NIGHT 65: WEST WING, SOUTH HALL 1-A

[his_legacy]

[From here]

No time was wasted in this short stretch of hallway. Link had run across all of Hyrule Field. This hospital was quite small in comparison.

Praying that he wouldn't come across anything to slow him down, Link turned into the main hallways.

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[damned_nurses]

As it turned out, it wasn't only the patients who were turning into all manner of heartless beasties tonight — the staff were keen to get in on the fun as well.

Just as Gumshoe neared the end of the hallway, a figure darted out in front of him, movements jerky and unnatural. The sharp angles of her limbs complemented scalpeled fingers and a pocket full of old glass syringes. It looked as though the nurse shouldn't have been able to move, the way her joints stayed so stiff, the way her matted dark hair never uncovered her face. Yet somehow she did move, and she moved fast.

Her breathing was ragged, filtered by soaked hair as she came at Gumshoe with surprising speed, scalpels raised and aimed up toward the throat.

[ham_fisted]

"Ahh!!" Just then, someone jumped out in front of his flashlight without warning, causing Gumshoe to jump back in surprise. Lately, whenever something like this happened, it was because someone had almost walked into him by mistake.

"...!!!"

He couldn't believe what he was seeing at first. A nurse!? B-But he'd never seen one standing this close to the rooms before! Not at night! He backpedaled, desperately trying to put as much distance between him and the woman as he could. What now!?

He didn't get very far before she suddenly charged at him, and without thinking, he reached for his revolver-- a-and then gave a half-shout when he remembered it wasn't there!

MOVE!

He darted to the right, but he wasn't fast enough. The blades had, without a doubt, slashed his lower left arm, which he had raised to shield his face, and he could feel pain blazing across his left shoulder as well. Gasping in shock, he blindly aimed a low kick at his attacker's right leg in a last-ditch effort to knock her off balance.

Little did he know then that he had already been stabbed in the left shoulder.

[damned_nurses]

Drew blood. Not enough. Need to drain him. Drain the patient. Charge. Slash. Bleed. The nurse didn't have any thougths more complicated than that as she cut in to Gumshoe's left arm. The murderous stream of consciousness was interrupted only by a leg coming into contact with her own, which sent the nurse crashing into the nearby wall. However, even that resulted only in thoughts of Minor setback. Get up, focus. Slash. Bleed.

She was kept from falling straight to the ground by said wall, and with enough jerky movements and shifting of weight, the nurse was soon back on her feet despite the kicked knee now jutting out in a very unnatural direction. Once she was stable, she would make its next lunge. What Gumshoe chose to do before that happened had to be very clever or very fast, or else he faced possibly getting gutted by the abomination in front of him.