二手徵求有驚喜
Ⅰ
As the dolls were shipped into a small toy shop, the owner was checking if they were suitable for selling.
She was checking a green dwarf. As she checked…
“AAAAAHHHHH!”
The dwarf’s teeth turned razor-sharp. Its eyes turned into dark sockets. A venomous voice hissed from it. Blood and mucus appeared suddenly.
“Let me kill.”
A stream of blood splattered into the wall followed by a chilling hiss.
“Look, mom! There’s a toy store!” A six-year old girl, name’s Kelly James the sixth headed out with his father and mother on the streets. Kelly always has a great passion for toys, and if she saw one, no DOUBT she would head toward it. She is chubby and had a round and fat-face, her hair was tied in a small bun. She was wearing a short, purple skirt and a white T-shirt.
“Okay, sweetheart.” Her mother, Cindy said. She had a job-of being a computer programmer, but her business was highly unsuccessful. She was slender and fair-skinned, with her sheet of golden hair bobbing around her head. “So what do you want to get?”
“I dunno.” Kelly said.
His father, Jack, rubbed his head in suspicion. He was working as a Chinese language teacher in FIREFOX high school, and his Chinese was very proper. He was very tall and handsome with short black hair and noticeable muscles. “I’m not interrupting Kelly, but she really is growing up.”
“Oh really?” Cindy asked, raising an eyebrow.
“You know what? She’s turning seven. She’s going to be in primary school anytime soon. ”
“Of course, but there’s nothing wrong with the toy store.” Cindy said.
“Nothing wrong?” Jack asked. “I’m not a fan on toys, and Kelly cannot speak even the simplest Chinese.”
“爸爸真小氣.” Kelly muttered. (Daddy is so cheap.)
Jack sighed.
Then, they headed into the toy store. It was huger than any other toy store in the history, but it was clothed with spider webs, and the outer look of it looks like an old house.
Still, they ignored that.
What toy store is that? Jack asked himself. It looked neither tidy nor attractive. He must have seen wrong. He daughter is really king on those stupid toys.
But it wasn’t as they expected.
It looked incredibly like a crime scene. The floor has many broken plates that scattered across the floor. There was no seller in the paying desk. And the worst was that there are no lights, not even a single plug in the store, making the store seemly like a graveyard. A patch of blood was splattered onto the wall.
“What the hell?” Jack asked himself.
He stared at the shelves. It was stuffed with many dolls, but a lot of them looked like they were severely injured or destroyed.
“There must be a good doll in there for Kelly to play.” Cindy said. “Or else, this must be a stigmatized property.”
“What’s a stigmatized property?” Kelly asked.
“It means a place with bad things.” Cindy said.
“Oh.” Kelly muttered. The store looks pretty like a haunted house. A lot of dolls have spider webs with them. Kelly let out a frightened face.
With Kelly, Cindy followed her to search for a proper doll. First they started with a stuffed rabbit toy on the top shelf, and Kelly can’t reach it. Its head was decapitated and its body was stuffed with thousands of ants.
“I don’t like ants.” Kelly said.
“Next.” Cindy said.
Cindy saw a plastic alligator on the lower shelf. It looked fine. But when Kelly touched it, its body cracked and exploded into pieces of shattered plastic.
“That must have been too fragile.” Cindy said.
Cindy headed toward a small teddy bear on the middle part of the shelf. Its eyes were crawling out maggots, oozing mucus all over.
“AAAAHHHHH! WHAT THE HELL IS IT?” Cindy shrieked.
Jack is waiting outside the store. He felt disappointed over Kelly’s love of toys.
He must have banned her. He then snorted and headed into the store.
“This must be one.” Cindy said. She has found an only normal, clean doll on the top shelf. It looks like a Green Dwarf, with its mischievous look in its yellow eyes. Its entire face was green, and it was wearing a leather jacket and a short blue pants its auburn hair was long and was tied into a ponytail. It is not covered either in spider webs, nor maggots or ants.
