"Maybe you should check first before you get my hopes up. I wouldn't want to get up for nothing." Makoto said to Viva, though he was pretty sure she was already in the other classroom. He sat in silence for a little bit and felt a throbbing pain in his leg. He must've landed on it on his way down. Even though he must've passed out, Makoto felt tired. He began to close his eyes when he heard Viva scream.
Despite the situation, Makoto managed to work his way to standing up. He braced himself for the pain, and started walking, well wobbling would be a better word, towards where he heard Viva. When he entered the other classroom he saw Viva backing away from one of the creatures. "Viva!" Makoto shouted. Viva and the creature turned towards him.
Makoto looked the creature dead in the eye, which was admittedly a terrifying thing to do. "How about you pick on me big guy?" Makoto boldly stated. The creature let out its low growl and charged at him. Makoto raised his hands. He didn't know quite what he was thinking. He knew he couldn't exactly fight the thing, but he didn't want Viva to get hurt. As soon as the creature was about to hit him, there was a loud crash as a chair smashed down in the creatures head. As the chair was made of metal, the creature fell immediately. Viva was standing behind it, holding said chair.
"What was that Makoto!? Did you really think you could just punch that thing?" Viva feverishly stated. Makoto smiled.
"Hey, we're fine aren't we?" He shot back. He would have said more but he fell to his knee. "Hahaha...guess my legs a bit worse than I thought."
Viva simply sighed. "Yeah it is." She began to help him up. "Come on, let's leave before that thing wakes up. I found a way out just over here, before that thing came in."
Together, they walked out of the classroom into the dank hallway. Judging by a sign that they saw, they were on the first floor. The hallway was surprisingly barren, aside from the rubble that piled up near some holes in the floor. "Well this is gonna be a bit tricky." Viva said.
"We'll make it out though...I know it." Makoto said, though he wished he felt as confident as his words made him out to be. He figured eventually Goda would find them, but considering he couldn't see where the man's cameras were, for all he knew they weren't even anywhere where he could get them. They continued for quite a while before eventually coming to the entrance of the school. "Look, it's the entrance."
They stopped dead in their tracks when they saw the scene laid out before them. There were the normal shoe lockers near the entrance, but shoes were all lain out on the floor in perfect arrangements. A cold shudder went down Makoto's spine. "Well...that isn't a great sign."
"Heheh, maybe it isn't so bad. Let's just focus on finding a way out." Viva said. She braced Makoto against some of the lockers and walked towards the door. She attempted to open it, but she met the same result as the window. She attempted to press her face against the glass to see if she could see outside. It was like trying to look through a solid black wall, she could vaguely make out that there was something outside, but couldn't tell what it was. "Guess this is a no as well."
Makoto looked over toward her. "Guess we're stuck here then. Hmm?" He stopped halfway through his thought as he noticed something out of the corner of his eye. He saw what appeared to be a corpse that had been eaten. Funnily enough, it was missing its head. More importantly, there was a note left next to the body. "Hey Viva, I'm gonna go over here for a second!" He shouted towards Viva, even though she was barely 50 feet away.
"Alright, just holler if you see something." She said back. Makoto got himself up and walked over to the body. He picked up the note, which appeared stained with wet spots, that based on what he read would be tear marks.
Victim's Memoirs #3 (1/5)
I'm horrible...I'm a horrible person. I can't believe what I did. Me and my friend...we'be been stuck in here for so long, I can't even count how many days, since there's no day or night. We were so hungry...we decided it on a game of Rock-paper-scissors. Winner eats loser. We figured that if at least one of us lived, the other would be able to explain what happened. I won...my god...I started, and before I knew it I was feasting on him like he was a buffet. I couldn't help it, I was starving, and he tasted so good...I figured I should write this down, so anybody that finds this knows what I did. And how sorry I am to have done it.
"My god..." Makoto muttered to himself. The last thing he was expecting was to find something like that here, and it said it was #3...meaning there's obviously a 1 and 2. He put the note away in his pocket, because he didn't want Viva to see it. Viva was walking over towards him when he finished.
"Find anything?" He casually asked her. She responded in the negative, which he could tell hurt her. She was always one of the more optimistic of his friends.
"It seems like we're stuck. Plain and simple as that." Viva said, sighing. "I'm sorry Makoto, I got your hopes up for nothing."
Makoto smiled. "Hey, look on the bright side. Theres more places we could check, plus you're the one that's gotten us this far."
Viva smiled at her friend's reassuring comment. "Thanks." Makoto nodded and with Viva helping him again, they continued on.
