Chapter 9: Second Game

"You abandoned the Red Ranger."

When those words slipped out of her mouth, Daniel froze.

She really thought that? She really thought he broke the code? He had to admit, he screwed up, badly. But how could she think that he broke the code? Then again, he kinda did.

Red Ranger stands for being there for each other, for example, if one of them ever used that code. The other would be there immediately, so Justine saying that Daniel abandoned the Red Ranger, meant he abandoned her.

"It doesn't matter, just play the game, and as always..." She threw her lollipop in the trashcan and put on her mask. "WIN OR LOSE! MAKE YOUR CHOICE!"

She disappeared from the screen.

"Come on, might as well get it over with." Daniel mumbled, he really didn't know what to think now, she really thought he didn't care?

Candy went first, then Sam, and lastly Daniel. Sam was the acrobatic one in the group, so putting her in the middle was a good idea, if one of them fell. She could help them up. Daniel knew how to keep his balance though, he visited Sam's classes sometimes. Candy, however, was wearing high heels.

They carefully stepped on the rope, spreading their arms wide to keep their balance. Candy stumbled a bit, but she recovered quickly, it all went okay, until they reached the middle.

Candy suddenly felt sick, like she was about to throw up. When she looked down, she knew why.

She could see the spikes clearly now...she could see James' body too. The smell of the blood was the thing that made her sick in the first place, but now, seeing the body of her boyfriend. She couldn't take it.

Candy screamed and lost her balance, Sam acted quickly, before Candy could fall all the way down, she had grabbed her hand and clasped it around the rope. Her brother's hand at her waist to steady her, it wouldn't really help if Sam fell too.

Now that Candy could focus again, she pulled her other hand up and held the rope now with both hands. "Don't let me fall!"

She really should have took off her heels.

The Hunter Twins didn't know what to do, until the 'Bad Boy' (read: Genius.) Got a idea.

"Candy, pull yourself to the other end! Sam, keep walking."

Both of them decided to listen for once, but a few minutes later, Candy couldn't hold on much longer.

Sam, deciding to take the risk, let herself drop.

...And wrapped her legs tightly around the rope.

The rope bounced up and down, and Daniel almost fell, but his sister quickly grabbed both of his feet to steady him. Once that was done, she turned her attention back to Candy, who was staring at her wide eyed.

"Are you crazy? You could have fell and ended up like...like..." She couldn't say it, it was already bad enough that she lost him, now her best friend too? She couldn't handle it.

Sam rolled her eyes, she's been on every sport were you need to be flexible, like turning, cheerleading etc. Ever since she was five. "Just shut up and grab my hand! The blood is flowing to my head, it's not very comfortable to hang upside down you know!" The sass was real.

With shaky hands, Candy let one of her hands drop from the rope, screaming when the balance turned uneven. She needed to be quick. Sam quickly grabbed her hand, they were close to the end now, and if she could do this just right...

"Do you trust me?"

Daniel quickly caught on to what his twin was implying. "Samantha don't!" She winced at her full name, he only did that when he was angry or dead serious, she didn't see why he would be angry. So he's probably mad, and when all of this was over, she would never hear the end of it. But right now, she didn't care, her friend was going to fall if she did nothing. And besides, she was still hanging upside down.

Ignoring her brother, Sam held out her other hand and Candy's eyes widened. What was she doing? "Let go of the rope C, you won't fall, promise." If she did this right at least.

Candy let go of the rope completely and screamed when one of Sam's legs let go of the rope. Sam's heart was beating faster than ever, and before Daniel could help, she had wrapped her leg back on the rope. Her brother was starting to think that Justine wasn't the only one who lost her sanity.

"Okay, once I let go, you need to grab on quickly or else you'll die, got it?"

Candy frowned, "Sam what are you-" She screamed everyone's ears off as Sam closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and let go of Candy. Throwing her to the other end.

Candy was praying the whole time, hoping she wouldn't miss and fall to her dead. And luckily, she didn't, but the twins needed to be fast or else she would. She had managed to grab the wall, but her grip wasn't good enough to pull herself up, so now she was hanging off the wall, her sweaty fingers slipping.

Daniel and Sam needed to act fast, now. "Need help?" Daniel asked his sister, she smirked and shook her head. "Nah, I got it." She tightened her legs around the rope and pulled herself up, grabbing the rope with her hands, so she kinda looked like a baby koala clinging onto its mother. Sam let her legs drop, so she was only hanging on the rope with her hands, and made her way to the end.

Daniel shook his head as he watched his sister, looks like all those different sports did pay off. Both of the Hunter Twins made it to the end and helped their friend up.

Justine smiled, pride in her eyes as she watched them. She had to be honest, she didn't expect Samantha to go that far to help Candace, but then again, the girl always was unpredictable. She was actually surprised that Candace made it this far, sure, the twins helped. But still, Justine actually wanted her to be the first to die in her game.

Candace couldn't be the first to die anymore, James took her place. But she would die in this game.

Justine would make sure of it.