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Sara,
like a few others, had woken up at the sound of Ms. Prok's voice
over the speakers. She was still high atop the steeple; no one could
see her where she was. She checked off the danger zones on her map
and was glad to find out the fort wasn't one of them. As she was
about to put a line through Taylor's name, she decided it would be
more polite to put little checks by their numbers. She stuffed the
goodies back in her pack and sat there.
It
was now 9 A.M., so A-1 must have become a danger zone. She doubted
that anyone had died there - the zone was only a tiny portion of the
north western side of the island, most likely just a small section of
beach. It was then that she noticed a figure on the wall above the
doors of the fort. It was a familiar girl with shoulder length brown
hair. Sara instantly recognized her as Gabby, one of her best
friends from home, who according to the member list was girl number
10. She could see without the binoculars that Gabby was holding a
megaphone in her hand.
'No,'
thought Sara. 'She's not going to…'
"Everyone,
come here!" Gabby's voice could be heard from anywhere on the
island from where she was standing. The megaphone was an amazing one
to be exact, and her voice probably carried beyond the island
itself.
"Everyone, come to the Fort
on the big hill! We can all band together and try and beat the
system!"
'It's not going to
work,' thought Sara. 'You must get out of there.' As much as
Sara feared for her, she wanted to keep her own life more and stayed
put.
Angie woke Caroline and
Olivia when she heard Gabby's voice. She had decided against waking
them up at Ms. Prok's announcement, and that they deserved more
rest for saving her life. Caroline wiped her groggy eyes and yawned,
and Olivia immediately got up and started stretching her
legs.
"Listen," said Angie,
stopping them in their tracks. Then they heard the voice again. It
was scratchy as if it was coming from some sort of microphone, but it
was different from Ms. Prok's announcement. Angie guessed it was a
megaphone.
"It's coming from the
direction of the fort," noted Caroline.
"Yeah,"
said Angie, "And since we have to go to the Clinic, let's head in
that direction anyway." The three got up and began the long walk
towards the fort.
Alejandro was crouched behind a group of trees. 'If only I had a gun,' he thought anxiously. He was maybe 20 yards away from Gabby, although he was outside of the fort, propped in the dense forest directly on the steep hillside in front of the fort. Taylor's random weapon had been completely useless - it was a piece of fake dog poo. Alejandro had looked at it with distaste before putting it back in Taylor's daypack. He'd taken the bread and three bottles of water though - they would definitely come in handy.
"Everybody,
meet me in the fort!" screamed Gabby through the megaphone. Aubrey
just sighed as she peered at the girl on top of the fort's front
wall. She was putting herself in complete danger for the sake of
everyone else. It was obvious that people were going to play the game
- Aubrey had heard the gunfire last night and seen the charred
remains of the Mission Point hotel. 'Not much of a hotel anymore,'
thought Aubrey.
"What's going
on?" Connor H wandered out of the group of trees behind Aubrey. He
was zipping up his fly and Aubrey sheepishly guessed he had been
taking a leak.
"I think it's
Gabby up there. She's asking for everyone to come meet her,"
explained Aubrey. "I think it's a death trap."
"I
agree," said Connor. Aubrey, being Girl No. 5, had found Connor,
who was Boy No. 3, inside a store shortly after exiting the school.
The two had decided to band together, thinking it would be better to
stick in numbers. At least for now, they were correct.
Sara
sat looking at the poor girl who was putting herself in complete view
for the whole island to see.
"Come
on up here!" she screamed.
And then
the shadow attacked.
The sound of
machine gun fire echoed throughout the whole island as it was
projected through the megaphone. Sara watched as Gabby's body spun
around in a circle, red flying in all directions. She screamed and
her wail was heard by the whole island. Sara was shocked to see her
fall to the ground.
Laura walked out
from behind a pillar located on the wall. Lax in her hand was an uzi,
smoke rising from the barrel. She walked up to Gabby's squirming
body and put the microphone to her mouth.
"Say
your farewells," she whispered to her.
As
she pulled the trigger of the gun, Gabby's powerful scream of pain
was heard by the whole island as it projected through the megaphone.
The insides of her stomach were turned into a trash bin at a sausage
factory.
Angie, Caroline, and
Olivia were just rounding the corner when they heard the familiar
gunfire echoing across the air. A girl with short brown hair fell
from the view, and they watched as the skinny figure of Laura stepped
out of the shadows.
"There she is,"
breathed Caroline. They all stood there, too stunned to move.
It
was no typical horror movie death scene. The assailant wasn't a
deformed monster man, and it wasn't night. The assailant was a
friend, and the sun shone brightly as it was nearing the middle of
the sky. There were no clouds in the sky and it was a bright
blue.
Then an ear-splitting scream
echoed over the island, accompanied with the shrill sound of
typewriter keys being rapidly pressed. The island fell
silent.
Alejandro heard the gunfire and saw Gabby fall. Then he instantly freaked out. He ran back through the trees the way he had come. It was then that he made the decision to put as much distance between him and the machine-gun wielding maniac as he could.
Aubrey
and Connor H watched from the group of bushes they were hiding behind
in horror.
"Did she just get…
killed?" asked Connor, already knowing the answer.
"Do
I need to answer that?" replied Aubrey, also asking a question at
the same time.
"This is getting
worse every minute," said Connor. Then the scream with accompanying
machine gun bullet music flooded the sound waves that moments before
were of birds chirping and the distant sound of a train honking its
horn.
"Oh my god!" exclaimed
Aubrey. She began to leave the bushes to do something.
"Don't
go you idiot!" screamed Connor. "She'll see you, then she'll
come down here and kill both of us!"
"Wait,
who's she?" asked Aubrey.
Connor
replied slowly, "It's… Laura."
Sara watched the horrible scene all from close range, and began crying at the site of a young girl of 13 brutally murdered. What made her cry most was Laura's finishing move - shooting her from point blank in the stomach. It was like a balloon full of ketchup had exploded. But Sara knocked these thoughts from her head as she saw Dono walking up to the back of the fort…
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