“Perfect!” Kelly said, excited.
Cindy looked at the dwarf. Not even a single tag was on it.
“What the-?” She asked.
Jack immediately stormed into the store. He was staring at the toy ferociously.
“I have enough.” He said through gritting teeth.
“I want THAT TOY!” Kelly said. She protectively grabbed the toy and hugged it.
Kane’s hands slowly inched toward the toy.
“It’s her birthday, dear;” Cindy said breathlessly; “Just let her have it!”
“She’s getting old;” Jack said impatiently; “Now-put-it-back; you idiot!”
“I want it!” Kelly yelled.
“Put it back-”
“NO!”
“YOU WERE GETTING DEAD IMMATURE, CHILD, YOU-”
“I-WANT-IT!”
Kelly did one thing that she had never done before-she slapped her father right in the face.
Cindy gasped.
Jack rubbed and groaned, his face pumping red.
“Daughter;” He growled; “YOU KNOW WHAT THE GODDAMN THING YOU HAD DONE?”
“WHAT?” Kelly yelled defiantly.
Jack grabbed the doll from Kelly. He then angrily threw it into the floor.
BLAM! The doll fell into the broken pieces of floor bits, exploding out a small cloud of dust. Jack snorted.
He then walked out of the store.
Kelly’s veins were bulging with rage. Cindy tried to calm her down.
“Sorry, dear;” She said. “He’s just upset. You can get another doll.”
Kelly slowly turned her head toward the dwarf. It was the perfect toy I ever seen; she thought; why shouldn’t I get it?
Kelly still need to leave the store, as Cindy quickly took her out of the store. The sky is getting darker now. They quickly left.
Kelly muttered: “I wish you can goddamn die.” She never said things like that before.
She didn’t know she done a thing like that; she seemed to love that special feeling, but afraid of it, too.
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Ⅱ
Jack was disappointed as he drove the car, with Kelly and Cindy sitting on the back seat. Kelly was mad at her dad about the accident of slapping him.
Jack was fussing hard about what Kelly had done with him.
“Daughter;” He finally spoke after a half-hour of fussing; “You must’ve listen to me well. Stop being such a child, you just gotta grow up.”
“But I love that toy.” Kelly muttered.
“You didn’t know what love was by that age, dear. Also, you were getting into primary school by tomorrow, dear. I had helped you attend FIREFOX primary school. You’ll love it.” Jack said.
“I know.” Kelly piped. “Love was um-just love, okay?”
“Kelly;” Cindy said. “You should calm down a little.”
She nodded. But she stared at her hand. Something weird- her hand was turning abnormally pale.
Cindy noticed.
“What the-?” She gasped.
“Why my hand’s turning white?” Kelly asked.
Jack looked back at them.
“What the hell is that, daughter?” He asked in an annoyed tone.
“My-my hand’s turning pale.” Kelly said. She has a dread feeling. Her head is slowly twisting by her neck.
“And my neck hurts.” She said.
“Do you need to go to the damn hospital with her again, Cindy?” Jack asked impatiently.
“Maybe.” Cindy said.
“And I’m getting dizzy.” Kelly said in an airy and abnormally stressful voice. “And I’m-”Her throat seemed to be growing a huge lump.
“SUCK BLOOD.”
“What?” Cindy said. She had just heard a second voice coming from Kelly’s lips. It sounded like cold venom and possibly thirst and lust, with a combination of snake hissing, wolf snarling, and scratchy moaning with layers of people raspy breathing, unlike Kelly’s normal breaths.
“Did you hear anything, dear?”
“Nothing.” Kelly muttered. “What?” The lump in her throat grew larger, becoming noticeable.
“I’M THIRSTY…I SMELL BLOO –”
“I heard it!” Kelly yelled. “Is it you, dad?” She asked his father in a threatening way.
“I did not like this attitude, daughter.” Jack called. “And by the way, this voice-I did not speak it.”
“Not me either.” Kelly said.
