Dark Recess Time!

The silence on the long stretch of road was interrupted by Iron Maiden's "Sea Of Madness." The source of this music was coming from the Hummer. Inside sat Jabo, Laura, James and Gordon.

"So where the fuck are we going?" asked James

"James," said Gordon "you should know by now, we never go looking for a specific place, we usually end up in the first place we find!"

"Well we better find someplace soon," said Laura "looks like a fog's moving in."

"Shit!" said Jabo "James, did you remember to put the fog lights in?"

"Guess I forgot to put the fog lights in!" said James, singing that to the tune for Sugar Crisp cereal. Gordon then lifted his arm, and slapped James across the back of the head. "What the fuck was that for?" demanded James

"For using that stupid line from The Simpsons again!" said Gordon. James pulled out his handgun, and pointed it at Gordon.

"You ever slap me again," said James "and I'll blow your fucking brains out all over the road!"

"Try it!" said Gordon

"Enough!" said Jabo, as he drove through the thick fog. As he continued driving, he heard a sound off in the distance.

"What's that noise?" asked Laura

"I don't know!" said Jabo.

All of a sudden, a figure came trough the fog. It was a man on a motorcycle, he was headed right for the Hummer.

"SHIT!" yelled Jabo as he made a quick swerve to avoid the motorcyclist. The turn he made was too quick, because next thing they knew they could feel the Hummer tipping over. As the Hummer crashed onto it's side, the last thing Jabo saw before losing consciousness, was the group sprawled out on the ground near the Hummer.

***

Slowly Jabo began to regain consciousness, he wasn't sure how long he'd been out, just that it seemed like hours. As Jabo got up and looked around the Hummer, he saw that the rest of the group was gone.

"Where the fuck are they?" Jabo said to himself. Jabo looked around the area for the group, turning up nothing. Jabo figured that if he walked on down the road, that he would hopefully find the group, or at least a city.

***

In the distance, through the fog Jabo could make out a town.

"About fucking time!" Jabo said to himself. As he entered the town, he noticed that there was no sign giving the name of the place. Jabo found this very strange, but continued walking through the town. As he walked through the town, he found that it seemed deserted. After some time, walking almost blindly through the fog, Jabo came across a hotel. As Jabo walked into the hotel, he figured he might as well get a room, so he'd have a central point to back to, when he went out searching for the group. As he walked into the hotel, he found that there was noone in the hotel. Jabo walked up to the front desk, he looked behind it to see only one key on the board. Jabo went behind the front desk, grabbed the key, and headed for his room. Jabo entered his room, and sat on the edge of the bed. Jabo looked at his watch, the time was 5:30 pm. Jabo decided that he would lay down for an hour, then continue the search for the group.

***

Jabo woke up, the feeling that he had slept for several hours. As he looked at his watch, the time was 5:30 pm.

"The hell?" said Jabo. He would have thought that the battery had died in his watch, but it was digital. As he looked around the room trying to find the real time, he found that there was no clock in the room. As Jabo left his room and made his way to the front desk, he found there was no clock there either. As Jabo went outside the hotel, he found that the fog had cleared. As he looked around the town, it looked different, it looked...evil!

As Jabo walked down the streets of the town, he began to hear the sound of a laughing child. As he looked up the street, he thought he saw Laura in the distance.

"LAURA!" yelled Jabo. He tried to catch up to the figure, who kept on walking. As Jabo followed what appeared to be Laura, he saw her walk into an alley. When Jabo made his way to the alley, the figure was gone. "Where the fuck did she go?" Jabo asked himself. He started exiting the alley, when he heard the childs laughter again. He watched as a figure came from the shadows, it was a little girl. Jabo stood there, and looked at the child. She had long blond hair, and pretty green eyes, but her face looked very thin. As Jabo examined her face, it looked like a skeleton with eyes.

"Hello there," said Jabo as he knelt down in front of the girl "what's your name?" The child showed no emotion on her face. All of a sudden, the child pulled out a knife and stabbed it into Jabos leg. As Jabo let out a painful yell, the girl ran away into the darkness of the alley. "Ahhh," said Jabo "that little bitch, I'm gonna kill her!" Jabo pulled out his handgun, and walked into the darkness of the alley. As he looked around the alley, he could find noone. As Jabo exited the alley, he decided that he better get his leg bandaged up, and be more cautious if he came across anyone else.

