Pain Killers/The Nightmares: Parts 2 & 3

[The Lost One]

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12:34 AM
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::The same strange black haze seemed to be everywhere. Where were we? Only the lord knows but the sound of gravel seemed to hint that the location was somewhere with dirt roads. Perhaps a park or a quarry? The only real hint seemed to be the strange black van parked with the taillights on. The same van which Brody and three others had been placed when he dried to break out of that strange and sadistic asylum where the twisted and evil phantoms of his friends haunted and hunted him.

Walking from the van was a pair of black panted legs ending in a pair of black boots left untied and a gas can hung from the right hand. As the figure passed from behind more of him could be seen. They wore a tattered leather top frayed at the edges that swung as what was obviously a man walked. The only sound that of the gravel crunching beneath his feet.

Finally the entire behemoth is shown. Long dark hair swinging gently as he walked around a stack of firewood and poured the gasoline over the wood. The gas dripped from the wood like little droplets of water as the man backed up and struck the head of a match and lifted the long steam up illuminating the shadowed face of Joshua McBride.

Joshua dropped the match into the trail of gas and a trail of gas sped toward the stack of wood which exploded in angry crackling flames. Joshua stood watching the fire boyishly as behind him two women came out of the shadows on each side of the van. Toward Joshua walked the forms of Sariel and Maiko Adachi.

Each woman was wearing black leather. Sariel with thick black lipstick on and a choker of solid silver around her throat. And large hoop earrings in her ears and in her hand she carried a picture in a frame. Last seen on Brody's desk in Vegas. It was of Jeszika and Brody both were smiling.

Walking next to her now toward the flames came Maiko. Her hair back in a tight ponytail, she wore a leather top above the leather pants and boots and a necklace of what looked like silver claws hung down between her breasts. In her hand she carried the broken remains of the guitar Brody has broken back in Vegas.

Slowly the two women walk up behind Joshua and part going around him until each threw their objects in the roaring fire. One by one the two began to throw other items into the fire. Every item of value taken from the home of Broderick Montgomery. Howling and laughing as they did so.

More and more the objects gathered. Pictures and family albums, furniture and his clothes. One by one tossed in the fire until finally it was his ring gear smoldering on the very top of the pile. As Joshua began to come back the two women locked forearms in happiness and parted to head back to the van.

Joshua....was holding a flamethrower and with a smirk he allowed it to stream to life, coating the stack in flames as Sariel and Maiko stood back and threw their heads back and laughed as the remains of his life went up in flames.

Finally Sariel and Maiko walked to the two doors of the van and pulled them open to reveal the form of Brody and the three others which had been loaded into the van before. …...::

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10/24/2014
1:34 AM
Bakersfield, California
Hospital
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::Brody sat bolt up in the hospital bed a scream trapped in his throat but Jayni was there instantly. Sitting on the edge of the bed and her hand on his own and nodding. Brody looks up at the short dark haired woman sitting on his bed his face was ash white and she nodded gently.::

Jayni: “....The Nightmare?”

::Brody could only nod gently. Truth be told he didn't trust himself to talk. Not after this.::

Jayni: “....Which one?”

Brody: “.....f...fire.....”

Jayni: “...the demon kids comes next.”

::Again Brody only nodded. He remembered the order they come in. He still to this day hasn't seen how it ends.....he killed Beth....that's the last thing before he wakes up. He chases and kills beth and then dies of his own wounds...that's as far as it's ever gotten.::

Jayni: “....Have you given any thought to...what we talked about Brody?”

Brody: “....I am not dropping out of this match!”

Jayni: “They need you alive! And this suicide trip your on isn't helping anyone!”

Brody: “Joshua has to pay!”

::Brody's voice came out as a shout and Jayni looked quickly at the door to make sure no nurses came running and then looked back at the man and nodded very softly.::

Jayni: “Fine....your not backing down. We have to check you out of here AMA then. The doctors won't release you.”

Brody: “Fine....”

Jayni: “One more nights sleep....okay?”

Brody: “One more and one more only.”

::Briody's tone was insistent, much like an annoyed child who was agreeing to one more bite of broccoli before he can eat his icecream. Brody then motioned to the phone sitting on the bed and Jayni nodded and unfolded it and hit record.

The video showed Brody sitting in bed in the hospital with his sides and back still wrapped and looking down at his hands. His voice, when he spoke came out soft, little more then a whisper.::

Brody: “You think you've won, don't you Joshua? You think after what you did to me that....this is going to stop me. A reminder of the past. A reminder of what you can do and what you have done already. A message, if you will.

Well, your wrong. All this has done is made me what you never wanted me to be. What Ashley Kenyon claimed you were. A wounded and cornered animal.”

::Brody looked up from the bed then and his eyes locked on the camera, but in his mind he wasn't looking at the camera. He was looking at Joshua and his lips curled into a very clear sneer.::

Brody: “You made what you see before you Joshua. Like every other tyrant in history. You have created your own destroyer. Sunday.....you're gonna have to kill me to beat me.....”

