Don't be Afraid of the Dark

"Come back here!" It yelled while it chased me down the hallway.

I've got to get this on film! I thought to myself. This will show her that investing in this asylum was a huge mistake! I pulled out my camcorder from my satchel, and switched it on. I was still running down this long corridor of doors, and empty rooms filled with blood. I turned back to see the monster still chasing me. I was scared out of my mind, my brain was thumping, and my heart was pounding. Part of me told me to put the camcorder away and just run, but I was here on royal demands.

The monster was carrying a chain with a hook at the end of it in it's right arm. It looked horribly disfigured and terrifying!

"Come back here you ungrateful bastard!" It yelled again while starting to charge at me. I managed to get a clear shot of it on my camcorder, but by the time I put it away to start sprint out of there, it caught up to me in the blink of an eye, and grabbed me by the back of the neck. He tossed me in the air hitting my head on the ceiling I cried out in pain, and fell to the ground like a life-less doll.

"Agh!" I cried out. It grabbed me by the neck again and lifted me this time, no tossing. He looked into my eyes with that single red eye of his, his other was shut tight. I grabbed its arms and tried to struggle my way out of its grasp.

"Looks like I finally caught you," It said lifting me to the light showing me off to the world, telling it that I was its prize. "Now lets have ourselves a little fun," It raised its chain and started to swing it, and right when it was about to slice me in half, a dash of pink rushed out from the room to my right and sliced the monsters belly open. It struggled to stay upright, and ended up letting go of me, and falling to the ground.

I looked to where the dash stopped and saw Patient #20973, well that's what it said on the casual patient uniform. She looked back, and walked up towards me. She sniffed me for some strange reason, and smiled.

"You're friendly," She giggled. I sighed of relief that she wasn't going to slice my belly open like that beast. She let out her hand for me to grab. She pulled me up and pointed to the third door on the left. "If you want to find out what that thing was go to that room, it holds all the information of this asylum. Do some reading, it'll help you survive this hell of a place, Trust me," She finished off while dashing towards the other way I was heading

"Wait! You mean that wasn't it!?" I cupped my mouth yelling at her.

"It? Ha that wasn't even half of it. Get out of here before I change my mind of letting you live!" She yelled back.

~Six Hours Earlier~

I had just finished a conversation over the phone with one of the Royal Guards. He had told me that Princess Celestia wanted me to check out an asylum she had invested in. He told me that all of the patients that have checked in, haven't checked out yet. Most of them have been in there for years. Being a fan of the supernatural I thought it might have something to do with the couple of other asylums that were previously built in that exact spot. I asked the name of the asylum so I  would know if it was the exact asylum I was thinking about. They told me that it had been called "Asylum #51," It was the same one. I knew very little of this asylum, except for the fact that it was built on the same land a laboratory once stood that studied the criminally insane. There were stories that some of the doctors tortured the patients, even ended up killing some of them. So I did some more research on it.

I had found out that Asylum #51 is the product of years of rebuilding a single asylum. Before Asylum #51 was Asylum #1-50. Apparently the other fifty asylums that came before it were torn down because of some patients escaping. So the owners of this asylum had it torn down and rebuilt, every rebuild making the asylum more and more like a maze, to make sure no one could get out.

Once the fifty-first attempt had succeeded in stopping a patient from escaping, they stuck to it, and named it "Asylum #51". I had my satchel full of my equipment and was ready to embark on this mission. I hopped on over to the asylum, and took a quick picture with my camera. I looked at the picture I had just captured, and took notice of its design.

The front door was, at least, ten feet tall. the building itself was probably twenty-four feet, judging that it has three rows of windows. A three story building, pretty big to just be an insane asylum. A couple of the lights were on, I'm guessing maybe only a third of the rooms in this building are being used. A bit strange, why build such a huge framework of wood and stone? It's not just to keep patients from escaping.

If they wanted to do that, why not install more security features, not build such a superstructure as this. Install more cameras, hire more staff, doors that can only be locked from the outside, build an electric fence around it perhaps. I put my camera away in my satchel, and continued to walk up towards the door. I knocked on the door, and one of the doctors that works here greeted me in.

"Hello. Are you a visitor?" He asked me.

"No, I'm just here on an official order by the princess herself," I told him. He gave a look of worry, and went back to his quirky smile.

"Oh, OK. I'm assuming you want a tour around the asylum?"

"No, I am quite capable of escorting myself around this building," I smiled back at him. He bowed at me, and escorted me to the main hallway of this building.

"I am sorry, but since we weren't expecting a reporter from Celestia, we must escort all the patients to their rooms. If you don't mind waiting in this room here," He said while pointing to a room with a sign next to the door that said "Waiting Room," he told me to wait here for him to come back, so I did. The doctor left the room, but the second he turned around, his white lab coat flicked up and revealed blood stains under it. My eyes widened, but I just thought it was maybe an attack this doctor had gone through in this asylum. It is an insane asylum, so the doctors have to expect getting attacked once in a while

~Thirty Minutes Later~

I was reading one of the magazines the reception room had, when I heard it. A scream, a bloodcurdling scream coming from upstairs. I thought it was just one of the patients losing it in here, as usual, but this time was different. It sounded like a scream of pain. When it faded, I heard another scream from my left, my right, behind me, and below me! All around me, screaming, yelling, it didn't stop. I looked around every which way where the screams were coming from. I was able to make one of the many screams out. It sounded like it said "Help me! Someone!" It sent chills down my spine.

This is what I came for, some bloodcurdling evidence that mysterious events are happening here! I got up, and headed out the reception room. I looked down each way of the hallway waiting for another scream. I got what I wanted. I heard a scream of extreme pain coming from the left. I pulled out my camcorder, and batteries from my satchel. Only five batteries ... it won't be enough to get hard evidence of this place. Hopefully there are some more around here.

I popped a battery into the camcorder, and switched it on. I hit the record button, and started heading down the hallway.

Let the investigating begin ...