A Grim Birthday

5 years ago

Inside Liam's room

"Eii! Happy birthday to me."

Liam greeted himself as soon as he woke up and got up.

He immediately jumped out of the bed. He changed his pajamas to put casual clothes on himself.

He soon went and opened the door out of his room.

What Liam saw there was a middle-aged woman standing gently in the living room while wearing a pink dress that suits her very well.

"Happy birthday to my adorable son." Liam's mother greeted him with a big smile.

"Thank you Mom but what's with the 'adorable' on your greetings, eh?"

Liam asked complainingly as he intentionally formed a disgusted face to taunt his mom.

"What? Don't you like it?" Liam's Mother asked with a puzzled look.

"I'm fifteen now mom. Does it suit for FIFTEEN years old like me?"

"Okay. My cute, little sweetie."

"Arghh! Who's Mom is this?!"

Liam shouted jokingly.

He suddenly felt a chill and then he took a glance at his Mother.

Her expression was grim and scary enough for Liam

"Eihaha! It's just a joke Mom! I'm just kidding you know." Liam said reflexively.

'Does every mother in the world have a dark side in them?'

Just then a footsteps can be heard coming from the staircase.

Liam turned his gaze towards the direction of the footstep and saw a good looking middle-aged man.

"Happy fifteenth Birthday Liam, my son." Liam's father greeted him happily.

"Thanks, dad."

After Liam thanked his Father while his head was moving around left and right to find something in their house.

"Uhm. Where are the gifts for me, Dad." Liam asked his father who sat on the chair.

"Eh? Your Mom didn't tell you about it?"

"About what exactly?" Liam asked.

"We are going out later, Liam. You can buy anything you want outside."

"Eh...? Ah! I can buy a new PC!"

"Except for that, Liam."

"Lame~"

In the afternoon

"Dad! Where did you leave your car keys?"

Liam stopped in the doorway and asked his Father outside the house.

"It's upstairs in our room, Liam. I and your mother are going to the next street now. We will wait for you there okay?"

His father replied.

"Yes, sure!"

A while later, Liam found the car keys and immediately rushed outside their house.

He looked for his mom and dad but they were nowhere to be seen outside.

"Ah, wait?!? Father didn't tell me which street they went to. Oh, crap!"

Liam was continuously thinking about whether to go left or right but decided to just text his mother on his phone and asked where they are.

After taking out his phone from his pocket a beautiful crimson-red butterfly suddenly appeared and flew towards him.

He turned his gaze to the butterfly as he slowly stood up to see it more clearly.

But then...

BANG!!

A loud sound of a gunshot can be heard coming from the street next to theirs.

Liam looked at the direction of the gunshot and felt a chill ran down his spine.

'Why...? Why do I sense something bad there?'

Liam hesitated at first before quickly running towards the street where the sound of a gunshot came from earlier.

"Hiyaaah!!!"

Liam's running came to a halt as soon as he heard a familiar voice of a woman, he then walked to the direction of the cry to see what was happening there.

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At a narrow alleyway

"You bastards! Wh-What did you do to my husband!"

A woman shouted pitifully behind the three men, wearing a black coat and a black hat.

"Pretty woman. Can't you see that he is already dead?!"

The first man said with a loud voice as he glanced at the woman.

"N-No! Why! WHY!"

"Tsk. So noisy. Hey, leader of the day! Can I play with this beauty?" The first man asked.

"Idiot! Do you know that 'Twelve' will immediately kill us if we waste even more time here!" The leader said angrily.

"Come on now! Your gun is loud as shit! Take out your knife and use it to kill her immediately. The police will be coming here soon."

"Alright. We will do this the quiet way now, Lady. Cover your mouth please~" The first man

said to the woman.

"Hiyaaah!!! Noo!!! Help Meeee!! Someone, help me!" The woman screaming for help while tears started to pour down from her eyes.

"Stop screaming! No one will be able to help you, got it?! keke~" The first laughed as he grabbed the woman's wrist and covered her mouth with his hand.

The second man took out a combat knife from inside his coat and pointed it at the woman's throat, then he moved the knife backward and started arranging his position to stab the woman.

He soon moved it forward, aiming for the woman's chest.

But suddenly...

"H-Huh? Dad? Mom?! Y-You, bastards! What did you do to my father!!!"

Liam just came at the end of the alleyway.

He stopped as soon as he saw a group of people and here but what shocked him the most was that his intuition was right.

His family was here.

Even though he didn't know what happened or who are the guys he saw, He became so angry and shouted after seeing his mother's pitiful state and his father's lifeless body lying down on the floor.

The second man's hand came to a halt.

He was surprised by a random kid's shout and was stopped from stabbing the woman who was in front of him.

"Who the f*ck is this little guy?"

The first man was also surprised and asked their leader.

"I don't know! Hey! Why did you stop, idiot?! Kill her now! Come on!" The leader said hurriedly

He was starting to lose patience and once again ordered the second man to kill the woman.

But before the second man could even stab Liam's mother, she barely managed to escape the grasp of the first man.

"L-Liam! Run!! Don't come here! I'm fine! Please... RUN!!!" She shouted while looking at Liam with tears pouring down from her eyes.

Liam hurriedly turned around to run away and immediately decided to call the police.

BANG!!!

"You're one hell of a noisy woman."

The first man said after shooting Liam's mother in the right chest.

