Lukas jolts up, covered in sweat. "Huh? Where the fuck am I?! How long have I been out cold for?!" he said while being disoriented, trying to make sense of his situation. He hops out of the stained bed, and slowly walks towards the door in the corner. He slowly opened it, just in case someone was gonna kill him behind it.
Ok g-good! No one's here.. Lukas thought to himself as he crept down the eerie hallway, lined with around 9 other rooms in two rows. The walls looked old and stained, the floor had some loose floor boards, the area was coated in what looked to be brown paint. Probably trying to mask how run down this place is.
"H-hey! Is anyone there?" Lukas asked, waiting for someone to come out, but it looked like no one was home, so he gave up on that.
Lukas walked down a hallway or two, skipping a couple of pretty creepy rooms, and into a sorta kitchen area, again with no one in sight. He looks around the counter, and into some cabinets because he has been starving since around yesterday. He notices some store-brand cereal. Ew, but I guess I'll eat anything right now. Lukas thought while grabbing it out of the cabinet, and getting a bowl and spoon. While he pours his cereal, he remembers what happened to what he thinks is earlier that day, and how much has happened since the bridge. Then, he notices the milk overflowing onto the floor. He starts to panic a little, trying to find something to wipe it up.
He spots a used towel with weird green stains covering it. Making sure not to touch those parts, he carefully wiped up his mess and headed to the table to eat his cereal.
While he was chowing down on his snack, he started to hear whispers of people that sounded like they were in the other room. For a second, Lukas thought that he had found some people to explain what's going on, but he quickly realised that was not the case.
The whispers started to get louder gradually, saying that no one will ever truly care about him, and that everybody that seems nice, has only been doing it out of pity. His heart starts to beat faster. His chair starts feeling a little wobbly. In fact, the world starts getting really wavy and disorienting for Lukas. The whispers grow even louder, making it so that Lukas has to cover his ears, which doesn't really help at all.
Now, curled up on the floor Lukas is trying his best to stay in it, but it's getting unbearable at this point. "WOOF! (hi! What are you doing human?)" Lukas snaps out of his episode to look down, and sees a shiba inu wagging its tail at him, asking if he has something to eat.
Lukas has pretty much calmed down at this point, so he walks up to the thing, kneels down and asks: "Now what's your name, little guy?" He moves some fur away from its neck to see a collar with the name: Milo, written in capital letters.
"Your name's Milo.. that's cool. Now what do you want from me anyway?" The dog suddenly prances all the way over to one of the ground cupboards, and uses its snout to open it, revealing a whole bunch of treats inside there.
"You want me to open these? Alright, fatass dog.." Lukas comes over, picks up the bag, and rips it open, spilling treats everywhere. Milo goes feral, eating up every last treat on the ground while Lukas just watches. "Okay, you done? Can you tell me where everyone is now, boy?" Lukas asks not knowing if the dog truly knows english or not.
"WUFF! (follow me human!)" the dog barks while walking out of the room with Lukas lukas following not far behind. They both walk past what looks to be a bathroom, and some sort of living room with a random console Lukas has never seen before.
"So, who's your owner?" Lukas asks the dog for some reason.
"WOOF! WOOF! (apparently a human named Ethan, though I know you don't understand me..)" Lukas pretends to understand him by nodding with a forced smile. The dog wasn't stupid though, so it stopped speaking.
"So.. where are we exactly?" Milo makes no sort of sound this time. Lukas kinda expected that though.
They keep walking around this maze of a place, every turn making him more and more lost each time. He sees more and more rooms that feel kind of unnecessary.
Damn! This place is huge, Lukas thought while not knowing if he should stare at the dog, or right in front of himself. I wonder if Ethan and that Drew guy are nearby, hopefully I didn't get kidnapped by some Random I don't know. They keep walking in silence. All up until they reach this sort of reception area that looks like it was ripped straight off an apartment complex.
"Oh shit! He's here!" the voice of what sounds like Drew came from the hallway on the other side. That of which, startled Lukas half to death.
"Oh Jesus.. Where the hell did you guys come from? And what is this place?" Lukas asked while gripping his shirt a little bit.
