The Story of Lovely Seasons
BANG!
BANG!
BANG!
BANG!
Three doctors kept the door shut with their weight while the fourth took out a key to lock the door. His hands trembled with fear and he was sweating and panicking just like the other three.
"DON'T LEAVE US!"
"WE'RE SORRY! PLEASE DON'T LEAVE US!"
"WE DON'T WANT YOU TO GO!"
"DON'T GO! WE'RE SORRY!"
BANG!
BANG!
BANG!
BANG!
The four doctors heard the four screaming voices of four patients, begging them to stay.
The four doctors started to panic even more and the fourth doctor, finally locked the door before throwing the key to god know where.
Once they knew the four patients were locked in the room, they ran as fast as they could away from the banging.
BANG!
BANG!
BANG!
BANG!
The four doctors screamed and ran further and further away until they went into a car that fit all four of them.
One of the doctors got the car started and the four drove away, never looking back. But they could still hear the banging and the pleading screams of their four patients.
BANG!
BANG!
BANG!
BANG!
"COME BACK!"
PRESENT DAY
It's been raining cats and dogs for three hours straight and night had fallen an hour ago, giving the sky an obsidian color while the rain fell.
An suv with four passengers was zooming through the wet roads and the passengers were all getting tired.
"How long have we've been driving now?" A young feminine man with hip-length black hair and rose gold eyes asked.
"Four hours, Anwyll." A man with teal eyes and blue hair in a mohawk answered.
"Thanks, Galo." Anwyll turned to a young woman with blue eyes and pink hair who's playing on her phone. "Whatcha looking at, Aina?"
"Just the map to home." Aina answered, not taking her eyes off the screen. "And we're another hour away."
"Another hour!?" Another young woman with blue eyes and blonde and pink hair in pointy buns asked in disbelief. "It's almost midnight and we have another hour before we get home!?"
"Lucia, we'll be fine." Anwyll tried to reassure his friend.
"Speak for yourself fashionista." Lucia told him. "You do all nighters then and there when you want to make clothes and you're more used to staying up late then we are."
"True." Anwyll shrugged with a smirk. And indeed, it is true because he is a fashion designer that would stay up late to make clothes. One time he even made a lot of clothes for three days straight without sleep and he is more used to staying up late then the rest of them.
Galo, Aina and Lucia work as firefighters at Burning Rescue and they work more with the day and need their sleep.
Speaking of work, they actually had a week off and the four wanted to take a break from the city and wanted to go camping. The trip was really fun but driving took forever just like tonight.
"It's only another hour so..." Galo yawned before finishing. "I think I can handle another hour of driving."
"I can drive if you guys want." Anwyll volunteered. "You guys can sleep and I'll drive the rest of the way back. How does that sound?"
Galo shook his head. "No. We all need sleep since we're all going back to work in two days."
"Is there a motel or something nearby?" Lucia yawned as well. "We all should just take a break."
"Let me check." Aina took out her phone again and gave a yawn of her own before looking at the map.
"Wait, I think I see something up ahead!" Galo told them and pointed to some trees that were covering a building of sorts.
"What's that place?" Aina zoomed in on her map and didn't find anything that they're heading towards.
"Let's check it out." Lucia decided, too tired to think about it.
Galo turned the wheel and went to the road, leading to the building. After a few minutes, they were in front of a giant white building that looked almost like hospital but it looked all gross and old. Like no one's been there for years.
"It's an abandoned place." Aina told the group and slapped her hand to her forehead. "Damn it."
"Wait! Look over there!" Anwyll pointed a panicking finger to a sign outside the building and it read "Lovely Seasons" in black letters.
"Lovely Seasons!?" Galo and Aina started to panic too.
"Lovely Seasons?" Lucia shrugged. "What's wrong with it?"
"You've never heard of Lovely Seasons!?" Galo, Aina and Anwyll looked at her with disbelief.
Lucia shook her head. "No. What's the big deal?"
The other three shivered in fear and looked at one another to figure out who was gonna tell the story.
