Chapter :9 | Vessel
WhitePine Horror Au - “Walking Trees”
A month after the party massacre, everything was “normal” no pain, no suffering, no more weirdness. Everyone in the estate are safe, the servants get their tasks done, the Hemolockes live their lives, everyone is -.-. .-.. --- .-- -. ---... / - .... . -.-- / .- .-. . / --. --- .. -. --. / - --- / -... . --. .. -. / - .... . .. .-. / ... ..- ..-. ..-. . .-. .. -. --. / .- --. .- .. -.
Seraptor has been sent out to get groceries, but he hasn’t come back in a while. Some of the servants are starting to worry about him. It has been two hours after Seraptor left from the safety of the mansion, Mr, Pierce has decided to go to find him. Pierce has gotten to the city, he notices that it is completely empty, there are no people on the streets, every step he takes echoes around the streets. He enters Reddoon’s shop, he wasn't there, Pierce looks around to find anyone in there, he turns around the corner to find Reddoons sitting in the corner with his hand covering his left side of his face.
Pierce: “Red?”
Reddoon: “(Franic breathing)”
Pierce: “A-are you ok?” Mr, Pierce walks towards Reddoon’s
Reddoon: “. . . Y-you need to get out of here. . .”
Pierce: “No, can you please tell me what happened here”
Reddoon: “. . .There was s-something. . . it was-s attacking everyone, . . .but, it didn’t kill anyone, it just [HURT] them.”
Pierce: “Then where is everyone?”
Reddoon: “I-ii don’t know. . .”
Mr, Pierce notices that Reddoon’s hand that is covering his face was covered in blood. He asks what happened to his face. Reddoon takes his hand off his face which reveals that there’s a slash across his entire head. A lot of blood was dripping from his eye. Pierce took off his coat and wrapped it around Reddoon's wound.
Pierce: “Let’s go”
Reddoon: “You don’t have to tell me twice”
Pierce helps Reddoon up and they start moving. Pierce looks around the street, nothing is there. Pierce was going to take Reddoon to the estate for him to be safe and heal, but then they heard a scream, it was Seraptor. The estate was too far away for Pierce to go to it and leave Reddoon there and go back to help Seraptor so he went back into Reddoon’s shop and left him there for safety. Pierce runs to help Seraptor, he turns to the next street and sees, the Being. Seraptor was in an alleyway, the being was too big for it to enter so it was breaking down the buildings around him to get to him. Pierce shots his shotgun at the being directly to its head, it didn't even flinch. The being slowly looks towards Pierce, its radiating eyes and smile makes Pierce squint his eyes as his vision starts to blur. Pierce shoots again to its face making the glow stop, the being’s eyes turn black and starts dripping blood, its head starts shaking frantically. It starts running at Pierce.
Pierce runs into an alleyway for safety as the being makes distorted Yelps. Seraptor takes this opportunity to get away from the being. Pierce runs behind the buildings as the being tries every opportunity to get to Pierce. Pierce hears the being’s stomps and bellows get further away, then he hears the beings bellows get closer, they came from above him. Pierce looks up and sees that the being was running on top of the buildings, it catches up to Pierce from above but kept running, it got to the third building ahead, its hand glowed for a moment before it punched the building it was on and completely collapsed it. Pierce fell down when he tried to stop running and get away from the collapsing building, a bunch of debris fell on top of him. A piece of debris fell on Pierce's leg making him scream in pain, he tried to get up but his leg was broken.
He began to crawl away, the being was under most of the debris of the building slowly getting out. Pierce tried to escape, he moved with all of his strength, but it was worthless. The being got out of the pile of debris and immediately found Pierce, he was crawling away in the middle of the road with no sense of direction. The being slowly walked closer to him, Pierce tried to run but it was worthless, Pierce was suddenly filled with despair, he didn’t know what this feeling came from, it was like it was being forced into his mind. The being picked Pierce up from his leg and raised him up right above its head, the being’s jaw open in unnaturally lengths, the being lets go of Pierce.
Pierce was nearly eaten by the being but then a car appeared ramming into the being, flinging it across the entire street. The person in the car got out and went toward Pierce who fell down when the being got flung, Pierce looked up to see that Seraptor was the person in the car.
Seraptor: “Are you ok?!”
