Until Dawn: An Adventure
AN- Hi everyone, back again for another chapter, once again I don't own any of the characters other than Kitty and my friend owns Kevin but I use him with Permission. Please enjoy this chapter and if you like it please review: NO flames please, they'll just be used to cook my dinner.
Also please note I don't condone any man hitting a woman, or vice versa but I must write it out if the story indicates stuff like that happens, and if it is the only way to work it out in the story.
Chapter Four: Loyalty/Malevolence
A while later Chris and Kevin groaned as they started to get up, both holding their heads in pain from the punch the masked man had given them. They both stood up and glanced around once Chris picked up the flashlight.
"Ungh... Ugh... What the fu-..." Chris groaned as they stood up.
"Oh no... Kitty, Ashley!" Kevin shouted, hoping they would answer if so.
"Ash!" Chris first shouted as he started to look around. "Kitty!" he then shouted too, not just concerned about Ashley.
"Kitty!" Kevin shouted as Chris shouted for Ashley, before calling for Ashley too.
As they looked around Chris noticed something on the ground with blood splatters around. "Not good... not good at all..." he muttered. He then looked at Kevin. "I think you should go and keep Sam guarded" he suggested to the other guy. "I'll look for Ash and Kitty" he then told the guy.
"Um... Okay, be careful buddy" Kevin replied to Chris and then headed off to go and guard the bathroom door.
Chris then continued on with the search for the girls. "...Okay" he muttered as he reached a door and opened it. Seconds after he did a crow cawed loudly and flew off scaring him. "What the f..." he trailed off as his flashlight went over a bloodstain on the wall. "Oh no..." he groaned, worried after all it could be one of the girls'.
He continued on heading outside and quickly going down some steps. He then followed the trail of bloodstains and drag marks until he reached a fork in the road. Following the left turn, as it had blood further up it, he walked forwards but was scared by a scarecrow with a clown mask on it.
"WHOA! What in the hell?" he exclaimed in fear. He then examined the figure. "Who would do this?" he mutters.
Chris then moved forwards, continuing on, noticing a pig's head but not daring to go to close to it. He walked until he reached a shed, and then took a calming breath before walking in. When he got in he heard quiet sobbing from Ashley and then a soft muffled groan from who he could only assume was Kitty.
As he went deeper into the shed a cage fell from the roof and scared him. "HEY! GOD DAMMIT!" he exclaimed half angry half fearful.
"...Chris..?" Ashley asked quietly, sounding scared but with a smidgeon of hope.
Chris continued to follow her voice. "Ash I'm here!" he shouted. "Where are you?" he then added.
"I-I don't know..." Ashley sobbed.
"Are you ok?! What the hell happened?!" he shouted back, moving towards her voice again.
"Please... help us!" Ashley replied.
"Okay, just calm down Ash!" Chris tried to soothe her.
"Hurry, please! Oh god, Chris! You have to get us out of here before he comes back!" Ashley shouted, she then flinched and had to close her eyes from the sudden light coming on.
When Chris arrived at a part that was fenced off so he couldn't get to it he noticed that Ashley and Josh were tied up and hanging in chains on the wall across from him. He also noticed Kitty was tied up and gagged, her glasses back on her face, but with a big bruise under her eye.
She was also tied up to the metal link fence, but where she could see two pictures and a lever.
"Unnghh... Chris...? Are you there?" Ashley asked out loud again.
Just as Chris was about to answer, while he moved forwards to try and help Kitty, before he had to stop.
Kitty let out a muffled yelp as something seemed to fire at her but miss, at least this time.
"Hello" came the voice of what they could only assume was a Psycho. "I wouldn't suggest trying to free the test studying subject or they may end up with a couple of piercings they didn't expect" the Psycho started. His voice was played not too far from Kitty so she heard everything he said.
"Thank you all for joining me though, tonight we're going to conduct a little experiment. A sort of test" The Psycho's voice stated, as Chris did try to open the door, not wanting to risk getting Kitty hurt. "Now for this experiment, we'll need the cooperation of our two test subjects... Joshua and Ashley..." he continued.
Kitty whimpered and struggled a little as she wanted to get free and help Josh and Ashley.
"But we're going to need one more brave participant to help decide... which subject will live, and which will die" the Psycho said. "And our sweet little Kitten to watch the choice and to remember who was chosen to be saved" he continued.
"OH NO! MY GOD, OH MY GOD, OH GOD, CHRIS! GET US OUT OF HERE!" Ashley screamed in terror.
"NO! YOU CAN'T DO THIS! LET ME DOWN FROM HERE YOU MANIAC!" Josh exclaimed. He looked over to where he could see Kitty though and mouthed that he loved her.
