The nurse stumbled out of the medical room and into the cold empty hallway,
numb with horror as she clawed to the wall. Even though it was relatively
clean in the small room now she could still see it all clear as anything:
blood everywhere. She could even hear the sound of the sword slicing
through that poor girl's body, the scene repeating in her head over and
over.
She shut her eyes tight, feeling sick at the memory. She was too shocked to cry any more as realization that the whole situation had been real dawned on her. She stumbled forward and opened her eyes, looking around. She had to find help, somebody, anybody, who she could explain to what had happened, and to try catch that killer.
She shuddered, remembering how every time she'd seen that boy he had somehow surprised her, made her feel nervous and unsettled, rising up that bad feeling in the bottom of her stomach. How could anyone kill another being and not show any guilt or remorse? How could they act as calm as he did? She thought sickened as she walked down the hallway, the music from the party drawing closer and closer.
Her foot slipped a little on a wet patch on the tiled floor. Looking down she gasped when she realized what she'd stepped in - blood. A red contrast to the tiles, and again it was like she was back in that medical room splattered with the stuff. How had all that blood been cleaned up? Shaking, she looked up to see that there was a trail of blood leading up the hallway, past the doors of the gym and further down towards where she knew there was a back exit from the building.
That other poor frightened girl must have run away injured, terrified for her life the nurse thought with fear. Remembering how scared she was herself when being alone in the medical room with the boy, she wasn't surprised the brunette had escaped when she had the chance to. But. hadn't he said something about going after her? The woman gasped and put a hand to her mouth. She had to try and find that girl before that boy did, or find someone else who would listen to her and help stop the boy. Without hesitation she began to follow the trail of blood.
"What the hell is he doing?" David muttered glancing out of the window. "He better not have done anything stupid that will get him and us caught" he had been staring at the school building for at least half an hour now, but it was still practically the same scene as before.
"Don't be ridiculous, Lex is careful, he wouldn't do anything to wreck the mission. Remember we have a contract" Cole replied casually as he tapped ash off of his third cigarette.
"Well he's sure taking his bloody sweet time in there" David murmured. "Are you sure he's not just partying with the other kids instead of protecting their lives? We should go in and take a look"-
"Just shut up. We're staying here" Cole cut in with his eyes narrowed. "He's fine in there" he ignored the woman walking past the car.
The cold night air wrapped around the nurse as she walked through the car park, light dust billowing from her footsteps as she stumbled along through the dark. The girl's trail of blood had suddenly stopped halfway across the carpark, and nothing was ahead about from the tall metal fence. She decided she would have to exit the grounds the normal way, as it would be impossible that she or that girl could have gotten over the fence.
She walked past a parked car obliviously, hardly realizing it was even there. The two men inside it looked annoyed with each other, but bored just sitting inside there staring ahead out of the glass at the building she had left.
She walked over to where the two huge gates were pulled apart from each other leaving a wide open gap for her to leave through. She picked up some speed as she walked out and along the path. The only sound was the softly whistling wind, her footsteps, and the distant faint whisper of music from the school building.
A metal fence to her left trailed off by the time she reached the edge of the town centre, where shops and houses and other buildings stood silently in the streets. The place was unnervingly empty, with various lights blinking at her. She looked around desperately and suddenly jumped.
A middle aged large police man walked down the street whistling and suddenly placed the beam of his torch on her. "Are you okay ma'am?" he asked, eyebrows furrowing slightly, "you look a bit pale"
"Y-you have to help me!" she suddenly wailed running over to him, "I, I was attacked, these two girls, they, we were"- she grabbed onto his coat lapels and let out a small cry.
"Hey hey just try calm down a moment" he said holding her away but putting a sympathetic hand on her shoulder, "so two girls attacked you? Kids trick or treating these days, not like they used to"- he shook his head.
"No!" the woman cut him off, "they didn't, a boy did, attack us"-
"I think the Halloween atmosphere is getting to you ma'am" the man slowly turned her and walked with her down the street beside her, passing the streetlights and the rustling leaves of the trees to their side "how about I take you home to make sure you're safe, with me around no-one will dare attack y"-
He cut himself off with a scream when suddenly something reached down from the tree they had just walked under and pulled him up effortless from the ground up into the tree.
The woman screamed as she stumbled startled to the side and fell onto the pavement, backpedaling across the path as she stared up with horror to the tree where she could see the man's legs kicking about frantically as the leaves rustled violently and there was drowning echoes of screams.
The body of the police man suddenly fell down lifeless from the tree, torn up, bloody and unrecognizable beside the woman, who began to scream in terror again. Looking up she saw dark yet glowing eyes peering down at her from between the branches of the tree. Whatever it was that had just attacked the man was now emitting a low growl as it moved; the leaves rippling against the movement.
