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turned around and looked straight into Wright’s eyes as if he was trying to pierce his

  soul. Wright quickly ducked down and hoped the thing out there didn’t see him but he

  knew it probably did, Wright knew he needed to move quickly so he wouldn’t be found

  by the demons that had taken over the asylum in this ruined world.

  Wright left the room but when he stepped out he realized he was freezing cold again,

  he tried to move but with every step he got colder and colder causing excruciating pain.

  Suddenly a light fog started to come down the hallway, all Wright could do was watch

  as it surround him, that’s when he started to hear shrieking from all around him.

  Wright kept walking until he got to room 300, he tried to open the door but the door

  knob was too cold to get a good grip on. Wright looked at the door and right below the

  number was the word “Despair” with a pentagram under the word, the word looked as

  if it was burned into the door. Wright put his coat over his hand and opened the door

  instantly feeling warm again. Wright looked around and in the right corner of the room

  he saw four pictures; one was a raven, the seconds was a three headed dog, the third

  was a black cat, and the last was a man in a black trench coat, Wright already knew it

  was Tony Dolengo. Tony was now Despair, the raven that rides on Death’s shoulder,

  Wright thought to himself. Wright shuddered at the thought of Tony making this world

  his own. Suddenly the walls started to close in on him and the pictures started

  laughing, Wright ran to the door only to have it was shut and not open. Wright went to

  the middle of the room and looked around but he couldn’t see a way out. Wright fell to

  the ground in the fetal position and waited to be crushed. After about three minutes of

  waiting he opened his eyes only to find everything was back to normal. The room was

  now empty, the pictures were gone, the room looked like it had been scorched in a fire.

  He walked over to the window to get some fresh air, when he got to the window the

  face of the bloody woman was there staring at him, with her raven black eyes tearing

  out his soul. For some reason Wright couldn’t look away, it was as if the woman had

  hypnotized him. Suddenly he felt a great pain all over his body but he couldn’t scream,

  he couldn’t move, he had to just stand there and wait until his body collapsed. Wright

  had a sense of fear that he had never felt before, it was as if all his worst fears were

  coming true right before his eyes and he couldn’t stop them.

  Wright awoke to a raven pecking at his head saying, “Are you dead? Are you dead?”

  When Wright moved the raven flew to the window and said again, “Are you dead? Are

  you dead?” Wright simply looked at the raven and said I don’t know. The raven cocked

  its head looking at Wright, with its head like this Wright could see the raven had

  fluorescent red eyes that seemed to have wonder in them. The raven turned around and

  flew off into the distance then disappearing. Wright stared at the horizon waiting to see

  if the raven would return, after a few minutes a whole murder of ravens flew over the

  asylum lead by the raven that was pecking at Wright’s head. Wright turned around to

  face the door where he saw the bloody woman there, this time she was crying blood as

  she held her blood covered hands out towards Wright. As she stepped closer Wright

  stepped back until he reached the back wall, Wright looked about but couldn’t find a

  way to get away. The woman was right in front of him, with no way out, Wright closed

  his eyes then heard “Help me” when he opened his eyes the woman was gone. Wright

  left the room then saw the woman go into room 313, as much as Wright didn’t want to

  go back into that room he decided to follow her. When Wright got to the room, the

  name on the door was a crossed out but he could still make out that it said “ Hope” that

  was the name of Death’s second raven, the one that sent souls to heaven. Wright slowly

  opened the door, there was the woman in the room covered in blood she then pointed

  to the right side wall where there were two pictures; one of a beautiful woman maybe

  in her mid-twenties and the other was a raven with fluorescent gold eyes.

  The woman looked at Wright and with bloody tears and yelped “help me” she then put

  her head in her hands and started to make sobbing sounds. When Wright took a step

  closer to her, her head jolted up and she ran straight at Wright but before she got to him

  she disappeared. Wright looked at where she was and only saw a broken feather with a

  little blood at the tip of it. When Wright tried to pick up the feather it turned into black

  dust then from the broken window in the room a breeze came through and blew the

  dust away. Wright saw a desk in the right corner of the room, on it was a piece of paper

  that said, “Now these ashes have grown cold, we open the old book. These oil-stained

  pages recount the tales of the Fallen, a frayed empire, words without warmth. The

  hearth has ebbed, its gleam and life's sparks are but memories against dimming eyes –

  what cast my mind, what hue my thoughts as I open the Book of the Fallen and breathe

  deep the scent of history? Listen, then, to these words carried on that breath. These tales

  are the tales of us all, again yet again. We are history relived and that is aft, without end

  that is all. The Emperor is dead! So too his right hand – now cold, now severed! But

  mark these dying shadows, twinned and flowing bloody and beaten, down and away

  from mortal sight... From scepter’s rule dismissed, from gild candelabra the light now

  fled, from a hearth ringed in hard jewels, seven years this warmth has bled ... The

  Emperor is dead. So to his master's companion, the rope cut clean. But mark this

  burgeoning return faltering dark, the tattered shroud embracing children in Empire's

  dying light. Hear now the dirge faint reprised, before the sun's fall, this day spills red

  on buckled earth, and in obsidian eyes vengeance chimes seven times.” Wright stared at

  the paper for a while and wondered what it meant then he folded it up and put it in his

  pocket.

