Chapter 10: Finally!
"Get off!"
"You know what you have to do first! THWACK!"
"Ow! Mercy! Mercy!"
"There is no mercy for the wicked!"
"All I said was-"
"Don't even start!"
"Okay! Okay! I take it back!"
Katie got off of me and threw the stick away. I sat up groggily, rubbed the large bumps on my head and shot her a dark look.
"You didn't have to hit so hard!" I whined.
"You didn't have to make me so angry," she said simply.
"XP! Butthole!" I yelled. She laughed and pointed at me while I turned away and sulked.
I looked around me and rested my eyes on the statues at the gate. I stood up and slipped the compasses out of my pocket with a big smile on my face.
"Welp, this is it! The sooner we do this the sooner we can get the hell out of here!"
"Psycho watch your language!" Thud.
"Ow!" I grumbled as I placed the stones in their proper order. They glowed bright yellow and quickly slipped underground... Along with every other stone and gate there.
"This can't be good... Nice job Psy."
"You got a better idea?" Katie kept quiet and turned her attention to where the stones were.
"Was this supposed to-"
"No. And that's what worries me."
Alyssa paced back and forth nervously, chewing on her lower lip while Zoe merely yelled at the doctor for not being able to get a closeup on the conversation.
"I'm sorry but the camera-"
"-Don't give excuses! Give me Results!"
"Oh I'm sorry. Do you want to be the evil genius?"
"Believe it or not, I could do a better job than you."
"I'd like to see you try!"
Blah Blah Blah... That's all I hear... I hope Mistress and Miss Psycho are okay. I sense something... bad coming...
"No you idiot! Don't!"
My head shot up at the sound of an explosion.
SHE BLEW UP THE MONITOR!
"ZOE! LOOK AT WHAT YOU DID! NOW WE'VE LOST TOUCH WITH PSYCHO AND KATIE!" Alyssa shrieked.
"Mistress!"
"Hey... What's that?" Katie asked. I looked up at the sky. It was cracking slowly, like it was made of glass.
"THE SKY IS FALLING! THE SKY IS FALLING! IT'S THE APOCALYPSE! WHY NOW? I NEVER GOT TO GO TO HARVARD! IT'S THE FRIGGIN' APOCALYPSE!"
"Calm down," I grabbed her by the hair when she was running by, "the world isn't ending. If it was ending, zombies would come out from under the ground and tear human kind limb from limb, like in the movies. Duh!"
"Hm... (blinks for a little and crickets chirp for about 2 minutes)"
"Katie?"
"IT'S THE FRIGGIN' APOCALYPSE!"
"(sweatdrop) Fine it's the Apocalypse-" (A large piece of the shattering sky falls and shatters in between the two of them)
Both:... IT'S THE APOCALYPSE! RUN!
Katie: RUN!
Psycho: RUN FOR YOUR LIVESES!
Katie: AAAAAAH... How come we're not dead?
I looked back up and in the blink of an eye, it all fell at once.
"Aaah!" we screamed and covered our heads with our arms. Who thought it would end like this, huh?
(It falls from the sky, the part of the first pice that fell just going over them harmlessly)
"Well that was another ripoff," Katie said, putting stress on "another".
"Better than havin' our heads cut off."
"Is it though?"
"What are you talking-" Katie waved her hand in front of my face to cut me off.
"I know that you value life so dearly..."
"I'm only human."
"Feline."
"Whatever. Continue."
"Thank you. But what does it mean? If we missed our oppurtunity to die now, what if we just suffer more on the way, as we go further?"
"Uhh... Better than having our heads cut off!" I said in a tone that said 'Yes, yes, hurry up I'm bored!'
"But what if we simply are killed brutaller?"
"More brutally."
"What?"
"'Brutaller' is the incorrect usage of an increased value of the word 'brutal'. Instead, you should add 'more' to the front, making it 'more brutal'."
"Oh grammar's not important in a life defining speech!"
"It's always important! Especially in speeches! Ya' see what's happenin' to Bush? He can't master grammer! He can't say 'terror'. He says 'ter'."
"You mispelled grammar."
"You didn't put it in apostrophes!"
"...I knew there was a reason I never listened to you."
"I'm in English 1 for a reason," I said proudly, crossing my arms over my chest and turning away. Katie stuck her tongue out at me and kicked me in the leg.
"So, where do we go from here?" Katie asked. I rubbed the bruise on my leg and looked at the large yellow sigil that was slowly forming in midair.
"There," I said, pointing to it. Katie turned and looked, puzzled. Oh right, I forgot, I'm the only one who can see sigils.
"Um, wait here, I'll be back."
A red haired boy slowly came out of the shadow of the rooder crypt he was hiding in when he saw the portal forming. He drew the shadow daggers and waited for whoever was coming out. He smiled to himself when he saw the familiar purple-furred figure. The girl twirled a lock of her bright yellow hair on her finger and looked around.
"This is it! Just gotta get the arrow and I'm outta here!" she said, "Be back in two seconds Katie!"
That's what you think, the boy thought darkly. Since when had he become like this? He actually felt... Evil or something...
oh well, that didn't matter now. She would get her arrow, but not much fartehr than that.