Pierce: “CLEARLY, no”
Seraptor: “Yeah s-sorry. . . let's get out of here.”
Seraptor helped Pierce to the backseat of the car then Seraptor went to the driver seat to try to get the car working again, after a couple seconds it finally started working, the feeling of despair was still in Pierce, the feeling was slowly going away but every second of it going away it was replaced with {Pain}. The being got up from being hit by the car and let out a giant bellow echoing across the entire city then started chasing the car. Seraptor was going to go to the estate but he realized that everyone would be in danger if he did that, so he came up with a new plan to try to lead the being far away from the city, but he didn’t know what he would then do if he led it away. The bellows of the being get closer and closer, Seraptor tried to get away by going faster but it didn’t seem to do anything. Pierce looked behind the car to see how far away the being was from the car, Pierce saw that the being was getting close really fast, he told Seraptor that the being was getting pretty close, so Seraptor went even faster, but because of that it was getting very dangerous for driving at the speed they’re going. The being stopped for a bit but then it started to glow a bright orange, it started to run again, getting faster and faster until its skin bursted into flames. Pierce: “Oh sh*t. . .” The being started to take off the fire from its body to make a ball of fire to shoot it at the car. Pierce even when in pain tried to help Seraptor by telling him which direction to go to dodge the fireballs, but it didn’t help and one of them hit the engine by the being doing a precise throw.
The car crashes into a building while the flames from the engine burn the car. Pierce manages to open the door of the car with little strength he had. The being looms over as Pierce tries to get away but all of the strength he had went away making him lay hopelessly on the ground. Seraptor was still in the car unconscious from the impact. The being walks over to the car and rips open the roof and takes Seraptor out while he bleeds from his head because of the crash, then the being materializes bandages then wraps them around Seraptor’s wound. The being puts Seraptor on the center cross on his back, then chains wrapped around him trapping him to the giant cross. The being looks over towards Pierce who was still laying motionless on the road. When the being looked at Pierce a new wave of despair came to Pierce’s mind. The being raised its right arm then the barbed wire attached to its hand got shaped to a spear like form, then the being positioned itself to stab Pierce. The being was about to finish him off but then it completely froze, after a bit the being started walking away from Pierce to the woods.
Pierce was left laying on the road, all he wants right now is to die, the pain and despair is too much for him, but then he sees something, people. There were people hiding in the alleyways, buildings, and under cars, three people ran over to Pierce to help him, the three people got Pierce to one of their cars to go to the hospital. When they arrived at the hospital there were so many people, all of them had wounds or just looked like they were in so much pain,Pierce didn’t really know what was happening, the pain was making thinking hurt so much. After a bit on a hospital bed a person came to the room, it seemed to be a doctor. They were holding something but Pierce couldn’t really tell what it was.
D0ct0r: “|How are you feeling right now?|
Pierce: “. . .” He couldn’t talk, when he tried to talk a sharp pain went to his mind, like grenades exploding.
D0ct0r: “|Makes sense why you can’t talk, you've been through so many things. . .|” The doctor puts down the things they were holding, it was a hammer, a long pick like tool, and two syringes.
D0ct0r: “|Luckily for you, you won't remember anything about what has happened in this city. Don’t worry, all things are getting taken care of.|” The --. --- ...- . .-. -. -- . -. - / --- ..-. ..-. .. -.-. .. .- .-.. Picks up the syringe.
D0ct0r: “|You will be all right|” The Doctor injects Pierce with one of the syringes. Pierce began to feel strange, then he completely lost any control he had from his body.
The doctor grabs the pick like tool and hammer, they put the pick tool on top of Pierce’s eye, then they put the hammer over the pick, they hit it like it was a nail, straight towards Pierce’s mind. After three hits they stopped and put the tools down, they injected Pierce with the other syringe.
D0ct0r: “|Well off to the next one!|”
Pierce is left to lay unconsciously on the bed for hours, the pain, despair, any memory of what has happened in town since the first ever incident, has seemingly gone away.Pierce opens his eyes hearing a loud ringing, it slowly starts diminishing after a couple seconds. He sits up on the bed confused whats happening. He then sees someone sitting on a chair on the other side of the room, his vision was blurry so he couldn’t really see who was there, the person started talking to him, Pierce didn’t really know what he was saying, the ringing was still too loud to let him hear what the person was saying. The person seemed to begin to flicker, like going transparent for a couple of seconds. Pierce couldn’t tell what was happening, all of a sudden the person instantly appeared in front of Pierce.
