Back downstairs in the basement...
Noah and Gwen stood there in their tracks, staring at the staircase. Gwen kept her crossbow ready, as the person came down. She aimed her crossbow at the stairs, waiting for the right time to send an arrow at whoever this killer is.
"Hello?" It was Topher voice.
The man cane walking down the stairs, taking notice of the goth girl and the scrawny boy down here, along with Bridgette and Courtney. Topher raises an eyebrow, looking at the four that were down here, wondering what was going on down here. He looks over to Noah.
"What the hell is going down here?" Topher asked, holding up his hands in a defensive manner. "I came down here, noticing that the door was open, and the light was on. Not to mention, I heard the sound of Courtney's voice down here, and...apparently, she's tied up." Topher's regular stare turned into a glare. "I believe you two have a lot of explaining to do..." Noah glared back at Topher, holding up a finger at him.
"I think you got the wrong idea, Topher." Noah said. "I believe that YOU have a hell of a lot of explaining to do, considering that Cody and Gwen saw you outside the town hall, talking to that guy out there as if you and him...or her, are buddies." Topher's eyes widened in shock hearing this being said to him.
"Say what now?! You're jumping to the conclusion that I'm the one who did all of this?! Guys, I would never do something like this, I'm being honest with you guys when I say this, please listen!"
"What's there to listen to?! Because it seems like all of this is leading up to you, Topher." Noah steps closer to the boy, before pointing at finger in front of his face. "I don't know what kind of past that you and Duncan had...but revenge like this is absolutely sick...especially for somebody like you. But you know for a fact that you somehow did all of this, and it ended up biting you in the ass now...now talk, and say if it was you." The man cringed, before looking over to Gwen.
"No offence, but I really didn't want this guy to stand up to me like this, but...I'm telling you the truth, it's not me at all..."
"Bullshit."
"Noah...let me handle this..." Gwen said, holding up the crossbow in her hands. "Confess Topher...if I see one ounce of your words being nothing more but a lie..." Gwen pulls out an arrow out of her bag, before placing it into the crossbow. "I believe you know the answer...not only that, but I can tell when I person is lying, just by the looks of their face, and the way that they talk. Now say your side already about all of this...before you know damn well that this won't be painless for you."
The room was silent. Topher looked over to Gwen, aiming the crossbow at him, then looks over to Noah. The man's arms were still held up as if he was being told off by these two, then stared at the boy as he was wondering what to say at this point. He spoke, shaking his head.
"Both of you are making a huge mistake here. I would never do anything like this, I swear." Topher said.
"Quit lying to us, Topher." Noah said, glaring at the guy still.
"Fine...you know what...you want to know the truth so badly?"
Noah looked at one of Topher' arms, seeing that it was heading to the wall behind him. Noah also realized what he was reaching for behind himself, despite what he was reaching for was hidden in the darkness of the stairs. It was a crowbar. Topher glared at the two of them, smiling like a mad man, before pulling the crowbar out from the dark staircase.
"Duncan had been bullying me all throughout my high school years...he and his prick friends, standing by his side as he either bullied me, insulted me, lied to me about shit I didn't even do..." Topher explains to him, bitterness still in his voice. "That prick and his friends damn well deserved the shit that they ended up getting themselves..." Topher closes his eyes, muttering something under his breath. "The bastard straight up made me head off to New York, away from my friends and family...and shown no remorse after I left. I don't give a shit if he fucking forgotten about me...he's getting what he deserves..."
"But what about Bridgette?! Why the hell bring her into this?!" Noah asked him.
"Me nor my friend wanted her involved in this. But she gotten herself involved..." Topher frowns, before pointing at Courtney. "...All I wanted to get was Courtney to be down here, and when Duncan was with me, all alone...then we get rid of him and his girlfriend, and put an end to this bullshit, but nope...more people had to be involved." Topher lifts up the crowbar. "Now since you two gotten yourselves involved in me and my friends plans...I have no other choice to get you two now..."
Gwen sends an arrow into Tophers arm immediately after he said that. Topher screams, alerting the mayor, Duncan, and Cody upstairs. Gwen and Noah attempted to run upstairs, only for Topher to pull the arrow out of his arm, then go after the two escaping the basement.
Topher grabs a hold of Gwen's ankle, making her trip. Gwen falls down, until she hits the bottom of the stairs, as Topher picks up the crowbow, chuckling as he walked up to the goth. But before the guy could do anything to Gwen, the goth girl looks up immediately, and trips Topher down to the ground, before standing up off of the ground.
"Well goth girl...you really know how to fight, do you?! Well...let's just say you think you're strong now...wait until you..." Topher said, before Gwen stood up, punching the guy in his cheek.
"G-Gwen...don't forget about us..." Courtney said. Gwen ran over to Courtney and Bridgette. She unties the ropes that were keeping them held to the chairs, but Bridgette wasn't waking up. "I'm out of here!" Courtney screams, attempting to run up the stairs.