There was an unearthly wild cat like screech as suddenly a creature burst down from the tree gliding smoothly with speed towards the screaming woman.
OOMPH! Suddenly a dark blur of a movement from the side dived at the creature with equal speed and precise movement, knocking the screeching creature to the side, rolling along the ground with it before the dark figure was thrown to the side into a hard wall; a loud CRACK was emitted as contact was made with the wall and the dark figure fell to the ground. The creature beside it screeched and got up, turning and didn't even look at the woman as it suddenly took off again flying screeching in the opposite direction.
The dark figure moved and suddenly a shiny long blade was in view; with a cry of effort they threw the sword, which spun slicing through the air - but just missed the creature and imbedded deeply into the wood of the tree instead as the creature soared away and disappeared over the top of a building.
"Shit!" the dark figure cursed standing up and glaring into the distance above the building the creature had disappeared into. He stood up and walked casually over to the tree, taking a hold of the sword's handle and effortlessly ripped it out of the wood which splintered as he pulled the sword away. He turned and looked the hysterical woman on the ground. "You again" he said looking down at her. He walked over and stood in front of her, pausing a moment before holding out a hand to her.
She trembled as she looked up at him. "Wh-what. what" she slowly placed her hand in his and he hauled her up from the ground so she was on her shaky feet again, "what was that?" she gasped eyes wide with horror, glancing down to the mutilated body lying on the floor beside them.
"That" the boy stated, "was the other girl"
"What?! How?! It couldn't be, that's impossible" the nurse exclaimed and shook her head in disbelief, trembling as she looked from what was left of the body on the ground to the boy. "I don't understand"
The boy sighed and looked away from her glancing up to the sky as if annoyed, "I'm not asking you to understand, its how it is. I told you before, you got wrong when you said I was the evil one on this night"
The woman opened and shut her mouth a few times, "I need to, we need. we have to call the p-ppolice, I mean."
"You dare tell anyone about all this and you're guaranteed death" the boy warned pointing his sword at her before sliding it into the case which was hidden along his back underneath the leather coat.
The woman gasped and looked away from him, taking a step backwards "what about..we can't just. leave his body there"- she was rambling and stuttering as she faced away from the body.
"that's exactly what we're going to do, now you're coming with me"
"What? Go with you? Where?"
"The airbase" the boy said not looking at her as he began walking off in the opposite direction, "unless you want to die sooner" he shrugged casually. The woman opened her mouth and hesitated before running to catch up with him.
She shut her eyes tight, feeling sick at the memory. She was too shocked to cry any more as realization that the whole situation had been real dawned on her. She stumbled forward and opened her eyes, looking around. She had to find help, somebody, anybody, who she could explain to what had happened, and to try catch that killer.
She shuddered, remembering how every time she'd seen that boy he had somehow surprised her, made her feel nervous and unsettled, rising up that bad feeling in the bottom of her stomach. How could anyone kill another being and not show any guilt or remorse? How could they act as calm as he did? She thought sickened as she walked down the hallway, the music from the party drawing closer and closer.
Her foot slipped a little on a wet patch on the tiled floor. Looking down she gasped when she realized what she'd stepped in - blood. A red contrast to the tiles, and again it was like she was back in that medical room splattered with the stuff. How had all that blood been cleaned up? Shaking, she looked up to see that there was a trail of blood leading up the hallway, past the doors of the gym and further down towards where she knew there was a back exit from the building.
That other poor frightened girl must have run away injured, terrified for her life the nurse thought with fear. Remembering how scared she was herself when being alone in the medical room with the boy, she wasn't surprised the brunette had escaped when she had the chance to. But. hadn't he said something about going after her? The woman gasped and put a hand to her mouth. She had to try and find that girl before that boy did, or find someone else who would listen to her and help stop the boy. Without hesitation she began to follow the trail of blood.
"What the hell is he doing?" David muttered glancing out of the window. "He better not have done anything stupid that will get him and us caught" he had been staring at the school building for at least half an hour now, but it was still practically the same scene as before.
"Don't be ridiculous, Lex is careful, he wouldn't do anything to wreck the mission. Remember we have a contract" Cole replied casually as he tapped ash off of his third cigarette.
"Well he's sure taking his bloody sweet time in there" David murmured. "Are you sure he's not just partying with the other kids instead of protecting their lives? We should go in and take a look"-
"Just shut up. We're staying here" Cole cut in with his eyes narrowed. "He's fine in there" he ignored the woman walking past the car.
The cold night air wrapped around the nurse as she walked through the car park, light dust billowing from her footsteps as she stumbled along through the dark. The girl's trail of blood had suddenly stopped halfway across the carpark, and nothing was ahead about from the tall metal fence. She decided she would have to exit the grounds the normal way, as it would be impossible that she or that girl could have gotten over the fence.
