A/N: Finally at chapter four. Not much I can think to say right now, but please read and review!
Chapter 4
Massacre
"What the hell is going on with the boat?" A drunken Ryan demanded as the boat kept jerking back and forth.
"I don't know, the propeller must've snagged on something." Xander guessed as he tried to drive the boat forward, only to have it pulled back again.
"Get Theodore up here." Ryan said.
Sherry and Xander remained silent.
"I said get that little fat ass up here!" Ryan snapped at Sherry, making her flinch at his tone. "What are you retarded? !"
"Leave her alone Ryan." Theodore said as he walked up the steps.
"You know kid," Ryan sighed as he took another swig of vodka and turned to Theodore. "All needed you for was to show us around this dump of a fucking lake. But you had to take us way off course and now we're fucking stuck!"
Theodore ducked as the human threw the glass bottle, barely missing him and Sherry. Ryan growled in frustration as he grabbed Xander and tossed him from the controls and took them over himself.
"If you want something done right..." Ryan sighed angrily as he put more power to the engine of the boat.
"If you keep doing that you'll fry the engine!" Theodore tried to explain to the intoxicated human.
Ryan shrugged him off as he continued his actions. He was going to get this boat free, and nothing was going to stop him.
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Vinny continued her failed efforts to get the crowd under control. No one was listening to her or Eleanor, who had gone to the shore to warn others and ensure that more people would not get into the lake.
Unkown to the partying people, the piranhas underneath swam toward them in a mass of hundreds. Enough to slaughter the entire mass of humans. A few swam further ahead, hunting for their first victim. They were scouts, meaning they would deliver that first bite to draw the blood and attract their entire school. The humans in the water were oblivious to the fish swimming through them. The scouts aimed for a girl swimming to the docks, but the human stepped onto land before they could strike.
Their attention shifted to a more vulnerable target, which was an older woman floating in an intertube. The human was silently bobbing her head to the loud music, enjoying her time at the lake party. The fish underwater swam up to her exposed legs, the first one simply biting to release blood. The woman above jumped as she felt the sudden sharp pain on her leg, but began screaming in terror as the scouts began devouring her flesh and pulling her deeper into the water.
The happy mood of the party quickly transformed into terror as the people around the woman witnessed her grim death. The entire school of ferocious killers went insane at the sweet scent of human blood and swarmed the party goers. Many people desperately swam to their boats, doing their best to push past the biting fish. But several ultimately failed and fell victim to the underwater menace.
Vinny and Simone became sick upon seeing the blue water quickly turn scarlet red with the blood of innocent people. Several humans fled to the police boat, to which Vinny began assisting them aboard without hesitation. Simone urgently grabbed the first-aid kit to bandage any wounds. Unfortunately, the boat was very small, and wouldn't hold very many people.
"Get them out of the water!" Vinny yelled as she aimed her tazer gun at the water. She fired the weapon into the water, eletrocuting several piranha and instantly killing them. It was a very small number, but it bought them time to get more people into the boat. Another officer was firing shotgun rounds into the water, the pellets killing any piranha they made contact with.
A great deal of people turned to a floating stage, meant to hold a rock band performance, for sanctuary from the murderous creatures. The mass climbed onto the stage, some ascending to the top rails for extra safety. Some however were not as fortunate, one girl being pulled under the surface. The piranha began swirling around her like a silver whirlpool, tearing her flesh apart until all that was left was her bloody skeleton.
The efforts of the fleeing humans were soon realized to have been done in vain. Vinny's heart sank as she saw the stage tilt forward, the weight of the victims too great to support. The humans were sent screaming back to the bloody demise they had been evading. A spark flew as a cord detached from it's holding and sailed across the air. The wire whipped around and sliced a girl in half who was standing on her own boat. She only had time to look down at herself before the top half of her body separated sickly and splashed into the water.
Simone stripped off his blue hoodie, leaving only his white t-shirt, and applied it to a severely bleeding man.
"We don't have enough room for all these people!" Simone exclaimed panicky as even more people tried to desperately board the tiny boat.
Vinny cursed as she looked at her paws, seeing them coated in the thick goo that was human blood. She began crying. All these people she could've saved, dying slowly and painfully before her eyes. And more were losing their lives every passing second.
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Meanwhile, Ryan was still trying to free the boat from the seaweed that was snagged on the propeller. But his trial paid off as the boat moved forward again. Ryan began shouting in joy as the boat sped off.
This only turned to disappointment as the boat sped into a wall of rocks underneath the surface. The entire boat stopped in it's tracks. Alvin, who was still in the bottom room of the boat, was thrown backwards and hit his head on the counter in the kitchen area and was instantly knocked out. Brittany and Jeanette barely had time to react as the glass bottom shattered and water surged into the room. Above, the sudden halt of movement sent Ryan, Xander, and Sherry overboard and into the water.
Theodore quickly recovered from the shock and ran down to the bottom room. Charlene stood up as well, looking over where her co-wokers and fallen.
Underneath the surface, the piranha had already begun their assault on the human and chipette. Sherry flailed about as the fish ripped her flesh apart, one finding a hole in her back to swim into. Ryan's eyes showed true fear as he saw bite marks appear from inside the girl. Soon, Sherry's jaw was forced open as the piranha swam out, obviously much too large to fit through the chipette's mouth normally. Ryan cursed as he swam away as fast as he could, the piranha quickly chewing away at him.
