A Handful Of Endless Nightmares

Chapter2: The narrow staircase

I am running down a staircase which stretches on for miles. Sweat pours down my face as my legs burn. A scream echoes behind me, then I trip and fall with a loud bang. My eyes opened, and I am laying in bed still hands shaking from the nightmare. The darkness of my room dragged me back to that place. The screams echo in my head as my body for a moment, my body did not respond. My heart raced as I get up from bed to get a drink of water.

On my way to the kitchen, I see a tank of green fluids. Not like the others. This one has many limbs and clumps of flesh. There is a heart beating through the skin. This site is truly terrifying. I rub my eyes to see if I am imagining it, but it is still there looking at it, it somehow moved closer. Then closer and closer. I did not even notice when, but I am running. I couldn't stay there, anywhere but there.

The road outside seems different at night. Then I hide, making sure to cover my mouth as I catch my breath. The screams are loud once again then, I find myself running down a staircase with the ear shattering sound behind me.

After a while of running, I see a green glow ahead of me. The color irritating my eyes after being in the dark. Once I enter the room, I see the same tank but this time it is larger. It is damaged and there are piece of glass scattered with green fluid dripping everywhere. I freeze on the spot and step back from fear of what had escaped. The screams behind me are growing louder and louder on its way like that ticking time bomb.

Minutes pass with sounds which seem scarier than the screams. A while later a woman wearing a lab coat with an assistant whom spoke ,"the subject is loose, shall we go after it?". The woman replied, "No! let the world have its fate". The assistant in disagreement shouted ," No! I can't let you...".

This women feels familiar somehow but I just can't lat it down.

The woman disturbs the assistant with a slap, the sound echoing in such a small room. The assistant is then pushed into the tank of green fluids which happened to be acidic. Her screams reach through my ears and scratch my brain. It does not take a while for her body to disintegrate. The smell causes me to wince as my nose shrivels. Then the woman leaves the room.

After a while the stench of the assistant's body is weaker and all of a sudden remember that the screams had stopped when the woman arrived. This whole time the screams had stopped. Maybe I was hearing things, or I am still dreaming.

After the women's footsteps faded away, I silently use the same exit as last time because it was that I ran into the same house as before. My legs burn as I run home. I soon then decide to go back to sleep and in the dark void of the hallway I see drops of green fluids lighting the way to my bedroom. The moment I see them and run for my room fearing there was a mess awaiting me.

My room was as I left it. I take a deep breath and anxiously get into bed as if the floor would swallow me whole if I run. My bed felt so soft, my eyes burning when I close them. But sleep did not come. So I decide to do a little research. Whatever that creature was to be. I need to find it's weaknesses. I pulled out my laptop, the sound of my fingertips making contact with the keyboard seems loud. I search up the address easily since it was, by now engraved into my mind. I try multiple times to search for the history of the house, but have no luck. Soon my eyes betray me and the warmth of my bed makes me drowsy and soon my eyes close shut.