Hell Spawn (Book 1)

Chap 5

When the soldiers snapped out of their trance I followed behind them as they jogged/ran back down the corridor the way we had came and made their way up a staircase, I was about to continue when I was pulled back and without thinking threw my fist round blindly knocking the lady in charge to the ground causing everybody to look at me.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?"

I looked from where my fist was still in mid air to the soldiers still standing on the stairs, shrugging, "Making someone let go of me? What the hell does it look like I'm doing. Now," I barged past them and up the stairs, "Hurry up, this is getting annoying, lets go see if anybody else is still alive in this hell hole."

Ignoring everybody behind me, I casually strolled up the stairs until we got to the top of the staircase, which was the only exit. Not waiting for anybody - not even Declan or Kara- I pushed the door open with my shoulder and finding out that it was stiff, after using all my body weight to push it open I stood and watched the corridor, frozen in place at what I saw.

The rest of the building was pulled down, only the base remained and a few half destroyed walls, the floor tiles were still in place though and as I wandered the desolate areas I wondered what had happened to everybody and how had they pulled down the building without finding us first, never mind when had they pulled it down I was sure I had been given a meal yesterday. But then again -in the world that I had lived in for who knows how long- time wasn't something I was able to measure well.

I continued to stroll around the site, hearing a heaving noise as the soldiers and my 'friends' finally joined the party. But I couldn't find any relief in it, how long had they known about us? I could hear them talking and made my way to where you could tell the door to outside used to be, and despite the fact that the walls were non-existent and I was technically outside, I still felt trapped. Standing in the threshold I could only imagine what the world was like, most likely things had either gone to shit or they hadn't changed at all.

The world was that caught up in trying not to offend anyone while offending people who weren't afraid to have an opinion that it was probably the first option, especially if they found out that Governments were using humans to experiment and it resulted in patients killing guards.

"Z!"

Looking behind me I saw Declan and Kara running towards me and felt a small sense of joy, which quickly became swallowed up with impatience, but again the two feelings switched places as they hurried and reached me in the threshold.

"W-we can really leave can't we!? I've dreamed of this day!" Keeping my head forward I allowed my eyes to drift to the side and down as they looked at Declan's excited eyes. I couldn't understand it still. How could all of this happened and not one of the patients talk about the fact that people were taken to solitary. Maybe they thought we were dead? No...they probably didn't care. Looking past the threshold and to the blank canvas of an area I had a small recollection and realised that something was seriously wrong here.

This had been a busy area when I went into this institute, now it looked like something out of those old apocalypse movies. Barren, not so much dead, but more deserted.

"Alright, what the fuck are you guys playing at." Even I couldn't believe how devoid of emotion and blunt my voice was as I asked the group behind us, their weapons now being a threat. I could see how confused they were.

"What do you mean?" The guy I had beaten up asked me, and I could feel irrational anger welling up, what did he think I meant!? Wasn't it obvious!?"

"I MEAN! How the hell do you expect me to believe that you were able to get everyone out, pull down the fucking building and then find us! In the space of a few days! Because by my counting, I've only slept three times since my last meal so explain to me how three days or so ago this place was intact!"

They just stared at me and I could feel the air tense, Kara and Declan also tensed behind me and I could tell they were beginning to realise my reasons for agitation.