After bandaging up his leg, Jabo continued his search through the town. As he walked down a street, he came across a church. As Jabo looked at the church, he couldn't believe the image on the front. The window of the church had an image on Jesus Christ laying in a puddle of his own

blood. Above him, was a image of Satan with his foot on Jesus's body, holding a bloody pitchfork.

"What the fuck is wrong with this place?" Jabo asked himself, as he walked to the doors of the church, gun in hand. Jabo walked in to see two people at the alter, a baby laying on a table. Jabo watched as a woman took a scalpel, and stuck it into the baby. Jabo heard the last cry from the baby before it died. As the couple began removing the organs, and draining the blood, Jabo walked up to them.

"Why the fuck did you do that?" said Jabo, holding up his gun. "You sick motherfuckers!"

"We did it as a sacrifice!" said the man

"Yeah?" said Jabo "Well sacrifice this!" Jabo aimed the gun at the mans face, and fired. The man fell to the ground dead. Jabo aimed his gun at the woman. "Who's child was this?" demanded Jabo

"It was mine!" said the woman

"Why the fuck did you kill it?" yelled Jabo

"We had to," said the woman "we didn't want to displease our god!" Jabo said nothing as he turned away in disgust, and headed for the doors. Before he exited the church, he turned around and shot the woman in the chest. She fell to the ground, landing beside her partner.

After exiting the church, Jabo was definitely sure something was wrong with this town. As he continued walking, he heard screams of pain. He ran up to see two children gutting open a man, and eating his entrails.

"This is all just too fucking weird!" said Jabo, as he kept walking. Jabo soon found himself in front of a bar. After a moment of hesitation, he decided to go in. As he entered the bar, he found it deserted, but the bar was fully stacked with liquor. Jabo decided that after some of the

stuff he saw, he needed a drink. Jabo reached over, grabbed a bottle of whiskey, and began to drink. After some time, he heard the sound of footsteps coming into the bar. As he listened to the footsteps, he knew that four people had come in. Waiting for the right moment, Jabo placed one of his hands inside his trenchcoat, on the handle of a MAC-10. Jabo felt a hand placed strongly on his shoulder. Acting quickly, he turned around and fired the MAC-10 into the guys

chest. He looked at the other three people in the bar, he noticed that they had crazed looks on their faces. As another man ran at Jabo, he smashed the whiskey bottle across the guys head, knocking him to the ground. As Jabo looked down at the man, another one came up and gave Jabo

an uppercut, knocking him over the bar counter. As the man looked over the counter, he was met with the butt of a shotgun hitting his face. Jabo climbed on top of the bar counter, aimed the shotgun at the man, and fired. A woman came running at Jabo, he threw away the shotgun. Using a

pool stick, the woman caused Jabo to fall onto the counter. As she came right up to him, he used his feet and kicked her in the chest, knocking her to the ground. He pulled out the handgun, and shot the woman point blank in the head. Jabo put away his weapons, and walked towards the front doors of the bar. As he was about to leave, he heard the one man regain consciousness. Jabo walked over to the man, picked up the broken whiskey bottle, and stabbed it into the mans neck. As Jabo exited the bar, he saw Gordon standing in front of him.

"Gordon!?" said Jabo "Where the fuck have you been? After the accident, you, Laura, and James went missing. I thought I saw Laura, but she disappeared." As Jabo looked at Gordon waiting for a response, he noticed something looked different about Gordon. Gordon flashed a big toothy smile, but his eyes looked possessed. "Are you...okay G?" asked Jabo. Gordon then picked up Jabo, and threw him through the window at the bar.

"Shit!" said Jabo as he sat up, surrounded by broken glass. "I'm back in here again!" As Jabo stood up, he watched as Gordon walked through the broken window and right up to

him. Gordon proceeded to wrap his hands around Jabos throat, choking the life from Jabo. Acting quickly, Jabo kicked Gordon in the stomach, causing him to fall to his knees. Jabo quickly got up, pulled out his handgun, and aimed it at Gordon.

"Look G," said Jabo "I don't wanna shoot you, but you're leaving me little option!" Jabo watched as Gordon pulled out his shotgun, and fired at Jabo. The shot nearly hit Jabo, as he dove out of the way. Aiming his gun at Gordon, Jabo began firing, not stopping until he heard the

sound of the clip fall out. Jabo walked up to Gordons bloody corpse, and knelt down in front of it. "Goddamnit G!" said Jabo "What the fuck happened? We were supposed to be a team, why the hell did you have to do that? As Jabo stood up, and headed for the exit, Gordons other hand opened up. Jabo walked back over to Gordon, and picked up a piece of paper that was in his hand. THE HOSPITAL were the words written on the piece of paper. "The hospital?" said Jabo "Why the fuck

would someone write that?" As Jabo looked at the paper again, and examined the writing, he recognized it to be Lauras. "Well," said Jabo "I better get to the hospital."