“I WANT TO SUCK YOUR BLOOD…I’M HUNGRY…”
“Are you goddamn pulling pranks, daughter?” Cindy asked.
“No, I’m not!” Kelly yelled.
“You sure are.” Jack said.
“NO, I’M NO-”
Suddenly, the car they were sitting in flipped over.
“AAAAHHHHHH!” They screamed.
A loud horn blared in the car. Red lights flashed all over.
CRRRASSSSHHH! The car slammed heavily into the asphalt, crushing over several pieces of asphalt, bare pieces of metallic shards which slammed into everywhere.
“I’mma kill you, brat!” Jack yelled.
“You won’t!” Kelly yelled. The second voice spoke with her normal voice at the same time.
The car stopped immediately. The lights went off.
What happened next was-
BLAM! Kelly was tossed out of the car.
“You goddamn idiot!” Kelly screamed as she got up.
“You even curse!” Jack yelled. “You should leave us, stay there! I don’t want to argue this thing! You caused this goddamn thing!!” Jack’s car drove away in high speed immediately.
“Fine!” Kelly yelled. “You-”
BOOM! Her mouth suddenly opened, and a bat flew out. The bat is abnormally large, about a two-foot wingspan, with glowing red eyes and blood-covered teeth.
Kelly shivered. The bat stared hard at Kelly and hissed like a crossover between a snake, crocodile and a bat with a thick amount of mucus in its nose. Then it flew away across the streets.
Where is it going? Kelly wondered. She then called out without control of her mind;
“I’m gonna leave, there Kelly. I lived inside that.”
“What?” Kelly said, as if she didn’t notice. She didn’t knew who is talking, and what was whatever who that is talking about.
BOOM! Her mouth suddenly opened, and-
A gigantic monster storm of bats exploded out of her mouth violently.
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!”
She screamed as the large storm of endless stream of bats escaped from her mouth.
The storm of bats all followed the initial bat’s direction, and charged at an abnormally high speed. Then, the silence then followed as the storms of bats were all gone.
Kelly slowly walked toward the direction of bats. Where-ARE they heading?
“What’s happening?” She asked herself as she followed.
She ignored what had just happened and she continued on following.
In the toy store which Kelly had get into, the doll still remains lying on the floor. The dwarf was lying hard, motionless.
Then, a swarm of bats flew into the store and flew into the doll’s mouth. They crammed hard into it.
Then, the doll’s eyes glowed in a red shade, and the eyes switched into hideous dark sockets. The doll’s face turned white, and a few black marks appear.
Then, a trickle of blood rolled down the doll’s eyes. The doll’s eyes switched back to normal again in a blur.
Kelly headed into the toy store. She then stared into it.
“Hello?” She called silently.
Of course, no one’s there.
She anxiously continued to walk when she stepped on the doll.
She stared it for a period of time. It looked just like it was before. She smiled.
“I’ll get you, little doll.” Kelly said. But she noticed two tiny streams of blood rolling down its cheeks.
“I can help you.” She said. “I’ll wash that blood off your face.”
And she leaved the toy store.
It was midnight when she had arrived at her house, where Jack and Cindy were regretting about abandoning their own daughter. It was in the city where it lies near some grumpy neighbors. Their house is a like a minuscule one when it was compared to the city’s huge houses, with a small amount of colored parts to it. It was the size of a double-decker bus, to be exact, and she headed in.
As she closed the door, the door leaved a bloody scratch on the doorknob. A cold hissing voice oozed from it.
