Sorry it took so long for me to update this. I have been hit with the worst case of Writer's Block known to man. Hopefully it doesn't show in the story. I guess this could be a Spring Break present.
Dave walked past the new rock that he and his friends now called home. It was a green rock, one with animals and plants unlike most of the others. They had found all kinds of Earth and Alternia creature. Some of the creature weren't from either of the planets. Dave smiled as he saw one of his bottles of Apple Juice.
"Dave! Dave! Get over here!" John shouted.
"What is it?" Dave asked, stumbling over.
John played away at the computer. "I'm level nine in this game!" John shouted with excitement.
Dave sighed. "Are you really that excited about that stupid ghost game?"
John scoffed. "Uh, duh! I bet I'm double the level of that sprite of yours."
Jade looked over at Davesprite. "Well, is he?"
Davesprite shook his head. "I'm level 30 and already have a Ghost slave."
John's eyes widened. "No way! You can't even get one of those! You have to be hacking!" John rambled on as Davesprite ignored him.
Rose walked out of the shadows with her small salamander followers. "Hello." She mumbled in a monotone voice.
Jade jumped up with delight, "It's about time you showed up. I haven't seen you all day!"
Rose glanced at Jade and smiled. Dave waved at her and she nodded her head.
Dave's computer ringed
"Huh," Dave started, "I think someone is pestering me."
Dave walked over to his computer and opened up Pesterchum.
"Ha! It's Terezi!" Dave smiled. "Man it has been so long since I have seen her."
Dave's eyes read the message that Terezi had sent him. He jumped up and started running for the others. Terezi needed their help, and she needed it now.
"There are too many hackers on this thing." John exited out of his game and glared at Davesprite.
"We have to go right now!" Dave came running towards them.
"What's happening?!" Jade asked as she hurried towards Dave.
"There's no time to explain just come with me!" They all started towards their ship.
Tavros heard footsteps coming towards them. "Guys, uh, I think someone is coming." He stuttered, pointing towards the direction of the sound. Equius raised his head to look at whoever was calling, not that he cared. Kanaya revved up her chainsaw and stared at the hall. Shadows rapidly appeared that were running down the hall.
Sollux spun around the corner and smacked straight into Tavros.
"Ow." Tavros groaned as Sollux crawled off of him. Feferi came next.
"Thank Cod you guys made it. But where is Nepeta." Feferi Asked.
Equius stared hard at the ground. He would never forget his playful little morail.
Kanaya gave a sorrowful look towards Feferi, explaining everything.
Eridan turned the corner. "W-why do you guys have to go so fast!" He looked around and saw Equius's gloomy face. "W-what happened?" Nobody answered him.
The rest of the group came around the corner and everybody hugged each other.
"Nepeta…. She didn't make it." Equius blurted out after a while.
"Vriska and Karkat didn't make it either." Terezi added, sitting down.
Tavros leaned against the wall, trying to process how his friend could have become a murderer. "I should have seen it coming." He thought to himself. "I should have saved the others." He slid down the wall until he was sitting on the ground.
"You know, there are only 8 sane people still here." Tavros blurted out amongst the silence of the group.
Kanaya looked up and did the math. He was right. Everyone else was either dead or insane. "How could this have happened?" She thought to herself. "Why couldn't we have seen this coming? Why did we have to split up?" None of these questions mattered anymore, the only thing that mattered was that they all had to get off of this island and Gamzee has to die. Die for the things he had done to Karkat, Vriska, and Nepeta.
Equius got all his anger out on one of the walls. He pounded it with all his might and rage over Nepeta's death. His fingers bled all over the walls as he dented the metal. He flung himself onto the floor and he just laid there.
The long scratch of a sickle on the hard metal wall became audible from the hall next to them.
"It's Gamzee!" Sollux whispered, jumping up. All the trolls readied themselves.
"I think there might be enough of us to take him down." Terezi tried to bring up the spirits of the group. The scratch became louder and louder. It was like a mosquito buzzing around in their ears. It wouldn't go away.
Gamzee's bloody foot slid its way into sight. It was followed by the rest of him, bathed in Candy red blood. Scratches ran down his face and tore his shirt from Vriska. His nails were stained olive green. He had Karkat's sickle in his hand and his bloody club in the other.
The last group of sane trolls charged at him. Gamzee stood still as he watched all run towards him. They were three meters away from him when the ground opened up.
Gamzee watched as the group fell into his trap. They were stuck in his trap now.
Nobody can escape from his trap.
Feferi woke up with a migraine. She got up on her knees and looked around. The other trolls were just waking up too.
Aradia looked up; they must have fallen 50 feet. It was a miracle that nobody had been hurt on the fall. It was a miracle short lived.
Eridan was groaning out of pain. He looked around.
Tavros shot up from the bone-chilling shriek that came from the side of the room. He stared in horror at the magenta blood that covered the floor. Eridan's leg had fallen on a sharp stick.
Eridan began to freak out. He started panicking and shouting for help.
"Shut up or Gamzee will hear us." Kanaya said, her motherly voice gone.
Feferi rushed over and started looking for things to get the stick out with.
"We can't carry around a wounded person all the time." Sollux demanded. "Just put him out of his misery."
"No! Please do not!" Eridan started shouting louder than before.
"Shut up now!" Terezi shouted, louder than anything. All the trolls shut up. "Someone get Eridan off that stick and bandage him up. We can just help him walk." Terezi ordered the group around.
Equius and Sollux had to rip him off.
Equius look at Sollux and put his hands on Eridan's legs. Eridan started wailing and pleading for them to not do it.
"Just let me die, I want to get out of this world. Leave me please!" Eridan pleaded.
Sollux smiled as he grabbed Eridan's flailing arms.
"1." Sollux started.
"2." Equius continued.
"3!" They shouted and ripped Eridan off of the stick. Eridan shrieked as his magenta blood flew everywhere. He burst into tears that blended in with the blood. Kanaya quickly bandaged it up with some tissues and duct tape.
"Well you know what they say," Aradia said, "Duct tape fixes everything."
Feferi smiled a smile of lies. There was no one who could smile anymore.
Equius and Aradia were set in charge of helping Eridan walk. They each wrapped one arm around his shoulder and started walking. Eridan hopped along with his new helpers.
The group came up to a cross road.
Terezi pointed left. "This way."
"Are you insane?! This is the way." Sollux argued, pointing right. Terezi and Sollux started arguing with each other.
"Stop it." Tavros whispered. The two continued and got up in each others faces. "Please stop it." Tavros demanded a little louder. They refused to stop.
"Shut up!" Tavros roared, instantly throwing the group into silence. "I am sick of all this fighting! My best friend is out there killing my friends and you can't decide which way we are going to walk! Have you ever thought of the fact we can go backwards! Just go right." Tavros backed up against the wall and crossed his arms.
"Looks like Gamzee's changing us all." Aradia interrupted the silence while the group was walking along. She looked over at the hardened Kanaya. She looked at Tavros; he could actually speak his mind now.
The group walked into a large room. Feferi looked around at all the torture devices. The room had exits to glass halls with metal doorways.
"How long had Gamzee been gone?" Sollux asked.
"3 months." Equius answered.
Terezi looked at the ground. "So he must have had enough time to set a whole ton of traps. Keep your eyes open."
Sollux and Feferi were about to walk out with the rest of the group when metal doors slammed down, blocking them.
"What the…" Sollux said. Chains shot out from the ground and pulled him to the center of the room. Sollux started looking around in panic. His heart stopped.
A saw slowly started coming towards his hand.