Usagi narrowed her eyes, an odd and twisting feeling resting itself low into her chest, twirling and rolling with the escalating beats of her heart. The small thought of where Ami was rushed into her head, and she darted her sapphire eyes over to Makoto's mystified emerald ones.
Makoto could faintly hear screaming and a strange popping noise. The cafeteria was silent, but a few students quickly edged themselves out through a side door. Makoto saw what they were doing and rose from her seat quickly, keeping her eye on the door, and grabbed Usagi sharply by the shirt collar.
The noise was getting closer now, and the rest of the cafeteria was standing, slowly pushing themselves toward the alternative opening away from the room. Then, a few broke into a run, and Makoto gathered her friends and followed their pace, the open door echoing firecracker-like sounds that unnerved each of those in the room.
Suddenly, the cause of the noise was revealed, as a blur of black and silver ran into the cafeteria. Shrieks rose high into the air as everyone tried to funnel themselves out as quickly as they could.
Minako, Usagi and Makoto weren't quite sure what was going on. Students still at the tables pulled themselves under. Usagi glanced to the side and saw one fall, and a trickle of blood fall from his head.
Makoto looked over at the frozen Usagi, at Minako, and then at the fallen student. An instinct she didn't know she possessed pulled at her soul, and before she knew it, she was pulling Minako and Usagi deftly and swiftly through the shrieking and trembling swarm of students. Bullets ricocheted above their heads, and the tiny doorway wasn't enough to pull all of the students through. Next to Minako, a student fell, covered in blood, staining her school uniform with tiny drops of blood.
Ami could hear the shrieks rolling off of the hallways. Her breath was short and shallow, her thoughts a mere blur in her head. Confused students stood from their studies in the capacious library, mumbling to each other that it must be some sort of joke.
A giant clang confirmed each of their fears, as a girl with blood staining her blouse ran into the library, screaming.
"Get down! Get down! He's coming this way! Whatever you do, get down and hide!"
Ami was pushed downward by her friend Miya, who shuddered beneath the long, wooden table.
"Miya, what's going on? I mean, that girl…she had blood on her…her face…" Ami turned pale. "What about Makoto…Minako…and Usagi? Oh, my God…"
The screams were nearer now, and hurried footsteps rang against the hallway floors between the cafeteria and the library. If this was what Ami thought it was, she wanted out of this bad dream.
Now.
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A/N: What happens next? Will Usagi, Minako and Makoto make it out of the cafeteria safely? Is anyone really safe in Juuban Middle School at this point? Find out in the fourth chapter of High Velocity ^.-