AN: Hey guys! SO I WAS JUST READING THROUGH THIS AGAIN AND I THOUGHT WHY THE FUCK NOT AMIRITE. I incorperated a few more ideas from the reviews and wowowowowowow I felt like this was more like it. This is just a spin on what I couldve done back in chapter 7-9 in one chapter ;) Enjoy!
Gamzee turned his attention to the open door. What did he just hear? "DID I JUST HEAR A MOTHERFUCKER scream and I wasn't there to cause it?" He yelled, running out of the classroom into the hallway. It was now empty except for two unturned chairs. "WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU?!" Gamzee screams with rage. "FIRST I MOTHERFUCKING LOSE KARKAT, VRISKA AND TEREZI NOW I FUCKING LOSE FRESH BLOOD!" Gamzee practically explodes with rage, kicking the chair all the way down the corridor, it hitting the wall, falling apart at contact.
A sudden bang startles him. "What the motherfuck?" he whispers to himself trailing his eyes towards the sound. "Where in the holy motherfucking hell is that sound coming from?" He says out loud, eyes trailing to a single drop of red that dripped onto his face. Eyes widening, he wiped the red from his face and tasted it, a wicked grin spreading across his face. "I taste motherfucking blood. IM MOTHERFUCKING COMING FOR YOU! I DON'T MOTHERFUCKING KNOW HOW BUT YOU CAN BET I WILL!" He yells, his voice echoing throughout the vents towards the three hurrying teens that were hurrying towards the light at the end of the tunnel.
Nepeta, Sollux and Aradia. They were almost there. There were at the vents when all of a sudden, they realized…. It was barred.
"No no no NO NO!" Sollux screamed, being the first one there, banging on the bars, its steel not breaking. Aradia simply whimpered, as Nepeta shook her head.
"Pawlux.. We are going to die. Please… Stop hitting the bars." She whispers, freezing when an all too familiar sound has fear creeping into her heart once again. Distant honking pulls the hacker and the explorer back into reality. They were really going to die. Seeing as it was no use, Sollux and Aradia began to frantically push on the steel bars, hoping that maybe, just maybe, somebody will hear them. Suddenly, a rope grabs onto Nepeta's leg, pulling her into the darkness as she screams in terror.
"HELP US! PLEASE! SOMEBODY! PLEASE HELP US! THERE IS A MURDERER-GAK!" Aradia screamed and choked as Gamzee grabbed her by the neck, both hands pressing down hard on her jugular vein and effectively cutting off all oxygen to her brain. Sollux screamed in anger, and pushed Gamzee backwards in a feeble attempt to save his girlfriend. It only angers the clown more and he presses down on her neck harder, Aradia only able to make gargling sounds as the blood starts to rise up in her throat.
"FUCKING LET GO OF HER YOU DICKWAD!" He cries out, clawing at Gamzee's death grip on Aradia, the hacker helpless as he watches her eyes roll to the back of her head and spit run down from the side of her mouth.
"NO MOTHERFUCKING WAY BRO!" Gamzee laughs over Sollux's frustrated screams and attempts in saving his girlfriend as the color drains out of her face. All too soon, Gamzee drops Aradia onto the vent floor, the poor girl; drained of all life from her face, as Gamzee takes out a knife, smirking at the limp body of his old classmate.
"So Sollux. Any.. LAST MOTHERFUCKING WORDS?!" Gamzee yelled at the sobbing boy who was crouched down next to Aradia, holding her hand.
"Y-Yeah. I do have a few last words. FUCK YOU! YOU FUCKIING CLOWN! YOU CANT EVEN FUCKING CONTROLL YOUR TEMPER AND NOW PEOPLE ARE DYING! AND ITS ALL BECAUSE OF YO-" Sollux says, before the knife takes a plunge straight into his gut. The hacker looked down at the knife and looked back up at Gamzee one last time to snarl and grab at the clown but he simply sidestepped him and laughed as he watched Sollux bleed out, his chest heaving as his body struggled to hold on.
