As if something happened and she was supposed to be there.
She burst out of a side door and was met with the azure blue sky. The cool, clean air filled her lungs and she gasped, inhaled, as if she had been underwater for hours. Reporters roamed the school grounds, students were everywhere, police and emergency teams were rushing about…it was truly a nightmare.
Minako stopped and took in the scene. Her classmates, bloody and unmoving, were being pulled out of the school on stretchers. Her body shuddered, and thoughts raced like fire in and out of her mind.
'This isn't supposed to happen. This isn't supposed to happen. THIS ISN'T SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN TO ME! THIS ISN'T SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN TO ME!'
The thoughts traveled from her mind, and left her head blank. Thinking was too much of a chore anymore. Nothing was logical. Nothing fit. Everything was distorted.
Overwhelmed, Minako fell to the ground, helpless and worn.
Ami crept out of the library, hearing the sounds of the police through the corridors. Miya's body still lay in the pool of blood beneath the library desk. After she was shot, Ami began to scream, but a classmate crawled beneath the tables and clasped his hand firmly over her mouth.
A police officer led her put of the school building and into the open air where Ami saw classmates rushing around crying, sobbing, some on stretchers, and some….Ami shuddered to even think that horrible thought.
"Ami! Oh God.." Ami turned to see Rei rushing toward her. Rei and Ami clutched each other in the middle of the street among the chaos. Tears fell from Rei's eyes as she grasped Ami. Ami thought back to Miya's still form, lying in the empty library, and of Makoto, Minako and Usagi. She grasped Rei tighter, and then stood back.
"Do you know where Makoto, Usagi and Minako are?" Concern permeated from Rei's coal black eyes. "They say the shooting started from the cafeteria.."
"N-no...I was in the library and I think they were at lunch. Oh God! What if...what if...." Ami faltered.
Rei's coal black eyes became distant, and her face pale. She usually got premonitions, but ot get one at this moment, in the middle of all this...
"Something's wrong..." Rei's silvery voice sent chills up Ami's spine.
"What do you mean…wrong?"
"I mean...something...happened...it's like...there's this emptiness..."
Rei staggered back, and shook her head, dropping out of the strange, trance-like state. She looked over to see Minako being put on a stretcher, and ran to the side of it. Ami simply stood there, stunned, as her ears caught the words of a TV news reporter.
"We aren't very sure, but of the verified deaths there are fifteen; some of those being students Miya Fujitama, Miki Shabiyara, Usagi Tsukino…"
Ami turned pale as the world began to crumble.
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A/N: How will this be dealt with? What more is there to come? Chapter six of High Velocity is on its way! ^_^