  The thought of Despair and Hope fight came to Wright’s mind. Wright started to hear

  chains come from a room down the hallway, Wright looked around for a place to hide

  but there was no where he could go where whatever that was making the noise could

  not find him. Wright imagined a huge man with enormous horns carrying long thick

  chains that were scraping ten feet behind him. Wright saw a pitch black corner on the

  left side of the room, he walked to the corner then sat down and bunched up his legs to

  his chest then waited to see what the thing looked like that was heading his way. When

  the chained thing came to the room it stopped and looked inside, it looked like nothing

  that Wright had expected. It was a tall man however, he had no eyelids with smoky

  eyes but the smoke didn’t leave his eye sockets. It had the chains covering most of his

  body, they were bolted into his skin and where the bolts were there was a thick black

  ooze coming out. Suddenly the chains started to slither on the floor like a snake, the

  chains then came around to the front of the man and started to slither into the room in

  all directions Wright counted ten chain links and figured they were looking for him. />
  The man started to groan in agony and clenched his teeth as the snake like chains

  slithered further into the room.

  Wright started to feel something cold start to wrap around his leg while his pant leg

  was starting to get wet and freeze over. It slowly started getting closer to his waist and

  squeezing tighter, Wright didn’t want to move just in case it didn’t know he was there.

  The snake like chain then slithered all the way around Wright’s waist and tightened

  pulling Wright out into the light as the chained man then grinned to reveal he had

  rotted teeth that looked like they could fall out at any second. In a low crispy voice he

  said, “I’m the darkness in the light, the rot in the in the soul of man, that feeling in your

  stomach that makes you vomit. I am Zeernebooch monarch to the empire of death.”

  Zeernebooch then started to twist and turn his body into something strange that had

  the bolt spikes were now facing out of his body and the chains protruding from his skin

  while still slithering around Wright and squeezing him tighter and tighter. His teeth

  were now on the outside of his mouth and no smoke from his eyes was floating up and

  dissipating into the air but it seemed like the smoke was endless. Suddenly the smoke

  stopped flowing from Zeernebooch’s eyes and a snake in each eye socket started to

  come out and slither around his head, when they came back to the front they simply

  stayed there looking at Wright with eyes that looked so evil they cut through the purest

  man. Wright began to struggle to try and get out of the snake like chain’s grip but the

  more he struggled the tighter it got until Wright could barely breathe.

  Suddenly loud shrieks came from somewhere outside, as Zeernebooch’s chains

  unwrapped around Wright he then turned to face the way he came in and proceeded to

  run off. Wright had to cover his ears when the shrieking started, it felt like a needle was

  piercing his ear drum. When the shrieking stopped Wright looked outside to see if he

  could find what made the noise but all he saw was hundred maybe more inverted

  crosses on fire and people burning but not dying just screaming hoping for death.

  Wright then saw one cross that wasn’t on fire but it was inverted and he thought that

  cross was meant for him. He quickly got away from the window and he knew he had to

  get out of the room and find a way out of whatever kind of world this was that way he

  could stop Tony from making the world into this place. Wright walked out of the room

  then out of the corner of his left eye he saw a small shadowy figure run into another

  room but when he looked nothing was there. He then heard what sounded like a little

  girl laugh coming from where the shadowy figure went.

  Wright started to walk slowly towards where he saw the shadowy figure; when he got

  there, there was a door that had 666 on it he then started to hear more laughter all

  around him, when he looked around there was no one around just empty hallways.

  Wright then opened the door and saw a long hallway of nothing but darkness and at

  the end he saw someone or something chained up. When Wright stepped in he heard a

  whisper in his right ear and in a hissing voice say “Thisss isss the eternal darknesss

  which there isss no essscape.” When he turned around there was nothing there, the

  light from the hallway he was just in had even faded. Wright turned and looked at the

  thing that was chained up, he saw it smile but the smile didn’t seem like it was a happy

  smile there was something off putting about it. Its eyes almost looked hollow, as if there

  was nothing there just a small white light. Without realizing it, Wright was getting

  closer to the chained thing and its figure became clearer, the thing was muscular and

  looked like it had a strait jacket on with attached to the jacket. The closer Wright got to

  the chained thing the more violet it struggled trying to get out of its little prison. The

  thing looked up at Wright and said “I’m Kobal the damned demon. I’m the one that no

  one wants but everyone has. I’m the shadow in the night, the one you warn your kids

  about. Free me and I could help you.” His voice was low and harsh like he was about to

  lose his voice.

