chapter 15
Shadow pulled her hair more when she yelled at him, the pain was excruciating and Anita couldn't take it anymore, she opened her mouth wide enough for a bird to fit in and called out to her mother to save her, shadow had a jagged knife in his hand, it's sharp end were serrated, he let go off her hair and forced her lips apart, he then used the jagged end of the knife to scrape her gums, the knife was very sharp and blood started flowing out of Anita's mouth, he finally let go after scraping the gums of the upper part of her mouth, she tried to leave her chair but he fastened her to the chair, she could only cry out in pain as her gums hurt badly, and just when everyone thought it was over, shadow took her mouth that was still open and poured in salted water into it, at this time, Anita was already screaming loudly, The energy she thought was gone, was now back, she screamed until Vincent couldn't take it anymore, he ordered one of the guards to tie her mouth. Anita's mom couldn't take it, they were mishandling her only daughter though scared, she tried to stop them.
Shadow walked up to her as she continued shouting. "you have such a foul mouth, why don't I cut off your tongue right now?" he asked her, "don't, don't come any closer, I'm warning you" Gladys replied in a panicky tone.
He started laughing, this woman who walked on people was now at his mercy and she was shaking like a leaf, he fastened her to her chair but she wouldn't stop trying to fight back, she was about to hit him on the face when he held her hand and a few seconds later, a crack sound was heard, followed by a loud scream of pain. and right after breaking her hand, shadow took up one of the pieces of equipment that looked like a big Channellock plier, he ordered some guards to hold her still as she also opened her mouth, shadow used the plier to forcefully crush two of her upper molars before pulling them out, she was shaking her head the whole time, so he ended up leaving wounds all over her mouth, Gladys started to plead for mercy. she looked up to Vincent and begged him to order his people to stop torturing them, Vincent didn't even react, Gladys directed a pleading gaze to her husband who was helplessly held down to his chair, he couldn't save her at this moment. Shadow finally left her side, "I planned to make this quick but some of you want us to spend more nights here" Shadow said with an irritated tone, he ordered the guards to connect the electric chairs to the power source in the room, the two families felt the electric shock pass through their body but couldn't do anything about it, after one and a half minute, the chairs were disconnected and then connected again, this went on for about half an hour before they stopped.
Vincent rose up to go, they had wasted too much time and he wanted to go back to his house and check on his sister. "You better be done with them by morning," he said to shadow and when he turned to look at the others, he still had a mischievous glint in his eyes. "anybody who visits my dungeon doesn't even bother to go back to work, from now on, you all are worst than ex-convicts, don't go to your houses either, if you don't want to be humiliated, you can go anywhere else I don't care, just make sure you never cross my path or my sister's path again because if you do, you would not live a day longer," he said and walked out without looking back.
This sent shivers down every spine, they didn't completely understand what he meant but it seemed like things were about to get rough. Mr Bright could only hope that Vincent would not do anything to his son, in that way, they still had little hope.
Mr. Bright and Alfred were soon dragged to the floor and forced to lie down on their stomach. two guards took out razor-chained whips that looked larger and longer than normal, their ends had hooks on them.
They used these whips on the old men, the first strike was swiftly followed by a loud scream of agony from both men, the whip had gone right through their bodies before coming out again.
The clothes they wore now looked like rags after the third strike, they were whipped again and this earned another scream of pain, their backs were all bloodied now, but the guards made sure not to whip where it will kill them, after the fifth and last whip they were forced to get up and then lie on their backs, Mr Alfred was now crying like a baby,
Now it was Mrs. Bright and her daughter's turn, they were given white clothes to wear and taken to a white room, everything inside the room was white, including the floor, walls, and ceiling, all furniture and fixtures were painted white. They were kept in separate white rooms and left for just three hours but the impact on them was a great one, they were psychology tormented and started seeing things that weren't there, after thirty minutes, Cynthia started seeing white snakes and other frightful creatures, she tried to get out but couldn't, she screamed for over ten minutes until her voice was gone, she sat down in a quite corner where she felt that none of the creatures could reach her but her mind didn't rest, she started seeing all her deepest fears come true right before her eyes, everything she was terrified of, her parents were killed mercilessly, she saw herself been dragged to an unknown place, there was fire everywhere and it seemed like she was about to be burned, her mind was in chaos and she couldn't think properly, she felt like everything was about to explode, she held her head that was now feeling like it was being hit by a hammer and stayed still as silent tears ran down her face, after sometime, she passed out, but even in her subconscious state, the torment continued.
Meanwhile, her mother in the other room saw white spiders everywhere, there were cockroaches, white rats, scorpions, and other pests, she didn't like any of these things and they made her paranoid, there was food on the table and when she opened it to eat, it was also white! after seeing the food something in her kept telling her to eat it, she fought hard but still ate the white food and after eating all of it, she slept off.
she had nightmares all through and fought to save her family with all her might but ended up getting everyone into trouble, she lost her two kids and was taken alongside her husband, to the execution ground, her husband was beheaded and she saw herself getting hanged, the poor woman felt like all this was real as she watched all the people she had trampled on gather to mock at her, their faces all held scornful gazes and she felt like they were saying she deserved everything that had happened to her family, her eyes were pulled out and she was hung to a tree before everything became dark and she was finally at rest.
After three hours, Cynthia and her mother were both taken out of the white room, but they had been damaged beyond repair even though they looked normal, Cynthia lost her memory and kept hallucinating while her mother lost her sight, she couldn't see anything and had been weakened psychologically, her fears increased and she continued to fear that worst things were about to happen to her family.
The conditions of the others who were left behind to continue being tormented were no better, they looked like they had been starved for at least two weeks and had just passed through fire.
None of them still had every part of their body intact, it was either a lost finger or toenail, a crushed tooth, a bloody and scraped mouth, or a swollen body that was filled with deep wounds.
They were forcefully injected with a substance that looked bluish-gray, no one knew what it was meant for and they couldn't muster up any courage to demand or ask any questions because they were all broken and scared.
The two families were finally released and sent out of the dungeon, Mr. Bright tried to support his blind wife and daughter who seemed to have lost her mind, but he wasn't very steady himself, they had nowhere to go but the few belongings they had when they were abducted were returned and they all tried to contact a family member who could help them, Vincent had been generous and changed his mind about taking everything that they owned, they couldn't have jobs anywhere but their bank accounts were not frozen, they couldn't go back to their houses but at least, they all had people who could take them in.