***

As Jabo came up to the hospital, he noticed that it looked very run down. As he entered the hospital, like the town, it looked deserted.

"Well," said Jabo, as he walked down the halls of the hospital. "I'm in the hospital, now what?" Jabo heard sounds coming from one of the rooms at the end of the hall. As Jabo made his way to the room, he opened the door to see James slitting the throat of a woman laying in the bed.

"James!" said Jabo "What the fuck are you doing?" As James got off the woman and looked at Jabo, he had a possessed look in his eyes.

"Shit!" said Jabo "Not again!" Jabo watched as James pulled out his handguns, and headed towards Jabo. As James fired at Jabo, he managed to hit him in the shoulder. Jabo fell to the ground, and placed his hand over the newly formed bullet hole in his shoulder. James walked right up to Jabo and aimed his guns at Jabos head. Jabo used his feet to trip James onto the ground. Jabo quickly got up, pulled out a .45, and aimed it at James head. "You stupid son of a bitch!" said Jabo, the gun still aimed at James head. "I don't know what the fuck's been going on with you and Gordon. I still haven't been able to track down Laura, and now my shoulder hurts about as much as my leg does! I don't know what the fuck's going on, or where the fuck we are! So you better give me some answers, or I'm gonna blow your fucking brains out!" As Jabo looked at James, waiting for a response, James said nothing. Jabo placed the barrel of the .45 on James forehead, and pulled the trigger. As Jabo stood up, like Gordon, James's hand opened up revealing a piece of paper. THE MORGUE was written in Lauras handwriting on this

piece of paper. "The morgue," said Jabo "how fitting!"

Jabo made his way to the morgue. As he entered, he saw a figure in the shadows at the other end.

"Sit down!" said the female voice of the figure. Jabo sat down in front of the shadowed figure.

"I know that's you Laura," said Jabo "so why bother hiding in the shadows?"

"Because," said Laura "I am not the same I once was, the town has changed me!"

"What are you talking about?" asked Jabo

"We have much to discuss," said Laura "I'm sure you saw James and Gordon."

"Yeah!" said Jabo

"They have been possessed by this town too!" said Laura

"What do you mean?" asked Jabo

"You should know!" said Laura

"What?" said Jabo "How the fuck did this conversation go form possession, to something I should know?"

"I'm talking about this town, the people, everything!" said Laura

"So am I!" said Jabo

"I mean you created this all!" said Laura

"What?" said Jabo

"This was all created by the dark recesses of your mind" said Laura

"But how?" asked Jabo

"Do you remember the car crash?" asked Laura

"Yeah," said Jabo "I got out of the Hummer, and that's when I found all of you were gone."

"Well," said Laura "the truth is James, Gordon and I died after that accident. You will join us, as you are currently dying."

"I don't understand!" said Jabo

"We are not really here," said Laura "we are all lying on the road, dead and bleeding!"

"How do I know you're telling the truth?" asked Jabo. Jabo watched as Laura brought her face into the light. As Jabo looked at Laura, he noticed that her skin looked like it was in early stages of decomposition, her face so thin, the structure of her skull was visible.

"DOES IT LOOK LIKE I'M FUCKING LYING?" yelled Laura angrily.

"Then what do I do?" asked Jabo

"Come to the realization that you're dead," said Laura "you will then be free of this hell!" Overwhelmed by what he heard, Jabo felt himself getting lightheaded. As Jabo closed his eyes, Lauras words echoed in his head. "We are not really here, we are all lying on the road, dead and bleeding!" Jabo opened his eyes to find himself on the stretch of road. As he looked around him, he saw that the Hummer was on its side. He looked over at the group. He first saw James, who's head was cracked open, and his brains leaking onto the road. As he looked over at Gordon, a piece of the Hummer which had come off when it turned over, had impaled itself into Gordons chest. Finally Jabo looked over at Laura, who was on the ground beside Jabo, it appeared the crash had caused her neck to break. With his last bit of strength, Jabo brought himself right up to Laura, and wrapped his arms around her. Jabo then closed his eyes, finally dying a few

minutes later.

THE END