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Short Stories Horror Haze: Original Collection (Chapter 1 to 11 together)
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Haze: Original Collection (Chapter 1 to 11 together)This story may contain adult content. |
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| Written by Jeremy Fitzgerald | |
| Tuesday, 06 May 2008 | |
| Last Updated ( Friday, 16 May 2008 ) |
Haze
CHAPTER ONE
The Sickness
I am Dr. Lionel Kneeler; I love my job because I can help people who are sick and need help I am a doctor at a little clinic in Ohio. I was at work doing the usual checkups, routines, etc when patients started flooding through the clinic like a school of fish.
Through the crowds combined chattering one voice was heard clearly throughout the facility, "EVERYBODY CALM DOWN WHAT IS THE PROBLEM" says Jake, the only male nurse in our facility. Almost in complete unison the crowd responds with a loud "THE FOG" all of the doctors suddenly looked at me like I knew something about it "what are you all looking at me for?" I said.
I took one young men into the urgent care ward to check if he had inhaled any of this "fog" and possibly find out what it really was, if it was deadly and where it's coming from. As far as I could tell, nothing was really wrong with him, besides the swollen throat, which looked sort of, infected and puffy I took a sample and it returned negative for anything out of the ordinary. Maybe just a throat infection I thought, but suddenly I heard a loud thump behind me it was the young man I brought in, he was dead. I decided to take more tests and maybe find a cure for this before the rest of the patients fell. As soon as the last test was done the lights went out which was odd because it was a nice day out and our generators were just tested. I tried to call the maintenance workers we usually called, but the phone was dead....
CHAPTER 2
Problems
I turned the emergency power on so at least we could keep the machines running, I heard the patients starting to panic from the other room probably at the loss of the lights I told everyone that emergency power is coming on. I noticed a few seconds before the lights came back on that the patient's throats seemed to glow a weird purple colour, maybe there was way more to this thing then I thought.
I tried giving them an assortment of low impact throat medicine but no effect seemed to come from it. On one desperate patient I tried a number of antibiotic medicines but still nothing was working I tried mixing Chloraseptic and Isoprene together which seemed to work well but one of the 2 people I tried it on still died, I didn't know what to do. I had no help because Jake and the other nurses and doctors were on crowd control. Things weren't looking good today.
One man came through in through the fog a few seconds later he didn't look as bad as the other patients who have came through. Maybe there were people immune to this. "Where is Dr. Kneeler?" he asked in a rather subtle voice. He burst into my office and closed the door. I have seen the antidote to this and have taken some I can walk in the mist if you take some of this too we can go and get it and save the rest of the patients." He produced three vials of a bluish green liquid. "Drink up". I took the vial and drank it I also gave one to Jake and I explained to him what was happening he agreed and started preparing for the journey we had ahead of us. Apparently there was a cure in Colorado but the fog was a lot worse down in the states.
CHAPTER 3
Journey
I told the rest of my nurses to look after the patients and I told them about the cure they were relieved to hear that it could be cured but didn't really agree with me going out into it alone I explained that I wouldn't be alone and they seemed to lighten up. A few minutes later Jake & me were in the ambulance while this stranger was in the back, windows up and taped so none of the fog could come in.
We arrived at Gathers hospital about 15 minutes later after this stranger told us that we needed more medicine to cure this. All the lights were off doors wide open and empty. We knew the area where the medicine was, so we decided to go in, get the vials and get out. As soon as I stepped out of the ambulance I felt really light headed and so did Jake. I thought to myself "what was that stuff that man gave us, we aren't getting infected out here in the fog but at what cost".
We all rushed in and we saw tons of "survivors" if you could call them that they clawed at us begging us to take them with us we had to say no and they didn't take to well to that "Take Us With YOU" they said. One pulled out a large handgun out of his pants and pointed it at us "NOW" he yelled. He fired off one shot, which was pretty close to Jake's head, and we ran away. We thought we knew where the medicine was and it was there just hidden in vials on a dresser.
There was one more "survivor" beside the dresser, he was so infected that he was glowing purple everywhere he must have been out there for awhile "et o f dos vials" said the man he took out his own handgun "'rop em" he didn't look like he could even hold up the thing for too much longer as he had been out there in this fog for too long. I told Jake to run so we did and the stranger followed us back to the ambulance. One scream and a lone gunshot were fired, we didn't know what he shot at but it wasn't us, we continued back to the hospital.
