Jekyll and Hyde: Hitori Kakurenbo

Chapter 3: I Can Hear Your Footsteps

Utterson sighed as he tried to find a working TV channel that wasn't static. This had happened a few minutes ago and it was honestly becoming stressful. But that wasn't the reason he was stressed. He was stressed mainly because the pounding at his door wasn't stopping. But it stopped for a moment and Utterson thought whoever it was had left... Until the lights started flickering and Utterson almost fell out of his chair when he thought he saw the form of Jekyll for a split second. The lawyer gets out of his chair and backed up, his eyes wide with fear. And then the door opened as all the lights went out. Someone walked in and Utterson quickly got a flashlight out to see who this person was. He quickly turned it on and looked around. He sighed in relief when he saw nothing.

Until he turned around. Jekyll was right behind him, covered in blood, his skin was pale, his hair black. His eyes pitch black with a red iris, and his smile was wider then Utterson thought possible. And the lawyer quickly grabbed a cross off the wall and held it out in front of him. "Bow before the wrath of god and release my friend!" Utterson shouted in anger, trying to mask his fear. Jekyll merely laughed and then set the cross on fire with one look. Utterson quickly turned and run upstairs, turning the flashlight off as he kept running, wanting to get away from that thing as soon as possible. Only everywhere he hid, Jekyll found him.

Utterson finally hid in the basement closet, keeping absolutely still. He heard Jekyll's footsteps coming from outside the door... Or so he thought. A hand covered his mouth and pulled him back, causing the lawyer to drop the flashlight. Jekyll had him now, but Utterson kicked open the door to the closet and ran out, getting an aluminum bat he swung it at Jekyll's head, getting a sickening crack out of it. Jekyll fell to the floor out cold, Utterson stood there panting, exhausted from all the running. He waited a moment and then got salt water before getting a mouthful and spitting it out onto Jekyll's unconscious form before dumping the rest onto him. He then got salt and poured a circle around Jekyll to ensure that the demon wouldn't escape.

The lawyer looked up when all the lights came back on and he got his phone before trying to call Hyde, there wasn't an answer. Utterson growled low and then quickly called in a priest to help him banish the demon from his home and from Jekyll. He hung up the phone and went back down to the basement and stopped. Jekyll was gone. And then the lights went out again, leaving Utterson in pure darkness at the mercy of this demon, and of his possessed friend.