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Raptura HoC Audition Part 3

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Time goes on when you're in the endless void of space but it doesn't seem to. It almost has a habit of standing still. Arizona was found some time later and accused for the brutal slaughter of Kaden and locked in the holding cell until something can be done with her. In that time, Captain Bartleby has gone off to the engine room to clean and start up the emergency generators.

Callie and David now sit together in the small room, watching Arizona in the holding cell. "I can't believe she would do such a horrifying things." Callie says, watching Arizona pace back and forth, talking to herself. "I just kind of wish she would shut up... it's getting annoying." says David, his eyes going back and forth as if he was watching a game of tennis.

"The shadow... that's who did it. I saw it... those eyes, those red eyes. It saw me... I'm next. We're all next, we're all going to die." Arizona mutters to herself. Staring at her hands where the blood of Kaden had once been. In her mind she simply could not get it off of her hands.

"What do you think she means about this shadow?" Callie says looking at David, her face filled with horror. "Who really cares? Are we really going to listen to a murdering psycho?" replies David matter of factly "Besides Bartleby  told us to stay here and watch her. There's nothing else we can do, might as well make the best of it."

The walls begin to creak and squeal. David and Callie both jump up at the horrid sound filling the room while Arizona continues to pace back and forth seemingly unfazed. Just as suddenly as the noise started, it ended. As if nothing was ever happening to begin with. All was silent around the room.

Callie grabs David by the arm as she jumps "Damn it woman! You scared the hell out of me! What do you want?!" Callie just stares ahead "...Ari stopped moving" she says, her eyes wide.

Sure enough Arizona had stopped pacing back and forth, now she just stood there. David approaches the bars of the cell. Ari snaps her neck directly as David. He jumps back out of alarm and shock, not entirely sure what to make of this situation. "He's here guys... I warned you about him but you didn't want to listen. We will be his sheep to slaughter. Accept our fate... accept the warm embrace of death." Arizona says looking directly at David as he slowly backs away from the cell.

"What is she talking about David?!" Callie says freaking out "Just ignore her, she's gone absolutely mad." he says stammering, clearly scared. Arizona continues to stare at them as she reaches her arms out. "He's here!" As she says that, black mass starts to 'drip' into the cell from the above ventilation shaft. It pools onto the floor and slowly starts to build up into a body. David and Callie just stare in horror, not able to believe what they are seeing.  A voice calls out to them "David, Callie and Arizona, you have all been judged by the law of the shadow demons. At this point you are probably wondering what you have done to deserve this..." The pool continues to build up until it is completely formed into the monstrosity that is Raptura. His many eyes open as he slowly scans the room. "And quite frankly..." His flicks his arm as it turns into his beloved scythe "none of you did anything."

Raptura immediately stabs his scythe through Arizona's back, it tears through bone, flesh and guts with a grotesque, gut wrenching sound. Callie screams but can't bring herself to run, her fright has  her feet pinned to the floor. Arizona's blood runs down the blade and starts dripping off its tip. The most unsettling fact of this is that Arizona continues to not only stand still, but is now smiling.

"Don't worry child, you're death shall be swift." as Raptura says that, he rips his arm upward, tearing through her ribs and organs, splitting her heart, and most of her body in half. Not a single scream or moan was uttered from Ari's mouth. She falls to her knees and her blood pools on the floor of the cell, her body split in half, exposed muscles, tendons, bone and arteries. Nothing was to be hidden out of this slaughter. Raptura wanted them to see just what they were in for. He flicks his scythe to the side, throwing as much blood off of it as possible. "Now mortals... you can either sit still and accept your fate like your friend or you can run and make things more exciting for me. However, it is inevitable; you will die." He laughs in a evil cackle.

David and Callie start to back up away from the caged beast. "Oh my... god... t-this can't be happening!" David stammers as he turns to run, grabbing Callie by the hand on his way.  Raptura just stands there and laughs, watching his prey run from their predator. "This is going to be fun." he says as he raises his scythe and cuts the bars of the cell as he slowly slithers out.

"What do we do David? " Callie calls out to him, starting to fall behind. David looks back at her for a second, seeing both her and Raptura behind. "We have to find the Captain, he'll know what to do." Raptura just continues to drift along behind them. He starts dragging his scythe along the way, easily splitting and cutting through the metal hull of the wall, exposing wires, pipes and panels, the lights flickering as a horrid grinding noise emanates from it.

