Post by angel on Feb 2, 2007 21:59:45 GMT 1
THE FORBIDDEN GAME PART EIGHT THE KILL
C`est juste marie said I forgot darcey hadn’t forgotten we’d better check around see if this is the real joyland park or she didn’t need to finish the sentence she didn’t know exactly how they were supposed to tell the place looked authentic they crept through the silent park heading automatically for the front gates passing a restaurant dark and still what’s that bryan hissed I hear something its coming from over there look
It was the sound of water faint coming from up ahead it’s a fishing pond darcey said she recognised the booth with its red shingle roof it was dark like the other attractions but when they reached it she saw that the opaque water was swirling around its circular channel they wouldn’t leave that on all night would they? Well would they? Would they? Demanded Marie darceys heart was at a slow thumping beat you know what toto? I don’t think were in Kansas anymore darcey said
Well well Dorothy will you look at this said marie there was a fishing pole leaning against the booth marie hooked an index finger around it ah now I have a very bad feeling about that kian said it was the first time he’d spoken in minutes darcey understood what he meant it was too obvious too inviting but they didn’t know they weren’t in joyland park it was possible that the park might leave the water going at night
Maybe it kept algae from growing or something shall I? Marie said twirling the pole or shall I? You’re enjoying yourself aren’t you? Shane said and there was something flatly resentful about his voice but there’s other people here you know whatever trouble you make affects us too… he said oh come on you guys it’s the only way to find out isn’t it? Said Marie in a thingyy voice darcey chewed on her lip sometimes Marie was recklessness went out of bounds and nobody but nix could stop her if darcey didn’t say anything Marie would do it
Darcey hesitated marie lowered the line into the dark rushing water darcey realised that she shane kian and bryan were all braced none of them was stupid if this was the shadow world something bad would happen something bad the line dangled into the water slack marie jiggled the pole while darcey thought of all the things that might come up dead kittens severed hands mutant marine life
Tristain knew what you were thinking he took things from your mind and made them real so if they were in the shadow world then the worst thing the worst thing that any of them were thinking a bite marie said no maybe its just caught? She leaned over to look catching the thick yarnlike line in her bare hand and tugging come on come on marie tugged then reached into the water to grope what’s wrong with- Dee don’t- darcey screamed the water erupted
Darcey had seen a geyser once not old faithful but a smaller one this looked just the same there was an exposition of mud coloured water straight up it spattered across darceys face and beaded on her clothes then it just stayed there until darcey realised it wasn’t water at all something that had come out and grabbed hold of marie a man it had hands like a man that were around Marie’s throat but something kept darceys brain from recognising it was a man in another instant she saw what it was the thing had no head
Its body ended at the shoulders with a stump of a neck the thing had volition though even if it didn’t had a brain it was trying to drag marie under the water all this passed through darceys mind in less then a second plenty long enough though for the thing to wrestle marie almost to the waters surface I’m not brave I don’t know how to fight but she was grabbing at the things arm with both hands to her horror her finger nails sank in penetrating the arm beneath the tatter of a sleeve her heart was thumping loader then it had ever thumped before
When darcey snatched her hand back she saw that her nails were full of it oh Yuk that’s so gross what is it? She screamed how the hell do I know ive just seen it myself duhhhhhhhhh Bryan sounded like a small child in a moaning mood everybody was shouting somebody was screaming after another second darcey realised her own voice with both legs trapped up against the booth and kian and shane hanging on to her marie didn’t have room to kick she was fumbling with the knife she grabbed from darcey
She got it free and her arm went up and then kian yanked her she dropped marks Swiss army knife into the swirling water her shirt her shirt her shirt bryan was yelling the body now had marie by the collar kian was trying to pull marie out of her shirt but the buttons in front were holding darcey didn’t want to touch the headless thing with her bare hands again she didn’t but then the thing wrestled Marie’s head almost into the water and darcey found herself grabbing its rubbery arms again it was bent over dunking Marie’s head like someone dunking wash into a river and darcey stared directly into its neck stump
Nothing about its body was nice to look at what flesh could be seen through the rags of clothes was grotesque bloated and swollen until it looked like a kewpie doll that had been boiled then inflated with a bicycle pump the screaming and shouting were still going on none of their pulling was doing any good without conscious though darcey found herself scrambling over the wall of the booth over the channel one leg dangled in the rushing water then she was standing in the booth behind the headless thing
Pull kian pull darcey grabbed the thing from behind arms closing around its waist just above water level the waist squashed like an overripe peach she could feel things shifting inside the dripping clothes her cheeks was pressed up against the back of its wet shirt she locked one of her hands around the opposite wrist and pulled harder oh f**k the smell she opened her mouth to scream again at kian and gagged instead she couldn’t see anything that was going on in front all she could do was hang on and keep pulling backwards
The thing seemed to be rooted in the water she couldn’t drag it out it was a ghastly tug-of-war with her pulling at the body and kian shane and bryan pulling marie but suddenly she felt something give the body lurched backwards the tension was gone marie was free darcey let go and staggered into the wall of prizes behind her the things arms flailed for a moment coming in contact with nothing but air then as if something had dragged its feet and jerked it sharply downwards it disappeared into the dark water everything was silent again