"Oh! Hey man!! This is what used to be an abandoned hospital.. I think. Anyway, glad you're finally awake!" Ethan waved at him with a big smile. Lukas awkwardly waved back at him while mouthing: hi… and thinking: great. Drew's here too. "Oh I see you've Milo too, such a good girl she is, isn't she~~" Milo comes running up to Ethan and starts rubbing herself on Ethan's leg. "WOOF! (yeah.. Praise me bitch!)" Milo woofs while getting her back rubbed by Drew reluctantly.
"Um.. So… what is this palace exactly? Never got an answer to that yet" Lukas crosses his arms, waiting for an answer.
"Oh yeah, this is where we live" Drew said.
"What."
"Yeah I know, this place is cool right—"
"It looks like ass"
Drew's smile quickly fades into a monotone expression, staring at Lukas he says: "fuck you" while flipping him off in the process.
"H-hey *hiccup can you g-guys keep it down out thereeeee" They all hear a voice that seems to be coming from the other end of the counter, but no one looks to be there.
"Arthur? You awake now?" Drew yells at what looks to be an empty desk, but after 2 seconds, some random 15 year old with glasses and the same haircolour as Drew, peeks his head over the desk a little bit to look directly at Lukas and the other two.
"Who's t-this? *heugh" Arthur asks while looking into Lukas' eyes. "This is Lukas, the new guy here" Drew puts his arm around both of Lukas' shoulders, while having his other hand showing him off. The two stare at each other, not knowing if they should say anything or not. Lukas then looks away out of embarrassment, and so does Arthur as well.
"Wait what do you mean, new guy?! I already live somewhere else"
"Ok time for a tour of the place!" Ethan grabs Lukas' hand and drags him along to go see the rest of the area. Arthur and Drew both stand there, until Arthur turns his head and says: "you didn't tell him?!" Drew just shrugs and goes to grab a beer from the mini-fridge behind the counter.
"Hey! Are you gonna answer my question? I don't even live here, and I don't really want to" Lukas says while trying to loosen Ethan's grip on his hand.
"Yeah well that's too bad, plus it doesn't get worse than your house" Ethan tightens his grip a little. "Anyway, let me show you our living room. It's super cozy" Lukas sees Milo running not far behind them, probably hoping to get some more treats from him.
"Alirght, this is it!" Lukas walks into the coolest looking place known to mankind. There was a huge flat screen TV on the opposite wall of the door, a couch with a bunch of random pillows on it, a coffee table in between, and a game console with all the games one would need.
"Wow.." Lukas walks into the room, and lays down on the couch while cuddling one of said pillows. Ethan plops down on to the other side, and Milo looked unimpressed, barking: "RUFF! (you dickheads! I thought I was gonna get a treat!)"
"Pretty cool huh" Ethan turns his head to go look at Lukas for a second. "Is this place really that bad for you now, or should we tour some more rooms first?" Lukas looks back while looking miserable. "Just show me to the bathroom, I need to take a piss" He says while getting off of the couch.
Ethan's grin fades as he also gets up and walks him over to the bathroom.
We cut to Drew and Arthur, cracking open a beer from the mini fridge. This is about ten seconds after Lukas and Ethan left.
"Do we really need some nutcase in our house? I mean, he looks like he will kill me in my sleep if I look at him wrong" Arthur takes a sip of the beer.
"Well I mean, It was Ethan's request" Drew sits down on one of the many chairs. "He seemed pretty adamant with his request anyway" He takes a big gulp of the beer in his hand.
"Can't you see it too! This guy's clearly not right in the head. He also kinda looks like a druggie the more I looked at him" Arthur chugged the rest of his beer, and went to go grab a new one. "Well, we can't judge people based on what they look like. You know that's bad in so many ways that I can't even count" He puts his hand on Arthur's arm, stopping him from getting another one. "Also, there's someone here" Arthur looks up to see what looks to be a 40 year old woman with long black hair and black eyes, jittering where she stood with a worried look plastered on her face.
