The Torture Chamber

Hello everyone, Spunkie here with a fun Ficnatics prompt I have been working on! I love Halloween just as many of us do and we got to have some fun with one do the prompts this month. This prompt was “Cause This is Thriller...”. It was themed around creating a spooky story involving one of our beloved YOI characters. I had a lot of fun writing this story after I actually went through a haunted house attraction themed in the consent for this story.

**Warning: this story was wrote as a thriller. There are topics that some may find disturbing or possibly triggering. There is insinuation of blood and harm to another. You have been warned prior to reading**

The Torture Chamber

Excited voices and laughter filled the dark room Minami and his friends had been ushered into by Harley Quinn styled woman. Minami was practically bouncing where he stood in the dark room from excitement. He had been practicing so hard as of late he had almost forgotten Halloween was fast approaching, but his friends had not. After careful planning they brought Minami to a haunted house attraction that offered a unique type of interactive attraction called “The Tourture Chamber”. When his friends had showed him the reviews he knew he had to go. People had talked about how great the experience was, how many had been terrified, and how the actors in the place were extremely creepy. As Minami glanced over to his friend a hand slammed hard down onto his shoulder as a man leaned towards Minami.

“Why are you just standing there? Get in you cell!” The deep british voice barked at him before shoving him into a small opening in the wooden structure that had stood in front of him.

As Minami turned so he could face forward wave a dizziness washed over him. It took him a moment before he realized the floor under him was not hard as the floor he had been on second before, but instead a softer. This change coupled with the small space he was placed into that limited his field of vision was playing greatly with his senses. Eager to see what else they had in store he waited as patiently as he could as he could still hear the voices of his friends as they were also “guided” into their cells.

As it the movements began to quiet the man’s voice carried around the room as he told the participants to shut their mouths. Minami could hear a voice mocking the man who he could now see was dressed in a doctor’s lab coat with a mask that covered his lower face. There were dark circles lining under the hosts eyes and what looked to be sprays of crimson across his get up. A voice carried out from the cell next to Minami’s that was mocking the what Minami could only assume was the doctor from his custom. The doctor’s head snapped towards the direction on the voice as he swiftly moved, slamming his hands into the boards that divided each of the participants.

“You WILL shut up!” The doctor snared at the participate.

“I’d like to see you make me.” A young man’s voice retorted.

Without another glance the doctor walked away. As the young man burst out laughing as he mocking called after him the doctor appeared just as quickly. Minami could hear the young man’s body slam into his cell the doctor’s hand had quickly vanished from view as he darted into that participants cell. What noise of giggles that had been humming in the air suddenly fell silent in shock as it sounded as though the man who had been slammed into his cell had crumpled to the ground. Quickly stepping back, Minami could once again see the doctor in the dim light. Duct tape in his hand the doctor began to look around at the participant he could see. “Does anyone else need help remaining silent?”

No one spoke a word. It didn;t even sound as though anyone moved. Minami’s could feel the tension building in his stomach as he awaited for what was to come next. He felt apprehensive. He knew they were allowed to touch them, but with the noise he heard as the young man was slammed back into his cell seemed a bit excessive. Just as he began to question if he should leave he heard a female’s voice that seemed almost demented speak from behind his cell.

“Well come to the torture games! Allow me to introduce you to the rules of this game.They are really quite simple. Remain in your cell at all times. Keep your hands to your side. Under no circumstance are you to move them- that is unless we tell you to. Break the rules and you will lose.” An inhuman sounding laughter seemed to erupt from the female momentarily before she suddenly fell silent again to continue. “Curious how to win the game? Don’t worry my pets, I shall tell you. SURVIVE!”

As soon as the last word exited her mouth what limited lighting there had been vanished only to be replaced a second later with a low ambient red glow from somewhere out of Minami’s view. Anxiety began to swell in Minami as he could hear what sounded like someone dragging something heavy before suddenly the woman swung into his cell, stopping mere inches from his face. “Touch.” She moaned at him in a childlike voice as she cocked her head to the side.

“Touch what?” Minami asked uncertain what she was asking him to do. Without answering she grabbed his hand and shoved it into a container. For a second he was confused why his hand was just placed into it, but then he felt something move. His eyes widened as he realized that whatever was in this container was trying to crawl up his hand. Quickly he jerked his hand back as his heart began to race.

“What?” The woman said with a pout as she moved so close their noses touched. “Do you not like my pet tarantula?”

Laughing hysterically she suddenly disappeared from his view. Trying to calm his heart Minami slowly leaned forward in an attempt to peer around the edge of his cell, but was quickly met with a loud BANG as something hit hard into the wall to his cell. It was then he heard the doctor’s brittish accent melodically call, “No cheating. You don’t want to be punished, do you?”

“So you’ll punish me if I’m a bad girl?’ One of the girls a cell behind Minami’s called out tauntingly.

Minami could hear the soft padding of footsteps move way from where the doctor’s voice had just been second before. Then they just stopped. The air suddenly felt heavy as the silence drew out. No one was moving. It no longer felt like a fun game, but as though something sinister has been released in the room. It was then he heard the woman’s voice who had just been in his cell begin to chat in a songlike tone, “Someone’s about to lose” over and over.

Minami pressed himself as flat as he could against the back of his cell. A small smile danced upon his face as he realized this attraction was certainly provoking some fear in him. Just as he began to relax as he reminded himself they could really hurt him he heard something woosh through the air then make a sickening squishy noise as a blood curdling scream filled the room. Minami’s breath caught in his throat as the screams seemed to go on for several minutes accompanied by the repeated sounds of something hard hitting something soft before the screams just died off.

“What did you do to her?” A man’s voice yelled angrily before the same sickening noise filled the room again accompanied by his screams that lasted only a few seconds.

Minami felt a cold fear washed over him as he stood there, his mind trying desperately to make sense of what he had heard. This was supposed to be just a fun haunted house attraction, but the noises he heard were a bit too realistic for his liking. He knew he truthfully had nothing to fear, but something in the back of his mind would not stop demanding he run for the door. Doing his best to calm himself he took a deep, steady breaths. He didn’t want his friends to think he was a coward, but he was quickly becoming okay with the idea of them teasing him for being scared.

Just as Minami had begun to calm his racing heart the woman had appeared again in front of him for just a moment. She smashed her hand against his forehead as she smeared something warm across his face. “Thought you might be lonely so I brought you some of your friend!”

Frozen where he stood, Minami didn’t know how to react. He tried to take deep breaths but he felt his stomach lurch as he realized it was a metallic smell coming from whatever fluid she had rubbed on his face. His feet were moving before he had a chance to he was running. As he slammed into the door he had entered to come in the attraction he fought desperately to open it, but it would not move. Panic gripped him as he heard the doctor’s smooth voice call from behind him, “You loose.” Minami turned quickly just as a flash of metal caught the light as an axe was raised above the doctor’s head before quickly swinging down.

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