Seth's pov:
"good job! you are my favourite girl you know it? really really good" he said as tears rolled down my face as he petted my head harshly, I was shaking with a bloody metal school ruler in my hands.
I sat in the corner of the dark place I was with other girls, covering my ears and closing my eyes, I didn't want to hear the pained screams, I didn't want to see the blood, I didn't want to hear the sobs, I didn't want to hear his laugh, it's too noisy I'm scared it hurts please make it stop!!!
I woke up and didn't really move before trying raising my head but failing and looking around by just moving my eyes, I was in a room with a single ceiling lamp, a door off to the side with T-shirt dropped off to the side, my axe nowhere and a whole wall made of a mirror in front of me.
my legs and hands were when bound to the chairs with metal and the chair itself was fixed to the ground, I was.... shirtless.... with strange white patches stuck to my skin in places and there was a metallic thing going around my forehead and like a headband to keep it from moving, there were some similar things holding my shoulders in place and lastly something that looked like big construction earphones over my ears.
I tried to pull on the restraints but nothing happened, I groaned angrily and tried but I could almost not move at all.
"oh it seems you are up~ good~" I looked up to see part of the ceiling push in and pull away as a camera, the voice sounding on a normal level in the earphones and it was a female one.
"let me go! I'll murder you!!" I yelled angrily turning my eyes to the camera. "I'll kill you noisy bitch!!!"
I heard laughter, really loud and annoying, so noisy!
then the first surprise came....
I tensed up and yelled in pain as electricity shocked me for just around 3 seconds but still.
".... THAT FUCKING HURTS!!!!" I yelled enraged, shaking myself around as much as I could.
"wow normal persons would have passed out after such a shock, you truly are a monster~" I looked down at the white pads, shit these help the electricity flow more.
"criminals like you need to be punished by god to repent from their crimes!"
I wanted to throw my head back as I screamed another shock going through me but longer, my back arching as much as it could and the current stopped making slump back down, panting loudly.
"I WILL MURDER YOU!!!!" I bite my lower lip so hard in anger blood dripped down my face and in my mouth.
"such fowl and dirty criminal mouth you go there; I need to teach you manners"
I heard a click and a recording started to play.
"stop! stop it! no! turn it off!" I screamed, trying to shake my head to make the earphones off.
"so you still remember this? how surprising and fascinating"
'p-please don't hurt me! I-I just want to go home!' 'shut up you snotty brat! you don't talk back to me!'
"turn it off! stop! AAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!" I screamed as.... somehow.... a recording from back then was playing really loudly in the earphones, SO NOISY!!!! IT HURTS!!!!
I screamed louder as the electricity was turned back on.
Melanie's pov:
we finally arrived on top of the stairs, Meg somehow more emotionally stable but hoping for no more need to lose a piece of herself or someone else.
"8th circle fraud, walk down a lonesome honest path and present your acts to god" Stacy read the Latin words inscribed on the wall.
we were in a room that branched off in six ways, above each doorway was a name, Judas, Eve, Cain, Magdalene, Samson and Azazel.
"well it's easy each has to choose a way but the names?" Katy said.
"each name is from a biblical figure, Judas the betrayer of Jesus, Eve the first sinner, Cain the first murderer, Magdalene the prostitute, Samson with hair blessed by god and Azazel the scapegoat" I said softly.
"I'll take Samson if okay?" Meg said, we let her since she's been through a lot already and could use some calm. she walked in the doorway and it closed behind her.
"I'll take Judas" Katy said with a small wave and went through the doorway.
"I'll take.... Eve, good luck Melanie"
"you too"
I was now alone after the door locked leaving me with Cain, Magdalene and Azazel.... Azazel is out of the question! he was a scapegoat that means he was most likely killed.... I don't want to be raped which is the most likely if I pick Magdalene so the one left it......Cain the first murderer....
I gulped and entered the door and it closed behind me, I sighed deeply and continued.
the hallway was barely big enough for me before I arrived in a big room with a door at the opposite was and a single stone table in the middle.... with an axe.
I walked over and picked it up, it was Seth's.... what was it doing here if she was on an upper level?