We got back into the ambulance and off to the side of the hospital we saw the infected man being dragged off into the mist he looked dead that's when we realized where that bullet went. The others saw us leaving a fired at the ambulance blowing our left rear tire and putting a few holes in the back of the ambulance as well.
CHAPTER 4
Discoveries
We got back into the clinic and realized the hospital across the street had a lot more room and possibly medicine. The lights were off in this hospital before we left for Gathers; maybe someone was in there maybe so we decided once we transported everyone in the clinic over to Uptare Hospital across the street we would go back to Gathers and get the patients.
"Maybe we could save them all" I thought out loud, "don't think so said one of our patients "God's getting back at us for what we've done" he said this in a serious tone. I realized who the man was Herbert Godiefiy the town's local priest "If I die today it is because the man upstairs wills it, and if I'm dieing, please let me die in peace it's not right to cheat God". All I could do was stare blankly into his white sickly eyes and try and contemplate how we're going to save these people.
I walked up to the stranger who seemed to know where we had to go and asked him "what's in your bag stranger?" He pulled out a newspaper from Wisconsin and read this "Call me Sergei, and read this" the paper said front page "Mysterious Fog Claims 100 lives" Sergei looked at me and said "my wife, my kids and my grandchild were the first to go it all started in Wisconsin, I got home from work one day to find them all dead, all for a cure for this fog experiment."
"Fog experiment??" I said curious "Yeah some military arrowhead project supposed to turn this Iraq thing around likkety-split but yeah I killed a scientist I found running, he knew what he did and he was trying to flee the scene of the crime."
"What is this thing then?" I asked interested "wish I could tell you but I don't even know, the man I killed took a bunch of the immunity stuff with him and drank most of them before he died, he left 4 vials which are all used up by me you and the boy, I got one left" he looked disappointed in this discovery. "We should start transporting these people soon" I said "Yeah I agree"
Chapter 5
Problems 2
About half an hour later we started loading all of our patients into our ambulance we transported a few over and then decided to search the place for survivors. The first 2 floors were clean, no sign of anyone being in there. We were all worried about the top floor the stranger said that the fog has a weird effect on people made them go insane and they usually cooped up in the tops of buildings until they just die from the fog. We were on the 9th floor of the hospital when to our disgust we found bodies of nurses, doctors, patients everyone gone most of them had body parts missing or looked like they were eaten right off their bodies.
We heard a number of things after that, howls that rang through the hospital, groans that would send chills down your spine and laughs, blood curdling laughs from the top few floors. "Just a few of God's terrors boys" Herbert said prominently "shut the hell up with your God bullshit Herb" said the stranger "I've had enough of God if this is God's will, then God killed my family so the next time your talking to him you tell him I said go fu-" I stopped him right there before he got too far. "We're going to have to work together before we're all dead" they seemed to understand and fell silent immediately.
The noises upstairs sounded like something out of our supernatural book of creatures (one of the books the patients get to read while they wait) one a vampire, one a zombie or a Frankenstein or something and one, hopefully not a werewolf. Walking around we noticed 2 guns on the ground; one was a revolver of some type the other looked like a police handgun. Of course we picked them up they had a few bullets left and looked like they were used to defends themselves from something but as Herbert would say "GOD only knows". We heard a few gunshots from upstairs also some screams, ripping and gnawing. It twisted and turned one patient's stomach and he vomited all over the hospital floor. We decided to leave him in one of the hospital beds while we went to investigate.
Chapter 6
Q & A
All throughout this little adventure I've been thinking, "Why is the military involved in this? What were they trying to do? Where did they get this fog from? Why did it go wrong?" The stranger gave me some answers but not enough for my liking. He told me that it's from a Wisconsin research lab, how it was to be used for military purposes in Iraq, how it has different effects on different people some possibly mutant into creatures, some get throat infections that swell to the point of suffocation and some just get weaker or crazy. I knew how to cure the throat with a mixture of Chloraseptic and Isoprene. There are a lot more questions to be asked and probably as many answers to be found.
