Trapped! 2: Beyblade
Chapter 2: Accusations and Exit Running
AN: I updated the first chapter too. Please reread that before you read this chapter. Also, keep the reviews coming! Oh, and this is all in good fun. Don't hate me cause I killed Kenny. ^^ It's not like anyone cared anyway! *laughs at reviews* Thanks guys! Oh, and please tell me: is anyone else afraid of the artwork of the new Beyblade? It makes me want to cry it's so awful! They look too young!
Review commentaries:
Shadow Guardian and starwolf – You'll just have to see! *winks*
Kiwi Kitaro – Um, you're very twisted. Brad Best? LOL! He's not a killer!
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The remaining Bladebreakers headed towards the back of the store, hopefully so that they could find an exit. Rei was leading the group, followed closely by Tyson. Max and Kai were slightly behind the two of them, but not too far. They didn't want to meet the same fate as their esteemed *cough* computer genius.
"Maybe we can find a back door somewhere," Rei said. He was shivering slightly, still trying to recover from the shock of Kenny's death.
"This is a waste of time," Kai commented. "Whoever killed Kenny is probably going to kill us next."
"Well I hope he kills you first, Kai," Tyson mumbled under his breath. Max gave Tyson a weird look behind his back but said nothing.
"So how do you guys think Kenny died anyway?" Rei asked, forgetting that he was supposed to be trying to shake off his surprise.
"I dunno," said Max. "It was kind of spooky. But hopefully we don't have to fight a killer. Maybe Kenny just couldn't live loving a computer and killed himself." Tyson snorted.
"Maybe there were killer Barbies or something," Kai stated, not realizing that he was completely out-of-character. Everyone stopped walking and turned to look at him.
Kai felt the stupidity of his words come back and bite him in the, um, hind-quarters, and he tried to glare it off. He stared back at the others and they turned back around and continued walking.
"I'm telling you, guys. This is a waste of time." Kai murmured.
"Kai, just shut up! We're trying to stay alive here! Stop acting like you know everything!" Tyson screamed, fed up with Kai's new catch phrase. He suddenly calmed down and added, "What if the killer turned out to be someone like Boris? Or Tala? What if they were trying to get back at us for winning the World Championship!" They all knew Tyson was kidding, and eventually Max, Tyson, and Rei laughed at his joke.
"I wouldn't be surprised if you killed him, Tyson," Rei joked, but it suddenly grew silent. They all stopped walking and turned to look at Tyson.
"Tyson, you didn't, did you?" Max asked cautiously. Tyson's face grew serious and he stopped laughing.
"Of course not, Max! Don't you guys trust me?" Max, Rei, and Kai exchanged weird looks, but no one said anything except Kai, who murmured, yes, you guessed it, "this is a waste of time." Regaining their strength, though still a bit nervous about being around Tyson, the Bladebreakers finally reached a storeroom in the back of the store.
"I think we should split up," Rei commented. Max, Kai, and Tyson all gave him a questioning look. "We can cover more ground that way, and we'll find an exit easier," he explained.
Kai seemed to agree, being the fearless man he is, and he nodded. Max seemed to think it over before nodding, and Tyson looked indifferent.
"Okay then, it's settled. But just in case there is a killer here," Max looked a bit scared at his own words, "we should go in partners." Rei nodded almost immediately, and Kai and Tyson seemed to agree as well.
"I'll go with Max," Tyson commented. Rei looked a bit upset that he would be going with quiet Kai, but then again, Kai was probably the best fighter, too. He decided to take it as a blessing and they headed forward into the storage room, Max and Tyson still behind, deciding which way to go.
"Well, where should we go, Max?" Tyson asked, unaware of the slight shaking in his voice.
Max shook his head, unsure first, and then pointed to the front end of the store. Let's look for. . ." After realizing that he had no idea what to look for, he hastily added, "something." Tyson seemed just as unsure as his companion, so Max lead them as they walked in silence for awhile.
Upon reaching the front of the store, Max, who was still a little way ahead of Tyson, turned around quickly to face him. Max had forgotten than Kenny's body was lying on the floor beside him, and he had almost stepped on his former friend.
Tyson yelped, and Max thought it was merely because he had seen Kenny's body again, so he paid it no mind. Tyson's face showed an expression of shock, as though he hadn't known that Kenny was ever dead. His mouth was wide open, and his eyes were rather large. Max, feeling that this was a bit melodramatic, took a step toward Tyson, who didn't move.
"Tyson? Are you okay?" he asked, reaching out his hand slightly. "Tyson?" When Tyson didn't respond, Max tried to shake him, but as soon as he touched him, Tyson fell forward onto Max. Max cried in surprise and pushed Tyson away, and his friend fell face forward onto the floor. In Tyson's back was a plastic fork; beside it a plastic knife, and a puddle of blood trickling to the floor. Tyson was now dead, too.
Max jumped back in awe, and almost walked into the front door behind him.
"Oh Tyson!" he cried in horror, and as he regained his composure, he looked around for any sign of a killer. Now he was sure that there was a killer in the K-Mart somewhere, because Tyson couldn't have committed suicide right next to Max without him seeing it happen. He had the urge to run to warn Rei and Kai, but he knew that they'd suspect him as the killer if he just went back and said that Tyson was dead and he had escaped. Max tried to think of a way out of his current situation, but nothing came to his mind.
He leaned against the cool glass door and looked around again. No one seemed to be near him at all, and he thought that he could just make a run for it.
Still, it was pretty risky. Whoever had killed Tyson was fast, fast enough to kill him while Max had only turned around for a second. They were also twisted, twisted enough to kill Tyson with a plastic fork and knife. Max pondered this. How could anybody kill someone with plastic utensils? Max would have laughed if it weren't such a crazy time to do it.
He had had enough waiting. Max broke out into a run towards the back of the store, darting around shelves.
"REI! KAI! Where are you?" he cried, trying to find his lost friends.
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Rei could have sworn that he heard someone call his name, but he thought nothing of it and continued his search for a back door with Kai.
"This is such a waste of time, Rei." Rei gave Kai a dirty look and continued feeling along the wall for a door in the darkness.
"We have to keep trying unless you want to stay here for the weekend. Remember, the store's closed until Monday."
"Yeah, but you know that this is a waste of time. There's no exit, and we're going to be here forever," Kai responded. It started sinking in to Rei, and he was having a hard time believing this himself. What if Kai was right? What if they never left the K-mart? Rei sat down and hugged his knees to his chest tightly.
"You're right, Kai. We're going to starve, and be killed by whoever killed Kenny, and our extra intestines will be harvested for shamanic and dark magic. . . ." Kai tilted his head to look at Rei as though he were crazy as he mumbled on.
"You're as insane as Kenny, you know that?" Max said, appearing from nowhere. Kai and Rei both jumped and screamed at the same time.
"Don't ever do that again!" Rei roared, trying his best not to freak out again. Kai nodded, regaining his composure as well. "Where's Tyson?" Rei added.
Max had been dreading that very question.
"He's-he's. . . . dead."
AN: YAY! This chapter is finally out! I didn't think I'd finish this fic, but now I will definitely. ^^ Please keep the reviews coming!