I heard yelling behind me and looked back, the ground had shifted around and opened a hole, revealing and raising platform with someone from our group of sacrifice chained down. and a stone pillar with a paper on top of it, I picked it up.
'Cain your broke god's heart by your murder but today he asks you to prove your strength by taking a life at his orders to prove you merit his pardon for your act, to prove you are ready for forgiveness, he asks you to present this sinful man's head and heart on the altar of truth so he can be judged for his wrong doings'
I shook slightly and looked at the crying and screaming boy who was laying on his back, hands and feet chained down.
I gulped and dropped the paper walking to his side with both hands on the axe.
"please! don't do this! I beg you!" I shook, I couldn't do it!
I closed my eyes and covered my face, crying at what I had to do, Magdalene would have been much better!!!
"so noisy, so damn noisy" I looked up at that little memory and exhaled loudly and raised the axe despite the yelling, you are not Melanie.... you are not.... you are Seth a murderer that hate screams and loud noises, you are Seth and not Melanie, Melanie is not guilty right now, right now you are Seth, a killer.... fuck it isn't working
I looked down with a forced but large smile, trying to actually act like her but I couldn't put myself in her shoes with his screaming.
"shut up I'm thinking!!!" but without thinking I slammed the axe down on his neck.
I shook in fear and disgust as I pulled it out and blood sprayed in my face and on my clothes as he chocked, pushing my guilt, fear and anyone negative feeling away I slammed the Axe down again to end his suffering.
the head rolled and tapped against the front of my shoes.
I started at it shaking and turned away, throwing up what was in my stomach and coughing my heart and lungs out violently, I felt dizzy and my heart was beating in my ears as I felt like passing out.
I needed to kneel down with my hands against the ground, it was a while before I could stand up again even if shaking and lightheaded.
I used the axe the roll the head to the stone table and hurriedly threw it on it.
I was breathing hard as I came back to the headless body, I gulped as I readied to strike, I knew I should do this the faster I could before I might pass out.
I hit the body, again and again soft of cutting a triangle, I used the axe to dislodge the triangle that was made of skin, muscle and rubs.
I knew I couldn't just continue like this so I hesitantly touched it with my hand as I kneed down, I pulled my hand back as it was still warm before breathing in and closing my eyes as I pushed the lung away and quickly pulled the heart out as much as I could with my other hand.
I was so nauseous by now that I felt like I could vomit again as I somehow used the axe precisely and cut the arteries, setting the heart free, the warm blood still in it now on my cheek and T-shirt, hands bloody...... I was a medical student but the idea of having killed a boy to do this and how I did this made me sick.
I swallowed with difficulty and I ran to the table and drop the heart on it and ran out the door that opened.
"you are here finally!" Katy said calmly before seeing how bloody I was and in tears with the axe in hands. "what happened?!" and hugged me.
"I-I didn't want to take Azazel because a-a chance is I might had died. I d-didn't take Magdalene in case I was raped.... I went with Cain"
"oh your pour soul"
the wall moved and revealed a white board with four different coloured pen.
Meg took the blue pen and as the sentence in Latin had said, she 'presented her act to god' by writing it on the white board, 'I'm Samson and I cut my hair despite god telling me not too'. her hair was now ragged and a boyish length, I guess she didn't even have a mirror just scissors a cut until the door opened, scissors in her own small bag.
Stacy went after and wrote with the black pen, 'I was Eve and was to eat a poison apple or make someone else eat it, I forced the girl to eat it since I was selfish and wanted to live another day' so I wasn't the only one who hurt someone....
Katy let me go and uncapped the green one, 'I am Judas and betrayed Jesus, I needed to nail a living person on a cross and walking away without saying a word'.... Stacy and Katy hurt people but they will die later without them in the room.
I took the last pen with was red and uncapped it, my letters uneven as my hand shook, 'I, Cain, killed a man with this axe, taking his head and heart as offering to you', I dropped the pen as the wall closed and the door to the 7th level opened.
I felt someone hug me before another did to and a third as I cried, I had taken a life like the crazy people on this island, I was the same as them now, blood staining my hands and clothes.