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Larry and I were really close friends. We did everything together- We went to the same

 

Kindergarten, same highschool, we graduated together, and we also drafted into the army together.

So it didn't suprise any one when we decided, after finally finishing our service, to go and see

The world together.

We packed our belongings and soon enough found ourselves departing on a plane heading towards

Hungary. It wasn't long before we reached our destination, althought it was already late, so we both

Decided it would be best if we would stop by a local inn and prepare for tomorrow.

 

The inn keeper greeted us with a smile. Being the owner of a small inn, I guessed he didn't have

 

Allot of costumers. He wanted to go ahead and adress us in hungarian, though after seeing

 

The amount of baggage we carried with us, he hurried out of the counter and helped us.

 

"Lovely night in a lovely inn,eh?," he said after he finished pushing the last bag

 

"Think i've got the right room for you! 76, fourth floor" he breathed heavily and mentioned us

 

To come closer. He handed us this rather used key, although still functional, it had human

 

Bite marks all over it. I guess he figured that we weren't too sure if to accept it or not.

 

"Eh, hooligan tourists, yeah? Come here, get the best treatment in the world, then they ruin

your equipment! You two seem diffrent though. So we better get your things up there so you could get some sleep!"

 

We both looked at each other and shrugged, and once paying the man the three of us took

 

the elevator to the fourth floor.

 

"So, is everyone asleep? Or is this floor solely ours?" I said and found our room, around the center Of the floor.

 

"Yeah, they are. Many tourists come here, so they usually sleep by now. Stay here for a day or

Two before moving on, but they regret not staying longer..Heh," he said, and quickly noded his 

Head, before making haste to depart towards the elevator.

 

"Strange man.." I said and looked to Larry, who already got half of our stuff into the room.

 

"Strange, but at least this room came cheap. You know what else is cheap? All of the hookers

I saw on our way here! I tell you.."

 

I cut him as he spoke, looking at him angirly "You called an hooker? Jesus Larry, what would Diana

Think? I swear, she can tell when I had my time with another girl."

 

"Don't worry, once you see her you'll regret not tagging along. Feel like helping me with geting

The bed ready then?"

 

"I'll pass. Think i'll stroll around and see some view outside. Just remember you've a girl waiting

For you back home, alright?"

 

"Yeah yeah..Me and Jeena aren't that great for a long time now. Look, if you aren't helping then

Don't bring Jeena up, alright? She kinda ruins my mood-" he was cut short when I closed the door behind me.

 

I don't think I've noticed it when we entered the floor, but it was sort of filthy and unclean.

 

I could see some cobwebs decorating the ceiling here and there, yet what alerted me the most

 

Were the numbered doors that belonged to the rooms. Each door was quite old, unclean,

 

And had clawing marks over it. At first I didn't care about it that much but.. 

 

After seeing that the entire floor was like it, it did seem quite odd.

 

The elevator made a noise, its door opened, revealing a stunningly beautiful, nude woman.

 

At first I wasn't too sure as to what I'm seeing- She was chalk white, and althought she wasn't

 

Wearing any thing to cover her body, she wore this equally white mask. Red liquid was pouring

 

From her eyeholes, and she was utterly silent. She walked towards me slowly, her mask keeping

 

Her expression hidden. Though once she got close enough to me, the pale woman passed the 

Back of her hand over my cheek, causing a very calming sensation to trail after her touch.

 

I blinked once or twice as she leaned closer, though I managed to snap into reality and stuttered

 

Something. "Ugh..Larry is inside. He's the one who gave you the call..I'm..I'm.."

 

Althought she didn't say anything she simply took off towards the room, though giving me one

 

Last look with the blank eyes of her mask before shutting the door.

 

"Oh man.." I exhaled heavily. Larry was right, she was stunning!

 

This urge to see her again rose within me. The door was locked, obviously..So I figured,

Maybe one of the neighbors may still be awake.

 

I knocked on the two doors that neighbored ours, though no answer came. No sound escaped

 

From within the rooms. So I knocked again, and once more no answer came.  At this point I was

 

About to give up, though I realized that not all rooms may be occupied like the manager said.

 

I twisted the knob to room 75, and it was locked. Though room 77 was open.

 

The air was extremely damp, though I went straight ahead towards the window, where I could 

Walk the thin concrete decorations between the rooms and look at our room.

 

I went towards the window, though something startled me. There was a clear human hand pattern

Dyed in red upon the window, giving me a shudder. I hesitatingly tried to open the window,

Though it was locked.

 

I cussed angirly and decided to walk out, and perhaps try another room- Though I then realized that the light in the bathroom was on.

 

"Hello? Any one in here?" I said, though no answer came. "I guess that-" I opened the door and

Felt how bile was ascending from my stomach to my mouth.

 

Inside, roughly five human corpses sat together. They hugged their knees and their head

Seeking shelter behind their legs.

They were all severely  beaten up and bloodied- 

 

The sound of the door creaking open startled me, causing me to literally jump in my place.

 

A decent looking woman came in, though this time she had color to her skin, and she wore

Revealing clothes.

 

"You called for a lady? Guessed you'll be here since both 75 and 76 are lock-" She finally looked

At the corpses, and a scream followed.

 

"Are those..People? Who did this?! I'm..I'm geting out of here!" She turned around fleed towards the elevator.

 

"If shes the hooker then..Who's with Larry? Fuck!" I said, and went out to the hallway, and tried opening the door to our room.