"Um.. excuse me ma'am. What do you need?" she snaps out of it, looks at them and says: "please help me! Someone kidnapped my son and sent me this letter!" Drew and Arthur look at each other before waving to hand the letter over.
"Ok.. let's see what this thing says.."
Hey Bitch! We've taken your son away! If you want him back, then you're going to have to pay us $100,000 by tomorrow at 140, saint heinsburg by tomorrow, or he dies!
The Dark Artists
"Wow. The Dark Artists? Really? Such a shitty name if you ask me" Arhur shakes his head in disappointment. Drew jabs his arm, and tells him to take this type of thing seriously.
Drew clears his throat a little "Ok ma'am, do you have any clue as to why they took your son? Things like this don't just happen to random people y'know"
He sits up straight, so that he looks more professional then he actually is. "What? No! I have no idea!" She starts frantically pacing around the room, while mumbling something under her breath. "Can you just please save my son! I can't pay this off even if I tried to!" She starts begging for them to help her. "Holy! How much was in your bladder?!" The three of them here Ethan and Lukas walking back to the reception area. "Around t-two days worth.." They approach the door, thinking that no one heard what they were talking about.
They then stop in their tracks when they see both Arthur and Drew, with some Random mom, all staring at them.
"H-how much did you hear—"
"All of it" Arthur gives Lukas a stern expression. "But nevermind that, you guys can go deal with this right?" He goes over and hands Ethan the note.
"Wait, deal with what? And who's this woman supposed to be?" Ethan grabs Lukas' hand again, looks at the mother, and says: "Don't worry ma'am, We'll figure it out!" before running out into the parking lot with Lukas in tow.
"What is going on right now?! And let me go!!"
"I'll tell you once we get into the car" They make it into this nice looking Black car that Lukas has never seen before. "Now get in!" Ethan opens the passenger door like a gentleman, and helps Lukas into the clean black car.
"Okay. Now can you tell me what's going on?" Lukas asks him while checking out the inside of the car. Ethan hands him the note and says: "read this" Lukas looks at him for a second.
"Um.. I-I can't read.."
"Seriously"
"Yes"
Ethan gestures for the note back and tells him about some random group that took the poor woman's son away from her.
"Wow.. so why are we helping her exactly?" Lukas asks while putting his feet on the dashboard.
"First of all, don't put your feet on there please. Second of all, that's just what we do here. Since the police became super corrupt in this area, we kinda got a chance to step in"
Lukas takes his feet off the dashboard. "So we're just an underground police force? Are they're any more of us around?" Ethan starts the car and drives out of the parking lot, onto the road.
"Yeah there are others just like us around this area. By the way, you want me to put on some music?"
Lukas nods his head.
Ethan turns on the radio to see what's on, and to his horror, the music that they were playing was ass. Not too long before they turned that off. So now the both of them are sitting there in silence, not knowing what to say next. "Hey Lukas?" Ethan finally breaks the ice, relieving Lukas. "What's your favorite colour?" Lukas thinks for a second before answering. "I don't know.. Maybe purple? I always thought that colour was kinda cool."
They then sit there, for two hours without saying a single word to each other. Lukas watches the other cars go by, and Ethan just focuses on the road.
"Alirght, this seems like the place" They pull up to this, stingy old warehouse in the middle of nowhere. Giving Lukas the heebie-jeebies. "Is this place really it?" Lukas asked. Hoping that Ethan accidentally put in the wrong address.
"Yep! I know, this place does seem scary. But what do you expect from a kidnapper" Ethan gets out the car and opens up the trunk, Lukas fellows suit.
"Whoa, what is all this?" Lukas asked, looking at all the stuff jammed into this moderately sized car. Ethan points at it and says: "this is gonna be our equipment, now which one do you want? Revolver or pistol?" Ethan puts the two in his hands, showing them off a little bit to Lukas.
Lukas thought that the revolver looked way cooler, so he picked it. Ethan sighed, thinking that he was gonna pick the easier one.
"Ok! So you see that little stick underneath the barrel?" Lukas points at it with one eyebrow raised. "Yeah, that's how you shoot the thing. Also, you reload these bullets into that cylinder. Each hole can hold one bullet each. You got that?" Ethan asks. "Yeah I think I can figure it out" Lukas points at a large tree around 50 meters away, and shoots the gun, completely missing and hitting a stray bird.