Chapter 7
One Floor Higher
We decided to go one floor higher; there were 2 more floors above us so hopefully nothing was on the floor we would soon be on we might lose someone from our group. The lights were on but the elevator wasn't working well so we were forced to take the stairs. More growling, gunshots and screams, it seemed like there was a war going on upstairs. We got to the next floor and searched around, there was something here watching us, the hairs on the back of my neck stood tall when I felt the things eyes set upon me it was something hairy and something quick, all we could see was a black shadowy blur running through each wing of the hospital.
I felt it run past me at least twice, its long silver hairs running right past my eyes I had to close one as I felt the hair scrape my eye. I raised my gun and luckily shot it in the back, fast but luckily not too smart we went to examine it but that's when it jumped up, latched itself onto me and tried to bite me. Suddenly its silver hairs blurred out of vision and screams came from behind me Herbert was knocked down but it was one of our patients getting eaten. The thing tried to swallow the lady whole she got stuck in its small throat and couldn't finish; Sergei pointed the gun at its head and yelled "Die you bastard HAHAHA" and shot 3 bullets at its head. Blood splattered everywhere as the monster let out a loud shriek and bit the woman in half. "That was way to close for my liking" said Sergei "the woman's dead, bit her in half poor thing, oh well people are bound to die from these things"
I looked at him in disgust I suddenly saw how killing that scientist was easy for him, I think he may be hiding a lot more then he lets on. He seemed to know what he was doing at first, and I believed that he wanted to save us but there might be a little insanity behind that plan. "Why did this have to happen now" I said as I began to examine the body. The monster had a name tag apparently his name was Gary Thins "These things are mutated humans this one's name is Gary" I said to the group "Gary......we'll miss you at the church" said Herbert sickly, "You God forsaken devil Sergei!! May God condemn you to death early" Herbert's voice began to rise just then at the sound of Herbert's voice a more human like monster came towards our group and told us "come over here survivors before they realize who you are" he started to walk away when I yelled "HEY who are "they"" he looked at me and waved for us to come we followed, he didn't look infected at all.
Chapter 8
Tricks
He led us to a large freezer used for keeping certain medicine's fresh and chilled. "The monster's they don't come in here" the last word sounded like Heeeeere. He locked the door "they don't like the cold at all. One of the patients looked around and saw blood splattered on the floor, he looked closer and saw a mutilated body, looked away then vomited. Paying no attention to the vomiting patient we went on with a discussion about who they were
"They'll be after yer blood if ye haven't transformed already; most people are already done in. The scientists from Wisconsin, their everywhere searching for people like you, and they don't need you alive. Trust me" he lifted his shirt revealing 4 bullet holds in his chest none were bleeding. "I'm just a more civilized version off them ya know" he looked at Herbert and lunged "one of the patients punched him in the face and he fell to the floor they pinned him down and put the gun in his mouth.
I guess I am the unofficial leader here so I knelt down and asked the human/monster "what the hell do you think you're doing freak" the monster was not speaking anything close to English now, twitching, struggling and speaking gibberish which he was held down Herbert looked at his neck and saw there was Gary's blood on it and realized that's what set this monster off him off.
They're like sharks Lionel blood makes them go crazy. He looked at the monster on the ground and saw him transforming right before his eyes ears grew his eyes became yellow and wide and his arms became bat wings I personally shot him in the head and the transformation reversed and a dead human lay ahead of me instead of a giant bat. I rallied everyone together and said "From now on I am your leader do as I say and we will get out of this alive there are things in this hospital that will defy anything we've learned about in our lives, we've been lucky the past 2 attacks as we have only lost one person which is a horrible loss when it is someone's life but at least we're all still here." I paused to see if anyone was listening and to my surprise all of them were focused on what I was saying "We will get out of this we must watch each other's backs, find weapons and work together we will get out of this I promise you all"
Chapter 9
Workin'
After assuming unofficial control of our group I decided to make little teams up of 3 or 4 people so we could scout the floors a little more efficiantly. the only thing that was stopping our progress through the hospital was the fact that Mr. Bat Monster locked us in this freezer when he closed the door. Apparantly turning into a giant bat thing wasn't good enough he had to have super strength too. Good thing he didnt live any longer then he did or we might be in a worse situation.
