Chronicles of the Carnival Dream: Chapter 9: It's a trap…
Knight and Nick had to use all their strength to drag Cooper out of the pool. Both of them had vomited at least once while doing this. "Where the hell is everyone?" Knight shouted out, the deck was literally empty and he couldn't phantom why. Where was the crew? Where was Jacob?
Knight was having a secret drink with Nick that Austin had provided, he was freaking out about his dreams and he also became depressed when he heard about Kelsey's date. At first he tried to convince his friends that his dreams were a warning but after Ethan had nearly punched him for it he decided to just try and ignore it. They were just dreams after all. But thankfully Nick was a good listener. So even after the almost incident with Ethan and even after Knight found out about Kelsey and Cooper, Knight had someone to vent with.
The plan Knight had constructed was to go to the gala tonight but Knight's parents had dropped the baby on him once again and Knight once again was trapped in his room. While he was there he had time to think about what his dreams meant. Unfortunately he made zero progress on that. When his parents finally got back he went out to find anyone who wasn't still partying at the gala but most people still were. Knight strolled around the ship and when he had reached the tenth level he heard a familiar voice.
These voices didn't stand out because they were friendly ones; Knight recognized one from his dreams. It was the same thick English accent that the hooded man spoke with right before he killed Knight in his sleep. But where was it coming from? Knight stood as still as possible he didn't even breathe, he heard the voice speaking softly somewhere in the distance.
"I see you…I see you," it was a hushed whisper that was nearly lost to Knight every time he took a step.
A bead of sweat Knight found falling from his forehead, "Where are you?" he asked softly.
The voice sounded louder as Knight got closer to the front of the ship, "I won't forget this ever." Knight realized that the reason why this voice was so hard to pick up was because the wind was distorting the sound on this level of the ship. Somewhere secret the owner of the voice was on this deck. Watching him or watching someone.
"Knight?" Knight nearly jumped when heard Nick's voice come from behind him. He spun around and found Nick with a tall raven haired girl on his arm and next to them Jacob who was looking a little sick. "You alright man?"
His heart was pounding in his chest, he was not alright, "I'm great. Just kinda…" he couldn't think of an excuse.
"It's 'cause of Kelsey and Cooper right?" Jacob said, "We just saw them totally making out," Jacob grinned like it was something funny that Knight wanted to hear.
Looking down Knight sighed, "Yeah thanks buddy that's it."
Nick was shaking his head at Jacob, "Come on Knight. Austin got us some drinks let's go have fun." The tall girl on Nick's arm gave a little squeal, she was hot but Knight already didn't like her.
"Yeah let's go celebrate someplace else," Jacob was looking past Knight and he looked really nervous. When Knight turned to see what he was looking at he saw Lauren and she was looking just as bad as Jacob. When Knight turned back to look at Jacob, Jacob was already walking towards the elevator, "Let's go to the song!" What the fuck's up with those two?
When the crew of four got to the Song Kelsey was sitting on one of the couches looking like she was waiting for someone, "Oh hey guys what's up?" Before she could see him Knight ducked around the door outside of the club.
Nick stopped and stared at Knight like he was thinking, "What the fuck are you doing."
Knight gave him a look like, "What do you think?"
Nick's date went on to say, "Hey Kelsey how was your date?" as she walked in and sat next to her.
Nick looked back at Knight and shrugged, I think he got the message. Nick continued with, "You know what I forgot something on the tenth deck I got to grab it real quick."
Kelsey said, "Ok. Me and Payton will just wait for Lauren and you here then."
Jacob squeaked for a second, "Lauren is coming?" Kelsey nodded her head and Jacob turned around and sped off upstairs.
Looking back and forth at where Jacob had just been to where he had went Nick said quietly, "I'll be right back." Knight stealthily followed behind him. They took sips of the drinks they had on the way upstairs, "Look dude she's just a girl and you're gonna have to grow some balls pretty soon and just accept the choice she made. And plus we're all cool and even Cooper's cool with you to you don't want to ruin that."
"I know dude, it still hella sucks though."
"Hey man just relax you got at least one more night to get laid," Nick laughed, "Let's go get you drunk and go hunt for some desperate chicks."
Knight threw back his head and laughed, "Shit man. What about that tall girl? You hit that?"
Nick raised an eyebrow, "Hey man, me and her is me and her." Knight was disappointed for a second, "Just kidding man hell yeah I am." The duo laughed a lot until they opened the door to the tenth deck.
What they saw was Jacob standing over the pool, looking at the floating dead body of their friend Cooper. Jacob turned his head to look at them, "The hooded man, the tall guy. He—he took Lauren." The look on Jacob's face was absolute horror, his voice was the least confident that Knight had ever heard him. With shaky breaths Jacob went on, "I have to go get her."
Nick took a step forward and tried to put a hand on Jacob's shoulder, his voice was just as shaky, "Listen brother—"
Jacob screamed at them two, "No! I have to go get her!" And Jacob ran into the doors on the other side of the deck without another word. What terrified Knight the most about that was the hallway at the other end of the ship was pitch black. Not a single light.
Nick jumped into the water and scrambled after Cooper's body, "Knight we have to get him out."
Knight wasn't listening, what the fuck is going on? Where are all the crew members? Why is the power out on that side? The real trouble that Knight couldn't stop thinking about was that his dream was real, he could have stopped this but e was too busy thinking about a girl and now his friend was dead. He felt his body shaking, everything felt cold.
"Knight," Knight looked down at Nick in the pool, "we have to get him out of here!"
What was Nick talking about? "Nick, we have to get help, we have to go stop Jacob he's running into a trap or something."
"Knight if we leave him here he'll drown." Knight Jumped into the water and tried to grab Nick.
"Nick he's dead," Knight suddenly felt himself break with tears and a sobbing voice; "he's gone this isn't helping."
Nick pushed Knight away and grabbed at Cooper again, "No! He can't be—" Nick turned around and puked, Knight did the same. "We can't just leave him in here." Nick was now sobbing as well. Knight took a hold of Cooper's body and together he and Nick pulled Cooper out of the pool.
Knight and Nick sat next to Cooper's body and Knight put a hand on Nick's shoulder, "We need to go get somebody."
Nick shook his head, "I can't leave him here man. It ain't right."
"Then wait here, I'll be back soon." Knight said a silent prayer to god and walked downstairs at first looking for a crew member to tell about the horrible image. But as he walked downstairs he found himself walking towards the Song lounge, he wasn't sure why.
Kelsey ran up towards him, "Knight did you see them?"
Knight looked at her, "See what?"
"All the crew members they were all running somewhere towards the gala." She paused a moment and scanned him up and down, "Why are you wet? Where are Nick and Jacob?"
Knight fell to his knees and he felt tears water his eyes, "I have to tell you something," he said.
Ethan looked out the thick glass door and watched all the crew members running towards the lower back of the ship. "Everyone please remain calm and try to enjoy the rest of this evening. We are having a slight fire hazard issue on a lower deck it's nothing to be worried about." Yeah that's why you locked us in here and the entire crew is running down there.
Ethan had let Madison rejoin her family when things got crazy, and decided to go and check up on Austin and his date. Last he saw them they had walked into the bathroom. There is no way in hell. Ethan walked into the bathroom and saw a stream of blood, Lilly was nowhere to be seen but Austin was sitting in a pull of blood at the end of the bathroom with a knife in his belly.