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1
當一堆布娃娃被行銷進一間小玩具店時，玩具店的管理員在檢查娃娃們是否適合販售。
她正在檢查一個綠矮人娃娃。當她在檢查時……
「啊……」
矮人的牙齒變尖了。它的眼睛霎時轉變成了眼窩。一陣陰毒的嘶嘶聲從裡面傳出來。血絲和黏液瞬間出現。
「讓我殺人。」
一條血柱往牆壁噴灑，一陣毛骨悚然的嘶嘶聲隨著傳來。
「媽媽，您看！有一家玩具店！」一位六歲的小女孩，名叫凱莉‧丹母士第六世，跟著她爸爸和媽媽在街道上晃晃。凱莉總是對於玩偶有濃厚的熱情，假如她看到了一個，不用懷疑，她會過去看看。她身材很壯，有一個又圓又胖的臉，頭髮被捆成一個小圓包，穿著一件小小的紫色圍裙，搭配白色的小短袖。
「好的，親愛的。」她的媽媽，名叫欣締，說道。她是一個電腦工程師，但是她的工作表現十分慘敗。她身材瘦長，有一頭飄逸的金髮。「那麼你想要什麼呢？」
「我不知。」凱莉說道。
她的爸爸傑克，懷疑似的搔著頭。他在火狐高中擔任中文老師，說得一口流利且標準的中文。他既高又帥，一頭短黑髮和引人注意的肌肉。「我沒有再打斷凱莉，但是她真的需要成長。」
「噢，是嗎？」欣締問道，她豎起了一邊眉毛。
「你知道嗎？她快滿七歲。她過沒多久就要升上小學呢。」
「當然，但是玩具店又沒有什麼不好。」欣締說著。
「沒什麼不好嗎？」傑克問。「我可不是什麼玩具愛好者，而且凱莉連最簡單的中文也一竅不通。」
「爸爸真小氣。」凱莉用中文抱怨著。
傑克嘆了一口氣。
後來，凱莉和媽媽進入了玩具店。這間玩具店比任何玩具店還要大，只不過它被蜘蛛網給占據，而且它的外觀像一間舊屋子。不過，他們一點也不以為意。
這到底是哪門子的玩具店呀？傑克想著。它既不整潔也不美觀。他該不會看錯了吧。他的女兒真是過於迷戀那些蠢玩具。
但是裡面沒有如預期的狀況。
這場畫面極像犯罪現場。地板上散落著一堆磁磚。櫃檯沒有店員。最糟糕的是店裡沒有燈光，連一個插座也沒有，這一間玩具店像個墳場。一大灘血跡噴灑在牆上。
「搞什麼啊？」傑克問自己。
他看了櫃子。裡面塞滿許多玩偶，但是其中有很多個看似受到嚴重損傷和毀壞。
「裡面應該有一個適合給凱莉的玩具。」欣締說。「不然，這間玩具店就像是一間凶宅了。」
「什麼是凶宅啊？」凱莉問。
「是一間不好的地方。」欣締說。
「喔。」凱莉說。這間玩具店看起來極像鬼屋。很多娃娃身上黏著許多蜘蛛網。凱莉露出詭異的表情。
欣締跟著凱莉去找一個好玩偶。他們看到一個在櫃子上方的兔子。它的頭被切除了，而且整個身體爬滿了螞蟻。
「我不喜歡螞蟻。」凱莉說。
「下一個。」欣締說。
欣締在櫃子的下方找到一隻塑膠鱷魚。它看似完好。但是當凱莉摸它的時候，它卻整個粉碎了。
「這也太脆弱了吧。」欣締說。
欣締看到一隻放在櫃子中間的小泰迪熊。它的眼睛滾出了一團蛆，到處流下了黏液。
「啊！這是什麼鬼東西？」欣締叫。
傑克正在玩具店外面等待著。他對於女兒沉迷玩具感到失望。他應該要禁止她才對。他哼了一聲，然後走進店裡。
「這應該是我們要找的。」欣締說。她找到了一個在櫃子上方正常、乾淨的娃娃。它看似一個綠矮人，黃色的眼睛流露出些許的調皮。它整個臉是綠的，而且穿著一件皮革夾克和一套短褲，還有一束綁成馬尾的長長紅褐色頭髮。身上既沒有蜘蛛網，也沒有蛆和螞蟻。