Even though we were stuck in this freezer with no real idea on how to get out i made the teams anyways with our group of 12, (was previously 13 before the lady got eaten by Gary) Jake had 4 people with clubs, chair legs, etc, Sergei had his one gun and 4 people one being Herbert with whatever they could find and me i had my 4, one being Jake the only person i really knew out of our group. and 3 others all who brought a little something of thier own, one had a knife on him.
"Ok" I said "First things first, how do we get out of here" I suddenly felt a large pain shoot through me, every time something bad happened to me i would always think of that "immunity" stuff the stranger gave me. Maybe i shouldn't of taken it, Sergei seemed quite pleased as this was happening to me, that psychotic smile said it all. Jake immediatly came over to me and tried to find out what happened "What's the matter, man?" he said as i fainted and drifted off into my own little world.
Chapter 9 B
Jake Time
"He's out cold, help me move him off the floor, onto those boxes" we lifted him onto the boxes so he would be out of the coldfog on the bottom i asked the crowd "what should we do?" Sergei decided since Dr. Kneeler was out that he was the new leader, i tried to stop him but nothing worked he threw me to the ground and told me to be a good boy before i got hurt. I was forced to listen to him he had a gun and was obviously sick in the head. He ordered Lional's group including me to go scout for weapons and turn the vents on... upstairs.
Everyone listened to him after he grabbed Dr. Kneelers gun out of his pocket, this psycho now had 2 guns, super, so we went upstairs and searched for weapons. The stairs leading to the next floor were drenched in a sickly white/red substance right on que the same guy who puked the last 2 times puked again, Im going to call him Pukes from now on. We got past this goop and i felt something watching me I looked up and a man was crawling on the ceiling, staring at me with bright yellow eyes while he moved "Save.....Me...... Please....I'll ... Do.. Anything" We had just come out of a situation like this with BatMan.
This monster looked less human than that guy by far, This monster did not want to be a monster he was crying the yellow in his eyes was dripping to the floor like neon water. "PLEASE!!!!" He shrieked out in pain as the white/red goop purged out of his body burning a large hole in the stairs I jumped back and asked him if he would help and he said "Anything...For...The....Cure" Dr.Kneeler mentioned something about that psycho Sergei having one more vial of it maybe if this monster could get rid of him we could get the serum and cure him. "We will help you but you must help us, first you must kill someone for us and help us get you the cure. Do you agree to that?" The monster's wide yellow eyes jumped open at the word "Cure" He responded "YES!!... YES!!... Anything.... For... The...Cure!!!" He jumped down and extended a hand "Deal...Shake...On...It" he seemed t be forcing a smile out through his newly formed skin. I shook his hand and he seemed estatic at the fact that he would finally become human again.
Chapter 10
Fallen
After making a deal with this monster to kill that psycho Sergei I pulled my hand back out from his covered in his gross, redish/white skin. This stairwell was gradually turning darker and darker by the second the bluish tint in the walls was slowly growing darker as well, the lights dimed further leaving us with little light all we could see was the glows around the patient's necks, and of course the monsters whole body and more howls and screams came from above.
"Do you know what those are?" I asked the monster, he shrugged "I've.. been... out.. here... awhile" Pukey started mutating I realized why he was puking so much, everybody reacts to this haze differently, isn't that what Dr. Kneeler said? He was infected head to toe where others just had the throat. If he wasn't transforming right beside me i wouldn't have noticed. His eyes natural blue colour was being torn apart by his newly red coloured ones. Wings spurted out of his back and as if God wanted him to become an angel. His rugged Jeans & T-Shirt combo became a heavenly cloak
All around us time seemed to slow and the monster's first sign that he would kill Sergei shone through as he stabbed this new monster with his sharp tounge. As these heavenly angel wings sprawled out of his back he let out a loud shreik, the monster seemed pleased "Get...them...before... turn...It's...easier" but this one wasn't as weak as the other ones, this new angel monster's mouth opened wide revealing rows upon rows of teeth the monster's head was no match and was instantly separated from it's body and as he swallowed the head those angelic wings drooped down and became as slick and oily as if they were covered in tar. "Oh my God! what the hell!" I yelled.
