Nightmare in hell

Level up

Monsters come flying at me, pale girls with deep gouges where their eyes should be, aim and fling poison darts straight at my chest. Something barrels into me and I fall to one knee, jump straight back up, deflect another poison dart. I'm only too quick to sink my knife into one of the girls chests, immediately retrieving it before she fades away but as she falls so many more appear. Another poison dart flies straight at me threatening to hit me straight between the eyes but I throw my head back and everything skids into slow motion. My feet are sluggish, sticking like glue in the puddle of blood that seems to grow bigger with every step I take. Something is screaming in my ear, screaming for my death but I am blind to its owner.

"Lara Shay!" A snarl, teeth clamp over my wrist and just for a moment I lock eyes with a black cat sitting in the background. It's amber eyes seem to be looking straight into my soul and I know it's searching for something. It gives me a wink before its gone and everything speeds up again.

I scream, slash my knife over the hideous dogs muzzle but it refuses to budge. The hollow eyed girl grins without teeth as she sends another dart my way but I deflect it before pounding my knife into the mutts chest. I know I have to kill the leader of this level to level up but I don't know who or where the monster is hiding let alone what It will try to do to me. "Come on, come on, come out to play," I whisper under my breath. I skid across another one of my victims pool of blood. So many fall, yet so many keep coming at me. Claw after claw, fang after fang, dart after dart until I finally spot it, hiding camouflaged in the vines above my head. It's claws are metres long, it is without pupils but it still stares at me with unblinking, murderous, white eyes. The things lips tug up in a malicious smile so I grin back. 

"Game on Lara Shay," it hisses at me before it lands next to me and every other monster fades away into nothing. I dramatically spin my knives in my hands and hold them out in front of me in a lethal pose. The cut on my shoulder burns under my jacket but I don't dare reveal it. The Great Lara Shay can never show weakness.

The monster tilts it's head ever so slightly trying to psych me out but I just smile and wait. I should have seen it coming but what can I say even the Great Lara Shay makes mistakes. It's claws rake just under my eye but I hold in a scream. I can feel it burn, feel something dark and evil coursing through my veins before my skin is alive. Something prods at my chest, desperately trying to get out. I can see a bump under my jacket just over where my heart is. It's not real. I know it's not real. "You're pathetic," I say and I'm smiling because now I know who this monster is. 

"Why?" It snarls at me. The thing in my chest prods me more fiercely this time but I know it's not real. It's not real. 

"You take on the bodies of other monsters, you can't even face me in your true body." "YOU ARE WEAK!" I'm laughing, I'm laughing so much it hurts. 

"HOW DARE YOU!" The monster screams at me. It's high pitched scream forces me to cover my ears in pain but I've revealed it's secret and its already shrinking. I walk forward, only one knife in my hand now. 

"You see there are no rules in this game except for the unspoken rules that rule over every monster on this game." The monster is only ankle high now so I crouch down. 

"I live." I lift my knife high above its head. 

"And you die." I plunge my knife into its chest and it lets out the tiniest high pitch scream I've ever heard before it falls and disappears from sight.

I raise my hands above my head and scream in victory. I've done it! Another level up! The messenger wolf appears, another one of those snarky smiles on his face. The burning sensation is gone and so is the bump over my heart. This girl ain't dying today!