepy way. She stared at him for a while.
"How am I going to get out of here?" She thought while frozen in her place.
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Daniel woke up, feeling a sea breeze passing through his skin, he jolted up and realized that he was on a ship. Everything seemed fine, everyone was happy but there was this déjà vu feeling in the air like he already experienced this. Then it clicked, he was on the ship his parents died on, the music and the food just showed that he was on St. Pearla a massive cruise that had a faulty engine which blew up causing it to sink.
"It's your fault your parents died." A manipulative voice said in Daniel's ear. Suddenly, the ship shook violently and Daniel saw his father trying to help the younger version of himself out of a hole his foot got stuck in.
"If you weren't such a klutz, they would all be alive." The voice said as Daniel watched in horror as he was pulled out and his father sacrificed his life for Daniel.
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"Ugh, my head... Where am I?" Tyler thought as he slowly got up, he found himself in a small house that was slowly falling apart. His thoughts was cut short when he heard the sound of humming from a room.
"Why does that voice sound so familiar." He thought, he started to follow the voice until he reached the kitchen, the humming turned into singing. Singing of a gospel song, still confused Tyler opened the door and saw a woman in her early thirties with the same dirt brown hair and pink eyes like Tyler the only difference was her dark tanned skin.
"Mom?" Tyler asked in disbelief, his mother turned and gave him a warm smile, he ran to his mother and tried to hug her but she disappeared into dust.
"Mom?" He said while the dust settled on the floor. "No,no,no.." He said in desperation, he fell onto his knees trying to pick the dust but it faded in his hands. "Don't leave me.... Don't leave me alone again." He pleaded with tears in his eyes.
"Do you know the difference between your mother and yourself? Unlike you, she had faith." A croaky hoarse voice said to Tyler's ear.
"You tell everyone that you were born atheist but it's a lie, you became one as soon as mommy died and you were sent to live with a father who abused you for sport." The voice continued while showing Tyler the one person he hates the most. His father.
"You wonder if there's even a God. And if there is why He makes your life a walking hell. You have no faith and you never will." The voice gave out an ugly mirthless laugh.
Meanwhile:
Daniel's survivor guilt started to creep in. The voice just kept demoralising him, making him want to swap places with his parents. But then he started thinking, if he died right now, his parents would've want that. What about Cassandra? His older sister, it took her months to recover from their parents death, she attempted suicide twice.
"It's all your fault." The voice mockingly said. Daniel turned his head and saw a blurry figure behind him laughing at him.
"It's not my fault. It never was and you can't change a thing about it." Daniel retorted to the creature's shock, it wasn't expecting that.
"The engine blew up and I accidentally tripped. So what? It doesn't mean I killed my parents like you want me to believe." Daniel continued while walking closer to the creature, then Daniel realized that it was an illusion, he started seeing small bits of the factory. The creature was getting annoyed. "The boy was supposed to feel bad and then I kill him." It thought. "Nevermind I can still kill him." It thought and lunged at Daniel.
"You're not even real. Take me out of HERE!" Daniel suddenly screamed and the whole illusion came crashing down. The creature was defeated and it knew that, it tried running but Daniel caught up to him. The creature was pinned to the ground with Daniel pressing his hand on its throat.
"Where are my friends?" Daniel snarled at the creature.
Jane just stared at Mike who was approaching her slowly.
"Don't come closer, I'll scream I promise!" Jane yelled at him with fear in her voice. Mike just smirked at her.
"And who would believe I'd stoop so low by stalking someone? Jane be real." He said while approaching her, Jane closed her eyes.
"It's not real! Jane. It's an illusion." Daniel screamed at the top of his lungs. Jane opened her eyes and reality started to click on her. Mike wasn't this scary or creepy, heck they were lab partners. Plus, this Mike was flickering. She started to walk towards the fake Mike which suprised him, he was even more shocked when she put her hand through him.
"You're a hologram?" She asked in confusion before grabbing the head and smashed it against a wall, causing the disguise to vanish. Another black being came out, out of fear it ran away.
"That.... Bastard." Tyler said while staring at the man who was actually his father, he wanted to kill him. That was what the voice urged him to do.
"Just pick the knife and send it into his throat." The voice said.
"Tyler don't." Jane ordered making Tyler freeze in his spot. Jane approached him and put her hand on his shoulder.
"Hate doesn't bring happiness." Jane said.
"He's the reason why my mom is dead." Tyler said.
"People come and go, they bring smiles and tears. What matters is that you move forward. Let your pain go." Jane said, Tyler dropped the knife and the house disappeared and they were back in the factory.
"Now let's find Angelina." Daniel said.
The monster stared at Angelina with an evil grin while approaching her and reaching for her chest.
"Angelina!" Tyler screamed through the hallway. Angelina turned her head and saw Tyler, Daniel and Jane.
"Its going to get me. The paralysis demon." She said while years formed in her eyes.
"No it won't! Remember what I told you to do. Close your eyes and I'll count to ten. When I reach ten jolt up and open your eyes." Tyler said. Angelina closed her eyes.
"One"
"Two"
"Three"
"Four"
"Five". Suddenly Angelina felt a surge of energy in her body, by then Tyler was about to say ten. She jolted up and the monster was gone. She rushed to join her friends in the hallway. She hugged Tyler tight.
"Thank you." She said.
"I've got your back. In fact we've all got your back." Tyler replied.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOO." An angry voice screamed while lunging at the squad. It was the same monster Angelina saw before being teleported away. On instinct Angelina reactivated her rhema and sliced the monster in half.
"Let's get out of here." Angelina said and the others quickly agreed. They might have entered the factory in darkness but it was a new dawn that welcomed them. At least they fought their fears.