Nepeta who was struggling against her bonds all the while, finally managed to break free with the help of her fake -but still very sharp- claws which Equius gave her as a birthday present last year. Thinking about Equius had triggered her as she ripped through her bonds. Sneaking up to Gamzee, she tapped his shoulder, him making a sudden jerk of his head. "THIS IS FUR EQUIHISS!" She screamed as she raked her claws across his face, leaving 3 long lines bleeding in its wake. He screamed, clutching his face in his hand as the nimble cat girl quickly bound away towards the vent that she previously found Aradia and Sollux at. Jumping down, she quickly bound towards the cafeteria where she knew she could hide.
'What about Karkitty?' She thought to herself, not looking where she was going as she hit the two swinging doors of the cafeteria. "NO! ITS LOCKED! SHIT!" She hissed, as she heard the vent open once more, a blood stained Gamzee slowly inching towards her.
"Nep, babe. Where are you gonna motherfucking go now huh?" He cooed as he stalked towards her. She was cornered and she knew it. She hissed as he loomed right in front of her. She was devastated. So this was how it was going to end. But all Gamzee did was look at her and his eyes softened a little. Before she knew what was happening, he slaps her hard and she hits her head against the wall next to her, falling out of consciousness.
Waking up, Nepeta rubs her head moaning softly at the bruise that was left there. "Ugh… Where am I?" She whispers, nearly choking at what she saw next. A sense of dread filled her as she looked down at her hands seeing red in the faint light that filled the room a little. "W-what is this thing… AAAAAAAA!" She screams when she turns around to see bodies. Dead bodies everywhere. A strong metallic smell hit her nostrils causing her to double over, dry heaving onto the floor. "NO! NO NO NO NO ! LET ME OUT! SOMEBODY! PLEASE HELP ME!" She wailed, banging on the door which was blocked from the outside with the bent bar of steel. "KARKITTY!" She wails again, tears cascading from her eyes and rolling down her cheeks. "PLEASE HELP ME!" She screams at the top of her voice.
-MEANWHILE-
"Oh my god…" Karkat whispered as he ventures through the hallways with Terezi who was frantically wiping the tears from her eyes. "We could survive Karkat. We could. But would you just let everybody die? The rest anyway?" Asked Terezi who was shaking violently. His blind friend whom he had the smallest of crushes on (which he would never admit) looked so frightened. Though he didn't have feelings for her anymore, a small twinge of guilt for leaving Serket behind didn't leave him at all. He hugged her close and felt her stiffen up before hot tears spilt onto his shirt and she grasped him back.
"No. No I wouldn't be able to live with myself. That's why I'm getting you out of here and I'm going back for Vriska and Nepeta. At least I know that I wasn't a complete failure of a leader." He says sighing and picking up Terezi bridal style and running towards the canteen. There were 2 main entry points (The one that was locked [Nepeta] and the one that they were heading to.) to go into the canteen. Upon reaching, Karkat put Terezi down and they suddenly heard a distant scream. "KARKITTY! PLEASE HELP ME!" Karkat shook his head as his eyes widened.
"Nepeta" he whispered. His fists were shaking and his eyes were clouded with anger. Not the usual pissy Karkat they were all used to. This time, Gamzee really did it. He REALLY made Karkat angry. The usual pissed off demeanour that surrounded Karkat was now replaced with an aura that reeked of anger.
"Go." He growls to Terezi, picking up the nearest meat knife that was on the table from the left-over food. Reluctantly, Terezi nodded, a grim look plastered onto her face. She wiped her tears and turned around and heading towards the door at the canteen, she whispers. "Go get em' Tiger." As she hurries off.
-NEPETA-
"KARKAT! KARKAT PLEASE! PLEASE HELP ME! ANYONE! PLEASE! JUST SOMEBODY HELP ME!" She screams banging on the door. She suddenly heard footsteps nearing the door. "PLEASE! SOMEBODY! ANYBODY HELP ME!"