Ethan thinks to himself: please god! Make this go somewhat smoothly! I beg you! while clasping his hands together in prayer. "Oh yeah, also put this suit on so we look more professional" Ethan hands him a nicely ironed suit, a dress shirt, a tie and dress shirt.
"Could I maybe just wear the white part? the suit kinda looks uncomfortable.."
"Yeah sure but if you're gonna do that, then rest these sunglasses on your hair" Ethan moves some hair away from his face and puts them on his forehead. "Kinda like this!" Ethan acts like Lukas can see in third person.
"Ok, you ready to get this kid back?" Ethan asks. Lukas nods his head and says: "Fuck yeah!!"
A kid, around 15 years old with black hair, was up strapped to a wooden kitchen chair with rope. He doesn't remember much besides kicking and screaming, and also hearing his mother begging for mercy. The kid hoped that his mom was okay, but that was the least of his worries right now.
Where am I?! The kid thought to himself while trying his hardest to set himself free from the rope. He was a scrawny kid though, so it didn't really work too well.
He looked around the pretty dark room, to see if there was anything he could use. The room was empty besides a couple of spider webs in the corner and a moldy piece of a chicken sandwich.
"H-help!! Someone! Help me!!" He screamed as loud as he could, but to no avail. The only response he got was the mouse sitting next to him scurrying away.
Then he heard some footsteps outside the door, and two guys talking to each other. "Yo dis' nigga is annoying as fuck" what I hope, is a black dude said. "HeLp! sOmEoNe hElp! Fucking dumbass we in the middle of nowhere!" The two guys start giggling, not knowing that the kid heard all of what they said.
"Ok, lets go and see this little fucker" the other guy said as they open the door to the room, and lock eyes with a horrified kid. They both give a comically evil grin and say: "well well well.. Finally you woke up, thought we're gonna have to stay the night" thankfully black guy said. "And thanks for the laugh, your performance was beautiful!" The other guy chimed in.
"P-please! Let me go! I've done nothing wrong! I swear!" The kid begs trying to move his hands.
The white guy pulls out a pocket knife out of his waist band. "Your mom did though, she's a real bad guy for what she was doing" He comes closing, making the kid panic a little bit. "Oh don't worry, you ain't gonna die just yet. As long as your mother pays for the ransom, you'll be free to go" The kid sighs in relief. "But, that doesn't mean we can't play with you for a bit.." He un-sighs in relief, trying to not piss himself out of fear. The white dude places the sharp edge of the knife onto this kid's skin, and slices it just enough to draw blood. The kid winces with a stinging pain coming from the wound.
"You have another five hours before the clock reaches 12:00 AM. You think that you can stay with us for that long?" The kid starts letting a few tears out, losing control of his bladder, peeing his pants a little.
"Eww.. Look! He peed himself!" The black one points at the kids pants and they both start cackling. Making the kid try to hold in his tears the best he can.
They guys continue with this, for another two hours! They put bugs all over him, light matches and put them really close to his clothes, cut his skin. All that and so much more.
"Alirght, I'm bored. Let's go get something to eat!" The white guy sketches his arms and gets up from where he was sitting. "We'll come back when it's time to kill him" He helps up his friend who was also sitting on the floor. They both look at their masterpiece before taking their leave.
Now, sitting in the darkness, all alone, is a bettered up and bruised kid, staring at nothing at this point. His right eye was ruined, making him look like a rebel. There were also burn marks all over his body. Centipedes were nibbling at his now bare feet, and other bugs were munching on his ripped up and burnt remains of his clothes. Even after all of that torture though, the only thing this kid could think about, is if his mother is gonna be okay without him around. He sits there, with only his thoughts. It could have been seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years! Hell, he could have stayed there for the end of time for all he's concerned.
He can hear the tiny animals outside, scurrying around the outside of whatever this place is.
Then, all of a sudden, a tear starts flowing down his face. Then another, and another, and another until they just can't stop. He thought to himself: why am I crying? I thought that I'd be okay with it by now, but guess it hasn't just yet.