 

"Larry! Larry! Open up man, we gota go!"

 

Though no answer came. Something was wrong..

 

Just as I was about to rush down towards the elevator, the lights in the hallway began freaking out. And then I saw her again.

 

From room 86, the last room in the hallway, the lights began to shut down. When each light bulb

Shattered, I saw the figure of the pale woman, now bloodied, with the blood coming from her eyes

Being a continuous stream that trailed behind her.

 

The light bulbs began to explode as the woman traveled towards me, screams filled the hallway,

Men crying, blood pouring out of the rooms. I was terrified, my legs were stuck.

 

The entire hallway began to fade to black as the nude woman slowly paced towards me,

Her body begining to peal, causing even more blood and pus to pour out of her figure.

 

My body began to peal as well, and our blood joined together and penetrated the cheap carpet

that covered the floor.

 

She was slowly geting closer, now reaching to room 79.

 

My limbs finally decided to move, and without thinking twice I ran towards the elevator, screaming

From the top of my lungs, yet the masked figure silently and slowly followed after me, and she reached our room by the time the elevator's doors shut close.

 

"What the fuck was going on..And Larry-Larry's dead?" 

 

The elevator creaked its way to the base floor, and suprisingly-Everything was normal. 

The inn manager was nowhere to be seen, althought the monitors following the rooms were 

On behind his counter.

 

I breathed heavily, mustering my courage, and crept towards the monitors, searching for the female. I wasn't even sure if I wanted to see her again, but I had to know what she was.

 

The other floors were completely empty, and our floor was as well, and no sign for the blood or any thing was seen. Though something slowly crept from the side of the camera spying on the floor:

 

The dead, bleeding eyes of the female, staring at me through the camera. She whispered something unknown, largely uncoherent due to her sobbing.

 

I dopped back due to the sheer amounts of suprise and fear, sturggling to get back up.

 

At this point the manager showed up. As soon as he saw me, his face twisted from anger to fear, and he hurried to run away back to his room.

 

"You! What the fuck is going on here?! Answer me!" I screamed, banging my hands against the door

 

"You don't understand! You should be dead by now! Now she'll kill us all!"

 

I kept on banging my injured fists against the door, smearing blood over its wooden surface

 

"Who the fuck is she? What did she want? Wheres Larry?! Come out!"

 

"You don't understand.." He repeated, at this point begining to sob

 

"She was a tourist, like you. Came here alone, wanted to leave the day after.

She was pretty. Really pretty." He swallowed the saliva that gathered in his mouth

 

"So I came to her place and..You know, did her. At first she resisted, but then she just couldn't.

I think I was too violent, you know. Maybe broke her neck? She just didn't wake up. I couldn't dump her outside- They would find her, the people. So I stored her corpse in one of the rooms in 

The fourth floor.

 

Every now and then when tourists come, I rent them a room there..Thats the only reason she 

Isn't leaving the hallway. But now-Now shes free"

 

The terror in his voice was clear, and he began sobbing and murmuring uncoherently.

 

I didn't have allot of time, so I began looking for something around the lobby that would help me

Break the door open. 

 

I returned to the counter, making sure not to even glimps at the monitor.

 

Like I thought- There was a tool box in its back side!

 

I seized an hammer, and eagerly rushed to the door, slaming the hammer against it and breaking

A big part of it.

 

"Open up or I'm breaking it down!"

 

"Wh-What are you doing?! Are you mad?!"

 

Another hit, and a bigger hole was formed in the door's center.

 

"Stop it! I don't want to die! I don't want to die!" He began crying, and I could hear him moving objects to block the entrance

 

Another hit, and another..And another. I just kept hitting the door untill the hole was big enough

 

For me to reach the knob and twist it.

 

The manager's barricade didn't last long, however he managed to arm himself with a crowbar.

 

"Leave me alone, or I'll kill you and feed her! I swear I'll do it!" He tightened his grasp against

His rusty weapon, and his eyes were enlarged, almost freakishly so, nearly poping out

Of their holes.

 

I had nothing to say, really. At this point nothing mattered. Larry was dead, and so were we if I 

Wouldn't do any thing.

 

"Just drop that hammer and go.." 

 

"So all those people, in the other rooms. You killed them too? You didn't even move the corpses?

You didn't even have the guts to go up there and clean the rooms?"

 

"Look I.."

 

"Don't answer it. You desrve to die. You deserve to rot in one of those rooms"

 

And with that, I lunged at him. Although I managed to hit his ribs, he repaid me with a blunt hit

Towards my shoulder. I could feel my arm shattering, though at this point it didn't matter.

Adrenaline was rushing down my veins and I hit the man again and again, untill he began to cough

Weakly, falling down, looking at me with a begging look.

 

The hammer hit his head, effectively knocking him out, if not breaking his skull.

 

I breathed heavily, tossing the hammer aside..

 

"Fuck.." With my strong arm broken, I had to carry him towards the elevator with my left arm.

 

I dragged him out of the room, breathing heavily.

 

With some effort I managed to open the elevator and drag him inside, seting the elevator's

Destination to the 4th floor and came out before it could shut its doors.

 

The monitors flickered for a moment, and I waited silently, seeing the elevator reaching to the

4th floor.

 

I can't recall anything after that. I know I went back home but..

The only memory I have of what occured afterwards hautns me in my dreams everyday.

Two white eyes, pouring blood endlessly.

 

AiA WAS PLEASED