Chapter Seven

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The stopping of the elevator didn’t faze them. Instead, I had to watch them all work to help her while flirting and touching her. She was a sucker on their lines, flirting right back.

Rage blossomed in my chest, like a beautiful flower… that was on fire.

And I am forced to just watch.

Do you want to hurt them? A sinister voice asked in my head.

Yes. Stab their sleeping bodies. Burn down our house with them in it. Wait until the vlog ends and choke them as soon as they wake up.

There was a list of things I wanted to do to them, and I vividly thought about it as I watched them in the security room of the spaceship.

How could they betray me like this? This was supposed to be with me too. I was supposed to play with her too… and I didn’t mean just the game. They fucked me over. They… fucked me over!

I slammed the control panel, and the main menu button popped up in front of me. I saw that I could change the game’s hardness level.

Easy, medium, hard… and horror.

My jaw tightened. “Fuck them.”

I pushed the “horror” button, and suddenly, creepy monsters appeared on various screens throughout the map.

“I’ll jack off to their scared faces,” I muttered.

Theon

The elevator ached and groaned below me the moment I stepped onto the ladder. Looking down, I watched it fall and slide down the wires, sparks flying. It fell all the way to the ground and smashed into metal pieces.

I was the last one… and I just stepped off of it.

The elevator wasn’t supposed to do that, not in the story mode we were in.

I looked up. Everyone was staring down in shock.

“What did you do to it?” Kouvr giggled.

“Nothing!” I defended, but there was a smile on my lips. Her giggle was music to my ears, and I almost didn’t care about nearly falling to my death.

Not that I would actually die.

“Let’s just move,” she said, turning her beautiful face forward. We all began to climb upwards in unison and silence.

It has truly been a dream to play with her and watch the gamer gears in her head work. It almost made me forget we were in a horror game.

I shuddered.

At least that suit looked amazing on her. It made my cock throb just thinking about how tight it was against her curves. She had been enjoying our flirting, but I hoped she didn’t think she had to choose.

We all wanted her.

Cyrus was below her, staring right up at her ass. If I leaned back, I could get a beautiful glimpse too. She’d been working out the last year and taking care of herself, and it showed. Her aura glowed, skin shining from her self-care. I loved that she was doing that. She deserved all the self-love that she didn’t have before.

She was gorgeous, always had been. But she never had time before to take care of herself or to do the self-care she was doing now. With that, her confidence soared.

At the top, Zelos stepped out on the boot width ledge. He didn’t even look down, quickly toeing to the elevator doors. His fingers pushed into the crack, and with a grunt, he pried it open.

A waterfall of blood began dripping down the elevator shaft, making Kouvr gasp a bit.

I’ll protect her… but who will protect me?

Once open, we all tip-toed over the edge like we couldn’t fall to our death and stepped out into the hall. It wasn’t the bridge, but it was on the level with the bridge on it. I already knew this story, though I have only played it a few times.

This game got too creepy.

My point was proven the moment I stepped through the elevator door. Blood coated the walls and body parts laid around. I shuddered, thinking about the aliens that did this bullshit.

I didn’t want to see or meet them at all.

Kouvr’s eyes took in all the detail, and she inhaled a bit.

The smell hit me. It smelled like rotting and bloody bodies. It grossed me out, but my girl loved gore. She loved the adrenaline rush of horror video games. She played one in our Simu Machine on YouTube once, and she was petrified. It was kind of funny to watch.

At least I wasn’t the one screaming.

She stepped over a severed hand.

Cyrus was kind of sick coming up with this game. I knew he loved space and all things alien, but a flesh-eating alien monster? That’s your favorite game and the one you want to play with her first? Couldn’t have picked a game more romantic. One that will help us actually win over the girl.

The four of us men stayed close to her, prepared to fend off some monsters in her honor. As scared as I was, my body tended to switch between fight or flight. This time, it was fight.

Only for my girl.

Bang!

A scream caught in my throat, and I threw myself backward into someone’s arms. The noise was loud and right next to me. I knew it would happen too, and it still scared me like before.

“I’ll protect you,” Kouvr said, very close to me.

Glancing down, I saw she was the one that caught me. Although I liked her hands around me, I straightened and dusted my suit off.

“Theon doesn’t like horror games,” Kyree said through a fit of laughter. Of course, he and Zelos were laughing their ass off. Assholes.

“I do not. It’s just a preference. They… bore me.”

“Bore you… Sure.” Kouvr repeated, trying to believe me. She moved around me to the closet and opened it, her other hand in mine.

A body fell forward but stopped halfway as it connected to some type of alien goop. Its jaw was dislocated, hanging from a few flesh threads. Its body had been ripped to shreds, barely having any part of the suit left on it.