He tries his hardest to wipe away the tears, but of course the rope was there, so now he had another problem to somehow deal with.
After another 5-ish minutes. His eyes started to feel really heavy, and his head started drooping a little bit, and in the course of ten seconds, he was fast asleep. For like two minutes before he heard the door getting kicked open, startling him awake.
"Hey! You okay in there?" It was Ethan and Lukas, but the kid didn't know they're names yet.
The kid's face lights up, and tears of joy start flowing uncontrollably. "Oh! Thank you! THANK YOU!!" the kid choked off, realising all of his pent up stress into one big sigh. "Lukas! Go cut off the ropes on this kid!" Lukas runs over, and starts cutting the rope, while making sure not to cut the kid by accident.
"You okay?" Lukas asked, just in case he accidentally cut him a little bit. The kid nodded his head, even though there was clearly a big wound across his eye vertically, and there were also a bunch of burns all over him.
"Y-yeah, I'm fine.." The kid sniffles a bit before asking: "Do you know if my mom is okay?" while finally being able to wipe away the dried up tears that were on his face.
Lukas helps the kid off of the chair and asks: "What's your name?"
"Braxton. My name is Braxton" he let out a big sigh of relief, finally being able to move around once again after hours.
"Welp, we got the kid, and the people who were on guard are I guess on a smoke break. So let's just get outta here" Ethan said.
"What 'chu say about a smoke break?" Ethan freezes, feeling a piece of cold metal pressing on the back of his head. Braxton puts his hands up instinctively, while Lukas accidentally drops his gun.
"Now. you guys gotta leave in about 5 seconds, before you put a hole though this guy's skull" The guy dude declared, just as the black guy walks in with a bat covered in barbed wire. "Oh yeah also, you're leaving the kid here. Just for this stunt, he's getting pummeled to death" Braxton shivers a little bit, while trying to hide behind Lukas.
"You promise you'll let him go if we back off?"
"I Promise.."
"…"
"Yeah.. I'm not banking on that"
Lukas grabs his gun off the floor, and speed blitzes behind the white guy in one swift motion. Using all the strength he had, Lukas grabs this dude by the shirt, and yanks him to the ground. He hits the floor, cracking his pelvis in the process. Lukas gets on top of him, and shoves the barrel down his throat, saying: "Oh.. what happened? Looks like your my bitch now"
Just as Lukas taunts the guy, the black dude comes in with a swift punch, straight to the jaw. Causing Lukas to let go of the other guy while coughing up blood.
Lukas immediately gets up and starts swinging on the black guy. Some of them landed, others went missing. In retaliation, the white guy starts shooting at both of them, hoping some of them would land, but they only grazed Lukas' shoulder a little bit.
Ethan grabs the gun, trying to pry it out of his hands, but the guy misfires. Accidentally hitting one of the lights on the ceiling.
Now Ethan and that other guy are tussling on the floor, while Lukas and the black guy are trading blows left and right. Lukas glances at a crowbar, sitting next to the food. Without a second thought, he grabs it and swings on him, hitting directly on the face, and causing some of the guy's teeth to come flying out onto the floor. Lukas keeps going with the crowbar, getting a bunch of blood everywhere. For some reason though, this guy's still standing.
He spits some blood out of his mouth, into Lukas' eyes before swinging his barbed bat at Lukas' torso. The spikes from the barbed wire penetrate Lukas' skin and tissue, causing him to yelp in agony.
Meanwhile Ethan finally gets the gun from the guy, and tries to shoot him point blank in the face. Somehow though, he moves away before he could even fire a single round.
The guy gets up and decks Ethan in the face, causing him to stumble back. The hit leaving a big mark on his face too. Ethan retaliates with a swift kick straight to the guy's nutsack, making him writhe in pain on the ground.
Braxton is kind of just standing there, watching this all happen right in front of his singular eye. His entire body is shaking uncontrollably, with him not knowing what to do.
He then notices that the dropped gun was still lying there, but he felt conflicted. Should I shoot them? I would be a murderer if I did. He thought to himself.