"You can't run forever humans. My hunt never ends, no matter the case. I will find you and I will kill you." He says, his voice seeming to slice it's way through the air better than his scythe through the metal walls.

There comes a turn in the hallway, David and Callie make it around to find a divergence in the hall. Callie ducks into a closet attempting to hide from the demon gliding his way toward them. David doesn't care anymore, he just wants to get out of here, he leaves Callie to whatever fate befalls her.

Callie sits in the closet for a few seconds before she sees something slice through the door. She expects the door to come off it's hinges but instead the claw keeps going and just cuts it, Raptura skipping over her. Callie takes a deep breath only to feel something drip onto her forehead. "What the hell?.." She wipes her finger across it and looks... it's red. Callie looks up and to her horror she sees the decrepit Captain Bartleby. His body had been pinned against the wall by pieces of pipes. The light shining through the slice in the door shined off of the blood dripping off the pipes. His stomach had been split up the middle, his skin being torn to the sides, each held in place by another piece of metal. His intestine had been wrapped around his neck leading to his face, it's lifeless eyes stuck open, that same confident look frozen on his face.

Her body convulses as she slowly backs away unable to scream. Callie turns around to crawl her way out of the closet when it bursts open. In front of her stood a rather well dressed man. This surprised Callie as she had never seen this man before. She eyed him carefully, he was missing his left arm and had a gem on his forehead which was almost hidden by his disheveled green hair, topped with an odd hat adorned with an eye. "W-who are y-you?" Callie managed to ask, her voice stammering horribly. The man looks at her and smiles, "Why, I'm Puzzles, and we're going to have so much fun."

David manages to make his was to the control room where he finds himself trapped, realizing there is no way to run past the beckoning monster, he had to fight it. David looks around the room and manages to tear a piece of pipe off of the wall, a steady flow of steam entering the room. He looks at the pipe, "Either I'm stronger than I thought, or this ship was not as well built as it seemed..."

"Let's hope you're a strong one." Raptura hissed as his black mass moved into the room. "The strong one always put up a nice struggle. So much more fun for me."

"I'm not afraid of you, you monster!" David yells, holding his length of pip outward like a sword.

"Oh David... you shouldn't lie. Humans have always been afraid of the dark, you are no different." Raptura moves closer to David, working his way around the center control. The cowardly medic poises his weapon preparing himself. Raptura simply raises his scythe and cuts down some of it in his hand causes David to jump back a moment. Realizing this is his only chance, David rushes forward stabbing what was left of his pipe into Raptura, pushing him backwards and stabbing it into the panel. Raptura squeals in pain as electricity surges from the panel, through the pipe directly into him. The room suddenly gets dark, David turns to look out of the window. Outside is a large ship that made The Titan look damn near miniscule. He could make out the words "Black Eden" on the side.

"I'm saved!" David yells to himself.  Realizing what he has done, David takes this moment to run out of the room, bolting in the direction of the escape pods. Raptura slowly pulls himself off of the pole that caused him so much pain and slithers his way out of the room, following his prey.

David rounds a corner and enters a room lined with numerous pods. He runs to a control panel and throws in some codes as a green light turns on above one of them and the door opens. He crawls in and it seals behind him, a hiss of  air can be heard as the cabin pressurizes itself. The pod launches itself away from the ship. A huge wave of relief washes over him until David notices what he thinks is a small pink fairy staring out of the escape pod room windows at him. He dismisses this crazy thought as he relaxes against the rather uncomfortable black walls of the pod. Just as he had let out a sigh of relief, numerous red eye appeared on the walls of the pod. Two arms shoot out and grab him by the head. All that can be seen from the outside of the floating tomb is a blood splatter against the window as it slowly drifts toward The Black Eden. In space, no one can hear you scream.
Part 3 of my audition for :iconhands-of-chaos:

Part 1: [link]
Part 2: [link]
Part 3: Here
Part 4: [link]

Puzzles and Piear belong to :iconjemkatanatina:

Puzzels: [link]
Piear: [link]
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Ha ha, the last sentence came from Alien. Nice. ;)