"Noah! Get to Mayor Hatchet and Duncan!" Gwen shouts to him.
"Alright! Be safe down here, Gwen!" Noah shouts, before running out of the basement.
"I will!" Noah ran upstairs, as Topher got up off of the floor. Gwen pulled out her baseball bat, glaring at Topher, who was staring at her with an angry look on his face. "You know Topher...I didn't expect this kind of low to be from somebody like you..." Gwen shook her head, before stepping closer to the boy that killed her boyfriend. She held the baseball bat up to Topher's chin. "Now...you are so going to pay for killing Trent!"
"Funny you should say that!" Topher shouts, before pushing Gwen to the ground, and darting for the stairs.
"Gah!" Gwen lifts her head off of the ground, looking up the stairs. "Noah! He's coming up the stairs!"
Upstairs...
"So what you're saying is that Topher is the one, doing all of this? Topher?!" Mayor Hatchet asked Noah and Cody, who were standing in front of his desk. The two boys nodded their heads at the question, as Mayor Hatchet sighed, standing up from the desk he was sitting at. "I can understand you boys being frightened and all. But Topher of all people? I doubt he is the person who is responsible for all of this."
"I'm telling you, Topher had Courtney and Bridgette tied up in the basement!" Noah said, leaning on the desk. "He is in cahoots with another killer who is out there! All you have to do is go into the basement and see for yourself."
"Help!" Courtney's voice shouts from downstairs.
All three males ran out of the mayor's office, heading over to the stairs. They looked down them, seeing Courtney running out from the right hallway, trying to reach the front doors. Duncan ran out from the left hallway, hearing the sound of his girlfriend attempting to exit the town hall. The punk ran up to his girlfriend, hoping to calm her down.
"Courtney!? Holy shit, what the hell are you doing here?!" Duncan asked, running up to her. Courtney was tearing up, before hugging her boyfriend, almost crying at what was happening.
"The culprit...he captured me..." Courtney said. "I thought he would kill me...but..." Courtney tried to keep herself from crying, before Duncan hugged her.
"Courtney...Courtney...it's okay. You're safe with me." Duncan said reassuringly, patting her on the back.
All was silent, as Noah was slowly attempting to go down the stairs, in hopes of one of the two killers not coming out of nowhere, and then attacking one of them. Once Noah finally got to the bottom step, something happened that he can never end up not seeing for the rest of his life. Once he was finally at the bottom step, all Noah could hear was Courtney's scream.
The boy looks up, seeing that Courtney now has a wooden board sticking out of the side of her body, while she was still hugging Duncan. The punk opens his eyes, widened at the fact that his girlfriend was just hit with this board right now. Courtney fell to the ground, passing out after the board struck her in the side.
"NO!" Duncan and Noah screamed in horror at the fact that Courtney is assumed dead.
The many men that was in the room looked over to the hallway the girl came out of, seeing Topher was the one who threw the board at Courtney. The man was chuckling like a psycho, glaring at Duncan as he was walking into the main room. Mayor Hatchet's mouth dropped at the sight of Topher standing there, after Courtney fell to the ground. He genuinely couldn't believe what he was just seeing.
"Topher!? This better be a joke!" Mayor Hatchet shouts.
"No, Mayor Hatchet...this is true..." Topher mutters, bitterly. "That God damn prick, Duncan, is here, and we finally have him surrounded so that we can finally get rid of his bullying ass! He ruined my life, and made me leave this town...scared me of being around my school...to the point of that...and now he is here to die!" Gwen comes out of nowhere, pointing her crossbow at the boy, without him knowing about it.
"Not if me, Cody, and Noah are here to stop you..." Gwen said, keeping her crossbow aimed at him. Topher gave the goth girl a smirk, as he turned his head towards her. "Yeah, try to be as smug as possible. Too bad when Chris, Izzy, and MacArthur come back here, they are going to have your sorry ass thrown behind bars." Topher chuckles, before pointing behind himself.
"Funny you're up here. Because you want to know who's been helping me all this time? You'll be completely destroyed by this..." Topher said.
"What are you..."
"Hello Gwen." A male voice said from the opposite side of the main room of the town hall.
Gwen's eyes widened when she heard that voice. Duncan, Cody, Noah, and Mayor Hatchet looked over to the opposite side of the room, seeing the other figure with his hood down. But who it was was an absolute shock for everyone to end up seeing right now. Noah's jaw dropped.
"T-Trent?! You're alive?!" Noah asked. Gwen blinked a couple times, completely stunned at this.
"I-I can't believe this..." Gwen said softly.
"Okay...this I did not see coming...I mean, I thought he was dead, last time MacArthur was here talking to me before." Mayor Hatchet said. Cody looked over to the mayor, before the man shrugged. "What? I didn't see this coming."