XXII. ASYLUM

VIXX; REQUEST — BAROOYA 

Test #1

Sang Hyuk entered the room fidgeting. The small boy was clinging unto his shorts the whole time. He nervously looked at every corner of the room, inspecting it with his void orbs. Both his eyes were twitching as he clutched unto his shorts even tighter than before. He bit his bottom lip until it got scarred and bleeding. "Okay Sang Hyuk, calm down." The intercom was suddenly alive. "It's just the usual... Let's start." 

Right after hearing those two words, Sang Hyuk focused on the rag doll in front of him. His whole body kept on shuddering nonstop, and more blood flowed out of his lips. In a few moments, the veins near his forehead popped and he suddenly got a nosebleed. He didn't leave his eyes on the rag doll which was a few feet taller than the child. Then, after a while...

Boom!

The rag doll mashed into pieces in an instant. The cloth and the foam inside it bursted throughout the whole room. Sang Hyuk closed his eyes and waited for the impact. Some foam hit his face, but it didn't make him stop shivering. The intercom spoke up again. "Kind of... iffy." The kid exited the room.

Test #2

Hong Bin stared at the intercom's speakers. "Hong Bin, you know what to do. Start." The pager commanded. The boy's eyes suddenly turned white. The color changed to red, and he stood still in the center of the white, metallic room rooted on his spot. Out of nowhere, these vibrating, high-pitched noises resonated throughout the room. "A-Aggh!" The speakers roared from the intensity of the sound and then, right after, it exploded. "Agggghhh!!!" The person in the intercom booth shrieked in pain as he covered his bleeding ears. The frequency of the sound was too much for him to handle. In a minute, his head blasted as the blood splattered all over the room.

Hong Bin stopped. His eyes turned back to normal and exited the room while the pager spoke up.

"Good job."

Test #3

Jae Hwan was a normal kid, except that he levitates. He entered the room, and the person behind the microphone commanded him to drift all over the room. It was an easy task.

Test #4

Two children entered the same room as the others did. Taek Woon stood there silently while Jae Hwan tagged along behind. The active kid never left the quiet one. The others told him that Taek Woon was dangerous, but he followed him everywhere nonetheless. Taek Woon couldn't concentrate with his test, since Jae Hwan was bothering him. So with just flashing him a glare, he managed to rip Jae Hwan's mouth off his head in less than a minute. His lower jawbone fell apart from the others, drooping and oozing with red liquid. The child cried in misery. All his lower teeth fell to the ground, his gums were bleeding and sore. The crack reached up 'till his jawbone. "Can I go now?" Satisfied, Taek Woon left the room, with Jae Hwan trembling in terror. No one could stop him, or else they'd have the same fate as Jae Hwan. 

It was official. Taek Woon had silenced him.

Test #5

By the time the doors flew open, Won Shik's eyes were already missing. They were gone from their original places - Their sockets, and instead, he was holding them. His eye sockets were like a black hole; it was dark and empty. Cruor was dripping from his soaked hands and sockets. "Come on Won Shik, stand by the mirror." 

"No! I don't want to!" 

Two men pushed him forward while the child kept on insisting, shaking his head in disapproval.

"No! No! No!" He pleaded, "I don't want to see him again!" He firmly grasped his severed eyeballs, his nails digging into them. The splitting image of him snickered in the mirror.

Test #6

And then there was Hak Yeon. The worst case of all.

He didn't enter the "Special Room" unlike the others. He couldn't stand; his feet were gone. And it was his fault. He was locked up in a cell - Cell Number 063090. "Children." The pager spoke once more. They were all lined up in front of the door made with indestructible metal. It had a small window, but the windows had bars. "Test Number 6, starts now." Once the pager said these very words, everyone pushed each other away. They were all fighting for the small window that lets you peek in what's within.

And what's within, encaged in the chamber is Hak Yeon eating his cleaved flesh until the first layers of the skin were the only ones left. Hak Yeon digged even deeper, reaching his very bones. Half of his legs remained, and he didn't plan on keeping them.

800 words.

Genre. Horror.

PROMPT 29. These children weren't normal...