After a few seconds, Aina decided to tell it. "Well, hun. In the 1950s, Lovely Seasons was built and it was a hotel for a few years but then it went out of business and it become a psychiatric hospital."
"And?" Lucia raised an eyebrow, hoping that there's more to it then that. Because this didn't sound scary to her at all.
"And thirty years ago, a new owner named Lio Fotia took over the hospital. But then after a year of working there, a new doctor came to work there and that's when things started to get scary." Aina shivered along with Galo and Anwyll. "Lio got so obsessed with this new doctor that he ended up becoming a psychopath and killing anyone who would get near or ever hurt that doctor in any way."
"Really?"
"Really. And get this, Lio made friends with three of the patients that were just as dangerously ill as him and they were obsessed with their own doctors. Meis and Gueira who were husbands and were crazy arsonists who killed and burn things just for the fun of it. And a girl named Thyma who was mentally unstable because she was abused all her life and that lead her to insanity. Together, they wanted to "protect" these doctors that they're so obsessed with."
"And then what happened?" Lucia pushed a little, wanting to know more.
Aina took a deep breath to try to calm herself but she was still scared. "The four doctors that were trying to help them got really scared after finding out what they did. Because they were so terrified of those four, they told them they had a special surprise for "being so kind to them" but then they tricked them into putting on straitjackets and they locked them up in a padded cell. Lio, Meis, Gueira and Thyma screamed and begged for them to come back. And they kept apologizing for scaring them but they never opened the door."
Lucia's eyes went wide and she looked at Galo and Anwyll who were shaking with fear and they were hugging themselves for protection. She then turned back to Aina. "So, what happened to those four doctors?"
Aina shrugged. "No one knows."
"Some say they might have moved away and never came back." Anwyll told her.
"Or they were driving so fast out of fear and got hit by a truck and died on impact." Galo added, still shacking with fear.
"No one knows for sure." Aina looked both ways before looking to Lucia again. "But rumor has it, that they might have came back years later and wanted to burry their remains. But once they went inside, they never came out."
"Never came out?" Lucia asked.
Aina nodded. "Yeah. The same thing happened to some kids that wanted to find out if the story was true. They went inside the hospital and never came out."
"And it happened to a group of police officers who wanted to find those kids. They went inside and never came out." Anwyll started biting his nails again.
"Don't forget the paranormal investigators and a priest that wanted to help too." Galo reminded them. "They believed that the ghosts of the four patients remain and that they're in this hospital right now."
"Which is why we need to get put of here." Anwyll started pulling on his hair in fear. "I don't want ghosts to kill me."
Lucia was never scared of ghost stories and she never believed in ghosts. Since she's both an inventor and a scientist, she never thought ghosts were real and she never believed in them. But these three were definitely afraid of ghosts and they were terrified to get near anything ghost related.
"I'm not convinced." Lucia shook her head and unlocked her door.
"What are you doing!?" Galo started to panic.
Lucia opened the door and stepped outside. "I want to see what's in that insane asylum."
"WHAT!?" Galo, Aina and Anwyll exclaimed in disbelief and shock. "YOU CAN'T GO!"
"I can and I will." Lucia shut the door and lifted up her hood to keep her hair dry.
Aina opened her door and took a flashlight before going outside herself. She ran over to Lucia who was at the gate and opening it.
"Don't go in." Aina hugged her and stopped her from going in any further. "If these ghosts are real, then you're gonna die so, don't do it."
"Come on, baby." Lucia looked up at her girlfriend with reassurance. "There's no such thing as ghosts."
"How do you know that?" Aina asked her.
"Because I never seen one." Lucia told her. "I have to see it to believe it."
"Never underestimate a ghost story because is could be true." Aina warned her. "Same thing goes for legends."
"Come on." Lucia took a flashlight from her jacket pocket and guided her to the hospital entrance. "Lets check it out and don't worry, I'll be here to protect you."
"Lucia." Aina half whined, half begged.
