Kloud sauntered through the winding corridors of the mansion, sticking closely to the shadowed recesses on either side.
His eyes were fixed on the path ahead, and his strides were ragged but certain. He was a man on a mission. . .or should I say a man on yet another hunt. Despite already claiming the lives of several victims, he could not quench his bloodlust. He could still clearly see the horror in his preys’ eyes, the violent trembles that overtook them as he drew closer, and the hypnotic state of ecstasy that washed over him as he felt their pulses slowly fizzle out. His victims had been easy kills, save Litral who retaliated out of dumfounded horror. He had simply steered them in the right direction: the path of demise, and the blood that tainted his hands and clothing fueled him to continue his wanton rampage of the house. The smell of blood, a sacrosanct to Kloud, clung to his nostrils, and he drank in the scent deeply, not wanting to let it escape. He was determined to find him, the one person who had made an attempt to spoil his fun. The person who had began to play Kloud’s game. The second phantom assailant.
Kloud was enraged when he came upon the scene that had been left for him to discover in the highest tower of the mansion. SSK had been killed, but not by Kloud’s hands. His plans had been completely disrupted, and vengeance blinded the sadistic fiend to all other things. Compassion had long since vanished from Kloud’s mind, succeeding hesitancy and guilt.
“This mansion will be forever stained, corroding from the inside out as it did to me. Whoever decided join the dance of death as my equal will fall twice as far as any of the others, I swear it.”
Kloud’s lip twitched, followed almost instantly by an irritated jerk of his head. His fingers seemed to not be able to remain still, for they had gone too long without wringing someone’s neck. Stalking past the shattered glass that led out to the pool, he continued to be lost in frenzied, horrific thoughts. He completely ignored the study that wreaked of the acrid stench of burning, rotting flesh, and continued onward silently.
he thought to himself when, as if the demons of death were smiling down upon him, the idea
came to him.
Dahill stumbled in an ungainly fashion down the corridor, drawing closer to Kloud with each and every step. A bottle of whiskey flashed silently in his hands, the light bouncing off of the walls and casting long streaks across the flooring. Once or twice, Dahill fell into the walls, cursing in a slurred way each and every time. In his opposite hand, he held a cell phone that appeared to be attached to his ear. He yelled frantically into it at irregular intervals, before throwing it aside with a painful wail. Blood drenched his clothes, the salty and metallic aroma gliding through the air, tendrils of the tantalizing fragrance caressing Kloud’s cheeks and wrapping around his throat. Kloud felt his throat go dry, his eyes narrow, and his muscles tense, ready to spring.
From his pocket, Kloud drew a cigarette lighter, and waited. It did not take long for Dahill to realize that he was not alone within the corridor, and by that time it was already far too late.
“Uhhh, hey Youu! Have you seen Pim??!?? Someone snuck up on him with a knife. Wait . . . Those eyes! Wh-what are you doing!!!
Kloud rocketed through the air, coming down on Dahill effortlessly, driving his knees into his throat.
“You are going to feel every moment of this. YOU! DAHILL! You thought you could play my game? MY GAME! Think again, SSK was mine!!”
He roared, grabbing the bottle of alcohol away from the flailing Dahill. The man beneath Kloud screamed an intangible slur of pleads, but Kloud was deaf to them. He opened the bottle, and began to pour its contents all over Dahill; into his eyes, all over his chest, down his arms. Dahill screamed in pain, blood and green ooze gushing from his eyes like miniature fountains. Kloud felt bones snap under his weight, and distantly heard the gurgling breaths that ripped through the air even though they were being emitted from just below him. His face was a mask of stone, everything about his actions mechanical, robotic. His body was numb as he felt the stimulated heart beneath him continue to pulsate, knowing that that would be lasting for only seconds more.
Kloud brought the lighter down close to Dahill’s arm, flicked his thumb against the revolving end,
and watch as a single flame leapt to life, dancing in anticipation.
Kloud brought it down to the flesh of Dahill’s arm, and watched as it ignited upon contact with the alcohol. Dahil shrieked, the flames slowly consuming his arm in an inferno of silent flame. His arm shot into the air and slapped against the wall with great force, trying everything he could think of to extinguish the flames, but his efforts were to no avail. He howled in pain as Kloud continued, following suit with the opposite arm, then bringing the flamed down directly upon Dahill’s eyes, which immediately exploded in their sockets, nervous tissue and synapses becoming tangled in Kloud’s hair.
The screams of excrutiating pain filled the hallway, shaking the mansion from its foundations, and stirring all that resided within the walls. Dahill thrashed beneath the powerful hold of Kloud, and that all too familiar scent of burning flesh billowed upwards in plumes. Kloud watched in satisfaction as the skin began to blister, peel away, and become nothing more than smoldering ash. The veins in Dahill’s throat bulged, before bursting open all the way from his chin to the base of his throat. Blood shot up in geysers, and Kloud began to grow bored.
Eerie moans and high pitched gasps shook Dahill’s now visible vocal cords, and his body spasmed in perpetual rhythm. Several times, Dahill’s torso shot off the ground, and his arms slapped against the wall with such force that all the charred bones shattered and cracked, becoming no more than piles of shards and soot.
Kloud held the bottle of alcohol aloft once more, and poured it into Dahill’s mouth, watching intently as it flowed visibly through his esophagus in certain places, and shot outward in others. Shifting his position, the silent murderer lowered the lighter once more. With a swift jerk, another lone flame sprang to life, and, as it did, Kloud thrust the lighter into Dahill’s mouth before rolling off of him.
The effect was instantaneous:
Dahill’s throat erupted into flame, heated bursts of fire jutting upward from his opened throat in thick spirals. The fire shot out from his ears, nose, mouth, and eyes. His throat disintegrated, and the fire quickly consumed the rest of his corpse.
“Burn away. Reduce to nothing. Suffer for all eternity.”
Kloud turned from the charred remains of Dahill and began to slink away. Serpents of smoke followed him from above, sticking to the ceiling whilst scavenging for a means of escaping the house. It was then that Kloud spied the cell phone once more, and remembered the voice that had nearly deafened him during the plight of Pim Hel.
It had been Dahill’s voice
The realization pounded into Kloud like a sledgehammer.
Dahill had not killed SSK, but was trying to find someone about Pim Hel. The blood . . . It had come from the murder scene of Pim, not SSK. I have killed the wrong person, the impersonator is still roaming the mansion.
Kloud let fly a powerful punch that made a large indentation in the wall. He had been driven by revenge, and, in doing so, delivered a cruel fate to someone whose time should not have come so soon. He glanced over his shoulder at the bubbling, flame eaten carcass of Dahill. A maddened expression washed across Kloud’s face, and he once again bolted back down the hallway.
Dahill burned alive appendage by appendage.