She walked past a parked car obliviously, hardly realizing it was even there. The two men inside it looked annoyed with each other, but bored just sitting inside there staring ahead out of the glass at the building she had left.
She walked over to where the two huge gates were pulled apart from each other leaving a wide open gap for her to leave through. She picked up some speed as she walked out and along the path. The only sound was the softly whistling wind, her footsteps, and the distant faint whisper of music from the school building.
A metal fence to her left trailed off by the time she reached the edge of the town centre, where shops and houses and other buildings stood silently in the streets. The place was unnervingly empty, with various lights blinking at her. She looked around desperately and suddenly jumped.
A middle aged large police man walked down the street whistling and suddenly placed the beam of his torch on her. "Are you okay ma'am?" he asked, eyebrows furrowing slightly, "you look a bit pale"
"Y-you have to help me!" she suddenly wailed running over to him, "I, I was attacked, these two girls, they, we were"- she grabbed onto his coat lapels and let out a small cry.
"Hey hey just try calm down a moment" he said holding her away but putting a sympathetic hand on her shoulder, "so two girls attacked you? Kids trick or treating these days, not like they used to"- he shook his head.
"No!" the woman cut him off, "they didn't, a boy did, attack us"-
"I think the Halloween atmosphere is getting to you ma'am" the man slowly turned her and walked with her down the street beside her, passing the streetlights and the rustling leaves of the trees to their side "how about I take you home to make sure you're safe, with me around no-one will dare attack y"-
He cut himself off with a scream when suddenly something reached down from the tree they had just walked under and pulled him up effortless from the ground up into the tree.
The woman screamed as she stumbled startled to the side and fell onto the pavement, backpedaling across the path as she stared up with horror to the tree where she could see the man's legs kicking about frantically as the leaves rustled violently and there was drowning echoes of screams.
The body of the police man suddenly fell down lifeless from the tree, torn up, bloody and unrecognizable beside the woman, who began to scream in terror again. Looking up she saw dark yet glowing eyes peering down at her from between the branches of the tree. Whatever it was that had just attacked the man was now emitting a low growl as it moved; the leaves rippling against the movement.
There was an unearthly wild cat like screech as suddenly a creature burst down from the tree gliding smoothly with speed towards the screaming woman.
OOMPH! Suddenly a dark blur of a movement from the side dived at the creature with equal speed and precise movement, knocking the screeching creature to the side, rolling along the ground with it before the dark figure was thrown to the side into a hard wall; a loud CRACK was emitted as contact was made with the wall and the dark figure fell to the ground. The creature beside it screeched and got up, turning and didn't even look at the woman as it suddenly took off again flying screeching in the opposite direction.
The dark figure moved and suddenly a shiny long blade was in view; with a cry of effort they threw the sword, which spun slicing through the air - but just missed the creature and imbedded deeply into the wood of the tree instead as the creature soared away and disappeared over the top of a building.
"Shit!" the dark figure cursed standing up and glaring into the distance above the building the creature had disappeared into. He stood up and walked casually over to the tree, taking a hold of the sword's handle and effortlessly ripped it out of the wood which splintered as he pulled the sword away. He turned and looked the hysterical woman on the ground. "You again" he said looking down at her. He walked over and stood in front of her, pausing a moment before holding out a hand to her.
She trembled as she looked up at him. "Wh-what. what" she slowly placed her hand in his and he hauled her up from the ground so she was on her shaky feet again, "what was that?" she gasped eyes wide with horror, glancing down to the mutilated body lying on the floor beside them.
"That" the boy stated, "was the other girl"
"What?! How?! It couldn't be, that's impossible" the nurse exclaimed and shook her head in disbelief, trembling as she looked from what was left of the body on the ground to the boy. "I don't understand"
The boy sighed and looked away from her glancing up to the sky as if annoyed, "I'm not asking you to understand, its how it is. I told you before, you got wrong when you said I was the evil one on this night"
The woman opened and shut her mouth a few times, "I need to, we need. we have to call the p-ppolice, I mean."
"You dare tell anyone about all this and you're guaranteed death" the boy warned pointing his sword at her before sliding it into the case which was hidden along his back underneath the leather coat.
The woman gasped and looked away from him, taking a step backwards "what about..we can't just. leave his body there"- she was rambling and stuttering as she faced away from the body.
"that's exactly what we're going to do, now you're coming with me"
"What? Go with you? Where?"
"The airbase" the boy said not looking at her as he began walking off in the opposite direction, "unless you want to die sooner" he shrugged casually. The woman opened her mouth and hesitated before running to catch up with him.