Minna I'm back! Sorry it took me forever school stuff had to be done. Anyways, here's the next chapter and I hope you all enjoy it! Doso! Also this chapter is a little short because I was having a hard time imagineing it. Sorry.
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Chapter 26
Mariko couldn't recall what had happend for the past few hours. All she remembered was being told that Mari-chan wasn't real and that she was just a figure of her imagination. Then after that she had blacked out. When Mariko woke up, she found herself in a bed. She looked around and noticed that it wasn't one of the rooms in the facility. She was somewhere else. Mariko sat and tried to move but there were restraints tying to her bed.
"What the?"
Mariko wondered why she was in retraints. Then the door opened and a nurse came in. Seeing that she was awake, the nurse ran out and brought a doctor in. The doctor had long brown hair and brown eyes.
"Hello Mariko. My name is Kasai Tomomi and I'm the doctor in charge of you. Do you remember anything that happened from yesterday?" she asked.
"Yeah a little. My head still hurts a little. By the way, why am I here and why am I in restraints?" Mariko asked.
"You had a break down at your old facility so you were transferred here. The restraints were put on because on the way here, you went berserk and attacked one of our nurses."
"I did? Oh my gosh I am so sorry. I don't even remember."
"It's alright. The nurse wasn't hurt too badly."
"So when can I go back to Hirokawa Mental Facility?" Mariko asked.
"Well I'm afraid it's going to be a while. You see, you think you're fine but actually there's something very wrong up here." Kasai said.
"But I feel fine."
"Well let's take a few tests and we'll determine your condition from there."
Kasai walked over and hooked Mariko up to a shock therapy machine.
"Is this really needed?" Mariko asked.
"Yes. It's just to make sure you don't get too wild." Kasai said.
"Now I'm going to ask you some questions and all I need is you to answer them."
"Ask away."
"When did you start imagining other people?" Kasai asked.
"Yesterday was the first time." Mariko said.
"Ok and before that, did you ever start hearing strange things. Like voices?"
"No. None of this start until yesterday."
"Did you have any mental problems in the past?"
"No none that I can remember."
"I see. Alright Mariko now I'm going to shock you a little bit and you tell me if it hurts."
Kasai grabbed the remote and turned it on. Mariko was inspecting to feel pain but instead, she didn't feel anything.
"Um I don't really feel anything." Mariko said.
"Ok then I'm going to turn it up a little higher." Kasai said.
When she did, Mariko could feel a little tingling sensation but not a lot.
"I feel something but no much." Mariko said.
"Ok then I'm going to put it on full power." Kasai said.
Kasai it the switch and Mariko felt a jolt shoot up her body. But it wasn't pain. It was more like a tickling sensation. Pretty soon Mariko found herself laughing and shaking all over the place. Then it stopped and Mariko was left speechless from all the laughing. Meanwhile, Kasai took a few notes. Then she took off the shock wave patches and handed Mariko a piece of paper and a pen.
"Mariko I want you to draw me something. Any thing that comes to mind." she said.
"Ok."
Mariko sat there and thought about it for a while. Then an idea popped in her head and she drew it. Mariko was drew a Gachapin because it reminded her of Miichan. She felt pretty good looking at it and complimented herself on the drawing. When she showed it to Kasai, the doctor looked at Mariko with a strange look.
"Mariko what is this?" Kasai asked.
"It's Gachapin." Mariko said.
"Really because all I see is a dog."
"What?"
Mariko looked at the drawing and she was right. Mariko had drawn a dog and not a Gachapin.
"I could've sworn I drew a Gachapin." Mariko said scratching her head.
Kasai took some more notes and then said,
"Well I'm going to revaluate my notes and get back to you soon."
"Ok sounds good."
Kasai got up and left Mariko leaving her alone. Mariko sat there staring at all the things in her room. The walls were metal which was very strange and the door sounded very heavy when they were shut. Mariko continued to sit there waiting quietly when suddenly she started to hear something.
"Mariko help us..." a voice said.
"We can't take it anymore...."
"I'm going to lose it...."
The voices sounded a lot like her patients back in the facility.
"Mariko help. I don't like our new doctor. Please come back soon." the voice sounded like Rena.
"I want Nyannyan. The new doctor has locked me up and I can't get out. Mariko where are you?" the voice was Yuko's.
"Mariko I can't take it much longer. I just might lose it." Jurina's voice echoed in her head.
Mariko didn't know where the voices were coming from but they were becoming unbareable. The cries of her patients made her feel something was wrong and she needed to get back to the facility. But how could she when she was still tied to the bed. Mariko sat there trying to think of something when the doctor came back in with a cart.
"What is all that for?" Mariko asked.
"We need to take a sample of your blood." Kasai said.
"Ok."
Mariko didn't have a problem with giving blood since she's done it before. But when Kasai came over with the needle, something in Mariko's head screamed. This caused her to break free of her restraints and knock Kasai over.