"Please. Please please, everyone calm down. It's all very simple. Christopher, you will find a lever placed directly in front of you. All you have to do... is choose who you will save!" the Psycho started off soothing before he informed Chris.
After saying this a motor was heard starting up and a circular saw started to spin, obviously the choice of current weapon for the Psycho, before it slowly started to move forwards.
Josh and Ashley begged Chris to not let them die.
Chris seemed to agonize over the choice but in the end chose to save Ashley, pointing the lever in the direction of Ashley's picture before Kitty's horrified eyes.
"Ah... I see. You have chosen... to save Ashley" the Psycho's voice said, both with finality and strangely slight gentleness.
Kitty struggled harder to try and get free, not wanting Josh to be killed. She screamed in worry as she heard Josh and Ashley screaming too and then once Josh went silent she just hung there sobbing.
Chris went and saved Ashley first, and then went and did the same to Kitty. "C-Come on..." he said, trying hard not to cry himself. He led both girls out, having to practically pull Kitty along, as the girl struggled to break free and go to Josh's body.
Ashley, who was still terrified and horrified though, helped Chris pull Kitty away from the horrible scene. She stumbled a little but kept on helping.
Matt and Emily were seen, walking back to the lodge, although the lodge was behind them, and when they were noticed the two ran up to the three.
"Chris! Ashley! Kitty!" Matt exclaimed, in shock at seeing them all stumbling and crying from the shed.
"Blood! Blood! Whose blood is that, Ash?" Emily asked, sounding freaked out but worried for Ashley.
"Are you okay?" Matt then asked.
Kitty fell to her knees, tearing the gag off her own face and started to weep into her hands.
Ashley fell to her knees with her, as she hugged the girl while sobbing herself.
"Chris, what happened?" Emily asked as she could see that Ashley and Kitty weren't up for answering right then.
"J- Josh..." Chris stuttered through his tears.
"Josh what, dude?" Matt prompted, gently but also firmly as they needed to know what was going on.
"He's dead!" Kitty exclaimed through sobbing.
"Wait, what?" Matt asked, sounding both shocked and slightly unbelieving.
"Right in front of us, man-" Chris started.
"What are you talking about?!" Emily exclaimed, looking scared at the trio.
"T-There's a maniac..." Chris told them.
"Maniac?" Matt asked.
"Oh my god. We gotta get outta here." Emily said worriedly.
"I don't understand what happened-" the guy said, frowning as he tried to understand what they were saying.
"There's a maniac! And... he was- there was a saw... and it was either him or Ash and I didn't know what to do!" Chris exclaimed.
"Oh god..." Ashley cried.
Chris wiped his eyes and almost retched. "Cut right through him and-" he started to say but couldn't continue.
"WHAT!? OH my god Chris what!?" Emily exclaimed, taking a step away from him in horror.
"I-I killed him!... I-I killed him..." the guy in question sobbed.
"Whoa, Chris-" Matt muttered, looking wide-eyed at Chris.
Ashley pulled Kitty closer, who had tried to break free to go back. "No! Kitty!" she cried.
"It was my FAULT, Matt-" he said, horrified with the fact he had to choose and believing he had murdered his best friend.
Emily stepped away a little bit more. "No. No, this is insane. We need to go get some help." she said, trying to be the calmer one there though she was terrified.
Kitty struggled against Ashley but then settled back into not being able to move.
"We're gonna figure this out, guys" Matt tried to soothe.
"I don't know, I don't know, I don't know..." Chris sobbed.
"Matt, we need to go get help now," Emily said firmly, as she looked up at her boyfriend.
"Chris, she's right. Who knows who'll be next, alright? We just gotta go." Matt said, agreeing with his girlfriend but trying to keep the peace too.
"Yeah-yeah. It's the only sane thing to do. We'll go get help-" Emily started to say.
"No, you just want to save yourself," Chris stated, pointing accusingly at her.
"No, I just don't want to make hasty decisions that get everyone killed." Emily protested, a little worried about something, though. "You can get everyone else together... and I'll go get help. With Matt, right?" she suggested then asked her boyfriend.
"Umm... Okay." Matt agreed with her.
Chris and Ashley, who now managed to stop crying, stood up and helped Kitty up not risking letting her go back to the shed in case the Psycho was there, headed back to the lodge while Emily and Matt went to go get help.
Another AN- I skipped out the worst part as I didn't want to have to change the fic to M unless it's needed to be changed later, either way would anyone like me to do the gorier scenes in a one-shot, rated M of course?