  Wright took a closer look at Kobal, he had ears that looked like cats, a broad face, and

  stocky shoulders. On Kobal’s face was the word “DAMNED”, it looked like it was

  scorched into his forehead. Kobal lunged at Wright making him step backwards then

  Kobal laughed. Wright then stepped around Kobal and walked away from him, after a

  while he was in front of Kobal to which he said “Back so soon, I thought you didn’t like

  me” then started to chuckle. Suddenly the ground started to ripple like water and

  something on each side of Kobal started to come up, they were covered in black ooze.

  The two things started to reveal themselves more and more then Wright realized that it

  was his wife and his mother. They had chains that were slithering around their bodies

  with the chains also taking small bits out of their skin; with every bite they would

  scream. Wright’s wife looked at him she still had the bullet hole in her head, with tears

  in her eyes she cried out for him to help her. Wright tried to get closer to his wife but as

  he did, she started to sink deeper into the black ooze then Kobal said “No you can’t

  save her, she’s already suffering. All you can do now is watch.” Wright sank to about

  waist deep in the ooze then stopped, he tried to struggle to get out but then he saw the

  snake like chains wrap around his wife’s and his mother’s throats and tighten. The head

  of the snake like chain then looked at Wright and slithered up Wright’s wife’s face and

  burrowed through the hole that was in her head. Blood started to flow from the bullet

  hole and from her eyes as she started to scream louder, begging for help but Wright

  could only watch as the snake like chain came out of the back of her head.

  Suddenly the snake like chain that was on Wright’s mother started to move and the

  head of it made its way to the bullet hole in his mothers chest. The snake like chain that

  was on his mother was bigger than the one that was on his wife, it was struggling to get

  inside the bullet hole. The snake like chain then started to bite off small pieces of skin to

  make the hole bigger and when it was bigger it backed up a little then speared itself into

  the hole. As soon as the snake like chain entered the bullet hole in Wright’s mother she

  reared her head back and screamed in pain then began to cry more. Blood started to

  spew from Wright’s mother’s mouth and all she could do was look at Wright as he was

  half way consumed by the black ooze. Wright continued to struggle but he couldn’t get

  out so he had to watch as the snake like chains moved all around his wife’s and

  mother’s body and see the agony that they were going through. The snake like chain

  then busted out of Wright’s mother’s back as she fell to her knees then the snake like

  chain wrapped around her neck and picked her back up to her feet. The snake like

  chains the moved toward Kobal and wrapped themselves around him and slowly

  brought Wright’s mother and wife closer to him. Kobal’s mouth started to open up as

  wide as his body and the snakelike chain that were around his wife started to pick her />
  up and carry her over Kobal’s mouth. Wright started to struggle more and yell at Kobal

  to stop but when Wright’s wife got over Kobal’s mouth the chains let go of her, now she

  was hanging from the hole in her head. She screamed in pain as it ripped half way

  through her skull, then Kobal started to consume her. Chains then came straight up

  from the black ooze that was around Wright and wrapped around him and went over

  his shoulders to hold him down to force him to watch what was happening to his wife

  and what would happen to his mother. Wright put his head down so he wouldn’t have

  to see his wife being eaten but the snake like chains wrapped around his head and

  pulled it back up to force him to watch. With every bite Kobal took Wright’s wife

  screamed in agony as she was begging for Wright to help her.

  With the last bite it fell almost completely silent, the only sound was Wright’s mother

  crying then the snake like chains started to pick her up as she started to scream louder.

  The snake like chains then tightened around her neck and made it difficult for her to

  scream, all she could do was gasp for what little air she could get. The snake like chains

  slowly lowered Wright’s mother into Kobal’s mouth, with every bite she clenched her

  teeth and had more tears falling down her face then she looked at Wright and said

  “Why didn’t you help us.” With the last bite the only noise that could be heard was the

  sound of the chains moving on the chains that was already on Kobal. The snake like

  chains then tightened on his shoulders and started to pull him further down into the

  black ooze, it felt thick to Wright a little like tar. The chains were now loose from

  around his head so he put his head up to where he could still breathe for a little longer.

  The further down the chains dragged him the heavier the ooze got and the more

  difficult it was for him to see, it was like the void all over again the only difference was

  that now he couldn’t breathe. Wright finally hit what he assumed was the bottom,

  making him think the chains would just hold him there until he drowned or whatever

  happens when you are in ooze. The chains kept pulling him down and he eventually

  fell to his knees then to his stomach, now it felt like he the chains were trying to pull