Charlene panicked as she saw her director scream in pain as he broke the surface, seeing a pool of red form beneath him. She quickly grabbed a paddle to assist Ryan. She looked around for help, seeing that the only other person that had been there was Theodore, who had already left.
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"Jeanette, Brittany!" Theodore called as he entered the room.
"Theo!" Both children ran up to the older chipmunk, looking back at the flooding room.
"What happened?" Theodore asked his little sisters.
"I don't know, we hit something and the glass broke. Alvin's on the other side." Brittany pointed to the other side of the room where Alvin was laying. All three chipmunks gulped as they saw dozens of creatures swim into the room as the water rose higher.
"Alvin!" Theodore called, seeing the male's eyes flicker open. "Get off the floor!"
Alvin quickly climbed onto the counter as the water got high enough to reach his ankles. His amber eyes widened as he saw the sharp toothed fish swimming towards him.
"What the hell are those things? !" Alvin shouted, looking into the water.
"I don't know, but I'll get you out of there through the skylight." Theodore answered as he left the room again, his younger sisters having already left.
"Hurry up!" Alvin yelled as he looked back down, seeing the fish swimming closer.
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Charlene finally managed to pull Ryan back on board as Theodore and the two children returned to the deck. Upon sight of Ryan, Theodore quickly turned his sisters around.
"Theo, w-what's happening?" Jeanette shook in fear, having seen a slight glimpse of the human.
"N-Nothing." Theodore gulped, holding back vomit. "Just go over there and don't look back, I don't want either if you to see this."
Brittany and Jeanette silently obeyed as they walked away. Theodore looked back at Ryan who was lying in the deck, everything below his waist reduced to nothing more than raw flesh and bone. Charlene was using the paddle to smack away the fish that still had their teeth clamped onto the human, flailing at the absence of water. Theodore walked up slowly as Charlene hit the last piranha attached to Ryan.
Ryan sobbed in pain as he stopped moving, a clear sign that he was passing away. Theodore turned to the skylight on the middle of the deck and opened it, but saw it wouldn't open wide enough to fit Alvin through. And the glass was made of plastic, meaning that was unbreakable.
"Um, Teddy, the water's getting higher." Alvin gulped from below.
"I can't get this stupid thing open." Theodore growled as he tried to break the plastic window from it's hinges with no success.
Alvin began breathing heavy as he saw several piranha swimming straight for him. He nearly shrieked when the fish began leaping out of the water and snapped their jaws at him, barely missing by mere inches. He did scream when one made it onto the counter and nip his ankle, making the chipmunk kick it away on instinct.
Theodore's heart sank upon hearing his crush scream like that. Alvin was about to die down there, and there was nothing he could do about it. Charlene meanwhile was sobbing as she put a towel respectively over he deceased boss. She had lost all of her friends in one sweep.
They were surrounded by murderous creatures and doomed because of their sinking boat.
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Back at the shore, hundreds of people who had escaped from the initial attack fled onto land. Many were carrying either dead or half eaten friends and loved ones ashore. The blood however attracted more piranhas to the shallow water that attacked the slow prey. The lake was no longer a deep blue, but a cruel scarlet red.
Eleanor stood in the shallow water, firing shotgun shells at any piranha she saw. Soon however, the chipette had fired her last shot and carried no more ammunition. Eleanor looked desperately around for anything to fend off the fish. She had to keep the animals from the fleeing humans somehow. Her green eyes rested on a stray boat.
"Alright then, you're hungry..." Eleanor growled as she pulled the string to start the motor. As the propeller began spinning, the female yanked it from its attachment and aimed it into the water, and screamed at the fish under the surface. "Eat metal cocksuckers!"
Eleanor slowly lowered the improvised weapon into the water, the blades obliterating anything they touch. Bits and pieces of fish flew all around her as the piranha swarmed, having fallen for Eleanor's decoy tactic. She moved the propeller in a fanning motion, yelling at the civilians to get onto land. The mass of fish bypassed the propeller though, a few beginning to bite at the chipette and making her drop to one knee.
"Everyone get to shore!" Eleanor screamed as she sank into her own pool of blood, the piranha having got the best of her. "Get to the fucking shore..."
Her subordinates screamed as they saw the female disappear into the water. Vinny nearly collapsed upon seeing Eleanor's final stand against the piranha, only to have fallen prey. Looking out at the red lake, the female could only see a mass of corpses floating around, some people too afraid to go into the water to retrieve their loved ones.
Vinny jumped as her cell phone rang inside her pocket. Looking at the caller ID, she raised an eyebrow seeing her son's name. What could Theodore be calling for?
"Theo?" Vinny asked as she flipped the phone open.
"I'm so sorry." Theodore sobbed on the other end of the line. "I fucked up really bad."
"What are talking about? Where's Brittany and Jeanette?" Vinny gulped hearing Theodore's tone.
"They're with me on the boat." Theodore answered.
"Boat?" Vinny wondered aloud, but quickly pushed the thought out of her mind. "Look Theodore, whatever you guys do stay out of the water."
"Mom you don't understand, the boat is fucking sinking." Theodore cried.
A/N: And cliffhanger! Yea, I'm continuing. Just two more chaps till the end. And yes if you've seen the actual movie, I know I skipped out on the best line, but it just wouldn't work in written format. Anyway, please review and tell me watchable think!