In The Shadows Deep Within

Thump Thump, I felt my heart beat quicker and quicker as the pain shot through my whole body. What has this human done to me? Why does my body feel different? Wait, my hands, where are my hands?! These aren't my hands, these are someone else’s hands. (Claws instead of smooth flesh peered on the creatures arms as the life in them was taken away. The creature stood there looking at the mirror placed in the room. Her body was torn apart and built back up again. Scars stretched from her face down to her legs where cuts had once been. Her legs were taken away and replaced with a long doll-like display. Her face looks as though it is disfigured. Her eyes look sharp and unforgiving.)

“That Man. He doesn't deserve to be in this world. What I did to him was an act of showing mercy. He should have deserved way worse.”

(The being begins to stand and decides to take a look at her surroundings. It’s dark and the lights have almost no light. The only "decor" in her cell was an old mirror with a gold frame. She also had a full plate of food waiting to be eaten.)

“What is this place…” It says as she stands.( She starts to boil with emotions as they begin to all come out at once. Hate is the first to throw itself at the cage bars.) THUD THUD THUD. “LET ME OUT. LET ME OUT. I don’t deserve this. YOU MUST HAVE MISTAKEN ME FOR SOMEONE ELSE!” (Suddenly another set of footsteps is heard at the end of the door.)

“Deer child, you're not going to escape. This is a prison meant for monsters like you, don’t worry we did not choose the wrong… monster to be in here. Don’t you get it? “ The woman says, standing there with a look of disgust.(The woman wore a suit with stains at the bottom of the sleeves. She had blond pinstrate hair that flowed more toward the bottom.)

“I'm no monster, I'm… I’m human…I don’t know what he's done to me. Please…YOU HAVE TO BELIEVE ME!” I say screaming as if she'd listen.

“What are you talking about? Look at you, how could something so hideous have once been a human. You're even throwing yourself at the bars, screaming to let you out, and you say you're a human?” She shouts

(The mysterious woman walks closer and grabs the bars.)

“You think you deserve to be free after what you did. How he was there…gone. All because OF YOU.”

“Don’t act like he is the innocent one here, you know what he has done to me. Why do you deny it? Are you so filled with regret that you can’t even see the things he has done?” I shout back “Look at me, these hands used to be full of life and love and now they are twisted and formed into something HE has made.” I say as tears begin to form on my face.

After that she leaves, slamming the door behind her.

“WELL there goes my only hope of getting out of here. I should have just kept up the innocent act, though I doubt the situation would have ended up differently.” (The little monster decides to sit down on the hard floor and debates on what she should do next.) “Now what am I going to do? Come on, think. Where could we possibly be? …Well there are three basement rooms, a hidden asylum they put down here years ago. (She begins to wonder about the possibilities of others, others like her.)

“I wonder how many lives were tossed at his feet. He takes us and uses us for his own selfgain then tosses us like trash, trash that should have burned a long time ago. No longer needed, Torn up, and broken.”

(She shakes her head and stands now back on her feet.)”

“Ah FOCUS. Alright so by the looks and her reaction of seeing me, I'm probably in the room that is more meant for, “The special ones,” I'm pretty sure the same key works for all cells. That helps me a lot. I mean what idiot doesn't switch the types of locks? But I doubt they thought that it mattered since most of us were unconscious or…”

(She shakes her head not wanting to think about what he has done to them.)

“Nevermind that, they gave me so much for food earlier. Did they drop a spoon or fork somewhere?”

(She looks around the cell but finds nothing)

“Nothing, This is so frustrating! How am I supposed to get OUT. No need to worry about the locks all being the same. Especially when there’s NO DAMN KEY THAT WORKS FOR IT!”

(The creature aggressively throws her food at the mirror placed up on the dark wall. The tiniest crack forms on the mirror where it was just hit) “Oh, that could work. Let me just…”

(The mirror falls and shaders to the ground. What lies on the inside of the wall is…a small but beautiful hairstick covered in jewels and fine designs.)

“What am I supposed to do with this? Try to seduce them into letting me out?”

(She chuckles as she answers her own question)

“Now that would be something I would like to see. Oh… Wait, is this thing metal? It's quite thin and has a good handhold, I might be able to use this as a lockpick. I just can’t break it.” (She walks up to the door and checks that no one is at the stairs ready to catch her trying to escape. She then gently places the delicate hair clip in the cage door and tries to pick the lock open.) “Click.” (As the door swings open suddenly, footsteps are heard at the door of the basement's entrance.)

“Oh, you didn't think you could get rid of me that easily… did you?” (Her gaze freezes as she sees the man standing there on the stairs. His face looked as if someone tried to tear it open, face as pale as a ghost, and his shirt was covered in blood.)“How…How, I thought I…”

(The man walks further down the stairs)”No no no no, This can’t be happening. I killed you.” (The little monster steps closer as if trying to make sure the man in front of her was real. “How stupid of you to think I'd just die that easily, I am a doctor you know, I can fix myself. You of all people should know that.”(He comes closer to her and whispers something in her ear.) “So, what are you going to do, little monster? Run away and hide, I'll hunt you down and bring you back to where you stand now. Fight and bring me to the brink of death. I'll heal and drag you back, or just accept that no matter what you do, run or hide I'll find you and ruin you. (The little monster grabbed a piece of glass and stabbed the man right in the head and then ran.) “Where do you think you're going” (The man grabs something off of the wall and starts dragging it on the ground.) “Run fast little monster, don't let me find you” (She runs faster. Her heart beats faster and faster as she hears the man getting closer and closer.) “Will this hallway ever end? COME ON.” (She finds a door and swings it open.) (A Clock Ticks and the girl ends up right back to where she began.) “ What…IM BACK?” She she yells “Get up, little one,” a voice whispers from behind, “Your story has just begun.”