He looked at me with his half human half monstrous face and smiled and in a sort of dual voice he said "I will help turn on the power but that is all the help I'm giving after this I will become your nightmare, Embrace the darkness Jake and you... will.. become POWERFUL!" and with that sentance's end he shot a ball of light right at the ground below us, shattering the cement into pure rubble. As we fell we landed back into the room outside the freezer. "Wow what a ride" I said as i regained my balance and opened the door to the freezer, "We're baac....." Sergei turned and shot me right in the arm "UGH... what the fuck!!" I yelled at him "Don't plan to kill the devil, that's the easiest way to get burned, child." he said in a hellish voice his eyes flickered red, just as the angel's had few minutes ago. I sat down and realized I could'nt do anything by myself. I was not as experienced as anyone here, in life anyways. I am almost 20 almost, Sergei can control his mutation, Pukey's gained control of his monster form, everyone gets something different while i'm stuck at the low level. "I hope i get infected just to become more powerful then you, SERGEI" I said proud
Suddenly the growls and moans became one loud synced noise, I could feel it tearing my ear drums apart but it seemed to relax Sergei. The doctor lay still through all of this noise. But after the howls and moans from upstairs seized, a loud bang, thousands of footsteps and a whole bunch of yelling crashed through the downstairs, hopefully on the ground floor. Either the army had just arrived or people are fighting a giant centipede downstairs. If what the bat monster said was true, the army would have scientists coming for us, to get our "clean" blood and who knows what a giant centepede would want but it couldn't be fun.
"Hail Mary Full of Grace The Lord Is With Thee Blessed Are Thou Amongst Women And Blessed Is The Fruit From Thy Womb Jesus Holy Mary Mother Of God Pray For Us Sinners Now And At The Hour Of Our Death AMEN" was carved into the Reverend by none other then Sergei as the signature at the bottom of his exposed stomach showed. Please Lional wake up soon, nap times OVER. Sergei's smile grew and grew as the real horrors began to unfold.
Chapter 11
Awakening
As time in the freezer went on Sergei killed the priest and carved the Hail Mary into him with only God knows what. Lional Kneeler's previously unconsious body lay upright as he rose up from his sleep, "Wow, what happened" he said out loud. Suddenly Sergei popped up and claimed "Jakey boy gone and killed the priest, I shot him with your gun to stop him but I as too late. Sorry Doc." He handed me my gun back and as soon as he did I shot him right in between the eyes. "I know Jake wouldn't do that, liar, now die." He looked shocked but no pain seemed to show on his gastly white face Jake seemed happy, but I wasn't. Not after what i saw, a hole that dosent bleed, just like the Bat monsters human side, he was infected this whole time, but how? "THE SERUM!!" I yelled as i grabbed him by the collar "What was in that serum, you bastard"
He smiled as he pushed me over the box I was sitting on and as he walked away i saw his arm shine underneath that long brown trenchcoat of his. He was transforming into some sort of metal man. Sergei's transformation seemed very easy compared to the others we saw, maybe he has done it before? Maybe he's like the angel who helped us with the power. His arm sharpened into a blade and he stabbed the dead priest one last time for good measure, he lifted the lifeless body up and let the blood trickle into his mouth, he was loving it every last drop made that new metal mouth stretch into a smile. " I swear Sergei, you'll pay for this, I Swear it!!!" I yelled as he kicked Herbert's body off of his arm. His lifeless body laying there a giant hole in the middle of his chest. Jake piped up "What the fuck you psycho, ill kill you myself, you'll see" Why did I trust that man, our ultimate betrayer walking away right now with our friend kicked to the side. The footsteps downstair got louder while the roars and growls from upstair seized to exist.
Sergei's new power must have come with some arrogance as he threw his and my guns to the side as his arm transformed back into a normal hand. "You'll be needing them, HAhahahaha" said Sergei "I'm off to find my angel, children wish me luck!" His arm transformed back into the blade and he jumped through the wall. I turned to Jake and started to patch up his wound he told me what happened while I was "away" I asked him "Do you think he will team up with the angel?" he said in a scared voice "I definatly hope not Lional, I definatly hope not"
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 05-06-2008 07:09, Keep up the good work. » Reply to this comment...  05-06-2008 14:34, wow this is really good man keep it going and work hard because its ggggggggggggreat lol but ye seriously *guitar signal* keep it up its really good :D » Reply to this comment... |
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