The Ugly Truth About Greely

There is a truth about Greely.

An ugly truth, one nobody knows about.

Only I do.

I knew about it from my friends, really. They gave me directions on how to get there and things like that. So I went in and scanned the keycard. I immediately dropped it, and it floated down a river of blood surrounded by guts and organs. Greely had a heart in his hand. He threw it and that made my attention go to where it landed.

Animal heads were in the jar, in some sort of preserving liquid, along with a few other body parts and things. I was disgusted. "Why did you do this, Greely?" I asked when something caught my eye.

Sir Gilbert's body was empty. Completely empty. I mean gone. All of his organs, his insides. Even his eyes were missing, leaving horrifying eye sockets that hurt me to look at.

"Why did you kill him??!" I asked, suddenly alarmed and very alert.

"Because." He started explaining. "Everyone tries to save him and Cosmo and Peck and all the other Alphas. Have you ever been on an adventure where they try to save me for a change? I'm guessing not. But Sir Gilbert? Everyone will gossip about it to save him, about the prizes, about him. But everyone suspects I'm horrible."

"But you pretty much are, seeing this," I said, signaling around the room. Greely lunged at me, a growl escaping his throat. "Don't you say that to me," He said, putting a claw around my throat. I began to choke. As he released me, I cried out for my friends, but his claws tore my back.

I screamed and he ripped his claws through my shoulders also, which would've made me shriek harder, but I kept quiet as he moved down my body, scratching where he could get to. I never winced or whimpered, not even when he tore on my knees. He stepped back, admiring-

"Greely?" A soft, small voice said from across the room. Trembling, I slumped to the ground, my head lolling to the side. It was Peck and Liza, coming out of the shadows. I looked for Cosmo, but not Tavie.

"Is this what you've been working on?" Liza asked, sounding fascinated. Greely growled and lunged at Peck and Liza, pinning them down. He went to the counter and grabbed a knife. He wasted no time, cutting through their body as if it were nothing but paper. When he finished, he grinned madly at me.

One by one, he tortured me. When Ruby came in, my mouth dropped open and I lost it. Finally, he made me stop and handed me the knife. Did he expect me to kill my best friend? Suddenly, I got a plan.

I lunged at her, aware of Greely breathing over me. At the last second, I turned around and shoved the knife at him. Unfortunately, he wrestled it out of my hands and, being so much bigger and stronger than me, pushed me against the wall. I shrieked. He'd twisted my arm.

"If you won't do it, I will!" He let out an earsplitting scream for what I didn't know. He was a madman now, lunging at them and using them like punching bags, but instead of punching them, he was throwing knives. They flew everywhere. I sunk to the ground, helpless.

I closed my eyes and fell into a peaceful rest.

I didn't open them again.