I would have jumped at the body falling, if I wasn’t in awe of this brave woman in front of me.

Her face screwed up in disgust. “At least we know where the people awake went.”

I nodded.

“Let’s move on,” she said, pulling on me.

My head shook. I shouldn’t complain. She was holding my hand. Looking at Kyree, I could almost see his jealousy brewing. I stuck out my tongue at him, a smile on my lips.

Above us, something banged in the vents, making me jump at the noise.

Kyree slapped his knee, laughing.

“Leave him alone!” Kouvr defended. “And shut up for a second.”

He listened, eyes darkened. I couldn’t help but think of the ways he’d make her eat those words. Choke her on his dick and say, “You shut up.”

Her eyes followed the thing climbing through the vents.

I shuddered. I knew what it was. A monster.

Once the thing scattered away, she started moving again. She walked to one of the walls, wiping the blood from the map. The map showed the way to the bridge, though we wouldn’t be able to make it that far because of the damage.

“I suspect,” she muttered. “Whatever those things are damaged something in the bridge or control center.”

She was right. The alien monsters were hungry, and I didn’t want to be their next meal, though technically I was.

The spaceship shook a bit before settling. Fear rushed through me. Was there more already? We haven’t even seen one and more were boarding?

She moved to the last hall before the bridge, and when she turned down the hall, she was greeted by a broken bridge.

Kouvr

My eyes peered through the porthole of the bulkhead doors, seeing that the so-called bridge was now in shambles, flying through space.

Space was dark, and I could barely see the pieces of metal flying through it. The bridge seemed like one of the only ways to connect the rest of the ship to the control center. It was still attached to the ship, but looking around, there seemed no way to get there.

Bang!

The floor rumbled as something jumped down somewhere in the halls. I wondered if it was the thing in the vent.

“Time to move,” Zelos muttered, peeking around the corner from where we came from.

I peeked too, wanting to see what we were up against.

The thing was looking around. Though when it looked towards us, I saw it had no eyes. Its mouth was wide and huge, with a layer of sharp teeth that I didn’t want to be on the end of. Blood was dripping from its chin, probably from one of the victims. Its body was kind of like a human’s, with long lanky arms that dragged across the floor and long, tall legs. A tail strictly made of bones dragged across the floor as it turned around, sniffing the air.

“Time to go,” I urged. If that thing had no eyes, there was no way it didn’t have a strong sense of smell.

“Oh fuck,” Theon muttered, leading the way down the hall. We all tried to move fast but quietly.

My heart pounded in my ear, and I swore those things could hear it. The adrenaline rush felt nice, but the fear felt real. I knew in my mind that this wasn’t real, but being chased scared me.

Theon halted to a stop at one of the halls. I bumped into his back, grabbing his hips to catch myself. I was about to ask him why he stopped, but I didn’t need to.

Right in front of us were three of those monster things. One turned to us, letting out an ear-piercing screech.

Hands grabbed me, pulling me backward and away from the monster. And I grabbed Theon’s arm to snap him from his fear.

We all ran now, not caring how loud our boots clanked on the floor.

The things behind us were louder. Screaming and stomping their feet after us.

We came to an intersection I’d never seen before, and the hall in front of us was filled with more monsters.

“Fuck!” Zelos shouted. “Left or right?”

I chose left, running alongside Cyrus.

Looking back, I saw all of the other men had chosen right. The monsters split up, running after us and them. We ran together, keeping up with each other’s pace.

My lungs burned, and my thighs shook a bit from tiredness.

“Here!” Cyrus shouted, opening one of the doors in the hall and pulling me into it. He slammed and locked the door behind me.

I swallowed, trying to wet my dry throat. Bending over, I tried to catch my breath.

Cyrus pressed his ear to the door, though it wasn’t needed.

I heard the monsters’ huge footsteps banging as they ran past the door. Luckily, they couldn’t see where we went.

Standing up, I looked around the room. We were in a room with a huge bed in it, lined against a huge outward dome window. On the sides of the room were a desk and dresser, white to match the bed.

“Oh wow,” I muttered, eyes glued on the sight out of the window. I kneed on the bed, moving closer.

A fluorescent purple and blue planet sat in front of the window. It almost looked like Earth, but the water parts were purple, and the land was blue.

“You can actually go and explore there,” the developer said behind me. “There are much nicer aliens on that planet.”

“Wow,” was all I could muster up. “It’s beautiful.”

“Yeah, you are.”

I twisted around to see Cyrus staring at me instead of the beautiful planet behind me. A smile curled on my lips as I sat on the bed. “You guys obviously know that you aren’t too bad yourselves.”

He let out a slight chuckle, eyes bouncing to the drone flying around the room.