Disclaimer: Don't own BTR
AN: The guesses for the killer are making me laugh really hard. Not cause their funny, but because a few people are getting close to figuring it out.
Kendall's next trial is here and he will see his dad soon and its not gonna be pretty.
Chapter 10- Kendall: The Butterfly Trial
Kendall had made it to the next location for the trial, having arrived at some power plant of sort. He had heard that this place was abandoned and no one would be around here ever again. Looks like Kendall would be proving people wrong about that.
This place is diffidently still working if the machines are all buzzing, and that was bad for him. Kendall had noticed that on the wall outside was a butterfly.
Laughing, he walked to it and climbed over the wall, Kendall was an excellent climber and jumper, having learned how to do stuff like this due to having Carlos as a friend, so this was not hard to break in at all. He would've jumped, but his ribs were broken, so he wasn't going to break them more.
'Last thing I need is to make things worse and I pierce a lung,' he thought to himself. The entire walk here was painful for him, feeling his ribs about to crack every time he moved his chest up and down. But, he kept going because of the one thought that has been crossing his mind since he opened that damn box.
'Succeed and I'll find Katie.' He repeated over and over again in his head to give himself confidence. He had one trial complete and was gonna do his best to try and find her by completing the rest, no matter what happened to him.
He landed on the other side and saw another butterfly on a crate there, so he placed the butterflies there for him to follow, Kendall thought to himself. He could've just told him where to go instead of making everything complicated. But, Kendall figured that that was how killer's minds worked.
Make things as complicated as possible to fuck with your target.
As Kendall looked around to follow the butterfly, he couldn't get the image of the broken look of Frankie out of his head. Logan had said that Frankie was the older brother of the last victim of the killer, so in a way, he and Frankie were bound in the killer's little web. Or, since the killer is an artist, they both were drawings in the killer's sketchbook. Looking at him was in a way looking at a possible future for him. If he acted like he did now, which was almost as bad as Frankie and Katie was still alive.
He didn't want to imagine what was gonna happen to everyone if he lost Katie forever.
Something else about him though caught Kendall's eye, the bandages on his arms. His right arm and his left arm were covered in bandages as well as his left hand. Now, Kendall was no investigator, but if Frankie was the older brother of one of the victims and he was the older brother of the current one…
Then something was gonna happen to him that was gonna force Kendall to wear bandages.
Well, if Kendall is being forced to do these trials, he assumes Frankie has been forced too as well. But, if he did go through them why wasn't he saying anything to Kendall? Why wasn't he warning the guy about what can happen to him and what is in store for him? Maybe Frankie wanted Kendall to know what it was like to lose a sister, but it didn't make sense because he is helping them try and find Katie and stop the killer.
Kendall saw that he needed to go through a fence, so he did. After that was another, but when he passed this one he cut his finger. He winced in pain as he followed the path to the door down the grassy path and walked in the power station from the back door.
Kendall was now starting to get worried on what this trial could be. Fix the power? Clean out the place? Scale the roof? The possibilities were endless in Kendall's mind. If Logan were here, he could probably figure something out.
Speaking of Logan, Kendall still couldn't figure out why he was acting really weird lately. When Logan found him after the whole Bear Trial, he heard Logan's mutters about how he can't leave them and how he needs to fight it. Fight what? Death? Sure, while the whole thing was painful as hell and Kendall now had a slight fear of cars, the injuries weren't life threatening and he expected Logan to know that. If Kendall can figure it out and he wasn't even at least familiar with the medical field, Logan should've been able to see that his injuries weren't too serious.
He would figure this out later but now he wanted to get this trial over with and the best way to do that was to actually do it.
Kendall saw that there was a valve on the wall. Seeing no where else to go, he turned the valve easily as he was strong for his age, understatement if he might add, and opened the valve.
Kendall saw matches on the edge, so he picked them up and lit one to make it easier for him to see. Unfortunately, he couldn't see a damn thing past a certain amount of feet. Tossing the match on the floor after he put it out, Kendall had done the only thing he could do, but also the dumbest thing…
Crawled in the tunnel
He started to army crawl and sighed, if there is a zombie waiting for him somewhere in here, he was going to fucking kill someone. It was just too quiet, creepy quiet. The kind of quiet in those horror movies where you know something is gonna happen and you just wait for something to happen.
Kendall had crawled a certain amount of feet, past the limit that he was able to see and jumped back at such blinding/fast speeds that if anyone saw it and didn't know what was going on, they would laugh their ass off from what had just happened.
Why did he jump back? Kendall just got impaled by glass.
He lit another match and saw that there was ENDLESS glass in the tunnel. Pushing those things out of the way wasn't an option and going back was impossible as the entrance closed on him when he started to crawl through the tunnel in the first place.
