Nightmare Asylum
It’s a quiet night, when Waylon walks through the quiet halls of the asylum, trying to ignore the evil lurking within the bricks of the old building.
As he strides, the announcement system started to crackle, the sound harsh and aching his ears, covering them in an effort to dampen the sound.
When it stops, Waylon looks around, to see the halls looking broken, twisted, and rusted. There was the sound of metal groaning on metal, and when he looked over the edge of the railing, there was only fire and metal below.
A loud sound from somewhere behind him made him turn, and terror seized at his throat, as a monster stepped out onto the walkway ahead of him.
Big, and bulky, wearing a leather butcher’s apron, and dragging a sheet of metal bigger than Waylon himself, it took a step towards him. There was a giant helmet it wore on it’s head, big and red and triangular, riveted and sturdy, as it let out an odd, disjointed groan, a hand reaching out for him.
Waylon tried to back away, getting caught on a piece of jagged metal, trying to pull his torn shirt off the piece of pipe he was caught on, even as the clanging grew louder and louder.
An unbearable heat clamped down on the scruff of his shirt, pulling him free, like a kitten being dragged along by it’s mother.
Scrabbling for purchase on the behemoth’s wrists, Waylon managed to grab on, as he was hauled along, trying to find a way to walk. “Let me go!”
Another loud groan erupted from the thing, and it set him down, placed into a chair, groaning again behind him. Waylon jerked and gripped the edge of the chair, looking forwards at the wall in front of him.
Images flashed in front of him, and he groaned, doubling over himself to fight the rising nausea. A strong hand grabbed his chin, pulling him upright to continue looking at the images that swam in front of them, his skin almost burning from the contact.
A word started to form among the pictures, it burned just as much as the arm around him, and there came another low groan, closer behind him, as the word burned into his retinas.
Witness.
“What do you want me to see?” He asked, as the groan came again, as the word burned into his eyes, even as the rust seemed to flake away in front of him, the lingering, scalding touch on his jaw keeping him still.
A hand grasped at his shoulder, and Waylon jerked, staring at the computer monitor, with green text flowing in front of him. The program was busy compiling, he must have had a nightmare. Too many horror films. He looked up to see a concerned looking janitor.
“You okay there? Thought you were dead to the world.”
“S-sorry, Alex. I’ll be a little longer here.” He stretched, his back popping painfully. “I’ll clean in here, it’ll be okay. I can do it while I wait for this...” He turned to look at the monitor, that was still flowing with text.
He saw one more word as he looked over at the flowing text.
Witness