「完美！」凱莉興奮的說。
欣締看著娃娃。上面連一個標籤也沒有。
「搞什麼？」欣締問。
傑克馬上走進店裡。他兇狠的瞪著娃娃。
「我受夠了。」傑克咬牙切齒的說。
「我要那個娃娃！」凱莉說。她保護似的抱著娃娃。傑克的手慢慢的靠近娃娃。
「今天是她的生日，親愛的。」欣締說。「你讓她擁有這個娃娃就好了！」
「她已經長大了。」傑克沒耐性的說：「白癡，現在馬上放回去！」
「我想要！」凱莉叫。
「給我放回去¬……」
「不！」
「ㄚ頭，妳現在的態度很不成熟噢，妳……」
「我……想……要！」
凱莉做了一個她從來沒有做過的動作……她摑了她爸爸的臉。
欣締倒吸了一口氣。
傑克擦著他的臉頰然後哼了一聲，他的臉燒起一股怒氣。
「女兒！」他咆哮：「妳知道妳做了什麼該死的事嗎？」
「啥？」凱莉大膽的叫。
傑克從凱莉的身上搶走了娃娃。他憤怒的把娃娃往地上一摔。
娃娃重重掉落地上，碎掉的部分爆出一股小灰塵雲。傑克哼了一聲。他走出了玩具店。凱莉的血管隨著她的憤恨而膨脹。欣締試著想要讓她冷靜下來。
「親愛的，對不起！」欣締說：「他只是生了一點氣，妳還可以得到另一個娃娃。」
凱莉慢慢轉向摔在地上的娃娃。這是我一生中見過最棒的娃娃，她想著：為何我不能擁有它呢？
凱莉知道她必須離開玩具店，然後欣締趕緊把她帶出店外。天空漸漸的暗了。他們迅速離開現場。
凱莉低聲喃喃：「我希望你可以去死！」她從來沒有說過類似的話。
她沒想到自己會做這種事，她好像滿喜歡這種特殊的感覺，但是又感到害怕。
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2
傑克開車時看著坐在後面的凱莉和欣締，頓時感到失望。凱莉雖然摑了她爸爸，仍然無法消除心中的怒氣。
傑克對於凱莉對他做的好事一直嘮嘮叨叨。
「女兒！」傑克嘮叨了半小時後說：「妳本該要乖乖聽我的話。不要那麼幼稚，妳必須要成長。」
「但是我愛這玩具。」凱莉抱怨著。
「妳這年紀還不知道什麼是愛，親愛的。而且，妳明天要去讀小學，親愛的。我已經幫妳辦好火狐小學入學手續。妳會愛上這所學校的。」傑克說。
「我知道。」凱莉說。「但我要就是要！OK？」
「凱莉，」欣締說；「妳必須要冷靜下來。」
凱莉點頭。但是她看著她的雙手。有一個怪東西……¬¬她的手正漸漸的變蒼白。
欣締注意到了。
「搞什麼……」欣締叫。
「我的手怎麼在變白？」凱莉問。
傑克轉頭看他們。
「這是什麼鬼東西，女兒？」他不耐煩的說。
「我¬……我的手變蒼白了。」女兒說。她有一個害怕的感覺。她的頭漸漸的在脖子上扭曲著。
「而且我的脖子好痛！」她說。
「欣締，我們又必須要去那該死的醫院嗎？」傑克說。
「我也感覺頭暈目眩。」凱莉以一個做作和不正常疲倦的聲音說：「而且我¬……」她的喉嚨好像正長出一個大疱。
「我要吸血……」
「搞啥？」欣締說。她好像聽到從凱莉的嘴唇間傳來另一種詭異的聲音。它聽起來除了惡毒外還有對鮮血的渴望，甚至有蛇的嘶嘶聲，狼的嗥叫，像指尖刮木板聲的哀號和陣陣令人驚悚的呼吸聲，不像凱莉的聲音。
「親愛的，妳有聽到什麼嗎？」欣締問。
