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This is artwork for encounter #11 of the encounter short stories for my series Blackhaven Institution which is written below. The day Blackhaven Institution a house for orphaned children and unwanted infants burned to the ground mysteriously one day, the souls of those trapped inside became corrupted by an evil that warped them into demons that dwell in an alternate Blackhaven Institution.There they await those who are dragged into this alternate world by an unknown evil. The encounter with this nightmare “Minna" takes place in the "Orphan Wing" as follows:
Sarah Powell is over one of her friend's house after a drive from Dracove City into the town of Blackhaven for a small gathering that they usually have the first Saturday of every month. Here they all get tipsy on wine and talk about their current lives and trends. Sarah is always envious at these hangouts as she ends up listens to her friends ramble about the married life, their kids, and their husbands. Sarah is the only one left in the group who is still single. It is always around the end of the talks when Sarah's circle of friends pester and gang up on Sarah with questions about her love life. This Saturday the group decided to meet earlier in the day. This time around they pester Sarah from the start and more seriously today than they usually do. This time around becoming very annoyed Sarah makes up an excuse to leave early. On her drive back home she becomes frustrated when she thinks about her friends remarks from earlier. Their words really got to her today and she wonders why she keeps going to these gatherings. Though they make Sarah realize even more that she is only getting older and her clock is ticking, acting as a strange form of motivation. This also leads to her reflecting on her past dates and trying to figure out why she ends up with the wrong kinds of guys. After an hour of so driving and thinking she returns home. Sitting on the couch her head is still full of thoughts, watching some television for a few hours in an attempt to clear her mind. Accomplishing nothing she decides a good way to cool off would be to head to the gym nearby. At the gym Sarah goes for a long jog on the treadmill, sneakily glaring at the men working out who are for the most part oblivious to her presence. It soon gets close to closing time and Sarah heads into the women's locker room to retrieve her belongings. Only a few women are there tonight, the sorts of toned fit young and pretty types she envies.
She takes a quick rinse in one of the showers to get off some of the jogging sweat, leaning against the wall as she is more tired from her typical workout than usual. Stepping out of the shower she notices a pair of unusually long pig tails poking out from under the curtains of the shower next to hers. This puzzles Sarah as she didn't noticing anyone working out with long pigtails such as these, Sarah keeps to herself and continues to her locker. The locker room is now empty, Sarah goes to her locker quick and gets dressed thinking the gym has closed while she was in the shower. It is quiet though Sarah can still hear the shower running in the other room. Sarah gathers her stuff and looking towards the shower room she thinks it would be nice to let the girl with the pigtails know the gym is closed. She nears the shower,the long pig tails still sticking out in the same position. The water turns off and what follows is sobbing, just before Sarah is about to remind the girl of the gym's closing. Sarah instead asks if she is ok, Sarah wait for a bit but hears no response, her hand slowly reaches for the curtain. As Sarah is about to make contact the crying comes to a halt, it is so quiet that all that can be heard now is her breathing. The curtain slowly opens on its own, Sarah becomes delirious and light headed. She stumbles backwards away from the curtains feeling as if she is going to pass out any second now. Falling to the floor the last thing she sees is a strange blurry sight. The curtain now completely open, all she can make out is what looks like a suspended head without a body, the blurriness of her fading vision distorting its face. The sad cries mixed with the furious scream of a young girl ring sharply in Sarah's ears, she soon blacks out and her body feels light.
Waking up to a filthy stench crammed into a corner behind a curtain, Sarah bounces to her feet coughing and gagging. Going through the curtains she finds herself in a decrepit dark shower room. Unlike the gym shower room it is in utter ruins, dimly lit, and seemingly everywhere stained with dark filth and grime. Sarah feels something is very wrong, as this is the complete opposite of the gym shower room she can remember being in not to long ago. Exiting from the shower room and through a just as unpleasant bathroom she finds herself in a large hallway. This place is quiet and has an otherworldly feeling to it, Sarah thinks as she walks down the hallway. Soon she accidentally steps on something that mushes under her feet. Thinking its a large bug she become freaked out jumping back, but when she looks down she sees a mushed up doll of sorts oozing liquid. Not to far in the distance Sarah hears a dragging and scrapping noise. Sarah doesn't know what to make of it,she doesn't have a good feeling about it and turns around heading in the opposite direction. Sarah soon hears a noise that sounds like a chomping noise mixed in with the dragging and scrapping. Sarah starts to speed walk, she feels she is not alone as the unnerving presence of something lingers close behind her. Nervous Sarah dashes forward, suddenly tendrils dart out from behind tightly wrapping around her arms. Sarah screams as she feels these tendrils begin to pierce into her skin. Before she is able to turn her head around to see what is attacking her, the tendrils wrap around Sarah's face covering her eyes. The tendrils force Sarah's head to lean to the side, horrified as she hears the loud chomping of something unknown only inches away from her ear. Suddenly teeth plunge into her neck, viciously ripping and eating away at her flesh. In a short period of time Sarah's head is eaten off, the bleeding body falls and convulses on the floor. Sarah's head rolls to the side of her corpse with a frozen expression of terror on her cold dead face. The demon, the monstrous disembodied head of a little girl then floats downwards to the headless body of Sarah. Smaller tendrils slither down from its fleshy neck as the demon begins to attach itself to the body of Sarah. As the skin of the demon melds with the flesh of Sarah's neck, the demon's eyes roll into the back of its neck as the demon quivers. The demon stands up attached to the body of Sarah, cackling in a terrifying manner. Grunting a brief phrase in a demonic tongue using the horrendously warped voice of Sarah. The demon then skips ahead disappearing into the darkness with Sarah's body, leaving Sarah's head behind... Sarah's soul soon sinking into the depths of the Alternate Blackhaven Institution...