::Jayni sucked in a shocked breath and Brody leaned in and whispered into the cell phone camera she held.::

Brody: “...your gonna have to kill me...to beat me.”

::As Brody sucked in a deep breath Jayni slid over, but kept the camera steady and her hand gently pressed a button on the side of the bed.::

Brody: “Joshua, you have made a mistake so monumental that even you yourself have to see it. You let.....you let me.....”

::Brody's eyes began to droop and he looked suddenly over at Jayni his expression one of shock.::

Brody: “....you....pressed for pain killers.....”

Jayni: “....I had to Brody....”

::Jayni sounded scared now, frightened and so very sad.::

Brody: “....But....the kids.....Aerynn.....”

Jayni: “I know Brody....i'm so sorry.....but you need sleep....and I will be right here....”

Brody: “....Don't...want...sleep.....”

::Jayni watched as Brody slipped deeper and his head fell back on the pillow. Pain killers and a heavy sedative. She knew what awaited him in his dreams, but it had to be better....then what he was saying.::

Jayni: “I'll....be right here.”

::Jayni whispered and sat back down in the chair to watch him. This one...was one of the worse for him. He always woke up screaming.....::

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2:04 AM
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::The dream began exactly where he thought it would. A dark mist covered street....and here they came. A roar of nine bikes, not motorcycles but bicycles. Riding in formation like a little gang. It shifted then to show the van, now abandoned and billowing smoke. The four tied up and hooded figures inside struggles against their bonds and it's the one nearest the door who manages to free manicured hands and kicks the doors of the van open. From outside the van hiding in the trees was Aerynn crouched and watching carefully.

Once the doors of the van were kicked open a woman jumped out and began to pull the others out one by one. The woman was Bethany Kenyon. Dressed in a pair of jeans, leather boots and a sleeveless shirt.

First out came another woman with the same burlap sack type bag over her head and dressed more like a rocker then anything else. Third was another woman with the same burlap sack but she was dressed more sensual and sexy then anything else. Finally the forth was pulled out and it was clear from the previous dream that Brody was looking at himself.

One by one they were untied and the bags pulled off their heads to show Ashley Kenyon and Jeszika Gautier. Not the twisted evil versions, just them. As Bethany began to cough from the smoke and turned to look at the van as it began to burn in earnest the riders arrived and jumped off the bikes.

They were kids who ranged in age from ten to twelve and all wore war paint. Their eyes solid black and each holding what appeared to be homemade weapons. Knives tied to handle bars, chains and bats. Except the one in the middle. All he held was a little boombox.

Each face was shown. Ashley was confused and angry. Brody looked terrified. Jeszika looked more then a little put off and Bethany looked worried. The kids however all looked demonic and angry.

As the kids, as one, charged the group bolted in separate directions. Two followed each of them with the exception of Brody who only the kid with the boombox followed.

The dream followed each of them as they ran from the demonic children and none of them got very far. Each either fell, or were overtaken, with the exception of Ashley who took....what looked like a throwing star to the thigh and collapsed.

The kids then began to rain down blow after blow on them as they did their best to cover themselves. Knives, chains and pipes fell upon them and blood sprayed over the faces of the demonic kids as they slashed, hacked and stabbed at the girls who screamed in pain and misery as they were assaulted without remorse or hesitation.

Brody made it to what appeared to be a clearing before he stopped and turned to face the kid who followed him who hit play on the boombox....and what sounded like a chat in Latin began to echo.

As the Latin chant played the dream followed Bethany trying to crawl away as the blows rained down on her back and she screamed.

It followed Jeszika who tried to cover her face as the pipe rained down on her back and shoulders.

It followed Ashley who tried to hold both her head and her leg as the slashed sprayed blood everywhere.

And finally it followed Brody who stood transfixed and his eyes changing color to be the same black as the kid who stood before him.

Aerynn watched from the trees as Brody turned and began to walk toward the kid and she rushed from the trees and without mercy breaks the kids neck and reaches down to pull up the boombox. Brody's lips curl into a feral snarl and she holds out a hand for him to wait and hits the stop button and immediately his eyes change color again and he looks more confused and scared then angry.

Aerynn: "Brody, RUN!"

::Brody turns and immediately flees and Aerynn drops the boombox and turns to follow. She takes four steps at a run before she stops dead in her tracks and falls forward an axe sticking out of her back. From behind her out of the woods walks the leather clad forms of Maiko and Sariel.

The two women begin to kick and stomp the downed blond as she claws at the grass where she fell. Sariel rips the weapon from her back and rolls the woman over and stretches out her arms. Maiko takes the weapon and stretches the handle over Aerynn's throat.

The Sariel holds her down as Maiko rains down a blow that slams the weapon into her head and then the two stood up and walked away just as calmly.

Back in the trees the kids take steps back and turn to flee into the trees. Leaving the three women to try and collect themselves from the various wounds they have had inflicted on them.

The four of them. Separated. Are shown to Brody in this nightmare one by one. Each bloody but alive and alone and then finally Aerynn. Lying on her back in the grass dead, her hair now red from the blood....wounds inflicted on her by trying to save him.::