「沒有啊！」凱莉說：「啥？」她喉嚨中的疱變大了，變得更容易被注意。
「我好渴……我聞到血……」
「我聽到了！」凱莉叫。「是您嗎，老爸？」她以威脅的態度問。
「女兒，我可不喜歡這種態度。」傑克叫。「而且，那聲音，那不是我發出來的。」
「也不是我啊！」凱莉說。
「我想要吸你的血……我好餓……」
「妳在搗蛋嗎，女兒？」欣締說。
「我又沒有！」凱莉說。
「妳有喔！」傑克說。
「我才沒有……」
突然，傑克開的車翻了。
「啊……」他們尖叫。
一陣喇叭聲在車裡響起。紅光向四面八方閃爍。
碰！車子猛然的碰撞到柏油路面，些許的車殼金屬塊到處撞來撞去。
「我要宰了妳，小子！」傑克大叫。
「你不會！」凱莉叫。那個怪聲跟著她的正常聲一起說。
車子立刻停下來。燈光隨即消失。
接下來要發生的事情是……
碰！凱莉被丟在車外。
「你這臭白癡！」凱莉起來後大叫。
「妳好大膽竟敢罵髒話！」傑克叫：「妳必須離開，給我站在這！我不想爭論這事！這件事是妳造成的！」傑克的車以高速離去。
「算了啦！」凱莉叫。「您……」
碰！她的嘴巴突然打開，一隻蝙蝠飛出來。這隻蝙蝠特別的大，翼長二尺，眼睛發出紅光和露出血紅利齒。
凱莉開始發抖。蝙蝠狠瞪凱莉然後嘶了一聲，聽起來像一隻蛇、鱷魚、和一隻鼻孔有很厚黏液的蝙蝠。然後它在街道間飛走。
它要飛到哪裡啊？凱莉想著。牠在她的腦袋裡面失控叫出來：「凱莉，我要離開這裡。我住在那裡面。」
「哪裡？」凱莉好像不注意的問。她不曉得誰在講話，而且那個誰到底是在講什麼？
碰！她的嘴巴又打開，然後……
一陣巨大的蝙蝠風暴猛然的從她嘴裡飛出來。
「啊！」凱莉在那群似乎無法停止的蝙蝠逃離她的嘴巴時大叫。
蝙蝠群一隻隻接續的飛，然後以一個異常快的速度向前衝。蝙蝠們飛離後，萬籟俱寂。
凱莉慢慢的跟著蝙蝠飛行的方向走。牠們到底是要飛往哪裡？
「接著會發生什麼事？」她邊走邊問。
她不去理會剛剛發生的事，然後繼續跟著蝙蝠群走。
在凱莉剛剛去過的玩具店裡，娃娃依然平靜的躺著。
那群蝙蝠飛進店裡然後衝進娃娃的嘴裡。牠們用力的擠進去。娃娃的眼睛以淡淡的紅光亮起，眼睛變成了令人害怕的深凹。娃娃的臉變蒼白，並且出現小小的黑色條紋。然後，一絲絲的血從娃娃的眼窩溢出。但娃娃的臉一瞬間變回正常的樣子，彷彿一切不曾發生過。
凱莉走進玩具店裡。她往店內深處探望。
「有人在嗎？」她輕聲的呼喚。
當然，裡面沒人。
她擔憂的繼續走，一腳踩在娃娃身上。
她盯著它仔細看了一回。它一點都沒變。她滿意的笑了笑。
「我抓到你了，小娃娃。」她說。但她注意到兩條從娃娃的眼睛流下的血。
「我可以幫你。我把你臉上的血洗掉。」
然後，她離開玩具店。
她回到家時已是深更半夜了，李傑克和欣締因為拋棄自己的女兒而感到後悔。她們的住家在都市裡，有一些脾氣暴躁的鄰居。他們家跟都市中大型的樓房比較之下，顯得很小，住家大小只有雙層公車那麼大，僅有部份區域塗上油漆。然後，凱莉走進去。
她關上門時，門把上流下一道血痕。一股冷淡的聲音從中傳出。
以上內容節錄自《THE DOLL 怖娃娃》陳立恩（Andy Chen）◎著．白象文化出版
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