"Nepeta?" Karkat whispers, leaning against the door. "Nepeta! Is that you?" Karkat says, wrenching out the bar of steel from the handle of the door and pulling it open, Nepeta's small form quick to run out of the dreadful room.
"Karkitty.." She whispers quietly, tearing up. "Thank you.."
"Not right now Nepeta. Now we have to run." Karkat says to her, holding her tight. So tight and he swore he would get her out of there.
"Run where Karbro?"
At the sound of Gamzee's voice, Karkat freezes. "I see you found my prized possessions?" Gamzee smirks pointing at the decaying corpses of the teachers and students. Not being able to tell any of the body parts apart anymore. The features were so messed up it was impossible to examine anybody without having to pick through the entire pile of rotting bodies. Karkat nearly passed out seeing the bodies and also from the stench that wafted through the open door.
Turning around to face his old bestfriend, he notes the amount of red plastered to his skin and clothes. Not to mention the 3 long scars, still bleeding on the taller male's face. The albino cringed as he felt the taller male slap him hard across his face. Growling, he took a slap back at him, hearing and feeling the others rage. Ever since they were kids, they always had a special bond with them ever since that one fateful day when Gamzee stepped into his life.
"MUTANT! LOSER! SUCKER! MORON!" Closing his eyes, he covers his ears and rocks back and forth as they cornered him, calling him names and prodding him. "GO AWAY!" He yells back but to no avail. They simply laugh and kick him harder, it was on those days where living becomes hell. It's those days where each step gets a little harder than the last as they constantly prod him as though he was some kind of alien that was threatening to take over their world as they knew it. It was then when he had completely shut himself off from the world. Then all at once, it stopped. Instead of his screams, he heard their screams. He wrenched open his eyes to see a kid, way taller than he would ever hope to be standing over them with the most menacing look in his eyes. Not that he would ever admit it though, he may or may not have wet himself there and then. As the young jocks ran away screaming, the purple haired male's scowling face turned into a soft, some-what stoned look which didn't look menacing at all. And instead of kicking Karkat, he offered his hand. Karkat could have cried there and then. He could have taken the offered hand but instead, he scoffed and pushed himself up by himself and dusted himself off, and looked up at the strange boy. Now getting a better look at his face, the albino saw that he actually had face paint on. It looked so ridiculous that Karkat could have laughed but he didn't just in case 'clown boy decided to pull the shit out of the bag'. After a while of staring at each other, Karkat grew self-conscious shuffling from leg to leg. "H-hey! What are you looking at?!" He yelled. He tutted himself silently and bit his lip. 'I stuttered. I fucking stuttered.' Instead of going bat shit crazy, the taller male laughed and…. Honked? Karkat stared at the clown curiously. "Hey uh… Just asking but… did you just fucking honk?" He asked, a small chuckle almost erupting from his lip but he bit it down.
"I did my motherfucking brother. It's all thanks to this mythical motherfucker." He says, pulling out a half drank bottle of Faygo. "Name's Gamzee Makara." He says coolly. "Yours?" He asks extending his hand to shake.
"Karkat. Karkat Vantas." He mumbled, eyeing the hand curiously before taking it.
"Oh Karbro, I can motherfucking tell we are gonna be the best of the fucking friends." Gamzee says with a chuckle.
- End of flashback
"GAMZEE YOU MOTHERFUCKER. WE AIN'T GONNA HUG IT OUT THIS TIME BRO. NO FUCKING WAY. WHAT HAPPENED TO VRISKA?!" Karkat yelled. He feared the worst for his arachnid friend. Well, he wouldn't exactly call her a friend, but that was the least he could do as much as she had sacrificed.