"Run." a voice said.
Mariko ran out and down the hall. She just kept running and running searching for an exit. But no matter where she was, she would just find herself more lost than before. Mariko could hear the foot steps of people coming. Scared and alert, Mariko took a scalpal on a nearby surgery cart and waited. Then when the person was about to come out, Mariko stabbed them. There was a loud scream that sounded very familiar to Mariko. She looked over and saw Acchan on the ground bleeding.
"Acchan!"
Mariko ran over and tried to help her fallen friend when something came behind and struck her. Mariko looked over and saw Jurina.
"Jurina what are you-"
Before Mariko could finish what she was saying, Jurina ran over and punched Mariko in the face. Then she got on top of her and started strangling her. Mariko was about to pass out when she grabbed the scalpal and stabbed Jurina's leg. Jurina got off and fell over.
"Jurina what's going on?" Mariko asked.
Jurina didn't say anything, she just stared at her with a cold look. Mariko didn't know what to do. But then she heard foot steps from behind her. Next thing she knew, she was surrounded by everyone.
"Takamina, Yuko, Haruna, Rena, Sayaka, Sae, Yukirin, Mayuyu. What are you all doing?"
They didn't say anything. Instead they all pulled out bats and started to charge at Mariko. One by one, they started beating Mariko to a pulp. Mariko didn't fight back because they were her friends. So why were they hurting her? As Mariko sat there being beaten by her friends, the voice in her head said something.
"Kill them."
This made Mariko snap and she no longer controlled her body. She grabbed a bat from Rena and knocked her back. Then she took them all down until everyone was on the ground moaning in pain. But Mariko wasn't done yet. She walked over to each person and beated them until they stopped moving and breathing. She didn't stop until everyone was dead. When it was all over, Mariko found herself in the center of all the bodies covered in their blood.
"How was it?" the voice asked.
"What happened?" Mariko said.
"You killed them. You killed everyone you loved."
"No... There's no way."
"Look at yourself. It's their blood on your hands. You killed them."
"You're wrong!"
"Did you like it? Killing the people you loved and trusted the most." the voice asked.
"No! I did it to protect myself. It was all an accident." Mariko said.
"No you did it because you wanted to kill them. The lust for blood and violence was reaching out to you begging to kill. You're a murder Mariko. Or better yet, a monster."
"NOOOOO!"
Mariko took the bat and started beating herself with it.
"Get out of my head!" she yelled as she continued to beat herself.
Mariko could feel her own blood dripping down her face. But it wasn't enough, she wasn't going to stop until she was dead like the others.
"You can't stop yourself Mariko. You'll always keep killing and killing." the voice said.
"Shut up!"
With one finaly blow, Mariko felt everything leave. Everything got quiet and then once again, dark. When Mariko woke up, she found herself in a bed again. Only this time there were more restraints and Mariko was in a straight jacket. She was going to say something when she heard voices outside her room.
"Hey did you hear? That Mariko chick broke out and went delusional." a woman said.
"Yeah. She killed 10 guards with one of their night sticks. It was horrible." another woman said.
"That's awful."
"Yeah and what's worse is then she started to beat herself. By the time the other guards foound her, she was in the middle of having a seizure."
"My gosh. She really needs help. Do you think she'll ever get out?"
"I doubt it. She may be here forever."
"This is horrible."
Mariko couldn't believe what she had just heard. She was glad that she didn't kill her friends. But she was also scared now. The fact that her mind was able to make her think such things was just unimaginable. Mariko thought maybe it would be best for her to stay where she was. It was obvious that she was sick and needed help.
"Hey Mariko."
Mariko turned around and saw Mari-chan again.
"I thought you were dead." Mariko said.
"I can't die silly. I'm just a figure of your imagination remember?" Mari-chan said.
"Oh yeah. Hey do you think you could stay here with me and keep me company. It's nice to talk to someone even if you're not real."
"Sure. I'll stay with you."
"Thanks. Hey and maybe when I get out, we can go get ice cream."
"That sounds great Mariko."
"Well I remembered how much I used to love it when I was little."
"You know you don't have to stay here. You can leave if you want." Mari-chan said.
"But I'm sick and I need help. So I'm going to stay here and get cured." Mariko said.
"You never will be. These people won't help you. You're just here so you don't hurt others. This place is more like a jail rather than a mental hospital."
"Well that's fine with me. As long as I'm here not hurting anyone I'm happy with that."
"You're crazy you know?"
"Yeah I know."
Mariko spent the rest of the time talking to her fictional younger self. But she also wondered how everyone at the facility was doing. What Mariko didn't know was that things at the faciltiy were becoming far more worse than what she could possibly imagine.
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Well there's chapter 26! I hope you all enjoyed it and taking a look into Mariko's head. She was having one heck of a nightmare. Anyways, the next chapter is going to be from a different point of view of another character. Look forward to it and please tell me what you think!