Liam, who was preparing to run far away from the bad guys and call the police, stopped as soon as he heard the sound of another gunshot.

He instantly stopped and turned around to look at what exactly happened behind him.

What Liam saw there was his mother.

He saw his mother lifelessly lying down on the floor with a lot of blood pouring down from her chest.

His heart stopped beating for a second after seeing his mother's body on the floor.

While the blood poured down from his mother's chest, tears also began to pour down on Liam's eyes.

He was trembling non-stop, he didn't know what to do anymore.

"Hey, you two! Kill that boy. I think it's a child of this damned family. And don't you dare use the gun again. I'll report this to the higher-ups now and get the cleaners later swipe them quickly."

The leader said to the other guys as he took a phone from his pocket.

"Hehe. Alright! What a reunion!" The first man spoke out loud, letting Liam to intentionally hear it.

Liam came back to his senses as he heard the scary voice of the guy and started to run away in a random direction.

His mind was currently in chaos and he didn't know what to do rationally.

'M-Mom and dad was shot. I need to run. Run. Aah! mom and dad! I'm sorry! They are coming for me. Dad, mom! They killed you! I-I'll avenge you! I will kill those bastards! Re-Revenge! Run! They will kill me! I need to run! Argh! Shit!'

Liam keeps running and running.

He didn't even know where he was right now but what he knows is that the unknown men with a black coat are still following him.

A while later, he soon came in the middle of the street right now.

He turned around to look for the two-man following him but he was glad that he can't see them.

He was about to stop right there but when he saw a silhouette of a two-man with a knife in their hands, he began to run fast again.

Liam stared ar the dark alleyway in the corner of the street for a moment before immediately running there.

He decided to hide there for the meantime but he still can't feel a slight easement in the place where he currently was hiding so he turned around and looked for a better place to go.

Liam luckily found an opened gate and immediately went inside it.

What he saw inside there was an abandoned factory.

He ran to the nearest and seemed to be the biggest warehouse he saw inside there.

He quickly opened the small door at the corner of it. He came inside it but it was only pitch black in the warehouse so he hurriedly look for a light switch.

Tap! Flick! SWITCH!

Every second, a light opened throughout the warehouse.

He was stunned the moment all the lights reflected throughout the entire building.

The inside of the factory was clearly different compared to its appearance outside.

Inside there was a huge monitor akin to a cinema screen, a 10 meters long white table, electrical equipments, all the science laboratory equipment seemed to be there too and in the middle of it all was a gigantic glass box, surrounded by cylindrical tubes.

The enormous glass box in the middle was almost as big as a three-story house with a blue-green like liquid inside it.

The glass box was surrounded by a ten cylindrical test tubes, which was slightly bigger than a normal person's height and width.

All the test tubes were covered by some black thin metal so the inside cannot be seen. It was connected to the gigantic box glass with wires and plastic tubes that were as big as one person's wrist.

There was also another glass box behind the gigantic one which have a third of the size of the original one.

And a large rubber tubing was connecting the smaller glass box to the gigantic one.

The smaller glass box contains a fluid with unsatisfying colors filling the whole box.

"T-This..." Liam was still speechless.

He was in awe every time he was recalling the exterior of the factory which was not as good as the

interior.

The difference between the exterior and the interior of this warehouse was extremely vast.

You can't even tell that it was a factory if you have not seen it from the outside

The exterior can be seen as a real abandoned warehouse and the inside...

Perhaps it was a secret laboratory.

While Liam was still astonished of this so-called abandoned factory's warehouse, the two men were already walking towards the warehouse's door.

TAP! TAP! TAP!

CREAK!

"There you are, little boy! You know, we are tired of playing hide and seek and I know you're tired too so just go rest in peace will ya'!"

The first man came in with a knife in his hands taunt to Liam.

'Ah, sh*t!! This is an open space!'

While Liam wad finding a place to hide the second man already pulled out his gun and said.

"You chose the right place. Nobody will hear us here, kid." With a faint smile on his face, the second man aimed down at Liam's feet.

Bang!

Liam jumped and luckily dodged the bullet by a hair's breadth that was targeted at his feet.

He was scared shitless but he quickly regained his senses and ran straight to the staircase to his left.

What he did not know is that the staircase will lead him to a one-way metal flooring that will get him cornered.

Liam ran to the end of the metal floor and looked for another way out but he can't find one. He turned around again to leave but the first man following him is in the middle of the floor now.

"Oh, no! You have nowhere to go. I guess this is the end for you eh? You know... You can just kneel in front of me and get ready to be shot in your head. You can also do your one last prayer..."

The first man said as he stopped a few meters away from Liam.

At that moment, Liam was terrified as hell.

He has nowhere to go and the man was now slowly moving towards him.

Because of his fright, he unconsciously continued to move backward that caused him to trip and fell to the metal guard rail.

The guard rail was thin and cannot withstand such an impact that was given by the fall of Liam so it soon collapsed.

As soon as the guard rail broke and almost falling down, Liam turned his body and reflexively prepared for the fall.

He looked down he saw the top of the glass box open.

Afterwards, the guard rail as well as Liam was now in the middle of the air, falling down in the gigantic glass box with an unidentifiable liquid in it.

"Oh shit! Oh f*ck! Oh god!"

Liam's thought was currently full of cursing while his body was descending in the air.

SPLASHH!!

Author's Note

The Gigantic Glass Box is something like this

Test Tubes > Π__[ GBox ]__Π

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