"Karbro. You motherfucker. The teachers couldn't stop me, so what MAKES YOU SO MOTHERFUCKING SURE THAT YOU CAN?!" Gamzee screams, making Nepeta jump in his arms. Gamzee seeing that laughs maniacally. "YOU MOTHERFUCKING SEE?! SHE GETS IT! SHES SCARED! OH ARENT YOU KITTY BITCH." He laughs, taking Nepeta's chin with his cold blood stained hands. She winces and pulls away from him, cowering behind Karkat.
"I should've fucked you when I had the chance." He says as he laughs maniacally/
"Leave her alone Gam. It's me you want isn't it?" He growled, clenching the unseen knife in his other hand.
"Oh do you really have a fucking death wish Karbro?" Gamzee chuckles. "HOW FUCKING ADORABLE."
Karkat gritted his teeth and in a millisecond, launched himself at the crazed clown, knife in hand. "I FUCKING TOLD YOU! IT WAS MOTHERFUCKING ADORABLOODTHIRSTY!" Karkat brought the knife down hard right into the clowns gut. But instead of falling over, Gamzee laughed and threw Karkat off and pulled out the knife like it was nothing. As Karkat tumbled to the floor and skid a few meters away, Nepeta screamed. Gamzee was getting closer.
"Hey there kitty bitch. Nowhere for you to run now." Gamzee grinned, holding the blood stained knife. He had cornered her again and he drew a finger against her cheek, holding her close. "Now now Karbro." He cooed. "No sudden movements now. Don't want her to die now would you?" he laughed. "How motherfucking heroic. Don't take a motherfucking step. You just stay right there." Gamzee cooed as he turned Nepeta around to face Karkat.
He held both her hands over her head and he grabbed her blouse and just ripped it off, the buttons sent flying. Nepeta screamed and thrashed but he was too strong. His hands roamed her body, pulling down her skirt and exposing her to Karkat.
"Do you like what you see Karbro?" He laughed, watching his friend stare dumbfounded at him. He could see the mixture of emotions on his friends face. Disbelief, anger, hate. "Can't you see Karkat?" He laughed. "I did this all for you!" He said as he drew a deep breath from the crook of Nepeta's neck as a hand made her way into her panties. Nepeta whimpered and bucked against him in feeble attempts to get away from him.
As Karkat fumbled with his pockets to find anything, anything at all that would help him kill the crazy clown, he noticed the flash of silver behind Gamzee and suddenly, the previously mentioned Vriska thrusts his previously dropped blade through the clown, causing him to wince. He stared at the knife sticking out of his abdomen and back at Karkat. Tears welled up in his eyes as he dropped Nepeta, not too lightly.
Everything was closing in on Karkat. He looked between his ex-best friend and his new found love and crashed. He watched as Vriska rushed to her side and dragging her away from the clown as she sobbed into the taller girls side. Finally, something clicked as he rushed to Gamzee's side, tears streaking his cheeks. "Gamzee why?" he choked out. "I just wanted to make you happy Karbro. I stopped my drugs." Gamzee wheezed out. "I did it for you." Karkat let out a wracking sob as he watched his best friend try to move his hands to him but in vain as his last gurgling breath leaves him. Karkat wants to yell about how unfair it is. About how unfair the whole world was, but he was slowly losing it. He looked down at his own hands which were coated in both his blood and countless others who lost their lives that day. He was sure that only 4 counted for people survived and that included him. As he, Nepeta and Vriska slowly made their way through the massacre of dead students and teachers all the way back to the canteen, they find police already there at the school. A small hope was that maybe…. Just maybe, Gamzee was still alive and that he would make it. But reality slaps him hard in the face as he realizes that no.
He watched Gamzee die. He watched so many people die and it was his fault because he couldn't keep his one and only fucking friend calm. He looked down at his hands again. At the blood on it and felt numb as the police rushed them outside. The air outside was warm and cool and he found Terezi sitting impatiently outside on the fence. He ignored her and decided that it was a good idea to keep quiet about it.
It was on those days where living becomes hell. It's those days where each step gets a little harder than the last. It was then when he had completely shut himself off from the world.
Then all at once, it stopped.