Black Site

"Now don't panic you three." The officer said, still pointing his gun at them. "We just need to ask you a few questions and run a few routine tests, you'll be free to go about your merry way and chase spooks in no time."

They waited what felt like an eternity laying in the dirt beside the highway. Finally, the requested backup had arrived. Men in hazmat suits exited a van and made their way over to the trio with chemical sprayers. Without even saying a word they began spraying them.

"Hey what the hell is this!" Terry screamed surprised by the sudden dosing of his person. As Terry jumped in in surprise, he noticed the officer had his gun barrel pointed directed at his chest. "Terry Sorry!" He shouted. "Don't shoot Terry! You can spray Terry with whatever you want, Terry loves strange chemical bathes from people in hazmat suits."

"Get back on the ground." The officer sighed. "They are just decontaminating you. We don't know what kind of toxins or spores you may have come in contact with in that old, abandoned town."

After the trio were fully drenched in the unknown chemical, one of the men in the hazmat suits gave the officer a thumbs up.

"Alright you three, get up and walk over to the hazmat van." He said while pointing at the van. "You are going for a little ride, best of luck!" He waved as they walked slowly to the van as instructed.

After the three entered the van the hazmat team shut the doors and locked them inside. They were in a separate compartment from the hazmat team. "What do you think is going on?" Drew asked, feeling safe to talk as they were now alone.

"All Terry knows, is he would rather see that demon again then mess with the police." Terry said.

"I think the government knows about this shit." Sam said bluntly. "Think about it, how much does the government know, that they don't let us know?!"

"Oh god Sam, not this again." Drew sighed. "Look, I agree that there is a strong possibility of aliens out in the universe, but I seriously disagree that any of them have visited earth and the government is hiding them."

"I bet they are!" Sam shouted back. "I bet the government knows about ghosts and demons and whatever in the hell else goes bump in the night. They want nice calm citizens that just go about their lives and pay their taxes, an educated public is a dangerous public, so they keep us in the dark!"

"I'm not arguing this." Drew sighed again. "There is no way the government could possibly know the kind of shit we experienced tonight, there is just no way to keep it secret. You know the old saying three men can keep a secret if one if mute and the other two are dead." Drew turned his attention to Terry. "How are you doing Terry?"

"Man, this weekend sucks." Terry said.

"That I agree with!" Drew laughed. Drew leaned back against the wall of the van. "I wonder where they are taking us."

"Probably to a military black site." Sam replied. "They can't afford for their secrets to get out, we have to be silenced."

"Terry don't want to be silenced!" Terry said terrified.

"Sam, stop scaring Terry!" Drew demanded. "Let's just answer all the questions as accurately as we can, and I am sure they will just let us go."

They could feel the van stop as they shifted around from the sudden change of velocity. "Guess we are here." Sam said. Shortly after the men in the hazmat suits opened the doors to the van. The team could see clearly where they were located. The road beneath them was made of dirt, and large fences with barbed wire lined the perimeter. Tall guard towers with search lights stood in each corner. In front of them was a mountain with a large concrete opening on the side of it. "Told it they were taking us to a black sight." Sam sighed.

"No talking." One of the men in the hazmat suits commanded. "Follow us inside." The group followed the men into a large elevator that took them deep underground. The elevator opened to a long corridor and the men in the hazmat suits ushered Drew, Sam, and Terry each into a separate room.

Inside each room was a table with a metal chair on either side bolted to the ground. They were each instructed to sit in the chair and wait. Each of them did as instructed.

Outside the base night had fallen and a familiar pair stood in the woods outside the base. "My lady, do you wish to build your strength by feeding on the mortals here?" Hilda said while sipping her tea. "I can tell there are so many of them, you were so wise to follow those fools, knowing they would lead you to more prey."

The faceless girl nodded in response and vanished from sight.

Hilda took another sip of her tea. "I suppose I will take my place in purgatory then." She said as she disappeared.

At one of the guard towers, one of the spotlights became to flicker uncontrollably. The guard banged on the light, but the flickering continued. He scratched his head and as he breathed, he noticed a chill in the air, so chilly that he could see his breath. He heard a child's laughter behind him and turned around to investigate. As he turned, he saw a faceless girl standing right behind him. Before he could do anything, she dug her hand into his chest and ripped out his still beating heart. Her entire face became a mouth, and she ate it in a single bite. When she was finished, she vanished again and repeated her task at each of the towers.

The men below could hear the guards in the towers final screams and rushed to investigate. As they discovered the bloody corpses, they themselves were consumed. With each meal the demon regained its lost power. After all the guards outside had been eliminated, she decided to head inside to get her fill.

Inside Drew's room he still sat there waiting for someone to show up and ask him questions. He knew that it was a tactic he had seen on television where they would make someone wait until they were agitated, he just never thought it was a thing in real life. Bored he just stared at the wall until he heard screams and gunshots echoing throughout the hallway. He rushed up out of his chair and ran to the door to investigate. He wiggled on the door handle, but the door had been securely locked.

"Shit what's going on?!" He yelled. He noticed one of the walls in the room looked different as he stared in his boredom earlier and decided to take a closer look. He knocked on the wall and heard the familiar sound of glass. "Someone painted a glass wall to look like concrete?" He questioned to himself. He removed his shirt and wrapped it around his elbow. He smashed his wrapped appendage into the glass wall several times until it started to crack. At that point he decided to kick the wall at the point of the crack. And the wall shattered revealing another room and another door.

Drew rushed over to the other door and it opened with ease. The lights in the hall were flickering on and off and corpses lined the walls. He ran to the doors where Terry and Sam were being held and opened them. Sam rushed out and so did Terry. As soon as they saw the carnage they knew.

"Fuck!" Sam said. "I messed it up!" She said.

"What do you mean?" Drew asked.

"We were supposed to burn the chalice and then banish her, so she couldn't return." Sam explained. "I banished her first and then we burned the chalice, she must have returned before the gate was destroyed."

"Terry takes it back." Terry said. "Terry would rather have the police!"

"Shit, do you remember the ritual to banish her?" Drew asked.

"I think so." Sam said. "I have to say it when she is visible to us. And look around, she purposefully avoided us, she knows we can banish her."

"So, what do we need to do?" Drew asked.

"We need to make her manifest somehow, if we could catch her hunting, that would work."

Gunshots echoed from down the hallway. "Well sounds like she's hunting." Drew said. "Let's go!"

Sam and Drew ran towards the gunshots, but Terry stayed behind. They turned the corner right as she had another soldier backed against the wall. Sam yelled out her incantation and the demon started to glitch out, as if it were a faulty program. "What's happening Sam?!" Drew shouted.

"I don't know! That should have worked!" Sam said. "Maybe I messed it up somehow?"

The demon continued to follow the fleeing soldier, until she killed him as the rest. Sam and Drew looked on in horror. After she finished her meal, she waved at the two and vanished. As she disappeared the lights in the base returned to normal. Drew and Sam checked the other rooms of the base, but every soldier was dead. Defeated they returned to Terry who was waiting by the elevator.

"So, did you all kill it?" Terry asked. "I see the lights are back."

"No, she just waved at us and left." Drew said dismayed. "Is she going to follow us around everywhere now?"

"Oh god, everywhere we go we are going to put people in danger." Sam said. "We need to go to the van and research some more. We need to find a way to stop her."

"Right, let's go." Drew said.

"Terry coming with you all, Terry does not want to be around when people discover all these corpses." Terry said as he followed Sam and Drew into the elevator.