Lukas and the black dude are still going crazy after a while. Knocking down a bunch of random junk, trading hits, mangling each other beyond belief. It was a whole bloodbath. "Are you done yet?" Lukas' is panting, trying to hold himself together. The guy nods and says: "I'm alright, a little worried about you though" He's not in a very different situation himself.
They keep pushing through though. Swinging their weapons until their muscle tissue starts tearing, and bones start breaking.
Ethan and the other guy were also in a worse-for-wear type of situation, but not as bad as Lukas. Ethan's throwing different junk at the guy, trying his best to hit him. Meanwhile the guys dodging the best he can whilst shooting his gun at him.
Lukas comes in with a bear hug all of a sudden, and crushing this dude back like a gorilla. Blood is just pouring out of everywhere on this guy. He's stumbling, trying to get back on his feet, while having to dodge the crowbar, flying at his face every second. If this goes on for any longer, he's gonna die. So he decides to do something so irrational, that it just might work.
Just as Lukas is about to swing his crowbar again, the guy bites down hard on Lukas' shoulder. In which causing him to drop said crowbar while yelping a little bit in pain.
"Ah, shit!" was the only thing he could get out before the guy started beating the hell out of him with his barbed baseball bat.
Lukas is tanking all those hits luckily, and he's doing it with a big ole' smile on his face.
Grabbing the guy's face, Lukas headbutts him as hard as he could with everything he had left. Facturing both of their skulls in the process. With both of their faces fucked up, the guy with the gun tries again to gun Lukas down. Again, though, it didn't work. Lukas was just too fast.
But, Lukas saw Ethan getting pummeled in the corner of his eye, with a gun in his face again. So he swooped in and punched the guy off of Ethan. Sending the both of them tumbling into some trash.
The two guys decide to leave Ethan, and just focus on Lukas for a while until he's gone. So the black guy and the one in the trash, both start to beat the living hell out of Lukas whilst he's trying his best to fight back.
Lukas tries to bite the arms of one of them, but that only agitates them further.
"Yo! Look over here!" the black guy turns to see him with Braxton, trying to run. He screams: "get your ass back here now!!" before sprinting over there at pseudo-lightspeed.
"Heh, don't think you're so cocky now huh?!" The white guy stands over Lukas' mangled and disfigured body, trying to gasp for air. "After I kill you, we're gonna fuck up your friend and that little runt. How does that make you feel? Probably like shit huh.."
He waits a second before Lukas decides to spit some blood directly into his eye, blinding him.
"Eugh what the fuck?!" He tries to get the blood out of his eye; but Lukas already gets back up, and decks him in the face.
Lukas just starts tossing out left and right hooks to this dude for a solid twenty seconds. After that, he hit 'em with a couple kicks to the stomach. Which caused the guy to throw up. He falls to the ground, finally giving up as Lukas gets on top of him, and starts giving him the business.
"YOU DONE YET?!" Lukas screams as the guy's face gets more and more destroyed by the second. "YEAH! I BET THIS SHIT HURTS!!" blood splatters all over the floor and walls.
Lukas calms down after a while, and looks down in horror at what he just did. The guy's face was a mess. His eyes were swollen shut, his nose was hanging on for dear life, and his jaw was dislocated.
He hurls onto this guy's poor remains of a face, as he backs away, making a noise that was similar to a wild animal. "O-Oh GOD! WHAT THE FUCK DID I JUST DO!" He screams whilst tears and snot were pouring out. Ethan and Braxton come rushing over to see what happened, and they were just as horrified. Braxton screams as if Satan himself was dragging him to hell. Ethan kind of just stands there mortified, not knowing what to do or say next.
"L-let's just g-get outta here!" That was the only thing Ethan could get out.
Before you know it, they all start booking it out of that warehouse, and back to the car, frantically trying to start the engine. After ten seconds of fumbling around with the keys. The car finally started, and they quickly drove out of there without saying another word to each other.
The warehouse quiets down for the night, while the black dude takes his last breath. "Jake!!" the other dude yelled out: "h-help! H-help me!! Someone dear god help!!!"