Clown: {HELLO THERE {Buddy}!}
Pierce: “HOLY SH*T!” Pierce falls down on the bed
Clown: {HA HA HA HA HA HA} .--- . ... - . .-. .--- . ... - . .-. .--- . ... - . .-. / -.. . .. - -.-- floats to the air kicking his feet around like a child when laughing.
Clown: {Ohhh my, look what they did to you. . . YOU can’t even remember {Anything}}
Pierce: “What. . . w-who are you?, WHERE AM I!”
Clown: {Huh they really removed a bit to much of your mind}
Pierce: “What uh. . . what do you mean?”
Clown: {Let's fix this real quick!} Clown raises his hand up and grabs something not visible, he while grabbing the thing phases his hand through Pierce's head and drops the thing. Pierce gets his memories back, all the pain, suffering, and weirdness comes back to him. And the memory of what he did to Clown came back to him.
Pierce: “You. . . did you release that. . . thing?”
Clown: {Yeppers!, I did warn you that this would happen, allll of the people you care about will {Suffer} what you did to me}
Pierce: “I DIDN’T HAVE CHOICE!, I WOULD HAVE DIED IF I TRIED TO SAVE YOU, ALSO THE THING ATTACK EVERYONE IN THE CITY, NOT EVEN ANYONE IN THE MANSION GOT TO EVEN SEE THE THING!”
Clown: {Yeah, the being really got side tracked. . . but at least it remembered to get Seraptor!}
Pierce: “WHAT DOES HE HAVE TO DO WITH ANYTHING?”
Clown: {I am going to use him as my new {Body}}
Pierce: “. . . WHAT?”
Clown: {Anyways the {Set Piece} is gonna happen soon, be prepared for a crazy show!} Clown disintegrates into dust and blows away through the walls.
Pierce: “What uh- GET BACK HERE” Pierce was left alone confused with the jarring information .--- . ... - . .-. .--- . ... - . .-. .--- . ... - . .-. / -.. . .. - -.-- has given him. Pierce gets up from the bed and begins to leave the hospital, but after he took his first steps he suddenly loses balance and falls to the floor. Every few steps he takes he falls down to the ground, Pierce starts to crawl to leave, when he gets out of the room he sees a couple of other people sitting on the chairs lined up against the walls, they look like they were in so much pain. Pierce goes by, he sees the exit and starts heading towards it, but then Doctor stops him.
D0ct0r: “|Wow there buddy where are you going?, let’s get you back to your room shall we?|” The doctor picks up Pierce and puts him back to the room he was in.
D0ct0r: “|Now you stay here ok? Ok|” Doctor after leaving the room locks the door so Pierce couldn’t get out. Pierce after resting a bit, was out of breath after crawling looked around the room to see if anything could help him get out. There was nothing, the room was very empty, he looked towards the window, there was something outside, it was Ash. A tentacle that was made of flesh came out in a hole in the corner of the room and went towards the window, the tentacle stabbed the lock and ripped it out, blood started dripping from the broken lock, the tentacle went back through the hole disappearing. Ash opens the window and lets out their hand for Pierce, Ash after Pierce grabbed his hand helped him out of the window.
Pierce: “You. . . were dead. . . I shot you.”
Ash: “I am not Ash, I am just pretending to be him.”
Pierce: “. . .”
Ash: “Are you ok?”
Pierce: “Other people have died. . . but I have seen them after they died.”
Ash: “I am also pretending to be them.”
Pierce: “Why?”
Ash: “I just. . . want to be somewhere that I can be loved, where I am not a monster, I want to be human, so I pretend to be other people, remove the memories of their deaths, so I can live the life I want.”
Pierce: “That explains why I have seen Div and Bit, they died and you took their place. Wait, I haven't seen Mysti after she died.”
Ash: “Her death was too big for me to just make everyone forget.”
Pierce: “Oh. . . makes sense”
Ash: “Lets get back to the estate”
Pierce: “I can barely walk”
Ash: “I will help you”
The mimicker picks up Pierce and heads towards the estate.
Pierce: “Wait, why did the lock bleed?”
Ash: “The building is alive”
Pierce: “Oh. . . nothing surprises me anymore.”