Yeesh! Sure is dank in here! It was cooler when the centipedes were safely inside the TV away from you! And the windy path looked even smaller from this point of view. God please don't let me fall! I inched my way over the first half and tripped over a stalagmite, losing my favorite bracelet! The one with spikes and Jack Skellington's head hanging off of it!
"Great. And those only come around Halloween too," I muttered angrily. At least I still got the other one! I carefully walked around the one stalagmite sticking up in the middle of the path. Safe! It took me a little while, but I was able to get around.
"That was easy." I skipped into a large chamber in the center and stopped in front of a painting.
It was a grotesque looking thing, a man in a hood was standing over a dead girl's body on an altar. The red paint that looked like blood was suspiciously dark. I slowly stepped up and touched it with my finger. It was still wet... and it didn't smell like paint...
It was blood. Someone had painted this with blood.
I wiped it off on my jeans and looked harder. There were some scribbles underneath it.
'He who desires the dark power of the Entity must take this path, there is no purer way. Carve the heart of a fifteen year old rooder out and before the beat of her heart is stilled, drink deeply of her blood. Thus, the dark power of the entity shall be thine.'
"So that's why those guys are after us... But why us? We can't be real rooders! We only got these weapons because it's part of the game... right?" I asked myself. I'm apparently deperate for conversation if you can't tell.
"The game, or whatever you think it is, is real. You are a rooder, you and your friend. They want your heart, not Alyssa's. You have traded destinies with her."
I whirled around, looking for the source of the voice. There was no one.
Oooh boy... This is gonna end like that movie I saw! Whatever said that is right behind me, ready to use me to become an Entity! I just won't turn around! That's when they do it!
But what the hell. I'm bored.
"Gotcha!" I yelled as soon as I turned around. Hm? No one. For once, I was wrong...
Okay, that incident with the crypt doesn't count as me being wrong. Okay?
"Just keep going. Don't let them have it."
"Whoever's talking, please just come out! You're freakin' me out! and I'm the fearless one!"
"If you're fearless, than I'm Jason Vorhees's twin sister's cousin's great aunt's husband. I'll show myself when the time is right. But I will give you my name. Ashigawa."
Ashigiwa
The name hit like a hammer. She was the Entity Priestess, it said so on the note.
Is she workin' for Burroughs? Is Burroughs workin' for her? I'm confused!
"That surprises me."
"Hey! Cut to the chase here lady, what the hell d'you want?"
"Fine, It was fun tormenting you. I am here to grant you the power of the Rooder."
"But you're an Entity."
"What's your point?"
"You're evil, aren't you? You killed rooders to get your 'divine power', ne?" I said doing the little quotations with my fingers when I said "divine power".
"And who says all Entities are evil?"
"I do lady! And this paintin' does! How did the blood get here! You did it! You just want me to trust you and then you'll turn around and stab me right in the back!"
"...Do you want that artifact or not?"
"Alright lay it on me," I said, holding out my hands. What? Why are you giving me that look? I'm not falling for it! I gots a plan... In case she is deceiving me, of course. If she ain't...
You can find my movies right next to Jason and Freddy.
A bright light blew through the ceiling and crashed in front of me. I shielded my eyes with my arm and backed up, careful not to let my jacket hit the blood on the wall. After the light dimmed down a bit, a golden arrow was sitting in front of me. The some angels or dying seahorses started singing in loud, off key voices.
"Aaaah! What're you tryin' to do? Help me or shatter my eardrums?" I yelled over the screeching, I stopped immeadiatly.
"Ashigawa? Hello? I got the arrow, now say something!" I yelled, "What do I do with this? I have the knives, not the bow!"
She's gone? How should I know, I can't see her.
"Alright, whatever." I jogged out with the arrow in hand. I hope I get out soon, this place is givin' me the creeps!
(The two staues holding scissorblades turn their heads in the direction she was leaving and their eyes flash black for a few seconds.)
Rumble... Rumble...
"Whaaaatt thtthththte heheheck-?" I said when the ground under me started shaking. I don't know what did it, but right behind where I was a few seconds ago, the ground snapped and fell off!
"Oh boy..."
"Oh boy..." I heard her say when the chamber started to rumble. Oh boy is right! I got her right where I want her! I jumped down to land behind her-
-Which was very very stupid of me...
"Waaaaaaah!"
I turned around and saw someone fall behind me.
...Was that "wonder-boy" (Dennis)?
The ground cracked and fell as soon as he landed on it, and two dak purple daggers landed at me feet and disappeared.
"Oooh... pretty... Eep!"
I dove foward, scraping my face slightly, but avoiding falling into an empty abyss. Poor unfortunate bugger...
"Run! You'll die unless you get to the sigil!"
"Don't have to tell me twice!" I yelled while running at top speed towards the exit. I was halfway there when my pant leg caught onto a stalagmite on the ground.
"No! No! No!" I was freaking out, pulling on it like crazy until it finally tore away. I scrambled up and stumbled my way to the sigil. Just in case I didn't make it out, I threw the arrow through the middle and hoped Katie would be smart enough to know how to use it.
I was only about ten feet away!
"I'm gonna make it! I'm gonna make it!" I'm going to get out!
...But... Sometimes things don't go like we hope...
I would've made it out...
But the path collapsed under me before I could reach the end.
Chapter 11: I Walk Alone