Bound Shadows

I slowly open my eyes and wait for them to adjust to the darkness of the room I'm in, "Ugh, fuckin' mornings." I try to get up but I'm held down to a table, "What the-" Glowing-blue chains are holding my arms down to the table and regular chains bind the rest of me to the table, "No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, not again, not again, not again!"

The sound of bone hitting the floor echoes throughout the room, getting louder as it gets closer to the table. A robed man steps out the shadows and over to the table, the man bends over so that I can see his face, there is only a skull in the hood.

I struggle, trying to break out of the chains, black fire flickers across my arms, only to be extinguished by the light of the chains. I continue to struggle until I feel a familiar burning on the back of my right hand. The skeleton grabs my hand and twists my arm around in the chains so that the palms of my hands are facing down, a purple glyph is glowing on the back of my hand.

The skeleton reaches into it's robe and produces a glowing-blue key, terror controls my movements as I thrash around trying to escape the chains, images of a boy with gray hair and a green and a blue eye trapped in the same chains flash through my mind. The skeleton brings the key above my right hand, another image shows the little boy in my place and an old man in the skeleton's except on the boy's right hand a keyhole has opened up.

The skeleton lifts his arm up, the old man in the flashing images, and slams the key down, stabbing it directly into my hand," AAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!" In the image the key went through the keyhole. The key rips up my skin as it is forcefully pressed down into my hand, "AAAAHHHHHHH!!" There is a resounding crack as the key breaks through the bone in my hand, "AAAHHHHH!" I scream in pain once again. My hand slips around in the blood that's pouring from my hand which only twists the key around, driving it deeper, ripping up the inside of my hand, "AAAAHHHH, AAH, AAAHHHHH!!!"

The skeleton yanks the key out of my hand, ripping out parts of veins, muscle, and bone, it raises it's hand up again and drives the key back into my hand, ripping all the way through and out the palm of it, "GAAAHHHH!"

I sit up gasping for breath, light flooding my eyes. I look around my room, just now realizing that it was a dream. As soon as I start thinking back to it my hand flares up with excruciating pain once again, "AAAAAAAAahhhhhhhh!!" My voice cracks halfway through the scream and starts to sound very hoarse and scratchy. I curl up on my bed and start sobbing pathetically.

Vinyl's Point of View

I wake up to the sound of screaming, "The hell?" I walk upstairs to see what happened. "Heh, this is one of the worst things to do in horror movies," I joke to myself. I follow the noise to Neiro's room where I now hear sobbing, "I-is he crying?" I open the door and walk into the room to see Neiro curled up on his bed crying to himself.

"Neiro are you okay?" I ask him as I walk over to him.

He just whimpers and buries himself in his arms, hiding his face. I sit down next to him and comfortingly pat his back as he tries to shy away from me, "it's okay, it's okay." I continue to comfort him as he leans on my shoulder still crying. I drape my arm over his shoulder and hold him closer to me as he slowly stops crying. He rests his head on my shoulder and slowly falls asleep. I lie him down on his bed and walk out of the room smiling about what had just happened but I inwardly wish that it hadn't ended.

'Ugh, why is he so damn cute,' I think to myself as I get into my own bed, 'I wonder what he'd think if I were to tell him, would he be angry, would he hate me?' "Ugh, damn it!" I yell as I throw my pillow across the room. After I retrieve my pillow, I take off my glasses and rest them on my nightstand.  I get into bed and start to close my crimson-colored eyes and just before they close they flare blood-red.