So that was the trial, crawl on broken glass as sharp as a razor huh? The Painter Killer was one screwed up bastard. Once Kendall found the guy, he was gonna make him suffer real nicely before he finally killed him. Yep, no prison, just a bullet in the head.
Kendall gulped and started to crawl through the glass.
It hurts…a lot. Kendall couldn't even begin to think or describe the pain he was feeling as he continued to crawl through the tunnel. Only one thing was on his mind, his sister was in danger and he needed to save her. No other thoughts came to him or even formed in his head.
Kendall crawled up until a fork in the road…or tunnel and saw that there was 2 ways to go. He wasn't stupid, he knew one of them HAD to be a dead end and if he picked the wrong one, he would have to crawl longer then necessary.
Kendall felt a slight breeze as he pulled the matches out and lit one up and saw that the wind was pushing the flame a certain direction.
Kendall grinned as he followed the direction of the wind and came across another fork in the road.
'Great,' Kendall thought sarcastically as he pulled out another match and kept following the wind.
His arms and legs by now had to be looking like shit. Kendall had been crawling for 10 minutes now and he still couldn't find the exit. He didn't even think he was going to live pass this trial, but he had to keep going…for Katie.
Kendall came across one more turn and saw a light, LIGHT! He finally made it out and he fell to the ground in a thump. Kendall groaned in so much pain that he would rather go through THAT torture of the Bear Trial again then to go through more glass again.
He had seen that there was a pipe and he went through it. It felt like a slide but couldn't really be called one. Why? Because he fell into more glass, ha ha, this was not funny Kendall thought over and over again. This was the tenth circle of hell in his opinion.
He looked down and saw a field of electric condensers,
'Great,' he thought sarcastically for maybe the tenth time since he had come here.
He jumped down and fell on his knees. Kendall examined my arms and saw the multiple gashes and cuts that were there and he knew that his legs were just as bad.
Kendall looked to the left and saw a door. He could leave and live. But, on the other side of this was the next microchip. So he had a choice here, his life or his sister's.
Now most people would just say 'Oh well, let her die. I can get another sister!' but not Kendall, no. Katie was probably the most important person in the world to Kendall and he wasn't going to give up just because he was gonna get a little hurt. So, he took a deep breath and marched forward for part two.
Kendall had started to go through the field of electric condensers, being careful to not to touch the wires as these things will FRY him if he comes in any kind of direct contact
He made it pass one and started to feel hot; the constant electricity going by was blazing with heat. He tried to go through the second one, but the blood loss weakened him and he slipped a little…the middle of his chest getting burned…bad.
"AHHHHHH!" Kendall screamed as he made it through, but most of the skin on his chest didn't. Kendall hissed and clutched his chest as he crawled under the third one and accidently stood up early, burning his foot and ankle.
Kendall stopped from screaming and carefully made it through the fourth one, this time NOT getting burned, lucky him.
Only one more, but the blood loss, the heat and the burnt marks were getting to him and he needed to move fast before he collapsed.
Kendall jumped through the middle of the condenser as there was space there and fell on his face because of my ankle and all the other injuries he had received.
Kendall limped on one foot and used the table as a leaning post and inserted the microchip, Katie appearing again. Kendall could barely make out the cuts and marks that were now on her face. It made his skin crawl and his stomach turn, his sister was getting hurt and there wasn't anything Kendall could do at the moment to stop it. But, something, or rather someone, else came on the screen. The figure had a set of tools in his hand and used his free one to hold Katie down while it used the tools, Kendall knowing it was the killer.
Seeing this sick bastard touch his sister made him angry, he would've been yelling at the top of his lungs had he had any more strength left to move. He saw the killer's dark clothes and knew that the killer was hiding his image so that Kendall couldn't see who he really was.
As the image faded, more letters came up, this time a 5, T, O and R. Kendall smiled and tried to walk, but fell, the cuts starting to burn even more then they already were.
Kendall's legs were weak and he was still losing blood really fast, multiple holes and cuts now in his arms and legs as well as burnt marks on his body in various places.
If Frankie did this too, then he respected him by still being able to move normally. At least Kendall now had an idea on why he was wearing bandages on his arms now. The results from this trial, Kendall would have to ask him where he got his stuff from as he now desperately was gonna need some.
Kendall limped out from the back entrance, heading back to the Palm Woods, hurrying so he didn't fall unconscious in the middle of the street. He was lucky he was close by like with the Bear Trial because as soon as his feet came in contact with the lobby floor, he fell over unconscious, but had a smile on his face.
Why?
Because now he was almost halfway there.
End of Chapter 10 of Big Time Brotherly Love
Kendall got his ass kicked here.
I now know what the pairings are so no more votes.
But you can still guess on who the killer is.
Next Time: Jo: Nurse Josephine Taylor and Jackass Stetson