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Comments: 31
AfghanNight7 [2016-10-26 04:00:17 +0000 UTC]
So does Minna keep the body for good? Is it still alive? Is she more vulnerable when attached to a human body?
AHHHH SO MANY QUESTIONS! All of your stuff is really great! I think I'm gonna use Minna as inspiration for an enemy in my current Dungeons and Dragons game, that's why I'm asking all these questions
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Pyramiddhead In reply to AfghanNight7 [2016-10-26 17:46:05 +0000 UTC]
Some of these questions maybe answered here lol pyramiddhead.deviantart.com/ar… Thank you very much, I can try and answer best I can saying no its only briefly until she gets bored and seeks a new one, the host body is dead but controlled by minna, I'd say less vulnerable since she can use the body without worry of injury since its not hers.
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AfghanNight7 In reply to Pyramiddhead [2016-10-26 18:33:32 +0000 UTC]
Cool, thanks for clarifying! Sounds like the right amount of creepy
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Pyramiddhead In reply to hecker45 [2016-10-23 15:39:55 +0000 UTC]
Yes its actually the reason I got into horror
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neongelion [2015-08-11 17:11:56 +0000 UTC]
I dunno why, but the scariest kinds of creatures or demons for me are the ones that possess other humans, no matter what the means is. Might be that weird juxtaposition of the mundane (other humans) and the not-so-mundane (horrible demons), or how easily we can be manipulated like puppets, or some other abstract philosophical stuff that I'm way too tired to ponder about XD
You ought to do something that shows the sequel to this piece, Minna with a host body or something that's calling out to the host body's friend with her stolen vocal cords. On one hand I really like how you just kind of left everything to the imagination. On the other hand, there's too many dang "replacement head" stuff that's too cute or innocent like those tv heads!
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Pyramiddhead In reply to neongelion [2015-08-12 15:27:18 +0000 UTC]
Yeah, thanks its mostly due to description space, I can easily put a books worth going into every detail but I try to condense it as much as I possibly can to make it very short and hopefully still enjoyable
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MissSuccoria [2014-10-01 09:40:38 +0000 UTC]
Have you ever thought about creating creatures for horror films, you would be perfect for that.
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Pyramiddhead In reply to MissSuccoria [2014-10-01 16:05:49 +0000 UTC]
I actually did it would be amazing to be able to be a concept artist for either horror games or horror films but I guess it all depends on being discovered or finding the right place, to bad I know nothing about special effects make-up or I wouldn't mind delving into that...I just need to network more cause I don't really know how to approach it but for now I'll do what I do and strive to do it better, my next BH encounter piece actually looks like a good horror film creature
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MissSuccoria In reply to Pyramiddhead [2014-10-17 13:30:34 +0000 UTC]
Ooo, I can't wait. Also I wish you luck.
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LogicalandBeyond [2014-07-25 04:59:35 +0000 UTC]
Very creepy but... how was the demon trapped in Blackhaven in the first place? A future story
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Pyramiddhead In reply to LogicalandBeyond [2014-07-25 05:30:05 +0000 UTC]
Yeah pretty much when I make the profile for this one in the future I'll include the backstory, but all the demons here are victims who where trapped in a sinister fire that burned down Blackhaven Institution where orphans were housed, I used to put a lil intro explaining a bit about Blackhaven on each of these but it took up some space so I just put a lil background info in the folder, maybe I should bring the info back to make it a tiny bit more clear
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Undead-Academy [2014-07-16 09:10:59 +0000 UTC]
oh dude this is freaking spooky and spine tingling art here , super job
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Pyramiddhead In reply to Undead-Academy [2014-07-16 15:16:10 +0000 UTC]
Thank you very much
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Undead-Academy In reply to Pyramiddhead [2014-07-17 13:45:55 +0000 UTC]
My pleasure always :0
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Ray-of-Afterlife [2014-07-16 00:39:36 +0000 UTC]
Awesome!! Really creepy looking monster and great description, poor Sarah.. Oh well lol XD the way she dies reminds me of that really memorable death from dead space, when a divider's appendage replaces your head with it's head, although this one seems to be more disturbing because of the demonic dialect Minna speaks after attaching itself to her body. Great job!!
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Pyramiddhead In reply to Ray-of-Afterlife [2014-07-16 01:48:51 +0000 UTC]
Thank you very much the thing is Minna as a floating head has no vocal cords so she can only chomp to make noise but once she fuses with a body she fuses to her victim's vocal cords allowing her to speak using them, lol dead space has some great deaths haven't played the game but seen most of them
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Ray-of-Afterlife In reply to Pyramiddhead [2014-07-17 01:23:23 +0000 UTC]
No problem and oh I'm aware of that I was referring to when she attached herself to Sarah's body and began to speak. Yea Dead space has some pretty cool deaths making dying pretty fun in that game lol though dead space has become more comical in that sense do to how easy they can dismember you and how easy it is to decapitate corpses, making everyone in the dead space universe appear to be made of cotton XD
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SabbathVoorhees [2014-07-15 21:58:32 +0000 UTC]
Expresses everything about horror. I LOVE IT!!! ♡
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Pyramiddhead In reply to SabbathVoorhees [2014-07-15 22:07:16 +0000 UTC]
Thank you very much its so awesome to hear this
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SabbathVoorhees In reply to Pyramiddhead [2014-07-15 22:25:23 +0000 UTC]
You're very berry welcome!!:3
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Pyramiddhead In reply to Brian-OConnell [2014-07-15 22:06:49 +0000 UTC]
Thanks what I was hoping to hear
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