C`est juste marie said I forgot darcey hadn’t forgotten we’d better check around see if this is the real joyland park or she didn’t need to finish the sentence she didn’t know exactly how they were supposed to tell the place looked authentic they crept through the silent park heading automatically for the front gates passing a restaurant dark and still what’s that bryan hissed I hear something its coming from over there look
It was the sound of water faint coming from up ahead it’s a fishing pond darcey said she recognised the booth with its red shingle roof it was dark like the other attractions but when they reached it she saw that the opaque water was swirling around its circular channel they wouldn’t leave that on all night would they? Well would they? Would they? Demanded Marie darceys heart was at a slow thumping beat you know what toto? I don’t think were in Kansas anymore darcey said
Well well Dorothy will you look at this said marie there was a fishing pole leaning against the booth marie hooked an index finger around it ah now I have a very bad feeling about that kian said it was the first time he’d spoken in minutes darcey understood what he meant it was too obvious too inviting but they didn’t know they weren’t in joyland park it was possible that the park might leave the water going at night
Maybe it kept algae from growing or something shall I? Marie said twirling the pole or shall I? You’re enjoying yourself aren’t you? Shane said and there was something flatly resentful about his voice but there’s other people here you know whatever trouble you make affects us too… he said oh come on you guys it’s the only way to find out isn’t it? Said Marie in a thingyy voice darcey chewed on her lip sometimes Marie was recklessness went out of bounds and nobody but nix could stop her if darcey didn’t say anything Marie would do it
Darcey hesitated marie lowered the line into the dark rushing water darcey realised that she shane kian and bryan were all braced none of them was stupid if this was the shadow world something bad would happen something bad the line dangled into the water slack marie jiggled the pole while darcey thought of all the things that might come up dead kittens severed hands mutant marine life
Tristain knew what you were thinking he took things from your mind and made them real so if they were in the shadow world then the worst thing the worst thing that any of them were thinking a bite marie said no maybe its just caught? She leaned over to look catching the thick yarnlike line in her bare hand and tugging come on come on marie tugged then reached into the water to grope what’s wrong with- Dee don’t- darcey screamed the water erupted
Darcey had seen a geyser once not old faithful but a smaller one this looked just the same there was an exposition of mud coloured water straight up it spattered across darceys face and beaded on her clothes then it just stayed there until darcey realised it wasn’t water at all something that had come out and grabbed hold of marie a man it had hands like a man that were around Marie’s throat but something kept darceys brain from recognising it was a man in another instant she saw what it was the thing had no head
Its body ended at the shoulders with a stump of a neck the thing had volition though even if it didn’t had a brain it was trying to drag marie under the water all this passed through darceys mind in less then a second plenty long enough though for the thing to wrestle marie almost to the waters surface I’m not brave I don’t know how to fight but she was grabbing at the things arm with both hands to her horror her finger nails sank in penetrating the arm beneath the tatter of a sleeve her heart was thumping loader then it had ever thumped before
When darcey snatched her hand back she saw that her nails were full of it oh Yuk that’s so gross what is it? She screamed how the hell do I know ive just seen it myself duhhhhhhhhh Bryan sounded like a small child in a moaning mood everybody was shouting somebody was screaming after another second darcey realised her own voice with both legs trapped up against the booth and kian and shane hanging on to her marie didn’t have room to kick she was fumbling with the knife she grabbed from darcey
She got it free and her arm went up and then kian yanked her she dropped marks Swiss army knife into the swirling water her shirt her shirt her shirt bryan was yelling the body now had marie by the collar kian was trying to pull marie out of her shirt but the buttons in front were holding darcey didn’t want to touch the headless thing with her bare hands again she didn’t but then the thing wrestled Marie’s head almost into the water and darcey found herself grabbing its rubbery arms again it was bent over dunking Marie’s head like someone dunking wash into a river and darcey stared directly into its neck stump
Nothing about its body was nice to look at what flesh could be seen through the rags of clothes was grotesque bloated and swollen until it looked like a kewpie doll that had been boiled then inflated with a bicycle pump the screaming and shouting were still going on none of their pulling was doing any good without conscious though darcey found herself scrambling over the wall of the booth over the channel one leg dangled in the rushing water then she was standing in the booth behind the headless thing
Pull kian pull darcey grabbed the thing from behind arms closing around its waist just above water level the waist squashed like an overripe peach she could feel things shifting inside the dripping clothes her cheeks was pressed up against the back of its wet shirt she locked one of her hands around the opposite wrist and pulled harder oh f**k the smell she opened her mouth to scream again at kian and gagged instead she couldn’t see anything that was going on in front all she could do was hang on and keep pulling backwards
The thing seemed to be rooted in the water she couldn’t drag it out it was a ghastly tug-of-war with her pulling at the body and kian shane and bryan pulling marie but suddenly she felt something give the body lurched backwards the tension was gone marie was free darcey let go and staggered into the wall of prizes behind her the things arms flailed for a moment coming in contact with nothing but air then as if something had dragged its feet and jerked it sharply downwards it disappeared into the dark water everything was silent again