Nightmare -Drabble-

I ran through the hallway that seemed never to end. Half my vision was blinded with a red tent as I had been hit across the head with a sharp object and blood got into my eye. I was in pain all over, feeling as if all my bones have broken. I was running. Running from a voice that seemed to haunt me with the most eerie of pitches I have ever heard.

And I know you hear their voices.
(Calling from above.)

I kept running and running, not once did I stop or turn around. I felt as if I was in a horror movie, hell, I felt like a helpless teenager in the grasp of Freddy Krueger. But in this case, it was real. And this voice made Freddy Krueger seem like Santa Claus. The voice wouldn’t stop, and the more I ran, the more it screamed through my skull one word. Runt.

And I know they may seem real.
(These signals of love.)

I looked on ahead, I could see two lights beside each other and I gasped out a laugh. I ran the fastest I could, then, I stopped. I looked at what was in front of me, and it was two hallways leading different directions. What could I do? What if I chose the wrong path? I felt the ground rumble as if there was an earthquake happened, and I turned back. The hallway behind got darker and darker as the voice was screeching now. I looked around and heard rattling and hissing, then when I looked down I gasped, almost screaming. Pitch black snakes with red eyes were wrapping themselves around my feet. I shut my eyes and shook them off, running down the left hallway.

But our life’s made up of choices.
(Some without appeal.)

With my eyes still shut, I ran until I hit something. I was knocked down and I opened my eyes, seeing a door in front of me. A way out! Finally! I quickly got up and opened the door, only to see a small, empty room. I looked back and the shadows started up again. I gasped and ran into the room and shut the door, locking it after I got in. I sighed but fell down on my back whenever the door was getting banged on. I bit my lip and scooted up against the wall, and as the bangs got harder and harder, I held my head tightly to try to block out the noise, to try to believe it was a nightmare I couldn’t wake up from. I knew it was all too real, though. The voice has haunted me before, but this is the first time I ever saw the “snakes” and the shadows that have followed me. I whispered out a few words that I couldn’t understand myself, then, the door was pushed open. I kept my arms wrapped around my head and gritted my teeth as I felt pressure around my body, wrapping me up in something.

“Why must you run, runt?” he voice began the whisper to me,”I only want to play with you…” I felt the pressure tighten and I screamed in pain. I felt my arms bend behind my back and another sharp object trail it’s way across my forehead, but this time, I had my eyes shut, I didn’t want to know what the thing was, I wanted to get out of here, but all I could do was feel my lungs run out of air as the pressure tightened more and more.

They took for granted your soul
And it’s ours now to steal.