TDI: Torture Cruise
Chapter Two: And Then There Were 21
"Ohhhh....What the hell happened?" Gwen uttered as she slowly got up off the floor.
She looked around and noticed the others were waking up, too.
But some were...missing.
Heather.
Beth.
And Noah!
"Beth?? Where are you?!!" Cody screamed.
"Gwen, I...I don't know where..." he cried.
"I know, Cody! But we'll find her." she comforted the young man.
"They killed Izzy's boyfriend! Izzy will make them pay!" Izzy declared in the third person, then took off!
"Izzy! Where are you going?? Izzy!!!" Gwen called fruitlessly after the crazy girl. But Izzy was long gone. "Dammit! What the hell's going on??"
Meanwhile, Noah searched for something in his office on the ship.
Frantically, he took out his keys and opened the portable safe in his desk. But he didn't find what he was looking for.
"Where is it?!" he bellowed.
"Looking for this?" the voice at the door said, then held up a satellite phone.
"How? What are you doing?" Noah pleaded. "I thought we had an agreement! I did everything you asked! Why...?"
"About that...There's one more thing you have to do for me."
"Anything! Name it! Please! Just don't..."
"Die!"
Then the unknown assailant plunged the phone's antenna into the boy's heart!
Back in the dining room, the TDC contestants struggled to recover from the gas attack and come to grips with the horrible death of their good friend, Owen.
"Who...would do something like that?" Katie cried.
"It's a nightmare!" Sadie tearfully concurred.
Even the usually upbeat Justin could take no comfort in his own beauty.
"It's even worse." a newcomer to the scene declared. "I've been all over the ship, and the whole crew is gone! Plus, the communications room is wrecked! Whoever did this, they don't want anyone to find out!"
"Where the hell have you been?!?" Gwen demanded.
"I already told you." Heather tersely responded. "I was looking for help!"
"Well, we need to stay together! Going off by yourself, that's how people get killed! Izzy already took off, and God knows where Beth and Noah are!" Gwen, the 'psycho killer expert', ranted.
"Fine! Next time I'll ask permission, Ma!" Heather huffily replied.
"Let's get out of here." Gwen said as she led the group out of the dining room.
As they made their way around the ship, the cruise ship contestants called out to their missing friends.
Suddenly, a noise from behind some boxes!
"Is, is it safe?" the trembling girl asked.
"Beth!" Cody rushed to embrace his girlfriend. "What happened?? You had me so worried!"
"I, I was scared, and I ran, but I couldn't find anyone, and then I heard a scream, so I hid! I thought the killer came back!"
"What? No, the killer's probably long gone! Heather said she searched the ship and no one's here. It's just us!"
"I know what I heard, Cody!"
"Oh. Well, maybe..."
SHRIEK!!
Some of the former campers chanced upon Noah in his office.
He was sitting in his chair...dead!
On his body was a sign on which was scrawled the message "He thought he knew everything. He didn't."
Dum da dum dum!
The mystery deepens!
Next:
With no killer in sight, the TDC participants attack each other!
And then, a most unexpected development!
Who will die next?
