The lights suddenly turned back on and everyone gave a sigh of relief.
"Whew! So glad that's overwith. I was getting the feeling that something bad was going to happen to one of us..." Bean said.
"Same here. Wait...we ARE all here, right?" Sonic asked and looked around. Everyone was still there with him, until someone said something.
"Oh my god, SALLY! She's gone! Where the hell is she!?" Sonia shrieked.
"I remember her running out when she saw Shadow dead but that was it. Tails, when you went out in the hallway, did you see where Sally went to?" Tikal asked.
"I just remember seeing her running down all the way to the end of the hall, left from here, and turning a corner but that's it." Tails answered.
"Then I'll go look for her. Sonic, take the script and find out who dies next." Blaze said and handed him the papers.
"Do you think you can handle it?" Rouge asked.
"Of course I can! I doubt she went even went that far and I doubt that it will be dangerous finding her. It really shouldn't take that long." Blaze clarified. Vector thought she was being a bit over-confident.
"I wanna come with you! Because, well...you can't go alone of course!" Sonia volunteered.
"Fair enough. We'll be back as soon as we can you guys." Blaze said and the two girls left the room.
"Alright, now it's time to check the script! We need to know who dies next, and fast!" Vector said.
Sonic flipped through the pages to see if he could find where the next death could be.
"OH! I think I found it right here!" Sonic pointed to the text and everyone gathered around to read it.
Hayato Kotani (Sonic): I don't like this building at all! It's very unnerving. It really feels like someone is in here watching our every move.
Nori Kusaka (Bean): Dude, you've just now noticed that!? We've all been feeling like this ever since we found out the entire fucking city is empty!
Hayato Kotani: I know, but something feels different this time. Like, it's a different atmosphere...
Akira Ikeda (Rouge): This is an office building, right? Because that really explains all these papers scattered on the floor.
Kenta Masuda (Vector): It has to be. It all looks so...office-y. If you know what I mean.
Ami Kamiya (Sally): Still can't get over the fact that now Minoru is dead! That's seriously such an odd way to die...
Satomi Noda (Sonia): I don't really think getting some kind of spike impaled through your entire head is an odd way to die, but maybe that's just me.
Akira Ikeda: Seriously though, we should've found the bastard that did this by now! We have found absolutely no clues on who is killing our friends! THIS IS DRIVING ME INSANE!
Daisuke Ijima (Tails): Well, unless you count different colored blood as clues of course!
Akira Ikeda: I still don't see how that can help us. It can't be a clue if it confuses us even more.
Kenta Masuda: Why don't we just get out of the city then!? I mean seriously, seven of our friends have died so far and THIS is the furthest we've gotten! I just don't understand how we all could just keep on wandering around while this asshole keeps picking us off one by one!
Izumi Kanai (Tikal): Kenta, do you not realize how far it is to walk to the next city? It would take us days to get there on foot! I don't think all of us could even make it anyways!
Kenta Masuda: Well maybe that should've been the plan from the get-go. Nobody would've died and we all would've been safe.
Hayato Kotani: You don't know that for sure, Kenta. The next city could also be abandoned and just as dangerous.
Kenta Masuda: Give me a break. How the hell could the next city also be abandoned? There's no way the entire fucking country can be abandoned, we are BOUND to find some civilization somewhere!
Natsumi Mado (Amy): Hey wait, you guys! Where is Junko at!?
The group looks all around them, but finds that Junko is nowhere in sight.
Izumi Kanai: She was with us the whole time, wasn't she?
Natsumi Mado: I think so...I mean, I'm pretty sure...
Ami Kamiya: Well, where the hell could she have gone? I doubt she would've walked off.
Nori Kusaka: Great...now we have to go look for her. This can't end well!
A loud scream is heard off in the distance and everyone turns to the direction where it came from.
Ami Kamiya: JUNKOOOOOOOOOOO!
The group runs back down the hallway for about a minute and stops at an open door that leads to an office room where a ceiling light had fallen on top of an office desk and it kept letting out sparks.
Daisuke Ijima: J-Junko? Are you in here? Are you alright!?
The group moved more into the room and see Junko's body laying face down on the opposite side of the room.
Daisuke Ijima: OH MY GOD, JUNKO!
Daisuke runs to her and turns her body over, revealing her jaw had been ripped apart and pink-ish blood had been leaking out.
Everyone screams and backs away in disgust.
"Wait a second...Junko...that's Blaze, isn't it!?" Tikal gasped in realization.
"Oh my god, she's the next to die!" Amy squealed and then everyone ran out the room to chase after her.
"Alright, since the rooms down this hallway are all locked, I'm guessing she took the elevator down instead." Blaze said and pressed the down button.
"I hope she's alright...I really hope she didn't get herself into trouble!" Sonia said in worry.
"Well as long as she isn't the next to die, she should be fine. She is a tough girl after all and can handle herself well." Blaze tried to cheer her up a bit.
The elevator doors opened and they both went in. Blaze pressed the 1F button and the doors started closing.
As they started closing, however, they noticed the rest of the group screaming and running down the hallway right toward them.
"What the hell?" Sonia muttered.
"BLAAAAAAAZE! COME BACK!" Amy screamed.
"Wait, what!? HOLD ON A SECOND!" Blaze pushed the outward arrows to open the elevator back up, but it wouldn't work. The doors closed and the elevator started to go down.
"What was all that about!?" Sonia asked, getting even more worried.
"I have no idea..." Was all Blaze responded.
The elevator slowed down to a stop and the doors opened, revealing the first floor, but the floor was shrouded in darkness.
