With all of this going on, will they ever find some peace and quiet? I don't think so!
Chapter 11: Meeting The Others
No one's p.o.v
Kathryn is still trap inside the secret passageway. It was so dark that she could barely see anything except a black path that leads to nowhere. Grunting in frustration, she decides to feel her way down the passage. Who knows, she might find another way out!
" Kathryn, get ahold of yourself!" she commands herself. " Let's find a way out, meet the others and beat Shen Rao for placing us into this mess!" She tried to feel anything in front of her. Nothing.
Grumbling, she places her hand onto the wall of the left side, where she was pushed in. So far, not a single pressure was made. " That means, this part of the wall has been sealed," she thought out loud.
" So instead of this side of the wall," she said. " I'll have to feel on the opposite side."
She did it on the opposite side, similar to the previous wall. Suddenly, she felt the wall being pushed and then, slides onto one side. Giving her another passage!
Quickly, she wedges out of the dark passage and enters the new one. In this one, the lights are dim but useful enough for Kathryn to find another exit which is an oak door. The new room she's in before opening the door had a lot of crockery and books that may have been for children. " Oh shoot!" she cursed.
" Were there any children here?"
Regaining her confidence, she opens the door to find the comforting yet eerie bright lights of the corridor. ' I'm out!' she thought excitedly. But now, first thing's first. She has to find her friends before one of them gets killed.
Suddenly, her worries are beginning to rise when she heard a groan and a frustrating sigh coming towards her. Pushing her fists in front of her face, Kathryn is prepare to what was there to come.
" Kathryn, is that you?" a loud voice asks. Kathryn looks over to see a familiar face.
It was Priscilla. Behind her is a bloodied, beaten up Shen Rao. He looked lifeless but his breathing is more of a gasp than a sigh. Kathryn was so relieved that she runs towards them and tackles Pricilla in a hug, which she returns it.
" Oh my god," Priscilla breathes. " You're alright! I was so scared just now because I went to look for you at the library and then you're not there until I found a dead body there!"
' Dead body?' Kathryn thought. It must have been the Japanese guy she encountered earlier. Anyways, she looks over her friend to see a very beaten up Shen Rao.
" What happened to him?" she asks. Priscilla blabs on how she found Shen Rao tied up while being beaten up by an American killer. Angry at how he thought both her and Shen Rao are a couple, she beats him senseless, eventually killing him in the process. Kathryn quickly steps away from her.
" You killed him?!" she cries rather than ask. Priscilla said 'yes' more than once and then shows the bloodied, nail-filled baseball bat to her. She pulls Shen Rao to wake him up but the boy was unconscious. Kathryn shakes her head.
" First he brought us into this," she sighs. " Now look at him! He looks like something out of a meat factory."
" I know right!" Priscilla agrees.
Just then, three or maybe the two of them heard two more voices coming towards them. One was a high yet cute voice while the other had a slur when she talks but a slightly higher voice.
" Oh my god, Shanti!" Priscilla gasps as she runs towards her smaller friend to give her a hug. She didn't realized that she had dropped Shen Rao to the ground along with the bat.
" Priscilla, Kathryn!" Shanti cries. " Oh my god! Oh my god!"
" Um...Shanti?" Kathryn inquires. " Why is Nala acting as if she's high?"
" Well," Shanti hesitates. " She's been drugged." So she told the two girls about how she and Nala encountered a Chinese man who offered them tea and candies which were actually cocaine and opium. Then, she explains how he manipulates her to turn against them and with anger she murders him.
" Am I the only on in this group who hasn't killed anyone?!" Kathryn asks.
" But at least this baka won't tease me," Priscilla smirks at a drugged Nala. Nala saunters over her in a dizzy fashion.
" I'm an aeroplane~" she slurs. Priscilla just shrugs. " Well, at least most of us are here."
" Yeah," said Kathryn. " But Lena, Alyssa and Kiara are still missing." Suddenly, the cogs in Shanti's head are turning rapidly in realization.
" Shit! I forgot that Alyssa's in trouble!"
" What?!" both Kathryn and Priscilla exclaim. " Well what are we waiting for? Let's go!"
" I don't think that's necessary," a deep voice resonates.
...
Lena's p.o.v
Alyssa was leaning against me as I walk behind Viktor. I could hear him reassuring a group. My heart heart was thumping. I look up and saw my friends.
" Guys!" I cried. All of them look at me and run towards me into a hug. I chuckle as I return hugs to all of them. And then, I study everyone's features and situation.
" Woah, what happened to Shen Rao?" I point out.
" It's a long story," said Kathryn. " But the real question is, why is there a man with you?!"
" Yeah!" Shanti added. " He could have kill you or raped you!"
" GUYS!" I silence them. " First of all, Viktor is a friend and second, if it were't for him, I wouldn't have known that Alyssa was raped."
I show them a very shaky and frightened Alyssa. Priscilla and Shanti were tackling Alyssa into a hug. Alyssa was sobbing as she returns the hug to both of them. Even a woozy-looking Nala was trying her best to greet her friend. Kathryn looks at Viktor and then at me.
" Don't tell me he's a serial killer," she whispers to me. Somehow, Viktor has super hearing and replies:
" I am a serial killer," he told her bluntly. Predicting that everyone except me were stepping back, he explains about how he's already old and his time is almost up. So the best thing he could do before he dies is helping us get out of here.
Not all of them were certain. But I guess along the way, they might warm up to him. Right now, we need to get out of here. Then, Priscilla taps my shoulder.
" Yeah?"
" Lena," Priscilla whispers. " Where is Kiara?"
Man, everyone's here except Kiara. I hope the next chapter will be a bit 'friendly' to read. What is it you may ask? Hah, you'll have to wait!
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