"Oh god, they're going in." Anwyll started to panic even more then he already was and turned to Galo. "What do we do?"
"We have no choice." Galo told the ravenette. "We have to get them because we can't leave them behind. No friend left behind."
"Oh god." Anwyll started to cry in fear but he knew that Galo was right. They need to get their friends back and they're not gonna leave them behind like this.
Galo took his lantern out and an extra flashlight before getting out of the car.
"Wait for me!" Anwyll got out of the car too. "I don't want to be by myself."
Anwyll ran over to Galo and the two young men walked over to the entrance where a black gate stood in place. Galo was scared but he managed to open the gate and the two went to the main entrance of the building.
"Aina, Lucia." Galo and Anwyll called put once they were inside the hospital.
Galo turned the lantern on and while looking around, they can tell the hospital was definitely abandoned because everything seemed to be falling apart and it looked all old and gross. Smelt like dust and old times that it's enough to make them both vomit.
Many things were also out of place too. Like some bookshelves were torn apart and thrown everywhere, wheelchairs were broken and burned, and vases and picture frames were smashed to the ground.
Galo looked at the pictures to see that they were pictures of places like the desert, some of Promepolis and even the frozen lake that they went camping to.
"What happened around here?" Anwyll thought aloud.
"Violent patients, that's what I think." Galo answered and the two walked up a flight of stairs. "This was a psychiatric hospital after all."
"Aina. Lucia." The two called out again but received no answer.
The two made it to the first floor where almost everything seemed to be in place but it was still creepy to them and it was quiet.
Too quiet for their liking.
Then out of nowhere hands grabbed their shoulders and the two screamed in fear.
"AAAAHHHH!" Galo and Anwyll turned around and pointed the light at the ghosts, only to see Aina and Lucia laughing their asses off.
"Oh my god." Lucia laughed really hard. "You two should have seen your faces."
"They were priceless." Aina laughed as well but started to calm down enough to talk to them. "It's alright, it was just us."
"Not funny you two." Anwyll pouted. "We thought you were the ghosts."
"Don't worry, there's no such thing as ghosts." Lucia told the group after she calmed down a little.
"Can we please leave now?" Galo begged. "This place is really creeping me out."
"Me too." Anwyll begged as well.
"Oh come on, you don't want to find the room where the four patients died?" Lucia tried to encourage them.
"We want to get out of here." Aina told her. "So, can we please just get out of here?"
Lucia wanted to check the place more but because she loves her friends and doesn't want them to have nightmares, she decided. "Okay, we'll leave."
"Thank you." The other three sighed in relief.
The four walked down the stairs to go back to the main entrance but once they went there, they saw an unbelievable sight.
Four armless people had their backs to them and were looking at the closed doors.
"Excuse me, can we please..." Anwyll started but stopped when he started to get an uneasy feeling.
The four armless people jumped as if they were excited. Then the smaller one with short hair, turned his head all the way until he was looking at them. He gave a creepy, excited smile and his magenta eyes read insanity as well as something neither of them knew.
The four friends started to freak out, even Lucia who never saw someone turn their head like that before.
The other three armless people turned around to face them and that's when the friends saw that these four, were floating in the air and wearing straitjackets.
"GHOSTS!" Lucia screamed in fear as well as the other three who ran back up the stairs.
"OH SWEET MAMA!" Anwyll screamed for his life but then he slipped and tumbled down the stairs.
"ANWYLL!" Galo, Aina, and Lucia called out but Anwyll was already down the stairs and the female ghost went and sat down next to his unconscious body.
"FUCK!" The other three started running but then they were met by the other three ghosts who popped out of the floor without warning.
The three jumped back only to tumble down the stars themselves and fall unconscious when they landed on the floor.
The smaller ghost went over to Galo while the other two male ghosts went to Aina and Lucia. Once each ghost was by a human, they each gave a smile to their human and took deep breaths before letting out some black smoke from their mouths.
The smoke went to each human's nose and the four inhaled it before the ghosts cried happy tears.
"You came back. Thank you."