"Uhhh...why are all the lights off down here?" Sonia asked.
"I guess the electricity still hasn't come back on for this floor. But...how the hell is it so dark in here though? Where are the windows at? Where's the receptionist lady? WHERE'S THE DOOR TO GET OUT OF HERE!?" Blaze yelled and started freaking out.
"Blaze...I think we should go back up to the others! This doesn't feel right!" Sonia begged and started shaking in her knees.
"No no no! All we need to do is just open the front door to let some light in here. It should be straight ahead of us, if I remember correctly." Blaze said and walked onto the dark floor. The light from the elevator didn't really help much to see there.
Blaze stuck her arms out forward and tried to feel for a wall or any other objects in case she were to run into something.
Suddenly, a sound of glass smashing was heard.
"WHAT WAS THAT!?" Blaze shrieked. "Sonia, was that you?"
"No! I didn't do anything!" She yelled back.
"Then what was that?" Blaze whispered. "SALLY! Is that you? Are you down here? ANSWER ME!"
No response. Just complete silence.
"Blaze...get back in here! Seriously, this isn't right! There's something down here with us!" Sonia pleaded.
"Wait, I wanna see what that noise was!" Blaze said and walked to her left.
"NO! PLEASE DON'T GO! COME ON, WE NEED TO GO BACK RIGHT NOW!" Sonia started to cry.
Blaze's eyes adjusted a bit to the darkness. From what she saw, there was nothing there.
But then, she saw a shadow straight ahead from her. She squinted, trying to see if it was a person or just some trick. The shadow got bigger and bigger. Blaze couldn't decide if she wanted to stay there to see what it was, or run back to Sonia.
But it was too late to make her decision as she felt pain on the side of her head from a blow of a hard object.
"AAAAHHHHHHHH!" She yelled in pain.
"BLAZE? ARE YOU ALRIGHT?" Sonia called out.
Blaze felt herself getting dragged away by her feet.
"What...what are you doing!? STOP! LET GO OF ME! HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP!" She screamed.
Sonia cried even more at the sound of her screams. She covered her ears and wished for it all to stop. Her head was pounding and hurting from all the insanity and madness.
But then, it stopped. Sonia couldn't hear Blaze's screams anymore.
She wiped her tears and slowly walked out of the elevator.
"B-blaze? Are you...still there?" she asked with a weak voice.
No response.
She gulped, fearing the worst that had happened to Blaze.
The lights suddenly flickered back on and Sonia immediately saw Blaze up against the wall a few feet away from her.
She screamed at the bloody sight. Blaze had a fire extinguisher partially shoved in her mouth and her jaw was ripped open a bit more to fit it in.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOO!" Sonia began crying again.
A familiar person then stepped out of the hallway and into Sonia's view.
"S-s-s-s-sally! You're okay..." Sonia said in slight relief.
"Were you always this stupid?" Sally asked.
"E-excuse me?" Sonia wanted to make sure she heard her right.
"Are you that oblivious to the fact that I killed her? You see Blaze dead, then you see me, and then you're all "Oh my gosh Sally! You're alive! REJOICE!" Sally mocked her.
Sonia gasped and stepped back. "YOU KILLED HER!? BUT WHY!?"
"Because you're all just a pathetic waste of space who just like to waste time doing nothing. You're all so useless. I'm honestly better by myself doing this." Sally harshly said.
"Y-you're not Sally, are you? You can't be!" Sonia started backing away.
"Of course I am! What, you think I'm possessed or something? Get real!" Sally laughed.
"But why would you kill Blaze though!? What the hell is wrong with you!?"
"Simple, Blaze is expendable and so are the rest of you. I mean, let's face it, if Shadow can't survive this then I doubt any of us will. So why not go all out and have a little fun?" Sally laughed again.
"My god, you've gone insane! YOU'RE A MONSTER!" Sonia screamed and to where she thought the front door was.
"GET BACK HERE YOU LITTLE BITCH!" Sally started chasing after her.
Sonia finds the door and tries to open it, but it's locked shut. She then notices that all the windows in the room were covered with some kind of black sheet.
She then decides to run back to the elevator. Sonia pressed the 3F button and then pressed the inward arrows button repeatedly. The doors slowly started to close.
"COME ON COME ON COME ON!" She screamed, still pressing the button.
"Do you really think you'll get out of this alive?" Sally yelled as she approached the elevator doors and tried to open them.
"NO! GET AWAY FROM ME!" Sonia kicked Sally in the chest and the doors proceeded to close and the elevator started moving up.
"Grrrr...THAT BITCH!" Sally screamed and got up. She suddenly felt dizzy.
"God...why is the room spinning? And why does my head hurt so much? I feel sick..." Sally tumbled everywhere and landed on the ground again. She then puked all over and screamed in disgust.
"What the fuck is going on with me!? Why do I feel like this..." Sally struggled to stand herself back up.
Sonia couldn't believe her own friend had just killed Blaze, and almost killed her too! But at least she was safe now...
...Or so she thought.
The elevator stopped and the doors opened. Sonia looked up and stepped forward, only to realize that she wasn't in the main hallway on the third floor.
She was in some small storage room with records and files stacked in piles all over the place.
At the other side of the room, was someone sitting at a small table and appeared to be writing something down.
The person stopped writing and turned around to face Sonia.
"Hello Sonia. What a pleasant surprise to see you here!" Aoi said with a creepy smile.
EOC.
Sorry fans, but Blaze had to go. Next chapter will involve the group being split up even more so look out for that. Please review.